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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
TAKES own LIFE.
Patient at State Hospital
Hangs Self in Room.
Mrs. Mary FenIOn Made Dozen
Attempts at Suicide.

After a dozen attempts had resulted
in failure, Mrs. Mary Eva Fenlon, SIS,
an inmate of the state hospital. sue
ceeded in taking her own life early
this morning by hanging herself with
a canvas strap from the transom over
the door of her room. She had been
in the hospital about four months.
Her home is at 931 Merchant street,
Emporia.
Mrs. Fenlon had made at least a
dozen attempts to commit suicide dur
ing her confinement at the state hos
pital, according to information OBJ
tanned by DR.. H. L. Clark, county cor
oner. In nearly every attempt she
tried to hang herself. Nurses cut her
down three times Monday and once
Tuesday, it was said. After her at
tempt to hang herself Tuesday she
was placed in a restraint jacket which
fastened her hands and arms to her
side
Straps Removed by Patient.
This morning. while the one nurse
on the floor was at the other end OF
the corridor watching some particu-
larly violent inmates. another patient
brought Mrs. Fenlon her breakfast
feeding it to her without removing the
restraint jacket. After the meal was
finished, it was said, Mrs. Fenlon in
duced the other patient to remove the
canvas straps and release her hands
on the plea that she wanted to go &c
the bathroom, and also urged the wo-
man not to tell the nurse what she
had done.
After the patient had left the room
Mrs. Fenlon, her hands now free
stepped upon a chair and tied one end
of the canvas strap to the grating over
the transom. The other end she
looped around her neck and knotted
Then she stepped off the chair.
She had been dead about five or ten
minutes when she was found by the
nurse. Efforts to revive her by arti-
ficial respiration were unavailing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
CUTS TARIFF FOR CHINA

American Experts Refuse to Grant
Twelve and Half Per Cent Asked.
Washington, Jan. 4-The suh-com-
mittee of tariff experts, under the
Craftsmanship of Senator Oscar Under
wood of the American delegation, has
virtually agreed upon granting China
5 per cent tariff, it was stated to-
day by an official British spokesman.
The agreement also will make pro-
vision for raising this figure to y
per cent some time in the future, and
upon the fulfilIment of certain con-
ditions by the Chinese, it was stated
China had contended for tariff of
at least 1914 per cent and the figure
of per cent represents a material de-
feat of her aims in the conference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
DRY CHIEF FACES CHARGES
Score of Defendants Named in Secret
Indictments Returned.

New York. Jan. 4.-Harold L. Hart,
former federal prohibition director for
the state of New York, was among a
score of defendants named in the Sc
cret indictment returned by the fed
eraI grand jury investigating enforce
ment of the Nolstead act here.
This announcement was made by
United States Attorney Hayward after
the indictment had been unsealed to-
day. Thomas Reddy, a former post
office inspector now conected with the
department of justice, and Michael j.
Lynch, in charge Of the issuance of
wlthdarwal permits at prohibition
headquarters, also were indicted, ac-
cording to Mr.. Hayward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
GUARDS co HOME
Kansas Troops In Coal Fields
Leaving Today.
One Hundred Men Will Stay To
Keep Order.

Pittsburg, Kan, Jan. About
half of the Kansas national guards
men sent to the Crawford county coal
fields to maintain order three weeks
ago today, were entraininS today for
their home stations.
Announcement of the movement OF
the troops was made by Col. w. McD.
Rowan, in command of the troops.
The situation in the field quieted
down completely with the coming or
the troops three weeks ago tonight
and there never has been a call Tor
service of the soldiers in the time they
have been stationed Here. Three out
posts have been maintained. One was
at Ringo, one at Franklin and one at
Mulberry. A reserve station has been
maintained at Pittsburg. 1t is under
stood that Maj. James Going of To-
peka will remain here in command of
the troops.
Practically 100 guardsmen will re-
main in the coal fields under the pres
ent removal order. Changes in guard
plans have been known here for sew
eral days. Governor Allen, however,
refused to release the Information
from this point, but seemingly pre-
ferred to have the news given out
from Pittsburg thru organization
sources which the administration con-
trolls in the coal fields. Information
regarding rehabilitation of guards
men at various stations was withheld
both by Governor Allen and Adjutant
General Martin from Topeka newspa-
pers and correspondents without SINH
lar steps being taken to permit send
ing of news stories from towns af-
fected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04

