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WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA. KANSAS. FEBRUARY 10, 1915.
"V7EDNESDAY EVENING-
THIS EDITION 2 CZ3T3
EAR RINGS AND
R0UGE7--NEVER!
Bill in Honse Prohibiting Use
of Woman's Beauty Makers.
TRIM STATE FAIR BILLS
FOR HUTCTOI-TOFEKA
House Ways and . Means Committee
. Cuts Appropriation.
SENATE FIGIITS w.WS"
... .. . A TOO CJrUE . !
IN BATTLE FOR
q::e n cz3 heso
DOT!! JATIOilS
SKY
Fo b.:floy cf soti fe
THE DIG PASSES
WANTED PEACE
UN IU Jl KtUUKU
French and German Fighters Stop
Assistant Superintendent of Shops
Firing in . Trenches
Enters Private Field.
New Mark for Continuous
Session Is Established.
One of the Fiercest Engage
Proposals and Counter Pmh
For Salt-Sand City $15,000 and Capi
tal City Only $10,000.
And Witness . Thrilling Battle
Well Known- Topekan WH1 Manufac
ments of the War
posals by France and Germany.
Clouds Above Them.
ture Appliances.
Even Innocent Powder Rag
Must Be Contraband.
HIT AT THE JM LOBBYISTS
But Representative McGinnis
Would Not Admit It.
Second Freak Measure to En
lighten 1915 Session.
Drug store complexions and ear bob
adornments will be under the ban In
Kaunas If the legislature passes the bill
Introduced in the house today by Rep
resentative McGinnis of Greeley coun
ty. The member from Greeley county
believes Kansas women should stand
pat on native beauty and taboo drug
store beautifiers, hair dressing decep-
Giving Her to "Once Over."
tions and ear sparklers to attract the
attentions of mere men. Not since
Cones of Meade introduced the patella
bill in 1911, has the legislature re
ceived a bill that promises to attract
such wide attention as the McGinnis
pure complexion bill.
For the Kansas woman who jingles
and rattles with chains and chate
laines and wears diamond ear bobs
and more rings than a cane rack, the
(CouttnuKU on .(Vita Trq-t
ACCUSES 17ILS0N
Representative Good of Iowa
Charges That the President
Influenced the I. C. C. in East
ern Freight Rate Decision.
Washington, Feb. 10. Representa
tive Good of Iowa precipitated a live
ly wrangle in the house today by
charging that President Wilson influ
enced the interstate commerce com
mission to grant the five per cent in
crease in rates to eastern railways.
The incident occurred during the
debute on a motion by Oillett of Mas
sachusetts to strike out the civil sun
dry hill, a three million dollar ap
propriation to continue the physical
valuation of the country's railways.
The first to answer Good was Gor
don of Ohio, who declared it was the
first time any one had dared
to say so openly what Re
publican members had been
whispering among themselves. He
had heard the ch'arpre, he stated, and
had gone to the president about it.
The president told him. he said, that
it whs untrue and that he would as
soon think of trying to influence the
supreme court.
Commissioner Daniels, who has I
rone to Chicago to take evidence on
rnc question of increasing rates in
the west as axkeil by western rail
roads, will file a recommendation fa
voring a five per cent increase, he
predicted.
"And the interstate commerce com
mission, under pr?ssure from the
president, will grant the increase," he
went on.
LYNCHES A WHITE MAN
Kentucky Mob Hangs Killer Beside
the Court House.
f &s , m
Mavficld. Ky.. Feb. 10. Thomas j management of county affairs. Coun
Tinke'r. whitA whn it is Ph.irirt shnt tv superintendents, county attorneys,
and killed Constable Richard Tart, i cou,nty clerks, three commissioners
was taken from the county jail hereiand an offlci-il to perform the services
iate last night and lynched. His body
was then riddled with bullets.
The lynching was done by fifty or
more men. who rode in from the
northern part of the county, where the
nhooting of the constable took place.
Some of the men were masked. Ar
riving in 'own the lynchers went to
the Jail where they demanded that
Tinker be given over to them. Jailer
Douplin sar th futility of resistance,
it is said, and the men took Tinker out
and hanged him to a tree beside the
court house.
