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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-24
RULES ARE STRICT
Civilians Must Toe the Mark Al
/.
Funston Now.
Everyone Who Enters Gang
Must Tell His Business.

Camp Funston, Kan, Jan. "a
This is military camp where men
are being trained for soldiers said a
staff officer at Camp Funston. land
the stringent regulations thrown
around the civilian personnel of the
camp is expressive of the standing we
request and demand that they as
sumo The sooner they realize that
ca mp life is strictly a buSineSS1ike SOL
der life the better it will be for the
camp life
This was the explicit and much
meaning explanation given in response
to an investigation of the many regu-
lations imposed on civilians the last
few days. First the visitors at the Y.
W. c. A. hostess house were required
to record the time of their entry to
that building, the purpose of their visit
and their time of departure. The
privilege of walking thru the camp to
reach the Union Pacific depot after
$50 p. m. was taken away from Wis
itors, except under special provisions.
Service car drivers operating thru the
camp from Manhattan to Junction City
have been restricted to three stopping
places, the hostess house, division
headquarters and the packers camp.
Civilian Qucstionnaires.
Gates are to be built on all of the
highway, which runs thru the camp,
separating division headquarters from
the camp proper. Guards will be sta
toned at each gate and only author
lied cars will be allowed to pass thru.
The issuance of civilian passes has
been greatly reduced and investiga-
tions preceding the issuance of a pass
have been greatly increased.
Now comes a plan of requiring
every civilian whose duties require
him to remain within the camp to
file QUESTIONABLE giving a more de-
tailed account of his life than the Sc
1ective draft QUESTIONABLE. 1t doesn't
include d detailed account of his de-
pendence, but on other points it makes
the draft regulations seem simple and
only perfunctory.
Preparations are being made to re-
quire each civilian to file shis photo
graph in customary rogue's gallery
style, side view, front view, smiling
and frowning. Finger prints will be
taken of each hand and to cap the
climax the moles on a MANS back will
be charted and his scars recorded.
Saturday, Visitors Day.
The few civilians who have real
business within the camp can find no
fault with the stringent regulations,
providing their intentions are honest
and their records clear, but the camp
followers of lower motives, such as
loan sharks, gamblers and immoral
women and enemy aliens, will find
and the key hidden behind division
orders that cannot be torn loose.
The first Saturday of each month
remains for soldiers relatives to visit
here as heretofore under the super
vision of the camp authorities.
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UNION SUIT ONLY
GARB OF PATRON IN !
i TULSA RESTAURANT

Tulsa, Okla, Jan. 24.-As a result
of going across the street here clad
only in a scanty union suit, walking
boldly into a restaurant and ordering
his breakfast, E. V. McGrdw of Hous-
ton, Tex, is being held at the county
Jail to await hearings on his sanity.
McGraw entered the restaurant
where Miss Lille Babcock was wait
ress. She Immediately notified the
pohce and McGraw was arrested. The
restaurant was crowded with men and
women customers at the time. A near
rio. resulted.
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GIRLS DISAPPOINTED?
Or Maybe the Soldiers Are-''Y. NJ.
Denies Seeking Dance Partners.

New York, Jan. 24.-Girls of the
Young Women's Christian association
will not act as dancing partners for
Uncle Sans soldiers who are being
assembled at Camp. Lewis, Washing
ton. for service over seas.
Following reports that 5000 girls
would be employed by the Y. w. c. A.
to dance with the troops, Mrs. William
Adams Brown, chairman of the pub
licity committee, issued this denial to-
day:
THAT the Young Women's Chris
tan association is to employ 5000
girls to dance with soldiers at Camp
Lewis. Seattle, Wash, was emphati-
cally denied by Mrs. James S. Cush-
man, president of the War Work
Council of the Y. w. c. A
No Girls Out After $3.50 D. m.
Rockford. Ill, Jan. 23-An girls
under 6 found on the streets without
parents after $50 at night will be
turned over to the Y. w. C. A by the
military police, city officials decided
today.
The decision was reached after n
conference of Mayor Rev, Police
Chief Bargen, social workers, and
Brigadier General Kennon, command
ant at Camp Grant
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MAJOR MUMPS VICTIM
Funston Officer Disturbed But Little
As He Docs His Daily Work.