Washington. Jan. 4-Rufus P.
Hubbard of New York. employed by
the American graves registration serv-
ice in preparing bodies of American
soldiers for shipment from France,
told a senate committee today that
on three bodies distinterred he found
a rope around the neck of each and
a black cap over each face.
Called as the first witness at the
resumption of the hearings of the
committee investigating charges by
Senator Watson Democrat, Georgia,
that American soldiers were hanged
without trial in France, Hubbard de-
clared there was nothing in the cof-
fins by which the bodies could be
identified.
Black Caps Not Removed.
'The bodies were identified by the
cross on the outside of the coffin
and the black caps We're not removed
before the bodies were shipped to the
United States for burial" Hubbard
testified.
Major Opie of staunton, Va. com
mander of the third battalion 116th
infantry, accused by Henry L. Scott.
of Kenmore. Ohio, of having shot and
killed two soldiers in France, was on
hand with counsel to enter formal
denial of the charge. Because some
of the witnesses were anxious to testi-
fy and return home there was no
early reference to the Opie case. De-
scribing his work in the field. as an
assistant embalmer, Hubbard went
into great detail while Chairman
Brandegee, was trying to find out
what he knew about charges of Illegal
hangings.
To Parents In Disgrace.
you've written long letter, now
tell US in your own way what you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
Burned
To Death When
a Still Exploded

Cairo, Ill. Jan. 4.-Marie Hogan,
II, and Gladys Hogan, 9, sisters, were
burned to death this morning in a
fire which police ascribed to explosion
of a still.
The blaze destroyed the home of
Dennis E. Hogan, father of the girls,
who conducted a grocery store.
still and several Jugs of Illicit
whisky were found in the ruins Ho-
gan and his wife and three small chill
dren escaped. A coroners inquest will
be held this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
Robbed wice~ in
Same Place Too
Much -,Motom1dn

Houston, Tex. Jan. 4-Twice in the
same place by the same bandit is too
much, says 3. Boyd, operator of a
one-man street car.
He was held W shortly before last
night midnight for $40 company
money and SO of his own.
Boyd epOrted to police he believed
the robber to be the same one which
took his watch, money and all of the
company's change on December IL.
4 negro, the only passenger last
night. dived thru an open window and
vanished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
MAY CHANGE TOWNS NAME.

Clay Center Citizens Would Honor
Founder-Too Many "Centers."
Clay Center, Kan. Jan. "A move
ment has been started by G. NJ. STRAIT
ton, one of Clay Center's prominent
citizens, toward changing the name of
Clay Center to something else. The
reason given by Mr.. Stratton is that
there are so many "Centers' in the
country that the name is something of
a joke.
The town, Stratton says, should
have been named after its founder,
Alonzo Dexter, but there being an
other Dexter in the state now, he sug-
gests the name "Alonzo.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
CONVICT'S HOLIDAY SHORT
Bandit Financed His Freedom by
Robbery, But Failed in Get Away.

Carnegie, Okla, Jan. 4.-Captured
and lying. unconscious until late in the
night is the climax this morning to
John Weems' three weeks of freedom
after breaking away from states
prison at McAlester.
In broad daylight yesterday. Weems
calmly walked into the Washita Val
ley bank at Fort Cobb, near here. and
bagged $1,000 in loose change and
made his getaway-but only TO the
edge of town.
A posse quickly formed and located
him getting into an automobile just
as he was preparing to leave town.
Several shots were fired, one a buck
shot, took effect behind his right ear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
Ottawa Corn Above Market.

Ottawa, Kan, Jan. 4.-On a recent
day when corn sold for AZ cents a
bushel in Kansas City it sold for 40
cents here. despite the handicap of z
cents a bushel freight rate between
the two cities. Grain dealers ex-
planned this unusual happening as the
result of heavy local demand by live
stock feeders and the determination
of farmers not to sell at the prevailing
priceS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04

A few snow flurries began falling
at 10 o'clock this morning, and con-
tinued to fall until 1880 o'clock this
afternoon. Altho a few flurries may
fall tonight. there is no chance for a
real snow storm, according to Meteor
ologist Flora.
The temperature made drop of Al
degrees between 2:30 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon and 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The drop was from 81 to II degrees
Topeka received a rain of IA OF an
inch early this morning. This was the
heaviest rain and the first one of con-
sequence in Topeka since October 10.
The rain Is over. No precipitation
is scheduled within the next twenty
four hours, says Meteorologist Flora.
A real cold wave will arrive here late
this afternoon and tonight.
other Kansas cities receiving rain
were: Wichita. .18 of an inch; Con-
cordia, 10 of an inch; Dodge City, a
trace; Goodland, .01 of an inch; Kan
sas City, 42 of an inch; and st. JOS
(Continued on Page TwOl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
Iowa Officials Keep Secret Develop
ments I'm Double Murder Case.

