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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-02-10
Eagle Tunnel.

Another force, consisting of two
shifts. is also working in the Eagle
crosscut to explore the vein exposed
i'm the bed of the creek Recently a
temporary crosscut was run from the
main tunnel which intersected the
vein in about S5 feet showing it to
be- badly crushed, but mineralized
throughout The ground through
which the crosscut is being run gains
very little depth for the first 200 or
500 feet The place where the vein
was cut therefore was very near the
surface The temporary crosscut was
run to determine the position of the
vein with reference to the main tun-
mel Having determined this. the
main tunnel is again going forward.
gradually toward the vein
with the expectation of cutting it in
about 100 feet and at a depth that
suggests a probable ore shoot.
Ore on Opposite Side
ON the opposite side of the creek
rom the Columbus and on the same
'ein nice showing of ore has been
exposed on a group of claims owned |,
" Nick Phinot John Boland and
theirs. This showing is reported to
e remarkably good. and it is reason
hle TO expect an equally good show {
'g on the Columbus ground when 4
.Tresponding depth is reached
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-02-10

The District of Columbia and only
13 states have minimum wage com
missions.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-02-10
Other Business.

The chair appointed John o. Greu-
sci. F. f. Brewer and a. T. Mcdonald
committee TO raise funds for the
support Of American Legion club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
CUT EN- IN HALF
Committee Votes All Railroad
Taxes OFF January, 1928.
Retain Full Tax on Oil and
Express.

Washington, Sent 14-Retention
for the calendar year, 1922, of the
transportation tax on freight, passen-
ger and Pullman accomm modations, but
at one-half the present rate, was
agreed upon today by the senate fl
nance committee.
The house rates on cereal beverages
and other soft drinks were adopted,
but it was explained that some OF
these might be subject to change The
committee passed over the inheritance
tax and decided to take up later ses-
sion today sales taxes on candy, jew
elry, furs, sporting goods and a num-
ber of the other items
The committee voted instead to re-
store entirely the oil and express pack
age transportation taxes and TO pro-
vide for the repeal of all transporta-
ton taxes as of January 1. 1928.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
WHAT is THE IDEA?

Topeka police officers admit they
rounded up what was termed the
biggest gang of notorious pickpocket
artists and con men seen in years
here Tuesday afternoon. These men.
it developed, put up $3.50 stolen from
pedestrians, and then left town ac-
companied to the station by police Of
ficers.
What kind of law enforcement is
this?
1t appears that the policy adopted
by the local department is to enforce
the law only as it affects the particu-
lar crime and then. after proper
apologies and amends, to forget the
penalty, inflict a slap on the wrist
and suggest that the criminal leave
town for other fields.
If there was notorious gang Of
pickpockets'' in Topeka and the police
department arrested the leaders, what
does society profit by such action
Certainly picking pockets is not to be
treated as only a breach of etiquette
A man will leave his motor car
parked on Kansas avenue for a min
ute over two hours and he is fined
SO in police court. Notorious pick
pockets can descend upon the town
| operate among the local and visiting
public and, after giving back some oi
the money they have stolen. receive
an official escort out, of the city.
One member of the gang admitted
that he had laid away 100000 as tine
fruit of his operations-and hC
laughingly reminded the police thai
he had been in Topeka many times.
The public pays for and demand,
/ rigid police protection. The depart
ment.ha been active in the last few
months but such wrist slappine
| stunts as the Tuesday afternoon af
fair brings about a suspicion tha
there is something radically wron:
| with the treatment of confesse,
4 criminals
What is the Penitentiary for?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
BIG HORSE RACE PROGRAM IS FEATURE
OF FREE FAIR TODAY; CLEAR WEATHER
BRINGS LARGER CROWD TO EXPOSITION
TODAY'S FAIR PROGRAM
FARM BUREAU DAY.