Camp Funston, Kan, jan "a
Callers at the generals quarters on
division headquarters hill are few and
far between. Many approach the
door, but turn away when they read
the sign posted thereon, saying:
IF you haven't had the mumps,
please knock before entering"
Maj. John C. H. Lee, chief of staff
of the division, is under semi-quar
antine in the building and spends a
lonely twenty-four hours there each
day. However, his desk and records
have been moved there, and the con-
slant stream of official documents
continues to flow thru his hands. A
division could as we'll spare its gen.
eral as it could spare it's chief of staff,
for on his shoulders falls the respon-
sibility of big details and the little
details of training the new army.
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INSURGENT GOVT

Continued from Page One)
have control of this system of COM
municatlOn.
United Press dispatches from Wash
ington during the past two days have
expressed the American government
warning to all people that the leu
tonic autocrats would not be above a
giga ntic hoax in spreading broadcast
the impression that conditions in the
central empires were near the break
ing point-the scheme being thus to
relax war preparations. under the be-
lief that President Wilson's plea to
the German peoples to form a demo-
cratic government had borne fruit.
Speculate on Reports Origin.
Russia is peculiarly susceptible
ground for Germanic propaganda at
the present time. 1t is entirely within
the bounds of conjecture that the Ger
mans may have planted" such a
wireless message with the hope that
the Bolsheviki enthusiasts would
hurry to accept the separate peace
proposals of Germany and her allies,
on the assumption that the Germanic
peoples were ready to join with the
Russian proletariat.
Strikes Still on in Vienna, Budapest.
Copenhagen Jan. Pedestrian So
cialist leaders are experiencing diff
Guilty in controlling the extremists of
their party" according to delayed
messages received today from Vienna;
The dispatches reported 100000
Viennese still striking.
At Budapest the strike partly con-
tinues.
u S. Govt Seeks Facts.
Washington, Jan. 24.-The state de-
partment official reports had carried
nothing up to $50 o'clock this MOI n
ing on the Smolny' institute wireless
reports of a revolution in Vienna.
ho M rio NJ in,
formed of the dispatches from Petro-
grad. reporting the wireless MESA ge
received there, sought Immediately to
get official reports from it's foreign Of
fees
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Morning Grain Gossip
FURNISHED by the Topeka Board of Trafe

New York, Jan. 24-The Journal of Com
merce says: Cotton-The ginning reads
about as expected. The absence of any
news from Washington on the contents of
Lever with the approval of the president
giving him blanket authority to fix prices
for all material as well as food stuffs. the
government may need for the war. and to
later encouraged the bulls to distribute
some fresh buying orders and bid UP the
market in this way. In view of the con-
tinued coal famine, embargo freight
tinued uncertainties in the foreign situa-
ton. sentiment very much mixed on the
course of prices from this level
New York. Jan 4-The Financial
dictionary tendencies are expected in the
market due to country selling in fear of
liquidation on the ten billion new liberty
loan issue. Peace rumors may prevent the
unsettlement from having serious effects
at present. and especially If the German
chancellors speech supports them. Wash
ington is expected to develop constructive
, news which may also check selling. The
| to quick changes. There are two distinct
elements in opposition. A peace and war
party. Pool channels are builish on
American Linseed Tennessee Copper. Dis
Asso. Oil and Harvester Corpns.
Chicago, Jan. 4.-The Herald says: Ii
is the impression Of~thc grain trade that
receipts of corn are to be very large for
| the extent of the situation. Whether
arrivals at primary markets will be suffi-
Gent to cause a large accumulation of sup
| plies and depress cash values materially
say they viii not They figure that there
is only sixty days before farmer; in mHny
| sections will be busy preparing their fields
for new crops. Then they will have LITTLE
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Must Give Up COurland and All
Baltic Provinces.
Russian Delegates Given One
More Chance To Accept.
HOFFMAN SERVES ULTIMATUM
Flashes Map With Frontier
Marked to Peace Enjoys.
Occupy Reval Within a week
Unless SIavs Accept.

