davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08

Captain Sprinkle is the officer mem
toned in the Associated Press dis
patches last Christmas who ed Amefi-
can troops in a chase of fifty files
after bandits who raided the famous
Brite ranch near Maria, Texas.
In telling of the incident today
Captain Sprinkle reluctantly said:
Christmas day a gang of about
thirty bandits approached the ranch
house. The foreman, a man about 65
years old, opened fire on them with a
shotgun. He had tried to telephone to
Maria, a distance of thirty-five miles,
but found that the wires had been cut
by the bandits. Luckily his plight was
detected by another rancher, who re-
ported the news to Maria. l was sent
TO the ranch in motor cars with about
thirty men. The bandits, after steal
ing horses and saddles from the ranch,
saw our dust in the distance and i'm
m -diately started for the border. We
followed them across into Mexico and
for two days our forces, numbering g
about 100 men, we chased them. They
made several stands, but finally the
remaining members of the band es-
capped into the mountains. We killed
probably twenty-five of the thirty
bandits in these engagements. We
lost two horses, a mule and one
casualty. One trooper was wounded
in the leg
Captain Sprinkle is graduate of
Wentworth Military academy and
Kansas university. He was in the
Kansas national guard on the border
and later was commissioned second
lieutenant in the regular cavalry. He
is now captain. commissioned in Au-
gust, 1917. at Fort Bliss. He has been
with the Eighth cavalry for the last
six months.
1.-The Mexican situation doesn't
| look troublesome at this time" he
said today. "Carranza's men seem
very friendly. All we need fear, ap-
parently, is the raid, now and then
of roaming bandit gangs. Our troops
are well stationed along the border
In Mexico today they need food worse
than anything else. They have beef
but no flour. They also have guns
and ammunition, 1 understand, but
probably not to any dangerous de-
gree"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
Huns Initiate New Brand Of
FrightfuIness on Americans.
Make FruitleSs Attack on Sec
tor North of Toul.
WHIP GERMANS AGAINST ODDS
Five Americans ROut Ten Ger
mans; Capture Two Bavarians.
Two Enemy Killed; None of
Sammies Was Injured.

London. March S.-A German at
tack with liquid fire on the American
forces northwest of Toul Gin the st.
Mihiel sector) was repulsed Thursday.
according to dispatches received here
today.
On the same front, it was reported.
American sentries drove off an enemy
patrol of forty men.
Defeat Bunch of Huns
With the American Army in
France, Wednesday, March 6.-An
American patrol of five men three
nights ago outfought an enemy patrol
of ten men. They met in No Mans
Land and the Americans opened fire.
The Germans replied and for three
minutes there was a sharp skirmish-
The enemy retreated, leaving two
dead and two wounded Bavarians
who were made prisoner. The Amer
lean patrol returned to its own line
without having received scratch
Officers report that despite the fact
tha. the Germans fired many shells
to prepare the way for a raid, not a
single enemy soldier got into position
to carry it out, the American auto
matte rifles, machine guns and rifles
stopping the Germans in their tracks
Air Bomb Americans.
A half dozen bombs were dropped
behind the American front in the Sec
tor northwest of Toul last night by
German airplanes which were looking
for ammunition dumps. They did not
succeed in hitting any of their objec-
tives, however, and none of the bombs
dropped caused any casualties.
Groups of German bombarding air.
planes on the way to cities and towns
far behind the lines are passing over
| the American front almost continually.
They are greeted by a hot anti-aircraft
fire from the American batteries.
Plan New Kind of Strafe
The enemy apparently is planning
! something against our troops in the
sector northwest of Toul. His cam
outage constructions at certain
places have suddenly been doubled in
height and much work is going on
within the enemy line Last night an
American on patrol who understands
German heard this conversation with
in a German trench:
Come here, Fritz, take this pick
and pry that stone loose and then
throw that dirt out. Those - over
there. We work all night to fix things
here and they blow them to h in the
day time"
The men in the American patrol
who made sudden dash for the
American lines from a shell hole near
the German trenches where they had
been hiding have explained why they
started in broad daylight on their
backward sprint. They had lost their
way in the dark in No Man's-Land
and got into the shell hole after wan
dering for several hours. Finally the
men got hungry and all of them de-
| cded they would rather take a chance
| with German bullets than go any
| longer without food and water. The
sun came out today drying out the
ground and the trenches and the
! damp clothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
Affidavit of Roam Hotel CLERK
Is Made Public Today.
He Says Manager Intimated
Mayor and Cops "FiXed.'
LARIMER ARRESTED REiCHLEY
+ Sheriff Went to the Roam and
Ordered ga Girl"
Case Is Set for a Late Hour
This Afternoon.

