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It THE INTER ION Under Management The United Commercial Travelers of Billy Van, Songs and Stories. Dewey's Dolls, Singing and Dancing. Haas Brothers, Triple Bar Performers. Greater City Four, Male Quartette. 35 Exhibitors' Booths And Nearly All Will Have Free Samples for the Public Four Big Acts Each Performance This Week's Entertainment THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUENAL FRIDAY EVENING- JANUARY 31, 1913- BIG MIDW v , t i. . f Topeka No Disappointments Beneath that SeaK Pure Butter 2 x Sweet Excellent Flavor Always Uniform Eat It. Spread It on Thick It's the Cream of the Land Made in Topeka The Continental Creamery Co. Look on The hundreds of compliments we have received on "Silver Leaff" pro ducts at our Midwinter Booths show that Topeka women appreciate the efforts we are making to turn out goods of the highest grade. You can get "Silver Leaf" products from any grocer. Ask for them if you seek quality not merely because they are made in Topeka. "Silver Leaf" Sa'ad Dressing Without Olive Oil NORTH SIDE NEWS White AVay Petition Mill Be Presented Soon. Special Shorey School Election February 8. The petition for the white way in Xorth Topeka will be ready to be presented to the city commissioners within a short time after February 1. It has been in the care of the committee of the Commercial club for several weeks. This committee has been holding it while waiting the re turn of a number of property owners In the district which is north of First street, but south of the river. These people are due to return some time this week or during the early part of next week. It is re ported that they will sign the peti tion. Two names is all that is neces sary before it is presented to the city commissioners. The ladies of the Kansas Avenue Methodist church will hold a food sale at 808 North Kansas avenue Sat urday. A special election in Shorey. to de termine the location of the new school building:, will be held Febru ary 8. A petition for the election has been signed by 'more than 200 persons and this is a majority of the voters of the district. It is claimed that the number of petitioners is greater than the number of 'votes that will be cast when the election is held. The people continue to be divided on this proposition and it is believed that the vote will be greater than during the election when the bonds were voted. In the State Journal of Wednesday evening an article appeared in re gard to division of sentiment over the location of the Shorey school house that might be misleading and there fore reflect on one of the best known and most estimable families on the North side. The article stated there -was a disagreement in the family of Ralph Skinner over the school house matter. It stated that Ralph Skin ner opposed change of location and his father. J. H. Skinner, favored it. The statement was true, but for fear it might lead some people to think there was a serious family division on the matter, further explanation- is made in justice to the family. The father and son are perfectly good na tured over the division of opinion on the school house location. No quar rel, no words, no hard feelings. Just a difference of opinion. The article was written in good humor by a re porter who is friendly with both fa ther and son. and used simply be cause of its interest as a news story to show how far the difference of opinion extended in the location of the new school house. Neither of the Skinners care enough about the loca tion to more than have an opinion on the subject. Notes and er-on Is. The young people of the Central Ave nue Christian church have arranged to observe the thirty-second birthday an niversary of Christian Endeavor soci ety by giving a special program Sun day night, entitled, "The Endeavorer's for the "Silver Leaf" the Grocer's Shelves CO KAN. Dream." This church has one of the most enthusiastic Christian Endeavor societies in town. The attendance at their regular meetings being larger than the total membership. The pro gram Sunday evening will be given at the preaching hour, and everyone is invited. Cornet, violin and vocal music is being arranged. John D. Zimmerman will preach at the Central Avenue church Sunday morning on the subject of, "Larger Living." Levi Fulmer and family have gone to La. Fai-ge, Wis., , to remain perman ently. B. C. Sutmiller left last night for Hansen, Idaho, on a business trip. A. C. Lotta and sister left