Petrograd. Jan. 2S.-Russia must
give up Courland and all the Baltic
provinces or the Germans will resume
military operations and occupy Revai
within a week the German delegation
at the Brest-Litovsk negotiations in
formed the Russian representatives al
the last session of the conferees. An
adjournment was taken until Janu-
AIRY % to permit the Russians 10 con-
sioer the German terms
reports of the session indicate that
Germans took definite stand and
mort frankly outlined demands upon
" hich they are insistent.
The secretary of the Ukrainian dele
cation gave out an account OF the
meeting 1t says the Russians put a
question to the delegates of the cen
trail powers as to what were their final
peace terms. General Hoffman. one
of the German delegates, replied by
opening "a map and pointing out the
following line. which they insisted
should constitute the future frontier of
Russia:
From the shores of the gulf of Fin
land to the east of the Moon Sound
islands to Valkto the west of Mins1
to Prest-LitovslI.
md Lines Not Announced.
This completely eliminates Courland
Russians asked the terms of the cen
trail powers in regard to the territory
south of Brest-Litovsk. General Hoff-
man replied that was a question which
they would discuss only with the
Ukraine. VI. Kameneff, a member of
the Russian delegation asked:
Surprising we do not agree to such
conditions. What are you going to
do?''
General Hoffman's answer is re-
ported to have been:
within a week then. we would &C.
cupy Reval"
The Russians then asked for a re-
cess which was granted reluctantly
The Germans declared it was the last
postponement to which they would
consent. The request was made by
Leon Trotzky. head of Russian dele
CATION. who aid he desired an oppor-
tunity to lay the German peace terms
before the council of workmen'S and
soldiers delegates
Trade Territory for Grain.
The & negotiations between the
Ukrainians and the central powers are
proceeding amicably. The Austrians
offered to cede Cholmtchina to the
Ukrainan republic but only on condi-
ton that UkrainianS send grain and
other food stuffs to the central pow
ers Immediately on the conclusion of
peace.
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SUE ARMOUR, $3.50, 900
Former Suit by w. ID Niles Alleged
He Had Been Flceced.

Chicago. Jan. 24.-William D.
Niles has filed the praecipe of a suit
foi $350.000 against J. Ogden Armour,
Charles Armour of Kansas City, Mo-
and Armour & Co., in circuit court
here.
Whether Niles is the same as Will
liam d. Niles, a former employe of
the packing company, who brought
suit in St. Louis a year ago, could not
be learned.
Niles charged he had been Cheated
swindled and defrauded" by Armour &
Co. of 100000. which he claimed as
his interest in one thousand shares of
Armour & Co. stock. The suit was
dismissed after preliminary hearing
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Order by Mail
OeHvery Prepaid

time to deliver corn. In the interior the
country will have to go thru the period
Of melting SHOWS and bad roads, which
viii restrict farmers delivering. Under
such conditions. they do not look for bur
densome supplies They have more fear
of break from political news than from
any other factor.
Action of the oat market yesterday In
advancing 1Ac to a new high level for
cash and January was surprise to the
trade Most operators had sold offers and
bought bids Tuesday for yesterday. Buy
ing against the offers coupled with cover
ing by local shorts in an oversold market
caused the upheaval. giving a good profit
to their holders. Strong efforts to depress
futures have been made of late. but despite
this seaboard exporters have taken the
surplus offerings of cash and futures and
reversed the markets action at 16 cents in
about the same way they did before.
New York Jan. 24-29 industrials 20. 43,
off 80: 20 rails 17.63. off -27.
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SEIZED SHIP is SUNK BEWARE NAVY CANDY
Find "Impurities'' in Cantecn Supplies
-Rumor Ground Glass.
(c) Bureau of Public Information

Washington, Jan. 24.-Discovery of
Impurities" in candy supplied to can
teens of navy ships today caused the
issue of an order suspending the sale
of candy to the men and also the pur-
chase of additional supplies pending
investigation.
Navy department officials were
careful not to say what the 'impuri-
ties were, but the announcement of
the order Immediately caused a recur-
renee of the report that powdered
glass had been discovered. There is
no confirmation for this however, and
no cases of sickness from eating the
candy have been reported.
May Not Be Poison at All.
1t was merely stated that "impuri-
ties had been discovered in candy
sold to the officers and men and that
while chemical investigation determ-
lining what the foreign substances
were, no more of the stuff would be
sold and no more would be bought
for the supply. So far as is known
this is the first official action of it's
kind of q great crop of reports of food
poisoning by enemy plotters which
have ranged from breakfast foods to
canned goods and now finally to
candy
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Wall St, New York Jan. 24-STOCKS-
The irregular tone at the opening of to-
days stock market was again attributed to
uncertainty regarding pending domestic
and foreign Developments. Leaders were
relatively inactive, speculative issues being
most in demand. Except for a one point
advance in Mexican Petroleum and a de-
cline of as much in Tobacco Products.
changes were limited to fractions. The
trend became heavy before the end of first
half hour. Liberty bonds eased slightly.
Stocks continued their irregular course
thru the morning with pronounced pressure
against shippings and numerous speciaties.
including Tobaccos Motors, Oils and minor
war issues. United States Steel rallied Il
point from S91a but fell back again later.
Rails were uncertain for a time but became
heavy fairly free offerings of Union
Pacific. Reading, Pennsylvania and a few
other leaders which yielded large fractions
to point. Trading became almost motion
less at noon. Liberty 311's sold at 9S2
to 9S-12, first As at $40 to $500 and second
As at $3.50 to 96.1S.
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BURN SCHOOL HOUSES
Second Apparently Inccndiary Blaze
Consumes S15O,OOO Building