The shooting of Constable Tart took
place Monday at Melber, when he and
Constable Skaggs attempted to arrest
Tinker on a charge of house breaking.
RUN TO BASEMENTS.
Hull. Kng.. Feb. 10. When the
whistles blow at night, street lamps
will be switched off, street cars
stopped and all citizens should run
for their basements. Such are the
precautions against German air
raids made by the military author
ities at Hull. It was at first pro
posed to cut off the electric system
and the gas mains entirely, but in
asmuch as the householders prom
ised to keep their blinds down this
idea was abandoned.
SEJUATE MAY RAISE IT
But Both Fairs 1VUI Be Reduced to
a Low Fund.
Recognition From State to Both Ex
position!) Here.
The house ways and means commit
tee today trimmed 993,000 off the
Hutchinson fair bill and cut another
$20,000 from thei ' appropriation bill
for the Topeka state fair. A total ap
propriation of $26,000 for the two
fairs was recommended in the report
$15,000 for Hutchinson and $10,000
for the Topeka fair.
In their original bill, the Hutchin
son institution aeked for $108,000.
The bill included t nearly $80,000 for
new buildings. All building items
were eliminated From the bill. The
Reno county institution .also asked
for a fat appropriation for improve
ments, upkeep and a revolving fund.
But many of the dreams of the
Hutchinson Fair association will nev
er come true. The bill allows $10,000
for a revolving fund and $5,000 for
improvements of buildings now on
the grounds. Not one cent does the
committee recommend ror new build
ings; x
Topeka asked ' a revolving fund of
$30,000 for her. fair. She wanted a
fund of $15,000 a. year to provide for
a revolving fund to meet premiums in
event of bad weather and the gate re
ceipts failed to take care of the pre
mium list. The committee gives $10,
000 to be used during the two years.
It is regarded as probable that the
senate will attempt to raise the ap
propriation recommended by the
house committee.. Members of the
house committee, through Chairman
Keene are inclined to hold down the
fair appropriations sought by the two
state fairs. Both fairs, however, will
receive recognition at the hands of the
state and each will draw an appro
priation, although there is every indi
cation that the amount appropriated
will be far . below the amount re
quested. . -
ROB KANSAS BANK
Four Men Lock Cashier
Vault at Yates Center.
In
Posse Captures Two Took
$3,800 From Safes.
Tates Center, Kan., Feb. 10. The
State Exchange bank or. Yates Center
was robbed of $3,800 this afternoon
by four men who locked Cashier W.
J. O'Donnell in the vault after point
ing a gun at him. The robbers left
the bank on foot and two of them
were later captured two miles east of
town and the money recovered by
Sheriff William Carroll and a posse.
O'Donnell was released from the
vault by Miss Clara Winter, book
keeper, when she returned from
luncheon.
The youths refuse to give their
names.
The other two men are thought to
be hiding in a woods about 3 miles
from here, and the woods has been
surrounded in the hopes of capturing
them.
Only one of the men was armed.
The men had the appearance of being
hoboes. No one seems to know how
or when they came into town.
WINlOUNTTBILL
r. ...-u.i-: -wr -n .
s"iiuiiuii censure -inrpun-
ed Out of House Committee.
Claimed That State Will Save
$528,350 a Year by Method.
. The house committee on efficiency
and economy today recommended for
passage the Martin bill for consolida
tion of county offices. All members
of the committee voted to recommend
its passage at this session of the leg
islature. Under the bill, it is claimed that the
state will save $528,350 a year in
of probate judge and clerk of the diS'
trict court would be elected. All .other
officials would be appointed.
It is probable that the bill will come
up for consideration in the house
some time next week.
LET THE PUBLIC KNOW
House Bill
Directed at Contracting
Business.
Two bills directed at the public
contracting business with the object
of putting the public in possession of
all trie details connected with tne
award of any contract for a bridge or
; building in any city or county of the
: state have been introduced by Sen
ator J. W. Howe of Abilene. One re-
! fers to the business in the charge of
i county commissioners, the other to
! that in the hands of city commis-
i sioners or ouncilmen.
! Both bills are similar in their pro-
visions that whenever any contract is
! awarded the names and bids of all
i competitors for public business shall
: be published within 20 days after the
j contract has been awarded, together
with explanations in the case that a
contract is not given to the lowest
Dtaaer.