yester day for the Pacific coast. Miss Lotta will go to Portland, Ore., where she expects to remain permanently. Mr. Lotta will visit points along the coast and return to Topeka in about 30 days. H. C. Gaines, special agent of the Union Pacific, has returned from Ok lahoma where he has been visiting with relatives. He' went there to visit his brother and met another brother whom he thought was dead. Stolen Iver Johnson bicycle, No. 186.146. Phone 1762. Reward. HARVARD SCHEDULE. Dartmouth and Vanderbilt Missing Krom Program for 193. Cambridge, Mass.. Jan. 31. The Harvard football schedule for 1913 has .been . completed .by .the Harvard football committee, it was learned to day. While .not officially . announced,, it was said that the Crimson schedule differs ii several, details . from . last year's. Dartmouth, an ancient rival, has been dropped and Amherst has withdrawn. Vanderbilt also is miss ing. Cornell returns to the Harvard schedule, filling the date formerly oc cupied by Brown, the latter team hav ing been moved up to the date pre viously held by Dartmouth. Norwich university tills Amherst's place. The tentative schedule follows: September 26 University of Maine at Cambridge.' October 4 Bates at Cambridge. ' October 11 "Williams at Cambridge. October 18 Holy Cross at Cam bridge. - . October 23; Norwich university at Cambridge. -. November 1 Cornell at Cambridge. November S Princeton at Prince ton. . November 15 Brown at Cam bridge. ... November 22 Yale at Cambridge. Carrie Parrisli to Prison. Pleading guilty to a charge of pick ing the pocket of Robert . Curley, 129 Monroe street, an elderly englishman some time ago, Carrie Parrlsh. colored, was given an indeterminate sentence this morning to the state prison. Sen tence was passed by Judge George H. Whitcomb shortly after the plea was entered. Carrie Parrish in company with Laura Wisdom. an old police character, were arrested following the robbery of Mr. Curley charged with the crime. Subsequently Laura was ta ken back to Lansing to serve out a former sentence, imposed in a similar case. Her alleged confederate closed the incident today by pleading guilty as charged. The two women are said to have held up Mr. Curley and to have taken out of his pocket a tin box con taining 15. Sold Everywhere "Silver Leaf" Relishes, Apple Batter, Mince Meat MRS. FERRY DEAD She Died Suddenly at Tampa, Florida. Had Gone There to Spend Win ter Of Prominent Family. Mrs. L. S. Ferry, wife of Judge Fer ry of the firm of Ferry, Doran & Dean, died this morning at Tampa, Florida. Her condition was exceed ingly serious yesterday, and her hus band left for the south last night. Be fore he arrived word of her death was received. The telegram reached To peka today. Mrs. Ferry went south about a week ago, and expected to spend the remainder of the winter in Florida. She has been troubled with a bron chial disease for several months, and has been acutely ill for two or three weeks. The body will be brought to the Ferry home, 1419 Topeka avenue, next Tuesday, and interment will take place in the Topeka cemetery. The date for the funeral has not been set. Mrs.- Ferry belonged to one of the oldest families in the state, and has been socially prominent for a number of years.. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lescher of 920 Monroe street, and was 43 years old. Mrs. Ferrv has nn . v. ; ! ,i .... i. . . . i . , . . - v..tiuiiu, wui ue- sides the parents leaves two sisters. " '"""o Kstner oi lopeKa, and Mrs. Addie-Mills, who arrived from her ndme in Chicago today: and two brothers T . . and Frank Lescher of Champaign, HI. K. OF G. VAUDEVILLE. Good Show Given at , the Hall by Amateurs. A successful entertainment was giv en under the auspices of John A. Meyer to defray expenses for the re cent purchase of a pianola for the Knight3 of Columbus hall. There were about 250 in the audience, and they seemed decidedly pleased with the musical and elocutionary numbers that had been arranged. The program opened with sir. over ture by Miss Mabl Oriley, Miss Mary Sands gave a solo. Miss Agnes Hanni gan recited a monologue and a Rath skellar Trio performed a vaudeville skit. There was a one-act comedy en titled "Shylock Bones," and the per formance closed with a drama by Rida Johnson Young called "John Clayton Actor." Jack Meyer. Lou Doyle and Miss Helen Foley, who impersonated John Clayton. Colonel Warren, and his daughter, . Louise, were exceptionally good. X'ew York Money Market. New Vork. Jan. SI. MONET Money on call steady 2V93 Per cent: ruling rate per cent; closing bid 2 per cent; offered at 3 per cent. Time loans, steady 60 days, 3Vi3Vi per cent: 90 days. 3&4 per cent: 6 months. 