davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1918-06-15

LONDON. June II, via Ottawa
Reuters correspondent at British
headquarters in France in a dispatch
concerning the operations says:
"The Germans apparently are much
concerned over our progressive sue
cesses in the Strazeele sector and
have shelled our front line positions
and places in the Hazebrouck area
considerably.
"Early this morning the enemy
launched an infantry attack with the
object Of restoring the situation. A
party Of about one hundred 'stors.
struppen' (shock troops) succeeded in
driving out the garrison of q new
post, but our vigorous counter attack
regained 1t and secured about ton
prisoners. Our casualties were light.
"The French In their attacks Of
yesterday on the enemy positions in
Ridge wood took prisoners Of one
officer and forty mon, but later had to
relinquish the captured ground.
"The hostile artillery IL again most
active in the Scarpe valley, Fampoux
being heavily shel1ed with gas shells
and high explosives.
Flying was restricted today by the
adverse weather"
Evening star., 1918-06-15

tured June 1s. 1917, south Pacific: Sec.
ond Officer Chrles Bowman. Oxleaund
Sweden. captured July II. 1917, Indiar
ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
To UN-MIx RATES
Conflicts Between State and
Federal Rate Making Powers.
Predict 2-Cent Passenger Fares
Will Be Caught in "Raise."

Washington, March 15.-The rail-
road administration is studying con-
fIicts between state and federal rate
making powers with view to order
ing increases in many intrastate rates
which work injustice to interstate
traffic. This may result in the WHIP
ing out of practically all important
intrastate low rates. officials said to-
day, since the rate fabric of the coun-
try is so closely woven that interstate
states are closely affected by intra-
state rates, dictated by state authori-
ties. Two cent passenger fare laws
will be affected.
Director General McAdoo has dis
cussed the subject with his official ad-
visers, VIII advocate the nationalist
ton of rates and wi representatives
of state commissions who oppose the
plan. Many local commercial inter-
eStS have urged him to raise the low
state rate. No action is expected I'M
til the interstate commerce commits
sion has decided the pending Is per
cent case. which probably will be
soon. The railroads are in favor of
the elimination of differences between
interstate and intrastate rates.
Under the railroad bill as passed by
congress the president thru Director
General McAdoo may initiate rates
subject to review by the interstate
commerce commission on complaint
but not by state commissions COM
plants. Consequently state authori-
ties would be powerless to prevent in
creases ordered by the federal man.
agement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
Weak, Thin People
Made Strong and Fat

Weak, thin people-men or women-are
nearly always nervous wrecks; thus con-
clusively proving that thinness weakness,
debility and neurasthenia are almost in
vffriably due to nerve starvation Feed
Your nerves and all these symptoms due
to, nerve starvation. will disappear.
Eminent specialists state that the best
nerve food is an organic phosphate known
among druggists as Bitro- Phosphate. a
five-grain tablet of which should be taken
with each meal. Being a genuine nerve
builder and not stimulant or habit form
ing drug, Bitro-Phosphate be safely
taken by the weakest and most delicate
sufferer, and the results following its use
ara often simply astonishing
Weak, tired people regain strength and
vigsar; thinness and angularity give way
to plumpness and curves, sleep returns to
the sleepless. confidence and cheerfulness
replace debility and gloom, dull eyes be-
come bright, and pale. sunken cheeks re-
gain the pink glow of health Bitro-Phos-
plate, the Use of which is inexpensive also
wonderfully promotes the assimilation of
food. 50 much that many people report
marked gains of weight i'll few weeks
CAUTION Although Bitro- Phosphate
Is. unsurpassed for relieving nervousness.
sheuld not, owing 90 its remarkable flesh
growing properties. be used by anyone who
does not desire to put on flesh 1t is sold
iii this city by TulIyMcFarland. Wag-
ner-Goodrieh and all good druggists
Advertisement.
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Try This If You
Have Dandruff

There is one sure way that never
fails to remove dandruff completely
and that is to dissolve it. This de-
stroys it entirely. To do this, just get
about four ounces of plain, ordinary
liquid arvon; apply it at night when
retiring; use enough to moisten the
scalp and Rub it in gently with the
finger tips.
BY morning. most if not all. of your
dandruff will be gone, and three or
four more applications viii complete
" dissolve and entirely destroy every
single sign and trace of it, no matter
how much dandruff you may have.
You will find. too, that all itching
and digging of the scalp will stop in
stantly, and your hair will be fluffy,
lustrous. glossy, silky and soft. and
look and feel a hundred times better.
You can get liquid arvon at any
drug store. 1t is inexpensive, and
four ounces is all you will need. This
simple remedy has never been known
to fail.-Advertisemen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
CAN'T GET GEOGRAPHY
Kansas Unable to Find Prophet to
Turn Out Standard Book.