"Reichley Just the same as told
me that he was in with the mayor
and the chief of police" declared
William Flynn, night clerk at the
Roam hotel in, an affidavit taken fol-
lowing the arrest of Manager Adam
H Reichley of the Roam hotel on
the charge of keeping a place where
immoral practices were allowed
The affidavits were. taken after
Sheriff Hugh Larimer had registered
at the hotel and askek that a girl be
sent TO his room and had his order
carried out Sheriff Larimer made
the arrest and secured the affidaVlts
that were made public by County AT
torney Hugh Fisher today.
The case was to have come up TOT
trial this morning, but the schedule
of the calling of the case was changed
to $3.50 o'clock this afternoon on ac-
count of the appointment of Ilnkhan
Veale, Reichley's attorney, to the posi-
ton of assistant county attorney The
affidavits of both William Flynn, the
night clerk, and Frank Tucker, the
17-year-old colored bell hop at the
Roam hotel. were made public today
Night Clerks Affidavit
In his affidavit Flynn. the night
clerk at the Roam hotel, declared that
when a man came to the hotel and
sent to a room and a girl then sent
up to that room. Flynn declared that
he spoke to the manager concerning
the danger of this and said that
"Reichley the sa me as told me that he
was in with the mayor and the chief
of police" Flynn also told of one wo-
man who came to the Hotel Roam and
registered there as a man.
in his affidavit Flynn stated that
he had spoken to the manager about
the practice of sending girls to the
mems rooms just before the recent
cleanup of immoral women by the
city officials We will have to
throw the girls out as things are get
ting a little too tight, is the answer
Flyrn ascribes to Reichley on this
occasion.
Frank Tucker, the bell hop, a col
ored boy about II years old, asserted
in his affidavit that he had directed
many soldiers to the rooms of certain
girls Tucker mentioned the names
of five girls in his affidavit as being
the ones to whom he sent the soldiers.
The girls concerned in the affair are,
according to Tucker. Ruth Diehl Irene
Cation, Edna Wilson, Lima Cash and
Elva Payne,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
TO INTERN SCHNEIDER
Topeka Enemy Alien Glad to Get Out
County Jail.

One of the happiest men in Shaw
nee county today, officials assert, is
Erich Schneider, who. until his arrest
by federal agents, was a clerk at the
Thompson hardware store. The cause
of -Schneider's elation is an order
from United States Attorney General
Gregory ordering mis- internment at
Fort Riley for the duration of the war
Schneider welcomed the order because
he doesn't like the accommodations at
the county jail saying he would "go
crazy if he had to stay there any
length of time.
Schneider is an alien enemy arrested
some time ago by c. c. Jackson,
United States marshal here, on the
strength of the fact that he kept a
scrapbook dedicated to the shame of
America 1t was later learned that
his father is a captain-co in
the German navy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
HALF OF GERMAN
FAMILY'S EXPENSE
is COST OF FOOD

Washington, March S.-The seri-
-iousness of the cost of living problem
in Germany is shown in figures an
nounced today by the department of
labor which state that 52.14 per cent
of the average German famiIy's ex-
penditures is paid for food. Fresh
meat is scarce and smoked and con-
served meats are high in price while
fish is two and one-half to four times
higher than in peace times.
Potatoes are being substituted for
grain and substitutes of all kinds are
being used, especially by the poorer
classes Jam very largely has taken
the place of butter and oleomargarine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
PEN vs.. SWORD !
Wilson's Weapon More Effec-
tive Than the KaiSer'S.
Vatican Praises Humanitarian
Address of U. S. President.
BY JOHN H. HEARLEY.