4&44 per cent. CIXSE: prime mercantile paper, 44 to 5 per cent. Sterling exchange weak with actual bus iness In bankers' bills at $4.3.15 for 60 day bills and at $4.7. 25 for demand. Commer cial bills, S4.3. SILVER Bar silver, 61c; Mexican dol lars. 48yC BONDS Government bonds steady, rail road bonds irregular.. sieverS NOTES OF SENATE State Efficiency Committee Latest Legislative Flan. Bill by Carey to Reduce All Operating Expenses. A state efficiency committee to promote economy in the operation of state departments -and offices and to recommend to the governor better and cheaper methods of operation, is the contents of a bill introduced in the senate this morning by Emerson Carey of Reno county. Senator Carey would have the committee ap pointed immediately that the state may become acquainted with a means of putting the brakes on the steady drain from the treasury.' The Carey bill provides for the ap pointment of three men with terms of two years to push this work. The appointments to be made by the gov ernor. The political, business, educa tional, charitable and penal interests of the state are to come under the scrutiny of the efficiency committee. For instance if this committee finds that in one state office addi tional help is needed, it will investi gate other departments and procure, if possible, employees from this over stocked department for relief in the office where more help is needed. In investigating the charitable, edu cational and penal institutions of the state the committee will see that all antiquated and dangerous machinery is replaced, that methods of operation are improved and that management can be maintained with more economy and with less "red tape." The committee mtmbers are to re ceive five dollars a day while on ac tual duty. That, the domestic animals of Kan sas might be preserved that is, that their health may be : maintained Sen ator Logan, of Mitchell county, has offered a bill in the senate providing for the appointment of a" live stock board by the governor.. This board is to be composed of , two well known breeders and one veterinarian in addi tion to the state veterinarian and the dean of the State Agrtcuttural College. The board's duty wjl, e to protect the domestic animals of the state against contagious diseases. . j ' The bill providing for the salaries of county attorneys. in Kansas has been prepared and introduced by Jouett Sliouse, of Edwards county. The sal aries according to the population of the county, follow: Not. more than 3,000... 'P" , . .. . anii r. ............ 1 iii in ' ii ... - . " " Between 5.000 and 9.0W Between f.tOO and 12.0U0 Between 12.010 and 15,0V.... Between ;5,C00 and Between 20,000 and 25.000 Between 25.W0 and 37, :iW Between 37.500 and 45.000 Between 45.000 and S5,M More than 55,000 l.ouo 1, '&U 1500 1,650 1.S00 2,000 2. J50 2,i00 3,010 Senator Porter of Crawford county was appointed as chairman of the mtnes and mining co e of the senate this morning. He was made a. member of the labor and cities of the first class also. The Republican from Crawford takes the seat formerly oc cupied by the unseated Socialist. Senator Kinkel of Morris county in troduced a bill in the senate today giving to the first and eecond class EiUes of Kansas the right to build "white way" special lighting systems. The old law allows a tax only on cities of a population of more than 4 0 000 The new bill, if passed, will affect score of cities in the state which are clamoring for business street improve ments. To provide a suitable punishment for girls up to the age of 21 years. Senator Denton-of Elk county has of fered a bill allowing an addition to ,the age -limit at me owoii, iimuui. school. The administration bill providing for the combination of the offices of state commissioner of labor, state mine inspector and state free employ ment bureau has been placed on the calendar for first consideration this afternoon. The Democrats are ' be hind the bill solidly despite the nu merous protests that come to the leg islature every day from laboring men over the state. SPEAKER BROWN'S BILL He Would Kemove Judiciary From lolitios. Speaker W. L. Brown today intro duced in the house a bill providing for a non-partisan judiciary, his measure being in strict accord with the admin istration policy