Judging in all departments continued at
a. m.
Kansas Mother and Daughter club can
ming demonstration, Peoples pavilion, 10
Horse races at . o'clock p. m.
Concert by Marshal1s band, Agricultural
Farm bureau meeting for farmers and
stoekmen, Peoples pavilion, O'Clock, and
livestock parade at 80 o'clock p. m.
The Big Free Fair Circus and Hippo
drome in front of grandstaann1d1 tan Lat at 8 o'clock
p. M, preceded by $1,OO0,OOO livestock
parade at 80 O'Clock.
In the Peoples Pavilion.
Kansas Mother Daughter club canning
contest, 10 a. IN.
Farm Bureau Program, 80 O'Clock
Community Sing, Chester Guthrie, leader.
Pres. J. r. Howard, American Farm
Bureau Federation and other noted speak
ers will be present.
Industrial Institute quartet.
Farm Bureau Program, 1880 O'clock.
Band concert
Farm Bureau. Chas. r. Weeks, secretary,
will be the host for the day.
Industrial Institute quartet.
Livestock Department Judging Rings.
a. m.-Hereford cattle, judge, C. P.
o a m.-Holstein cattle, Judge. Axel
Hansen. st. Paul, MINI.
9 a. m.-Sheep continued 1udge, ProI.
W. L. Blizzard, saltwater. Okla.
ga. m.-Chester White hogs, judge, Prof.
F. w Bell. Manhattan, Kan.
1 p m.-GallOway cattle. Judge, Prof. w.
L. Blizzard, saltwater Okla
D. m-Spotted Poland hogs judge.
Prof. F. W. Bell, Manhattan, Kan.
ChiIdren's Corner.
Baby clinic, conducted by the Topeka
Public Health Nursing association.
Children's clinic, conducted by the Red
Cross.
Baby check stand and play ground, con-
Quoted by the Day Nursery club.
Cho-Cho, the Health Clown, o'clock.
Racing Program. O'Clock.
Event No. p IA Trot, The Mer-
chants Stake 90 81 ~ ~
Event No. 20-One- mile, running, bar
Derby winner ..-..----..-.,:. ZVJ
Event No 21-Six furlongs, consola-
ton for horses that started and not
winning first running. ng..-.--..-...... 100
Event No 24-5s mile. barring Derby
and one-mile winners, running. 1OO
The Big Night show.
Auto Polo. Three-ring Circus and Hippo
drome, Al Sweets Singing Band and fire
works in front of the grandstand at
o'clock.
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San Francisco. Sept. 14.-"so what

San Francisco. Sept 14.-"So what
is life after alp"
This, according to Miss Zeh Provost,
was the query of Roscoe (Fatty) Ar
buckle, in the course of conversation
at the party he staged at the St.
Francis hotel ten days ago.
He offered to jump out of the
twelfth story window if any one would
make the leap with him." she said, ac-
cording to a transcript of her state
ment to the police made public today.
He was talking about jumping out
of the twelfth story window" the wit
ness said. He said. oh, what is in
life after ALL Really it did sound
funny. We were all sitting by the
window He said: What is in life
after alp he said, I would jump out
of the window with anybody He said
I will jump out of this window with
anybody who wants to jump out "
Did anybody volunteer to go with
him ?" she was asked
NO; nobody. We all looked at him.
He said something-'-if I would jump
out of the twelfth story window they
would talk about me today and tomor-
row they would go to see the ball
game. So, what is in life after all 2 y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
BY WINIFRED BLACK.


(Noted Writer on Women's Affairs.)
San Francisco, Sept. 14-Dead, in
misery and disgrace.
Dead, in shame and humiliation.
Dead, in agony and despair-Olive
Thomas in Paris!
Billy Carleton-in London!
virginia Rappe-In San Francisco,
Three young, beautiful girls full of
Hfe and the joy of livingi
And every one of them died in a
way that would have made the mother
who bore them wish they had
strangled in their cradles, If she could
have looked ahead and visioned even
dimly the horror that came to themi
What does it all mean-where is
it all going to end
"Good'' But She Went to ''Party."
This girl who died in San Francisco
the other day in hideous agony-has
with any scandalous stories of dis
graceful parties before.
She was quiet, well behaved.
modest girl, they say, intelligent and
well enough accustomed to the ways
of the world to know what wild
parties meant.
How did she happen to go to such
an orgy and after she got there, when
she found out the sort of party it
was-why didn't she leave the place
imm ediately?
What was a self-respecting. proud
high-hearted girl doing at such a
place?
! just Like Other Girls.
Just exa city what hundreds and
perhaps even thousands of other girls
are doing, day in and day out. and
night in and night out, all over this
country.
The old-fashioned rules that pro-
tected girls who had not sense enough
to protect themselves have all been
broken.
Ten years ago the girl who would go
to mans room in a hotel, party or
no party, would have thrown away her
good name the instant the fact of her
visit was known.
Ten years ago any woman who
stayed for ten minutes in the room
with a crowd of drunken men would
have been considered no better and
no worse than the men.
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Ten years ago women of decent re-
putation did not frequent the company
of men who were known to be shame
less and disgusting brutes.
Since the war all this is changed.
All Fences Are Down.
All the fences are down, all the rules
are back numbers" and half he
girls we meet in the street and see at
the theater and know in the homes of
our best friends are subjected day
after day to dangers of which their
mothers never even dreamed.
All over the world the situation is
nothing less than appalling. and in
America it is worse than anywhere
else.
Poor Virginia Rappe-before we
judge her for going to such a place in
such company, let's stand for a little
judgment ourselves.
Who was this man Arbuckle, who
gave this party, anyhow?
The tales of his sickening orgies
have spread from one coast to the
other.
Everybody who knows anything
about him or his kind at all, ought
to know what party given by him
would mean.
But he is rich, he owns a 5000
automobile and has goodness knows
how many servants and Wallets and
Besides. he's a celebrity" save the
mark!
Let's face the truth, fathers and
mothers of America-for once.
What's 'FfIth, Between Friends?
Your daughter or my daughter
would probably have jumped at the
chance to meet this man and tell peo-
pie that they knew Fatty Arbuckle,
the funny man of the pictures.
Your daughter or my daughter
would probably not have gone to his
party. or if they had gone there, they
| would have been shocked and dis
gusted enough to leave the minute
they saw what it was. But why should
self-respecting girls have anything to
| do with such men at all?
We used to say that you couldn
touch pitch without being defiled.
Today, the motto seems to be
what difference does a little thing like
pitch make-among friends?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
BEGIN ON Topeka PLAN
HarIand Bartholomew to Start Work
Here in October.

