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10 rTE TOPETE A. D A TT.Y STATE JOURNAI-. FTP AY EVENING. MARCH. 21, 1913- T - - . aBnim TiHimiMiii-iiniiri i nil'n mwllii Don't Forget (Bob) GOFRAN Is a. Candidate For MAYOR R. L. COFRAN Co. E. 6th Vermont Vol. D on Don't Forget the Fact That He is the Logical Candidate For Mayor is Platform H orget Don't Forgt His Business Ability, His Honesty, and When He Says a Thing He Will See It Through Advertisement. J DIVORCE AT LAST. Pittsburg Normal Be Separated From i.inporia by Uw. . HOUSE KILLS BILL. Constitutional Convention MLssourl This Year. for to line up as Progressives on the is sue of the speakership. Mr. Hine baugh conferred with Representative Murdock of Kansas, who is to be put forward as Progressive leader of the house, and Mr. Murdock agreed with this statement of purpose. Jefferson City, Mo., March 21. The White bill, calling a constitutional convention, was killed in the house today by a vote of 97 to 26. The bill had passed the senate. Representative Shannon of Audrian county, in op posing the bill, charged that Isador Loeb of Missouri university, one ofits leading advocates, had Deen a "single taxer." This charge was denied by tative Harris of Columbia, but the fight developed into an attack upon single tax wnicn conuuueu umu the convention bill was killed. Senator Green of Kansas City en tered a written protest in the senate today against the lieutenant governor signing the senate bill requiring cor porations to register annually a state ment of their financial conditions with the secretary of state. The lieutenant governor submitted the matter to a senate vote. A majority voted that he sign the bill, which he did. The bill requires the corporations register ing annually to pay a $5 registration fee. The Busbv "loan shark" bill passed the house this morning with hardly a FIRE MOTOR SIRENS. Chief Wilmarth Adopts New Method of Warning Signals. In a few days screeching, ear-spliting, long distance sirens will, herald the ap proach of motor fire apparatus on the streets of Topeka. Fearing that accident might occur on account of the speed of the silent fire department motors. Chief Wilfarth has ordered the sirens for use in this city. "The motor apparatus moves three times as fast as the horse drawn vehicles," explained the fire marshal this afternoon. "Persons on the streets have become ac customed to gongs, bells and other warn ing noises "they do not hear the swiftly moving motors of the fire department. As a protection to drivers and pedestrians especially persons driving in covered delivery wagons and automobiles we have decided to use these sirens on the motors. "The clatter of the ladders and the horses' hoofs of the horse drawn trucks IT IS ORGANIZED. The Old Trail Association in Topeka. Perfected at.wnn.a a..An.n mn tha .rriiala QflH TITO dissenting vote and now is ready for nave littie trouble with traffic. Although finvernor Malor's signature. It was I w hav hnH rm ncpHpnta with the motors indorsed by the board or puDiic wei- we have Tound it necessary to dodge in fare of Kansas City and the charity ; and out among vehicles and have had organizations of St. Louis. The bill j narrow escapes. At one time it was nec provides that "loan sharks" must put ; essary to swing up on the platform of up a $2,000 bond to make good any) the Union pacific depot to aooge a train overcharges they may make. It pro- on account of the neglect of the crossing vides that interest not to exceed 2 per watchman. . " . . . cent a month shall be charged and it "The sirens can be heard for blocks oh oil hi riiiri wben the loan rnmpi and will not resemble any other sound of shall be paid when the loan conies streets. It is used successfully in i ,,Z-Ztt.ZZ ;LTJi other cities llig UL all; L.UIlllllli)flUII " ' "LIU 1 i V J,l A Topeka organization of the National Old Trails Road Ocean to Ocean Highway association has Deen formed with George W. Stansl'ield as president, and J- F. Bill ings as secretary and treasurer. The organ ization was nerfected at a meeting of motorists held at the Commercial club quarters Thursday night. The Topeka Motor League at this meet ing voted to take out fifteen memberships in the newly formed association. Committees of business men