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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
PROBE OF NINE DEATHS ON.
Formal Inquiry Into Sayings at
WelIsburg Begins at Court House.


Wellsburg, w. Va, July Is.-In the
court house this morning, the for
NAL probe into the mine war at Cliff
tonville, Brooks county, in which
Sheriff H. H. DuvaIl and at least three
miners met death, was begun by Cor
oner J. B. Walkinshaw. The inquest
is expected to be an exhaustive one
and will be preliminary to a grand
jury investigation to be held as soon
as a judge is available
Word from Steubenville this morn
ing was to the effect that three of
the miners wounded in yesterdays bat
tie were hardly likely to survive their
wounds today.
Last night a detail of state troopers
from Kayser, w. Va, arrived and were
taken by automobile to Ciiftonville,
where all is quiet. The situation is
not regarded as threatening today.
Thomas H. Duva1. son of the MUIR
dered Sheriff H. H. Duval, after being
named to succeed his father. made it
his first official duty to confer with
Prosecuting Attorney w. S. Wilkin
and arrange for a special grand jury
to probe the ClintonvilIe massacre.
Charges of murder win be placed
against the forty-five men now i'm
prisoned and against any others who
might be apprehended by the score
OF deputies securing the Brooks
county hills. Nearly all the prisoners
are from Clintonville area.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
CITY PLAYGROUND NOTES

Twenty-Five girls from all of the
city Fairgrounds had q swim in the
Y. w. c. A. pool this morning. Les
sons were given to girls who cannot
swim. Miss Helen Thomas is in
charge of the class. She is assisted
by Miss Renna Rosenthall, of the
bowman playground and Miss Doro-
thy Beverly, of Chesney.
Harold Poort of the Ripley play
ground and James Kearney of the
Chesney playground went into the
finals for championship in singles in
the playground instructors tennis
tournament held Monday morning at
Gage park.
ment for children of the junior, inter-
mediate and senior divisions will be
held Wednesday afternoon at Ches-
ney playground.
The tennis tournament for play
ground children in the adult division
will be open to any man or woman in
Topeka who wishes to enter. All en-
tries must register with Lloyd Mosser,
Chesney supervisor, who is in charge
of the tournament, or with super
visor of any other playground. Reg
istrations will be closed Friday eve
ming and the first games of the
tournament will be played Monday
evening. Inc Tournaments VIII INCLUDE
singles, doubles and mixed doubles.
Arrangements will be made so that
each entrant will play the first round
of the tournament on the playground
nearest his home.
The Delco Light baseball team will
play the Rock Island team this eve
ming at Southwestern league park.
This will be regular City league
game.N The game scheduled for Mon
day evening between the Western
Electric team and the Santa Fe Audi
tors was postponed on account of the
gain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
MITO OWNERS TO VISIT TOPEKA
Windshield Stickers VIII Be Distrib-
uted to 10000 Motorists.

Twenty thousand automobile own
ers. living outside of Topeka will. be
spccinl guests of Topeka merchants.
At the meeting of the Merchants
association deirectors. held at the
Chamber of Commerce today noon it
was decided to print and distribute
20. 600 windshield stickers to as many
a,rto owners. These stickers will in
dictate that the owner is a visitor in
the city and is entitled to special
courtesy
Mayor Corwine will be asked to have
his traffic officers instructed as to all
sorts of information that the average
visitor may ask for and to give such
information freely.
1t rs not the intention of the fner-
chants to ask that -infractions of the
traffic ordinances be overlooked, but
that persons who are not conyersant
with such regulations be put right
without the embarrassment of having
to visit the police station, provided the
infraction is not too serious.
1t was decided to held, the annual
Suburban harvest sale days Monday
and Tuesday. August IA and Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
GOMPERS DEGREES THE ORDER
Union Labors Head Denounces the
Stand of U. s. for, Fuel.