Decorah. Ia, Jan. 4.-The prelim-
mary hearing of Frank B. Kneeskern,
wealthy stock buyers of Catalia, Ia,
arrested in connection with the slay-
ing of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Van
Brocklin was resumed today before
Mayor Conover of Decorah.
Indication are the he&AHg will
last several days behind closed doors
and officials refused to make public
any developments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
LEGION HEADS TO CONFER
Kansas Officers Will Attend Meeting
in Indianapolis.

hdIISdS OIIICtTS VIII AIIOIu 1tA0EtIIIS
in Indianapolis.
Hanford MacNider, national COM
lnander of the American Legion. has
called a midwinter meeting of the or
ganization's executive committee to be
held January 20 and 81 in Indianapo-
lis. The committee is composed of
one representative from each state
and from fifteen foreign countries and
all national officers, state commanders
and adjutants. This is the most i'm
portant gathering of the American Le-
gion with the exception of the ma
tionaI convention.
The Kansas representatives who Will
attend are: Gen. Wilder S. Metcalf,
Lawrence, state commander; Richard
c. Meek, Parsons. national executive
committeeman; Earl A. Blackman,
Chanute, national chaplain; and
Frank E. Samuels, Topeka, state ad-
infant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
wichita People Buy Heavily,

Wichita, Kan, Jan. with a per
capita expenditure of s429.13, Wich-
ita leads all other Kansas cities in
merchandise sold during 1921. ac-
cording to a recent report of a COM
mercial statistical organization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
Southern Woman Candidnte Is Renton

7Out1INIH WUIHttu OdhuIuate Is Beaten
Gree1ville, S. c.. Jan. 4-Miss Ad-
die latham, the first South Carolina
woman TO run for office as mayor was
defeated in yesterdays city election at
Walhalla- She received twenty-nine
votes against 194 for James NJ. Moss
her opponent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
COLDER WEATHER ON WAY
Drop of A Degrees in Temperature
Since Tuesday.
shippers' Forecast.

Protect all thirty ty-six-hour shipments
north and west against a temperature
of 5 degrees. East %. South 30.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04

Get your 'Did" Bank free. Shaw
nee Building & Loan association, 11S
West Sixth street.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
Athletes to Train at Eagle Pass.

Eagle Pass. Tex. Jan. 4.-Accord-
ing to announcement here. the Phiia-
deIphia American league club has def
initely decided 10 train here this
spr ng. and has signed a contract for
local training quarters and grounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04
New Peking Government Backs
Delegates in Washington.
No Further Concessions to
Japan in the Far East.
ARE ANXIOUS FOR MEDIATION
Hughes and Balfour Being
Asked To Take Hand.
Report of Loan on Shantung
r. r. May Upset Plans.

Washington. Jan. 4 (by the A. P)--
Wellington Koo, one of the Chinese
delegates to the arms conference
characterized today as untrue reports
that the Peking government had ac-
cepted the japanese terms for settle
ment of the Shantung question thru
direct exchange between PalzinS and
Toxic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-04

you've written a long letter, now
ell US in your own way what you
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-04-07

CHE is a wise matron who under
- stands that the poise and assur-
ance that belong to women who have
left youth behind them, are properly
expressed by brilliant and beautiful
clothes, having the right amount of
dignity and reserve. Sometimes these
qualities appear to be COMPOUNDED
with somberness, and in this case the
matron will slip into the common
place. But this mistake is better than
Its opposite, which is a lack of dis
elimination that makes some women
Of middle life adopt kittenish styles
that are ridiculous for them. The
clever matron does not need to be a
copyist Of girlhood; she may dress
In a way to make even youth envy
her.
The fashionable fabrics play into
the hands of matrons this season
in themselves they are dignifed and
rich. All the crepes and especially
the heavier mes and the brocaded
patterns, seem to belong to her. Gold
and silver cloth, Persian and Paisley
patterns in silk. Jet trimmings, bead
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-04-07