The Kansas textbook commission
has encountered a snag. The time
has come for the commission to
make a contract for new geography,
and the law declares that the geogra-
ply must be standard work for
five years. To make a geography
now that will be good five years
hence, is a task for no less person
than a prophet. Isaiah would have
school books. The worlds geography
is changing over night, but the in
elastic law makes no allowances for
war and shifting boundaries and tot
tering monarchies.
The commission is in session this
week. but it has not had the courage
to tackle the geography problem. So
the letting of contracts was post
poned until the next session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
FLY TO ARMS
10000 Casualties in Russ Re-
volt Against Peace.
Trotzky's New Appointment In
Dictates New Policy.

London, March 15.-Fierce battles
between Soviet adherents and natives
have occurred in Turkestan, accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph dis
pach from Petrograd under Wednes-
days date. More than 10000 casual
ties are reported to have resulted.
What Does 1t Mean?
New York March 15.-Leon
TrotZy's appointment as minister for
war by the Bolshevik government is
the most significant indication of Rus
sia's future policy that has come from
Petrograd since the peace negotiations
with Germany reported their climax.
The Germans cannot trust Trotzky to
keep any peace terms that may be
endorsed at Moscow by the pan-Soviet
congress Trotzky is the strongest
personality in the Bolshevik govern
ment. His retirement from the head
of the foreign office and his aceep-
lance of the commissaryship of war
efgn Offices influence must hereafter
be overshadowed by the active plans
of the war department..
From the beginning of the Boil
shevik administration, Trotzky has as
sumed the responsibility for carrying
out the governments dominant poll
cies. If he thought the decision to
be taken by the pan-soviet congress
would in reality solve her internal
problems, it is unbelievable he would
so far remove himself from domestic
affairs as to consent to becoming war
commiSsary-
Capital Is Moscow.
Moscow. March 15.-Moscow has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
SUES MEDITERRANEAN
Fannie T.. Silvers Asks for an Eighth
of $4,000 Estate.


Fannie L. Silvers, Rossville, today
filed suit in the Shawnee district
court against E. J. Howard, admins
traitor for the estate of Clarence Sill
vers. Rossville; Ellen Silvers, her
mother-in-1aw, 100 East Tenth street,
Topeka; s. F. Page, Rossville, and the
Rossville State bank. The suit is filed
to obtain money representing one
eighth interest in the estate of the late
Emanuel Silvers at Rossville. She
claims the right to the share in the
property by right of being the widow
of Clarence Silvers, deceased, a son of
Emanuel Silvers.
The plaintiff alleges that following
the death of her father-inlaw the
mother-in-law formed an agreement
with her husband whereby the son
decided the latter his share in the es-
tate in order that a mortgage raising
money for her husbands two brothers
in Idaho might be placed upon the
farm. After the mortgage was paid
off. the petition recites, the mother-in-
law sold the farm for $4,000, a part
of the money being On deposit in the
Rossvi1le State bank, according to the
plaintiff. The plaintiff asks that she
be given judgment against Ellen Sill
vers for $2,375, which represents the
one-eighth interest claimed by the
plaintiff. Three hundred and seventy
five dollars, representing one-eighth
of the claimed rental value of the es-
state for the last three years. is also
asked for. The court is also petit
toned to annu1 the deed made by the
late Clarence Silvers to the mother.
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SNAP SHOTS
AT. HOME NEWS

