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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-17
War STILL LOOMS
Attempt to Stay Michael Collins
Made at Dublin Today.
His Attack on de VaIera's Plan
Believed To Be Cause.
OBJ the Associated Press.)

Dublin. April 17.-An attempt on
the life of Michael Collins, head of
the provisional free state government.
was made here early oday, coming al
most simultaneously with an assault
on the Beggars Bush headquarters of
the Irish Republican army, says an
official army staten mt
Mr.. Collins was on his way home
after having addressed a meeting at
Mas, County Kildare, when the at
tack was made.
A group of men, some armed with
rifles, rushed at the Collins party s
car and opened fire. the free state
leader apparently being the especial
target. The Collins party quickly re-
turned the fire and one of the attack
ers was captured A revolver and a
live bomb were found on him.
In his speech at Mas, yesterday,
Mr.. Collins charged the opponents of
provisional free state government with
setting barriers against the onward
march of the nation.
He declared that cannon De Valera
had adopted methods of anarchy but
the people of Ireland were not willing
to allow him to decide the treaty ques-
ton for them. De Valera regarded
this attitude of the people as ''unfor-
givab1e sim and for it they were to
be deprived of their right to choose a
government
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HE TAxIED TO CHICAGO.
"The Count Pays $500 for Auto Ride
From Toledo. o.

Toledo, O., April IA pompous
looking individual dressed in the
neight of fashion called a taxi at the
leading hotel here and selecting a
natty Limousine from among several
which responded, pitched an alligator
bag In ahead and deposited himself in
the rear seat
Where to. mister" the driver
asked.
Drop me off at the Blackstone
hotel. Chicago" the man replied nom
chalantly, and tossed three 500 bills
20 the driver from roll that made
his eyes bulge.
Twelve hours later, a dust covered
limousine pulled up in front of the
BIackstone. a colored attendant open
ed the door and the driver had de-
nVered his passenger in a record rum
Two additional century notes nestled
with. the three others in his pocket
and record run for a record fee was
completed.
The passenger, the driver said. was
a mysterious stranger, known only as
the Count
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RUSSIAN BUSINESS is BET1
Communists Offer Many of the Trade
Advantages of Old.

Odessa, April 17.-Business coRdi-
tions turnout Russia are improving
from month to month, in the opinion
from many places, hoping to be on
the ground floor when the revival of
Russian trade begins, as they believe
it will in view of certain revisals made
by the soviet government in it's in
ternal trade regulations.
Considered the foreigners paradise
in pre-war days, Russia has offered
nothing but bitter disappointing to
her American and British residents
since 1917, but discouragement is Civ
ing place to optimism now that it
seems certain the Communists, realiz-
ing the failure of many Bolshevist
principles, will endeavor to offer some
of the opportunities formerly enjoyed
under the imperial government.
Business, at least for the present
year, will continue to~be of the carpet
bag kind, the Americans believe.
There is a vast amount of internal
trading in foods. shoes, tools, cloth
and other manufactured articles, and
the traders are getting rich in rubles,
which they hasten to convert into for
eign money, diamonds or other OBJ
jects of value.
The real estate field is enjoying a
boom. largely thru regulation which
permits individuals or groups to take
up large tracts of land and even fac
tories to be operated or leased for
profit without interference from the
communists.
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Will INSPECT SPANISH VETS
Commander of war Organization on
Tour of Country's Camps.

Chicago, April 17.-Oscar E. Carl
strom. national chief of
the United Spanish War Veterans to-
day is on a swing thru the east to visit
department headquarters and camps
OF New York, Massachusetts,, Maine,
New Jersey and other eastern states.
He planned to return to Chicago April
rs, stopping at Toledo on the eastern
trip.
The national commander will be on
his eastern trip during two of the
three April anniversaries observed by
the Spanish war veterans These are
Muster Day, April 81, and the Ulysses
s. Grant centenary on April 90
According to his itinerary Comman-
der Carlstrom will be at Albany, N. Y
to attend Muster Day ceremonies, and
viii go from Albany to Buffalo
In department order Commander
Carlstrom has called upon all camps to
observe these two anniversaries. He
expects to be back in Illinois for Me-
mortal day.
Thirtyfour camps of the United
Spanish war veterans have been insti-
tuted since last July, Commander
Carlstrom announced before depa rtinc
for the east. Illinois leads with six
new camps. Records of other states
follow: Indiana, 4; Florida Minne-
sofa Nebraska, Department of the Po-
tomac and Observation-Disclosures .
each; Iowa, Maine. Montana. New
ork, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania Michi-
gan and Colorado-Wyomine, one each.
with six new camps listed as unat-
tached
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-17

United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates
946 Livestock Exchange, Kansas City, Mo
Telephone: Harrison 1915.
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A CLEAN UP DRIVE
Annual Work will Begin in
Topeka Tuesday.
Civic Organizations Will Assist
in the Campaign.