At One Time Only Five Sena
tors in the Chamber.
EYES ARE JADLY SWOLLEN
New Stenographic Reporters
Required to Handle Work.
Bitter Struggle for Supremacy
. Telling on Employees.
Washington, Feb. 10. All records
for continuous session in the senate in
the present generation, at least, were
ENGLISH ROYALTY, GERMAN TO THE BONE,
WONT PERMIT PRESS
King and Queen of England and tna
ant of cartoon they oppose. f
King George and Queen Mary of
England, both nearly fuil-blooded
Germans, are jaid to be personally
responsible for the order of the
censor prohibiting the further publi
cation m one of the London morning
newspapers of a series of cartoons
which caricatured and insulted the
German emperor. Their majesties
have not even been content to let the
matter rest there. The war office has
made a ruling that the cartoons can
not be sent to soldiers in the field,
and the publishers have been corn
celled to make a statement to that
effect.
broken today by the prolongation of
Monday's session devoted to the ad
ministration ship purchase bill over
the morning hours. In 1893 the re
peal of the silver purchase clause of
the Sherman law kept the senate in
continuous session for 38 hours and
45 minutes, a record for that period
and one that was not surpassed until
2:45 a. m. today.
Still the opponents to the passing of
the ship purchasing bill fought on aft
er their record for endurance had
gone down as historical. Senator
(Continued on Pase Two,
WILSON IS FIRM
President Will Call an Extra
Session of Congress
Unless the Ship and Appropri
ation Bills Are Passed.
Washington, Feb. 10. President
Wilson today definitely decided to call
an extra session of congress on March
5, if the senate filibuster on the ship
Durchase bill continues. He. will call
the special session both for appropria
tion bills which fail and to make an
other attempt to force through the
ship bill in the next congress.
The president's decision to call an
extra session, if the senate filibuster
continues, was reached at an early
conference today with Democratic
Leader Underwood and senate leaders.
It was . stated that the president
would not consent to drop the fight
for the ship bill either in the present
or next session. Another plan dis
cussed at the White House conference
was for immediate introduction for
passage in the house of the Gore sub
stitute ship purchase bill with the
amendment favored by the Progressive-Republican
senators.
A definite decision on this plan was
not reached.
House leaders said there was a ma
jority of from 26 to 30 in favor of the
legislation in the present house but
admitted prospects of such a bill in
the next house, with -a greatly reduced
Democratic majority, was doubtful.
A proposition to tack the shipping
bill on as an amendment to the Weeks
bill already passed by the senate and
now pending before the house was
considered by tne president.
The Weeks bill provides for use of
certain naval vessels for commercial
purposes In times of peace.
CHARGED GERMAN TAUBE
French Monoplane Mortally Injured
Big Armored Bird.
Brilliant Maneuvers on. High While
Infantry Cheered.
Dunkirk, France, Feb. 10. A fight
betwen two French aeroplanes and
one of the new "armored" German
monoplanes, a type which has only
recently begun to appear on the
northwestern front, was witnessed by
thousands today.:.
For half an hour the black Taube
had been describing infernal circles
over our lines, while the men crouch
ed in their trenches, covering with
their bodies bayonets, mess-tins and
TO LAMPOON KAISER
DElVTll
VILlHELM
everything else whose glittering Bur
face might betray their position.
Suddenly a French airman emerged
from a cloud above the Taube. The
dry bark of a mitrailleuse announced
that the Frenchman was attacking
The Taube turned tail without reply
ing, but only to return to the battle.
Then the two great birds charged
head-on. From below it seemed that
they must meet in a terrible shock.
Nothing of the sort; the German
passed a little above the Frenchman,
the machine guns spoke. Carried
Comlm-eil on fagv l wikJ
FEES FOjUVIIOM?
Resolution in Senate to Draw
Up Bill of Settlement.
Close, Controrersy Over Right
to State Collections.
The controversy over the legality of
the collection of certain fees for their
personal benefit by the treasurer and
auditor of Etate, which figured in the
last political campaign, has reached
the senate in the form of a resolution
adopted today under which a special
committee has been instructed to re
port. The committee co. listing of Sen
ators Bowman. Price of Clark, King,
Mahin and Trott, is instructed to ad
vise the senate as to the exact status
of the fee controversy and to propose
a law which will effectually prevent
the retention of any further fees by
any state officers.
