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The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
MURDER IS CHARGE
Newspaper Libel Suit Argument
Ends Fatally for Editor.
City Clerk and Phone Manager
of Gallatin, NO., Held.

St Joseph. Mo, Dec. 24.-Hugh Y.
Tarwater. city clerk and president of
the Home Telephone Co. at GaIlatin,
Mo, today was in jail here charged
with the murder of Wesley L. Robert
son, editor of the Gallatin Democrat
Tarwater was brought here shortly
after the shooting and fatal wound
ing of Robertson in the newspaper Of
flee at Gallatin late yesterday. Talk
Of vengeance upon the accused slayer
caused authorities to hurry him out of
town
The cause of the shooting, it was
believed. was due 10 articles published
in the Democrat in its fight against
alleged bootleggers.z AS a result of the
EDITORS accusation Tarwater had
brought suit for $500 damages. al
leging libel. The case was continued
uutil February at the October term of
court
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
SCHOOL TO REOPEN JAN. 5
School Board Doesn't Wish to "Spoil
Vacations of Students.

Hail new group of St. Nicks-the
school board. The members not "hav-
ing the heart to do anything that
would spoil the Christmas good times
Of the pupils. have decided not to re-
open school December 90. but to stick
10 the date formerly fixed. January s.
The decision was made at an informal
conference of members of the board
Tuesday.
We would have liked to begin a
week earlier" said Supt. A. ]. Stout
but many OF the pupils are out of
town on vacation trips that they had
planned in good faith with the under
standing that January would be the
date OF reopenine school,"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
SAYS he REFUSED
Accused Husband Denies Moth
er-in-Law's Confession Charge.
Says She Wanted Him to Per-
form Fatal Operation.

Paw Paw, Mich, Dec %--Joseph
Virgo, accused of killing his wife.
Maud Tabor, by an Illegal operation,
continued to maintain his innocence
of the crime today. Virgo has been
questioned almost constantly since
early Tuesday, when Mrs. Sarah
Tabor, his motherin-law, declared her
daughters death resulted from the op-
Grafton performed by the accused
man. Acc ding to attorneys. Virgo
stuck to his original story that he was
asked to perform an operation by Mrs.
Tabor, but refused.
Joe always said he didn't want
any brats running around the house, =
Mrs Tabor said.
Virgo will go to trial in January,
according to present plans.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
IN HONOR OF AMERICAN PRESS
Seven thousand Ton Ship Named
After Patriotic U. S. Newspapers.

Philadelphia, Dec. 24.-The 7,S2s-
ton cargo carrier American Press, Hog
Islands seventy sixth vessel which
was named as a tribute to the loyalty
and cooperation of newspapers thru
out the nation during the war, was
launched today.
Miss Elizabeth c. Stone of New
York, daughter of Melville E. Stone,
general manager of the Associated
Press, was the sponsor.
AS Miss Stone crashed the gold
mesh-covered bottle of champagne
against the bow she said, Il christen
thee American Press, in honor of the
100 per cent Americanism displayed
by the newspapers in the United States
during the world war"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
RATES FOR 1920.

AS already announced in this paper
December 6, the subscription rates for
The State Journal for 1920 will be Is
cents per week by carrier; $6 per year
by mail. This is an advance of Il
cents per week or about 10 cents a
month.
The State Journal trusts that its
readers will take this increase with
the spirit of co-opera tion. The white
paper situation in this country is a
desperate one. The price for white
paper has increased enormously.
Many papers will be absolutely unable
to live.
While the increase seems a small
one yet in the aggregate it will enable
US, we hope. to take care of part Of
the increased cost of paper.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
WANT NEW INCREASES
$4,000 Garment Work.
ers Demand SIS More Per Week.