in fulfillment of the Democratic platform pledge to take the courts out of politics. Under the provisions of the Brown measure all candidates for district judgeships, for places on the supreme bench and for any other judicial elec tion at the hands of the people, shall have his name printed on a separate ballot to be used in the August pri maries. All nominees for judgeships shall h-ve their names printed in the iniependent column in the general November election. . thus ' being re moved entirely from all party align ments and elected free from all party influence and prestige. In the recent campaign, the Demo crats pledged a provision placing the judiciary of the state, above politics and political influence. The Brown bill offered today comes as a strict ad ministration measure and with the en dorsement and support of the Demo cratic following in both branches of the state legislature. Prepared by the Wolff Packing Co. Topeka Sample Pancakes Made From Pa Da Ra Pancake Flour With Jdlewild Syrup at our Mid-Winter Booth and order a package Jrom your grocer MADE IN TOPEKA KANSAS, BY THE DAVIS MERC. CO. 30 Ounces in Every Package CLOSE SATURDAY Midwinter Fun Has One More Day to Ban. It Will Be Children's Day and a Big Day. The Kansas Midwinter exposition will close Saturday. As previously an nounced that will be the big day of the exposition "children's day," and "carnival night.'- There will be hun dreds possibly thousands of young sters at the afternoon performance, and at night everybody will be out for a good time. It Is not expected that there will be any rowdyism Saturday night. It will be just a big goodnatured crowd. The Greater City Four and Dewey and his Dolls are the vaudeville at tractions that are receiving the ap plause of the crowds. BUly Van and the Haas Brothers are also good. For an encore the Greater City Four gives an imitation of a German band that takes the house by storm. GROSS COSTS $40,000 Memorial to Mrs. William Astor Given by Daughter. New Tork, Jan. 31. A large me morial cross, something after the style of those which travelers meet at cross roads in England and many parts of the continent, is to be erected prac tically at the head of Wall Street, in Old Trinity Church yard, as a me morial to Mrs. William Astor, the mother of the late Col. John Jacob As tor. Mrs. Astor died in 1908, after a life of prominence in society. Like earlier members of her family, she was also a prominent parishioner of Trin ity. Mrs. Marshall Orme Wilson, a daughter announces the gift of the me morial, which will be a cross of gran ite 35 feet high, with carvings of an allegorical nature, surmounted with a figure of Christ. It will cost about $40,000. Although of a type common in Europe, it is said that the memorial will be the first of its kind in an American city. HE DECIDES TO LIVE. Mourned as Suicide John McGowan Walks Home. New Tork. Jan. 31. Mourned as a suicide, John McGowan, who leaped from an East river ferry boat on Wed nesday evening, turned up at his tenement home late last night, while his young wife, with her baby, was searching the river front for his body. A vision of his little family left to starve or accept charity, had turned McGowan's intended self destruction to eagerness to live. A photograph of McGowan's wife and baby was found on the ferry boat after he had leaped overboard in the dark, leading to his identification. Re porters were waiting at his home last night to-learn iurtner or the suicide when, during Mrs. McGowan's absence Our Booth is. in every Grocery Store ana Meat Market in Topeka in search of the body, McGowan, a tall, muscular chap, walked in. "I simply couldn't stand being without work any longer," he said. "I went on the ferry boat and waited until it was in the middle of the river. Then I took off my coat and dived into the water. I must have been pretty close to the bottom of the river when I realized what a coward I was. I was almost all in before I got back to the surface. "Then I got on my back and took deep breaths until my strength came back, and struck out for shore. Men at an electric light station put me into their boiler room and gave me hot drinks and when I left them yester day they fitted me out in a coat and hat." WITHDRAWS PETITION. Mrs. Humason Decides Slie . Want a Divorce. Don't Following the service of William H. ("Jack") Humason with an Injunc tion Wednesday night. Mrs. - Ida Humason yesterday withdrew her pe tition for divorce from her husband, dismissing