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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
HUGGINS ANSWERS AMIDON
Political Fight Brings Spanking Re-
ply From Court Judge.

Distortion of legal facts and records
in an effort at cheap political horse
play was the charge against Sam
Amidon, Democrat national commit
teeman, in a statement by Judge w.
L. 4Iuggins of the new court of indus
trial relations. Judge Hugginss state
ment was made in response to charges
by Amidon, a we'll known Wichita
lawyer. that the state had not shown
the same diligence in the gas contro-
versy as was displayed in the opera
tion of coal mines
In a recent statement in a Wichita
newspaper and reprinted in a Topeka
paper. Amidon charged that Governor
Allen and the state administration did
not make the same effort to give
Wichita gas as was made in a spec
tacular attempt at digging coal. Ami
don. who is one of the governors
warmest AMI most attentive enemies,
hurled his charges at the court of in
dustrial relations in an apparent at
tempt to discredit the governor.
"If Sam Ahidon and the Democratic
party desire to make the court of indus
trial relations an issue In kansas-just
let them bop to it." Judge HuggiDs as
on IT'S Mace that it is either an unusual
display of ignorance as to legal phases
and facts in the case-or 1t is an attempt
at deception for political purposes and
he fair, be will consult the records. II
he wants TO shoulder on the Democratic
party the responsibility Of opposition to
the industrial court act. don't believe the
Republicans of Kansas will dodge
Amidon's statement criticised the COVER
nor for sending troops to the coal fields
and declared he neglected his own town
when the gas pressure was shut off
Troops were sent to the coal fields to
volunteer workers." said Judge Huggins
There has been no need of such action in
Wichita. That case is in the federal cou ri
only because the gas company secured a
removal order from the state court where
the original case was taken. If any supply
/ of gas has been shut off at Wichita 1t has
been in absolute violation of agreement
of gas officials with state officials to
continue supplies pending court decision
Such action would place Doherty officials
in line for criticism for deception equal tc
that shown bY Amidon'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20

Eight new safety" street cars will
make their appearance on Topeka
streets within the next sixty days. ac
cording to a statement made today by
Albert NJ. Patten, assistant general
manager of the Illinois Traction COM
pany-
The cars are now under construc-
ton in the shops of the American
Car company at st. Louis. Each new
street car will be obtained at a cost
of more than $4,000.
These cars are entirely enclosed" :"
Mr. Patten said this morning. They
will seat thirty-six passengers They
are of the single truck type, but the
wheels are set so far apart that they
ride as easily as a double-truck car.
The cars are equipped with air brakes,
air controlled doors and even the reg
lister is operated by compressed air.
They are as near automatic as a street
car can be made. On the controllers
there is A device that automatically
cuts off the current, sands the tracks,
applies the brakes, and opens the
doors if the motorman releases his
hold on the controller handle. Con-
sequently. shoul an accident happen
which disabled the motorman when
the car was running. it would auto
matically come TO a stop within few
feet and all of the doors would be
opened. The doors cannot be opened
until the car has come to a full stop
and the car cannot be started until
the doors have been completely closed
and the front step lifted"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
FOR PEACE
Treaty With BOISheviki Now
Being Prepared.
Lettish Government Also Opens
Negotiations With Lenine.

Warsaw, Feb. 20.-Poland's peace
program to be submitted to the Rus
sian soviet government is nearing
completion and will be communicated
to France and England for approval
before being dispatched to Moscow
Premiers Millerand of France and
Lloyd George OF Great Britain have
already been consulted on several of
the chief points under consideration.
1t is expected an answer will be
sent to the Bolshevik by March l.
Members of the former Ukrainian
government have been arrested by
Polish military authorities who ac-
cused former Premier Mazppa and
others with political cooperation
with the Bolsheviki. according to a
bemberS dispatch. At the same time
Ukrainian government banks at Ke-
meniev and Podolsk were taken over
by the Poles who contend the banks
financed propa ganda against Poland.
News of these arrests caused a SEN
sation here, owing to the fact that
Poland is officially on an amicable
footing with Ukrainia.
London, Feb. 20.-The Lettish gov
errment has decided to open peace
negotiations with the Russian Bolshe-
viki in conjunction if possible with
Finland, Poland and Lithuania, &C.
cording to a statement issued at the
Le ttish legation here. Invitations
have been extended to Finland, Po-
larC and Lithuania to send special
representatives to a conference which
VII be held soon, it is said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
THROOP HOTEL is SOLD
Consideration $50, O,OOO-New Owner to
Spend $4,000 for improvements

