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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
Triple Probe of Washington
Disaster Now in Prospect.
All Amusement Places in Capt.
tai Ordered Closed.
VICTIMS HORRIBLY MANGLED
Rescuers Worked Thirty-Six
Hours in Wreckage.
TOttering Walls of Fatal Struc-
ture Are Ordered Raced.

Washington, Jan. 3O.-The death
toll from the Knickerbocker theater
disaster of Saturday night was
brought to 1OS today with the death
in a hospital of Miss Mary A. Forsyth.
a resident of Washington.
BY daybreak the searchers had ex-
:,Iored almost every portion oe The
debris strewn structure without find
ing any more bodies. 1t was believed
that any additional deaths would
come from the list of injured, seVera.
CT whom were in a serious condition.
With a>totaI of 1873 injured, in ad-
dition to the 1OS dead removed from
the ruins of the Kaicherbocker mo-
ton picture theater, the rescuers are
still struggling today with the heavy
roof of the structure collapsed during
the showing of a comedy feature bill
Saturday night.
Brigadier General Bandholtz. COM
mandant of federal troops in the dis
trict, in personal charge of the rescue
work, said it might be "a hours be-
fore it could be definitely said there
We're no more dead or injured in the
wreckage of twisted steel and concrete
which remained to be cleared of the
mass that was hurled down without
warning on the pleasure seeking hun
dreds below.
1t was believed. however, that the
section now being explored, would
yield few additions to the list of dead
and injured, it being near the rear and
under the part of the balcony which
held up when the front of it crashed
down to the theater pit under the i'm
pact of the falling roof.
xxroII- 0vdoroI Tor, hour,
The giant walls of the Knicker-
day by -Lohn p. Healy, inspector of
buildings. They have been unsteady
since the roof crashed in.
About $3.50 O'Clock this morning. a
warning cry was sounded about the
scene of the wreckage at Eighteenth
street and Columbia road. The gaunt
walls that reared fifty feet above the
wrecked interior had begun to totter
and it was feared they would crash
The west wall had bulge in it several
feet in dimensions.
Police and the remaining soldiers
ordered all persons away from the
building and the Red Cross aid sta
tion, set up in confectionery store
that stood in one corner of the build
ing, was ordered to evacuate.
A party of the rescuers early today
had been struggling for hours to re-
lease from the part OF the Wreckage
now being overturned, one man be-
heved to be yet alive, altho impris-
oned under the mass for nearly thirty
six hours. The great weight of the
steel beams and concrete which
crashed with the roof have in many
instances made the rescue of victims
harrowingly slow and tedious.
The capital city was bowed in grief
today to learn the full extent of the
tragedy, with the recovery of victims
yesterday and last night. This was the
CONTINUED on Page Twol
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BIG STORM PASSES
National Capital Now Under
Two Foot Blanket.
Normal Conditions Are Being
Slowly Restored in East.

Washington, Jan. 30.-The center of
a snowstorm covering the entire mid
die Atlanti section Friday and Sat-
urday, Washington was still digging
itself out of more than two feet of
snow today with the process of return
ing to normal exceedingly slow. The
capital city had the assurance of the
weather bureau that the storm was
moving safely seaward today.
With Sunday passed Washington re-
doubled its efforts today to clear away
the storm impediments, restore an all
most totally lost contact with suburbs,
add to the street car routes which
were feebly resumed in some instances
yesterday and insure some approach
to dependability in delivery of milk
bread and other necessities.
Train service north and south seri-
ously interrupted in the morning
hours Sunday had been restored prac-
tically to normal today. Reports from
other points near the storm center in
cluding Philadelphia which was COW
cred with snow up to a depth of a
foot and a half, and BaltimdEe, where
the fall was almost as great as here,
showed they faced much the same
conditions as Washington.
Baltimore Is Digging Out.
Baltimore. Jan. 3O.-BalSmore and
its suburbs today were slowly digging
themselves free of the snow blockade.
Ice in the bay had broken up enough
to permit some resumption of navi-
cation.
Schools were ordered closed until
Wednesday, awaiting return of street
car service Snow fell As hours reach
ing 26.5 inches. One death was re-
ported.
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Attorney General May An
nounce for Governor Tonight.
Most Interesting Development
of Day in State Politics.

