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SATURDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE 17, 1911.
SATURDAY EVENING.
TWO CENTS.
OEFEIISEJF DIAZ
Deposed President o Mexico
Issues a Statement
rcm'KRon still lives.'
IT RAII1SAT LAST
Not Much, But Still Enough to
Measure.
WATER WITH CARE
City Sounds a Warning to Users
in Topeka.
CALLED FR0u1 BED
C. F. Walters Goes to Help
Neighbor in Distress.
TREATS LOST U1M JOB.
MAIL CARjlOBBED
Shasta Limited on the Southern
Pacific Held Up.
Vienna, June 17. In spite of the
persistent rumors current in Paris that
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has died suddenly, it Is given out in
semi-official form that his health has
London, June 17. Sir Henry Sey
mour King, M. P., has been unseated
and returned after the judges listened
to evidence which tended to show that
he had been guilty of treating his con-
In Hhich Ho Attempts to Jus
tify His Course.
lixcessiTe Heat Broken hy a
Heavy Storm.
Dry Weather Causes Shortage
at Waterworks.
Seized and Carried to Where
Women Wait.
Two Highwaymen Stop the
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Train at Midnight.
HE WAITED SO LOSU
STKONG WIND BLOWS
TO STOP SPRINKLING
IIIS SHIRT TOKN OFF.
NOT A SHOT IS FlllED
ff- . . . ...
Because He Thought the Agita'
tion Would Subside.
He Laments the Ingratitude of
the People.
Corunna, June 17. Physically en
feebled and sick at heart General Por
firio Diaz, an exile from the republic of
which he, wus chief builder, at last has
yielded to an impulse of self defense.
In a formal statement he justified hid
administration as president of Mexico
ami reproached his countrymen tor
what he describes as their ingratitude.
The expression, the first of a per
s.niaf nature since he was forced from
office, was made on board the steamer
Ypiranga during the brief stop of the
vessel in this harbor last night. Diaz
received the governor of Cwunna and
the commandant of the port who. with
their affs. U-ul boarded the vessel o.t
the direction of the government to pre
sent the greetings of Spain and tha
Mexican consul. When he was ap
proached bv newspaper representatives
at first he "asked to be excused, plead
ing indisposition and explaining that,
though the troublesome tooth had been
extracted, he still suffered from an
abscess n the lower jaw, however,
after consultation with members of his
partv the following statement was
given to the Frabra Agenda, the of
ticial press association of Spain:
'(ieneial Diaz is saddened by the re
rent events ;n Mexico and the iiigratl
tud" of his countrymen.
"He voluntarily sacrificed his ambi
tion in the hope of obtaining tranquil
lity for tiie nation, foreseeing that if
be" continued to defend his cause he
might afford a pretext for interven
tion. "The bitterness and deep disappoint
ment which he felt was mitigated 1V
the warmth of the manifestation of
sympathy on his departure from Vera
Cruz.
"Mueli has been said about a min
tarv dictatorship, but can one thus de
fine a regime which retted on an
armv reduced to 14.000 men?
"Ceneral Diaz, when he assumed
power, bad to deal with conditions
requiring energy but afterward the
nation ripened and was more able to
direct itself constitutionally. General
Diaz's later policies were interpreted
by his adversaries as a sign of weak
ness. "General Diaz, confident of the good
fenyp of the people, thought that the
jigitation would disappear hut Uie
people, easily forgetting the merits of
the Diaz administration. allowed
themselves to be dragged into a revo
lutionary movement."
During the night the Ypiranga
proceeded for Pantander and Havre.
According to the present plans Diaz
will land at Havre and so with his
family to Switzerland.
COOKE IS ACQUITTED.
Jury l'iiuls Him Not Guilty of Embez
zlement as Charged.
Cincinnati. June 17. Edgar K.
Cooke was today declared not guilty
of embezzling $24,000 from the Big
Kour railway. The jury was out
about three minutes less than two
hours.
Of those indicted in connection with
the SB43.00O shortage of Charles L.
Warrinor, Cincinnati treasurer of the
road. Cooke was the last to be tried.
