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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
WON'T move CARS
Train Crews Blamed for Kan
sas Car Shortage.
Wichita Broker Makes Com
plant to Governor.

Train crews are refusing or failing
to move empty box cars, according to
a statement in Governor Aliens office
today by Dorsey Dunn, well known
Wichita broker. Dunn declares that
hundreds of available cars are idle in
Wichita yards and that large num-
bers of cars have been dropped by
train crews at remote stations.
While rumOrs of failure of train
crews to move cars have reached the
governors office, Dunn's statement is
the first authentic report of the I'M
usual situation. Large numbers of
cars are left on sidings for weeks at
n time, Dunn stated, atho grain men
are clamoring for means of moving
wheat If the cars are in bad condi-
ton no apparent effort is being made
to repair them and to place them in
service.
Grain Men Tell Same Tale.
81 have talked with a number of
grain men and they bear out the situa-
ton which 1 have found" Dunn
stated. There are hundreds of idle
cars on side tracks that remain there
for weeks at a time. Train crews
simply refuse or fail to move them. 1
have heard of numerous instances
where strings of available cars were
placed on sidings at remote stations
and no apparent effort made to deliv-
er them to shippers"
Dunn was in Topeka today on his
way to Wichita. Recently he has
been urged as a candidate for con-
gress in the Eighth district He de-
clined to state today whether he would
enter the Eighth district Republican
primaries next year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
PASS UP GARBAGE
Many Complaints Made by Citi-
zenS of Topeka.
McGiffert Says City Cannot Do
the Work.

The question of who is going to
collect the garbage" continues to be
of prime importance in Topeka. judg-
ing from the number of calls that are
made complaining against the non
collection Of garbage.
According to Commissioner McGif-
fert, the city is not equipped to collect
garbage. H. l.. Peppmeyer holds
contract with the city for the collec-
ton of garbage. However, he has
sold his interests to a new firm that
will take charge on October 1. When
complaints have been made at the
public health office, they have been
turned over to Peppmeyer, who had a
spe cial wagon to take care of COM
plants. Considerable difficulty has
been experienced in employing salts
factory help. If a man is paid by the
day. he does just about as much work
as he feels like doing, it is said, and
If he is paid by the amount collected,
by the barrel. he goes to the places
where he can get the most garbage
the quickest, hence the other places
suffer.
Lost Men During Fair.
Peppmeyer lost 9 number of his
men during the Free Fair. They left
him without notifying him of their
departure and the first he knew of it
was when complaints began to come
in. II was impossible to get other
men to take their places.
Commissioner McGiffert says that
the situation seems to be improving
as there have been comparatively few
calls this week registering complaints.
Until the new company takes charge
and succeeds in completing its or
ganizatton there may be some delay in
the collecting of garbage. Commits
sioner McGiffert says that he is going
to do all he can to see that collections
are regular altho during the change
there may be some delay.
Commissioners of the majority of
cities feel that garbage is best han
died under the contract method used
here. To accomplish the same work
it would cost the city about $4,000,
McGiffert says. There would have to
be purchased a large amount of equip
ment and a staff of men would need
to be employed to carry on the work
1t is said to be best handled where it
is contracted to a stock feeder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
BRIDGE SIDEWALK UNSAFE
City Discovers Dangerous Condition at
MeIan Span.

Melan Span.
While work was progressing at the
Melan bridge this morning, an exam
ination brought to light the fact that
the angle beams that support the side
walk had tipped toward the river and
that there was a grave danger of the
sidewalk dropping into the river.
According to City Commissioner
Hancock. who was called to the bridge
this morning, it is considered dan
gerous.
The sidewalk is laid on angle beams,
says Commissioner Hancock, that are
set every seven or eight feet apart.
The outside end of the beams supports
the pedestals and hand rails. The
beams come to an abrupt end at the
pavement instead of being run on un-
derneath the road bed. The inside of
the bridge is loaded up with dirt and
the whole structure is none too stable,
it is said. The sidewalks. however. are
regarded as a distinct menace. There
are many large cracks in the struc-
ture. These may spread at any time.
With the greatest weight at the end
of the angle beams and no particular
weight over them at the inside ends
of the beams there is every possibility
that the sidewalks will continue to tip
out unless some method can be found
to weight them or tie them down.
The city engineer will make plans
as soon as possible for strengthening
this structure and for making the
sidewalks entirely safe. In their pres
ent condition they are regarded as
dangerous.
1t is the opinion of experts that the
entire bridge was constructed from old
asphalt that once was used as bale st
in ships There was a time when a
good deal of asphalt was used as bal
last on ocean going boats. The gov
eminent had large quantities of this
old stuff and it is believed that tie
bridge was large constructed of that
sort of material.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
BY MAJORITY VOTE
Democratic Executive Body for
1t fore Presidential Choice.
Mrs. Bass Says Women VIII
Put $1,5OO,OOO Into Campaign.