Mackenzie.
When the robing process was fin
ished, Mrs. Robertson glanced over the
little figure and grudgingly acknowI-
edged to herself that there was M
thing Of elegance in the girls bearing,
even if she were a squatter.~
"Come here p she said. A naughty
gesture indicated the spot. Fright
here before me-"
Polly's shaking legs carried her
within a few inches of the august
presence.
you're very sure, GIRL asked Mrs.
Robertson, that my daughters safe
in your shack? How did she come
there?"
Polly remembered Larry Bishop and
Lye Braeger. She had been instru-
mental in bringing them within the
prison shadows, and if any n suffered
from the deed lone that night, it must
not be her friends. She alone must
take the blame!
81 wheedled 'er there, ma'am,' she
replied humbly. I'm goin' to tell her
man all about it,"
Marcus entered and started back as
he caught sight of Polly. How beauti-
full she was, bedecked in his wife's
clothesl Then it came to him that
even in her rags she had had a dis
tinctive loveliness. Both Bob and Eve
lyn- AS that precious name went
through his mind, his thoughts flew to
the squatter's hut where his frail young
wife awaited him.
Come along quickly" he said, go
ing directly to Polly.
How changed he seemed, how gen.
tie he was as he took hold of her arm
and led her away; and so ~preOccupied
was she with this thought that the
beauty of the clothes which she wore
made no impression upon her. She
wondered DULY when Mackenzie lifted
her bodily into the sleigh and the
coachman chirruped to the horses, just
what he intended to do with her to-
morrow.
She looked back upon the time the
authorities had sent Meg Williams to
a reform school and also recalled the
girls homecoming after her term had
been served. Now that she, herself,
was in danger of the like treatment,
Pollyop searched her mind for the de
tails that Meg had given of the hor-
rible Mace.
AS the horses trotted along the bou.
levard, Pollyop's chin sank into the
warm fur about her neck, and until
they turned into the narrow lane from
the road, no one spoke a word.
GO straight to the lake, Hank
ordered Mackenzie, and at the sound
of his deep voice, Pollyop felt another
shock of surprise. She had heard il
so often in strident abuse! Now il
was actually pleasant to listen to!
Down the hill through the furry
flakes of snow the strong horses picked
their way. Once the cutter nearly
turned on its side but righted itself
The Hopkins hut was dark when they
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-04-07

man put on a smile, at least when
he's home. It's a shame my poor
wife had to be tormented like that!'
That he had started the rumpus and
done his full half of the quarreling
never occurred to him. He was de-
termined to find some n to blame
for his wife's disappearance.
"Well, there's one thing certain"
he calculated, after measuring the
room several times with long strides.
II can't stay here, but good God! 1
don't know where to go"
A deep groan fell from his lips, and
he began with heavy tread to walk
up and down again.
"Can't you think of any place she
might have gomez" he begged. You
know all her friends. Where would
she go if she had determined to leave
homer"
"Leave homer" gasped Mrs. Rob-
ertson, her jaw dropping.
"Yes!" faltered Marcus. 81 don't
know whether she told you or not,
but we had some words before I start
ed for Cortland"
"Of course she didn't tell me-" came
from behind the lady's handkerchief.
"She never tells me anything, but l
heard it. You were quarreling over
the squatters, and in Ewes condition,
1 think you might spare her a little.
She's not strong! So much wrang-
ling makes her sick IL wish Bob were
home. Oh, dear, 1 can't stand it."
Its Bob that's made all this trou-
ble," snarled Marcus. Hes spent
several months trying to circumvent
me about the squatters, and Eve and
I would have had no quarrels at all
Y he had attended to his own af-
fairs"
He spoke modify, conscious that he
had treated his wife harshly, yet I'M
willing to admit it.
Mrs. Robertson, touched with the
same feeling, sat up, wiping her face
and brushing back her hair. She, too,
remembered now all the bitter words
she had flung at her daughter.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-04-07
Illustrated BY R. H. Livingstone
Copyright by Little. Brown s. Company

