The Topeka state journal. [volume], March 24, 1913, LAST EDITION, Page 6, Image 6

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TEE TOPEKA DAJTLY STATE J OUHITAL MONDAY EVEITING, MARCEr 24, 1913-
HAPPY AT LAST BIG MONEY COUNT
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Shawnee Couple Sought t In Tremendous Task Confronts
Many Cities for License." I i Sew Treasurer.
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Found It at CoffeyTille Record of Funds and Securities
Groom, 18; Bride, 15.
Must Be Taken.
If
They wanted to marry. And no one
would marry them. They traveled
over a good part of the state of Kan
sas; and Journeyed down into Mis
souri in search of a license. Despite
the charms of the would-be bride and
the oaths of the would-be groom, the
probate judges remained inexorable.
They were in despair George Rich
ard, a six-foot 18-year-old. and Ethel
Murphy, a pretty girl who is just 15.
Finally luck turned and the pair re
joiced. Ethel is the daughter of B. F. Mur
phy, a prominent Tecumseh farmer,
and the sister of Mrs. B. F. Cope of
Topeka. George was one of the
steadiest hands on an adjoining farm,
end has been gazing tenderly at Ethel
for many months. Mrs. Murphy died
several years ago, the older sisters
married and the care of the household
devolved upon little Ethel. Doubt
less she preferred strolling with
George to washing dishes.
Her fifteenth birthday came on
Wednesday, March 5. The following
Sunday she went walking and never
came back. Her father was frantic.
Presently it was discovered that young
Richard had also disappeared. The
runaways were traced to Kansas City,
where they applied for a license and
were refused. It was rumored that
similar heartrending occurrences had
taken place in Lawrence, Atchison
and Leavenworth.
Same story everywhere. The elop
ers stalked into the office of a pro
bate judge with dignity.
"We'd like a license to get mar
ried," George explained with assur
ance. . "Cm-." the clerk meditatively- eyed
the youthful pair. Ethel pushed back
her brown curls and stared haughtily
with wide blue eyes at the skeptical
official.
"We're 21 and 18," pursued George,
nonchalantly. "We're . "
"Sorry," responded the stolid clerk,
noting Ethel's childish anxiety. "We
can't issue the license. You're too
young."
Ethel was still wearing the dark
frock and red sweater in which she
had left Tecumseh. She wept copi
ously and was comforted by the
groom.
Finally they stopped In Coffeyville.
George had gained wisdom with tribu
lation. He is six feet tall and broad
shouldered. He went to the office of
the probate judge alone. He found
an unsophisticated maiden acting as
clerk. He asked for the license, and
got it. They were married on March
13 by the Rev. Arthur Long of Cof
feyville. "They're as happy as two birds in
a nest," reported Sheriff L. L. Kiene,
who has been inevstigating the case.
"George has a position in a brick
yard, and they've rented a furnished
cottage near Coffeyville."
Mr. Kiene looked up the affair this
morning, found they were really mar
ried and en route for forgiveness.
The Murphys are willing to recognize
the match and forgive the diminutive
runaway bride.
Sewer Plans Complete.
Dodge City, Kan., March 24. Prelim
inary surveys and plans for the sewer
are almost complete, according to ad
vice from Engineer Fred Eckert. of
Larned, and the plats will be submitted
to the state board of health in a few
days. The city commission feels it has
one of the best set of plans yet drawn
in the state and has great confidence
the state board will sanction -it. They
are based on a population of 15.000,
while the city now has but 5.000. When
the plans are sanctioned a 40,000 bond
issue will be made for the trunk lines.
It is thought fully 20 miles of laterals
will be built in the next three years.
"Biggins says he owes everything to his
wife." "That isn't true." replied Biggins'
father-in-law. "His wife quit lending him
anything years ago and then he started
In owing me." Washington Star.
TOMORROW
BUTTER
Country Rolls and Prints
Per Lb.
2Sc
EGGS
All fresh stock, no storage
mixture
Per Doz.
7c
ONIONS
Large Northern red globes
Per Peck
1 Oc
SPINACH
Southern gTown, nice and
tender
Per Peck
15c
MORNS & MYERS
Washington, March 24. The great
est count of money and securities in
the history of the world will begin
at the treasury lepamnent on April
1, when John Burke, former governor
of North Dakota, takes the oath of of
fice as treasurer of the United States,
succeeding Carmi A. Thompson.
To safeguard the nation's wealth.
Uncle Sam requires that the retiring
treasurer's reeor 1 cf '.he transfer . :f
funds be verifio". by J count of the
, notes, coin and securities in the treas-
ury. Secretary McAdoo will appoint
a committee to take charge of the
vaults and each vault and safe will be
sealed on April 1 in preparation for
the count. Only enough money tO
' keep the wheels of government revolv-
ing will be laid aside for daily use
while the counting is in progress.
It generally requires from two to ,
five months to mako the count. A ,
government mathematician has fig- j
, ured out that it would take one per-1
I son 300 years to verify Mr. Thompson's I
records. Ordinarily every note, bond j
and other security is counted, stored 1
in bags containing Jl.ouo eacn, usuai
: ly is weighed, a test btg being bal
anced against all others for verifica
. tion.
i Armed guards stand over the
' counters and workmen to protect
them from interference.