Atlantic City n. j., Sept. 27.-The
executive body of the Democratic ma
tional committee, in a report prepared
for the committee as a whole. ex-
pressed itself today as favoring the
majority vote in the nomination of
presidential candidates. The present
method provides for a two-thirds vote.
Mrs. George Bass, Chicago, discuss
ing the prospects of the women's vote
in 1920, said she believed the women
could subscribe a campaign fund of
s1,500,000. She declared the women
were opposed to a large army, but
favored a powerful navy for protec-
ton. The women have radical ten
denotes, Mrs. Bass said, but she be-
lieVed they could become practical in
politics because of their training in
managing homes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
CHARLES r. DALE DEAD
Old Kansas Comic Opera Singer Well
Known Over State.

Kansas City. Mo, Sept. 27.-Charles
Ross Dale died at his home, 3O17 De-
Croft Way, at 2 o'clock Friday morn
ing after an illness of three months.
His wife. his mother. Mrs. f. L. Dale,
of Ottawa, Kan, and his brothers.
Joseph Dale and Dudley Dale, were
with him at the end.
The body will be taken to Ottawa
for burial Mr.. Dale was As years old
As a young man he sang in comic
opera, his most notable enga cement
being the tenor role in THE Jewel of
Asia" with James T. Powers For a
number of years he was a bond sales-
man in Kansas City and before his last
illness was financial editor of the
Kansas City journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
SANTA FEE NOTES.
Notes and persons from Santa Fe
by Frances Jones. Telephone $3.50.


James f. Bowman has resigned his po-
sition in the auditor of disbursements Of
flee and will leave with his family October
1 for New York City. where he has ac-
cepted a position in the office of auditor
Of the New York Dock company.
Mr.. Fred VOlker. of the paint depart
ment, who has been spending a two weeks
vacation in Chicago and Cincinnati, o.,
has returned to his work.
Mr.. Ted Hall, of Kansas City is spend
ing the weekend with his brother, Mr.
Clifford Hall and family.
Mrs. A. J.. Chamberlain spent a day re-
Gently in Kansas City with her daughter,
Mrs. II. r. Wright.
Miss May Cremer, Mr.. Sam Cremer and
little Miss Mabel Camp are spending the
weekend in Emeoria with Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Camp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Davis, Of Salt Lake
City, are guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. L. V.
Lichtenstern, 800 Hancock street Mrs
Lichtenstern entertained with a G o'clock
dinner Friday evening for Mr.. and Mrs.
Davis. Covers were laid for fourteen. Mr.
Davis is brother Of Mrs. Lichtenstern.
Miss Laura Rudolf. of the general claim
department, left Thursday evening to
spend a vacation in Portland. Ore.
Mrs. F. W. Daniels,Of Kansas City, spent
Friday with her niece, Mrs. Charles Laird
and family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

