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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
Christ Scientist
Church Objects
To Flu Closing

San Antonio, Tex. Feb. 1o.-The
First Church of Christ Scientist has
applied to the local district court for
an injunction to restrain the city
health board from enforcing it's FLU"
closing order.
The petition asserts the closing or
der is unreasonable because of the ex-
oeilent ventilation facilities of the
Scientist church. Judge Tayloe is
hearing arguments on the petition this
afternoon.
The lead of the San Antonio Church
will not be followed by the Scientist
church here. according to w. d. Nc
Kinstry. Christian Science praeti-
toner. The local church has no other
intentions than to comply with the
rules of the board. of health. he said.
ut may be-" he explained. that the
Texas ban is different from ours. A
similar case came up in California
last year AS for ourselves. we will
comply with the order of the health
officers"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
DELAY MASON MEET
Big Convention VIII Be Held I'm To-
peka March 15 to IS.

The sixty-fourth annual communf-
cation of the Grand Masonic lodge. the
fifty-fifth annual convocation of the
Grand chapter, and the fifty-second
annual assembly of the Grand council.
to be held here Feb. 16-17-1s-19, has
been postponed to March 15-16-17-1S.
it was announced today by A. K. Will
son. grand secretary.
The postponement was necessary on
account of the influenza ban closing
public gatherings in Topeka. The
state has issued no closing order but
has left closing to the opinion of To-
cal health boards. Unless the epi-
demica begins to- decline, it is believed
other cities will formulate restric-
tions.
About fifteen hundred Masons are
expected to attend the meeting. They
believe they have placed the time of
the convention far enough ahead so as
not to be hampered again by the prev
alence of the disease. Should cordi-
tions still remain critical in Kansas a
month from now it might be neces-
sary to change the date again. 1t is
believed, however, a month will see
the worst of the epidemic over and
conditions near normal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
RELIEF COMING TO MILLS
Modification of Car Order Will Allow
Operation, 1t Is Believed.

The rail administration order pro-
hibiting use of freight cars by mills
for loading OUT after being received
full of wheat was in the process of
modification" today. according to a
telegram received from Hale Holden,
regional rail director, by David Page,
Topeka miller.
Page asserted Monday that the ban
on loading out unless modified
would close the majority of Topeka
mills today as all warehouses ana
terminals would be filled by the in
flowing grain. with no chance of maxi
ing room by shipping out finished pro-
ducts. Today, however. he stated that
the modification notice made the situ-
alton look lot more hopeful and that
practically all mills will now be able
to run under the restrictions they have
been under because of the car short
age this winter.
Practically all Kansas mills have
been forced to reduce their capacity
25. per cent this winter because of
their ina bility to get cars, Page said.
The loading OUT order was issued
Sunday with the aim of furnishing
enough cars to move western Kansas
wheat and was ordered effective until
February IS. Wheat in western Kan
-sas was reported lying on the ground
because growers did not have suffi-
cient places to store it and could not
get cars to ship it out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
TO Be NO CLOTURE.
Treaty Reported Back Out of
Committee Today.
Comes Up in Unrestricted De.
bate Next Week.

Washington, Feb. 10.-The peace
treaty. referred to the senate foreign
relations committee yesterday to tech
nically rid it of cloture. was reported
back today by the committee without
debate and without record vote Re-
publican and Democrat leaders agreed,
however, not to take it up in the SEN
ate until next week.
+ The committees action was entirely
perfunctory, the senate having given
instructions that the treaty be report
ed out Immediately. together with the
Republican reservations adopted at the
Hast session of congress. The parlia-
mentary result is to bring the treaty
and the reservations again into a
status where amendments to either
can be offered and discussed without
any limitation on debate.
The reason given is that the confer
ence report on the railroad bill is due
this week and that the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill should
be acted on at once. Lodge wants to
clear away pending legislation before
taking up the treaty. In the mean
while intense activity is likely in an
effort to frame a modification of
Lodges reservations on Article 10,
which will get sixty-four senator's
votes, (the two-thirdS necessary for
ratification) and at the same time be
dCCepldpIe 10 fTeSlQent WILSON.
To Appeasc Wilson.
Senators realize, they say, that they
will be wasting time if they ratify the
treaty with reservations that Wilson
will not accept. There appears to be
a sincere desire to make the ratifica-
ton effective.
The remainder of this week is to be
spent in trying to work out an agree
mept which will shorten debate and
result in quickly disposing of the
treaty after it actually is taken up.
Lodge has decided on the modifica-
tions of the Lodge reservations. They
will include the changes decided on
by the bipartisan conferees, and in
addition an amendment of the Len
root reservation on voting power. This
is the reservation which Lord Grey
said in his letter the British empire
cannot accept. Lodges proposed
amendment would give Great Britain
the option of having six votes-her
own and those of her five colonies
in the league assem- bly,. in which case
she must give the United States six, or
of disfranchising her colonies and u.s.
ing but one, in which case the United
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
COULD NOT KILL HERSELF.
So Mother Lay by Body of Daughter
and Awaited Arrest.