Losses seldom have been found in
these counts. When the treasurer was
changed some years ago $600 was
stolen during the official count. A
laborer engaged to lift the heavy bags
of coin substituted leaden disks for
several dollars in several bags; neces
sitating a five months' count of every
dollar of the $115,000,000 In the big
silver vault. The laborer was con
victed of the theft and the retiring
treasurer relieved by congress of the
responsibility for the loss. When Car
mi -Thompson succeeded Lee Mc
Clung as treasurer he received over
$1,300,000,000. He must account for
every cent of that amount, plus the
millions he. has since received, minus
expenditures.
While the treasurer of the United
States hanadles no money personally,
he is the only bonded official in his
office. His $150,000 bond covers every
subordinate, and for many years
treasurers have urged congress to
order the bonding of the employes
who actually handle the $6,000,000,000
which pass through the treasurer's of
fice annually.
ALTAR TO" JAIL
Young Couple Married in To
peka This Morning.
Were Under Age Parents
Bride Jfotify Police.
of
Within a few hours after they were
married by Probate Judge Hugh Mac
Farland this morning Thomas Carroll
of Troy, Kan., and Mary Slauhgter of
Wathena. were arrested by the police
on a charge of perjury. The young
people swore that they were 21 and
18 years of age respectively, both of
them taking the oath. The parents
of the girl declare she is only 15 and
that her young husband is only 11
years old.
The arrest was made at the home of
A. W. Carroll, 1122 West Second street,
a brother of the groom, about 1 o'clock.
The brother and his wife accompanied
the couple to the probate judge's of
fice this morning to be married.
A message from Wathena reached
the local police this morning shortly
before 11 o'clock, asking if the couple
had asked for a lincense here. But it
already was too late to prevent the
ceremony being performed, the couple
having been waiting for Judge Mac
Farland when he came down this
morning. The Wathena parents of the
girl thereupon asked, tnat Dotn me
' young folks be arrested for perjury,
: and within fv-ur hours of the time they
were pronounced husband and wife,
both had been locked in the city
prison.
However they will not desert one
noiin tr, "stiok" and risk the conse- f
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quences. I
"I'll never leave her." declared young '
Carroll. And when the young bride
was interviewed she defiantly made
the same assertion.
' According to the young people the
girl went to the home of a friend near
Wathena last night. There Carroll
met her and they drove to a station
nearby and took an early train for To
peka. He said that her father had
refused to permit her to go with him
and had gone so far as to threaten
to shoot him if he attempted to go ;
with her. Then the young folks, vow
ing that they would not be thwarted, '
planned the elopement that landed j
them in jail this afternoon.
During the morning Judge McFar- I
land officiated at four weddings, and j
issued a fifth license. It was the best '
, day for weddings since Judge MacFar
1 land has been in office. The marriages
included the runaway couple, who were
first on the scene. Then Jesse F. .
Johnson, 47 years old, brought in Rosa
Mann, 4o years old, and the judge of
ficiated at his second wedding. The
groom is a Topekan, but his bride
came here from Grayville, 111., to be
married.
Hardly had they left the office be
fore Walter Kinnett, IS years old, and
Nettie Keeton, 18 years old, presented
themselves as candidates for a license.
They brought with them O. P. Kinnett.
father of the groom, to vouchsafe his
permission that they might embark on
the matrimonial seas. The groom cama
from Wakarusa while the bride, who
was of marriageable age, said her
home was at Berryton.
The fourth couple to be married were
from Rossville. They came in Just
before noon. They were Frank Bro
gence, 25 years old, and Mary Ondrova,
20 years old.
The License issued to the fifth
couple, who were not married at the
court house, went to Charles E. Hill,
over 21 years old. of Sylvan Grove,
Kan., and Clara Gibson, over 21 years
old, Kensington, Kan.
Grinder "I see that a fellow over in
England has invented a wire netting guard
that will prevent automobiles from spat
tering mud on pedestrians." Grouch
"But what's mud for?" Cleveland plain
Dealer.
Most of Them Like New Some Manufacturers' Samples
A Few Discontinued Styles Several High-Grade Pianos
Used Very Little Taken in Exchange on Player-Pianos---Sale
Began this Morning, March 24, at 9 a. m.
Considering the unquestionable values offered during this sale by a Reliable Piano House, no one interested in
the purchase of a good Piano, should fail to visit this store as early as possible the coming week and examine the
numerous splendid Piano Bargains. We guarantee quality as the principal inducement. However, the prices are
sacrificed to the limit. Terms arranged to suit the buyer. Only a partial list can bt! enumerated here, giving an
approximate idea of the quality represented, and the range of prices. A complete equipment of stool, scarf and in
struction book FREE with each Piano. Freight prepaid to towns within a radius of 60 miles of Topeka. Railway
fares refunded to out-of-town buyers for the same distance. -
Marion T STEINW JgggjL '
SI1' 5211 lC 112015
$5.00 Cash, $3.00 Monthly. $5.00 Cash, $5.00 Monthly. $8.00 Cash, $5.00 Monthly. $8.00 Cash, $6.00 Monthly.