Warriner, indicted on numerous
charges, pleaded guilty to one charge,
embezzlement of $5,0o0. He was sen
tenced to six years in prison. Then
Mrs. Ji-anette Stewart Ford, accused
of blackmailing VVarriner, was tried
in February, 1910. The jury in her
case disagreed.
Cooke sat impassive as the. formal
verdict was read, but Mrs. Cooke,
who had been at his side for days,
put her face in her hands and then
approached the jurors and shook each
one by the hand.
An indictment against Cooke for
having received J100 of stolen money
remains but it is not probable that an;
action will be taken by the prosecu
tor. Four ballots were made by the
jury before a verdict of acquittal was
reached. According in one juror a
verdict could have, been returned soon
er but the jurymen were interested in
reading the letters from Cooke to Mrs.
Ford, which were offered in evidence.
Tho jury was unable to find any ac
tual evidence of Cooke's having em
bezzled money and the destruction of
the cash books which he had kept had
great weight with the jurors.
CHANGE ril( lli;ns MAW TIMES
Cincinnati l'es More Than One
Twirler in : Game.
New York. June 17. A baseball sta
tistician here lias fixed Pi a table
showing the number of games in which
each of the big league clubs has
chanced pitchers. Cincinnati leads
tho Nationals? with 2t sanies and
Cleveland leads the Americans with 2 4
games. Only Detroit, with 13 and the
Philadelphia Americans with 16 have
not changed pitchers in tuore than
a third of their games. Most of the
teams have been compelled to us" two
or more box men more than half the
time. The list:
National league Cincinnati 26, St.
Louis ar, Boston 27. Pittsburg 22,
New York 22, Hrooklyn 21, Philadel
phia IS. Chicago IS.
American league Cleveland 24,
"Washington 23. New York 20, Boston
20. st. Louis 20, Chicago 20, Phila
delphia 16, Detroit 13.
C. S. EalloMs Slurries.
New York, June 7. -Chas. Samuel
Fallows, son of Bishop Samuel Fal
lows of Chicago, and a prominent Yale
graduate of tho class of i!)0r, will be
married here next month to Miss F.dna
Vim Leska Br, ma, a graduate of Smith
college, and for a time En actress in
a New York company. Bishop Fcl
luwg will perform the ceremony.
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improved and that he drives daily for
hours. It is well known however that
the aged monarch is in poor health
and the world w ill not be surprised to
learn of his death at any time.
JOE SMITH CAN'T GO.
Head of Mormon Church Sidesteps
Sugar Trust Inquiry.
Salt Lake, June 17. Joseph F. Smith,
president of the Mormon church, has
telegraphed the chairman of the house
sugar Investigating committee that his
obligations here make it difficult for him
to appear as a witness before the com
mittee by June 22.
In addition he was not in health to go
to Washington, being a sufferer from
rheumatism. The men in management
of the Utah-Idaho sugar industry could,
he said, give all the information he
could and more in detail.
Mr. Smith's message w-as in response
to one from Chairman Hardwick of the
committee asking if Mr. Smith were wil
ling to go to Washington without sub
poena.
Summons Is Emphatic.
Washington, June 17. Chairman
Hardwick of the house sugar investi
gation committee is sending tart re
plies to persons who seek to delay ap
pearing before the committee in re
sponse to formal summons. The fol
lowing telegram was sent to a pros
pective witness:
"You will please appear on nay
designated or wo will send an officer
to bring you here and keep you until
we want you.
Among the prominent sugar men
asked to appear in the near future
are Joseph P. Smith of Utah: John
D. and Adolph Spreckles of Califor
nia: Chester S. Morey of Colorado and
Thos. R. Cutler of Utah.
FORTUNES ARE UIIITED.
Richest Girl In Denver Weds a
Wealthy Xciv Yorker.
Denver, June 17. Miss Florence
Sheedy of Denver and I. Townsend
Burden of New York were married
t noon today at the capitol hill man
sion of Dennis Sheedy, father of the
bride.