Tuesday morning three separate
gangs of men with wagons will start
the annual cleaning-up of the alleys
of Topeka. for the street department.
The first gang will work between
Kansas avenue and Jackson street,
from the river to Tenth avenue; the
second between Kansas avenue and
Quincy street from the river south to
Tenth avenue, and the third between
north on the north side of the river.
Later, other gangs will be organ
lied and the entire city will be COW
cred.
Frank Snyder, superintendent of
streets, said this morning that Mon
day is a bad day to start the wagons
out. He wants the people to have
one week day in which to get the Gin
ders ashes and rubbish out of their
Easements and off their lots. and out
to the alley where the wagons of the
department can reach them.
Also the city dumps are very soft
and hard to get the wagons out on.
Snyder hoped that another day would
see the dumps drier and offering a
more solid foundation for the wagons
Many Want jobs.
There was a mob after me for Jobs
this morning." Snyder said. ''I
couldn't give a Job to one man ont of
twenty who applied for them.'
Today is the official date of the
opening of the cleanup and painful
campaign which is being fostered by
the civic clubs of the city and the city
commission. backed by a proclamation
from the mayor.
A central committee of representa-
tives of civic organizations is super
vising the work. which is to con-
unue thruout the year. This week is
to be only an intensive start.
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CLEANED UP TOWN
Then Louisiana Mob Begins to
Clean Out District.
Three Thousand Joined Ranks
as OIL Field Fight Grew.
ALL GREW OUT OF ASSAULT
Nearly 500 Men. Started to Get
Tony Pierces RObber.
Oil Field Settlements Took the
Crowds Eye After That.

Haynesville, La, April II. - Per-
were after had been identified by his
alleged victim, a mob variously esti-
mated at 500 to 500 which surrounded
the Haynesville Jail last night bent on
taking Ralph Coleman, suspect in the
assault and robbery of Tony Pierce.
left 100 of its members at the Jail
and started on a cleaning of Haynes
Vile.
As the crowd went about its self-ap-
pointed task it grew rapidly until by
the time it started for Oil Center and
Baucum Spur with the announced in
tention OF cleaning those Oh field
settlements also it had grown to three
thousand.
The mob visited number of hotels
and rooming houses notifying certain
men and women among their occu-
pants to pack up and depart and then
went to the negro quarter and gave
orders to about three-quarters of the
population to leave Doors and win
dovs ware smashed at several places
but none OF the negros or others
warned to leave were injured.
The assault from which the excite
ment developed occurred when Pierce
was on his way home He was struck
on the head and robbed of 500 which
he said he had received from his sis
ter in California earlier in the day
He was unconscious when found and
had not fully recovered his senses sew
eral hours later. He is seriously but
not fatally injured
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kyIAS1RK4EITs
additional late markers Will be
found on another page of this paper.)

Chicago, April 17-WHEAT-In sharp
contrast with an abrupt advance of cents
bushel on Saturday, the wheat market to-
day kept within moderate bounds during
the early trading. The tendency of prices
was still upward, but fluctuations were
rapid. and the activity was of a character
to indicate that the struggle was to be a
two sided one for at leakt the time being
The chief influence was the question
whether sufficient wheat would be on hands
in Chicago to settle contracts for delivery
during May and the sharpness of Satur-
days advance caused friends of higher
prices to exercise unusual caution. Open
ing prices. which varied from &c decline
to lie advance for the market taken a
whole with May at S1.42 to S1.431a and July
$1-2616 to $1.26s4, were followed by gains
of , cents in some cases, but then a set
back to about the initial range
There was an unsettled finish at &c to
21he net decline with May $1-4015 to $14O4
and July S1.24% to $1.25
CORN-COrn and oats were lifted in value
by the strength of wheat. After opening
&c TO a higher. July 65Ac to 6512c. the
corn market eased off a little. but hardened
again later.
The close was easy, &c to &c net lower.
July 64Ac 20 G4Ssc.
OATS-Oats started sc to &c higher,
July 41Ac to 4115c and then made slight
further upturns.
PROvISIONS-Hig Quotations
hogs and grain helped to lift the price of
provisions.
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SMALL is READY
Trial of Governor Again Is in
Center of Illinois Stage.
May Take Weeks TO Get Jury
for Noted EmbezzIement Case.