The Throop hotel. famous Topeka
hostelry. was sold by G. F. Morrow.
Kansas Citian and Topekan, to D. T.
Ward, Carthage. Mo. for 100000 to-
day, it was announced.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 will
be spent in repairing the property this
spring, 1t was said The court will be
beautified, more baths installed and
the equipment generally improved. J.
c. Clemens and E. H. Lowry, with the
former in active charge, will continue
as managers. They took charge of
the hotel last August.
Lowry also operates Haddon Hall
in Kansas City, which property is
owned by R. NJ. Sloan. who is asso-
ciated with Ward in the deal. Glenn
ems formerly was connected with the
Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City.
Clemens and Lowry expect to have
the most modern hotel in the city
when the improvements are COM
pleted, they said today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
HE SMILED AT ROPES END
Smiling Jack" O'Brien Pays EN-
treme Penalty for Murder

Chicago, Feb. 2O.-"Smiling Jack"
O'Brien retained his smile to the last
today when he was hanged for the
murder of Policeman Richard Burke.
Give my regards to Spot" O'Brien
said as the moose was adjusted.
Spot" Kelly, arrested with O'Brien.
is in jail awaiting trial on the charge
of being an accessory to the murder
and was o Briens pal
The hanging was held up an hour
while awaiting arrival of the Cook
county grand jury. The grand jury
members desired to be on hand to see
that the execution VISA carried out in
accordance with the law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
SEVEN VILLAGES WIPED OUT
Americans Appeal to Allies for Pro-
lection From Turk AIassaCres.

London. Feb. 2O.-Populations of
seven Amernian villages in the Vilayet
of Adana, Turkish Asia Minor, have
been massa cred by the Turkish ma
tionalist rebels, according to semi-of-
ficial advices here today.
The Armenians have appealed to
the allied authorities to provide them
with arms with which to protect
themselves from the Turks. Advices
indicated the situation in CeliCia,
where 10000 Armenians were re-
ported in danger of annihilation has
become more serious. ~ French forces,
it was reported. have besieged Marash.
Cilicia is an ancient division of
ASIA Minor. bordering on the Mediter-
ranean in the Vilayet of Adana.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
Want TAME PACT
New York State G.. o. 2. Fore.
shadow National Platform.
Want Ratification But With
American Reservations.
AGAINST GOVT OWNERSHIP
Budget, Suffrage and II. c. L.
PlankS Included.
Democratic Party's Conduct of
War Is Attacked.
AGAINST GOVT OWNERSHIP

New York, Feb. 2O.-Immediate
ratification of the peace treaty with
distinct reservations to protect Ameri-
can interests is recommended in the
state Republican platform adopted to-
day by the delegates to the New York
unofficial Republican convention.
The platform was drafted by a com
mittee headed by Nicholas Murray
Butler Il was regarded in many quar-
ters as possibly forecasting the atti-
tude of New York Republicans toward
the national Republican platform that
will be adopted at the Chicago CON
vention.
The document also contains planks
urging the elimination of Bolshevism,
ratification of the woman suffrage
amendment, repeal of business control
laws to reduce the cost of living, a ma
tlonal budget system, a protective tar
iff, establishment of Industrial COM
missions to handle labor disputes, an
enlarged and privately owned mer-
chant marine, universal military train
ing, and stricter immigration laws.
Opposes Plumb Plan.
1t opposes government ownership of
railways and the Plumb plan, charges
that the federal trade commission has
''prostituted its proper functions" and
attacks the Democratic national ad-
1IlllllSlTdlOn cOn0uct OF the war and
the peace negotiations.
Four delegates at large to the ma
tional convention and their alternates
We're named to be voted on at the pri-
maries. The state organization slate
for these posts was accepted.
The plank favoring immediate rati-
fication of the peace treaty declared
that distinct reservations and declara-
tionS should accompany it, ''as shall
make it clear to all the world that the
United States retains it's unconditional
rights to withdraw from the League
of Nations on proper notice; that the
United States assumes no obligation
either legal or moral TO send Ameri-
can soldiers or sailors for service
abroad unless the congress shall
so authorize and direct; that the Mon
roe doctrine is protected both in let
ter and spirit; that no foreign power
or council of foreign powers shall
have any control whatsoever over the
domestic policies of the United States,
and that the government and the peo-
pie of the United States shall not be
drawn by the operation of part VIII
of the treaty. the so-called labor
clauses, into the net spread by inter
national socialism"
Upon the ratification of the treaty.
the platform urges the institution OF
an interna tional high court of justice
to decide disputes between nations and
an international conference to revive
the rules of international law and
conduct
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20