Philadelphia, Jan. 24.-Three fire
men were killed and fifteen injured
under a falling wall when fire swept
a large public school in the outskirts
of the city early today. The blaze,
which was of mysterious, origin,
caused a loss of $4,000
Police are making a rigid investi-
CATION of the fire today, as it is the
second blaze to destroy a public
school within the past few weeks. A
previous fire in the same locality de-
stroyed another school building and
entailed a loss of 100000. Initial
investigation of today's fatal fire indi-
Gates that it began in a section of the
school building far removed from any
source of flames. 1t was first dis
covered in an office on the first floor
and spread quickly
100000 Fire in Business District.
Camden, N. J., Jan. 24.-Fire
which gained rapid Roadway owing
to poor water pressure swept an en-
tire block of business esta blishmapts
today, causing a loss estimated at
100000 The origin of the blaze has
not been determined.
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rs YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From he columns 81
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

John Martin was elected United States
senator today The legislature in joint as
semblage chose the Topeka statesman to
fill out the uneXpired term of the late
Senator p B. Plumb whose term would
have expired in 1893.
On February 1, a new insurance company
will make its home in Topeka. 1t is the
Shawnee Fire Insurance company, success
sors to the Farmers Fire Insurance COM
pany of Abilene. The capital stock is 500,
600, Among the directors are John In r. Mul-
Osborn, Geo. NJ. Noble, Hiram =. Dillon
and J. r. Burton.
A reception was given this afternoon by
Mrs F. Chrisman. Mrs. Clara Campbell and
Miss Edith Campbell. at the home of the
former on Harrison street
Mrs. Chrisman in elegant costume of
black satin with vest of heliotrope velvet
and handsomely trimmed with feathers and
Jet: Mrs. Campbell in yellow silk with
garuiture of lace and feathers and jet orna-
ments and Miss Edith Campbell in charm
in receiving by Mrs. ]. b. Hayden. Mrs. NJ.
A. Low. Mrs t. b. Sweet, Mrs. Geo. Noble
and Mrs Norton. who wore very handsome
In the library three small tables held
respectively coffee and chocolate urns and
a punch bowl presided over by Misses
Carrie and Anna Bartholomew, Margaret
MuIvane Henrietta Thompson and Ger
trude Roberts: in lovely evening gowns
6 and nearly three hundred ladies called in
response to invitations
Mrs. d. w. Nellis entertained the mem
bers of the Kalamazoo duplicate whist club
last evening and the game proved unusually
interesting to the members. who are: Mr..
and Mrs. L. H. Crandell Mr.. and Mrs. E: A
Austin Mr.. and Mrs. w. q. Smyser. Mr.
and Mrs. ]. Z. Frost, Mr. and Mrs. w. H
Garvey. Mr.. and Mrs. ID. w. Nellis, Mrs
tombstone apd c. b. Jilson.
The Philharmonic club met Monday with
Mrs. DR.. Mulvane. very interesting pro-
gram insisted of instrumental selections
by Mrs. A. b. Campbell. Mrs. c. c. Baker
Mrs. Will Fernald and Miss Minola Clark
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Kansas City Live stock Market.

Kansas City. Jan. Observation-Disclosures
1000. Market steady to SC lower Bulk
of sales. SIG. 1OG16.25; heavy, s1620@16.:;5
packers and butchers. S1610@16.35; light,
SIG 00M 1920; pigs, s1200d15:I5.
CATTLE-Receipts 5000 Market steady;
beef steers, s1O50@12.5O; western steers,
s.50@125O: southern steers, 5000 1000;
cows, Sc. 50.d 1880: heifers. S700@11 90
stockers and feeders. $1,000 so; bulls
s6.5od10OO; calves. s7.OOG14.0O.
SHEEP-Receipts 6,0O0 Market steady.
Lambs, $16O0@17.0O: yearlings, $4,000
1850; wethers, s11O0@ 1900; ewes. $4,000
1875; stockers and feeders S7.OOM15.7O.
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U-BOATS NEAR BRAZIL
Fleet of Nine Reported Off the South
American Coast.