The resolution was introduced this
morning by Senator Davis and was
passed without objection.
PAYING THE FIDDLER.
Girl Who Danced to Excess Dies of
Heart Failure.
Hammond, Ind., Feb. 10. "Did you
have a good time at the party?" asked
Mrs. W. D. Krueger of her daughter
Gertrude, aged 18.
"Yes, I had a dandy time danced
every dance but I feel iueer."
The young woman 'was found dead
in bed . soon after of heart failure
brought on by excessive danfeing.
Weather Forecast, for Kansas. ;
Fair tonight and Thursday; warmer
in the north and west portions to
night. :
PS Fa i f
In Progress for Possession of
the Carpathians.
SLGrES STREV.7I V.TTH DEM
Both Sides Still Bringing Up
Reinforcements.
Russian Success Will Open the
Road Into Hungary.
Petrograd, Feb. 10. The battle for
the slopes of the Carpathians and the
passes which command the fertile
Hungarian plains is being- waged with
a desperation that is unprecedented.
The mountain sides are strewn with
dead and dying. Both sides are be
ing constantly reinforced and the bat
tle is developing so that it promises
to become one of the most decisive of
the war.
If the Russians win and all reports
indicate that the 'advantage is with
them then they will-be able to retain
their "holdings, in Bukowina . and also
to attempt an invasion- in force of
Hungary. If they are forced to re
tire; it will not be disastrous inasmuch
as, they will simply fall-back on their
strongly entrenched.- positions in Ga
licia and northern and eastern Buko
wina..' ' -
At Bartfield and Svidnik. the at
tacks . of the Germans have been re
pulsed with heavy losses and. in the
region of Lupkow pass, they have
..- (Continued on Pas. Twal
IN SPECIAL ORDER
House Takes Up Constitutional
Amendments Today.
Nine Provisions To Be Dis-
posed of hy Legislators.
An open season on constitutional
amendments was declared in the
house today un.'er a special order for
consideration of all proposed constitu
tional proartsions before the state, leg
islature. v Tne -peel l oraer was
scheduled for Ilr' o'clock this morn
ing, but under the regular order of
business was delayed and it is probable
that much of the day's session will be
taken up with consideration of the
proposed amendments.
Nine constitutional provisions have
been submitted to the legislature at
this session. After working an entire
half day recently, the house in com
mittee of the whole recommended a
number of measures back to third
reading for amendment and debate.
The legislature can suomit out tnree
amendments to the 'voters in 1916.
Of the measures which may he adopt
ed at today's session, .the house mem
bers must elect as to the ones which
they favor . submitting. If three
amendments are submitted, it is prob
able that under rules established by
precedent, the house will designate
two amendments and the senate one.
Amendments called for consideration
under the special order are:
In itiative and referendum. .
Three-fourths Jury verdict.
Increase per diem members legis
lature.
Provision for submission six instead
of three amendments.
Four-year terms for state and
county officers.
Direct taxation for support state
schools.
Municipal home rule.
Permitting state to ei.gage in high
way building.
Nonpartisan ballot lor county orri
cials. RAISE STATE DARS
Statewide Live Stock Quaran
tine Raised by Riddle Today.
Only Four Counties Held Out
Against Shipments.
An order effective tonight at mid
night modifying the quarantine situa
tion, due to the foot and mouth dis
ease in Kansas, was today issued from
the office of Taylor Riddle, live stock
sanitary commission. The order raises
all restrictions on shipment of cattle,
goats, sheep and swine into the state
with the exception of the four south
ern counties, Sedgwick. Sumner, Cow
ley and Butler. A rigid quarantine
will be continued on these counties.
However, the order permits the
shipping of cattle into the four coun
ties for immediate slaughter, where
the origin of the shipment is known,
and the live stock is given a clean bill
of health.
Public sales will continue to be pro
hibited in the four counties. All re
strictions in other parts of the state
are removed.
Taylor Riddle, who arrived in To
peka from Wichita today., stated that
the situation was well in hand and
that no new cases have been reported.