Chicago, Dec 24.-Wage increases
averaging SIS weekly have been grant
ed the approximately $4,000 mems
garment workers in Chicago. it be-
came known today. About $3.50 was
added TO the production cost of a suit
of clothes, employers estimated, altho
the union men claimed that the cost
to the wearer should not be increa ased
over what it would have been mas
much as the increases were figured
mer's clothes.
The increase is retroactive to De-
cember l 5 and the new scale runs un-
til June
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24

There is practically no chance for
white Christmas. S. d. Flora, state
meteorologist, announced today. Kan
sas is on the edge of a cloudy belt.
Flora said there is a fifty-fifty chance
for fair weather here tomorrow. Tenn
peratureS will be moderate
Little change occurred in Kansas
weather during the last twenty-four
hours, or in the entire United States
At o'clock this morning the temper
ature here was 81 degrees. Tonight
the low mark will be about IS, rising
TO 40 degrees in the afternoon. Little
variation in temperature will occur
Flora does not predict any measur-
able precipitation in the next "a
CONTINUED on Page TWo-I
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
MactcrIlnck in America.

New York. Dec 24.-Maurice Maeter-
Inck, the Belgian poet. arrived here
last night on the liner France with his
nineteen-y -year-old wife. He came here
primarily 10 witness the premier of
The Blue Bird" in musical form at
the Metropolitan opera house on Sat
urday night.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
BOLSHEVIgl ARE VICTORS
Capture 500 Men. 1000 Horses ana
IS Cannon From Hamontoff.

London, Dec 24.-The Bolshevilsi
captured fifteen guns. !. 900 horses and
900 men after defeating the forces of
General Mamontoff ard General
CheInokoff in the region Of Staron-
iensk, according TO a wireless dispatch
received from Noscog today. The dis
patch adds:
More than a thousand Cassacks
were killed, including General Chelne-
koff."
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
WILL BE WARM XMAS
Also Generally Fair, Is Prediction of
MeteoroIogist Flora.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR KANSAS:
Generally fair tonight and Thursday
somewhat warmer Thursday.
The shippers forecast warns to protect
36-hour shipments north and west against
a temperature of % degrees :, east and
south against temperature of 30 degrees
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
WILL VISIT AMERICA
King Victor Emmanuel of italy Plans
Tour OF Western Continent.

London. Dec 24.-An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Paris quotes
Rome advices as declaring King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy plans 10 visit the
United States and South America. es-
pecially Brazil. Chile. Uruguay and
Peru unless the political sltua ton pre-
vents.
The dispatch does not say when the
king plans TO leave Italy.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
CONVICT STRIKE CHIEF
Winnipeg Union Chief Found Guilty
After Long Trial

Winnipeg. Man. Dec. 24.-R. p.
Russell. a leading spirit in the general
strike here last May. was found guilty
today of sedition- He was the first of
twelve indicted following the strike.
charges being based on their acts da--
ing the trouble. R1sseirs trial occu-
pied twenty-eigh days.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24

Special sale on ties and shirts. Open
this evening. New Toggery.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Generally fair tonight and Thurs
day; somewhat warmer Thursday.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24

So please get in touch with the governor
NJ once. Get a number Of his friends In
your community 10 write him and back
him M in his program. Ask him to pro-
tcct the general interests OF the state by
avoiding unnecessary legislation. thereby
stabllizing things as much as possible.
Please do everything you can along this
line for your support Is certainly needed
and YOU HAVE a DUTY TO PERFORd.
lLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07
KEEP ONLY BEST LAYERS DURING
SUMNER MONTH";,

Hens should not be kept in crowded quarters
during the not summer months, says j. G..
Halpin of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture,
at Madison, Wis. Crowding increases the death
rate and lowers egg production.
The hen that is always wanting to set Is the
hen to get rid of; she loses too much time
The hen with the bright yellow beak and legs,
as yellow as the cock birds, and a solid abdo-
men, is another one TO Gull out She has not
been working
Tl1 very old hen should be culled, because
herey are rarely good egg producers after the
second or third year.
The hen with the badly broken down abdo-
men should also be disposed of. She has been
overfed and will lay only a few eggs a year.
The death rate among these hens is unusually
high.
Flocks kept in limited quarters should be
culed out according to some such PLAN says
Mr. Halpin. The smaller flock with plenty OF
pasture and room will be more profitable than
the larger but crowded flock.
The college flock was cued May Il and l0l
hens were sold Ninety of these hens were
good layers. but the buildings were too crowded
for hot weather so these were sold TO leave
room for the best layers.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

