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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
A. P. MEN MEET AT X. C.
j. c. Quarter of Kansas City and
f. p. MacIcnnan. Topeka. Officers.

Il. L. MhClSnndus 1ODCEAas OilAcCTS.
Kansas City. Mo-, July 7.-Several
newspaper editors and many Associ-
ated Press telegraph operators from
towns in Missouri, Kansas and Okla
homa attended the second annual
meeting mere Sunday of the Missouri
Kansas Good Fellowship club, an or
ganization of traffic department en-
ployes of the press association. Talks
were made by Frederick Roy Martin.
of New York. assistant general man
ager of the Associated Press; Frank
Z. MacLennan, publisher of the To-
peka, Kan, State Journal; Roy Bailey,
publisher of the Salina. Kan, Jour
nal: J. E. Rank. of the Atchison. Kan,
Globe, and E. W. Swan. correspondent
at Topeka.
Following a dinner officers of the
club were elected for the coming year.
John G. Quarter, of Kansas City, was
chosen president. Frank p. Mac
Lehman, of the Topeka State Journal,
was elected first honorary vice presi-
dent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
5000 EXECUTED? ?
ConstantinOpIe Dispatch Says
Reds Recaptured Tashkent.
Brother of Kerensky Among
Those Slain by BOlsheViki.

Paris. July "A dispatch from
Constantinople to the Agence Radio
reported today that the Bolsheviki
forces have recaptured Tashkent
Capital of Russian Turkestan), exc
cutting 5000 of the inhabitants.
A brother Of Alexander Kerensky.
former Russian premier, was among
those executed. the dispatch said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
FIGHTER in TOPEKA
J. j. Demicr, Washburn Grad, in
Bouts in Erance.

Winning a decision over Joe Rivers
at Paris in January. and lasting ten
minutes in an exhibition bout with
Georges Carpenter. the French cham
pion. is the experience of James ].
Demier. alta ched to the army recruit
ing station in Topeka to secure men
for the air service.
Demier formerly was a student of
Washburn college. He fought in many
contests in the A. E. F. and won quite
name for himsef over there. He
has six more months to serve in the
army. and then intends to return to
Topeka to resume his studies at Wash
burn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
ASKS 1O-CENT FARE
Kansas City Railway Company After
Another Street Car Hike.

jefferson City, July THE Kansas
City Railways company, in an appli-
cation filed today with the Missouri
public service commission, asks for a.
l0-cent fare for adult passengers for
single trip and for an order under
which tickets can be sold at the. rate
Of two trips for Is cents. Children
under II years are to pay half fare.
The commission has taken the ap-
plication under advisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
BLAST PLOT AT BUTTE
Attempt to Dynamite Mine O1ice
Causes 5000 Damage.

Butte. Mont. July 7.-Explosion Of
dynamite placed in the entrance Of
the Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany's pay Office early Sunday dam
aged that and surrounding buildings
in the heart of the business district.
An iron grating was blown against
a building across the street narrowly
missing a street car heavily loaded
with miners. Damage was said not
to exceed $1,000.
Three men were arrested and are
being held for Investigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
OFFERING $15 A DAY
Western Kansas Farmers Pay Amy
Price for Harvcstcrs.

Wages as high as SIS a day are
being paid in some Of the western
Kansas wheat counties, according to
Frank McIvor. deputy state fire mar
shal. The minimum wage is fifty to
sixty cents an hour. The high bid for
farm labor is tputting an effective
crimp in any progress which /. WI w.
organizers might make. McIvor stated.
r. AT Salipa 1 heard a farmer offer
rs cents an hour for shockers and
barge men" said McIvor. "A little
further west this price sprang TO 50
and 90 cents. At Ellsworth one
farmer had taken a bunch at 81
day and in Hays SIS a day was the
high figure"
McIvor says several thousand men
are needed in the Salina wheat belt
and the demand for wheat harvesters
is unusually heavy in nortbwestern
counties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
TO AvENGE coRRELL MURDER
Carranza Government Orders Pursuit
and Arrest of Slayers.