Union Labores Head Denounces the
Stand of U. S. for, Fuel.
Washington, July 1S.-Union labor
notified President Harding and his
cabinet today that the use of the
mailed fist" will avail the adminis=
tration nothing in settling the indus
trial war,
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, speak
Ing for all organized labor in the
course of his talk, said:
81 his is neither the hour nor the
scene for the man on horseback. The
great need in this hour is for normal,
natural conferences between interest
ed parties.
when a half million men are ag-
grieved, it is a poor time, indeed, for
the roll of drums, the rafting of
sabres and the pounding of the mailed
fist
In straight-out- shoulder
talk Gompers asserted that the strik-
ing miners cannot be forced back to
the mines under governmental COM
pulsion, and declared that the army
may go to the coal mines, but the
army is not composed of Miners
The country is drifting toward a
state Of irresponsibility in dealing
with both the coal and railroad
strikes said union labor's head. Ut
terances from employers and from
ffcials are sufficiently alike in thought
and context to indicate a close bond
of sympathy between the two forces.
The situation is one well calculated to
cause the gravest- concern in every
quarter"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
CRUDE OIL DOWN
Cut of Twenty-Five Cents Bar
rel in Several Sections.
No Reduction on Gasoline Is
Yet in Sight.

Reports of heavy cuts in the prices
of crude oil at the producing fields
come from several sections of the
United States today.
Altho there has been no reduction
in the price of fuel oil in Topeka as
a result of the cuts in crude oil. the
market is weakening and is showing q
lowering, due to these cuts, Joe Long
shore. president of the Sunflower Oil
& Gas company, stated this afternoon.
Local dealers in gasoline have not
been advised of any reduction in the
price of gasoline as yet. 1t is said it
will take about ten days for reduc-
ton in the price of crude oil to be
manifested in a lower price on gaso-
line.
Down at Independence.
Independence. Kan. July 1s.-An-
other expected cut in crude oil was
posted this morning by the Prairie Oil
& Gas company here. The new price
is $3.50 for Kansas and Oklahoma oil
tankage being filled and the railroad
strike preventing oil car shipments
are reasonst given for today's cut.
Prairie has been putting siXty-four
thousand barrels daily into storage for
several weeks.
Sinclair Also Has Cut
New York, July 1S.-The Sinclair
crude oil purchasing company today
announced a further reduction of rs
cents a barrel in crude oil in the Kan
sas and Oklahoma territory making
the new price $3.50 a barrel. A SINH
lar reduction in price was announced
last Saturday. The company also
lowered its price for crude oil from
the Healdon district, rs cents a bar
rel.
Standard Oil Falls in Line.
Shreveport, La, July 1S.-The Stan
dard Oil company today announced
a reduction of % cents per barrel on
all grades of crude oil in this territory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
U. s. MAKES GUARANTY GOOD.
Three Large Railroads Get Final Set
Element From /. G. c.

Washington. July 1S.-The inter
state 81 commerce commission made
final settlement today with three
large railroad companies on account
os the federal guarantee against loss
sustained toy the roads during the slx
months OF 1920, Immediately follow
ing the suspension OF government
operation.
The ST. Louis,-San Francisco, which
the commission was determined was
entitled to $5,3S5.449 for the deficits
sustained during the period, was
awarded the balance unpaid of $685.
A49. The Fort Worth & Rio GraEde
railway was awarded q fInal paymeI I
OF $261,SS5, having received prior
amounts so that the total under the
governments guarantee was approx
imatelY $41s,0 900.
The St. Louis-San francisco &
Texes, whose total >clatr1 agaidss the
government for deficit during The SIX
months was fixed by the commission
at s314.967, was awarded n final pay
pAent of S114,967.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
80 FIREMEN HURT-ONE DIES
Huge Explosion in New York Thought
Result of Stored CombustibIes.

men were hurt, one of them so seri-
ously he subsequently died, in two
terrific explosions during a five-alarm
fire which wrecked the big six-story
warehouse of the Manhattan Storage
Transit company, PAS West Twelfth
street, today. A dozen or more resi-
dents of the neighborhood. the major
ity of them women. were hurt by fly
ing debris from the blasts.
Early reports reaching police head
quarters were that large quantities of
smokeless powder, magnesia, potash,
sulphur and other chemicals were
stored in the building
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
OPTIMISM SEEMS
CONTINUED from Page one.)