Love" Lewis was bound over from
the court of Topeka to the district
court today by Judge Rad Lee on
charge of assault with intent to MAIN
Alice Simpson. A knife, evidence
showed, was the weapon used.
The choir of the Swedish Bethel
church will give a musical and liter
airy entertainment this evening, 8
O'Clock, at the church, under the di-
rection of Ernest H. johnson. The
choir exclusively and refreshments
will be served by the men. The chorus
is strong and active with a member
ship of about twenty singers
L. o. Carter, a Kansas City lawyer,
today in the Shawnee county district
court filed suit against Anna E.
Becker for collection of $3.50 which he
claims is due him as attorney fee and
expenses for services performed rela-
tive to the will of Edith E. Shreve-
Carter claims SO of the total amount
represents his expenses while on
trip to Oregon in the interest of the
plaintiff.
Dog owners are not paying their
taxes as promptly as usual this spring.
ITO date only 125 owners of dogs have
bought their license tags, whereas at
this time last year $50 tags had been
sold. After the first of April the Ii
cerlse and penalty on male dogs Will
be. So, just double the price of the
tag prior to the first of April, and the
license for female dogs will be ST..
whereas it is now SIS. The number OF
dogs registered last year was 1888.
The Cudahy Packing company to-
day filed a suit in the federal district
court to enjoin Faustino Gomez,
william C. Rickel, an attorney at Kan
sas City. and Edward M. Boddington,
an arbitrator, from taking further
proceedings in the case of Gomez, who
was injured while in the plaintlffs
employ. The Cudahy petition claims
that the appointment and proceedings
involving the arbitrator are not reg
ular. The petition states that about
$4,000 is involved in the controversy.
'For the Red Cross is a magic
phrase when it is uttered by an auc-
Etioneer on the block selling an old
worn out horse or calf or COW or
most anything imaginable. Many re-
ports have been made of fabulous
sums received for these Red Cross
animals, but $35 for common cur
dog is perhaps a record. This was the
accomplishment of Lafe Berger, an
auctioneer of Wellington, Kan. ac-
cording to a report received by Curtis
Myers, state chairman of the four
minute men. The dog was sold seven
| times, the total amount being $35.
Merrill J. Ream was indicted into
| the government service Thursday by
| local draft board No. 1 and assigned
to the medical department at Fort
| Oglethorpe, Ga. He left today for the
south, and will stop in Little Rock,
Ark to visit his brother, Dwight
Ream who is a member of the BAT
ambulance company at Camp Pike.
The Ream boys are sons of the late
Rev. r. J. Ream. and both of them
were Washburn college students and
prominent in athletics. Another man
entering the service is Otto Fleer. a
registrant under the jurisdiction of the
Geary county board, at whose request
the board made preparations for him
| to join the forces. He is assigned to
the infantry. and will be sent to Camp
Greene Charlotte, n. C.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
FAIL TO PAY TAXES
County Treasurer Turns Over f,4fS
Names to Sheriff for Collection.

E. A. Pat Campbell, county treas
urer, today sent to Hugh Larimer,
sheriff, warrants for the collection of
personal taxes due for 1917 from
1,44S individuals who failed to heed
notices sent them February 6. A total
of $500 notices was sent out in Feb
ruary and the warrants passed to the
sheriff for collection represent nearly
half of the list.
The delinquent accounts range from
% cents to $3.50, with the penalties
as provided by law added. And, by
the way, such penalties are heavy. An
example is cited with the delinquent
account of a man whose personal
taxes were originally 5000. In the
sheriff's warrant penalties originating
in the treasurer's office amounting
to $1-55 are added. On top of this
sheroff's fee of so cents and a COM
mission of 40 cents is added. making
the warrant statement total S31.5S.
The taxpayer will pay just $2.54 more
under the sheriffs collection than if
he had paid up when the account was
originally due.
The sheriff is given sixty days to
serve the warrants which provide that
chattels or other property may be
seized and sold to satisfy the payment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
GIRL 'FESSES UP
Mary Shahn Admits Getting
Goods Under False Pretenses.
Police Trying To Stop Charge
Account TheftS.

Efforts of the police to discourage
certain women and girls from obtain
ing goods from the larger department
stores here by having said goods
charged on the accounts of financially
responsible Topekans are meeting
with success, it was asserted To-Day.
Late Thursday afternoon Mary Shahn.
10 years old, was booked at the po-
lice station on "inveSugatiOn. To-
day she confessed to obtaining about
SIS or $50 worth of merchandise from
the Crosby Brothers store, according
to Hugh Fisher, county attorney, who
took charge of the girls case when she
was turned over to the county
The girl. Fisher says, confessed to
obtaining the goods by having them
charged" on accounts of Topekans
other than herself. Fisher. following
the Investigation, stated that a INSIDE
asserted that the girl would plead
guilty and would then be paroled sub
ject to good behavior.
Frost Working on Cases.
George Frost, city detective. has
the obtaining of goods by women and
girls under false pretenses-" In the
last few weeks several similar cases
have been reported from the Pe1le-
tiers Stores. the Crosby Brothers COM
pany and Warren NJ. Crosbys. Not
long ago a woman was caught at Pei
letters while making her getaway
with goods, the charges for which she
had placed upon the account of a
prominent Topeka woman. It was
found, however, that the girl was an
orphan and in poor circumstances.
She was not arrested and the matter
was Settled" privately
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
Sure! High Heels
Cause Corns But
Who Cares Now