The Topeka city planning board
today authorized a committee consist
ing of Charles P. Adams and Charles
Pierce to complete a final contract
with Harland Bartholomew, city
planning expert from ST. Louis, for
the creation of the Topeka Plan"
Bartholomew, in a short talk TO the
members of the board, outlined his
method of making a city plan, and
stated that he could have two men
here to start the collection of de-
tailed information necessary to the
scheme shortly after October 1.
Bartholomew arrived in Topeka to-
day to attend the special meeting OF
the city planning board at which the
contract was authorized. He will
leave tonight for his home in st.
Louis.
The board will meet again at the
Chamber of Commerce rooms at noon
"Wednesday, September q, their regu-
lar meeting day.
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Kansas Has Another Chance
Before Commerce Commission.
State P. Q. C. Wins in New
Hearing on the Fares Here.
COMES TO Topeka OCTOBER 6
Matter Goes Before Examiner
Disque at the State House.
Charges in Kansas Higher Be-
fore the 1920 Increase.

Washington, Sept. 14.-Acting at
the instance of the Kansas public util-
tiles commission, which presented a
contention that state railroad fares,
rates and charges were higher in Kan
sas than the authorized interstate
rates, the interstate commerce COM
mission today ordered reopened fol'
further hearing the rate case of that
state.
The Kansas commission, thru its
chairman, Clyde NJ. Reed, presented
the claim that fares, rates and other
railroad charges in that state were
higher than interstate tariffs before
the general increases of 1920.
These general increases, Chairman
Reed said today. were applied to state
rates on the same percentage basis as
on the interstate charges. The hear
ing will be held before Examiner
Disque at Topeka, October 6. Inter
state commerce commission officials
were unable to say whether similar
claims might be filed by the regu-
latory commission of other states.
Reopening of the Kansas intra-
state passenger and freight rate case
by the interstate commerce commits
sion follows a recent decision by
Judge Cottrall to the effect that the
state public utilities commission must
make its case before that body. The
order of the federal Judge was based
on a telegram introduced during the
hearing which stated that the inter-
state commerce commission would
consider any. claims of discrimination
presented.
Chairman Reed, of the state public
utilities commission. has been ~
Washington four or five weeks. He
went there to attend a hearing af-
fecting hay and grain rates. His ap-
plication to revive the state passen-
ger and freight rate case was acted
upon today.
Rates which the state commission
declare are discriminatory are now in
effect and were placed in operation
more than a month ago. Kansas was
the last state in which the rate in
creases ordered by the I. C. C. were
made effective.
When the new rate order was
made by the federal commission
Kansas commission sought to enjoin
operation of the new rates. 1t was
contended that they discriminate
against intrastate shippers on the
basis of distance hauls. Judge Cott.
rail- held that this theory of rate
making could not be sustained. When
carriers presented copies of a tele-
gram from the I. C. c. to Chairman
Reed, offering hearing on any al
legged discrimination. Judge Cottra;
ruled that the state commission mus
go back to the federal board for re-
/ lief, altho Jurisdiction of the court
was not released.
The hearing assigned for Topeka
next month is expected to reopen the
passenger and freight rate contro.
versy where the federal court left it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
HAS THREE WIVES
No. 1 Comes Here to Ask Parole
for Her Husband.
Pearl Bemis WOOIms Lays Her
Case Before Gov. Allen.