The child was a boy and was named
Richard Denver Dolman. He was
named by the Denver town company.
The Dolmans went to Denver from
Kansas in 1859. Richard Denver Dol
man was born on October "a, 1859.
He is now 60 years old and is a mer-
chant at Temple, Okla.
The Dolmans were among the first
settlers in Denver. Their house was
the first frame building erected in the
city. Samuel Dolman was a railroad
contractor in Denver.
Came From Indiana.
Samuel Dolman was born Septem-
Der %, 1894, in Grant county, Indiana.
He received a country school educa-
ton. He came to Kansas in March,
1856, and allied himself with the free
state forces during the turbulent ter
ritorial days. On May IA, 1857. he
married Miss Martha K. Jordan, at
Tecumseh, Kan. Mrs. Dolman is still
living at the residence in Topeka.
Eight children were born, six boys
and two girls. -Four of the sons, c. L.
Dolman. r. d. Dolman, J. Z. Dolman
and L. S. Dolman, are still living.
In 1866 the Dolman family came to
Topeka. They have lived here since
that time. Samuel Dolman was an in
fluential and active member of the
Methodist church. He was a charter
member of the Golden Rule lodge, No.
90 A. f. and A. NJ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
CARL CARLSON DEAD
Heart Failure Brought End to We'll
Known Topeka Carpenter.


While repairing the roof of the
house at 125 Fillmore street Friday
evening, Carl August Carlson, 81 years
old, was stricken with heart failure
and died instantly. Carlson had lived
in Topeka for thirty years and resided
at 230 Clay street He was a carpen-
ter and about 1880 o'clock Friday eve
ming climbed a ladder to the roof of
the house, apparently in perfect
health. Death overlook him as he
reached the combing of the roof.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Emma Carlson, 230 Clay street, a
brother, Charles Carlson. 1919 Central
avenue and seven children. The chill
dren living at home are Victor E.,
David L., Harry c. John A, and Anna
Gertrude Carlson. Oscar, w. Carl
son, deputy sheriff. lives at 343 Elm
wood and Frank T. lives at 23O Broad
moor. Funeral services will be held
from the home Monday afternoon at
o'clock and from the Swedish Mis-
sion church at 2:30 o'clock.
Carlson was employed by the firm
of Longren and Carlson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

The funeral of John L. Watts, who. died
Wednesday was held Saturday morning at
10 o'clock from PenwelPs chapel Burial
In Topeka cemetery.
The funeral Of william Hatcher age co.
who died Thursday night at his home 1911
East Eighth street was held Saturday af-
ternOon from the residence. Burial in To-
peka cemetery.
The funeral Of John r. Wilson who died
Tuesday was held Saturday evening at 5
O'Clock from Penwell's chapel The body
was taken to Oskaloosa, Kan, for burial.
The funeral Of QuiIa carnahan. age Il,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Carnahan,
was held Saturday afternoon at o'clock
from Penwells. chapel Burial in Topeka
cemetery.
The funeral Of Alexander Donaldson, who
died Friday was held Saturday morning
Mt 9:15 O'Clock from Shellabarger's chapel.
Burial in Mt. Hope cemetery.
The funeral Of James F. Crozier. age
40, who died Friday at his home. 10 Blu
chanan street, will be held Monday after
noon at o'clock from Penwell's chapel.
Burial in Topeka cemetery.
The funeral Of Mrs Hannah McGinnis,
age 80, who died Tuesday at Granville,
Will be held from the Granville Methodist
church Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
Burial in Granville cemetery.
The funeral Of Carl August Carlson. age
81. who died september &c at his home, go
Clay street, will be held Monday afternoon
Mt . 80 o'clock from the Swedish Bethel
church. Burial in Topeka cemetery.
The body Of Mndinn Ricketts,. age 81.
who died September 27 at 500 West Flew
cnth street. will be taken to Charleston,
ILL.,, for burial
Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel. s27-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
FIVE ASK DIVORCES
One Decree Granted in District Court
Today.

Five women filed suit for divorce
today in the district court. The suits
filed were. Mary E. Harris VS. Harry
NJ. Harris; Bertha Garcia VS.. Joe Gar
cia: Lula Tucker VS.. William Tucker;
Esther Neal VS.. James Neal; and Ethel
Carlton VS.. L. S. Carlton.
One divorce was granted. Garnet
Reynolds was granted a divorce from
Robert Reynolds, given the custody of
two minor children, AID allotted 500
a, month alimony until the children
are of age. The alimony is then au-
tomatically reduced to $50 a month.
Reynolds is a local insurance man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
PIONEER OF COLO.
Samuel DOIman Father of First
Child Born in Denver.
He Died at Home in North
Topeka Last Week.
WAS RAILROAD CONTRACTOR
His Son, Now so, Is a Merchant
in Oklahoma.
Name Given Him Was Richard
Denver DOlman.
WAS RAILROAD CONTRACTOR

Samuel Dolman, who died Saturday.
September 20, at his home, S24 North
Quincy street, at the age of IS years,
was the father of the first white child
born in Denver, Colo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
NO WORD OF STEAMER
The Lake Fanbush Was Reported in
Distress on Halifax.