The bride is one of the richest heir
esses in the west, while Mr. Burden is
a member o an aristocratic New
York family. 1
There were one hundred guests at
the wedding and 1,600 guests are in
attendance at the reception this after
noon. Never in the history of Denver
has a bride received such princely
presents. Dennis Sheedy gave his
daughter a check for J 100,000 with
which to furnish her New York home
and other expensive presents in addi
tion. I. T. Burden of New York, fath
er of the bridegroom, presented the
young couple with a ?3o,000 silver
table service.
The wedding ceremony was per
formed by Bishop M. F. Burke of St.
Joseph, Mo. Mrs. Robert L. Living
ston of New York was the matron of
honor, the bridesmaids being Miss
Ethela Ryan and Miss Gwendolyn
Burden. John Clinton Gray of New
York was best man. Mr. and Mrs
Burden will leave for New York to
night to sail on June 24 for Europe.
C0R0MATI0M FESTIVITIES
Fully Inaugurated With Return of
King and Queen 1o Buckingham.
London, June 17. The coronation fes
tivities were fully inaugurated with the
return today of the king and queen to
Buckingham palace from -Windsor and
the functions connected with the central
event of next Thursday will crowd one
upon another until July 1. when the
court again will leave London.
Semi-state marked the arrival of their
majesties in the metropolis, the proces
sion from Paddington station to Buck
ingham palace consisting of landaus
drawn bv four bays with postillions and
escorted by the royal horse guards.
Large crowds everywhere welcomed the
king and queen with hearty cheerm,!
and followed them over the whole route.
GIBBONS STORKS SCFITIAGISTS.
Home Js Place for Women, Declares
Cardinal in Address.
Baltimore, JUL, June 17. Cardinal
Gibbons scored woman 'suffrage in an
address last night at the commence
ment exercises of St. Joseph's college.
He said:
"I think the place for woman is in
the home. Women should not want to
vote, but if they took proper interest
in the affairs of their husbands and
brothers thev could e"sily have them
cast their ballots in the right manner.
In doing this) woma will be the cham
pion of what is right."
Cleveland 7; Boston
Boston, June 17. (Morning garnet
American: R.H.K.
Cleveland 7 11 0
Boston 3 4 4
Batteries: Gregg and Land; Mazer
and Nunamaker. Empires: Mullen
and Evans.
Games Postponed.
Pittsburg. June 17. National
Pittsburg-Boston gonio postponed;
rain.
Attains a Telocity of Nearly 50
Miles an Hour.
Heavy Fall of Bain Reported
Elsewhere in State.
Nine-hundredths of an inch of
rain fell Friday night, although to
judge from the wind and dust storm
and electrical display one might hace
thought that a deluge was coming.
Showers have been the order of the
morning, but the precipation has
been hardly sufficient to measure.
There has also been slight showers
today.
The excessive heat of Friday
brough about the storm which was
hardly expected by the government
weather department. At 10 o'clock
there were continuous flashes of
lightning in the south, although there
was but a mere streak of clouds.
W'ithin 15 minutes a terrific dust
storm was in progress and for a few
minutes the wind was speeding along
at the average velocity of 47 miles an
hour, which breaks all records for
high winds since the 7th of July of
last year, when the velocity was 4 9
miles an hour. For a single minute at
about 10:35 the velocity was a mile a
minute.
Numerous awnings v.ere broken
down, but not a great deal of dam
age was done in the city.
Reports received at the telegraphic
department of the Rock Island show
that a heavy rain fell in Dickinson.
Morris and Marion counties, Hering
ton, Abilene, Council Grove. Marion,
Enterprise and the intervening coun
try benefiting by the precipitation.
The Santa Fe reports heavy rains at
Ottawa. Garnet and Frontenac, while
at other points along the division the
rainfall was light.
The local government weather fore
caster says the indications are for fair
weather tonight and Sunday; cooler to
night. MORGAN LINERS TIED UP
Strike ot Seamen Extends to This
Side of the Atlantic.