Love jumped another barrier at the
state house today.
Merely because Charles woolms
alias Charles F'errier, is alleged to
have three wives-and he is only SO
lyears old-and is serving a sentence
in the state penitentiary for white
slavery, he is not being deserted. Pen
niless, mother of 20-months-old
baby, Pearl Bemis Woolms is waiting
in Topeka to plead with Governor Al
len and Judge c. W. Smith, executive
and parole clerk, for Woolmss re-
lease.
Pearl Bemis Woolms claims she is
wifey No. 1. She is convinced her
free and somewhat indiscriminate low
ling husband cares for her and her
alone. She is convinced Woolms will
come to her as soon as he is released
from prison and will make a new love
nest for herself and baby.
Maybe that's blind love.
Came Here From Ada, Mimi.
But is was the love that brought
Pearl BemiS Woolms all the way from
Ada, Mimi, to appeal for her hus-
bands release. The love appeal didn't
come to the other wives with the same
force that softened the wife and moth
er's heart. Maybe Nos. and 3 haven t
the same confidence in Woolmss fu-
ture plans. Anyway. wife No. is
1t isn't such a difficult or trying z
matter to rush to the rescue of a man
when there is an ample bank account.
But Pearl Woolms came to Topeka
nearly a week ago with her baby and
just three dollars in cash.
| That's love. It's love just as it was
taught in the old books before the
| jazz and short skirts and rolled stock
| iings came to dazzle the eye and be-
lfuddle the mind and make wandering g
from home a bit easier and more
tempting. That's the sort of love
that brought Pearl Bemis Woolms
from Minnesota away last spring.
She spent the summer at Lansing
just that she and the baby might be
near Woolms, who was serving his in
| determinate sentence behind prison
walls. She wrote letters and made
personal appeals for help.
Then she came to Topeka to lay her
case before Governor Allen. With her
grooming baby in her lap. she sat in the
story. But Governor Allen is a BIT
dubious about. men with three wives
cosing either of the three. Besides
lwife No. l was married to Woolms
January 27. 1919. Three cases Of
lmatrimony in two years-Woolm.
went to the penitentiary last winter
was declared by the governor to be toe
much. But the governor promised tC
discuss the case with Judge Smith
who will return late this week from
his vacation.
Said She Would Wait.
Pearl Bemis Woolms said she woulC
wait. Arrangements were made will
the Provident association that the wifi
and mother might be cared for. II
the meantime Mrs. Woolms said sh'
would seek employment until she haS
a decision in her appeal FOL
lclemency.
Wooln1s, 36 years old, went to tn
pentitentiary for white slavery. H
was convicted in Lyon county. In ad
dition to the wife who is here to sc
cure his parole, Woolns is alleged Z
have married Alice Ferrier in Min
nesota and to have been married to
Doris King of Topeka. These name
are shown in the records of Woolms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
THURSDAYS FAIR PROGRAM
NATIVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS AMI
OLD SETTLERS DAY.


Horse races at o'clock.
Concert by Marshalls band, Agricultural
building, O'Clock.
Kansas Mother and Daughter club can
ming demonstration, Peoples pavilion, 10
Old Settlers and Native Sons and Daugh-
ters' meetings. Peoples pavilion, p. m.
Livestock parade, 80 p. m
Old Fiddlers' contest, Peoples pav1llon'
The big Free Fair Circus and Hippo
drome in front of grandstand at s o'clock,
p. m. preceded by $1,000.000 livestock
parade at I 30 O'Clock.
In the Peoples Pavilion
Kansas Mother Daughter club canning
Old Settlers and Native Sons and Daugh-
ters' Program. 80 O'Clock
Community Sing, Chester Guthrie, leader
Address by representative of the Amer
lean Chemical Foundation.
Industrial Institute quartet.
Address by Prof. J. f. Kammeyer. head
Of the department of economics, Kansas
State Agricultural college.
Industrial Institute quartet.
Old FIddIers' Contest, 1880 O'Clock.
Band concert.
charge.
In the ChiIdren's Corner.
Baby clinic conducted by the Topeka
Health Nursing association.
Children's clinic conducted by the Red
Cross.
Baby check stand and play ground con-
Quoted by the Day Nursery club.
Cho-Cho, the Health Clown, at o clock
Livestock Department Judging Rings.
8 a, m.-Guernsey cattle, judge. Prof. H.
". Cave, Manhattan, Kan.
a. m.-Polled Shorthorn cattle, Judge,
Prof. D. L. Macintosh, Manhattan. Kan.
0 a. m-Hampshire hogs, Judge, Prof F.
W. Bell, Manhattan, Kan.
1 p. m.-Ayrshire cattle, Judge. Prof. II.
W. Cave, Manhattan Kan.
Racing Program, O'Clock,
Event No. 4-217 Pace, the Manufac-
Event No So II Trot estimated.... GOO
Event No. 10-2 % Pace. estimated. 800
Event No. 22-Four furlOngs. consO-
lation for horses not being first or -
Event No. 23-Six furlongs. consola-
tton for horses not winning. run
The Big Night Show.
Auto Polo. Three-ring Circus and Hippo
drome, Al Sweets Singing band and fire
works In front of the grandstand at
o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
Said She Would Wait.
Collect Jitncy Licenses.