More than $4,000 worth of registered Hol-
stein Friesian cattle will be bought by Dallas
County dairymen from Northern breeders with
in the next six or eight weeks. They will
average in cost about $500 each.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

from Ohodaga. N. " where he purchased
thtty.cght relatored llosteln mitch cows fol
syndicate Of local business men,
p. Burnett, one Of the largest planters In
Calvert section of tho Brazos river sold his
last years crop of cotton OF GIT bales for the
sum Of 100000 net.
Mr.. A. b. Kidd who lives near Joshua John
son County has n fine patch Of tobacco and
says il Is mistaken idea that tobacco will not
grow well in Texas.
Parker County is marketing big watermelon
crop.
All row crops are looking good in West Texas
suggestion has been made 10 farmers who
have been unable TO secure cars for shipping
their wheat that they buy army tarpaulins with
which to cover the wheat. These can now be
secured at low prices.
Hidalgo and Cameron Counties have $4,000
acres planted in broomcorn which will yield on
an average about one ton an acre.
jeff Hartman, a farmer living near Honey
Grove, sold pair of mules for $500. This is
the highest price ever paid for a pair of mules
III tnlS part VI Int COunliy.
The recent large shipment of calves to the
big packing houses will be the cause, it is pre-
dicted, of scarcity of beef cattle for the next
two OF three years
Farmers of Rusk County are complaining
about the boil weevils and claim that they are
eating up the cotton crop Rusk County raised
a fine tomato crop and got good price for it,
The Laredo onion crop this year totaled 5000
cars, 1000 cars short of other years. The
prices paid were good.
The Farmers State Bank of Temple has pur-
chased 100 registered Poland China pigs for dis
tribution among the members of the Pig Club
it recently organized. The porkers were Sc
cured in Missouri and Kansas by SPECIAL agents
of the bank, who made personal selections OF
the stock Where necessary the bank will II
nance the member in his purchase, This is
part of a movement designed to completely re
stock Bell County farms with the highest class
of hogs.
The Gulf Coast section has some good cotton
crops maturing. Adverse weather conditions
caused few coast country farmers to lose
their cotton crops entirely.
An extensive acreage of milo maize and
kaffr corn has been planted In the Panhandle,
West and Southwest Texas according TO a
statement made by Fl. B. Dorsey, secretary OF
the Texas Grain Dealers Association.
disease known as deer plague has played
havoc with sheep at China Springs fifteen miles
north of Waco One farmer at that place re-
ported the loss of 100 sheep in less thar "a
hours. Owners are resorting TO vaccination IN
an effort to save their sheep.
One of the largest honey crops ever produced
in Texas is now predicted for this year. Pro-
ducers are estimating the total amount OF honey
at approximately nineteen million pounds.
Farmers in the vicinity of Terrell are ship
ping their damaged wheat to Galveston. where
there is said to be a market for damaged wheat.
Curing plants adequate to take care ofid600O
bushels of sweet potatoes will be in operation IN
East Texas in October when the crop natures.
The Weatherford canning factory began OPP
erations last week 1t has a canning capacity
of 10000 cans per day.
KEEP ONLY BEST LAYERS DURING
SUMMER MONTHS
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Big Sandy is reporting a big crop of corn.
sweet potatoes, peanuts, fruits and berries.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07
FORT WORTH HIDE & WOOL MARKET

Market higher than In twenty years
The following prices paid for hiden wool etc hv
NORTEN HIDE 4 PRODUCE COMPANY, Fort Worth,
Texas August . 1919
Green hides Nv ir
Green Sated lfdes by freight .t.s..s.sst..... .tlc
Bulb and Damaged usual reduction.
Dry Flint Hide. .,.t.s.tst.tt...t..t. as
Dry Salt Hides. tac
nulls and Damaged usual reduction
Nfnen Nnfef int NA.H fN" u CO.,
treen Saliri liOre Hides ttttttt. each. sihno
tireen Sailed inrse Hide medum each a.. SD
Pony and Damaged Hide. half pFfr
sheer relis ttttttsststtt ilF o. 500
tinal Ntns. IA a. AlW
Wal s7eol1r % slsds' % So
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