New York. June 17. Just as the
steamship Momus of the Morgan line,
a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific
company, was about to sail today for
New Orleans, fifty stewards, compris
ing waiters, porters and other deck
men, walked out on strike. This was
quicklv followed by a strike of the
stewards of the Morgan freighter El
Cid, scheduled to sail tins afternoon.
Secretary Griffin of the National Sea
men's union said if necessary to win
the strike a general strike of all coast
w ise lines at every port on the Atlantic
would be called, bringing out 20,000
men. He said the coastwise lines
would be given until Thursday to re
ply to their demands, some of which
have already been granted. The men
demand overtime pay, better sleeping
quarters and better rations.
A meeting of the longshoremen's
union will be held tomorrow to deter
mine whether the longshoremen will
go out.
BEATING HIS WIFE.
P. KisiiiRor, a Boilermaker, Arrested
on Egly Charge.
P. Kisinger, a boilermaker, who lives
at 706 Chandler street, was arrested last
The officers who visited the home to
evening charged with beating his wifa.
take the man say the wife is a frail
little woman. They found an 11-year-old
boy asleep on the sofa, and she told
them her husband had brought him in
drunk and that the two had been drink
ing together. Kisinger said he had had
nothing but wine. Police Judge Arnold
set the man's trial for next Wednes
day and told him not to go near nis
home until after the case was settled.
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Unless Bains Believe Condition
of Municipal Wells.
Other Cities in Dry Territory in
Constant Danger.
Unless the present droutli near To
peka is broken soon, the city water
works will find it necessary to order the
the water users of the city to quit
watering their lawns and indiscrimin
ately using the water.
It has been discovered by II. P. Miller,
city commissioner, and Jesse Shaw, su
perintendent of the water plant, that
the conditions will demand this economy
in a short time unless good rains soak
the ground. In practically every city
in the country today where the drouth
extends, the water companies have
pleaded ivith the people to use their
water sparingly.
Topeka has not found it necessary to
ask favors of the water users. But
another week of the dry weather and a
general call over the city will be is
sued. Using Four Million Gallons.
At this time the people of Topeka are
using nearly 4,000,000 gallons of water a
day. This is more than twice as much
as was used in the winter months and
nearly twice the amount used as a daily
average the year around. The dry
weather has caused everyone to use
the water for lawn purposes and the
drain on the waterworks wells has wor
ried the officials.
The capacity of the pumps at the
water works is able to double this
amount but there is not enough water
for the pumps. The two big wells are
low at all times and the points under
the river are drawing all that comes
within sucking distance.
The city has under construction a new
well at the water works which will,
when completed, furnish enough water
to tide over the city supply in all
emergencies. But this well w ill not be
in working condition until late in the
summer.
Meanwhile two wells and the points
under the river are doing their best to
supplly the city ana the supply is
sufficient to accommodate the patrons
for the present.
"If this dry weather continues for
any length of time we will have to is
sue a non-sprinkling: order," said Com
missioner Miller this afternoon. "We
have held out wonderfully well this dry
season, and while other cities have ap
pealed to the people to stop the use of
water in order that they might have
fire protection, we in Topeka have al
lowed our garden hose to run all day
long.
"I don't want to scare anyone. We
have plenty of water for fire purposes.
But it can be seen easily that without
water to pump we can't pump it and
we are unable to get water when the
Powers don't send it to us."
Commissioner Miller also sounds the
death knell of all water users without
meters.
"These dry spells teach us that every
thing in Topeka must be placed on a
meter," said Commissioner Miller. "It
isn't fa'r for non-meter users to allow
their hydrants to run open all day
wh-a their neighbors must pay for all
the water that passes through the hose.
"With everybody on a meter we would
be able to guard the water supply more
carefully in the summer months."
BASEBALL WEATHER.
National League.
Boston at Pittsburg, cloudy 3:15 p. m,
Brooklyn at Cincinnati, cloudy, 3:15
p. m.
Philadelphia at Chicago, cloudy 3 p.m.
New York at St. Louis, cloudy 3 p. m.
American League.
Detroit at New York, clear 3:30 p. m.