Rome March S.-President Wilson's
pen is doing more for the cause of a
just and popular peace than twenty
million swords. Vatican a liberties
and the Holy Father himself candidly
express this opinion.
The presidents periodical addresses
to humanity. and not the years, are
regarded as the mile posts by which
history will measure the wars length.
Like countless other observers, the
pope sees that the warning peoples
need political light and guidance. So
Wilson's democratic sermons to the
world" admittedly find a sympathetic
and applauding audience in the white
robed figure of the vatican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
ALLEN men HERE
Campaign Committee Forms
GubernatOrial Plans Today.
William Allen White and Other
Leaders in City.

Members of the Allen for governor
campaign committee are in Topeka to-
day to make final plans for opening
headquarters here. A committee will
direct the general work of the state
headquarters, a1tho Willis J. Bailey
of Atchison, former governor, will
be in direct charge of the organiza-
ton.
Harvey Motter of Mcpherson was
this afternoon named as secretary of
the Allen campaign committee Mot
ter will spend much of his time in
Topeka Headquarters will be opened
Monday. A location has been def
nitely selected. Willis ]. Bailey of
Atchson, former governor. will be
chairman of the organization. Will
liam Allen White of Emporia was Sc
Iected as director of publicity.
Motter, who was named as the sec
retary at the meeting of the cam
paign committee this afternoon, is an
original Allen booster He is a Re
publican of progressive tendencies and
widely known in state politics. Gov
ernor Bailey is member of the old
crowd in state politics.
Members of the campaign commit
tee will spend much time here. This
committee is composed TO Fred 4
Stanley, Wichita; Clyde NJ. Reed, Par
sons, and Harvey Penny, Hays
William Allen White Here.
William Allen White, publisher OF
the Emporia Gazette, came to Topeka
this afternoon to attend the meeting
A half dozen of the strong Allen
workers are attending the conference
in the National hotel. No effort was
made to bring other than the cam
paign directors to Topeka. General
campaign plans are being perfected
and there is little doubt that the
headquarters will be opened early ir
the week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
KAISER IS HAPPY!
German Sword "und GOtt' Will
Bring Peace in West.
"They Will Carry Us Thru to
Final Victory" He Says.

Amsterdam. March Sin reply to
congratulations from Philip Heineken,
director of the North German Lloyd
steamship line, Emperor William has
sent the following telegram:
THE German sword is our best
protection. With Gods help it will
also bring us peace in the west and
indeed the peace which after much
distress and many troubles, the Ger
man people need for a happy future. "
The emperor detailed his gratitude
at greater length in message to the
vice president of the reichstag, say
ing:
1.-The complete victory fills me with
gratitude. 1t permits US to live again
one of those great moments in which
we can reverently admire Gods hand
in history. What turns events have
taken is by the disposition of God.
peace Reconstruction" Big Job.
Heroic deeds of our troops, the
successes of our great generals and
the wonderful achievements of those
at home have their roots in moral
forces and in the categorical impera-
people in a hard school They will,
also. carry us thru in a decisive and
final battle to victory.
I'm the great tasks upon which the
conclusion of peace reconstruction and
the healing of the wounds of war will
set US 1 desire my people to rely on the
historical experience tnat unity means
strength. May our people face the
new time and it's tasks with a strong
sense of the realities, with unbendine
faith in itself and it's mission, and with
strong, patriotic and proud joy in the
fatherland bound to me and my hous.
by old and proved bonds of mutual
trust.
II do not doubt that a rich, strong
and happy people will arise out of tht
storms and sacrifices of this time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
RUSS STRIKE BACK
Recapture hamburg, Taken After
Peace Treaty Was Signed.
Germany Forces Three Peace
Treaties Within Five Days.
(By the Associated PressD