Washington. July 7.-Strict orders
have been issued by the CarranZa gov
ernment to Tanpico military authori-
ties to pursue and capture the men
who murdered John W. Correll Amer
lean citizen, and attacked his wife
near Colonia. 81 miles north of Tam
pico on June 16. the American am
bassy at Mexico City advised the state
department todav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

Hot, dry. warm and fair. is the en-
semble ascribed to the weather this
morning by +. a. Math. observer. AS
far as Topeka is concerned, he predicts
no change from the even run of con-
ditions that has held existence for sew
eral days.
In the last "a hours there have been
no outstanding features in the weather
program. No rain has been reported.
Temperatures were not excessively
(Ccntinued on Page Eive.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
FIVE OIL MEN SAVED
Arimore, Okla, MIllIonaires We're on
Launch Thought Sunk.

Ardmore, Okla, July IA tele-
graphic message today from the First
National bank, Corpus Christi, Tex.
reports all five Ardmore millionaire
sportsmen. members of the fishing
party reported blown out to sea yes
terday in furious gulf coast storm,
are safe.
No further details were given, but it
is assumed J. J. McAlester. McAlester.
Okla, host of the party, also is safe.
Among the men reported aboard the
missing craft are: P. c. Dings, bank
er; B. A. Simpson. oil man; n. B.
Feagin, banker and oil man; r. P.
Poland. real estate dealer; Thomas w.
Campion, district Judge. all of Ard
more, and ]. J. McAlester. McAlester,
Okla. a millionaire oil man. and
grandson Of former Lieutenant Cover
nor McAlester.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
Joplin Boy Wounded in siberia

Washington. July Home ad-
dresses of American soldiers killed or
woundedAin a Bolshevik attack at Ro-
manovlza, Siberia. June Is, were given
today by the war department The
names include: Died of wounds
Louis A Schlister. St Louis. Severely
wounded-Private Steward Reeves,
Joplin Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
THREE MINERS KILLED
Several others Hurt in Cave-In--soo
Trapped for Two Hours.

Fayette City. Pa. July 7.-Thres
men were killed and seven others were
seriously injured early today by fall
Of rock and earth in the O'NeG mine
Of the Pittsburgh Coal company near
here.
Approximately 200 miners were i'm
prisoned In an underground tunnel for
nearly two hours by the CAVERN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

Chicago, July 7.-Adolph Deimling
SO years old. one of the best known
German newspaper men in the middle
west, died today. He was born in Ger
many and came to this country in
1885 He was a brother of General
Won Deimling OF the German army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
GOBS STORM JAIL
Now 200 Arc Under Investigation for
Trying To Rescue Buddics.

Chicago, July Two hundred blue
jackets were held for investigation to-
day in the Great Lakes Naval Train
ing station following an attempt to
rescue four comrades arrested and
jailed in Waukegan, near here. yes
terday.
The quartet made off with a gallon
OF ice cream. When the four were
lodged in Jail. several hundred "gobs"
surrounded the building and pelted it
with bricks and other MUSCLES. Truck
loads of armed guards from the naval
station were summoned and wholesale
arrest followed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
5 Children Burn to Death.

Maysville. KY. July -Four chill
dren of Mr.. ard Mrs. Peter Starnm and
a child by the name of Thompson.
whom they had adopted. were burned
to death and Mr.. and Mrs. Stamm
were injured seriously when fire de-
stroyed their home near Petefsville,
Lewis county, Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
MANY DEAD IN RIOTS
| Germans and Poles Take Part in
SfIesian Disorders

Copenhagen. July 7.-Seversl per-
sons were killed and a large number
wounded in disturbances Sunday at
Kattowitz, upper Silesia- according to
advices from Beuthen. Germans and
Poles took part in the disorders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
Loot of $4,000 Taken From Illinois
Institution Also Found.

Chicago, July 7--Three of the five
bandits who robbed . bank at Down
ers Grove. Ill. last week and escaped
with $4,000, were under arrest here
today The loot was also discovered.
Police believed the other two would
be in custody shortly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

New York. July 7.-President-elect
Pessoa of Brazil. accompanied by his
wife and daughter, sailed on the
noon for Brazil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
HOT, DRY AND FAIR
Moro July Weather Is Scheduled for
Kansas Tonight.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR KANSAS:
Fair aud continued warm tonight and
Tuesday cooler Tuesday afternoon In
northwest portion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
Rob Kansas Bank Of 50 900.