Cleveland at Boston, clear, 10:30 a. m.
and 2:45 p. m.
Chicago at Philadelphia, clear 3 p. in.
St. Louis at Washington, clear 4 p. :n.
American Association.
Columbus at Milwaukee, rain 3 p. m.
Louisville at Kansas City, fair 3:15
p. m.
Toledo at Minneapolis, clear 3 p. m.
Indianapolis at St. Paul, clear 3 p. m.
'JUST FOOLLN' AROUND.
Woman Uses Two Whips on His
Bare Flesh.
Threatened If He Told Identity
of His Assailant.
Hutchinson, Kan.. June 17. On the
witness ctajid in a justice court here
C. F. Walter told how he was called
from his bed at' night and asked to
assist a neighbor who had broken a
buggy. Walters dressed, he said,
and accompanied the man. "When
they were well out of sight of his
home Walters says he was seized and
placed in a wagon. This was on the
night of May
Then Walters was taken to the
home of Joe Thompson, where Mrs.
Thompson uslPd two whips on him aft
ter the men had torn his shirt from
his back.
He testified that after being com
pelled to leave the country he was
forced to pledge secrecy in regard to
the identity of his assailants.
"You won't last long if you tell," one
of them said.
Joe Thompson, Albert Hood, George
Young and E. P. Smith were held to
appear for trial in the district court
after the testimony was taken.
He had accompanied Young down
the road a short distance, Walters tes
tified, when he was seized by Albert
Hood, C. P. Smith and Joe Thompson,
and with the assistance of Young was
bound, dragged in a spring wagon five
and a half miles to the Thompson
farm, where while the men stripped
his back bare and held him, Mrs.
Thompson raw-hided him.
"Did they give you any explana
tion?" he was asked by County At
torney Foote.
"Thompson said. 'We'll show you
how to talk about other men's wives'."
"Was that all they told you?"
Woman Had Two Whips.
"They kept repeating that. When
we got to the Thompson place and
Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Hood came
out they told the women 'There's the
Now give It to him. Mrs.
Thompson had two whins, a black
snake whip and a wagon whip.
"What did she say?"
'Well she said. 'You ornery villain
ous devil, you. Tou talk about other
men's women, will you. You open your
mouth, won't you.' Then she'd slash
me.
"Finally she said, 'You low down
devil you, I'd ought to kill you.' She
gave me 25 licks with the blacksnake.
"Then they stopped and talked awhile
and Thompson said, 'Let's take his
clothes off.'
Tried to Strip Kim.
"They tried to strip me but I strug
gled. They finally got my shirt off my
back and while the men held me Mrs.
Thompson whipped me on the barfc
flesh."
"Did they make you promise any
thing?" "Yes, they made me get on my knees
and Thompson said: 'You'll never
never talk about another woman, will
you ?'
"I promised. Then he asked me, 'You
promise that you'll get out of the
c -ntry?' I promised that. And then
they made me promise that I'd never
tell that they whipped me.
"Thompson said I wouldn't last long
If I did. He said: 'We'll give you a
veek to get out of the state or you'll
get it a lot worse.' I promised that I
would leave."
GOING TO THE BOTTOM.
Lorimer Committee AYill Summon
AVhole Illinois Legislature.
Washington, June 17. The Lori
mer investigating committee of the
senate today practically decided to
summon as witnesses in the inquiry
the entire membership of the Illinois
legislature which elected Lorimer.
Cyrus H. McCormick, president of
the International Harvester company
and former Governor Richard Yates,
of Illinois, will be heard by the com
mittee Tuesday.
stituents lavishly. This is another evi
dence of the high moral standard of
the English House of Commons. The
United States might well praw a moral
from the case of Sir Henry King.
ALL ARE INDICTED.
Grand Jury Finds True Bills Against
MeXamara and His Captors.
Indianapolis, June 17. Detective W.
J. Burns and James Hossick, a city
detective of Los Angeles, Cal., were
indicted on charges of kidnaping John
J. McNamara, secretary of the Inter
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, from this
city, and McNamara was indicted on
charges of conspiracy to dynamite by
the Marion county grand jury today.
stortThurts crops.
