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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
Frank WeIten, Missouri Farm
er, Faces Murder Charge.
Mrs. Carrie Holland, Sentenced
for Crime, Exonerated Him.
CITIZENS DEMAND HIS TRIAL
Doubt Common Law" Wife
Alone in Staying.
Mrs. Welton and Baby Were
Thrown in, Well.

Eminenee, Mo, June Frank
Welton, 40 years old, a farmer of near
Terisita, for the murder of whose wife
Mrs. Carrie Holland, of Oneill, Neb.,
was sentenced to ten years in the
prison by jury here this week, was
arrested last night on a grand jury
indictment, charged with murder in
the first degree. He was released on
$4,000 bond, pending trial.
Woman Exoncrated Him.
Mrs. Holland, who claims to be the
common law, wife of Welton, after her
arrest for the killing of Mrs. Pearl
Welton last January. exonerated Wei
ton of all connection with the crime
She maintained she choked the
woman to death, when Mrs. Welton
became enraged at the declaration of
Mrs. Holland that she and Welton
had lived together on a farm in Ne
braska for thirteen years Inder a
common law marriage contract, and
that Welton deserted her three years
ago.
The request for the grand jury was
made by citizens of Terisita who
doubted that Mrs. Holland was alone
in committing the crime. Welton has
maintained that he was away from
home when his wife was killed. He
claims Mrs. Holland summoned him
from the tllnDef TO a clStern near the
house where he found his baby alive
on the surface of the water and his
wife dead in the cistern. According to
Mrs. Holland, she had been at the
Nelton home two days posing as We'll
toms suggestion. as his sister,
Also Charged With Bigamy.
According to her story, she choked
Mrs. Welton to death in self defense
and dragged the body to the cistern to
a hot oh bod -
ted suicide.
at her trial Mrs. Holland reiterated
that Welton was innocent of any con-
nection with the killing of his wife
Welton, himself, was witness for the
state. Besides the murder charge
Welton is under bond on a charge OF
bigamy preferred by the father of the
slain woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
He's Made Kansas Best AdVer-
tised State in Union.
Record Wheat Crop Makes
State Talk of World.
MANY INTERESTED IN DETAILS
C. L. Seagraves of Santa Fe
Gets Number of Inquiries.
Booklet Giving Agricultural
Facts Being Gotten Out.

Kansas is the best advertised state
in the Union on account of it's record
breaking wheat crop, according to
Charles Z. Seagraves, supervisor of
agriculture of the Santa Fe railroad.
who is in Topeka today.
THE newspapers all over America
have printed stories about the Kansas
wheat yield, referring to it as a fourth
of all the wheat produced in the
United States,' Seagraves said LAS a
result of this publicity, the homeseek-
erS' bureau, which is made up of the
agricultural representatives of the
railroads under federal control, has
received a large number of inquiries
about wheat farming opportunities in
Kansas. In fact there have been so
many inquiries that the railroad ad-
ministration found it necessary to
publish an illustrated booklet on Kan
saS as a aiding agricultural state
The booklet is in the hands of the
printer.
Contains Much Information.
The information collected for it has
to do with Kansas production, trans
portation facilities, markets, land
values, schools, churches, roads, living
conditions, etc, with a special chapter
on wheat raising. The booklet will
go to all homeseekers, and 1 believe
boosts it ever had"
The homeseekers' bureau has re-
ceived approximately $4,000 inquiries
about farm opportunities in the sew
era1 states, and as a result of data
furnished a strong homeseeker move
ment has started toward the parts of
the country having undevelo. ed re-
sources. Inquiries about Kansas are
handled by a committee of agricul-
tural representatives operating in this
state, of which Seagraves is chairman
Seagraves, who is making a tour OF
the Santa Fe lines. stopped here for a
conference with w. J. Curtis, agricul-
tural agent, about the finishine
touches of the Kansas booklet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