Russian revolutionary troops have
struck back at the Germans who de-
clined to halt their advance when
peace was agreed to and have taken
hamburg, sixty-eight miles southwest
of Petrograd from the invaders. jam
burg is a railroad town on the Luga
river and the Germans had moved
there from Narva to straighten out
their line southwark toward Pskov
after peace terms had been reached.
Fuses With Lenine, Resigns.
Differences between Ensign Krylen
ko commander of the Bolshevik ar
mics, and the peoples commissaries
are reported to have led to the resig
! nation of Krylenko, who recently had
urged the Russian people to use all
means at their command to resist the
central powers. This is the first split
among the men who have composed
the Bolsheviki government altho there
have been reports from time to time
that either Lenine or TrotZky or both
would resign
German claims that the Ukrainian
city of Kief had been occupied are de-
MED in Petrograd which says that
the city is still in the hands of the
Bolsheviki who captured it more than
a month ago from the Ukrainian rada
which later made peace with the Teu-
! tons. Berlin's announcement OF the
capture of Kief was made just as
] Russian and German agreed to peace
{ terms and since then there have been
no reports of military activity in that
region.
Three Peace Treaties in Five Days.
/ In five days Germany has forced
peace terms on three different gov
! ernments, Russia, Rumania and Fin
land The Finnish government appa-
I remit .nitted to the German terms
/ in order to gain military aid against
, the revolutionists who hold much of
southern Finland along with the Fin
nish government With Finland and
! Esthonias under German suzerainty.
the Gulf of Finland is taken from Rus
! sian control and Great Russia has less
than $50 miles of coast line along the
gulf A1tho the Germans apparently
will permit King Ferdinand to rule
! Rumania the victorious enemy has
! compelled his victim to agree to hu-
initiating terms Important wheat.
oil and salt concessions are to be given
/ GERMANY which is to control the Ru-
manian railroad for fifteen years and
is to have most favorable trade
agreement with Russia which loses
/ Dobrudja and control of the Danube
Raids But No Battles.
Raiding operations have not yet de-
yeloped into large operations on the
western a Italian fronts. The artil-
lery duels, however. continue intense
at important sectors. All the entente
armies from the North sea to the
/ Adriatic have withstood enemy raids.
while at the same time successfully
penetrating the Teutonic lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
PHONES N. Y. To SALINA
HE'S ON WAY To FRANCE;
CHARGES TOLL TO dad

New York. March S.-"Good-bye
father; Pm off for France" These
We're the words Charles F. Nc
Adams of Salina, Kan, heard by
telephone. And his heart must
have swelled with pride. 1t was
his son Arthur speaking all the
way from New York.
Il leave in-the morning." con-
tinued Arthur, "and-er- I'm
having the tolls reversed" These
few words of farewell cost Mr.. Nc
Adams S12.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
HEAVENS ON A SPREE!
Elaborate Display of Northern Lights
Seen. New York to Topeka.

Chicago, March S.-The heavens
wer- on a spree last night, treating
the entire middle west to an elabor-
ate display of northern lights.
The aurora borealis was reported
as far south as Knoxville, Tenn, and
extended west of Topeka, Kan. The
display began about o'clock and
continued for two and three hours.
New York, March S.-Weather
sharks agreed today that it was the
aurora borealis that astonished New
Workers during the night with strange
manifestations of light in the heavens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
WAR CASUALTIES LOW
Losses in Entire British Army for
First Week in March, 3,343.

London, March For the first
week of March British casualties were
3,343, the lowest of any week for
several months. The official report
for the week ending today follows:
Killed or died of wounds: Officers,
So; men, 628.
wounded or missing: Officers, 179;
men. 3,473.
The lowest previous week for sew
eral months was the last week in Feb
ruary, in which there were 3,571 cas-
ualties. The total casualties for Feb
ruary, a low month, were 1S,961.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
ASKS VENUE CHANGE,
HAD A FIGHT WITH
JUDGE 38 YRS. AGO

Chicago. March s.-Judge Scan
Ian's left hook" was used today by
Francis Becker. charged with $500
swindIe, as grounds for asking .
change of venue. Becker recited to
the court details of their fight during
a football game while both were stu
dents at Notre Dame in 1880. Becker
didn't want to take another chance
with Scanlan-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
SPRINKLE IN CITY
Topeka Captain Who Chased
Mexican Bandits Visits Parents.
Formerly on the Advertising
Force of the State Journal.

Capt. Lester A. Sprinkle, a gradu-
ate of the Topeka high school and for
several years on the advertising force
of the State Journal, and the hero of
the Maria Mexican bandit raid Christ
mas day, is visiting his parents, 1906
Lane street, today. He is on a leave
from duty with the Eighth cavalry
United States regulars on the border
and will be in the city several days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
GET OUT THE BRASS BAND,
BILLY and INA" COMING!