Halifax. y. s. Sept. 27.-No further
word had been received today from
the United States shipping board
steamer Lake Fanbush. which was re-
ported last night to be in distress a
hundred miles off Halifax
japanese fiber laboratory claims to
have found seaweed substitute for cotton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
EMMA LOOSE AGAIN
Famous Woman Radical, Released
From Pen, Leaves for y. Y.

Jefferson City. Mo. Sept. 81
Emma Goldman, who has been in the
Missouri state penitentiary for viola
ton of the espionage act, was released
today and left for New York.
Miss Goldman was arraigned before
a United States commissioner this
morning, when she testified she had
no property with which to pay the
$4,000 fine imposed upon her by the
federal court of New York at the time
she was sentenced to serve two years
in the penitentiary under the wartime
espionage act.
81 have three callings." she told the
commissioner. II am a trained nurse,
a lecturer, and a writer"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
KILLED HIS DAUGHTER
Texan Found Guilty of Murder Com
mitted in December, 1915.

Bonham, Tex. Sept. PIT. L. Wal
ton, charged with the murder of his
DAUGHTER at Paris. Tex, in December,
1915, was found guilty when the jury
returned it's verdict shortly after noon
today.
Walton was sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

FURNISHED by 7. J MYERS sO1 N f. BldgJ
New York, Sept p.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

Business Colleges.
DOUGHERTY'S BUSINESS COLLEGE
George E. Dougherty. Pres. lis West sth.
Phone 5fG
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

The funeral Of John f. Watts, who died
Wednesday was held Saturday morning al
10 o'clock from PenwelPs chapel Burial
In Topeka cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

Electric Fixtures. Repairs, Supplies
II B. HOWARD ELECTRIC & ATH-
letic Supply, ZIG Kansas Ave. Phone l3l1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

The funeral Of William Hatcher. age GO
who died Thursday night at his home 121
ternOon from the residence. Burial in To
peka cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

Loans, Mortgages, Financial agents.
PIONEER MORTGAGE CO. 4th floor Null
vane Bldg Phone 21i.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Bicycles and Motorcycles.
SHAWNEE CYCLE CO.. III Ea', 9TH st
Phone 400.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

Eye Specialist.
DIR. D. r. PAINE. rs Kansas Ave Phone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

Express, Drny and Transfer.
TOPEKA TRANSFER co. o. H White,
SOS Adams st. Phone 1856.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-27

The funeral of John r. Wilson who died
Tuesday was held Saturday evening at s
O'Clock from Penwell's chapel. The body
was taken to Oskaloosa, Kan, for burial
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
NORTH DAKOTA HAS Vol GOOD IDEAS

A recent statement of some of the aims of the North
Dakota reformers are stated as related to a new method of
farming. The state has been exhausting its fertility by ship
shorts" from the mills, they say must be retained in the state,
fed to cattle and other live stock for the enrichment of the
lands that have been overcropped. Part of the statement is
as follows:
70. The existing marketing system tends directly to the
exhausting of soil fertility. In no way can soil depletion be
prevented except to feed out to livestock at least as much of
the b~y-products' of the grain raised upon the states farms as
that grain producers when ground and thus put back into
the soil in the form of enriched manure, the elements which
the raising of small grains takes from it,"
The dairy and the poultry yard, they proclaim, must
be restored to the state. That, it seems to us, is talking good
sense. Those are ends and aims that may well animate all
agricultural states. North Dakota has been a grain state,
a wheat producing state. The wheat growers have not even
lived ON their lands, except during a few months of seed
time and harvests. They have sowed their wheat, reaped and
threshed ii, shipped it to market, without talking thought
of soil exhaustion. Now they are waking up to the fact that
such processes are ruinous.
But one wonders how the needed reforms and RESERVATIONS
can be brought about by political agitations. That is the
contrary thing in their situation. What they need is scien-
tmc farming. And if they want mills to grind their own
wheat and have the shorts and the bran left to feed to their
stock, that can be best brought about not by antagonisms,
but by encouragements. We doubt whether electing a differ
ent set of men to the political offices will help them very
muche. If they are going to rely on politics, we are afraid
they will not develop many better farming systems, nor will
they conserve more the resources of their state.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
SCHOOL PUPILS LOYAL