Wind.Hail and IJglitninjr Cause Heavy
loss to Fa.rmers.
Salina, Kan., June 17. A storm
which included hail. wind, lightning
and rain-swept central Kansas last
night and early today, doing thou
sands of dollars worth of damage to
farmers' property. Several large
barns were struck by lightning and
burned to the ground.
Much damage was done to growing
crops. The average rainfall was less
than a half inch.
HEWIXS' GOLD IX BANKS.
Agrieola Man Will -1nd ' no Money
Buried on Farm.
Ottawa, Kan., June 17. It isn't
likely that L. D. Hewins, who said he
was coming back to Agricola to dig up
his buried gold, will really mine any
precious coin out of his big farm in
Coffey county. All that gold $6,000
of it it has been in two Ottawa banks
for over a year.
Mr. Hewins brought his coin to Ot
tawa just before he started back to
Cleveland a year ago. He brought it
all in cigar boxes and bags, and there
was a smell of earth about it all. He
put 2,000 in one bank and $4,000 in
another, and in each instance he made
the officials promise to pay him back
in gold coin whenever he chose to
draw his money out.
Mr. Hewins now is SO years old,1
and came from the east to Agricola
40 years ago and got hold of 400 acres
of cheap land, which since has in
creased amazingly in value. He never
farmed much, but kept his land in
grass or rented it out. His own good
dirt was his bank, and he had dollars
always good coin planted all about
the place. He lived in a little old
shack, and there never was a tree on
all his 400 acres.
A few years ago, Hewin's wife, who
had struggled along with him for a
long time, gave up in disgust and got
a divorce. His niece remained with
him as housekeeper and she is now re
turning with him to the farm near
Agricola.
It got to be common knowledge
that Hewins had much money buried
on his place and several times rob
bers went to his hut and tried to tor
ture him into revealing its hiding
place, but he stood a good lot of beat
ings and never divulged.
FAKMER ATTACK Ell WITH AX.
Unconscious Man Calls Wife's Xame
and Is Found AYounded.
Eureka, Kan., June 17. John Wreir
shing. a farmer living near here, was
struck in the head with an axe as hi
lay in bed Thursday night. He called
his wife's name about 2 o'clock in the
morning. She came, finding him un
conscious. The blade of the axe was
found in the bed. Jso clew to the at
tack has been found.
Atmosphere Is Cooler.
The showers of Friday night and this
morning cooled off the atmosphere and
the temperature at two o'clock is fourteen
degrees below that of Friday at the same
hour. The precipitation has totalled .10 of
an inch, which is not enough to do much
good. The indications are for fair weather
tonight and Sunday, and cooler tonight in
the eastern portion of the state, oays
"Sunny" Flora, the local observer. The
wind Is blowing ten miles an hour from,
the north. The hourly readings:
7 o'clock S3. 11 o'clock 76
8 o'clock 72112 o'clock 77
9 o'clock 72! 1 o'clock 77
10 o'clock.., 74( 2 o'clock 77
Will Go Back to Asylum.
Will Wrood. a colored man, who has
been in the asylum three times, it is
said, and who, last winter, when in the.
county jail, tried to hang himself with
the bailing wire he tore off a broom,
was taken into custody last night for
raising a disturbance in the "Bottoms."
He is charged with disorderly conduct,
the result of a quarrel with his sweet
heart. Opium Smokers Again Itaidcd.
The opium smokers who were caught
in their den at the old Booge flats at
Monroe and Crane streets and promised
to leave the city were captured again
last night at the same place. Those
retaken number Mary Prather, Al Perk
ins, Mamie Williams and Wilbur Wil
Hams. They are negroes. Police Judg?
Arnold probably will not be so lenient
with them at the new trial.
Omaha Man Heads T, P. A.
Philadelphia. June 17. u. L. Hopper
of Omaha was unanimously elected
president of the Travelers' Protective
association here today.
One Bandit Corers Three Mail
Clerks With Revolrer
While the Other Kips Open and
Rifles Sacks.