An Atlantic Port, Jan. PA fleet
of nine enemy. submarines was re-
ported sighted off the South American
coast in the latter part of December,
according to a story brought here to-
day The report was first circulated
10y the captain of a Norwegian steam
ship who asserted he had seen the
boats and had notified the commander
of a large American vessel. The boats
were seen, it was reported, near Cape
Frio, Brazil.
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NEW RATES MEAN COAL
Utah Prepared To Contribute 10000
Tons TO Kansas.

Salt Lake City, Jan. 24-In the
event that favorable thru freight rates
can be obtained. the Utah Coal Pro-
duceIs' association is prepared to send
10000 tons of coal to Nebraska and
Kansas, according to a telegram sent
by the association to Senator w. H.
King at Washington, Who is asked to
confer with the director general of
railroads.
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QUEBEC WON'T SECEDE
Motion Is Withdrawn by Author Be-
fore Assembly Voted on 1t.

Quebec. Jan. 24.-After Sir Lomer
Gouin, premier of Quebec. had made
a speech against it the motion for the
province to withdraw from the Cana
dian confederation was withdrawn
by its sponsor. ]. n. F'rancouer, mem
Der from West Quebec. before the pro-
vincial assembly had opportunity to
vote on the question.
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Rich Spy Is Dead.

Paris. Jan. 23.-The death is an
nounced at Geneva of Jellinek Mer-
cedes. former Austrian consul at Nice
who was charged by the French press
with having been the center of the
Austro-German spy system on the
Riviera. where he entertained layishlv
He went to Switzerland at the out
break of the war. sending his magnifi-
cent yachtto Monaco
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Police Stop Okla. Eight.

the fourteenth round of a scheduled
f1fteen-round go between Kid Regain
of St. Louis and Nate Jackson of this
CITY, police entered the ring and ar
rested the fighters and all connected
with it in violation of the state law
Jackson was given a decision.
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6,OOO head.


Chicago, Jan. 2.-HOGS-Receipts6 OOOO
tomorrow $4,000. Market weak. 3Oc to pc
under yesterdays average. Bulk of sales.
SIG 25@ 1855; light, $1560@ 1916; mixed,
S15 956d 1855; heavy, $15. 9OM16.60: rough
SIS 500 1905; pigs. So 75M15.OO
CATTLE-Receipts IA 600. Market steady.
Native steers. $500 1890; stockers and
feeders, $71O@1O9O; cows and heif-rs,
$6.10d11.S5; calves. $9.25@16.50.
SHEEP-Receipts IA 900. Market steady
Wethers, 50 70M1325 lambs, $14.5O@17.75.
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Call $500

lbs. lie; springs over lbs. 19c: roostefn.
13c; shaggy young BOOSTERS. Ice; broiiefa.
2 lbs. and under, DC
Eggs are retailing in Topeka JOM55c
BUTTER-5d SIC.
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New York. Jan. 24.-BUTTER-Marke
easier Creamery higher than extras. 541
J4Iac
EGGS-Market weak. Fresh gathered
extras. 6706Sc.
CHEESlMarket firm. State whole
milk flats, held specials, 2562Ja4c.
POULTRY-Dressed. strong; live firm.
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New York Sugar

New York Sugar Market.
New York, JAN o4-SUGAR-Raw
steady; centrifugal, Cos; molasses, NOM
ina1; refined sugar. steady; fine granu-
lated, 7.45.
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Kansas City Live Stock Sales
(The following sales were made this morn
ing at. the Stock Yards, Kansas City, and
reported over long distance telephone d.
rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin
son & Co.. live stock commission mer-
chants)
Kansas City JAN 24LCATTLE-Receipt
COCO head. Market steady.
HOGS-Receipts IL 900 head Market DC
to 1Oc lower. Bulk of sales,. s16.00@ 16.25 :;
top. S16.40.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000 head. Market
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DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

Furnished by the weather bureau office
Topeka. Kan: for the "a hours ending at
I a. IN Thursday.
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To get the genuine. call for full name.
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for
signature of L. w. GROVE. Cures a Cold
in One Day. 30c.-Ad>
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Chicago. Jan. 4.-BUTTER-Market un
changed.
EGGS-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Alive, higher; fowls 25c
springs, c31ac.
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New York, Jan. 24.-Cotton futures open
ed steady: January. 30.S5; March. BOT
May, 30.3S; July. 1904: October, $3.50.