would soon reveal it was impossible of
realization, even if the Germans ac
cepted it Shifting of the political
situation in Great Britain has now
given him an unexpected ally in
Lloyd George.
Causes Criticism.
Nevertheless, the entire American
delegation is not in sympathy with
Withholding the full text of the treaty,
inasmuch as Photographic copies are
on sale in three languages in Ger
many, Switzerland, Holland and Scan
dinavia. Attacks such as that made
by Senator Lodge are not regarded
as surprising by some of the Ameri-
can delegates, who say there is no
reason why the treaty should not be
given out and that such attacks are
embarra ssing. 1t is pointed out that
while the big four" might have had
numerous reasons for Withholding the
text, it has now been so widely pub
lished beyond thier control that it is
useless to keep it from the American
public.
Probe May Be Delayed.
Washington, June difficulty in
getting witnesses may interfere with
the treaty leak" investigation ordered
by the senate.
Unless Senators Borah and Lodge.
upon whose statements the inquiry is
DaSeQ, Will tell the investigating COIl-
mittee the names of New York men
who can substantiats their charges
the probers will have to turn to the
American peace delegation in Paris for
a clue, it was limited today.
Lodge already haS>announced he
will not tell who showed him copies
of the treaty text in New York. Borah
has not told what financial interests
he meant when he said he had been
informed over the long distance tele-
phone that certain New York inter-
ests had the treaty and had considered
it at a directors meeting.
Neither Lodge nor Borah can be
forced to testify before a senate inves-
tigating committee it was pointed out
today,O as under the constitution no
senator shall be called in question in
any other place" for any statement
made on the senate floor.
At the meeting of the foreign rela-
lions committee Monday when plans
are to be laid for the investigation,
the means of getting witnesses who
can throw light on the way the treaty
got into New Workers hands will bs
discussed.
Start 1t in Paris?
1t was suggested today that the inl
quiry ought to be started by cabling
to Paris to seek the source of the
leak. Senators on the foreign rela-
lions committee will suggest Monday,
they said, that the committee learn
who among the American peace mis-
sion was responsible for looking after
treaty copies. If the inquiry is be-
gun from that end. it was intimated,
time might he saved in determining
the only question not answered: How
did the treaty get here and who has
it?
Senator Lodge said today he has no
plans for the inquiry, and will not
make any.
Senator Hitchcock, author of the
investigation resolution, said his in
terest lies solely in getting at the
facts for the purpose of showing thai
"monstrous implications against Pres
ident Wilson made not for the public
good but for some other purpose
shall be shown to be false, as the!
ara false
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
WHEAT At MARKET PRICE
That's What Rep. FtzgeraId's Reso-
luton in House Provides.

Washington. June 7.-Representa-
tive Fitzgerald, Democrat, of Massa-
chusetts, has introduced a resolution
proposing to transfer the duties of the
food administration in handling this
years wheat crop to the department
of agriculture and requesting Secre-
tary Houston to sell the wheat at the
world market price.
The resolution said such action by
congress was proper because members
OF the economic council at Paris
headed by Herbert Hoover report that
there will be no food shortage after
the next harvest. and the last Ameri-
can food ships will leave for Europe
late this month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
ITO REFUSE SENATE.
Officials Say Wilson VIII Not
Publish Treaty Now.
~. $. Peace Delegation Firm
on Withholding Pact.
;SENATE DEMAND TO WILSON
present Document VIII Be
Changed, Is Reason.
s44GRy L. S. ENJOYS Favor Pub
LEGATION of Terms.
SENATE DEMAND TO WILSON

! Washington, June 7.-Administra
stion officials believe President Will
sson's reply to the senate resolution
sasking for the peace treaty Will be
slic interests to furnish the text at this
Slime.
This belief was strengthened by
dispatches from Paris today saying
sthe American peace delegation ap-
sparently is firm in its decision not to
tauthorize publication of the treaty
I until it is signed.
Acting Secretary of state Polk to-
sday cabled President Wilson the SEN
Yate resolution.
: Officials also believe President Will
son cannot release the treaty without
sthe consent of the French and British
Headers. Both the French chamber
sof deputies and the British house of
commons, It is stated, are as anxious
Ito get the treaty as the American SEN
sate is. That Lloyd George or Clemen-
sceau will consent to publication of the
gtreaty is doubted.
Paris, June THE American dele
sgation to the peace conference appar-
sauthorize the publication of the Ger
imam peace treaty until it is signed
and not even to communicate the Of
tficial text in its present form to the
sUnited States senate.
Paris, June THE document
(which Senator Lodge reports having
seen in New York is not the one that
will go down in history as the Treaty
sof Paris, is the reply of those close
Sto President Wilson to the senator
1charges that the full text of the Ger
hnan treaty is in the hands of certain
american private interests.
2 m other words. the treaty in its
present form will not be presented to
The Germans for signature. 1t is
bound to undergo considerable revi-
sion.
Was Too Uncertain.
All thru the winter months the
president is said to have battled. with
Premier Lloyd George and Premier
.Clemenceau in an effort to draw VI
terms to which it was possible fol
Germany to subscribe, or which coul6
ibe enforced by the allies. The fight
reached its climax in March. 1t is nov
possible to state that the conditions
Originally proposed by the British ahC
French underwent drastic modifica
tion in that month, but even after re
modelling the treaty was so sever,
that the British and even some of thu
French delegates now agree it is i'm
possible to carry them out.
The president, according to his as
sociates finally agreed to the treat!
In its present form in the belief tina
the effort to put it into execution
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