An Abilene grain dealer estimates Taylor
County wheat crop at one million bushels.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Mr. Logan Ramsey, who lives two miles west
of Bartlett, Williamson County, thrashed out
361b bushels of wheat per acre on his crop OF
twenty-five acres.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

On top of the other good crops comes the
report from Brentwood that the pecan crop
in Brentwood territory is very promising and
that big crop is anticipated. Brentwood is
noted for its many varieties of fine pecans.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Marshall and other parts of East Texas re-
port fine corn crop as well as good crops OF
peanuts, sweet potatoes, sorghum, cowpeas,
watermelons, canteloupes, peaches and all kinds
of other fruits.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

The Hale County wheat crop varies from Is
to 40 bushels per acre. Some fields of oats have
made as much as 50 bushels per acre in this
county.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Runnels County is dragging its roads with
drags attached to auto trucks. They drag after
each rain at very small expense.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Wheat in the Winters section is averaging
from 20 to 80 bushels per acre.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Smith County has shipped 500 cars of to-
matoes this season.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

It is estimated that Smith County will ship
from $50 to $50 cars of liberia peaches. Prices
range from $3.50 to 1925 per bushel.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

The yield of wheat in Runnels County is aver
aging 26 bushels per acre and oats from 90
to so bushels per acre.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

c. c. Morris. County Farm Demonstration of
Grayson County, reports loss of a calf on his
farm from blackleg. He has issued a warning
10 stock owners that they vaccinate their cattle
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Edgar Whedbee of Bonham has forty acres
in broomcorn which he thinks will average ten
or twelve tons to the acre also corn crops in
the Sulphur river bottom will make all the way
from IS to 100 bushels per acre
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Baylor County has three million dollar grain
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

The West Texas Wool and Mohair Association
sold over 100000 pounds of wool and 100000
pounds of mohair to local and Eastern buyers.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Frank c. Walden, who recently sold his large
Grayson County ranch sold twenty Hereford
cows and twenty calves to the HUMPHREYS broth
ers at Oden, receiving $500 for the forty head,
an average of S425 each.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Glen Crawford of Sterling City purchased
1000 lambs from S. M. Ogilvie at $500 per
head, the flock being considered one of the best
in that section
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

A farmer near Stephenville raised a cabbage
weighing % pounds.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

The first liberia peaches sold at Jacksonville
brought $2.75 per bushel
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Reports of the range inspectors IN the EN-
ploy of the Texas Cattle Rasers Association
of Fort Worth. received from various parts o
the State, indicate that grass Is abundant an'
that cattle are fattening and thriving every
where.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Some OF the wheat and oats Of North 1exa
has been considerably damaged by rains, bu
the oats will make good feed and can be fe'
together with the straw.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

A number of cattle have died recently from
eating prickly pears in McCulloch County. Vet
erinarians do not understand why cattle prefe
prickly pears to grass since the ranges are wei
supplied with grazing.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

Or. Roy Hughes al Gainesville mas returned
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-23
NO. PARTISANSHIP