members of the labor board.
Strike sentiment in his own organ
1zation is reported to be growing but
Cradle declared no authorized strike
meeting of the brotherhood's grand
lodge at Detroit, Thursday. Cradle
denied that the runaway strike of
maintenance of way men had assumed
serious proportions, altho he admitted
several thousand members of the
brotherhood had joined the walkout of
the shop crafts.
More optimism than for several
days. sprinkled the railroad shop
strike situation this morning, with
other reports of violence clouding the
prospects for early settlement some
what.
Fifty nonunion workers were taken
to the railroad shop district at Deni-
son early today under heavy guard
One Texas ranger dispersed a mob of
strikers singlehanded at Denison last
night.
places of striking shopmen on many
lines of the northwest was begun to-
day.
Four men, said to be striking shop
men were arrested at EIdorado, Ark.
in connection with the kidnapping yes
terday of c. f. Carter. special agent
of the Missouri Pacific.
At Chicago, the 202nd artillery anti
aircraft regiment of the Illinois Ma
tional Guard was ordered modified.
1t was understood that the strike stu
alton at Bloomington was responsible.
Fort Worth, July 1S.-Four shop
men, employed by the Frisco here
since the strike of the union shopmen
began, were taken from a dance hall,
thrust into an automobile, driven ten
miles toward C1eburne, f1ogged and
left on the roadside last night.
They returned to Fort Worth about
dawn and reported their abduction to
the police.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
Local Mentor,

Wear-Test Semf-Liquid Roof Ce-
ment is twenty times thicker than any
roof paint, and several times thicker
than any other roof cement This is
why it makes roof as good as new.
W. H. Fernald, Agent. 521 Tyler st.
Phone 1159.-Adv.
The Shawnee Investment Co. has
moved to 1I6 w. 6th St, first door
west OF Columbian Bldg. Building
formerly occupied by Topeka Mtg. &
Investment Co.-Adv.
Art Lamp Shop. 500 Kansas Ava
Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
DANA TO SUCCEED MANTER
Appointed as Assistant Freight Traffic
Manager of Santa Fe.

Manager of Santa Fe.
c. c. Dana has been appointed to be
assistant freight traffic manager of
the Santa Fe railroad. succeeding F.
H. Manter, deceased. His headquar-
tiers will be in Chicago where he has
been for several years general
freight agent. He formerly was in
dustTial commissioner.
Another appointment due to the
shifting of places following the death
of Mr.. Manter is that of Charles
Croskey to be assistant general freight
agent. Mr.. Croskey, a former To-
pekan, started his railroad career as
a clerk in the office of ]. R. Koontz
in Topeka. For several years he has
been chief Of tthe tariff bureau in
Chicago.
Still another appointment is that of
R. G. Nicholson of Chicago to be as
sistant general freight agent succeed
ing J. H. McCabe, promoted some time
ago to be general freight agent. Mr..
Nicholson is a Chicago man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
RUSH TO AID SAVED THEM
Tree Fell on Porch Where Rescuers
Had Stood Moment Before.

Kingman, Jply 1S.-RuShing to the
rescue a chicken which had become
nlarooned in a terrific rain and wind
storm here recently probably saved
Mrs. Charles Fowler and a boy en-
pIoyed on the Fowler farm from seri-
Gus injury.
They had been out in the rain gath
er;ng up the little chickens and re-
turned to the porch for shelter. A
moment after they again sailed forth
on a new expedition to save a sQuawk-
ing Leghorn, a large tree. felled by
the wind, crashed thru the porch
where they had been standing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
HUGHES HEADS BRAZIL PARTY.
other Members of Centennial Com
mittee To Be Named Soon

Washington, July 1s.-The honor
airy mission which will attend the
Brazilian centennial exposition will be
named by President Harding this
week. and viii be headed by Secretary
Hughes. it was announced today at
the White House. 1t was stated that
Mr.. Hughes ndoubtedly would ac-
company the mission to Rio de
Janeiro.
An outstanding major general, an
admiral and two others will make up
with Mr.. Hughes the mem bership of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
TO CHECK FREIGHT CARS
p. q. c. Makes Plans to Move Kansas
Mheat Crop -

The public utilities commission will
make a survey of the freight car sit
uation with a view of checking up the
movement of wheat Announcement
OF the plan was made here today by
CLYDE NJ Reed, chairman of the state
commission.
Thus far there have been no COM
plants regarding the movement of
grain. Farmers have apparently had
ieRtie trouble in sending their wheat
rs the market centers. In view of the
strike situation, however, the commits
sion will keep in close touch with car
movements on various roads in
Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
BACKED BY u. S.

CONTINUED from Page onel
fullest cooperation from state au-
thorities already has been assured by
Governor Sproul.
The miners who remained in the ma
tional capital today were tight-Iipped.
Privately, however, they declared cit
is practically impossible" for enough
coal to be mined, even under troop
protection. to keep the country from
experiencing an acute shortage this
winter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
wheat Beard Nearly Killed Him.