New York. Feb. 10.-Mrs. Emil,
May Favre, 81, was to be arraigned
today on a charge of killing her r.
year-old daughter. Emily Margaret.
Mrs. Favre was found in her room
in the Hotel Ashton. lying on the bed
beside the body of her daughter. who
had been dead since Saturday morn
ing. According to the police, she had
admitted she shot the girl and then in
tended to kill herself. but lacked the
courage and lay in a semi-crazed con-
dition until found.
Hector Q. Jackson, a friend of the
family, received a letter from Mrs.
Favre which she had written Friday,
saying she was discouraged and in :
tended killing herself and the girl
The letter led to the discovery of the
tragedy.
She came here October with in
tention of going on the stage or en-
tering the movies! She had been un-
able to obtain employment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
BAN STOPS LINCOLN PROGRAM
Banks Only Will Be Allowed to OBJ
serve His Birthday.

Various celebrations of Lincoln s
birthday in Topeka will have to be
omitted because of the closing order.
Schools. churches and institutions had
planned special observance of Feb. IL.
Only the banks will be able to cele-
brate the dav as planned, for the clos
ing order does not prohibit the holiday
on Feb. IL, announced by the banks
today. All banks also will be closed
on Monday following Washington $
birthday.
A particular celebration of Lincoln's
birthday was to have been held at the
Topeka Industrial and Educational In
stitute under the direction of the mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce,
cooperating with G. r. Brfdgeforth,
principal of the institution. The Boy
Scouts observance of the day in the
form of meeting and program on the
state house grounds will have to be
omitted under the clause of the clos
ing order forbidding children under
sixteen to leave their homes during the
eight DAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
OKLAHOMA HARD HIT BY FLU
Ten Thousand Cases in State and
Number Still on Increase.

Oklahoma City. Feb. 1o.-With ten
thousand cases of influenza in Okla
homa, the state board of health re-
ported the epidemic still on the in
crease this morning. Keep clean in
side and out" was the warning given
by State Health Commissioner A. r.
Lewis There is no danger. The cpl
demic is in a very mild form and the
death rate is low.
Tulsa, Muskogee, Okmulgee and
McAlester are the most seriously af-
fected. Our method of checking the
spread of the disease is to insist on a
thoro cleanup of all places where pub
lie gatherings are held rather than to
close such places.
1T has been brought forcibly to our
attention that in many small towns
where the sanitary conditions are poor,
the epidemic is far more severe than
in the larger cities which are kept
clean"
The use of vaccine is being urged
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10

