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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1918
LIKE THE OLD DAYS
Utilizing Mississippi as Trans
portation Medium.
Fleet of Government Barges Is
Jfow Being Planned.
RELIEVE RAILROAD CONGESTION
Revival of Hirer Traffic Will
Have a Good Effect.
An $8,000,000 Appropriation
Bill Is Pending in Congress.
La Crosse, Wis., July IS. The plan
to utilize the Mississippi river as a
medium of transportation la being
pushed rapidly and with an Industrial
survey of the river valley in progress,
a fleet of government barges with
their noses turned toward northern
ports from St. Louis and an $8,000,000
appropriation bill pending In congress,
an early return of lumbering days ac
tivity on the stream is confidently ex
pected. To relieve railroad congestion was
prime object in the movement for
reviving river traffic, which was led
by Congressman John J. Esch. of La
Crosse and others. The cargo capacity
of the first fleet of government barges
is 4.500 tons, and E. F. Goltra, presi
dent of an iron company, has leased
the fleet which will carry Iron ore on
return trips south from St. Paul. Minn.
The revival of river traffic will bring
into existence a new style of boat to
replace those which have plied the
stream half a century or more, accord
ing to plans. The new craft, some of
whlcn are In course or construction,
will be barge like, wide of beam and
shallow depth, driven by high powered
engines, probably of the gasoline -ort.
This would assure greater speed, more
freight space and less danser of be
ing run aground on bars. The present
ilay picturesque steamboat, with its
several decks and stern or side wheels
will not disappear at once, however.
They will continue until they arrive at
a useless stage, especially in excursion
traffic
Krection of Docks.
The Helen Blair was the first :.nd
only packet of the season to engage
in the freight traffic. She carried
agricultural implerrents. paints, oils,
and miscellaneous merchandise.
Revival of traffic will necessitate
erection of docks along the river at
the principal ports. St. Paul Is -irst
to announce such a venture, having
built docks with a large crane capable
of handling 2,444 tons a day. Other
towns are expected to do likewise.
La Crosse has no docks but has space
for unloading of merchandise. Hast
ings. Lake City, Red Wing, W'noni
Prairie du Chlen, Dubuque and Daven
port will make arrangements to han
dle river freight.
Charles H. Huff of St. Louis, who is
making a tour of the river, has found
nine chief distributing points along
the stream. They are Minneapolis,
Red Wing. Winona. La Crosse. Du
buque, Davenport, Clinton. Rock Is
land and Moline. These towns, it is
predicted will play a leading role In
the development of river traffic
GO BAREFOOTED-NOW
German Clothing Department Makes
Recommendations to People.
London, July 13. "We warn you
to so barefooted."
Such is the latest pronunciamento
of the German clothing department,
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Amsterdam. A procla
mation beginning with this warning
has been posted in Berlin and other
hig cities, telling the populace that it
is still time to economise to prevent
compulsory barefootedness, but if this
economy is not widely exercised, dras
tic orders will become inevitable.
"We notice, continues' the procla
mation, "that many have been going
without shoes and stockings of late.
This is a sacred example which every
one must follow. Unless the stocks
of wool are scraped, the practice must
become more popular, otherwise com
pulsion will have to be resorted to."
The newspapers urge the people to
be fearless of ridicule and set an ex
ample to their compatriots.
As a sacrifice, this is however, less
grave to the Germans than this order
issued by the vegetable department:
"The consumption of sauerkraut Is
verbotem from July 1, to August."
MERCHANTS ARE THRIFTY
Only 76 Filed Petitions for Bankruptcy
In Kansas Last Year.
Seventy-six merchants and business
men in Kansas filed application for
bankruptcy in the federal court in the
year ended June 30, according to an
annual report of F. L. Campbell, clerk
of the United states district court in
Topeka. The year previous 115 mer
chants were forced to seek relief from
their creditors thru voluntary bank
ruptcy proceedings.
Offsetting the decrease in the num
ber of insolvent merchants, however,
it is shown that fifty-two wage earners
asked to be decreed insolvent during
the last year, while only thirty-two
tiled bankruptcy cases the year before.
Campbell attributes the decrease in
the number of bankruptcy cases
among the merchants to the thrifti
ness and close business methods pur
sued in the last year which, incidental
ly, was the first year of the war.
The total number of cases filed
for the year was 244. Thirty-seven
of these were involuntary. The
total liabilities involved were $2,019,.
833.03, against $4,027,398.81 the year
before.
GIVE K. OF C.DEGREES
Biff Gathering in Topeka for Initiation
Work Sunday Afternoon.
A large gathering of Catholics from
this Dart of the state will attend th
initiatory services of the Knights of
Columbus in xopeKa aunoay aiternoon
beginning at 2 o'clock at the Knights
& Ladies of Security hall. The class
to receive the second and third de
grees is composed of 5 candidates in
cluding 12 soldiers from Camp
Funston.
James Shea of Paola and his fa
mous Knights or Columbus degree
team will put on the ceremony.
This evening at the Knights oC
Columbus headquarters in the Aetna
building the Catholic ladies of the
city "1 entertain for the soldiers
who are coming down from Camp
Funslon.
THE $2.40 WHEAT VETO
President Wilson's Message to Congress on Vetoing the Agricultural BUI
which contained the provision for a $2.40 minimum price on 1918 wheat.
I regret to return without my signa
ture so important a measure as H. R.