who have been workine to procure members for this association in the last three or four days have been meeting with a fair degree of success. L. B. Bevier, a Kansas City organizer for the association, is still in the city in the Interests of the bill that will be introduced in the short session of eoneress calliner for the establishment o! an ocean t0 ocean road that will eomj through xopeaa in case me out ia killed. not Wallace Murder Case Continued. Long sought divorce -of "the- Pitta burg normal training school from the Emporia- state normal school is pro vided for in the educational admin istration board bill which passed the recent session. of the. legislatures This provision, whieh was slipped into the bill while it was under consideration in the house, enables the new educa tional board to separate the two schools and to give, to Pittsburg the long sougnt independence from the state normal. Two years ago Senator E. F. Por ter made a desperate fight for the divorcement of the Pittsburg training school from the Emporia normal. He railed in nis fight and came back to the legislature this year determined to try again. " when the educational administra tion bill was up for- discussion, the friends of the Pittsbure school saw j ineir cnance. They wasted no oppor I tunities and slipped into the bill a . provision which gives the new hoard the power and right to regulate and operate tne several educational insti tutions in any manner they may deem rit. jnere is not the least doubt bu that under this provision of the law mat tne educational board may legal ly order the divorcement of the Pitts- ourg scnooi trom the Emporia nor mai ana take the manual training school from under the wing of the normal ana give tnem an entirely sep arate head. MRS. DOLBY'S TALKS, and 'when he incited you to 'take a drink you pitched right in. You knew what old cider was, and yet you drai.k half a gallon of it.,' Mr. Jones did the same, and then you both began to jump around and have fun. You boxed each other's hats off .you wrestled; you Jumped. And then both of you began to brag, and 'it wasn't long be fore you were calling each other liars. If Mrs.- Jones hadn't rushed in be tween you,; there would have been a fight. Think of it, Samuel you, a deacon, calling folks liars and saying that you would lick them out of their boots with one hand tied behind you! Mr. Lamphere was going, past and heard it all. ' Don't lie to, me and say j that you didn t do this. The deacon didn't lie. He didn't come within 40 rods of it. ' He simply turned to page two of the circular and continued the history of the goose. "And " one' more thing, -Samuel," continued Mrs. Dolby through her tears. "Only two weeks ago you were down town one day and - got into a. talk with old Mr. Carpenter " about Japan. He said that if we had a war with Japan he feared the worst, be cause they were such fighters and would soon have the larger navy. You replied that we could lick the stuffing out of Japan in five minutes, and that anybody who denied it was a liar. Then when that poor old man still insisted, you offered to slap his chops and called him a traitor. Think of it! It was a wonder you didn't bring on an earthquake or something. I believe I did feel the ground trem--bling that day, but I thought it was a sawlog rolling down hill somewhere., Are you going to1 deny what you did, ! Samuel?" j Samuel wasn't. He would neither 1 deny nor affirm. He was following that goose : and learning that she could be made to act as a -playmate of a young child if; properly trained while yet a gosling. Well, this ends It, Samuel! I fainted away when' I heard the nevs, but I'm going to do something be sides faint this time. - You see, I have rope here. - I'm going out to the henhouse and hang myself. I couldn't live with you another single day and keep my self-respect. I can simply say good-bye to you and hope that if She Fully Intended to Commit Suicide, As Deacon Dolby worked with saw ana Hammer at the barn, he heard Mrs. jjoiDy in the house singing, "Rock of He smiled and he sighed. " I After singing the hymn seven times wver, Mrs. ioiby dropped it for, "I aaa.il watch For Thee." she s getting readv!" I we .ever meet in that better land you deacon. --.' .. Twill have - got over being a pirate. After watching' for a quarter Of an I 'm going, Samuel. Don't disturb morning to cut my body down and tell the neighbors. Mrs. Dolby picked her way into the kitchen and lighted a candle, and the next moment the deacon heard the outer door close. He did not get out of hischair. ' He did not call out. He simply read that the bite of an old ; gander was equal to that-or a year old dog and that instances had been known where it resulted fatally. Five minutes went by, then ten, fifteen, Then the door opened, and Mrs. Dolby and her rope and candle appeared. She was smiling. She put the candle and rope down and came lip close to him and whispered Samuel, do you know why I didn t commit suicide? He didn't know, but he didn't say so "Because, when I gbt' out to the henhouse I found that old setting hen I had hatched out ten little chicks, and I didn't want to be so mean as to disturb them yes, ten little chicks, hour, Mrs. Dolby took up the strains of .. . a -""rne Over There. hi. oe ner night for it!" whispered the deacon as he shook his head. And by and by there came floating on the air the words of the good old e Ansels Up Above -- uuuuceu me ood man l l"" u?rn as he threw down some ajr iu nis nungry" cow. "net etuDoer That fn.n ; -,-w Dolby casually observed t-hot j . - . ..u, . iiC lUUOb of rV tne store ana set a Pound with o"Pe,n,ny "ajIs to flx the hS Pen with on the morrow, and he left Mrs. Dolby singing as she cleared the dishes off the table. He -or a a , &rt . wen n returned he was astonish ed to And the house in darkness. He entered and lighted a lamp, and as ne passed through into the sitting L h" "c"c'" me woman lying on her baclv on the floor with i o.llu er nanas folded on her jjch-si. tne gave hei- nn. k-i . and then sat down at the center ta- and the?, nave come four aays ahead Easter Shoe Satisfaction for Two and a Half at , bTfPmK .4 Fourth Floor Commerce 151(1 Open Satur day Night Special Easter Millinery Sale SATURDAY ONLY Clean Up of Early Hats at' The Andrew Wallace murder case has I JjL, i"ead- .At the Postofflce he had rfC connection with the making of the loan to exceed $1.50. - There was an emergency clause to the bill and it will go into effect im mediately upon its signature by Gov ernor Major. KING AND QUEEN. They Order Itainey Hunt Shown at Palace. Pictures The New York Dramatic Mirror last issue, saj's: "Joseph B. Bickerton, jr., general manager of the Jungle Film Company, which controls the Paul J. Rainey's African Hunt now running at the Bijou theater, has received word that the kins and queen of England have "command ed" an exhibition of the pictures at Buckingham Palace." The Rainey hunt pictures will be shown at. the Grand Saturday matinee and night. Progressive Caucus Called. Washington, March 21. Repre sentative "Hinebaugh of Iillinois, has issued a call for the Progressive cau cus on April 2. The Progressive spokesmen are avoiding predictions of strength until after the members begin to gather in larger numbers for the extra session, but they figure on anywhere from fifteen or thirty, in cluding one or two from California, and I believe it will success in Topeka." be a HONOR FOR NOWERS. It has been learned in athletic cir cles in Topeka that Paul Nowers, a former Topeka high school star; has been chosen by the coaches of the col leges of Indiana as the all-state guard of the basketball teams of that state. Announcement of this choice is made in the newspapers throughout Indiana today. Paul Nowers is a son of J. W. Now ers, general car accountant of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway system. He is. in his fourth year in Notre-Dame university and has made an enviable athletic record. He at tended Topeka high school three years and before he left Topeka was the star of the all-victorious Y. M. C. A. bas ketball team. In speaking of the choice, the report today reads: "Nowers wins first place easily. He ia tall and fast and works the floor well. Coach Harper, of Wa bash, picks Nowers as one of the best floor guards he has ever seen work." Candy Easter Eggs Made by us of the purest ingredients, with yellow centers and tinted outside. Chocolate cream eggs prettily decor ated. 5c and 10 Each Buy a box of IDEAL Chocolates or bonbons for the . grownups. IDEAI Bery and 121 West Sixth. LOCAL MENTION. Buy your sewing machine supplies at the New Home office. 116 W. 6th. W. P. Frost. Adv. Free $7 extra pants with every suit to order $15. This week only. Glasgow Woolen Mills, 729 Kansas ave.Adv. At the request of the Garlinghouse Realty company the board of county commissioners this morning ordered the vacation of Edgwood addition. lying west of the Potwin school and between that building and The Drive. The tract is to be replatted, it is said, and several houses built there. been continued until the April term of the district court. Inasmuch as the Beers case required two weeks to try there is not enough time remaining to try the Wallace case and clean up other work remaining on the docket. The Wallace case, therefore, will prob ably be tried in the first division of the court sometime during the coming term. The case probably will be tried for the most part by special counsel, em ployed in the case. Ernest R. Simon, former county attorney, and Otis E. Hungate, who took part in the defense of the Beers case, both have been re tained to assist in the prosecution of the Wallace case. Simon is in touch with the case, having drawn the com plaint and put in considerable time in vestigating it. County Attorney Will iam E. Atchison will, of course, appear in the case but may leave considerable of the work to special counsel employed for the prosecution. To Abandon Military Prison. San Francisco, Cal., Maroh 21. Alca traz island, known as "The Rock," throughout the army, is to be aban doned as a military prison and turned over to the department of justice as a place of incarceration for civil offenders against the government. Alcatraz has been a military prison every since its usefulness as a station of the coast de fences passed with the coming of the higher power cannon. No prisoner, it is said has ever es caped from "The Rock" alive. It is situated in the channel a little -over a mile inside the Golden Gate, and swift currents make it almost impossible for a swimmer to reach the mainland, just a red- then Mrs. Let us estimate your paint bill. Jones Paint Co. Adv. J. K. n A New Home sewing machine like true love will last a life time. See W. P. Frost 116 W. tith. Adv. A meeting will be held Saturday night at the home of Mrs. C. G. Foster, corner of Eleventh and Harrison streets, in the interests of Mrs. Annie Douglas Scott, the prominent club woman and candidate ior member of the school board. If you would like a $350 piano see Frost at 116 Vv . 6th and make him an offer. Adv. See the New Domestic rotary at Frost's. Finest thing out. 116 W. 6th. Adv. Let us estimate your wan nanerlnsr wii . J. K. Jones Paint Co. Adv. Choice tours to Europe. Sixth season. Send for itineraries. Western Bureau of Travel, Topeka. Kan. Adv. Word has been received from Keota, OKla., of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Edmond E. Ewers. Mrs. Ewers wu formerly- Miss Frances Scott of Topeka. Her mother, Mrs. Henry Scott, left fo Keota to be with her. LEWIS' Single Binder straight 6c i elgar. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. Adv. Cheaper Militia Shoes. Washington, March 21. A plan whereby army shoes made under United States government inspection are afforded enlisted men of the or ganized militia at half price, or about $1.50 per pair, already has been adopted in Maine, Michigan, Pennsyl vania, California and Iowa. Members of the state militia throughout the union are eligible to procure their j footwear on like advantageous terms. Company commanders make the pur chases direct from authorized manu facturers. The state pays $1.50 for each pair of- shoes so issued and the other $1.50 is deducted from the man's company. Prisoners Cost $10 Per Day. New York, March 21. It costs the city $10 a day to keep each civil prisoner m the Ludlow street jail, according to a re port which investigators have prepared for Mayor. Gaynor. The jail ia known as "The Alimony club," because the prison ers there are mainly men who have re fused to pay alimony. Then the deacon laid down the cir cular, yawned, stretched, looked at the clock and said: It's half past 9, and I m going to bed!" (Copyright, 1913, by Associat ed Literary Press.) He Was Glad. He had turned away from the front of a newspaper office, when he found a man at his elbow smiling at mm, and, alter a Leeling of anger, he also smiled, and ss.id: I see you have got on my curve. YeL!, I turned aside to look at the baseball score, forgetting tnat tne games were over for the season. Force of habit, yo-i know. Been doing the same thing for months arid months." You were an enthusiast? queried the other. 'Say, I lived on it! I ate and slept with it. Every morning I made a bet anr. every evening i round l nao lost it. When the games began last spring I had a hundred friends. When they closed 1 hadn't one. I had called .them all liara and horse thieves over baseball,' and tney couldn't stand it," ...... -. - . "It gets in the blood." "you bet. I couldn't think of .anything but haReba.ll all dav. and at niirht 1 for about five minutes when all at nnr I dreamed of it, and cried out in my sleep, she broke .down and snhhert L ' ! My wife refused to discuss the game, and child. Samuel, do vl, 55!: "? I relations between -us were strained. uur Sstfrvu.111 K". icisjiru iJ n i p ur, auu x discharged her. My father-in-law said there was no game like poker, and I in sulted him. On Sunday, when there was no game, the day seemed a ween long to me. The boss offered to raise my wages $5 a week if I would cut it out,- and I told him he was no patriot." . "But it's all over now." "Yes, and I'm glad of it. In another month I can get over thinking about it and turn to something else, and before the winter is over perhaps I can get in terested in Shakespeare or history again. T mnv have to eel- out into the back van! and yell now and then as a safety valve, J but I shall do it as gently as I can, a.-.d without threatening to knock the other fellow's head off." M. Quad. received a circular rnti . nrt thai, ,r. l" seeae rfrV. e "u 11 started off in an ..i.icaiujg way. rin-i . T- ii , - xioy naxi been reading for k aH flaa SOt as far as to f ali.a 8roosa waS capabie v.o X w"en mere was a stir on a,IU jars, jjolby sat up. She SniKH?'" COUghs to hi"t Mr Dolby that she was not dead, but the utes passed, and then Mrs. Dolby rose up and took a seat on the lounge 2nd "Samuel, I didn't want to frighten J'The D1 CUldn t he,p Anting away" th , read frm the circular th.t a goose had been known to go lntn o ia 0-a a . . .... . r . wie mere Slgnt of ncaueu woman, and Dolby said: TaJj?h d JuSt gone out when Mrs. ofe? Came, ln- She hadn't bn hnrrI 'f and e . wanted to borrow a darning needle and ask me v. JL" 8 lo put "P any Pickled i-.tcy mis season. Wo u j 4 (Mi ,-t-t - PICKENS 809 KANSAS AVENUE & mix un w uiif GROCERY "Good Things to Eat" 1700 Topeka Ave. Phone 1586 Easter Specials Fresh Country Eggs, doz 18e Country Butter, lb .32c Kansas Honey, rack - .... 15c Sweet Corn, 2 for 15c; 4 for.. 28c Solid Packed Tomatoes, 2 for 25c 2 pkgs. Raisings J5c 2 pkgs. Pancake Flour 15c Fruits Strawberries Apples Grapefruit Bananas Oranges Vegetables Rhubarb . lettnce " Celery Green Onions Radishes what she sobbed about'" "e' waited to stick right to that circular until he had devoured every line of it. He was '""""6 "Ul tnat ne had lived for 45 years without knowing the goose as she was. "I at first thought that mebbe her h 1 :North Dakota was dead, but svl over ner sobbing so's she could speak she said it was be- v.o.uier one leit SUCn OitV fnp ma TV,... Jhen Samuel, I broke down and sobbed with her, and and" And she sobbed and snuffed and sobbed again, and the Deacon sat there and read that if a farmer could have patience with a goose he could teach her to jump through a hoop, the same as a circus performer. "But I'm not going to cry any more, ' Samuel. The time of crying has passed. I am going to tell you what Mrs. Lamphere said, and then end this life of turmoil and trouble. I have known Mrs. Lamphere ever since she was a little girl, and I have never known her to tell a lie. and she is not a tattler, either. r Whnt eh told me was from a ' sense of duty. She said it made her heart ache to know that I was livimr with n. nime and never suspecting it." x tne Deacon prepared himself for the worst, but gave no outward sign, and presently MrsJ Dolby ceased snuffling and continued: ! "One morning six weeks ago the cow kicked while you were milking her. You went over backward off the stool with a yell, and. when you got up you swore: Don't deny it, Sam uel. Mrs. Gearing heard it, and she n ! rl x-a . T . . . ' . . iu...-uaiuFiiCn;.' ivxns. leaner also i 1 , "u out? tiiiiiuL iamiea. Airs, i Gearing knows what swearing is, and she never heard the . like. , It made ' her blood run cold. She didn't get : over shivering for hours. You whack- ed and pounded , and v swore and jumped up and down, and the poor woman flew into the house for her life. I noticed how pale you looked when you came in, and when I asked you what was the matter you said you felt bilious. Deacon Samuel Dolby, ; you pounded the cow, used profane ' language and lied td me!! What hav ' you got to say to it?" j Not a word. That circular said that I if a goose was always addressed in i a kind and courteous manner she ' would reciprocate by extra work in I laying eggs and catching caterpillars I and grasshoppers, and the informa tion was highly interesting. It beat pounding a kicking cow all hollow. "Just three -or four days later, Samuel, you went over to see Farmer Jones about buying a hog. He had half a barrel of old cider in the house. SPECIAL SATURDAY ! An Ever Ready Dustless Clothes Line Holder for indoor use FREE with your purchase of 1 lb. Grand Union. Baking Powder. GRAND UNION TEA COMPANY Tel. 1070 610 Kansas Avenue What He Remembered. "You took a vacation last summer?" ha queried of the clerk in the music store. "Oh, yes." "Went to a farm' house, probably?" "I did." "Seven dollars a week?" "Just seven." "Have any moonlight nights out there?" "I can't remember." "Any girls around to spoon with?" "I have forgotten.' "Catch any fishr' - : "Well, really, now " "Milk and vegetables all right?" "Dear, dear mn, but my memory is bad." - "Do any batMng?" "Say, now " "Do you remember any one thing that happened to you?" demanded the ques tioner. Oh. yes. I worked an ear of corn out of the mattress of my bed and carried it to the farmer and asked him what ne thought of it, and he replied: "Gee-whizz, but I lost tnat 'ear over five years ao, and have been looking fo. it ever since!' ". M. Quad.- THE AURORA 812 Kansas Avenue " TmTwROSG BOTTLK A Biograph Drama. THE OPEN SWITCH .A Kalem Drama. Coming Wm. M.Burns, great detective in ''Exposure of the Land Swindlers." G. M. Anderson The popular star as "Broncho Billy" in an Essanay Feat ure Drama. TODAY-TOMORROW SATURDAY SPECIAL AT White Swan Bakery 112 East 6th St. Hot Cross Buns 8c Per Doz. We are still pleasing the peo ple with our dairy lunch and the old reliable . White Swan Bread CRYSTAL Today Tomorrow MR. MAURICE GOSTELLO CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG -IX THE WAY OUT ALSO The Soul of a Rose Saturday Special at the Ideal u Midget Stick Candy 10c Box A Beautiful Dramatic Creation and a Good Western. DcAIHS AND FUNERALS: Word was received here this morning of the death of Mrs. Mary C. McMicheel, who died at the home of her son, Charles C. ftxcMichael, at Pratt. She has been sick several months. Mr. and Mrs. McMichael left Topeka last November to make their home withi their son. Mr. McMichael died about ten days later. They were old settlers of To peka and lived at 610 West Eighth street. The body of Mrs. McMichael will be brought to Topeka for burial and the funeral will be held at 10 o'clock Monday morning at the First Congregational church. Rev. Warren McDonald, colored, aged 6fi years, died Thursday at his home at 115 Buchanan street. Death was caused by pneumonia. The funeral will be an nounced later. . - A generous sized box of pure stick candy Just made in our candy de partment. Regular 40c candy, Saturday at 20c lb., or the boxes at 10c. Seven flavors. and sen- IDEALS elicate 121 West Sixth General Agent on Stand. Omaha, Neb., March 21. W. J. Pilant, general agent of the Interna tional Harvester company, at Omaha, was cross-examined today at the open ing of the hearing in the government anti-trust suit. The government's at torney tried to show that statistics submitted by the witnesses were in correct. In response to a protest by the government. Attorney McHugh. for the company, promised to arrange documents concerning the number of dealers handling, the company's goods - ox to facilitate checking them up. )