MASON SHAMLIN
$5.00 Cash, $4.00 Monthly.
T'WALDHEIM
$15c
$6.00 Cash, $5.00 Monthly.
T ELDRIDGE
$7.00 Cash, $5.00 Monthly.
y- .
J CAPEN
$8.00 Cash, $7.00 Monthly.
$5.00 Cash, $5.00 Monthly.
IBBl
$10.00 Cash, $10.00 Monthly.
JTschiller)
r15J
$6.00 Cash, $5.00 Monthly.
TvoSE&SONS
$10.00 Cash, $10.00 Monthly.
JJiicraNG: j
IBIS
$8.00 Cash, $6.00 Monthly.
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I JjgANICH&iS
$10.00 Cash, $8.00 Monthly.
TfiAlXET&BM
$10.00 Cash, $10.00 Monthly.
T SHONINGER
$15.00 Cash, $10.00 Monthly.
Also Several S i3ht y Used P.ayer-Pianos at $275, $350, $390 and $490
The Reliable Kansas Piano House"
EHB MUSIS 60.
THIS STORE WILL BE
OPEN EVERY
EVENING THIS
WEEK.
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630 KANSAS AVE., TOPEKA
Out-of-town buyers are
requested to write for
complete descriptive
price list.
NEW WORD LIST.
Simplified Spelling Kales Issued
Board of Orthography.
New Tork, March 24. The simplified
spelling board has issued its fourth list
of words to appear in new fashioned or
thography. Approximately 1,000 words are
shortened or changed In spelling.
Some of the changes are: Dropping the
silent "h" in such words as chaos and
chameleon; dropping the" final "k" in
words like hammock; changing heart and
hearth to hart and harthv dropping the
silent "e" in money and similar words;
substituting laf for laugh and cof for
cough, omitting the "g" in pnat, gnome
and similar words; substituting nee for
knee and nicnac for knickknack and drop
ping the -k" in similar words; changing
pranced to pranst and others words end
ing with "ned" to "nst."
In the new list touch is spelled tuch;
serious is changed to serius; blow is
spelled bio; bellow is changed to bello;
forced to forst; phantom to fantom;
handsome to handsum; boss to bos; glue
to glu and wretch to retch. Each of these
instances typifies a rule and is followed
by a long list of words to which it ap
plies. Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt
and a score of other noted men are in
cluded in the list of the board's members.
Announces Eliot Declination.
Washington, March 24. Official
announcement was made at the
White House today that former Pres
ident Eliot of Harvard has declined
President Wilson' offer to be am
bassador to Great Britain. Mr. Eliot
wired his thanks,, but said he thought
he could be of more service to the
country at home, working in a famil
iar field than abroad.
Woodmen at Iola.
Head Camp Jurisdiction Kansas,
Woodmen of the World,- will meet
Tuesday and Wednesday at Iola to
choose delegates to the soverign con
vention which will be held at Jackson
ville, Fla., in May. The delegates to
the meeting from Topeka will be G. E.
Herring, W. S. Hayslip, J. E. Collins,
P. J. Bakule and Robert Steele. Jno.
W. Kaiser, the head consul, and N. H.
Wolff, the head clerk are candidates
for re-election.
Cotton Man Indicted.
Savannah, March 24. Fleming E.
Tii.slny, a member of the cotton firm
of Tinsley & Hull, who recently failed,
has been indicted on the charge of
grand larceny. The amount involved
in one indictment is 22,000. It was
charged that Tinsley, who had been
arrested, withdrew from banks cotton
receipts which had been hypothecated,
and did not return them. Tinsley was
released on bond.
A Strong "Dry" Contest.
Ottawa, Kan., March 24. Great en
thusiasm is being manifested over the
state prohibition contest which is to
be held here next Friday and from in
dications, it will be one of the strong
est contests that has ever been held
here. The chief interest is c-ntered
on Jesse Elder, the Ottawa orator,
and Howard H. Finley, of Winfield.
Finley won first place in the old line
TORNADOES
Read about Omaha It may be Topeka turn next.
The Rates Are Low
Call Us by Phone.
Phone 505 SHAWNEE AGENCY 534 Kan. Ave.
contest last year and Elder second in
the prohibition contest two years ago.
New York Money Market.
New Tork, March 24. MONEY Money
on call firm, 46 per cent; ruling rate,
4 per cent; closing bid 4 per cent; offered
at 414 per cent. Time loans, easier; 60
days, 65 per cent; 99 days, per
cent ;6 months, Bfg&H per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, C per
cent. 1
Sterling exchange firm with actual busi
ness In bankers' bills at $4.83 for 60 day
bills and at f4.87.50 for demand. Com
mercial bills $4.82"4.
SIL.VER Bar silver, 66c; Mexican dol
lars, 47c.
BONDS Government bonds steady, rail
road bonds.- trrecnlar. -