Chicago, June with the visible corn
supply about ten million bushels less than
a year ago, and with planted acreage
smaller and the status of the growing crop
below normal. prices of corn this, week
scored materials upturn. Compared with
a week ago the corn market this morning
was 2%c to 4&c higher, oats were down
A@ase to &c and provisions varying from
SOC decline to a rise of $1.75
Industries, elevators and shippers com
peted actively for all the arrivals of corn
during several successive days and altho
fear that a squeeze might accompany final
adjustment of May contracts proved to De
unfounded, the enhancement of values met
no check until transient tightening OF the
money market put bullish sentiment some
thing as a discount. Subsequently, i'm
proved crop conditions tended further TO
taxi away part of the upward strain on
values Bearish sentiment, too, acquired
more or less additional impetus later by
reason of the fact that after today hold
ings for an individual interest would pc
restricted to a maximum of 100000 bush-
els. Oats we're eased chiefly by the excel
lent crop outlook. Most deliveries or pro-
visions showed decided advances, the re
suit of the big exports last week and OF q
decrease In warehouse stocks.
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FOUR MEN A MOB
So Man Sues X. c. x. for $4,000 for
Attack by Robbers.

Kansas City, Kan, June flames
L. Rainey. 20, clerk in the Kansas
City Refining company, has filed
suit in the Wyandotte county district
court for $4,000 against the city. al
leging failure of the city to provide
protection guaranteed citizens under
the Kansas mob law.
Rainey states that on the night of
April 2, last, he was held up by four
men in a motor car and when he ran,
several shots were fired, one striking
him in the leg.
The law provides that when two or
more persons congregate for the pur-
pose of committing an unlawful act,
it is a mob.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
GOTH UNITS BACK HOME
Troop Ship Santa Cecilia Lands 2,O64
Soldiers at New York.

New York, June THE troop ship
Santa Cecilia, bringing 2,064 soldiers,
arrived here Friday. Twelve officers
and 1855 men of the S4Srd field ar
tillery; six officers and SAT men of the
345th machine gun battalion (90th di-
vision, Oklahoma and Texas) and a
number of casuals were on board.
They will be sent to Camps Dodge,
Devens. Grant. Pike, Funston, Travis,
Dix, Upton and Bowie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
ZIONlSTS IN PROGRAM
Marco Morrow Will BE Principal
Speaker at I. o. B. b. Hall.

A program will be given by the
Zionist district Sunday evening at $50
O'Clock at the I. o. B. B. hall, ITO
East Sixth street
Marco Morrow will deliver an ad-
dress. Miss Rose Gilberg. sopranos;
Miss Lena Anderson, violinist, and Ell
mer OLSON, accompanist to Miss Gill
berg, will furnish musical numbers.
Lamy Gilberg and Miss Frances
Ulamperl are billed for readings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
Ten Persons Expelled From
RhiReland Occupied Areas.
Say Refusal To Deal With New
Republic Cause.
NAL TREATED BY THE FRENCH?
Opposition to New Rhenish
Government Is Growing.
France Reported Making Prom
ises to DoEten Regime.
lBy the Associated Press.l