Kansas City. July 7.-Four IN
masked men robbed the Overland
Park (Kansas) State bank near here
today OF about $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
UPHOLDS GOV. HOBBY
Texas Senate Votes Conhdence-De-
nounccs Demand for Resignation

Austin. Tex. July THE. senate to-
day unanimously adopted a. resolution
expressing confidence in the integrity
of Governor Hobby and denouncing
the proposed resolution in the house to
demand the governors resignation.
The proposed resolution was attacked
as being unfair. unjust, and unwar-
ranted"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
CATCH BANK ROBBERS

Contiued on Page Five.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

Florence practically was in control
of the strikers Saturday and rioting
was in progress Local soviets made
their appearance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
ITALY STRIKE OFF
All Calm in Florence Again After
Rioting.

Florence, Italy, July THE strike
was declared off at midnight Saturday.
All is calm in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07

T is hard for an auto to go forward
when two wheels arc turning back
wards. Tho same applies to a city
and the wheel of Rotary
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
81, 900 AS CONSCIENCE BALM
Defrauded Man Fifty Years Ago and
Now Makes Restitution to
Daughters.

Bloomington. nl.-An unusual case
Of conscience rasping developed when
Mrs. Mary Kable Of Virden and hel
two sisters, Mrs. Il. B. Henkel and
Mrs. G. A. Hulett, both Of Sangamor
county, were given $1,000 by an old
man who claimed to have defraudeC
their father, Peter Freeman, q hall
century ago.
In 1869 Freeman owned q flock OF
sheep which were disease stricken
The hired man, William Dohrf, said II
the sheep we're sent to Missouri they
might be cured. Freeman sold the
flock to Dohrf for $1,000. the money tc
be paid II the sheep survived. Dohrt
saved a few, shipped them to Montana,
and they became the nucleus Of q for
tune.
lie is now rated as a millionaire and
decided to hunt up the relatives Of
Freeman and pay them the money hi
agreed to pay so years ago.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Anarchists Make New Claim.

sent to Tchitchprin, the Russian Boil
shevist foreign minister, to Rela Kun,
has been intercepted by French wire
less operators. The message deals
with the alleged spread Of BOlshevism.
II says: 'The revolutionary movement
certainly is gaining in America. The
states of New York. Pennsylvania. In
diana, Illinois and Michigan are eSpe-
cially impregnated by Bolshevism.
"A riot has taken place in Philadel-
phia, which certainly must be attribut-
ed to BolshpviSt influence"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Food Ships Reach Germany.

ports Of the first American food ships
was just in the nick of time to meet
the crisis in the food situation. The
potato ration in greater Berlin was re-
duced to three pounds and no fresh
meat is available for issue to residents
of cities. These residents are receiv-
ing canned meat from the remnants Of
the army's stores. Restaurant prOpri-
etors are able to get little food at any
price simply because the supply no
longer exists. Private persons with
ample incomes also report the same
trouble in obtaining food from long
cultivated surreptitious sources.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
"Want to Make $5,0o07"

a millionaire club here. But they've
cheated me out Of a $4,000 commits
sion, and I want revenge. All l want
you to do Is to buy $1,000 worth Of
chips and I'll throw the game to you"
"Where do we 60 from here?" asked
Mr.. Kunz.
"Meet us in Lincoln park tomorrow
at the zoo. Well explain the details"
They met-Mr. Kunz, Billings, and
his partner, whom he introduced as
Everett Moline. They had laid the
proposition before Kunz and he had his
hand on the wallet, when there sudden.
ly appeared four detectives from Chief
Moneys Office, who placed Billings
and Moline under arrest as confidence
men.
Farmer Kunz had tipped of the po-
lice.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
To Build Cheap Airplanes.

New York.-Capt. Ugo DAnnunZiO,
Italian aviator, announced here that
he had designed and begun the manu-
facture of ''flivver' airplanes, SO
small as to be capable of landing on
almost any country road and de
signed to sell for Sl,23O. The planes,
Captain D'AnnunziO said, will have a
wing spread of less than twenty feet
and will he guaranteed to fly for two
and Onp-half hours at an average
speed of fifty miles per hour, carrying
a passenger weighing not more than
1863 pounds.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Europe Finance All Riaht.