1t was on September IS, 1909, that
Commander Peary cast the first
shadow Of suspicion over the claims
of DR.. Frederick A. Cook that he had
him nailed" he telegraphed Mrs.
Peary who from the first had disbe-
lieved Doctor Cooks story of finding
the pole.
Discovered Pole In 1909.
1t was cn September 6, 1909, that
Pearys announcement that he had
mailed the Stars and Stripes to the
was five days after Doctor Cook had
sent telegram to Denmark declaring
he had found the pole.
Born in Cresson. Pa, May 6, 1856,
Peary got his early education at a
North Bridgeton, Me, academy and
later entered Bowdoin college from
which he was graduated in 1877. He
entered the United States navy in 1881
as a civil engineer.
Peary reached "farthest north" on
April 81. 1905, just three years to a
day before the day Doctor Cook as
cribed as his date of alleged discovery
of the pole. Peary's reading showed he
was then at latitude of g. degrees and
II minutes. Forced to leave most OF
his supplies behind to tighten the load
on the dog sleds. Peary realized that
if he attained his ambition and dashed
for the pole. he and every man and
dog in the party would die of starva-
ton and exposure on the way back.
Concealed His Illness.
The final dash for the pole that al
last proved successful was started or
July 6, 1908. His date of discovery
was given as April s, 1893.
Peary had been in failing health for
two years, but the fact was not gen
orally known until he was taken &c
the naval hospital for the last blood
TRANSMISSION operation.
At that time Peary did not want the
news of his illness to become public
as he felt certain of a speedy anC
comblete recovery and did not wish
to alarm his friends.
When he left the hospital for his
home last week. however, it was un-
derstood by his family that death
was a matter of months or weeks. He
could only be kept alive by repeated
blood transfusions and in spite o1
these he was steadily growing worse
Peary's mind was clear until very
near the end, it was stated at his resi-
dence. During yesterday he talked
with number of people and appar
emily took lively interest in all tha
was going on.
During the last years, Peary had un-
dergoHe between forty and fifty BLOOD
transfmSions. it was learned
In spite of this the desperate figh
for life he was making was known
only to his doctors and members o
! his family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
Braued Perils of Arctic;
Discovered North Pole;
Then Dies In His Bed
Admiral Robert E. Peary Died at His Home in Wash
ington of Anaemia-Was Worlds Greatest Northern
Explorer for Last Thirty-four Years.

Washington. Feb. 2O.-Rear Ad-
miral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of
tho North pole, died at 1925 a. m.
today.
Death occurred at his home here
where he was taken after a recent
operation for pernicious anaemia at
the naval hospital here.
After an operation for blood trans
fusion, the admiral showed a slight
change for the better and was taken
to his home, where he appeared to be
recovering. Yesterday, Peary seemed
quite strong, it was learned at his
residence. A relapse was suffered
during the night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
STARTED TO WALK TO X. c.
One of Two Girls Caught by Miller
Carried a Child.

Motherless and penniless. Mildred
McCafferty. 15e and Margaret Buck
man. 19, walked eight miles of the
distance to Kansas City Thursday af-
ternoon. The girls carried a heavy
grip and a 13-months-old baby be-
longing to Margaret who obtained a
divorce several months ago.
They were caught by Bob Miller.
undersheriff near the outskirts of the
city. Both girls were tired and ready
to return. Margaret has been living
with her father, C. L. Smith. 1920
North Polk. The other girl has been
living with her father, four miles
south of the city
The girls told officers they had
planned to get money from a boy
friend and when he failed TO meet
them at the appointed time they start
ed out to walk. They spent the night
in the detention home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20