Court House. Waukegan. Ill, April
17.-With jurymen arriving on every
train and with the legal batteries of
both factions on the ground, the trial
Of Len Small, governor of Illinois,
charged with conspiracy to embezzle,
again occupied the center of the stage
in Illinois.
Members of the Small party arrived
this morning and declared themselves
in readiness for the trial. The defense
attorneys today reiterated their asser-
ton that no further delay of the trial
will be asked by them.
The defense will be headed by At
torney c. C. LeForgee, of Decatur.
Ill Associated with him are Attorneys
Werner Shredder of Kankakee, and
Alexander Beaubiens of Waukegan.
Headed by James H. Wilkerson,
first assistant to Attorney General
Brundage. and Fred Mortimer. states
attorney for Sangamon county, where
Small's indictment was returned, the
legal force of the state will include
Attorneys Edward Pre-, Springfield,
ILL.,: Thomas Marshall. Chicago; Gar
field Charles, Chicago: William T.
Weiss. Ralph J. Dady and Z. ]. Clark,
1VaUkegan.
The probable length of time re-
quired for selecting a jury to try
Small is UNCERTAIN. Estimates vary
from three weeks to six weeks. 1t is
predicted by many intimate with the
case that at least 1900 talesmen will
have been examined before a jury of
twelve shall be selected. The present
jury array includes names of 800 men,
The general belief is that all records
for length of time required and num-
Der of jurors examined in the history
of the state will have been eclipsed
when the frequently delayed trial
reaches the stage of resenting the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-17
SURVEY STATES COLLEGES.
Manhattan's Institution Is First on
List Of National Examiners.

Manhattan. kan, April IA sur
vey of the five institutions of higher
learning in Kansas began here this
week when a commission composed of
four educators appointed by the
United States commissioner of edu-
cation. made Investigations at the
Kansas State Agricultural college.
The commission was appointed at
the request of the Kansas board of
administration. The purpose of the
survey is to increase the efficiency of
the state schools. 1t is composed of
DR.. L. D. Coffman. president of the
University of Minnesota: A. r. Mann,
dean of agriculture. Cornell univer-
sity; DIR. George r. Zook. specialist in
higher education, bureau of educa-
ton. Washington. d. c.. and J. G.
Christensen financial secretary, Uni
versity of Michigan.
Upon completion of the commits
sion's survey of the Agricultural col
lege it will go to Hays normal. the
university. the Kansas State normal,
and the Pittsburg normal, all of which
will be surveyed within the next two
weeks
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EXPLOSION IN SEWER
City Engineer to Investigate Accident
on Crane Street.


on Crane Street.
An explosion which occurred Satur-
day in the sewer underneath Crane
street between Kansas avenue and
Quincy street, hurled a 150-pound
manhole cover fifteen feet into the
air, and blew water thru the traps in
the Seymour Packing plant. The
descending cover narrowly missed a
motor car which was passing by.
Frank Snyder. city superintendent
of streets. is at a loss to account for
the explosion, which is the second
which has occurred at that point in
the past three weeks.
The manhole leads to a catch basin
which receives sewage from three diff
ferent directions. The gas company
has q. main running thru there, and
the sewage comes from two different
cleaning esta blishments. don't know
whether the explosion was caused by
sewer gas, escaping gas from the
main, or gasoline poured into the
sewer from the cleaning establish
ments," Snyder says. And l don't
know why the gas or whatever else it
was. should ignite just at that point
The city engineer will be asked to
make an investigation.
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KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK MARKET.

Kansas city, April 17.-CATTLE--R
-eeipts 10000. Beef steers and yearlings
steady to Is cents higher; top. $S.35: heavy
cows, $5.50d5.70; stOckers and feeders
steady to strong; stockers, $3.50 7.65; feed
eds, $7.25@765; other classes. steady
light and medium weight cows. S57506.25
heifers, s65O@7.25: bulls, $4O0@4.50; can
ners and cutters, S2.15@4.50; better grade
yeaIers ST.006S 90.
HOGS-Receipts 1000. Market 1Oc high
err. Spots up most; bulk 10 to go pound
to 800 Founders, SI0oO@1Oi5; packer top.
$40 %; mixed loads, S975d9.00 bulk OF
sales, IS 25d10 DPS; throw out sows around
50 90: stock pigs, steady to 10c lower; best,
SO %: bulk desirables, S10.0OM10.15.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Killing classes,
25c to SOC lower: shorn TIE as wethers,
$SO07S.5O; early top wooded lambs, $1460 /;
some held higher.
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HE'S STILL AN AMBASSADOR.
State Department Decides Russian
Should Be Exempt From Subpoena.