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Kansas may smash Mondays flu
record in today's returns. At noon a
total of 3.440 cases had been report
ed. as against 4.104 for the entire day
Monday. week ago the record for
the entire day was 3,619 This record
will be easily passed today.
In addition to the evidence that the
steadily increasing. a big jump was
shown today in deaths. The deaths
as reported to the state board at noon
totalled 52-a new record. Kansas
City, Kan. reported 28 deaths, with
five in Wichita city. four each in Har-
Butler and Pratt counties and two in
Pottawatomie county. A total of As
new pneumonia cases had been re-
ported at noon.
Total to 36,O43.
Reports today had brought the total
number of flu cases in the state to
36O43 during the present epidemic.
That the states big fight with the
flu may yet be staged in the rural
districts of the state is more clearly
indicated in the days returns. Phil
lips county led the entire state with
a total of 291 cases, while Osborne
county reported 191 cases and Neosho
registered 200 new cases. Butler
county outside the towns of Eldorado
and Augusta reported 112 new cases.
Usage county showed first evidence of
serious outbreak with a report of
14S new cases. Kansas City, Kan,
indicated serious development of new
casessin returns for the day.
Reports From Counties.
New cases as reported from the
various counties and large cities fol-
low:
Counties-Allen, &c; Atchison, 20; Barton,
81; Bourbon, 21; Brown, 45; Butler, 112
Cherokee so: Clark, 65; Cloud, II; Co.
manehe, 20; Cowley, %; Crawford, %; De-
catur. 65; Douglas, II; Edwards, As: Elk.
3; Frapklin, IS; Cove, 4; Greenwood. Al
Harper, II Jefferson. %; Jewell. 20; King
man, so; Kiowa, SO; Leavenworth, p ; Linn,
80; Lyon, 81; (; Marion. 81: Marshall. 50; Nc
Pherson, 90; Miami rs; Mitchell, 10; Mont
gomery,. Al; Morris. 12 Nemaha, Z: Neosho,
200; Norton, 20; Usage, 14S: Osborne, 191
Ottawa, 10; Pawnee. ~; Phillips. 291; Pot
tawatomie. ~; Pratt, II Reno, 30; Riley, SO
Russell, 10; Saline. Sc; Scott, 4; Sheridan,
6; Smith, IL; Stafford, 81; Washington, &c
Wilson, 95
Cities-Atchison. 6S; Fort Scott. %;
Pittsburg, 40; Lawrence. 4S; Parsons. 33
Leavenworth, %: Coffeyville. u; Wichita,
so; Topeka, 40; Kansas City, 145.
Emmett, Kan, reports $50 influ
enza cases. but no deaths and only
three pneumonia cases. The report
states that the disease is in a much
lighter form than it appeared last
year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
HAVE ARMY OF WITNESSES.
Grand Rapids Crowded by Those At
tending Ncwbcrry Fraud Case.

Grand Rapids. Mich, Feb. 1O.-Mo-
bilization of witnesses in the Newberry
trial today taxed local hotel and court
house facilities to the limit
Every train brought additional rein
forcements for the army of witnesses
and the government was forced to
commander more rooms at the court
house to accommodate those waiting
to be called.
Interest i'll the trial today centered
around introduction OF Newberrv
campaign correspondence regarding
expenditure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
SANTA F'E TO RELAY RAILS.
improvements In Kansas This Spring
to Cost S5OO,OOO.

At an expenditure of nearly $780,
600, the Santa Fe railroad will relay
the rails between Wichita and King
man. Kan, this spring. The materials
have been ordered and work will start
shortly. The rails will be of the s5-
pound type. The present rails were
laid thirty-five years ago. Relaying
of rails between Kingman and Pratt
will probably follow, it is said. 1t is
also reported that this work will be
extended by the Santa Fe to include
several other branch lines in the state
of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
ALLEN BEFORE CHICAGO BAR.
Governor TO Tell Lawyers Thursday OF
Industrial Court

Governor Allen will speak before
members of the Chicago Bar associa-
ton in Chicago, Thursday. according
to announcement today. He will
leave for Chicago Wednesday after
noon.
At noon today the governor stated
he had not prepared a speech and
was undecided as to the subject of his
talk. 1t IS probable he will tell the
Chicago lawyers of the new court of
industrial relations created during the
special session of the state legislature
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
England Asks
For Copies of
Industrial LdtU

Requests for copies of the new in
dustrial court act came to the COVER
Overseas interest in the new Kansas
enactment has been displayed from
several countries, while requests for
copies of the law have come from
every state in the Union.
Henry Hodgkin. a writer and lee
turer on q industrial conditions and
problems, asked for a copy of the new
law. To date nearly 10000 copies of
the law have been printed and dis
tributed thru state departments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
SIMS ACCUSES SECY. DANIELS.
Admiral says Head of Navy Depart
ment Pursued ..Defeatist'' Policy.