Chicago. March S.-Billy Sun
day will be welcomed to Chicago
Saturday noon in the manner of
a conquering hero. Mounted po-
lice will, form the guard of honor
Uhen Billy and Ma" step from
the train. A thousand singers
from the tabernacle choir will act
as heralds.
His satanic majesty" chained
to Billy's limousine as a captive
is the one missing element for a
triumpha, entry. However. the
evangelist says he will have the
devils scalp after April 2, the day
o. Chicago's wet and dry election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
RAIN HERE TONIGHT
More Moisture Promised TO Put
Ground in Condition for Gardening.
ToDAY,s TEMPERATURES

The wind was blowing this after
noon at the rate of fifteen miles an
hour from the southeast. The tenn
perature average for the day was s
degrees above normal.
Since the gardening craze has hit
the towns, the city dwellers no less
than the ruralists will rejoice at the
announcement, made this morning by
S D. Flora of the weather bureau,
that there is to be rainfall tonight and
Saturday. In W time we are hidden
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
BOLSHEVIQ STILL HOLD IT
Kief. Capital of Ukraine Not Cap
tured by Germans, Is Report.

London, March 7.-Kief, the capital
of the Ukraine, is still in the hands of
Russian revolutionary troops and has
not been occupied by the Germans.
according to statement issueI
wednesday by the Russian official
news agency in Petrograd.
The previous message saying Kief
had been lost to the enemy. the state
ruent adds. was due 10 the receipt of
a wireless message which must have
originated from enemy sources.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
"CLASS 5" FOR AGGIES
Govt Decides Senior Farm Students
Already in War Service.

Washington. March S--Governors
were notified today by Provost Mar
shall General Crowder that all students
in land grant agricultural colleges
whose class standing places them in
the upper third of the senior may
enlist in the quartermaster's enlisted
reserve corps and will be placed by
local boards in class on the ground
that they are in the military service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
WHAT! PRICE TO DROP?
Fuel Administrator Announces Big
Cut in Western Coal Prices.

Washington, March s.-Drastic re-
ductions in the fixed price at mines in
Colorado. Utah, Montana and Wyom-
ing, running in some cases as much
as 25 per cent. were ordered today by
the fuel administration Coal opera
tors declare practically half the mines
in those states would have to stop pro-
duetion under the new scale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
KAISER'S SON FOR KING
Finnish Govt Asks Emperor To Make
Prince Oscar Ruler of Finns-

London. March s.-The Finnish
government has asked the German
emperor to appoint Prince Oscar. the
fifth son of the emperor, king OF Fin
land. the Alton Tidningen of Stock
holm says it learns from diplomatic
circles there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
Taft Cabinet Member Laid Up,

Chicago, March 8.-Walter L. Fish
err, secretary of the interior in Presi-
dent Taft's cabinet. is in a hospital as
the result of a fall at his home in
which he sustained two broken ribs
and a sprained back. II was said to-
day by hospital attendants that 1t will
be several weeks before Mr.. Fisher
can be out again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
Head of French Ship Line Dead.

Paris, March S.-Jules Charles
Roux president of the Compagnie
Generate Trans Atlantique (the
French line) is dead at his home here
He was one of the lea ding ship own
ers and shipbuilders of France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
PAY FOR SUNkEN SHIP
Holland Receives Compensation From
Germany for U-Boats Act.

The Hague, March S.-The Dutch
foreign office announces that it has
received compensation from Ger
many for damage to the property Of
the Belgian relief committee resulting
from a submarine attack on the Dutch
steamer Rijndijk on April 7. 1915
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
NEW RUCTION IN SPAIN
Head of Reconstructed Cabinet Ten
ders His Resignation.

Madrid. March S.-The Spanish
cabinet recently reconstructed by the
Marquis de Alhucemas, who. in addi-
ton to being premier. held the port
folio of foreign affairs, resigned to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08

Probably rain tonight and Satur-
day; warmer tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08

INTRIGUE indicates that the Ger
man empire has developed into a
German vampire.