The strict quarantine will be contin
ued on the four counties as a precau
tionary measure.
The quarantine order on shipment
of cattle into the state was .issued
February 1, following an-investigation
of the disease by state authorities in
the southern counties.
Day in Coagrrse-
Washington, Feb. 10. There was
no respite in the fight on the admin
ist ration ship bill in the senate. The
continuous session grew into the long
est on record. House debate was con
tinued on the civil sundry appropria
tion bill. Leaders discussed plans for
starting the shin bill without waitinc
for the senate's action.
IN SERVICE HERE IN 1889
Went Into Santa Fe Shops as Boiler
maker IS Tears Ago.
Topeka Will Remain as Headquarters
of His New Firm.
Archie M. Baird. assistant superin
tendent of the Santa Fe shops in To
peka, resigned effective February 1, to
devote his whole time to different
firms manufacturing his patents.
Archie M. Baird. Assistant Superin
tendent of the Santa Fe Shops. Who
Has Resigned.
Mr. Baird entered railway service
in 1870 with the Illinois Central, serv
ing out his apprenticeship there as a
boilermaker. From the Illinois Cen
tral he took charge of tne boiler shops
of the Burlington. Cedar Rapids and
Northern railroad. Later he became
general foreman of the boiler shops
of the Wabash in Chicago. He left
that system to take charge of the
erection of a steel mill in Bridgeport,
Chicago, which changed the opera
tion from the "hand and hooker"
process to the direct process, which
means that the melting of ore is the
only heat necessary until the product
of the mill comes out a steel rail.
After completing this work, Mr.
Baird went to Waukesha. Wis., to
take charge of b boiler shops of the
nrjBcsnnn ucntnu.; j.
In 1889 he entered Santa Fe service
in Topeka as general boilermaker In
the shops . here. During' the years
that followed he wa the inverter of
fContlaued on Page Two.
RATTLE IN SNOW
Troop Movements Are Difficult
in the Carpathians.
Austrians Find It Hard to Drive
Out Russians.
Berlin, Feb. 10. A description of
conditions under which battles are be
ing waged In the Carpathians is con
tained in a dispatch to the Lokal
Anzelger from its correspondent in
the mountains who says:
"Deep snow lies in the Carpathians
and troop movements are confined to
the valley paths. These marches are
slow and deployment for battle is ex
tremely difficult. The Russians are
pressing with very considerable forces
against Dukla pass and are contin
ually bringing up new troops there.
"On the rest of the long front, the
Russians are in excellently fortified
positions, which are very hard to cap
ture. Under these circumstances the
operations of the allied Austro-Hun-garian
and German troops are slowed
up in spite of their greatest efforts.
Successes which are achieved in turn
by both sides have only local signifi
cance. "Speculations concerning far-seeing
plans are idle. As long as natural
obstacles prescribe the conduct of the
war on both sides, we must be satis
fied if we succeed in forcing the Rus
sians back step by step out of the
mountains borders and simultaneously
repel thetr attempts to break through
into Hungary."
AHA, 'TIS SPRING, LA
Prolonged Sample of Mild Weather
- Given to Kansas.
Kansas experienced a sample of real
spring weather today, and according
to the weather prophet it is to be a
prolonged sample. Fair weather is
scheduled for tonight and Thursday
with a slight rise in temperature in
the north and west " portions of the
state tonight. The minimum tem
perature at Topeka this morning 30
degreees was 18 degrees above nor
mal for this date. A 20 iiile breeze
from the south brought the weather
needle up to 43 degrees by 9 o'clock.
The weather was of . a near-April
brand.
Shippers' forecast: "Protect 36
hour shipments north and west
against temperature of 30 degrees:
east and south, above freezing."
The highest temperature on this
date in the 28 years that the local rec
ords have been kept was 64 degrees
in 180; the lowest was 6 below zero
in 1905. The stage of the Kaw river
was 3.7 feet.
Wannest Since Thanksgiving.
This was the warmest day since last
Thanksgiving. The mercury "tickled"
the warm weather mark for this date.
The temperature at two o'clock this,
afternoon was 62. The temperature
for the day averaged 21 degrees above
normal.
