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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05

10 Sne SUFFERED SO
BADLY each month,
thatsonetimesI had
to call in the doctor.
She had headaches,
backache, and such
pains and cramps
that she would have
to stay in bed two
or three days. She
became terribly run
down in health and
at last a friend who
had used lydia e.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05
DRAGGING RIVER
(Continued from Page One.l

ing reports about Eskridges affairs
hampered police efforts-they faced
a tremendous job of running them all
down.
Eskridge. it was apparent today.
was secretive about his affairs and
confided little about them to friends
or even his wife, altho sh estoutly
maintained "he told everything" She
she did not know he was in debt or
had financial worries. Wednesday
following discovery of the car in the
river she stoutly declared he had no
debts; This led the police to take up
the foul play theory which they
have not yet entirely abandoned. de-
ispite growing strength of other
theories, they said
Foul Play Theory.
Certain persons knew that Esk-
ridge was going to carry considerable
money with him Tuesday night" Chief
Hannah declared today. as he started
| to superintend the work of blasting
and dragging the river For that rea-
son and others the foul play theory is
still plausible"
Mrs. Eskridge had insisted that the
| river be dragged ever since the car
! vas found. 1t was her insistency that
! made police officers reconsider after
! they had abandoned the theory that
I Eskridge was not in the water.
Tresner was today trying to locate
man of whom postcard pictures were
found on the river bank after the
automobile was dragged from the
river. Whether or not the pictures
will play an important part in solving
i the mystery was a matter of conjec-
/ ure. Tresner said. until the original
| is found and identified He thinks he
can do this shortly.
Chief Hannah today sent kilograms
to several towns where Eskridge was
i reported to have lived. Mrs. Esk-
ridge declared they came here from
Macon, Mo-. about two years ago-at
| to the police station also advised the
police that Eskridge formerly lived at
ST. Louis, Cape Girard, Mo-, and Os-
kaloosa, while others said he formerly
was in evangelistic work in Tennessee.
/ The sheriffs office is also working
on the case. but Robert Miller. under
| sheriff. declared that solution as to
the mans whereabouts was far from
arrived at.
Heavy Life Insurance.
| Inquiries made of the local branch
of a national life insurance company
this morning revealed that in March.
1919. Eskridge was carrying $4,000
| insurance. 1t also developed that his
application made with this company
| in January, 1919, for $4,000 insur-
ance was rejected because of the COM
pany's inability to establish satisfac-
| torily his past residence and record.
/ ESkridge's applicati ton, it was said,
was sent to headquarters. In March
letter from headquarters stated that
it had been rejected for the reason
that the mans statements that he
had lived in st. Louis and had beer
/ with the Red Cross Redpath Homer
| Lyceum association there for twenty
wears could not be verified. No
| further action would be taken on the
application, the letter said, unless his
address during the last three years
| could be definitely established. This
was never done. insurance officials
said. The $4,000 which Eskridge
stated in his application he already
carried was with a different company
than the one in question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05
New York stock Market.

Wall st. New York. Feb 5.-sToCKS-
moderately better today but stringent
money provoked further unsettlemeBt In
the stock market. Sales Appropriated L.
600 shares.
Leaders. including U. S. steel, were at
lowest quotations later with call money at
20 per cent few unimportant rallies
attended the final dealings. The closing
was weak.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05
British Pounds to New Low Level.

New York, Feb. 5.-Rates on de-
mand bills for the English pound
sterling, which tumbled yesterday to
the record of 1919, opened today at
$3.22A and rose to s3.25A at the end
of the first hour,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05
Fifteen Killed in French wreck.

Dion, France. Feb. 5.-Fifteen
persons were killed and thirty injured
today in a head-on collision between
an express train and a freight train
standing at Perrigny sur LOgnon,
about twenty-one miles east of DIXON.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05
TO LIBERATE coNsTANTINoPLE
Young Turk Army on March to "Chase
Enemies of Turkey Out"

London. Feb. 5.-An Exchange Tel-
egraph dispatch from Berlin quotes
advices from Constantinople as saying
the young Turks red" army will
reach Constantinople and soon free
the city of the enemy.
The young Turks expect to start a
holy war against Great Britain in the
spring, according to the report.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05
chicago Grain and provision Market.

Chicago, Feb. 5-CoRN-close: Febru-
arg; lSS; MARCH. so $l; *, May Sl:Slsa g
$1-25H.
oATs-May, 7s% @Ts15c; July, T1ssc.
PORK-May, $3.50
SHORT RIBS-May. $1S.70; July, $19-17.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05
Heavy Insurance Policies.