Richard ]. Hopkins, attorney gem
eraL is going into the governorship
race with both feet. Efforts of Fred
Trigg to pull him off the track seem
to have failed miserably 1t looks this
afternoon as tho Hopkins intends to
give his formal announcement to Trigg
and to William Allen White and stand
pat in his demand for state admins
tration support.
Hopkins move is the most i'm
portant feature of the days milling
1t upsets a lot of previous plans of
several persons who are more or less
yitally interested in the campaign
problems. It puts the proposition of
a flat positive alignment squarely up
to the administration and calls for sup
port or a breach. IT blocks possibil-
tiles of future jockeying with a view of
eliminating various candidates and
may mean a considerable change in
the personnel of men whose names
will appear on the primary ballot
For three days there has been a
growing impression that Clyde NJ
Reed was out of it. Yet the plans of
administration forces were to keep his
name before the voters and in this
manner maneuver to better advan-
tage. Hopkins is reported to have
been told by Fred Trigg recently that
he could not run. Then Hopkins in
report came from the state house
that Hopkins agreed to stay outs if
Reed got in. With rumors that Reed
won't run. there was no time lost by
Hopkins in putting himself in line to
demand the en-Reed- White -Motter
strength behind his candidacy. Hop
kins refused to state finally today just
what he would do or when he would
90 it.
While the Hopkins announcem ent
may mix up new trouble in the state
house, it will rather clear the atmos-
phere for the antis. His candidacy
means the Seventh district will be
split with w. Y. Morgan Lately
Morgan has sought administration
support. In order to support Morgan
now it would be necessary to throw
Hopkins entirely overboard-a move
not at all probable.
Old line followers who have not
shown rising temperatures when the
Morgan matter was mentioned now
believed the Hutchinson publisher
will be in a box. From every angle
the Hopkins entrance in the guberna-
toriaI contest holds real possibilities
of interesting action and develop
ments. It's all good political dope
take it or leave it,
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II. II. Motter, internal revenue collector
md state chairman
J. L. Brady. Salina.
Senator Alfred Docking, Manhattan.
Charles S. Huffman. lieutenant governor.
Senator Francis c. Price. Ashland.
General Wilder S, Metcalf, Lawrence.
Thad G. Carver. Pratt.
J. H. Stewart, Wichita.
Senator James W. Finley. Chanute.
Fred W. Knapp. Salina-
Miss Helen Pettigrew and Mrs. w. D.
dOwry, Kansas City
Willis J. Bailey, Atchison.
T. A. McNeaI, Topeka.
Sam Haskin, Olathe.
William Allen White, Emporia.
l.. 7. Hussey. Lyndon.
George W Hanna, Clay Center.
Senator r. {. Howard. Arkansas City.
w. r. Stubbs. Lawrence.
Emerson Carey. Hutchinson.
7. II. Mercer, Bazaar.
Walter L. Payne. Topeka.
Senator Greeley Kyle Abilene.
L. J. Pettijohn. Dodge City.
Senator o. o. Wolfe, Ottawa.
George b. Snow, Topeka.
Lieutenant Governor.
Sheffield Ingalls,. Atchison.
Ben S. Paulen, Fredonia.
Representative Charles A. Mosher, Dodge
City.
Senator D. A. N Chase. Pleasanton.
Secretary of State.
D. o. McCray, Topeka.
State Treasurer.
Z. T. Thompson, Topeka.
Attorney General.
Charles Hunt, Concordia.
Charles b. Griffith, Fort Scott.
Baxter d. McClain lola.
Edwin Rooney, Topeka.
]. +. Lambert, Jr., Emporia.
John E Martin, Alma.
State Superintendent Public Instruction.
Miss Lorraine E. Wooster. Salina.
Jesse w Miley, Girard.
J. II. CleUent, Junction City.
Fred A Seaman, Topeka.
Miss Grace Z. Snyder. Cawker City.
State superintendent of Insurance
Emmett d. George, Council Grove
Walter G. Herrick Wellington.
Charles Hobbs, Topeka.
Kenneth Lewis. Topeka.
William r. Baker, Rosedale.
State Auditor.
n. A. Turner, Russell.
State Printer.
Bert P. Walker, Osborne
Supreme Court justices.
Silas W. Porter, Kansas City.
Judson S. West, Topeka.
W. w. Harvey, Ashland.
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were two candidates In the field, Mrs.
Kimban' defeating Mrs. Charles r
Scott of lola, who served as second
vice president last year. Later in the
morning Mrs. Scott was elected first
vice president by acclamation- Mrs
J. Frank JarrcIi of Topeka, whose
name was proposed for first vice presi-
dent and who withdrew, was elected
second vice president also by acclarla-
ton
Other Officers of Club.
The other officers OF the club elected
were: Mrs. F. o. johnson of McPher-
son, secretary: Mrs. George Barker OF
Lawrence, auditor: Mrs. G. B. White
of Pratt, treasurer. Mrs. Henry J.
Allen was appointed historian for the
club. A registrar. parliamentarian
and corresponding secretary viii be
appointed by the new president, Mrs.
Kim ball.
The morning session was openei
by the singing of America" by the
audience. followed by prayer by Mrs
S. s. Estey and reports of the various
officers of the club.
welcomed by Mrs. II. j. Allen.
Mrs. Henry J. Allen. gave a most
gracious address OF welcome to the
Continued from Page ODel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
With The Boys in Toy1 Today
What Bill Snort Says Sees and Hears Around the
Political Medicine Pot, Boiling for Kansas
Day, in Topeka.
Day, in Topeka.