George T. Mattingly. city license col
iector. is ready to start the issuance
of jitney licenses under the new ordi-
nance As soon as the city commits
sioners find time to pay Mattingly a
visit and tell him to start issuing IL
censes. the jitney operators can again
drive their cars with a free conscience
by calling at the city hall license Of
flee and depositing their money. They
told me to quit issuing" said Mating
ly today, "and I'm. sure not going to
start again until orders are given me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
Woman Aged Al
Is Mother of p

Omaha, Sept. 14.-Mrs. Earl NJ.
Rowray, Al, today gave birth to her
twenty-second child. Mrs. Rowray
became a bride at IA, and a mother
at II. She has been married twice.
By her first husband she had
twenty children. Four years ago he
died and she married a man twenty
years her Junior and since then two
children have been born to them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

There is a fifty y-fifty chance for sun
shine or showers today, according to
Meteorologist Flora. A few hours
sunshine today will dry up the roads.
The cold weather headed this way
from Montana has been sidetracked
temporarily Topeka was lucky Tues
day in missing the heavy rains which
fell in northeast Kansas
Topeka had a rain of .05 of an inch
Tuesday. Other Kansas cities report
ing rain were Horton. 80 of an inch; /;
Kansas City. so of an inch, and St
Joseph, Mo, 1.96 inches.
The highest temperature recorded
in Topeka Tuesday was 81 degrees at
2 o'clock and the lowest was 20 at 6
o'clock this morning Garden City,
Scott City and Phoenix, Ariz., all tied
for first honors for the highest tenn
(Continued on Page Two.)
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Not iu City Parks.

"The city parks are not drawing the
crowds from Kansas Free Fair visitors
this year, like they did last" said r.
D. MeGiffert city park commissioner,
today. Il am frank to confess don't
know why, unless it is the bad road
Last year they were at the parks en-
masse in the afternoon, morning and
evening"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
SIX BIC EVENTS
ON TODAYS RACE
CARD FOR FAIR
Large Number Entries Assures
Much Interest in Program.
Many of Last Years FaVOrites
VIII Be on Track Today.
TROT FOR BANKERS PURSE
Total of Eighteen Entries in
2:14 Pace for S4OO.
Ten Starters in 1925 TrOt fOI
Purse of 5000.
Many Of Last Years FavOrites
VIII Be on Track Today.
TROT FOR BANKERS PURSE
BULLETINS ON RACES

Bulletins of the race results at
the Free Fair races this afternoon
will be posted on the bulletin board
in the Kansas avenue window OF
The State Journal building. Ihe
results will be telephoned over a
special wire and will appear on the
bulletin hoard almost as soon as
they are learned in the grandstand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
Prairie Oil Declares Dividend.

Independence, Kan, Sept. 14.-The
Prairie Oil and Gas company today
declared a quarterly dividend of three
dollars and an extra dividend OF two
dollars. payable October 81. to stock
holders of record September 80.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14

When two airmen mapped the Mohave
desert recently. in California, they discov-
cred large volcanic crater whose existence
was unknown, even TO those who knew of
the lava lake which surrounded it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
Extreme Penalty for Food smugglers

Berlin, Sept. 1.-THE Polish cabi-
net, in a public proclamation. warns
that life imprisonment and possibly
found guilty of cmuggling food out of
found guilty of suggling food out OF
Poland. said a Warsaw dispatch to the
Lokal Anzeiger today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
JUST WHAT is LIFE?

Fatty ArbuckIe at Famous Party
Offered to Jump Out of Twelfth
Story Window, Declares One
Witness.
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GOOD CHANCE FOR SUNSHINE
There Is Also a Possibility of Showers
Says Flora.

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES.