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MONDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS- FEBRUARY 3, 1913-
MONDAY EVENING.
T O CENTS
FIVE CENTS
SIXTEENTH
AMENDMENT
Thirty-Six States Ilaye Now
Eatified the Income Tax.
Action Is Taken by the Wyo
ming Legislature Today.
A NEW SOURCE OF REVENUE
Will Reduce the Amount Re
quired From Other Taxes.
Alabama Was tlie First State
to Ratify It.
Cheyenne, Wjo., Feb. 3. Wyoming
wrested from New Mexico today the
honor of being- the 26th state to ratify
the proposed amendment to the federal
constitution providing for an income
tax. The necessary three-fourths of
the forty-eight states have now rati
fied the amendment and it will be add
ed to the constitution by congress.
"Wyoming snatched the honor through
the unexpected action of its legislature
in passing under suspension of the
rules the resolution favoring the tax.
Washington, Feb. 3. With the final
ratification of the income tax amend
ment expected at any moment today
from the New Jersey or New Mexico
legislature Democratic leaders in con
gress rushed their plans for a law to
make it effective. It is expected a
draft of an income tax law will be in
troduced in the house before the end of
this session and will then be re-introduced
and passed soon after the extra
session convenes. The Democrats have
been confident of the ultimate success
of the income tax amendment and
have made their tariff plans with this
In view. Representative Hull, of Ten
nessee, who prepared the excise tax
bill which congress failed to pass last
session is working upon the income tax
provision. When finally introduced the
income tax will be designed to take
the place of both the existing corpora
tion tax law and the proposed excise
tax.
It will levy a tax on incomes as low
as $5,000. The income tax legislation
must originate in the house as do the
tariff bills. While the present corpora
tion tax raises only about J30. 000,000
the general income tax is expected to
bring nearly J100.000.000 annually to
ward the support of the government.
The Amendment
The provision authorizing an income
tax as now made a part of the Federal
Constitution will be known as the
"Sixteenth Amendment" and reads as
follows:
"Article XVI. The congress shall
have power to lay and collect taxes on
Incomes, from whatever source derived,
without apportionment among the
states, and without regard to any cen
sus or enumeration."
The change in the fundamental law j
or the land marks a new epoch in the
American tax system. For the first
time congress is given specific author
ity of a constitutional provision. The
change also marks a broad develop
ment of the economic and fiscal sys
tem of the United States, permitting
incomes to be a basis for taxation, i
similar to the systems now in force in
Oreat Britain, Austria, Switzerland,
Spain and various other countries.
New Source of Revenue.
Probably the most important aspect
of an income tax, as now authorized
by the constitution, is that it adds a
new source of revenue for the govern
ment At present the two great sources
of government revenue are customs
duties levied by tariff acts on goods
imported from foreign countries; and
internal revenue taxes on tobacco,
spirits, oleomargarine and certain oth
er articles. Each of these sources at
present produces a little less than half
of the total revenues of the govern
ment. In 1911 the total govern
ment revenues were $700,100,906 .qnd
of this customs duties yielded $313,
846,269, while internal revenue taxes
yielded $331,759,375. The remainder
came from sales of public lands, the
corporation tax and various miscel
laneous sources. Under an income
tax, however, a new and far-reaching
source of revenue is provided for the
government, and this will in turn re
duce the amounts required from the
other sources of revenue, customs and
internal revenue, in order to meet the
expenses of the government. This last
phase is likely to have' an important
bearing cn tariff legislation as here
after enacted. '
Before the amendment formally be
comes a part of the constitution to
day's action of the legislature must be
transmitted to the secretary of state
at Washington and proclamation of
the ratification made.
History of the Movement.
The first official step toward amend
ing the constitution so as to authorize
specifically an income tax was taken
by the senate on July 7, 1909. By
unanimous vote, that body adopted a
resolution, submitting this amendment
to the legislatures of the respective
states. Only a few days later, on July
12, the hcuse passed the resolution by
a vote of 317 to 14.
The movement took form during the
tariff debate in 1909. Amendments to
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, incorpo
rating an income tax and inheritance
tax measures were then pressed.
Finally, President Taft sent a message
to congress, urging the passage of a
tax upon "the doing of business by
corporations, measured by their in
come," and the submission to the
states of an income tax amendment to
the constitution.
Senator Brown, of Nebraska, father
ed the amendment finally adopted. As
introduced and sent to the finance
committee, congress was given power
to lay "direct" taxes on incomes with
out apportionment. When the amend
ment was reported out of committee
by Senator Aldrich, the word "direct"
had been eliminated. The words "from
whatever source derived" were incor
porate These words caused sharp
criticism before several state legisla
tures. In the house the amendment was re
ferred to the ways and means com
mittee. One atternoon was given to
debate. Representative Payne. Repub
lican floor leader, spoke in favor of
giving the government the power as a
war measure, but denounced it as a
peace measure by saying that he be
lieved "with Gladstone, that it tends
to make a nation of liars" Represen
tative Champ Clark championed the
amendment as making accumulated
wealth pay its just burden of taxation.
It was eventually agreed to by the
house by a very large majority in
which both parties were represented,
blow to Ratify.
The states were siow in ratifying the
amendment. Alabama had the honor
of being the first aiid only state to ap
prove the change duriug 1909. Within
less than a month from the date of
action by congress, the Alabama legis
lature had voted unanimously in favor
of the amendment.
(Continued on Page Two.)
SEE MURDER PLOT
Officers Probe Death of Aged
Woman" in Fire.
Justice of Peace, Not Coroner, ;
Called by Witness.
A coroner's investigation into the
death of Katherine Woods, at her
home, 1173 Lincoln street, which oc
curred when her house burned Sun
day afternoon, is in progress at the
courthouse today. Rumors of a' sus
picious nature reached the officers.
It was then decided to hold an inves
tigation. Such evidence as has been
secured, however, points merely to an
accidental fire from which the aged
woman was unable to flee.
The fact that a stove had been
overturned was one of the suspicious
features brought to the attention of
the officers. Until a witness this
morning said he had stumbled against
the stove and knocked it over in an
attempt to make his way into the
building, it aroused doubts as to the
accident. An ax also was found lying
on the floor of the little cottage, but
it is believed now that it had nothing
to do with the death of the aged wo
man. The investigation was continued
this afternoon, and may last the re
mainder of the day.
The hearing is being held before
Justice of the Peace M. F. Laycock,
as acting coroner, although Dr. J. H.
Rinehart, coroner, is in the city. Mr.
Laycock was called by Henry Mon
roe, when the latter could not locate
the coroner, and the incident has
raised an interesting question as to
the right of a justice of the peace to
act as coroner when the proper offi
cer is within reach in a few hours.
Dr. Rinehart had gone- -to the
country to see a patient, and was out
of the city a few hours. Monroe de
cided -without consulting either the
sheriff or county attorney that Lay
cock should be called, and acted on
this theory. It was decided that
Laycock, who had impaneled a jury,
should proceed with the case although
in the future a reasonable time will
be allowed to reach the coroner.
FUNSTON TO HAWAII.
President Taft Assigns Him to Service
on the Islands.
Washington, Feb. 3. By direction of
President Taft, the following assign- j
ments to command of departments, di- 1
visions, brigades and districts in the
military service are announced:
The eastern department. Major Gen
eral Thomas H. Barry; the central de
partment. Major General William II
Carter; the southern department. Brig
adier General Tasker H. Bliss (at pres
ent commanding the department of the
east); the western department. Major
General Arthur Murray; the Philippine
department, including district of Lu
zon, Brigadier General Clarence R.
Edwards; district of Mindanao. Briga
dier General John J. Pershing; the
Hawaiian department, Brigadier Gen
eral Funston.
HE DID NOT SEE
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Mr. t.rHiutffaos
He will stay out now to enjoy mild ;prin and early summer weather, say
Uiu oldest soothsayers in the worlj L
IS DISORGANIZED
Kansas Democracy in the Legislature.
At Least It Appears So in Face
of Affairs.
PARTY PLEDGES ARE BLOCKED
A Week's Fight for These Bills
Is Over.
And They Are Battered and
Crippled Meeting Planned.
Unless the administration forces In
both branches of the Kansas legis
lature are reorganized, the Democrats
will go home in March with their
party pledges unredeemed. Less than
25 of the 50 working days remain and
but one party pledge has been kept.
Added to that embarrassing situation.
is the fact that the Democrats are
now more divided than at any time
since they came to Topeka.
There is fear in the hearts of the
administration leaders j.nd they confi
dentially admit th.il trouble confronts
them. A half dozen disturbances have
been created in the administration
ranks since the session convened and
even in the last week the working or
ganization of the Democrats has re
ceived several severe shocks. On .the
other hand the Republicans are work
ing as a unite. They have carried
trouble to the majority forces in every
big fight and every important battle
has produced new wounds that the
Democrats are quietly nursing with a
hope of future vengeance.
One promise, and one promise alone,
has been kept. That was the repeal
of the inheritance tax1 law. A dozen
other pledges of even greater impor
tance still hang in the balance and
each day the chances for their passage
are apparently lessened.
What is the trouble? It is party dis
satisfaction. The Democrats came to
Topeka a month ago hopeful and fair
ly well organized. Then things hap
pened and each day there has been a
widening of the breach in the Demo
cratic ranks.
Settlement of the speakership contro
versy gave new hope to the adminis
tration. Then Brown joined with Orr
in fights that created new trouble
among the Democrats. Governor
Hodges' appointments caused more or
less trouble. In the senate, the com
mitteeship distribution was an open
ing wedge for sorrow. And conditions
were not improved in settling the
Porter-Stanton contest. At the same
time new trouble was brewing in the
senate..- The Republican removed the
teeth from the initiation and referen
dum and crippled the recall. Some of
the Democrats were inclined to feel
that this action was just and com
mendable and some hasty words were
spoken. And so, day by day, there has
been a cooling of that feverish ambi
tion to put across the party promises
in an uncompromising manner.
Added to all the internal troubles of
the Democrats, is the fact that in both
houses the Republicans have a most
clever and cunning leadership. Price
of Clark, Mahin, Troutman and Stavely
in the senate; Brewster, Stone and
Keene in the house, have by their
shrewd generalship caused the admin
istration no end of worry and sorrow,
It was this leadership of the Repub
licans that made the Democrats ac
cept a compromise initiative and refer
endum in the house. And the same
organization sidetracked the measure
in the senate and sent it to the ju
diciary shop for repairs. It was the
Republican organization in the house
that forced the Democrats to make
dangerous compromises of the recall.
then defeated the bill and playfully
consented to a reconsideration only
when they knew that the measure in
its existing condition could not creep
through the senate. That in brief is
the thing that has happened to the
Democrats in one brief week. It has
left them,, scattered, disorganized and
gasping for breath.
(Continued on Page Two.)
HIS SHADOW SUNDAY
PLAN NEW POLICY
New Legislatlre Appropriation
Scope This Year.
Money to Penal and Charitable
Institutions.
REFORMATORY IS INSPECTED,
Senate and House : Committee
Goes to Hutchinson.
Favor Manufacture of Caskets
at School.
See Efficient Work of Superin
tendent Amrine.
If the investigations of the charit
able and penal institutions committee
of the senate result in a successful
fight before the ways and means com
mittee, Kansas under the present ad
ministration will distribute her appro
priation favors to the unfortunates of
the state. The fortunates will have to
be content with the lavish legislatures
of the past. In other words, the mem
bers of the senate this session feel that
the penal and charitable institution
inmates should be provided with more
modern and sanitary improvements.
The sons and daughters who are able
to procure an education will have to
postpone their marble and granite
halls until another meeting of the
legislators.
The senate committee after a thor
ough investigation of the state peni
tentiary at Lansing, after a visit to the
blind school at Kansas City and an
inspection of the reformatory at
Hutchinson this committee has been
taught a new lesson in the manage
ment of appropriations. It has dis
covered that the blind and the penal
inmates are the real needy of the
state. The vast amounts that have
been spent in the improvement and
splendor of educational institutions
will be shaved to the core.
(Continued on Page Two.)
TWO WOMEN DEAD
Cry of "Fire" Starts Panic at
MoTie Show.
People Are Piled Seyen
" " Deep" at the Door.
Feet
New Tork, Feb. 3. A prisoner in
the little ticket booth at the Houston
street moving picture theater, where
an explosion of a film and cries of
fire started a panic among the 400
spectators last night. Rose Siegel was
forced to witness a struggle in which
two women were trampled to death
and a dozen other persons badly in
jured. "I heard a cry from the in
side, then a rush,!' she said. "There
was a crowd of persons in front of
my booth seeking to enter the thea
ter when those inside rushed out.
There was a crush against the doors.
Little girls -and boys and men and
women all seemed to shoot out to
gether. My little brother Ned came
running down the steps in front of
the first rush and I saw him get safe
ly around the corner of the entrance.
"The first half dozen or so got
down steps all right and then they
began tumbling. As soon as they
struck the bottom landing others were
on top of them and soon there was a
large semi-circle of bodies on the
pavement over which the others ran.
More fell and at one time it seemed as
though the pile was seven feet deep.
I couldn't get- out of my booth be
cause the doors open inside. I just
had to stay there, helplessly hearing
the cries."
The panic was caused by a boy cry
ing "fire" when a film burned. It
was a false alarm, for the blaze did
hardly a dollar's damage and was put
out in a few seconds. The flash which
the spectators had seen, however, was
enough to terrify them. It was a
repetition of half a dozen similar
panics which have occurred in mov
ing picture theaters here, but the list
of casualties was greater than at any
previous time.
With over 800 similar moving pic
ture theaters in the city, many of
which Fire Commissioner Johnson
says are worse than the Houston
street place, the hazards are likely to
be taken up anew by the board of al
dermen, which has had before it for
some time a measure relating to the
safety of motion picture theaters. The
worst moving picture theater accident
in this country was at Canonburg, Pa., I
in August, 1912, when 25 persons were j
killed. Ninety persons lost their
lives in a moving picture theater fire
in Bolgivie, Russia, in 1911.
PLAN TO SAVE WILSON
House May Amend Senate One Term
Resolution.
Washington, Feb. 3. Another at
tempt to change the proposed six-year
single term amendment to the consti
tution so it will either lengthen Presi
dent Wilson's term to six years or
make him eligible for re-election is
expected in the house as soon as the
resolution passed Saturday by the
senate is taken up for consideration.
The passage of the single term resolu
tion in the house is expected but manv
who favor it insist that it should not
be drawn so as to cut President Wil
son off with a single four-year term.
The senate passed the resolution in
such form that the president in office
and all former presidents would be in
eligible ror re-election.
Representative Clayton, chairman
of the house judiciary committee, al
ready has a single term resolution now
before the house.
Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Fair and warmer tonight. Unsettled
and warmer Tuesday. ' .
FOUR BIG BILLS
All Administration Measures
Set for This Week.
Non-Partisan Judiciary for
Tuesday.
THE KEENE BILL WEDNESDAY
State Publics tf on Text Books
Friday 2 P. M.
These Three Will Be Fought
Out Under Special Orders.
Three big administration measures
were today made special' orders in the
house and will be disposed of this
week. The special order bills Include
the non partisan Judiciary, the educa
tional administration bill, and the
state publication of school text books.
Under motions introduced in the
house today, these three bills were
placed on the calendar under the spe
cial order head, will be advanced to
third reading and fought out on the
floor. Preparatory to this fight, it Is
rumored that a caucus of the Demo
cratic members will be called to throw
their united strength into the fight for
the passage of all of three platform
pledges.
On Tuesday afternoon the bill intro
duced last week by Speaker Brown,
calling for a non partisan judiciary,
will be presented for passage. Like all
of the three special orders, the Brown
bill calls for a constitutional amend
ment and a two-thirds vote is neces
sary to secure its passage. Brown's
bill provides that 'in the primaries,
candidates for the judiciary shall have
their names printed on separate ballots
to be voted on by members of all polit
ical parties. In the general election,
names of candidates for the Judiciary
shall appear in the Independent col
umn. Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
the Keene bill for an educational ad
ministration board will be considered.
v. : t tnnomlDnt bill bv the tu-
diciary committee, introduced in the
house by the 'ort ecott lawyer, ii
abolishes the boards of regents for all
. . niii3 the educational in
stitutions under the direct supervision
of the board. The three members, ap
pointed by the governor, win eacn re
ceive $3,500 a year for their services.
At 2 o'clock Friday afternoon the
bill providing for the state publica
tion of school text books will be dis-
n. o ?rntfi.l order. All of these
three bill:! .,. are Democratic party
pledges and the fighting for their pass
age will be the feature of the weeks
proceedings in tne nouse.
Ballot Bill Thursday Afternoon.
The Massachusetts ballot, bill, was
made special order for Thursday af-
o 'rlnlr hv thft house tO-
day. Introduced by Taylor Riddle of
Marion, today the bill was advanced
to the second reading and by unani
mous consent of the house was made
special order for the Thursday after
noon session.
t cM.rthwaitA of Butler county
J " .JtLl I v.- - -
i.i narsnnfl to orison who in-
sist on driving automobiles, electric
cars or motorcycles wmi unuci i.i
influence of liquor. The Satterthwalte
. -. i . ttn ina Vi nnnpr in the house
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today and It prescribes severe pun
ishment tor persons wnu jj
ing while under the influence of liquor
or drugs.
For many months Satterthwalte and
his Butler county neighbors have
.j .i i ,,.. Viio-Vi anAd buzz waerons
and the Douglass editor believes that
a good many of the motor accidents
have been due to an over uuihibo
ti,.-..,.i hnn7p rather than to
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in tKk i-i1 yi n tr of the car.
So in the future, Satterthwaite would
send drunken car drivers to prison for
one year or assess them with a fine
of $500, or prescribe both a fine and
a penitentiary sentence. The fact
that a person is arrested, charged
with careless driving, shall face a
burden if the evidence shows that he
is subject to the frequent use of in
toxicants or drugs. If the Satter
thwaite bill is passed, it will become a
law as soon as it is printed in the
official state paper.
Not until he had, demanded a call of
the house, did Keene, of Bourbon, to
day secure the passage of his bill re
quiring railroads to make semi-monthly
payment to their employees. On
the original roll call, Keene's bill need
ed six votes to secure its adoption. He
demanded a call of the house. When
this call was lifted, the bill had been
adopted by a vote of 74 to 26.
Attorney Hanson's demand that the
supreme court be impeached, was fileJ
today in the house. Speaker Brown an
nounced the presentation of the im
peachment petition just before the noon
adjournment. The Hanson request will
be considered at 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning.
Representative Laing today intro
duced a bill calling for the establish
ment of a commission to collect Kan
sas criminal statistics. He would
have the work handled in the office of
the attorney general and would make
provision for compiling and publishing
the same.
Speaker Brown today offered a bill
creating a state board of correction
composed of three members appointed
by the governor. This board would
have supervision over the state peni
tentiary, the Hutchinson reformatory
and the Boys' Industrial school and
would maintain offices at the state
penitentiary in Lansing. A similar bill
was introduced last week in the sen
ate. Taylor Riddle of Marion today in
troduced the Massachusetts ballot law
bill in the house. This bill was pre
sented in the senate earlier in the ses
sion by Senator Carney.
By a vote of 283 to 12 the house to
day passed the Orr bill providing for
an increase in salary for the attorney
general, raising the amount of his sal- j
ary from $2,500 to $4,000 a'year, and!
providing for two assistants at $3,000 1
a year. The bill caused a fight when
read in the committee of the whole a
week ago, but was finally reported for
passage. This morning the bill was
adopted when presented on third read
ing. Davis of Edwards introduced a bill
in the house today compelling railroad
companies to furnish cars immediate
ly for all shipments of wheat, oats,
corn and lumber and providing a fine
for failure to meet orders promptly.
C A. Freeland has a bill creating
state board of accountants. Several
similar bills have already been offered
in both branches of the state legis
lature. Representative Showalter has intro
duced a bill enabling cities of the third
class to appropriate money from their
general revenue funds with which to
pay for band concerts.
HE GIVES IT UP
Judge Pollock Washes
Hands of Gas Case.
His
Puts It Up to the Kansas Utili
ties Commission.
Kansas City, Feb. 3. Responsibil
ity for settling the complicated gas
situation in Kansas arising from an
order a month ago by Judge Pollock
of the federal court in Kansas City,
Kan., approving an advance of rates
by the Kansas Natural Gas company
was today turned over to the Kansas
public utilities commission by the ac
tion of the same federal Jurist.
The case will come before the com
mission for hearing next Monday.
An order by Judge Pollock early in
January restraining the original decree
to cut off the gas to all distributing
companies refusing to pay the ad
vanced rate until February 3 today
was extended by the court to February
24, and the hearing continued until
that date to give the utilities com
mission opportunity tu lnvesrigaxe.
"In the meantime." said the judge,
"the court ur'ges that the distributing
companies of the cities and towns con
cerned hold themselves ready to co
operate with the utilities commission
to save the situation. This is a serious
proposition. There can be no relief of
any permanency unless something Is
done to limit the use of gas to light
ing and cooking."
This morning hearing was called
ostensibly for the primary purpose
of hearing petitions of intervention.
Judge Pollock's order leaving ac
tion to the utilities commission and
an address by the court on the situa
tion followed the filing of the two
petitions.
Charles Blood Smith, an attorney,
filed on behalf of the Fidelity Title
and Trust company of Pittsburg, Pa.,
a suit to foreclose on the property of
the Kansas Natural Gas company,
charging default of interest on first
mortgage bonds in the sum of $1,600,
000 held by the Pittsburg firm. Judge
Pollock extended the receivership of
the Kansas Natural Gas company to
cover this suit.
An intervening petition by J. W.
Dana, attorney for the Kansas City
Pipe Line company, based on a claim
against the Kansas Natural company
for $6,000,000 rentals for part of a
pipe line system was denied by the
court. Judge Pollock devoted some
time to an explanation of his acts in
connection with the situation which
have drawn forth harsh criticism.
"This court would not think of
arrogating to itself the power of fix
ing rates," he said, "but the couit is
forced to say to the receivers, "you
can't sell the gas at less it costs.' The
situation was this: Thirty billion cubic
feet of gas was being sold annually at
a loss. The Kansas utilities commis
sion has the power to settle the rates
charged in every city under its juris
diction." SNOW COVERS STATE
Depth of 1 to 6 Inches Warmer
Weather Tonight.
Kansas is covered with a coating of
snow ranging in depth from one to
six or seven inches a four million
dollar snow.
"A conservative estimate of the
value of the snow is four million dol
lars," said "Sunny" Flora, the local
government weather observer today.
"It is another wheat saver." In the
western part of the state the winds
had begun to blow the soil and mois
ture was badly needed. The local pre
cipitation in January was below nor
mal and the snow consequently is a
fine thing for the farmers of Shawnee
county.
The Santa Fe reports snow along its
Kansas lines, the fall being particu
larly heavy in the wheat belt. The
depth according to the railway reports
was six inches on the level between
Emporia and Newton, and four inches
between Newton and Dodge City. In
the southwestern portion of the state
the depth was not as great.
The depth at Topeka was 3.4 inches.
Melted this amounts to .35 of an inch
of water. Snow began falling at 8:20
o'clock Sunday morning and continued
until 12 o'clock Sunday night. -
This morning the clouds cleared
away, and the snow soon began to
melt. The minimum temperature to
day was 12 degrees above zero at 6
o'clock this morning. The minimum
temperature Sunday was also 12 de
gree. The forecast calls for fair and
warmer weather tonight with unset
tled conditions Tuesday.
The -forecast for the week from
Washington indicates that the tem
peratures will be considerably lower
the last of the week.
"If the snow is not off the ground
before the end of the week." said the
weather man today, "we may have
norne severe temperatures."
The forecast for the week reads:
"Indications are that during the com
ing week temperatures will be near the
seasonal average in all parts of the
country, with well-distributed precipi
tation, according to the weather bureau
bulletin.
"A disturbance which now covers the
southwest," says the bulletin, "will
move northwestward, crossing the
great central valleys Monday or Mon
day night and the eastern states Tues
day or Wednesday. This disturbance
will cause general rains and snows
Monday in the southwest, and Monday
GIVE UPJJR FIGHT
Balkan War Will Be Renewed
at 7 O'clock.
Unless Turkey Decides in
Meantime to Surrender.
THE CAPTURE OF ADR1AN0PLE
Will Be the First Attempt of
the Allies.
King Nicholas Already Has De
parted for the Front.
London, Feb. 8. The Balkan wr will
begin again at 7 o'clock this evening
unless the last peace effort of the pow
ers should succeed or Turkey decide
at the eleventh hour to surrender.
It has even been decided who shall
fire the first shot aa Turkey has sta
ted that she will allow her adversaries
to take the aggressive. The immediate
object of the armies of the allies is
the capture of Adrianople, which has
hitherto presented a firm front to Its
besiegers. Upon this fortress the com
bined Bulgarian and Servian armies,
the latter well supplied with siege ar
tillery will concentrate their exertions.
For the present at any rate the Bul
garian generals will simply try to hold
the Turkish troops at Tchatlja.
King Nicholas, of Montenegro has
already started for the Turkish fortress
of Scutari. The king will himself take
the direction of the renewed attack.
In the western Turkish province of
Epirus which touches the Grecian bor
der the Greek troops under the com
manu of Crown Prince Constantino
VC Jeai 5opes of breaking down the
splendid defense which the Turkish
army has thus far offered.
The uprising in Albania against the
Servian Invader, has assumed serious
proportions, it is said today It Is
rumored that the Albanian, With 80.-
i, "ndei: the command of Aus
trian officers have fought a cattle at
?bra: ,whe,re the Servians lost heavily.
banlan!are Ba,d to b neatly
irritated in the provisional govern
ment. The possible renewal of the
Balkan war may put a strain upon
the co-operation of the European
powers though they have thus far
worked In harmony.
The departure of Prince Hohenlohe
Waldenburg - Schillingsfurest from
Vienna with an autograph letter from
the Emperor Francis Joseph to Em
peror Nicholas, of Russia, gives addi
tional hope that they win .do. so until
the end. The Turkish government like
that of Bulgaria will not allow news
paper correspondents to accompany the
armies in the field. Mahmoud Shefket
Pasha, the grand vizier stated emphat
ically today that he would not allow
any correspondents within twenty
miles of the lines.
Turkey Still Hopes.
Constantinople, Feb. 8. The out
come of the representations made by
the British and German ministers at
the Bulgarian capital was awaited here
today with a good deal of anxiety. Al
though the armistice was scheduled to
end at seven o'clock the Ottoman offi
cials had not yet lost hope that a re
sumption of hostilities would be avoid
ed. The German comtjnnication to
Bulgaria was even more direct In Its
terms than was that of Great Britain
in urging a peaceful settlement. Ger
many declared that she considered the
new Turkish proposals as adequate
while both Great Britain and Germany
intimated that intractiblllty on the
part of the Balkan nations was not
approved by the powers.
In the meanwhile Turkey has not
been neglecting precautions for any
outcome. The movements of troops
and war stores hare .been incessant
during the past week, while the hos
pitals at the front have all been
cleared, and their patients removed to
the infirmaries in this city.
SPECIAL MESSAGE.
Washington, Feb. 8. President Taft
cancelled all his engagements today
and remained in his study in the
White House preparing drafts of two
special messages to be sent to con
gress this month. '
The first will deal with the proposed
budget system, and with the second
the president will transmit the report
of the Alaskan railway commission.
"Watch Your Chimneys."
The twelfth Are in two days oc
curred early this morning at 1607 Clay
street, a wood house owned by F. R.
Flanigan. This is the ninth fire in 48
hours caused from flying soot or de
fective flue. Chief Wilmarth is urgent
in asking Topeka citizens to look to
their chimneys. At no time this win
ter have there been so many fires.
"Watch your chimneys," the chief re
iterates, day after day.
and Tuesday throughout the region be
tween the Mississippi valley and the
Atlantic coast.
"Another disturbance will appear in
the far west about Wednesday, move
eastward over the middle west Thurs
day or Friday and the eastern states
near the close of the week. This dis
turbance will be attended by general
precipitation and will in all probabil
ity terminate the prolonged period of
dry weather In the Pacific states. A
change to considerably colder weather
will overspread the northwestern states
about Thursday."
Down tlose to Zero.
The weather has been clear and crisp
today. The temperatures have aver
aged six degrees below normal for this
date.. The shippers' forecast indicates
that the mercury may drop to a point
within five or six degrees above zero
by Tuesday morning.
Shippers' forecast: "Protect thirty-six-hour
shipments north against tem
perature of zero; west zero to flvs
above; east five to ten degrees, and
south ten to fifteen."
The hourly readings:
7 o'clock 14 11 o'clock 20
8 o'clock 11 j 12 o'clock 22
9 o'clock 14 j 1 o'clock 26
10 o'clock 17 I 2 o'clock ...SO