The hourly readings:
7 o'clock. .. . .41111 o'clock
..60
..55
..5t
..2
8 o'clock
....41
12 o'clock
I 9 o'clock .....43
1 o'clock
2 o'clock
110 o'clock .....46!
Terms If ere Changed by Bat
tle of the Marne.
REEDY TO 83 A TEEITY
A Party at Paris Willing to Pay
an Indemnity.
After Reverse, Berlin Offered
Alsace and Lorraine.
Paris, Feb. 10. Certain French
newspapers today reprint with the
consent of the government censors an
article published in the Democrats de
Delamont. stating that previous to the
battle of the Marne a party existed In
France which was ready to sign a
peace treaty, at the same time ceding
to Germany the towns of Brier and
Nancy; French Lorraine, the Island
of Madagascar and the protectorate of
Morocco, as well as paying an Indem
nity. The article continues:
"General Joffre. the French commander-in-chief.
President Raymond
Polncare and most of the cabinet min
isters were opposed to the plan, but
the situation became so tense as to
necessitate the resignation of. Adolphe
Mesimy as minister of war and the
formation of a ministry of national
defense. After the battle of the
Marne Germany proposed peace
inrougn ex-fremier Joseph Caillaux,
offering to give up the provinces of
Alsace and Lorraine, with the excep
tion oi BtrassDurg, receiving in ex
change a small sone on the North sea
coast extending from Calais to Dun-
KirK. trance In addition was to ac
knowledge the annexation of Belgium
by Germany.
"The answer to this proposal was
the signing of a convention by the al
lies to make no separate peace. After
this M. Caillaux was appointed to an
important position in the pay corps,
but later was relieved of this post and
sent on a mission to Brazil."
CLUB T0DEtlS0
Topeka Baseball Franchise
Cathlcr of Cksmaa-Arkah
Bank Will Be Sole Owner.
SEVERAL FLAYERS CCISIDEflED
Manager Will Be Announced
After Chicago Meeting.
Old Directors and Commercial
Cluh Will Aid Work.
In a final effort to keep Topeka on
the Western League baseball map, an
agreement was reached this afternoon
whereby the franchise, held by the
German-American bank, was turned
over 10 ueorge r. censon oi lopeica,
cashier of the bank, and both the old
club directors and the bank officials
notified the league owners to recog
nize Mr. Benson and his agents as the
sole owner of the club and franchise.
The formal transfer of the bank
holdings will he made to Mr. Benson
some time this afternoon. E. W.
Sloan, a Kansas City lawyer, is repre
senting Mr. Benson in Chicago and he
will attend to the arranging of the
schedule and other matters that may
come up at the meeting of club own
ers. He holds Mr. Benson's proxy.
Mr. Benson states that he has the
assurance that the Commercial club
will assist him in every possible way.
as will the directors of the old club.
Several player managers are being
considered and a contract will prob
ably be closed with one of them just
as soon after the Chicago meeting is
over.
Neither the bank nor the old di
rectors will have anything to do with
the team, and Mr. Benson stated at 1
o'clock this afternoon that he saw no
reason why he would not be able to
keep the team here and make it a
paying proposition.
Old Directors Out.
Arch M. Catlin, president of the old
club, announced this afternoon that
he had wired Mr. Bear, who is in Chi
cago, to assist the representative of
Mr. Benson in getting recognition be
fore the Western league owners, and
that the old directors are now down
and out, leaving the matter wholly
in the hands of the bank officials.
"However," Mr. Catlin said, "if the
team ts kept here, the old directors
expect to boost it in every way and
will do everything possible to make it
a success. We will lend our support
to the management in every way and
will work for it just as enthusiastical
ly as we ever have. The only thing
we will not do as we have in the past
is to go down into our pockets and
give our own money to keep the team
going."
WORK FOR OLD HEX. .
Northampton, Feb. 10. Old men
who had either retired from work
or had been crowded out by their
youngers, some of them even taken
from the almshouse, are employed
at good wages in Nottingham, mak
ing army boots. , Riveters who lost
their places because the invention
of mechanical substitutes are now
busy hammering hob nails into
soles. The gardens and even the
farms have given recruits to the,
lactones, wmcn are now turning
out 90.000 pairs of boots a week.
Men whose ages range about 70
years are welcomed by the con
tractors. . .j