Washington, Feb. 10.-Admiral
William S. Sims today accused Secre-
tary Daniels of pursuing a "defeatist
policy" This policy, Sims declared, is
more detrimental to the fighting spirit
of the navy than the worst of Boil
shevism is to organized government.
Sims, who resumed his testimony
before the senate naval affairs sub
committee investigating medal awards,
declared he is willing to make any
personal sacrifice to prevent such a
policy getting a permanent hold in
the navy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
OscuIatory Larceny Is Charge

New York. Feb. 10.-A young
man fitting shoes on good looking
young women Is liable TO do any,
thing" according to the admIsSion
IN court Of a clerk who was ar
rested for kissing customer.
The complainant was Mrs. Rob
ert Assman. %, wife of a police
man. After the osculatoiy larceny
she hunted up her husband and
had him arrest Abraham Helfand,
81. The latter paid $25 fine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
WANTS TOBACCO MONOPOLY.
Americans Want France to Earn
Out Exclusive Trade In ..Smokins.,

Paris. Feb. 10.-America has sound
ed France on the subject of the to-
bacco monopoly for this country being
farmed out to the United States for
twenty five years, according to a re-
port current on the bourse yesterday,
says the Journal. In exchange the
United States would guarantee in one
way or another a sum totalling about
sixty billion francs, says the newspa-
per which prints the news with re-
serve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
Spanish Socialists Are Victors.

Madrid. Feb. 9-Results of the
municipal elections held thruout
Spain on Sunday indicate social cam
didates won in many of the smaller
cities and the party will form a strong
opposition If 1t does not actually con-
troll councils at many places.
The Republican party on the other
hand seems to be virtually wiped out
except in one or two cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
SIM FEINERS IN BATTLE,
200 Irish Reds Capture British Police
Station and Take Munitions.

Cork, Ireland. Feb 10.-After an at
tack lasting some time with an ex-
change of rifle shots two hundred
armed men last night captured, the
Castle Martyr police station. They
temporarily made prisoner the five
policemen who defended the station.
The raiders seized arms and ammuni-
tion and decamped
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
GOTHAM SHOWED UNDER AGAIN.
New York Emerges From Snow Banks
Into New Traffic Tieup.

New York. Feb. 1O.-Just as New
York has been reduced to extremity
of employing steam shovels and flame
Fthrowers to aid in removal of the rec
ord snowfall that had practically elm
mated all surface traffic since Thurs
day, another heavy snowfall began
today.
The first few hours precipitation
were believed to have undone the
work of days. The ban on all but es-
sential traffic continued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
Prince Would Be Martyr

Washington, Feb. 1o.-President
Wilson has received a cable from
the former crown prince of Ger
many offering himself to the allies
for trial in place of 1se Germans
demanded. -
The cable was dispatched from
Weiriugen, Holland, where Fred
erick william is exiled. 1t was i'm
mediateIy transmitted to Wilson by
White House officials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
Would Punish "Y. NJ" slayers.

Washington Feb. 1O.-A demand
has been made upon the Turkish gov
ernment by Admiral Bristol American
high commissioner at Constantinople,
for an immediate investigation to ap-
prehend and punish the murderers of
two American Y. NJ. c. A. representa-
tives killed recently by Turkish bri-
gands near Aieppo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
TO Be NO AUSTRIAN AIR COPS
Council of Ambassadors Refuses Ger
manic Request for Aerial Patrols.

Paris, Feb. 10.-The council of. am
bassadors today refused the German
Austrian request they be allowed to
create a department of aerial police.
The council took the ground creation
of such a body would be contrary to
the treaty of Versailles.
The Austrian food and finance min
listers presented TO the Council Aus
tria's new economic program. but the
council did not arrive at any decision.
Count Apponyi, Austrian peace delega-
ton head. was to arrive tomorrow to
present his governments counter pro-
visions to the peace treaty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
washington's Punch LadIe Sold.

New York, Feb. 10.--A silver punch
ladle used by George Washington
while he was president was purchased
for $1,000 at the sale of Washington
relics yesterday at the galleries of the
American Art association. The ladls
was one of the pieces Of silver pre-
sented to Washington by the citizens
of New York and was used at the first
inaugural reception here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
Fought DOGS 40 Rescue Livcs.