Paris.-Persistent rumOrs that all
Europe is on the verge of a financial
collapse are not justified by the facts,
a prominent American financial ex-
pert, who has been engaged for many
months i'm studying the problems fac
ing the peace conference said in a
statement. Conditions were serious,
he added, but not panlcky, and will
doubtless be relieved greatly when
peace is signed and the embargoes
aftel. He predicted that England
will be stronger within q year
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Discontinue Casualty Lists.

Washington.-The War Department
has discontinued the method Of issuing
casualty lists which has hitherto made
them available for simultaneous publ
cation In all newspapers throughout
the country. This has been decidid up
on because practically all the casual
ties incurred in fighting have been an
nounced and few remain except deaths
from injury or disease since the sign
ing of the armistice. The action was
taken an the ground that the casual
ties are not fighting" casualties, and
that they are in the same class with
deaths in the navy or in the army
camps in this country, which are not
formally announced.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Baby's Hand Bitten OF
By Pet Hog Of Family

, The infant child of MI. and
. Mrs. w. Bridgeman Of Asheville,
} N. c.. was attacked by a pet hog
and had n hand chewed of
and the other badly mangled be-
. fore help could arrive on the
} scene.
, The child and pet hog, which
had the run of the house and
yard, were left in the kitchen by
Mrs. Bridgeman while she was
in the yard. The mother heard
; the child suddenly begin to
) scream, and rushing back to the
kitchen, found the baby gone.
, Following the cries Of the lit
tie one she found 1t in the yard,
where the hog had dragged it,
and when she arrived the baby
was being violently shaken by
the hog.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Reds XIII Children.

Berlin.-RepOrts of cruel treatment
of nOn-B Olshevik population Of COur-
land by Lettish Bolsheviki are report.
ed. The Bolsheviki took a large num-
Der of old men, women and children
from Mitau through the snow to a
camp forty miles away. The children
were separated from their parents os-
tensibly to be educated in BOlshevik
principles. Those in the party who
were too weak to walk were executed,
including a number of women and chill
dren. According to the reports a
number of leading residents Of the
towns of Tukkum and Talsen also
were executed by the BOlsheviki.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04

Creameries. ex. first grade.
Creameries, second grade
(cold storage), Id. ........ 81
Process butter ............. 52Q53
Packing stock ............ 37V38
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
KOREANS RIOT.
Reported 100000 Destroy Property Of
SamQa.

Seoul.-SeriOus disorders have &C.
Cured at Samga, n village in south
eastern Korea, according to dispatches
received here. 1t is said that Koreans
numbering 100000 gathered at Samga,
cut telegraph wires and set fire to
the town hall. Armed with scythes,
members of the mob are reported to
have attacked the pOstOffice and pO-
lice stations. There was severe fight
ing and many casualties were inflicted
in the clash between the mob and the
police and Il small detachment of
troops. Strong r~einfOrcements have
been SEM to Samga. Unrest continues
throughout the country.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Airplane Cops.