much enthusiasm among the every
day Kansans who. see in the law a
chance for Mr.. and Mrs. Ordinary
Person.
What has become of the old time
Kansas politician who chewed con-
stantly on his "seegar'' These days
he flips the ashes from his cigaret,
posing jauntily on the end of an alb
breviated fishing pole.
Representative VIII Gibbons of
for Lambertson. He is one of the ear
nest Lambertson men in the Seventh
district.
Representative Charles H. Mann of
Osborne believes the farmers don't
understand the tax matter. Every
new candidate who bobs up makes
things worse" he said. II think We
ought to do something to get together
before we get too far apart
Justice Silas Porter of the supreme
court took a bit of time off and looked
up old familiar faces in the days when
he was just starting in the game in
Ness county. Then he renewed ac-
quaintances with friends of the days
when he was lawyer in Kansas City
Kan.
Tom McNeal took a stroll thru the
hotel in order that the visitors might
have every opportunity to look over
all the governorship possibilities.
Clark Conkling, representative from
Rice county. took an early start and
arrived here Friday. Editorial re
sporsibility has been largely removed
from Conkling's shoulders and he
didn't intend to miss anything in the
early medicine mixing.
L. T. Hussey, state fire marshal
didn't say much about it, but his time
with the visitors may have beer
somewhat for the purpose of listenine
to reaction on his boomS too.
Phil P. Zimmerman is spending sew
eral busy days with the Republican
workers. He carries the blue book on
Americanism and when anyone's 10y
atty to the government is questioned
Zimmerman is final authority.
Sheffield ingalls, of Atchison and
Ben S. Paulen of Fredonia, each with
booms for the lieutenant goyernorship
are here looking after their organiza-
ton interests.
Contiued on Page FiYe.l
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|MhONhat.W .Why.When.