the suit. The court records show that the suit, -charging cruelty and abuse, was filed and subsequently withdrawn, and the sheriffs office de clares that the papers in the case were served on Humason. However, Mrs. Humason declared today that she did not file suit for di vorce, that she did not want a divorce, and declaring that, she was the wife of "Jack" Humason denied being the wife of William H. Humason, and in answer to a question declared she did not even know who William H. Hum ason is. Officers at the courthouse, on the other hand, declare that William H. and "Jack" Humason are the same person, and reference to the telephone and city directories show that Mrs. Humason was talking from the resi dence telephone of William H. Huma son when she called the State Journal to ask that a correction be made in yesterday's report. Mrs. Humason declares that their child, noted in yesterday's article as an adopted child, is their own and was not adopted. She asks that this statement also be corrected. WELLSM'CARTY MATCH London Cables Say They Will Box Late in March. New York, Jan. 31. Bombardier Wells, the English heavyweight cham pion, and Luther McCarty have been matched to box ten rounds in Madison Square Garden the latter part . of March or early in April, according to cable reports from London today. MRS.TBERNATHY DIES Blood Poisoning Causes Death of For mer Miss Fltxwilliam. Leavenworth, Jan. 31. Romaine Aber nathy. wife of Omar Abernathy, a furni ture manufacturer, died today of blood nnLnninv Mm 7. or.,,. . 1, .. m . '"-" ....... - ....L.ij i j 1 1 1 1 , ( i y wajv MIbs Fitzwilliam, daughter of the late " ' ' -" " " . tCOUJ II niMnhiirs nf , h W" fincju ha. I. 1 . . I I 1 1 V 1. ,. , i -r. w a IH TTI 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ,a I .... .1 , . days. Our Products Are Always There Try Them Banquet Ham The choicest meat soU in the state Only 5 per cent of all hams fill the requirements for Banquet Brand TO ENDC0PE CASE Taking of Evidence Likely to Be Finished Today. ' Mrs. Robinson Says Letter Did! "ot Refer to Woman. Kansas City, Jan. 31. Mrs. George' Robinson, of Detroit, did not Interpret the letter upon which Mrs. Carrie E. ' Cope, of Topeka, Kansas, bases a libel ' suit against Mrs. Robinson and Bishop David H. Moore, of Cincbwati, as hav- ' ing any reference to Mrs. Cope, accord-' ing to her testimony today in the trial , in the federal court in Kansas City. Mrs. Cope asks $50,000 damages from , Mrs. Robinson, president of the Na tional Organization Women's Home, Missionary society of the Methodist , Episcopal church and a same amount . from Bishop Moore. She charges a letter written to Mrs. Robinson by the bishop concerning Mrs. Cope's admin- '. istration of the Fanny Murray mission bequest in Kansas cast reflections up--on Mrs. Cope's character. Mrs. Rob-, inson said she considered the letter had reference to Judge H. M. Jackson, of Atchison county. Kansas, and other trustees of the Murray estate. i She said she sent it to the trustees of the National Mission organisation In all parts of the country merely to get their vote on what should be done con cerning removal of the Murray bequest ' from the hands of Mrs. Cope. She said this was the usual procedure concern ing matters of Interest to the whole organization and that the letter from Bishop Moore, the appointed arbiter In '. ' the affair, was a privileged communl- cation. - I Col. Joseph Waters, attorney for " j Mrs. Cope, asked Mrs. Robinson If she ' uOiilil H vtrtllino. irk n n H a Vila .1 1 a. I a "written apology. The court refused to permit Mrs. Robinson to answer this question. It was expected trial would be com pleted late today. INVITES OUR STUDENTS Kaiser Wants V. S. Cadets to Serve ' in German Army. : West Point, N. Y., Jan. 31. It is reported that tho German government at the beginning of October, next, will invite thirteen students from the mili tary academy here to Germany to study for six. months at the military schools at Neisse and Meta and also to pass six months as lieutenants In the German cavalry and artillery regiments. The scheme Is to be tried out for two years. It is understood. - CASTRO IS RELEASED. Federal Court Grants a Writ of Habeas Corpus. New York, 'Jan. 31. Ciprlano Castro walked the streets of New York this af ternoon temporarily free man under a writ of habeas corpus issued by Jude Holt In the federal court. .Argument on the questian or making - the writ psr ' manent will be beard on Friday next. 1