Drain, Oregon, Juno 17. The soutln
bound Shasta limited
ern Pacific which left Portland at
o'clock last night, was held up and
the mall car robbed bv f-r t,
men about midnight between Drain
ana loncatia. The robbers entered
the mail car. held up the clerks and
looted the car. They stopped tha
tram at YoncaJla and made t heit)
escape.
Posses were searching for them!
west of Yoncalla today, but up to a
lata honi- thau - .
. , . . , ".v.. , n sun at large.
Although the two robbers brandished
nii e' nor 8 snot fired.
the tnrea mail ..I 1 - - . -. . .
, , -";ifta iuuna mem-
selves helpless before the weapons of
them covered while the other ripped
open the mail sacks and ransacked
their contents. It ia not known howl
-"ui.y mo uesperaaoes secured.
t t TJ rain nearei Yoncalla ono
or tne nighwavTYien t-.,,tia,3 i
- t'w.iciA low tuner.
gency signal and the train was stop
ped. The robbers then leaped froni
the mail car and disappeared. Tha
I'-racxscis buu irainmen were not
molested.
Drain. Oregon, June 17. The first)
intimation the mail clerks had of th
attack was when the door of the car
swung suddenly open and they found!
themselves faced by the highwayman.
None attempted resistance as the 1n
sacks1"3 proceede1 to the looting of the
The conductor and engineer of tha
tram had no inkling of any trouble
until the signal to stop at Yoncalla
was sounded, and the mail clerks
raised the. alarm.
. TJle, mai' car the only one diw
turbed by the robbers. ' The passen
gers and trainmen were not molested.
CALLS TKEM ROBBERS.
Congressman Slurdoefc Attacks the Ex
press Companies.
Grand Rapids, Mich., June 17. Con
gressman Victor Murdock, of Kansas,
was tho principal speaker at the ban
quet given by the Orand Rapids mem
bers to the members of the Central di
vision of Associated Advertising clubs
of America. He went after the express
companies rough-shod.
"When you see one man looking
through the prison bars because he
stole a package of tea from the mail,"
he said, "and at the same time see tho
directors of an express company de
claring an extra dividend of 124,000,000
on a capitalization of $8,000,000, you
must realize that there is a different
law for the poor man than for the ricli
man.
"If the construction of the law by the
judge in the man's case was correct,
then the express companies have for 4)
years been robbing the people of mil
lions of dollars through carrying
mails."
MORGAX WIMi VISIT EUROPE.
Hutchinson Editor Will Be Ijate fo
Coronation, Ieavlng July 11.
. Lawrence, Kan., June 17. W. Y.
Morgan of the Hutchinson News, i
going to Europe on July 11. He is
here winding up the alumni's business
and has already placed his own in
good hands.
Mr. Morgan is interested in th
girl s dormatory on the hill. He be
lieves it is a good thing and that th
people will see that one Is erected
when the matter is properly presented
to therm
Their Bail Is Reduced.
New York. June 17. For the fourth
time since the shooting of W. E. D.
Stokes. Lillian Graham and Kthel Con
rad, the showgirl and the young illus
trator, charged with the shooting, wera
arraigned before Magistrate PrescH
and their bail reduced. It was origin
ally set at T25.000. but. on subsequent ar
raignments it was cut to Jli.000 and to
day to 810 000.
Weather Indications.
Chicago, June 17. Forecast for Kan
sas: Fair tonight and Sunday. Coo-et
tonight.
ADVERTISING TALKS
WRITTEN BY
WILLIAM C FREEMAN
A lawyer who is interested in
advertising, although he does
not advertise himself, wrote me
a few days ago calling my atten
tion to the action of the Massa
chusetts Medical Society toward
a reputable physician WHO
HAD ADVERTISED.
The physician in question
had been a member of the so
ciety for thirty-five years, yet
because he had advertised he
was charged with gross VIOLA
TION of the CODE OF ETHICS
and by-laws of the organization,
and the decision was that if he
continued to advertise his mem
bership in thi3 society would be
canceled.
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