Further investigation revealed that
$4,000 was about twice the amount
of insurance ordinarily carried by the
average small grocer. and a far great
err amount than is usually carried by
an evangelist. This was the occupa-
ton Eskridge gave at the time he
made his application for the final
$4,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05

New York. Feb. 5.-.Liberty bonds 2:55
p. m: 31&'s, $500; first As, o0.94; second
secs: third AIS, e3.O4; fourth 414's, s9.gs ;
Victory 3st's. 97.90; Victory ANS, 97.SS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05

Rockford. Ill.-G, j.. Poulos market man
lost court decision by hare today. Con-
trary to the game laws he exposed the
animals cadaver for sale nfter January 30.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05
SUFFERING OF
YOUNG WOMEN
This Letter Tells How it May
be Overcome-all Mothers
Interested.

Fort Dodge, Ia.-''From the time my
daughter was 13 years old until she was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05

War Baby's Mother WEEDS Monday.
Fall River, Mass, Feb. 5.-Emily
Knowles and Guy Spiker. BROTHER of
the father of Miss Knowles child.
probably will be married here next
Monday. Miss Knowles said today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05

New Orleans, Feb. 5-COTTON-Spot,
quiet, % points lower middling. 1915.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05

WE WILL PROTECT YOU
THE CLARENCE B. JORDAN
INSURANCE SERVICE
Adv Phone 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-05

Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel SGT
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11
FIXING THE BLAME

No less a person than Herbert Hoover again nails
the hide of the incompetent administration the wall
by charging publicly that it is blame for the out
rageous sugar prices and famine Mr. Hoover should
have spoken right out in meeting and blamed the
who is really al fault.
Hoover said:
If the administration had adopted the
equalization boards recommendation September it
could have bought Cuban sugar for II cents
pound and supplied the finished product to American
consumers in abundant pound
Mr.. Hoover said the situation could not be remed-
led by Attorney General Palmers threats punish
prohteers. The sugar speculation is worldwide
and requires something more than raid American
prOhteering he said.
He suggestions: The administration
should open negotiations with other nations obtain
agreement to stop America and Europe bidding
against each other for the supply.
There should be rationng of supplies to
nonessential consumers. manufacturers of
candy and soft drinks
The present position is due simply 70 bad
business administrative said Mr.. Hoover AS the
result OF failure last September. subject
unparalleled speculation and prohteering. The
present discriminates terribly against the
poor. The increase in price is imposing additional
people of about $50 per family per annum
and Will cost our consumers billion dollars
than last year:
And then wobblers and one-track minds want
the country be burdened again with Wilson
Wilson satellite!
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11

nobody hled the of any other person Indian
placed in the position of preferring him
for the presidency. when matter Of fact they
do not whoop for him. There has been wild
acclaim mis- victory IL any has stopped
think about It, it has been indulge in dark medi-
tiations the follies OF the Indiana primary
In trying to get away from the evils of the old
convention system it generally agreed few years
ago that it would be worth while try something
else. The experiment has been made and found be
anything but satisfactory. The primary law requires
two long expensive and raeking campaigns The con-
vention system least make possible for party's
representatives to consider and candidates
Some of the dictates least would have looked
the authorities to find who William Grant Webkster is
before committing Indiana his support for the vice
presidency.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11
HIGHLAND

Mr.. and Mrs. John Thomas returned
TO their home in Roselaud. III. FRIDAY.
after a weeks visit al the home ~ MIR.
and Mrs. John Groot.
Mrs. John Eriks is recovering from
very severe attack OF influenza.
Mrs. James Jameson has been quite
sick for several days, threatened with
pneumonia.
|. VIM. Terpstra is preparing to occupy
the house recently vacated by Mr.. and
Mrs Gykema
! Nicholas Fluckinger spent Saturday
| in Hammond.
The Christian Endeavor society was
entertained Thursday evening by Miss
Nina Jameson and her brother. Robert
at the home Of their parents. Mr.. and
, Mrs. James Jameson.
| Messrs. Blaine and Clarence Hutch
/ ms 81 Griffith. visited their parents in
| Highland. sunday.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. John Miller Of Chicago
/ spent Sunday on their farm in High
land.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11
WHO WEBSTER IS!

primary judge in certain Hammond polling
had just handed his ballot last Tuesday
the had occupied the sacred confines of the
booth minute when the primary board edited
the snort who the hell is William Grant Web
ster?' from the booth.
None of them could tell him.
Probably thousands of in the primary won
dered the thing and it is left the Ind
apols News to tell:
The voters of republican tickets at the primary
the other day found the of William Grant Web
a candidate for the vice presidency. Some of
them did vote at for the presidential
didate. They had heard of Webster, and they
could under the law, write in the name of some
that they really would have cared for There
rarely candidates the vee-presidency Prece-
has made unusual for seek this Office.
Mr.. Webster is Northumberland county COM
missioner, something other down Who's
gives information about him. but every
has copy of Who's Who and there is none
file the precinct voting place.
The fact that a generally known, Of
course. disquafy him for ONCE. prove his
unftness; naturally the voter would like know
something about the who is proposed for posi-
ton that may lead his occupying the presidential
chair Mr. Webster is doubtless a sound lawyer and
Qualified for the position of vicepresden But simply
because some filed his name a candidate. and
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11
The Passing SholU