Because style DEGREES that women
crowd and buckle up their tender toes
in high heel footwear they suffer from
corns, then they cut and trim at these
painful pests which merely makes the
corn grow hard. This suicidal habit
may cause 1ockjaw and women are
warned to stop it.
A few drops of a drug called freez-
one applied directly upon sore corn
gives quick relief and soon the entire
corn, root and all, lifts out without
pain. Ask the drug store man for a
quarter of an ounce of freezone, which
costs very little but is sufficient to re-
move every hard or soft corn or calIus
from ones feet.
This drug is an ether compound and
dries in a moment and simply shrivels
up the corn without inflaming or even
irritating the surrounding tissue or
skin. Clip this out and pin on your
wife's DISQUALIFICATION
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
TEXAS FOR SUFFRAGE
But Dress and Bonnet for Every
Member" Voted Down by House.

Austin, March 15.-A bill to give
women the right to vote in primary
elections and nominating conventions
was passed by the house today, 81 to
"a. 1t now will go to the senate.
Numerous amendments We're de-
feated, including provisions for sepa-
rate booths for whites and negroes,
special registration and one by Repre-
sentative Thompson of Red River pro-
posing that every member of this
house be given a dress and bonnet
after the passage of the bill"
Dry Bill to Conference.
Austin, March 15.-The senate to-
day passed the statewide prohibition
bill with amendments which will COM
pei 1t to go back to the house for con-
ference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15

Nowadays at a meeting of Card club, a
Ladies' Aid society. Embroidery clubs or
of talking about their neighbors or gossip
ing as certain people of the masculine gen.
der have said that women do when they are
together, they talk war. Red Cross activi-
ties, knitting patterns. news from Funston.
Doniphan or Camp Pike, word from over
has placed in snd Of
servation. Conservation of white flour
comes in for its share of being talked about.
cussed for the using of the cereals each
one is compelled to buy with the white
flour. One hears recipes of war bsead,
but the most popular recipe in cakes, cook
les, breads and meats is that of how to
Some can do it and others can't, but those
who can't out of necessity keep right on
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Van Gundy of 10
Wood street, axe tie parents of daughter,
born March 13 at Stormont hospital.
class of the Seward Avenue baptist church
Wednesday evening with the following girls
present; Ms, Miss Gertrude Boyd, Miss Mss Bernice
Isaacson, Miss Fern Burbank, Miss Mar
guerite Sawyer, Miss Ida Gray; The class
will have box social at the church Tues
day evening, March 10.
Mrs. J. r. Morris entertained at her
hom, Morris avenue for the Fieur de Lis
irish. Mrs. N. +. Husband. Mrs. Joseph
Gordon, Mrs: E. A. Smith; Mrs: c; A. Maus,
The next meeting place of the club will
be at the home of Mrs. Smith, AL East
Eleventh street in two weeks.
The Fl. d. club members were guests of
Mrs. J. W. Feldner, East Eighth avenue,
at their regular meeting held recently. The
guests were: Mrs. A. A. Kaye, Mrs L. B.
Mrs A o. Harper Mrs. C. Fl. Hall, Mrs.
A f. Teese and Mrs. E. f. Rhodes. Next
week the club members will be entertained
by. Mrs. A. Q. Harper with line party at
local theater-
Mrs Elizabeth Skidmore who is seriously
ill at her home in Granville is not re-
covering. She is the grandmother of E. E.
Skidmore of Highland Park.
Mrs. F. G. Corbin, East Fourth avenue,
has gone to Abilene to be the guest for
several days of Mrs. Ralph Rice.
Newton Sloan, son OF Mrs. Frank Sloan.
Kansas avenue, has been removed to Christ
hospital where his condition has not i'm
rhrn yzpd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
TO PLAN LOAN DRIVE
Burrow Calls Meeting of Bankers for
Next Wednesday Night.

j. r. Burrow, director for Shawnee
county of the third liberty loan cam
paign, has called a special meeting of
all the bankers and financial men of
the county for Wednesday night at
1880 o'clock at the Chamber of Com
merce. The meeting is called for the
purpose of discussing the plans to be
used in putting the loan over. 1t will
be principally in the nature of con-
su1tation.
1T is especially desirable that all of
the bankers of the county be present
at the meeting" said Burrow, ''as
the most vital points in the campaign
for the third liberty loan which will
start April will come up for discus
Sion"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
HE ASSURES BRITISH
Gompers Sends Message to England's
Working Men.