St. Louis. Feb. 10 Patrolman
Joseph Chesnick fought off dozen
dogs and battered down two doors
before he reached the sixty-five resi-
dents of a burning building in the
Ghetto. He then aided the families
to escape the burning building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
HUNTING DANCERS MURDERER.
st. Louis Authorities Probe Mystery
Surrounding Russians Death.

st. Louis, Feb 10.-Police today
probed the mystery surrounding death
of Alexander LipschitZ, 80, found
strangled to death in his bed at the
City hospital. William Beal, negro,
was arrested.
Lipschitz, said to have been a Rus
sian dancer, was arrested here while
Haunting l. w. w. doctrines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
BRYAN MAY NOT APPLY.
Undecided Whether TO Be Candidate
for Democratic National Delegate.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 10.-Reports
that w. ]. Bryan will not be candidate
for delegate from Nebraska to the
national Democratic convention were
neither affirmed nor denied by his
brother. Charles. here today.
wv. J. Bryan has not determined
what part he will play in the coming
Campaign" c. w. Bryan said He is
undecided at present whether or not
he will be a candidae for delegate. .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
MAY NOT PROSECUTE ROSE.
Chicago Bookkeepcr-Society Bud May
Go Clear on EmbeZziement Charge.

/ Chicago, Feb. 10.."Monda Rose
Schweiburg society cashier. was at
home again in Edgewater today.
Intimations that her employers
would decide not to prosecute in con-
nection with the alleged enbezzlement
of BiehI & Siffernan Leather COM
pany funds were made by Miss
Schweiburg's attorney. Carl ". Law
son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10
e ready if the theater men bril-
me-"
Fine and Imprisonment.

D0 ISduY Il lll6 LAtdLGI IlCII VI III 3
one"
Fine and Imprisonment.
Violation of the health boards or
der is punishable by fine of from ten
to one hundred dollars, as provided by
Ordinance 4S49. passed by the city
commission December "a, 1918, the
mayor pointed out.
In reply to the argument of the
theater men that DR.. r. S. Copeland.
health officer of New York City, who
said that there is no danger of dis
ease infection in the modern sanitary
| theater, Doctor Brown merely said
/ copeland is not health officer of To-
peka.'
Doesn't Fear Injunction.
Mayor Corwine said the health
| board was immune to an injunction
suit.
In the meanwhile, reports of influ-
enza cases continued to pour into the
! city health department. A total of
| 157 cases of flu and five of pneumonia
were reported up to 1855 o'clock Mon
day afternoon, making 206 cases re-
] ported from Saturday at 3:45. Forty
new cases had been reported at
noon today. The local flu death
; toll was increased one last night,
bringing it up to eleven since Feb
ruary l. The latest victim of the
| disease was f. C. Marks, 403 Reno
| 0ll6Elt wiz oQGCuIlOSd " lLllOCllLd~
| pneumonia.
I Doctor Brown again emphasized to-
: day his opinion that the flu epidemic
| this year was just as serious as the
one last year.
There is not a day goes by" he
said. but what doctors report influ-
! enZa cases that have developed into
pneumonia and all of them are not re-
, ported. The deaths are not as high
| yet. but the epidemic has not run its
! course"
! The closing order issued Monday
closes, in addition to theaters. dance
halls and pool halls. schools
churches, lodge halls and all social
| and public gatherings, effective al
midnight last night.
| Children under sixteen were ordered
| to remain at home.
The Ordinance.
| The section of the ordinance COW
ering the influenza ban follows:
| Rule Sec l. The CITY health officer
T. shall exercise and maintain supervision7over
all cases of Spanish influenza within the
city of Topeka during their continuance
seeing that all such cases properly
cared for and that the provisions of this
! ordinance as to isolation, restriction OF
| communica ton, placarding and quarantine
are duly enforced; and, should the disease
| show tendency to become epidemic, he
shall close public and private schools, and
if in his Judgment, he deems necessary
he may suspend public assemblages OF
people such as shows, circuses, theaters
/ fairs, public funerals and other public
gatherings, and shall make such further
orders as in his judgment he deems advis
| able, to prevent the communication and
spread OF said disease.
| Section 2-Any person found guilty Of
violating any of the provision of this ordi
nance. or failing to comply with any Of
the requirements thereof. or orders made
by the city health officer SHALL upoT
conviction, be fined not less than ten dol
lars nor more than one hundred dollar:
for each offense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-10

No radical change will occur in
weather conditions in Kansas in the
next twenty-four hours. according TO
B. r. Laskowski. observer. There
should be some sunshine. moderate
temperatures, and very little chance.
of rain or snow.
No precipitation occurred in Kansas
in the last twenty-four hours. Rains
were reported from Texas, Oklahoma.
Arkansas. Kentucky. Tennessee and
Pennsylvania. Snow was reported
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