IAN organization 10 promote Repuf-
Hcanism and to call together In social
way. upon the anniversaries Of Kansas
admission into the Union the young
Republicans Of the state
That is the official purpose of the
Kansas Day club-the real official po-
litical gathering which the Kansas
Republicans held intact when the pri-
mary swept the convention plan away.
William Allen White, Victor Murdock
and a few other original organizers
long since quit attending the Republ-
can club dinners. But tfr3 club has
lived since January %. 1892. and in
those thirty years many of the men
who came into prominence and power
in the state made their first big start
at the Kansas Day club banquet.
The club was organized at gath
ering Of some seventy-five of the
younger Republicans of the state at
that time 1t was inspired by q de-
sire to redeem the state for the party
after the Christening which had come
at the hands of the Farmers Alliance
and the Populists. The chastening had
been SO severe that the party stood up
much Of the time in eating its meals
and new organization and leadership
was needed.
il was a bunch Of the younger news
paper men who started the movement
mostly fellows with railroad passes
and free transportation. The first call
was issued by Harry W. Frost. Charles
81. Harger. Ewing Herbert and VIII
liam Allen White. The date was set
for a holiday week in 1881. But tfss
death of The late Senator Plumb
caused a postponement Of the date
and by a happy inspiration it fell on
the birthday anniversary OF the state.
Following original organization the
leaders foresaW charges that a new
political machine was being forme ed.
So the club was made social gather
ing for young. Republicans Of the
state each January 29. The club has
been a power in the state and nurn-
ber Of the men Who sat at the first
barquet in the Throop hotel have at
tended practically every succeeding
party dinner.
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Apparently every county in Kansas
has a representative if not a delega-
tion here to gather inspiration and
campaign thunder at the 'thirty-first
annual meeting of the Kansas Day
club. Problems of the approaching
campaign, the muddled pre-primary
situation and echoes of a strange rum
bling which haven't been heard in the
state since the uprising of the Popu-
lists and Farmers Alliance gave keen
interest and concern to the Republi-
can Dinner club meeting. Long be-
fore the banquet hall opens in Ma
sonic Temple tonight every ticket will
be sold.
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Looks like a thousand family re-
unions" a travelling salesman said to
DAY when he wandered and edged his
way thru a hotel lobby. Il never saw
so many men with their arms aroun !
each other"
"Hootch and politics are the only
things that will cause such a public
demonstration of affection" another
commented
The Mulvane followers usually were
cooped up in laundering silence in out
of the way rooms. The Allen crowd
whispered at the state house and in
other gathering places. Their respec-
tive agents ard pulse feelers' were
stationed in the hotel lobbies. And
the Bill Shorts were everywhere.
If Billy Morgan's grin and his wit
and his entertainment will bring as
many votes as laughs he'll go thru
sailin'.
After a winter of good dirt roads
in Kansas the taxpayers are yelpine
against the cost of the hard surfaced
varieties-and the sentiment against
the shortgrass flivver pavement is
most noticeable in Topeka today.
Visitors to Topeka today look long
ingly at the steel and concrete frame
of the million Collar Masonic temple
facing the state house square and pray
that next year they'll have a banqucl
room large enough to accommodate
the states political hungry.
Some are here to talk politics. some
to celebrate Kansas day and others t,
organize for the purpose of bringing
a state political convention to their
town. There seems to be a disposition
to move the state capital every few
months in kansas-not because i:
doesn't belong in Topeka but because
the various town boys are boosting
a circulation of the coin of the realm
a few more political pow-pows in
which far western Kansans are dele
gates and the railway fare orgy will
aid in the support of Clyde Reed for
governor.
Among the medicine mixers today
are hundreds of former Washburn
students who are taking advantage OF
the visit to Topeka to run out to Old
Icha bod.
Tom McNearS hatred of the indus
trial court trial makes him popular al
union labor hall, but doesn't arouse
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SALINA MASONIC BLOCK BURNS
Loss OF S15O,OOO Caused by Early
Morning F'ire-Afasons Homeless.

Salina, Jan. 3O.-Fire of undeter-
mined origin which broke out in the
Masonic temple building at 3 o'clock
this morning virtually burned out the
two upper floors and left the building
trembling ruin. Firemen now expect
the walls to fall
Three mercantile stores on the first
floor. suffered an almost total loss
from water and damage was occa-
stoned to stores adjoining.
The Masonic bodies lost their para
phernalia and the big pipe organ but
saved their records The total loss is
estimated at $3.50. 600. partly covered
by insurance.
The Masons sold this building year
ago expecting to move into the new
temple they started to build. but that
structure collapsed while being built
last Nav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30

A temperature of zero will occur III
Topeka early Tuesday morning, says
MeteoroIogist Flora. A decided change
in the weather is due, says the weather
man. No zero temperatures have oc-
Cured in Topeka since December
1919.
Tuesday will be a cold day and the
northwest wind will increase in We
locity. 1t will also be cloudy. The
zero weather hit northwestern Kan
sas this morning and zero tempera
lures were general thru Nebraska, the
Dakotas, wyoming and Montana.
Topeka received OF of an inch of
moisture from the combined rain and
snow which fell Su~ day night. other
Kansas cities reporting rain We're:
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AMAzONS MARCHING AGAIN
Sheriff Gould Hears Rumors of Big
Meeting at Franklin Tuesday.