Paris, June 6.-Ten persons ex-
PEELED from portions of the Rhine
land occupied by the French because
they refused to deal with the new re-
public. it is alleged, have reached this
city.
They claim to have been confined
by theB Franch in the barracks at
Worms, and some say they were not
given food for "a hours. were placed
in cells without sleeping accommoda
tons and were insulted and marreat-
ed by French officers.
Opposition to Republic.
tBy the Associated Press)
Wiesbaden, June 6.-Opposit.on to
the Rhenish republic is growing here
each day. The judges of the province
are the latest to defy the new govern
ment and with court employees have
declined to recognize the legality OF
the regime headed by Doctor Dorten.
The French are reported to have
made definite promises to the republic
in the shape of officially settling wine
and food prices on a peace basis and
also fixing the value of the mark ar
bitrarily at one franc, % centimes. A
general protest strike occurred here
yesterday.
Will Pay War Debts.
Cologne, June 6.-Dr. Dorten, presi-
0enC OF the new EGnenlSn repuDllc, mas
telegraphed Sir William Robertson,
commander of the British forces of oc-
cupation here announcing the forma-
ton of the republic and repudiating
any desire to evade a Just share in
the reparation of war damages
He appeals to the entente powers
to protect the new state from inc
vitable revenge from Prussian mill
tarism.
No HeadWay With Yanlxs.
(By the Associated Press.)
Coblenz, June 5.-The Rhenish re-
| public movement has made no head
| way in the American area of occupa-
ton, notwithstanding reports to the
contrary. according to Third army
| headquarters. The American authori-
ties are continuing to maintain an at
titude of opposition to political moves
of any kind which would be contrary
to the regulations of the army of oc-
cupation. The British officers in theiI
area are said to have taken a similar
| stand.
| French officers in Coblenz have
stated that the idea of launching a re
public just at this time originated il
| Mayence and Wiesbaden and that the
French regarded the movement with
| favor and it has developed that eff
| forts Were made to secure American
cooperation for the movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

Philadelphia, June THE cham
pion Holstein COW, Rollo Mercena De-
Kol, was sold here for $4,000 at an
auction of pedigreed cattle in con-
nection with the annual convention of
the Holstein- Freisian association here.
The COW is six years old and weighs
1900 pounds. Her record is 51.93
pounds of butter and 1,1SS pounds of
milk in seven days and 201.17 pounds
of butter and 29S,060 pounds of milk
in thirty days.
. 5000 new customers by July l. -"-Adv.
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"DOC" USES AIRPLANE
Makes "Ca1F' From Beaver City to
Oberlin in Short Time.

Beaver City, Neb., June Tt took
but three hours ana thirty minutes
Thursday for DR.. F. A. Brewster. of
this city, to fly in an airplane to
Oberlin, Kan. fifty-rive miles distant.
attend a patient and return via the
aerial route to Beaver CITY.
Doctor Brewster recently inaugur-
ated use of an airplane for making
long professional calls.
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1T MAY RAIN SUNDAY


Confined from Page one.J
at Wichita they are said to be in good
shape.
The extremes on record for this
date were "a in 1900 and A in 1890.
At 8 o'clock this afternoon the wind
was blowing at the rate of miles an
hour from the southeast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
LOST LIVES IN STORM
California Scientists Believed Drowned
OFF Coast May is.

San Diego. June LOS Angeles
and northern California scientists,
members of an exploring party, are
believed to have lost their lives in a
big storm off the lower California
coast May l 5. during which it is be-
ieved their yawl rugged boat, Trojan,
fOundered in the heavy seas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
BULGARS BREAK TRUCE
Part of Army Marching Toward Ser
bian Frontier.

Copenhagen, June IA part of the
Bulgarian army has been modified
and is marching toward the Serbian
frontier. the Balkan news agency re-
ports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

Chicago, June I.-BUTTER-Marke low
err Creamy 4ed5I1Sc.
EGGS-Market unsettled. Firsts. 30 u a
41c; ordinary firsts. 37Q3S1e; at mark.
cases included, 39G4oc; storage packed.
firsts. 411a64214c; extras, 421aQI 43c.
POULTRY-Alive. unchanged.
POTATOES-Market weak. Old. car lots,
northern white, L. S. No. 1. S1.75GI2. 90 new.
jobbiug Texas Irish Cobblers. No. 1, $i.50d
4.T5 cwt.: Texas Bliss Triumphs No 1. Si00
$500 cwt.; Florida SpauIding Rose, S9.o0G
$50 barrel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

Lawrence, June More than 200
visiting Shriners are here TODAY for
the installation of a local Shrine or
ganization in addition to initiating
more than 100 Shrine candidates. The
city was turned over to the visitors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07
CHASE OUT BOLSHEWKI
British Forces Force Reds To Eyac-,-
ate AIexandroysk.