THE light construction permits a
much more rapid acceleration and the
cars will make better time than any
of the cars now in operation" Patten
says. Everything about them is alb
solutely the last word in street car
design. They will be heated by forced
cold air in from the outside. passes it
over radiating surfaces of the heater
and it is then discharged into the car
thru ducts running down each side of
the car. The system changes all of
the air in the car three times per
minute. They are provided with six
exhaust ventilators located on the car
roof, which takes the air out of the
car as fast as it is put in thru the
ventilating heater"
Rerouting of Cars.
Altho no definite plans have been
outlined as TO possible changes to be
made in schedules, Patten said. these
cars will permit the Topeka Railway
Co. TO make further improvements IN
its schedules The Oakland and State
Hospital lines will be the first lines
on which the schedules will be in
creased. general re-routing plan
which has been contemplated for some
time has been delayed thru inability
to obtain special track work.
Possibilities Of changes are as fol
lows: Shorey cars thru to South To-
peka; Douthitt cars to the State Hos
pitaI instead of North Topeka; Country
Club cars to the Santa Fe station; and
Meirose cars to Eighth street lines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
HUNS HEDGE SOME MORE NOW
Want Allies to Make Charges Against
War Guilty More, Clear.

London, Feb. 19-Germany's reply
to the last allied note relative to the
trial of German accused of war
crimes will point out issues upon
which greater clearness is desirable,
according to a decision reached by
the German cabinet on Wednesday,
says a Berlin dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph company. 1t will
be contended, the dispatch states, that
accusations against several persons,
notably Field Marshal Won linden
burg General Ludendorff and Ad-
miral Won TirpitZ, are too general
Newspapers at Berlin declare the i'm
perial public prosecutor will be re-
quired to test allegiances and make
inquiries and that it is possible he
may conclude there are no grounds
for iNstituting proceedings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
CITY WARS ON CARELESSNESS.
Police Instructed to Arrest Milkmen
Who Break Bottles In Street.

War on milkmen who throw broken
bottles in the streets was declared to-
day by w. S. Hancock. commissioner
of public works. Hancock declared
that many milknen have become
nuisances thru this practice. He said
the police department had been in
structed to arrest drivers of milk
wagons who persist in scattering glass
over the streets, likely to be picked UP
by some auto tire.
Hancock also warned people against
piling rubbish along the parkings, ex-
pecting the city to haul il away. 1t
is against the law. in the first place,
he said, to make rubbish heap out
on the parkings, and 1t is the business
Of the people themselves to haul away
trees that are cut down and other dis
carded material.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
EPIDEMIC NEARLY OVER
Only Twenty-nine New Influenza
Cases Reported in Topeka Today.
CRY FIJI RECORD

The local influenza epidemic seems
to be on its last legs. Twenty-nipe new
flu cases were reported at the city
health department up until noon to-
day. There were lwo pneumonia cases
but no deaths.
Thursdays flu record was as fol-
lows:
New cases. 34.
Releases. 81.
Number of active cases. 452.
Pneumonia cases, two.
No deaths.
There were forty-five patients at
the city's emergency flu hospital this
morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
FLU DOWN IN KANSAS
Grand total to date. ....... IS. 5.eo'

Flu cases in Kansas reached total
of $4,000 at noon today when reports
for the morning showed 1,155 new
cases in the state. OF nine deaths-a
low record for several weeks-four
were in Wichita and two in Kansas
City. The latter town reported but
one new flu case. while Wichita re-
ported ten and Topeka IS.
Marshall county led the state with
new cases today when it reported lis.
Cherokee county was second with 81
and Butler county, third with go. fol-
lowed by reports of SO new cases from
Franklin county. A total of % pneu-
mUnia cases were reported.
Generally improved conditions con-
tinued to be shown in records from
over the state. OF AZ reports received
today by the state health department,
only seven of the reporting districts
reported more than fifty cases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
ARCHANCEL FALLS
BOlSheviki Capture Former
Base for Entente.
"Whites" Abandon Northern
Port and Join "Reds."
ALLIED TROOPS WITHDRAWN
Soviet Now Supreme in All of
North Russia.
Fierce Fighting Is Reported
Now in Siberia.
ALLIED TROOPS WITHDRAWN