Nothing could happen to the United States at TINS
time than that the peace treaty should be made merely par
san matter Any attempt to make uch by any political or
ganzation or any individual, deserves condemnation.
have right to appropriate this treaty as their
own insist unanimous support Of Democratic meas
ue Republicans right demand unanimous opposition
to it as test of Republicansm.
Regardless of the personalities involved on either sioe II
cannot be argued by any intelligent that any political party
SUCH any material and inevitable attitude toward the treaty
This big comprehensive pact is something brand Its rea
on the basic principles of the two parties has not yet been
worked Neither party has yet had chance to study the
subject and commit itself authoratvey The general pubic
which parties made has not had chance to form
and register opinion.
there is anything about the League of Nations that is es
senay Democratic essentially Republican, what is it? Re-
publican leaders conspicuous in advocating it before the
and Democratic leader has been active in construct
ing it. It doubt possible characterize parts of it
harmonzng cang with the established views of
the oher but certainly neither wholly with the prin
ps and traditions of party dsagees wholly with those
OF the other party.
The be said of the general body of the treaty. with
It's manifold provisions that affect the fate of Germany and touch
The life of the whole world at thousand points Are all the Ger
indemnity arrangements the boundaries the darma
men plans and all the rest Republican Democratic? The
ton is absurd
goes as matter of that this treaty should
sderd carefully and critically The point is that criticism should
always be from the standpoint Of broad and enlightened Amer
can from the restricted standpoint of single party.
Private citizens should consider as Americans not parsans
Senator's should consider aemen representing the country
and not who have peudged the submitted the
dictates of secret council
1t is natural and right that each party should divide on the
issue There will be honesty in such decision Whether the treaty
is accepted rejected let the decision cut across party lines
il should
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-23
RIPPING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
PRIVATE GRIEF.

cannot weep for others woes or sympathize with
those who wall have shoes that hurt my toes and
outside g1efs seem cheap and stale The hungry Huns
are needing bread do not heed them when they CALL
shrek and groan at every readI have new shoes which
are too small. You point to Kaiser Bill and say "There
Is the man who cornered grief he's whacking sawogs by
the day. who Prussa's naughty chief" He has
some reason for the blues this outcast whom the whole
world scorns but he wearing large loose Shoes which
do not chae his kingy corns How bravey would stand
the gaff If were there in Bills retreat I'd lose crown
and throne AMI laugh if had shoes that fit my feet They
tell sad tales of Europe wrecked of cities razed by van
cal blows these tales would move me- expect if could
but forget my toes No tales can anger or amuse see
no point in aught you e there's nothing counts but feet
and shoes, in this sad world wherein we dwell can't
admire the dewey rose, or hear with joy the nightingale
Tor have shoes which hurt my toesal other things
seem flat and stale.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-23

a WonaerfuI Enflpsnee For Expsesans
Mothers.

Mothers for over half a century have
used with the utmost regularity the time
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The arrival OF baby. Here Is truly wonder
sul penetrating application for the abdomen
snd breasts. 1t sofiens and makes elastic
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yleld TO natures demand for expansion. BY
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are made comfortable. The usual wrench
Ing ftrain. hearing-down and stretching pains
are counlcracted. The system Is prepared
Tor the coming event, and ths use OF Mother
Friend brings restful nights and happy antic-
9aiion, for The nerves are not drawn upon
18th the usual strain.
BY rs regular application the muscles ex-
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less at the crisis and naturally the pain and
sanger IL less.
Mothers Friend Is on sale at every
rug store. II Is for external use only, u
bsolutely safe and wonderfully effective.
Write the Braddeld Regulator Company
Dept. C. Lamar Building, Atlanta. Georgia,
.or their Interesting Motherhood Book. free
D users Of Mothers Friend, and obtain
ottle Of Mothers Friend from the drug
ere and begin this grateful treatment
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-23
THE DEED IS DONE

With the landing of the American flyers at the Azores on the
seventeenth of May mans mastery of the air became accom-
phed fact From Trepasey Bay to the islands was the long
leg of the journey If that could be nevgaed safely it could
be done again on though progress be slow and
difficulties multiply there remains but steady development OIL
air traffic everywhere
And with the glorious thrill of this accomplishment comes
another deeper and stronger than that of the knowledge
that man has conquered the air.
If man can conquer the elements he not conquer the
civilization remains there anything that cannot do?
If conquer the elements be not conquer the
evil of his ownsef? Can this not be in reality end Of
wars beginning of realization of human brotherhood?
We beaten the Prusans freed the SEAS aversed the
hidden ways of air. Can not do the rest?
And of the past STILL small voice saying force
full calm with authority eBtter he that rueh his spirit
than he that taketh city,"