OPPORTUNITY certainly is me
thing
ONLY the great trouble is that
1T is SO hne some of Us miss it.
AND We would all Of us have quite a
PIECE OF change II it was as
EASY to sell experience as it is to
buy IL.
MAN signs for the unattainabie
AND he never wants to smoke so
BADLY as when he has run out Of
tobacco and
THERE isn't smidgeon or tobacco
in the house
THE Bolshevists often
KILL somebody they didn't intend to
Kill at all
BIT we suppose they don't
MIND. this much feeling that
SOMETHING has sbeen accomplished
at any rate.
YOU may find it pretty tough
SHEDDING right now boy but keen
on hustling
If you belong in the Big League it
is
CINcH that eventually
YOU viii get there.
\ man loking for an apartment
WHERE he can 10 as he plcsses"
FINDS that everybody in tho building
is
DONG the same thing and
MAKING il welI-rsign untcnable
so that puts different aspect in the
Personal liberty thing.
OFTEN now we arc 50 busy
THAT We don't have tims 10 take a
poke at anybody
AND thus the whole day seems lost
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11
TAMPICO LATEST
CITY TO FALL
IINTERNATIoNAL NFMs sFRVIcFI

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVIcEI
HOUSTON, Tex. May 1l-TampicO
is n the hands Of the Obrcgon forces.
a radio message, fled with the L. s.
gunboat Sacramento at Tampico. by an
official Of the Mexican Gulf Co.. TO the
Gulf Refining CO., at Houston at 5 $50
O'Clock yesterday morning. advised
that tho oil city was taken over by
Obregon forces late Sunday afternoon
without violence the troops entering
the custom house at 4.30 o'clock after
the Mexican government steamer Jalis
60 left with the former military com
mander and such files and records as
Il was possible to take.
The city is entirely quiet this morn
ing. the message to the Gulf Refining
Co. stated and well policed by mu-
nicipal and military authorities. Cit
izens II other nationalities unmolcsted
All operations in field and Tsmpicf
continued without trouble
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11

DOESN'T pay to be respondent
WHEN you see the nice homes some
PEOPLE have
FOR lot OF them arc not paid for.
THE best way We know or
10 avoid excitement is to live within
your incomes.
great change like
PROHIBITION Of the liquor tranic
cannot
BE inaugurated without
CATsING some injustices and some
heartaches
AND what we fear now
Is that the diminution Of crime
WILL release 50 many cops from the
NECESSITY Of following clues
THAT there will be more traffic and
motorcycle
cors than ever. thus making things
WORSE than ever
THE ever perennial Abe Martin
SAYS that some Of these days
SOMEBODY'S going 70 be 80 guilty
they
CAN'T find lawyer famous
ENOUGH 20 defend them.
WHAT'S become Of the O. T. girl who
Used to carry gun to defend her
honor2
4 conscientious frank spoken
NEWSPAPER writer learns after
some time
THAT the bulk of his following
Is made up Of good persons
WHO religiously read every word
WHICH ne writes IA the
HOPE If finding
SOMETHING OF which they do
NOT approve.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11
EXPERIMENTING WITH MArR1MoNY

The unconventional marriage of Miss Fannie Hurst
and Jacques S Dsnieson has nothing it TO
people holding in respect the institutions of organized
society. Whether regards marriage civil
representing divine sanction union
souls its chief merits it is with
intent that it shall permanent establishes
legal and moral relationships that otherwise would
vicious and abominable Further marriage implies
tual grant OF rights privileges assumption
duties and obligations Without these there be
marriage.
Obviously, though couple through the legal
forms that recognized by society constituting
their marriage, if they make supplemental contract
based reservations to the which they sub
scribe comfortably TO convention they hardly
have legalized selves truly married, however much
the may have legalized relationships
which they may assume.
We told that the marriage mentioned was in
the of experiment in working of prob
lem of the highly specialized needs of professional
people The couple who made their agreement five
try marriage for a year and end Of that
period quietly apart should the prove liza
5ty instead of asset
Il is possible that the principals in this strangely
unconjugal adventure have experienced change Of
mind and will put themselves in accord with conven-
ample they have given is not be conpated with
patience by people having respect for the commonly
respected principles OF morality.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11

WASHINGTON MAY Io.-Deveiop-
ment Of the oil industry in Mexico and
freedom OF action for Americon oil men
in that country was advocated as a
national necessity for the 4. S. TO-DAY
by former secretary Of the Interior
Franklin X Lane before the senate
subcommittee investigating Mexican
affairs.
England has long seen the power Of
oil and has restricted its production in
British territory to subjects OF Great
Britain" Lane told the committee
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11
SEEK ORDINATION
OF WOMEN