Washington, April 1.-THE state
department is understood to be pre-
pairing to call attention of the senate
labor committee to the usual diplo-
matte immunity of foreign ambassa-
doris in connection with the commit
tees subpoena of Boris Bakhmeteff,
the last accredited Russian ambassa-
dor here. to testify in its investiga-
ton of the affairs of Gen Gregorie
Semenoff.
A protest against the committees
summons is understood to have been
communicated to the committee by
embassy officials, and altho no one at
the departm would express an
opinion on the subject, the impression
was given today that Mr.. Bakhmeteff
still might reasonably be regarded as
a full Pledged ambassador, despite the
fact that the Kerensky government,
which sent him here, went out five
years ago.
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pop" TOO PROUD TO ACCEPT.
Always Refused Offers of Benefit
Games, Anson's Cronies Declare.

New York. April 17.-'Pop" An
sons death in Chicago has brought to
light the fact that Commissioner K.
NJ. Lands was preparing to create
some position in his retinue for the
Daddy of baseball" and that he had
discussed the proposal with John ].
McGraw of the New York Nationals
during the training season in the
south.
In revealing this information, Nc
Graw told how Arson had declined
offers of leagues and clubs to desig-
nate a day to celebrate him and to
fill his empty purse with the gate re-
ceipts for many unfortunate ventures
had swallowed the funds the veteran
accumulated in his prime.
He was too proud to accept"
McGraW explained.
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Pastor saws He Was James, E,riend-

Parsons, Kan, April 1.-THE Rev
Alex Adair, who claims to be a mem
Der of the famous Jesse James bandit
gang, is preaching every night to
crowds on street corners here in be-
half of the Rescue army. who. he SAYS
saved him after a life of crime that
started with Jesse and Frank and
continued until he was far past the
half century mark. He is 10 years
old and admits serving several prison
terms
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United States Department of Agriculture.
Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates.
946 Livestock Exchange, Kansas City, Mo.
Telephone: Harrison 1915.
KANSAS CITY
CATTLE-Weeks receipts were 26,2O0,
against 1884 the previous week and IS, T54
year ago. Compared with a week ago,
beef steers were steady to 15c lower. The
weakness being on some of the heavy offer
ings. Top was $3.50 and bulk made $40
to $S25. Heifers and yearlings were steady
Cows were steady to weak Gamers, cut
ters, dulls and stock calves were generally
steady. vealers ruled 800 to $500 lower
T5c. Stockers and feeders and stock cows
and heifers were mostly strong, with spots
higher.
HOGS-Receipts Saturday were esti-
mated at 500 Around 200 late arrivals held
over from Friday were on sale. Last Sat
urday S5G fresh receipts were offered,
against 200 one year ago Saturday. Ship
pers were out of the market and packers
were early buyers on n fairly active mar
ket at prices strong with Fridays close or
around 1Oc lower than yesterdays average
Bulk of good $50 to 220 pound weights
went at 5000 to SOTO, with one load of
choice 240 pound averages at s1015. the top
for the day. Good heavy mixed loads sold
at Sass. with palmer lighter kinds at $9.75.
kinds, while 5000 was paid for lighter
weights. The stock pig market was steady,
with offering very light
Average cost Friday $1,000, weight 210
SHEEP-Receipts for the week at 34.155
exceed last weeks arrivals by. 5000 and
are about the same as the corresponding
week last year. Sheep have been in liberal
supply and prices have declined soc to 75c
since last weeks close. Shorn Texas
wethers went generally at $3.50 to S9.2j.
with choice fat two year olds up to S9.65
on early days. Odd lots of wooded native
$500 to ss.25 took best light sborn offer
ings at the weeks close. Lamb prices
have declined .5c to 4oc- Top for the week
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MUST INSTALL TAXIMETERS
Restraining Order Is Denied by Judge
Whitcomb in District Court.

r restraining order to enjoin the
city commission from enforcing the
new taxicab ordinance was denied by
Judge George WhitcOmb in the dis
trict court Saturday afternoon. The
Injunction was brought by the Union
Taxicab company, alleging that the
new ordinance Is unconstitutional
The ordinance requires every taxi
cab in Topeka to be equipped with a
taSimeter; that a set schedule of rates
must be provided and that passengers
must be protected against accident by
indemnity insurance in the amount Of
$500.
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GRAIN RECEIPTS.
FURNISHED by Empire Commission Co, 2Ol
New England Building. Topeka. Kan.)
KANSAS CITY PROpUCE MARRIED.