London, June Under pressure
from British forces the Bolsheviki
have evacuated Alexandrovsk in the
transCaspian territory on the eastern
shore of the Caspian sea, according to
advices received here. The British had
bombarded the town and British air
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-07

Kansas City, June T.-HOGS-Receipts
MEDIUMS siss6@ q tight lights i sis5
M2GO0; sows, S192o@19.75; pigs, $17.50Q
CATTLE-Receipts 400 for week. all
classes unevenly heavy and Gamer steers
weak to 25c lower; yearlings. strong to 25c
to sorng: veals, SOC lower; no quotations.
SHEEP-Receipts 500 for week; best
heavy weight killers, steady; others, 25c
lower; no quotations.
Kansas City Stock Yards. June e.-Cat
tie prices broke sharply Monday, started
and since then made substantial gains,
closing withIa net advance for the week
The hog market turned down the middle
OF the week and closed with net declines
of 10 TO 40 cents. Sheep declined early
in the week but later regained most of the
loss.
THIS WEEKS RECEIPTS.
Hog receipts this week 1858 were 49,
| 600 larger than last week, and double those
! OF year ago. Cattle runs were liberal
| in the first two days of the week, but
| later diminished materially, and the total
| for the week 30,S00 was 5000 less than last
week and LOGO less than year ago. Sheep
| last week, and 5000 larger than a year
| ago.
BEEF CATTLE
Early this week prices for cat cattle de-
| cllned another quarter top, of the big
| break last week and the market reached
a new low level for the year A rally start
ed late Tuesday and the week closed "a to
| % cents above the low point and Is to 80
GENTS net higher. Offerings are sold out
| more closely than for several weeks past
| 1earl1ng steers, mixed yearlings and tidy
weight fat cattle were in greatly improved
demand, and for the first time in many
| months past. sold better than heavy steers.
| AearI1ngs sold zap to SIS. heavy steers UP to
| S14-5o The top price for Colorado steers
was $1435. and CALIFORNIA; 1890. Cows
sold at 81 to S13, heifers IS to Si4. bulls
81 to $40 and veal calves $3.50 to S1425
| STOCKERS AND FEEDERS.
Stock and feeding cattle declined with
Iat grades but there was no rebound In
prices later. Feeders are quoted at $40 ia
$1425, stockers $3.50 to Si3.25. and stock
COWS and heifers $50 to $3.50
HOGS.
Hog prices today were quoted 20 TO &c
cents lower but even at that decline local
prices are relatively higher than elsewhere
and to spectators $2050 with bulk of sales
S13I0 to $2O.15. Compared with week
ago, prices are 30 to 40 cents lower. Pigs
are selling at $3.50 to $40, decline &c
to 70 cents for the week. Demand for
hogs remains large and there is no accum-
| ulat1on in the yards is usually the case
on a declining market.
SHEEP AND LAMBS
Sheep prices rboke sharply early in the
week but made nearly a full recovery later,
aud was firm today at the best prices OF
the week Spring lambs are quoted al
SIG TO $3.50, yeaFlings, clipped lambs, 81
to $14. ewes $3.50 to S11.50 and wethers
$10.25 to S1225. The top price for goats
/ was - So CHARLES NJ. P1PKlN,
Market Correspondent
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New York. June T.-BUTTER-Marke
firm. Creamery higher thar extras, 5i34 a
5515c.
EGGS-Market firm. Fresh gathered ex-
tras. 4T44712c
CHEESEEMarlet weak State whole
milk. current make specials, 31A M3eAc.
POULTRY-Aliye, steady; dressed, steady,
unchanged.
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To Sleep We'll

TAKE HORSFORD'S ACID PHOs-
PLATE.
Half a teaspoonful in half a glass
of water, taken before retiring, in
sures restful sleep. Buy a bottle
Adv.
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Minimum temperatures are for the last
twelve hours.
There was no rain in Kansas during the
last twenty-four hours, and temperatures
were near normal.
Roads-See last column of table ahore-
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Furnished by the Topeka Packing Com
pany. corner Of Laurent and Madison
Topeka, Kan, June z.
Strings over 2 tbs yIc oid ro,.SI"rs l5c:
bpoilers, lbs and unGer, 40c; hens. over
81 lbs, 2Sc; hens under 3lA lbs. Zoe !;
springs aver Tbs. BE: stays. l5c-
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Chicago. June T.-CORN-Close July,
81 $50 a 169: September, s1.6o3s @1-63s4
December 81. 40.
OATs-July, 671k d679sc; September, 65A
065ssc: December. G57sc.
PORK-July, 5000; September, s4I-05.
LARD-July. 1895; September. 1926.
SHORT RIBS-July, $2T.65; September.
S2717.