Loyalty is strong in the high schools, if the result of the
QUESTIONABLE of the board of education of New York city re
fleets the sentiment of pupils throughout the country. The
returns as tabulated show a proportion of three hundred to
one against BOlshevism. In view of the persistence of the
i,olsheviki and other aliens in impressng their pernicious
views upon the minds of school children this showing is a
remarkable one.
A gratifying feature of the thousands of answers is the
evidence Of right teaching in the schools. The great majority
of instructors are in sympathy with American Institutions
there is no doubt on this point. The few replies of pupils
that were favorable to Bolshevism are traced to the teachings
Of two or three who were excluded from the schools after the
board was convinced of their belief in the doctrines of Lenine
and Trotzky: The manifestation of patriotism brought out by
the questionnaires is thus a vindicatiOn of the New York high
school teachers as a class.
The News York plan of roofing ont Bolshevism is worth
trying in other cities. 1t is especially worth trying in the
universities, several of which have been hOneycombed with
Eolshevism, anarchy,fr r. love and other isms by crack-brained
professors of the Scott Nearing and Max Eastman type.
Every community ought to be sure of the Americanism of its
teachers, and the missionaries are calculated to show the
kind Of instruction given in the schools. 1t is a good rule to
take nothing for granted; it is well worth while to locate even
the few who have Bolshevist inclinations to the end that they
may be convinced of the unwisdom of experimenting with
Russian laWlessness.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-07-05
UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE

..,o hI,r 70 at an end. The allies peace TERMS
we have been repeatedly told by her statesmen dre -
or e,lGllnont but nevertheless the national assembly, al
Weimar has finally accepted them. With what meh'ai resor-
yations. with what plottings deep in the German no'lS ~
are acceded to, we can only guess. But 81 lr q" III
form goes, the representatives OF the hauoh ""O aa.o 30
their contentious, have decided to subscribe 10 our ooo
;oIonoo ~ rotbor Than submit to a further invasion OIL herman
territory.
The sight of Fochs half-million soldiers READY 10
bevond their present bridgeheads was too much for uerma"!'
She knew that if she did not acquiesce in INT UNIV
the allied troops would move toward perrin "iuOs
ments DELAY. The time for effective Teutomc rdSseuo'o
and buster was over. There was nothing to 90 Dt ~ choo'e
one of two hard alternatives.
II is over five wears since the fatal shot was ire" a.
Saraievo from which the world conflagration soon spread. In
the summer of 1914 Germany was at the heght OF ner po"oi,
arrogant, confident of her ability to devastate belgium LII
France and compel a swift peace. In six weeks hf helmeteo
Heroes were to be i'm Paris, from which vantage grouho .ermS
could be grandIoquently dictated. Five years aiterwaru' {
empire is in ruins and her exiled kaiser is about to be brought
before an international bar of justice. What would she hot
give to live these five years once more. She sees her errors
clearly enough. though she does not repent her sins. She
has lost her chance. She challenged the World II Ill "otlu
has risen against her. Her day of ambition and aggression Is
finished, and unless folly rules the future u the ife hduohe
ii will never dawn for her again.
Germany's agreement to sign the peace terms umconui-
tiOnally includes the clauses to which she oDJecPd Ill hr ds'
mad attempt to change her conquerors will. She promises To
deliver I'D the ex-kaiser and such of her citizens as The allies
may call for within q period of thirty days. She writes heF-
self down as responsible for the world war. Sac adopts as her
own the true but humiiating statement that she is not lit to be
trusted with colonies. The claim that she signed under duress
will no doubt afford her the shadow of an excuse for future
faithlessness, but the allies if they are wise will be constantly
on the watch against her in the coming years OF peace as the!
have been in these five years of war.