Washington, March 15.-That labor
in all allied countries must cooperate
lin the gigantic task to destroy au-
tocracy' was the message President
Samuel Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor, sent Arthur
Henderson, English labor leader, and
Albert Thomas, French Socialist, to-
day.
Compress cab1egram was dis
patched to clear up reports of a previ-
Gus message in which he had declined
to send American representatives to
the inter-allied labor conference in
London February 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
RUB NEURALGIA
AWAY! END PAIN
Instant relief from nerve torture
and misery with old
est. Jacobs Liniment"
Get a small trial bottle,

Rub this soothing, penetrating lini-
ment right into the sore, inhamed
nerves, and like magic-neura1gia
disappears. st Jacobs Liniment"
conquers pain. 1t is a harmless neu-
ralgia relief which doesn't burn or
discolor the skin
Don't suffer! It's SO needless. Get
a small trial bottle from any drug
store and gently rub the aching
nerves. and in just a moment you
will be absolutely free from pain. ache
and suffering, but what will please
you more is, that the misery will not
come back.
No difference whether your pain or
neuralgia misery is in the face. head
or any part of the body, you get in
slant relief and without injury.-Adv.
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OPEN NOSTRILS! END )
A COLD OR CATARRH

headache, no struggling for breath at
night.
Get a small bottle of Eiy's Cream
Balm from your druggist and apply a
little of this fragrant antiseptic cream
in your ncstrils. 1t penetrates thru
every air passage of the head, sooth-
ing and healing the swollen or in
famed mucous membrane, giving Won
instant relief. Head colds and catarrh
yield like magic. Don't stay stuffed
up and miserable. Relief is sure
Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
FLYER Falls at Kew West

Washington, March 15.-The death
at Key West, Fla, March IS, of Roger
Canant Perkins. of Manchester, Vt,
a naval aviation student killed in
fall, was announced today by the navy
denartment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15

again become the official capital of
Russia 1t was Peter the Great who
moved the seat of government from
which he founded, and after 200 years
the government has been transferred
by its present head, Nikolai Lenine,
back to the historic capital Lenine
and virtually all the governmental
commissioners except Leon Trotzky
arrived here tonight and officially
opened the various ministries today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
DR.. MILLER TO COLORS

Dr. Milton B. Miller son of the late
w. W. Miller, of Topeka, who main
tains an office in the Central National
bank building, received today from
Washington a commission as first
lieutenant in the United States army
medical corps. Doctor Miller leaves at
once for Rochester, Mimi, where he
will take special training with the
famous Mayo Brothers preparatory to
service in France
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
Flyer ouartermaster Killed.

Washington. March 15.-HarTy
Velie of Chicago, quartermaster.
second class, in the naval flying re-
serves, has been accidentally killed in
France In announcing the death to-
day, the navy department gave no de-
tails
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-15
DOWNS A HUN PLANE
Hoosier With French EsquadrilIe Vic
tor in Air Combat.

With the Lafayette Flying Squad
ron, Monday, March 11.-Paul F.
Baer of Fort Wayne, Ind, this after
noon downed German airplane.@
Mr.. Baer came to France in Febru-
airy of last year as a member of the
Franco-Anerican flying corps. A.
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New York Money Market.

New York, March ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tile paper. 4 months, s: 8 months, 6. Ster-
a iRg bills 81 da og b eank.
day bills, 4.711a; demand. 1880 cables,
'4.76 7-16. Francs. demand. 5.73; cables
Lire. demand, SCI; cables. $50. Rubles.
demand, 10; cables. 13A nominal. Bar
silver. S61ac; Mexican dollars. 6915c. Gov
eminent bonds, heavy; railroad bonds.
irregular. Time loans. strong; GO days ~
days and 6 months. bid.
Call money. strong; high. 6; low 5A
ruling rate. 5a4; closing bid 81 offered at
6; last loan, q