NODyri2ht by Llttles EFOWn & company
Continued from Page Six
we'll Just before she went out?" he
had anything to worry over?"
Mrs. Robertson used her handker-
chief before she answered.
81 can't think of anything" she hes
itated, "unless it was about Bob. Late
ly he's beer so different. 1 asked Eve
n day" She broke off and dis
solved in tears.
eyes, you asked her one day
what?' Mackenzie urged.
at was about Bob" continued the
weeping lady. eve thought he was
suffering over-over@"
"Well % snapped Marcus.
Would the woman a her
everlasting crying and give him a clue
If she had one?
"Well!" he goaded her or more furi-
Ously.
"Polly Hopkins !" she sobbed. Eve
said your continual pounding at the
suuatters had about broken the boys
spirit"
Rubbish! !" exclaimed Mackenzie.
Eve wouldn't waste her time worry
ing over such rats. Bob's a fool, I've
discovered Where is he?"
81 don't know" answered Mrs. Rob
ertson. HE goes away for days at a
time without saying a word to Eve
or me. And he looks perfectly dread
full. I think Evelyn's grieved over
him."
"Why didn't you tell me so before?'
cried the man, turning on her swiftly.
I'D have soon made my young gentle
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-04-07

and other tr,nges, are at the call OF
the designers, and they revel in them.
To suit individual style, they often
elect to show what can be done with
a plain silk crepe or other fabric, IN
adorned with trimmings and not COM
bined with any other material.
One designers attempt of this kind
resulted in the brilliantly successful
afternoon dress shown in the picture.
This is of gray crepe m%arocain, made
with full panels of uneven length that
fall below the hem of the underskirt.
Each Of these panels is edged with a
bias fold Of the crepe. the long sleeves
are split along the upper arm but held
to the wrist by a narrow band Of crepe
and their edges are piped with 1t.
They are set in AN underbodico which
is Revealed by a draped overblouse
that opens at the sides to the waist
line.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-04-07

drove up before it. Marcus jumped
into the snow, picked Polly out of the
cutter as if she had been a kitten, and
waded through the drift to the mar
row path leading into the house.
He put the girl down before the
door, and turning, called to the coach
man,:
"Drive the team down the road,
Hank, out of the wind! I'll call you
when l want you!"
1t was Pollyop's trembling hand that
Unattached the shanty door. 1t was
she who struck a match and touched
it to the candle. Then she pointed to
Granny Hopes room.
"She's in there, mister" she said,
trembling like an aspen leaf.
Then because she was about to face
an outraged wife in the presence of
a powerful husband, she sat down,
shaking with fear from head to foot.
Continued Next Week.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-04-07
Compiled by the
J. S. Coast and Geodetic ST

Benjamin Harrison tnat Okla-
homa was opened up. Good farm
land available under the Home
stead Act vas difficult to find
so the United States bought from
the Indians, who had been segre-
gated in Indian territory, a large
tract of some 10000 square miles
that had been used largely by
the Indians as pasture for their
cattle and horses. This was
called Oklahoma, a word mean
ing fine country" and was ar
ranged to be ready for sale to
homesteaders at u o'clock noon
of April %, 1889. Troops were
placed on guard to prevent any
settlers entering before that time
for more than 100000 boomers"
as they were called, came from
all over the country to obtain
farms or places for business. On
the stroke of the hour, bugles
sounded and the mad rush by
men, women and children to To-
cate claims began. The govern
ment had arrange land officers
at many places at which claims
could be filed for the farms or
city lots, and all that day these
were besieged by fighting mobs
to register their selections. Be-
fore nightfall hundreds of farms
were staked out and Oklahoma
City and Guthrie were well on
their way to become cities.
Thus was developed this re-
gion which came into the pos
session of the United States as
a part of the Louisiana Purchase
in 1903 and which was set aside
for so many years as Indian
country. Previous to the forma-
ton of Oklahoma territory, con-
gress had forbidden white set
tiers in this part of the country,
and this edict was enforced by
federal troops. AS the demand
for more land was felt and as the
Indians decreased in numbers,
Indian territory was added to
Oklahoma territory, and in 1907
it was admitted to the Union as
the State of Oklahoma, adding
another star to our flag, which
for eleven years had contained
forty-fve. The state has -four
ished to such an extent that 1t
has ten presidential electors,
which is more than double that
of many of the older states Of
larger size.
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