New York.-Plans of the New York
police department for a "clOud cop"
section materialized when twenty-six
American, British and French aviatOrs
were sworn in in the office Of Dep
uty Police Commissioner ROdman
Wanamaker as members Of the police
reserves. Col. jefferson de Mount
Thompson, who will command the po-
lice aviation squadron, announced that
uniforms for the aerial patrolmen had
been ordered, and that planes would
be ordered in May.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
May ATTEMPT
new ALLIANCE
NvNGARIAN GOVERNMENT SEND
DELEGATION TO BERLlNG TO
TREATY AGAINST ALLIES.
ORGANIZE new ARMY
GERMAN OFFICERS SHAPE HUN.
GARiAN ARMY ALONG HUN
LINES.
Western New spsper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Budapest, March 3l.-The Hungar-
ian government has sent II delegation
to Berlin TO conclude Il treaty of ALI
auce against the entente allies. Ger
man officers formerly belonging to
Field Marshal Mackensen'S army have
arrived in Budapest to reOrganiZe the
Hungarian army along German lines.
The army now numbers 100000 men.
Budapest, March 3l.-The plunge of
Budapest into anticupitalism cOntin-
ucs with fevcriSh efforts to show that
the reign of law and order is nndis-
turbed. The city is ~outwardly quiet
since the first few days. in which
there was much looting, especially of
jewelry shops. AS Il result of the loot
ing ii Is reported, 100 persons w"r" eX-
ecuted by the new regime, their com-
munistic ideas apparently being TOO
violent. The new freedom exists for
those who are willing to live as the
government dictates. Two important
newspapers, the Poster Lloyd and the
Az Est, print only what the censor
permits. Foreign correspondents may
transmit 10y telegraph if they write
what is desired by the government.
CZECH troops who have been fight
ing the communists in southern Slo-
vakia have captured the city of kas-
chau, N amikS northeast of Budapest,
and other points. The German colon
lists in western Hungary and Transyl-
vaniu are hostile to the communists
and are attempting to establish their
independence.
The French troops at ~Szegedin,
southern Hungary and elsewhere, it ia
said, are permitting the communists
to establish themselves in control AS
they wish, despite the fact that there
were riots in small Industrial centers
where the communists held organized
parades after the fashion set in Buda-
pest.
Women are joining the Red army.
Bella Kun has installed his offices in
the royal castle. House rents have
been reduced 20 per cent. The homes
of the wealthy are being searched and
paintings and works of art are being
requisitioned for the purpose of es-
tablishing national galleries, after the
style of Moscow.
Those entering the country may
leave only by the personal permission
of Bella Kun, foreign minister. The
minister has acknowledged In an in
iprview that Hungary's m does
not desire To make war on the entente
at present. hut asserts that Hungary
wishes to live peacefully with all.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Eggs,


Eggs. strictly fresh. case
count .lo.1oV io.os
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Seattle Gets

Seattle, Wash. March 31.-The Pu-
get Sound Traction, Light and Power
ferred to the ownership and control of
the municipality. The transfer was
made by A. W. Leonard. president, to
Thomas F. Murphine, superintendent
of public utilities. Fifteen million dol
lars worth of utility bonds was
turned over to the traction company
when the transfer of the property was
made.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Was Not U-boat Victim.

Berlin.-The German admiralty says
it is unable to give any assistance in
solving the mystery of the disappear
ance early in March of last year Of the
United States naval collier CyclOps
while bound from Brazil for the Unit
ed States with a crew of fifteen Off
cers and 221 men, f~ifty-seven passen-
gers and a cargo Of manganese. Ad-
miralty officials say they received no
report of the sinking of the Cyclops.
German submarines were not operat-
ing at the time in West Indian waters.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04

Bristol, Pa.-FrOm ten to forty per
sons were killed or drowned when
a temporary ~scaffolding, extending
around the stern of Il boat on the ways
at the Merchant Shipyard at Harri-
man, collapsed while nearly $50 per-
sons were standing IN it to view the
launching of the frpigliter Waukau.
Twenty-Five injured persons were
taken to the Hartman hospital. Thou
sands had assembled to see the launch
ing and witnesses to the accident say
the scaffold seemed to turn over, pre-
cipitating its occupants into twenty
five feet of water.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
To Plead Ireiand's Claim.

Observation-Disclosures have been
granted by the State Department to
Frank =. Walsh, Edward r. Dunno and
Michael X. Ryan, who are going to
Paris To present Ireland's claims ut the
peace conference. In submitting their
request for passports Mr.. Walsh and
Mr.. Ryan, representing the committee,
stated that the purpose Of their mis-
sion was ito obtain for the delegates
selected by the people of Ireland a
hearing at the peace conference"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Bio Silver Shipment.

San FranciscO.-The two richest
treasure trains hat ever crossed the
continent arrived here with $12,OOO,-
GOO lin bars of silver bullion, which is
being shipped by the United States
government tO India for the account
of the British government. Each
train consisted of ten cars. Owing to
the premium on silver in the Orient,
this bullion will increase in value.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-04-04
Dump Reds on Black Sea.

LondOn.-In pursuance of the gov
ernment's policy to depOrt all known
Russian Bolsheviki from Great Brit
ain, a batch of about 100 of the most
notorious of these persons are to be
shipped about mid-April to Odessa. II,
meantime, Odessa is captured by the
Bolsheviki, the deported persons will
be landed on the beach under the guns
Of the British fleet. The BolsheviUts
in England are mostly c~ongregated in
East LOndon.