INTERNATIONAL NEWS sERvlcEl
pES MONIES. Ia. May 10.@Ordins-
ton Of women as ministers or the Meth
odist Episcopal church was sought in
q memorial placed before the church
general conference here today. The
memorial was sponsored by Miss Mad
eline Southland Of the Southwest Kan
sas conference.
A resolution urging the government.
TO take hand in suppresSing vice con
ditions in cities along the Mexican Dor
der was presented by Byron n Wilson.
eff California. The resolutions d.
clared that the entire border has be
come a breeding place for crime ana
debauchery.'
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11

THEY kill OF lot Or generals
DOWN in the Mexican revolution but
We
THINK tASt is infinitely better than
TO kill privates because
THERE are so many more generals
ID kill
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11

This is Il sample OF the ISLANDERS that Lake county
suffers The from 40 precincts any precinct
were not held back all neither were 200 more
publican than the regular election. The
unofficial published the day after election
Lake county has grown amazingly since 1918 the
more it grows the republican it is. Besides. a
large number of democrats have the their
ways voted in the primary they expect the
coming election for republican candidates.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11

OUT IN KANSAS hailstones as large as a mans
FIST reported. Heretofore hens egg has been
the standard but Kansas be depended upon to
produce something original
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11

IF THE PRESIDENT Of the German federation
OF trades unions is called on to form cabinet will
he hatchet?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11
AT THE OLD GAME.

Just what do you suppose Senator
Johnson and his supporters would have
said had the vote in Lake county been
reversed and made to favor General
Wood? Here we have the returns FROM
forty odd precincts held back for two
whole days and when returned made TO
show an almost unanimous vote for
Senator Johnson. Nor yet is this the
worst Of il. In Lake county we md
more than 500 republican votes cast
in Tuesdays primary than were cast in
the regular election two years ago. And
Hiram Johnson the beneficiary of this
sudden and unexpectedincrease in vot-
ing population, Again we ask what
would Hiram have had TO say had con
ditions in Lake county been reversed?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11

PROBABLY SOME would thought Of as
probable candidates for the presidency they not
deny that they are.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-11

PERFUME DRINKING is reported spreading in
England. We had supposed substitute was re-
quired there.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-06-02
REF|TT|NG OLD
BARGE FOR SEA

PORTLAND. Ore. June AFTER
being operated for ten years as q
barge. the former three-masted sail.
Ing ship william II. Smith. Is nov
being rentted as a hve-masted topsaii
schooner and shortly will load her
FIRST of-shore cargo In ten years.
The william II. Smith was built on
the Maine coast 81 years ago and
was originally q fuil-rigged, three
masted, skyssil.yarder ship. She
was noted for her luxurious cabin
furnishings.
After operating In the Atlantic
trade for many years, she was pur-
chased some Is years ago by the
California Shipping company and
brought around the Horn for opera
tion out OF San Francisco. AS one OF
a feet OF 80 vessels she carried
wheat around the Horn to New York
and Europe, later being placed In
the Australian trade. II was In this
trade that the William II. Smith al
most met a disasterous end.
The vessel had just started for
Australia with full cargo Of lumber
loaded at Puget Sound ports when
she encountered a heavy storm and
was dismasted OF the coast of Wash
'ingtOn. She was saved by her an
chor OF Grsys Harbor. and finally
was towed back to Seattle. a batter
ed hulk.
What was left Of the clipper ship
was sold for $500. Her value today
v estimated by ship underwriters at
$4,000, although she hes bssn sp-
Grated ios : ANss for tsa years. ear.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-06-02

Mrs, Mclnttre, who was operated
on yesterday, spent good night and
Ia rapidly on the road TO recovery.
Charles &. Hood. Of klamath Az.
ency. Is in the city today on matters
of business.
A. Thiele. who has boen visiting
friends In this city for the past two
days returned to his home in Los
Angeles on the morning train.
J. s. Elliot went to Bray this morn
ing where he will install two boilers
tor the Crater Lake BOX company,
Mr.. Elliot sent crew OF men to
Kirk yesterday to put In boilers Tor
the Kirk Lumber company.
Mrs. A. Il. Hughes left this morn
ing for few days visit with her
daughter, Mrs Dave Powers. OF
Weed.
Thomas Hughes let; on the morn.
ing train for pleasure trip to Sac
rameuto.
Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Ross went to
Oakland this morning for combin-
ed business aud pleasure trip. They
expect to be absen, for about ffteen
days. ..s s' ..
=. II. Duncan. who has been en-
ployed as an engineer Of the Big
Lakes Box company. left for hts
home In Portland today.
Alfred q. Topette was a passenger
on the morning train for San Fran
cisco.