Eldorado. July 1s.-A piece Of
wheat beard which had lodged in his
throat caused lot of grief for w. w.
Rastin. a farmer residing near Burns,
Marion county.
- serious as to necesSitate an opera
ffo1 at q hospital here He recovered
readily after the abcess had been
Ianced and the wheat particle re-
moved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
CITY Birthday Parties Are Popular.

NAL celebration OF their founding is
cutie the fashion among western Kan
Fas towns this year Great Bend cele-
hrated July 1 2. Altho Dodge viii cell
nnrate IT'S semi-centennial at the Great
Southwest Fair in October in conjunc-
ton with a centennial fete for the
santa Fe trail. Dodge's birthday pre-
ceaed that OF Great Bend about
rsonth-June III 1S72-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
Million Dollar Fire in MiddIetown.

Middletown, Ohio. July 1S.-The
most severe electrical storm of recent
years occurring about 1 o'clock this
morning was the cause ola fire which
destroyed the $1,0OO,OOO electrical
power house of the American Rolling
Mills company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
Harding Won't CAN House Back.

Washington, July 1S.-President
Harding does not contemplate calling
the house back into session before
August Is, the date set for the term
nation of the current recess, it was
stated officially at the White House
this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
PLAN CONFERENCE.

Allied ReprescntatIves WOuId Get To-
gether at Some italian City.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, July ia meeting of the
allied premiers to discuss reparations
is expected within the next fifteen
days, probably in some Italian city.
This was indicated today in official
circles.
The report of the committee on
guarantees, the result of its prolonged
German Investigation, probably viii
Thursday or Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
Iaghtnlne KiIIs a Farmer.

Sedalia, Mo-, July 1s.-Sam Chris
tan, So, a farmer who Eved eighteen
miles southwest of here, was Instant
ly killed late yesterday when struck by
lightning while feeding stock at his
farm. A widow and several children
survive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
Try to Split Up $125, 900 Estate

Wellington, Kan, July 1S:-Suit to
break the will of the late Mrs Mary
Lebeda has been filed in the district
court by her daughter, Vlasta. The
petition alleges that undue influence
was exercised on their mother by the
plaintiffs brother. Joseph, whereby
nc was bequeathed property valued at
$95, 600. including 1000 acres of land
near Caldwell, while the plaintiffs
share in the estate was fixed by the
will at $4,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
NEW YORK. MONEY MARKEr

New York July 1S.-MONEY-Cau mon
ey firm; high 5; low 3; ruling rate 8: clos
ing bid AZ offered at 5; last loan ); call
loans against aeceptanees q. Time loans
months AZ d41z; prime mercantile paper
4G4A-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
John O,Connor. winfield Postmastc=.
LATE Markets

NEW YORK LIBERTY BOND MARKET
New York, July 1s.-LIBERTY BONDS
80. 10000: 1st 4H's S1Oo.S4: 2nd IL S.
si0O54; 3rd ~ IS siOO.5O; 4th ~ s, $10092 !;
victory "a g. S1OO56
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
CITY FOOD REPORT

Five gold seals, for excellent sani-
tary conditions, were issued by George
V. Denton, city food inspector. and
five places where food IS sold were
ordered to remedy conditions or their
proprietors would be prosecuted, dur
ing the month of June. according to
Denton's report, just issued. Some OF
the insanitary places were closed until
they are cleaned up.
The Topekafe restaurant, on West
Eighth avenue. and the z. G. Covell
& Sons grocery store, SIS West
Tenth avenue, tied for first place with
a score of 81
The places warned to clean up were:
a Mexican bakery / owned by Gre
censia Romera. 100 North jefferson
street; the w. E. Adams boarding
house. 200 East Crane street; the
One Minute lunch room at SOC North
Kansas avenue; the A. NJ. Anderson
grocery and meat market, 1886 North
Topeka avenue, and the Palace of
Sweets. 522 KANSAS avenue, owned by
Pete Charownas.
The grades assigned to the estab-
hshments inspected during the month
by Denton are as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
DINNER STORIES.

A wealthy woman of fifty was told
that her husband was in love with his
stenographer. You can see it your
self" they told her.
She replied: mo, I cannot see it
A young woman or a blind woman
might see it; out I am fifty and am
not blind. I know what not TO see."
John O'Connor, winfield Postmastc=.
Washington, July denominations
for postmasters today included John
H. O'Connor,. Winfield Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
International Machinist's Men
Won Previous Strikes.