Kansas City. April 17.-EGGS-Market
unchanged. Firsts, 21hc.
BUTTER-Market unchanged Creamery,
SOC; packing, 16c.
POULTRY-Market unchanged. Hens,
22c; broilers. soc; ROSTERS, 13c.
POTATOES-OId, 81 .OO@1.90 cwt.; new
Florida, $5.90@4.00 a bushel.
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NEW YORK PRoDUCE MARKEr.

New York, April 1T.=BUTTER-Market
firm. Creamery higher than extras, 3s1k a
soc.
EGGS-Market firm. Fresh gathered ex-
ira firsts, 2S029c.
CHEESE-Market weak. State whole
| milk, flats, fresh specials, 1715@1Sc.
POULTRY-Alive, irregular; broilers, AZ
67Oc; fowls, 25@27c; ROSTERS, Ice; tur-
keys, 25G30c; dressed poultry, steady;
western chickens. 27Q43c; fowls. 22@33c
old roosters, 20025c; turkeys, 40@51c.
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Wall St, New York, April 17.-STOCKS-
with continuance of the recent active spec
ulative buying. Commission houses were
prominent in the movement which soon
registered general advances over last Satur-
days final quotations. Oils and rails were
in the forefront with coppers- Steels and
equipments were relatively backward but
became buoyant within the first half hour,
American Car rising almost two points.
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Chicago, April 17.-BUTTER-Marke
lower. Creamery extras, SIC; firsts, SS1s@
3615c.
EGGS-Market higher. Firsts, 23H q
2315c; ordinary firsts, 2115@22c; misceI-
laneols, 221a @23c storage packed extras,
26H @2615c; storage packed firsts. 25A q
POTATOES-Market steady. Wisconsin
sacked round whites, $1.60@1.75 cwt. !;
Michigan bulk round whites, $1.1o91T5
cNvf
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FRED D. DANIELS INJURED
Former TopeLan Hurt While Crossing
Railroad Tracks Near Perry.

Former TOpekan Hurt While Crossing
Railroad Tracks Near Perry.
Fred d. Daniels of Chanute, for
merly of Topeka, was seriously in
jured Saturday afternoon when his
automobile struck the baggage car on
an eastbound Union Pacific train at
a crossing west of Perry.
He was brought to the Stormont
hospital here where his injuries were
attended by DR.. a. H. Marshall. HIS
injuries consisted of severe scalp
wounds and numerous cuts and
bruises on the arms and body.
Altho his injuries are serious, he
has a good chance for recovery, &C
cording to Doctor Marshall
Daniels was alone in the car and
was on his way to Kansas City after
a visit with Topeka friends He was
employed several years ago in War
den's jeWelry store here
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WEATHER.

Continued from Page Onel
20 of an inch; Lawrence, .2S of an
inch. 1t was showing today from
Concordia to Goodland. The rain ex-
tended east from Kansas to Pennsyl-
vania. 1t was also showing today in
Denver. Colo. Wyoming and North
Dakota. 1t was raining in Nebraska.
The highest temperature in Topeka
during the last twenty-four hours was
Il degrees at 1890 o'clock Sunday
afternoon and the lowest was A at
$3.50 O'Clock this morning. The high
est temperature in Kansas was 81 de-
grees at Liberal and the lowest was
% at Goodland.. The highest in the
United States was 81 degrees at Lib
eraI and the lowest was IL degrees
above zero at Sheridan, Wyo.
The highest temperature ever re-
corded in Topeka on this date was IS
in 1913 and the lowest was q in 1907.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the wind
was blowing at ten miles an hour from
the north.
Salina, Kan, April 17.-Snow was
falling at PlainvilIe and Concordia at
S o'clock this morning and snow fell
last night at Minneapolis. Cold rains
are general with a strong cold north
wind.
Wichita, April 17-Hail stones
which accompanied the rain here last
night, caused damage to greenhouses
estimated to exceed $1,000
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Legion to Hold a Two Day Meet.

Philadelphia, April 1.-THE annual
American Legion field day, the pro-
gram of which includes championship
events, for A A L. athletes. as well
as for legion and army and navy men.
viii be a two day meet this year II
viii be held at Shibe Park on June.
8 and 1 %.