London, Feb. Bolshevik forces
have captured Archangel on the
White sea, according to a wireless
dispatch from Moscow today.
The Whites" abandoned the town
and the troops joined the Bolsheviki
the message declares.
The last advices to the British war
office on the North Russian situation
were that on February / s the Red
forces were 20 miles south of Arch
angel. Bolsheviki possession of the
city would mean material weaken
ing of the Dvina line.
Was an Allied Base.
Archangel was for a long period
during the war the main port of en-
try for Russian war supplies from the
allies A railroad joining the prin-
cipal Russian rail lines to the south
gave inEress for the war mater1al
made outside of Russia and supplies
TO the armies of the old regime and
after the revolution TO the forces OF
the Kerensky government.
With the advent of the Bolsheviki
rule in Russia Archa ngel was main
tanned by the allies a 5 a base for con-
tact with interior Russia and later
as the supply depot for the forces OF
the north Russian government estab-
lished i'm opposition to the BOlsheVikl
and for the allied troops, including
- consdera BILE number of mericans
sent in to.help protect the north Rus
siaI area from Bolsheyiki incursion.
Abandonment of the Archangel ex-
pedition by the allied and associated
powers was determined upon last year
and the British. American and other
allied forces there were Withdrawn
during the summer and fall.
Chinese and Japs In Fight.
Fighting has been in progress on
the Amur river in Siberia between
insurSent forces and japanese a Mos
COW " wireless MESA ge states. White
troops reinforced the Japanese and a
fierce struggle is raging with the in
surEents supported by Chinese. the
dispatch declares. 1t is reported the
Bolsheviki Gdvices add, that in the
T'ssuri region the rising of the peas
ants in favor of the soviet form of
government is spreading.
Russian Bolsheviki forces recently
delivered a general attack along the
15O-mile front from the Azov sea
eastward to Lake Manich, according
to war office reports issued here to-
day. on the eastern end of the line
they made no appreciable progress
from Lake Manich to the point where
the Manich river is crossed by the
Tsaritzin- -Ekaterinodar railway. but
further west they succeeded in cross
ing the Manich and occupying a line
gome miles south of the river.
Ukraine Scene of Battles.
Berne. Feb. 20.-Hard fighting
against the Bolsheviki continues in
u Erainia, dccording to reports re-
ccivcd by the Ukrainian delegation
here ana it IS announced that some
successes against the soviet forces
have been won in the neighborhood
of Tiraspol.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
Banker Denies
5000 AHoat on
Kansas Avenue

Six hundred dollars in bills were
reported to be floating up and down
Kansas avenue today.
The story as told over the telephone
by a man who claimed to be an eye
witness to 5000 flying in Kansas
zephyrs was to the effect that a wo-
man walked out of the Bank Of To-
peka with the bills in her hands and
in some way lost her grip on them.
THE bills flew all over the ave-
nue." said the man.
S. E. Cobb. president Of the Bank
of Topeka. laughed when asked to
verify the story
IF he'd said some woman got the
bills from the bank and blew them
said Cobb. mo doubt the story could
be verified But as for her losing
t'-nrn ard permitting the wind to blow
them there's nothing to it."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
SOVIET PROBE is Baked
kercnsky Supporters Won't Testify
Against Lenine's Amba ssador.

Washington, Feb. 20.-Reluctance
of Russians who represented the
kerensky regime here to testify
against Ludwig c. A. K. Martens, So
Wet agent in the United States. may
cut short Investigations of his activi-
ties by the senate foreign relations
committee, il was learned today.
Members of the committee had ex-
pected to call Boris Bakhmeteff, am
bassador under the Kerensky govern
ment, and other officials connected
with the old Russian embassy. but
they are said to have upset plans by
claiming diplomatic immunity"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-20
WOULD PROVIDE WET SPOTS
Amendments Proposed to Nolstead
Prohibition Enforcement Legislation.

Washington, Feb. 2O.-Amendments
to the Volstead prohibition enforce
ment law. which would allow states
by referendum to decide how dry they
shall be. were introduced in the house
today by Representative Minahan'
New Jersey.
Minahan woud allow states to de-
eide what shall be the maximum
amount of alcohol that makes bev-
erage intoxicating instead of having
congress bar all drinks with more
than one-half of 1 per cent.
My bill is entirely consistent with
the constitutional amendment, he
said, because it simply provides for a
definition as to the phrase intoxicat-
ing liquor