Pittsburg, Kan, Jan. 30.--A group
of women variously estimated at from
so to 200 assembled in Franklin this
morning and marched to within one
fourth mile of Jackson Walker NO. II.
The women dispersed after urging
men who passed on their way to the
mine not to go to work.
Sheriff Milt Gould said today he has
heard rumors women are planning
a big mass meeting in Franklin to-
morrow TO be followed by marching
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Day Club and Responsible for Much
of the Success Of TOday's Gathering.
Party workers have been coming
to Topeka for several days in order
to have an early start on preliminary
medicine mixing. Not since the party
leadership was forced 20 re-eSta blish
itself nine years ago after the smash
up of 1912. interest in the Kansas Day
club problems have never been so
great nor interest so keen. Appar-
emily there is hardly a local or dis
trict leader of prominence in the state
who isn't here for tonight's dinner.
For three days the workers have
been busy trying to unite the factional
party knots. Interest in re-primary
troubles have centered almost entirely
in the goVernorship scrap. Nor have
the visitors been able to change the
situation. There were promises of a
love feast today and tonight. 1t might
as readily be classed as a family row.
almost everyone said a kind word for
Harmony. But that has been the
sum total of progress.
No Harmony Yet
Today the state administration and
the antis are as far apart as when
the legislature adjourned last winter.
There isn't much prospect that a seri-
Gus plan to effect compromise can
be worked out-at least at this time
So there is little for the visitors to do
except talk it over. pray for fair
weather. make a few predictions and
gather big meal of turkey dressing
and reason.
Interest in the banquet tonight CEN
ters in the speeches of Congressman
FOrdney and Mrs. ManIey L. Forseen
The Michigan cOngressman-ch
man of the house ways and means
committee-wiu talk national politics
and national problems. 1t will be a
bit refreshing after the pickering and
biting and gnawing on local state af-
fairs The Fordney speech is the first
official word to be brought to the
state party organization from the ma
tional administration in Washington.
Coming at the opening of the party 8
pre-primary campaign it will attract
and hold the interest OF every person
interested in national issues to be
drawn into the state fights this year.
Woman Speaker Here.
Mrs. Fosseen, a strong speaker for
the Republican national committee
came to Topeka today from her home
in Minneapolis. MINI. She is the only
woman speaker on the program and
her talk tonight will be a big event on
the speaking card.
Congre@ @sman J. n. Tincher of the
Seventh Kansas district, comes to To-
peka today with Congressman Ford
ney. He is the only member of the
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Priaon Population Ncars Record.

Leayenworth Kan. Jan. 3D-The
population of the federal penitentiary
has been increasing rapidly s late.
and is now only a little short of the
record enrolment of 2.20O. AS the
number of men at the disciplinary bar :
racks has shrunk recently from 500 20
1.27o. transfer Of some Of the, 622 mill
tary prisoners in the penitentiary 10
the barracks is contemplated
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Osborne Man Prepared HIS Grave.

Osborne, Kan, Jan 30.-Hiram n.
Crlst osborne county pioneer and Civil
war veteran. was a believer in pre-
paredness. Following his death here
TINS month he was inferred in the
vault he had prepared with his own
hands. Nearly ten years ago he pur
chased the burial plot in a local ceme-
terry erected a large tombstone and
since then has cared for the lot.
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Great Bond Noodmen NYinners.

Great Bend, kan, Jan. 30.-For the
fifth consecutive time the Great Bend
lodge of the Modern Woodmen of
America has won the state champion
snip banner of the order for increase
in membership. The local lodge has
arrangements made for construction
OF a three-story building and lodge
home next summer.
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Chicago Bandits Beat Up Victims.

Chicago. Jan. 30.-Search was being
made today for three bandits who
bound and gagged w. A. Kirkham,
wholesale jeweler, in his apartment,
then attacked his wife and escaped
with $4,000 worth of jewelry. Mrs.
Kirkham was beaten over the head
with pistols and was reported painfully
injured.
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NEW STORM SWEEPS WEST
Twenty Eight Below i'm Northwest
Snow i'm Missouri Valley.

the grip of another cold wave today
The mercury went down to % uegrees
below zero in parts of Montana and
Wyoming A light snow was general
Snow fell today over the Missouri
valley, North Platte. Nebraska. report
ing 5 inches
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COLD WAVE is ON WAY
Zero Temperature VIII Occur Tuesday
Followed by Snow, Says Flora.
TODAY,S TFMPERATTJRE RES,
TODAY'S TEN
ShiDDers' Forecast.

Protect all thirty six hour shipments
north and west against temperature
of five degrees below zero. East and
south eight degrees above zero.
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w b<( NEW

Cold wave northeast and extreme south
east portion with temperatures from
zero to ten degrees above zero Tuesday
morning. Tuesday, increasing clOudi-
ness, followed by snow west portion.