But Present Tieup Is "An for
AlF'-NOne Stand Alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
How Got Rid
of Burning Feet

And Pains from Corns and Bunions
without Soaking, Powders, Plas-
tiers, Etc, After Suffering INDIE
scribabIe Foot Misery for 20 Years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18
MAKE OUT LISTS
City Commission Approves the
Names of Election Officers.
Mayor and Both Parties Submit
Candidates for Jobs.

At the regular m acting of the city
commission held this morning, the
lists of recommendations of the
mayor and the party committees for
judges. clerks and supervisors of the
primary election August 1 were sub
mitted and approved by the commits
sioners. There are many Implications
on the list and that furnished by the
Democratic central committee is in
complete. 1t will>be augmented by a
further list of recommendations to be
handed in LATER.
Mayors List.
The list of election board supervis-
ors submitted by Mayor Herbert J.
Corwine is as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18

Precinct 1: Clerk. Mary McAndrewi
judge. Lottie Kelley
Precinct .: Clerk. Nora Bischoff; Judge
c. Z. johnson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-18

The inter-playground tennis tourna-
ment for children of the junior, inter-
mediate and senior divisions will be
held Wednesday afternoon at Ches-
ney playground.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-01
STATE OF KANSAS OPENS
WAR ON kUkLUx KHAN
Proceedings Directed at All Officers
and Members Of "TnvisibIe
Empire"

Topeka, Kan.-Kansas opened a
legal fight on the kuklux khan when
proceedings were filed in the state
supreme court by the attorney gen.
eral under direction of Gov. henry
]. Allen. Custer proceedings VIII be
made against the Knights Of the ku-
klux Khan, a Georgia corporation, II
against the following men who were
charged with being officers OF the
khan in Kansas:
Thomas r. Daley, Of the Bourbon
News, Fort Scott; H. Bullard, Fort
Scott; w. n. McCrabb, Coffeyville;
Brush Hinkle, Caney; Richard Marlin;
Noble l.. Mccall, secretary, Arkansas
City; w. j. Robinson, Winfield.
Robinson and Daley are listed as or
ganizers and Billiard, Marlin, Nc
Crabb and Mccall as secretaries.
The supreme court is asked to GUST,
restrain and enjoin the X. *. X. n
each Of the defendants or all other
members of the khan from the eXer-
else of my corporate rights in Kan
sas, and from holding any meetings,
assemblages, parades and from APP
pearing in public places or in any
public view with the identity Of the
members concealed by masks and
other trappings, and from making any
threats or exercising any intimida-
tons toward other persons; and from
fomenting and prosecuting any con-
troversies, animosity or hostilities
against any other persons on account
of difference in race or place or birth
or religious or s~ectarian beliefs or
methods; and from using any com
mands to other persons as to the
opinions, plans, theories or conduct
Of such persons and from disturbing
the peace and quiet Of persons and
families and neighbors, and from in.
te%rrupting or molesting religious
services or members thereof, or other
persons meeting or met together for
the purpose of worship or to per
form other duties enjoined upon them
as members of any religious society
and from agreeing to any of the acts
aforesaid and from making prepare
tons and movements and from paying
fees t. the corporation and from
collecting fees"
The attorney general also asks that
a receiver be appointed to take
charge of all the properties Of the
khan in the state.
1t also is charged that the corpora
ton Is dominated completely by the
imperial wizard and that the cor
poration has no board Of directors
or trustees. 1t is further charged that
no application has been made for a
charter in Kansas, and as the initia
ton fee of $40 goes to the promoters
that the khan should come under the
laws Of Kansas.
The attorney general states that he
believes there are several thousand
members of the khan in Kansas.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-12-01
Former Khan Leader Arrested.

Omaha, Neb.-Edgard Fuller, alias
James Il. Bell, who declares he was
formerly the kleagle OF the Oakland,
Cal, kuklux khan, was arrested here
on a warrant from Sacramento, Cal,
charging Fuller with an offense in
connection with the recent election
in California. He is held as a fugitive
from justice. In a statement Fuller
declared that khan politics, ingratitude
and a fear that he would reveal the
secrets OF the order had prompted his
accusers to secure the warrant.