9054, entitled "An Act Making Ap
propriations for the Department of
Agriculture for the Fiscal Year End
ing June SO, 1919," but I feel con
strained to do so because of my earn
est dissent from the point of view of
DrinciDle as well aa wise expediency
from the provisions of that part of sec
tion 14 which prescribes a uniform
minimum price for ro. z nortnern
spring wheat of 12.40 a bushel.
I dissent upon principle, because
I believe that such inelastic legislative
price provisions are insusceptible of
being administered in a way that will
be advantageous either to the producer
or to the consumer, establishing as
they do, arbitrary levels which are
quite independent of the normal mar
ket conditions and because I believe
that the present tnethod of regulation
by conference wth all concerned, nas
resulted in the most satisfactory man
ner, considering the complexity and
variety of the subject matter dealt
with.
It Is. evident that the present meth
od of determining the price to be paid
for wheat has had the most stimulat
ing effect upon production, the esti
mated crop or spring wneat tor mis
year exceeding all high records in a
very remarkable and gratifying way.
By an overwhelming majority of the
farmers of the United States, the price
administratively fixed has been re
garded as fair and liberal and objec
tions to it have come only from those
sections of the country where, unfor
tunately, it has, in recent years, proved
impossible to rely upon climatic con
ditions to produce a full crop of wheat.
and where, therefore, many disap
pointments to the farmer have proven
to be unavoidable.
Personally. I do not believe the
farmers of the country depend upon
the stimulation of price to do their
utmost to serve the nation and the
world at this time of crisis byxert
iniy themselves to an extraordinary
degree to produce the largest and best
A WAR NECESSITY
Coal Operators Declare for Im
mediate Prohibition.
Liquor Makers Are Taking Coal
Xeeded for War.
Washington. July 13. Immediate
nation-wide prohibition is an abso
lute necessity if the extra 100.000,009
tons of coal a year needed by the
country is to be mined, Fuel Adminis
trator Garfield has been informed by
the National Coal association, repre
senting bituminous operators produc
ing 400.000,000 tons of coal annually.
Doctor Garfield Is understood to have
laid the association's recommendation
before President Wilson tor his con
sideration.
In a statement the association saia
that in the opinion of a special com
mittee of its members from virtually
all coal producing sections of the coun
try which has investigated the ques
tion, the "country cannot have both
booze and sufficient coal this winter."
'The liquor traffic," said the state
ment, "is curtailing coal production
and "the time has come to eliminate it
if there is to be the substantial in
crease in coal output the war program
demands.
"The National Coal association Is In
formed that the conclusion not only
is the judgment of the operators but
is concurred in by Frank Farrington.
president of the United Mine Workers
of America for the state of Illinois.
Mr. Farrington is said to have gone
on record to this effect before Presi
dent Wilson, Fuel Administrator Gar
field and senators and representatives
of Illinois in congress."
CONTROL AFTER WAR
British Food Administrator Says Coun
tries Can Not Drop It at Once.
London, July 13. Food control In
England probably will continue for at
least a short while after the ending of
hostilities, according to John R.
Ciynes. the new head of the food ministry-
Discussing this subject with the
Daily Telegraph the new controller
said:
"Whether the food ministry will be
continued after the war depends on
how long the war lasts but It is clear
the conditions created will not sudden
ly disappear when it is ended and for
a considerable time the allied nations
will be required to act in co-operation
both as regards supplies and prices un
til normal conditions reappear. Un
fortunately, these conditions will be
delayed until the forces of food pro
duction can be brought to a point
where all kinds of necessities again
are bountiful. When that time arrives
it will be for the nation to say wheth
er it is prepared to go back and pur
sue the usual channels."
Transport Conditions Getting Better.
Regarding aid from overseas Mr
Clyncs said:
"People of this country have little
Idea of our indebtedness to America
and the colonies for the abundance
and regularity of our food sunnlies.
Conditions of transport have Improved
enormously."
The food controller paid tribute to
the American "spirit of patriotism"
v hich has been willing to undergo sac
rifices in order to feedEngland. He
saiid he would welcome H. C. Hoover,
the American food administrator, who
is expected in England shortlv, and
the opportunity of discussing with him
many of the great business and finan
cial questions of the food problem.
GOLDSMITH IS BACK
V. M. C. A. Assny Worker To Be in
Pulpit Here for the Summer.
Dr. Willis f-ldsmith has returned
from Florida, where he spent the win
ter, and will be in charge of Central
Congregational church during the
summer. He is assistant pastor of the
church, and will oificiate during the
absence of Dr. Charles M. Sheldon,
pastor, who is at his summer home in
Michigan.
Doctor Goldsmith will preach Sun
day morning at 11 o'clock from the
subject. "Peace, Peace, When There
Is No Peace," or "The Beginning of
the End."
Doctor Goldsmith has been engaged
in war work for the T. M. C. A. at
Pensacola, Fla.. and expects to teturn
later In the year.
crops possible. Their patriotic spirit
in this matter has been worthy of all
praise and has shown them playing
a most admirable and gratifying part
in the full mobilization of the re
sources of the country. To a very
greatly Increased production of wheat
they have added an increased produc
tion of almost every other important
grain, so that our granaries are likely
to overflow and the anxiety of the
nations arrayed against Germany witn
regard to their food supplies has been
relieved.
The administrative method of agree
ing upon a fair price has this very
great advantage, which any, element of
rigidity would in large part destroy,
namely, the advantage of flexibility,
of rendering possible at every stae
and in the view of every change of ex
perience a readjustment which will be
fair alike to producer and consumer.
A fixed minimum price of $2.40 per
bushel would, it is estimated, add 12
per barrel to the price of flour; in
other words, raise the price of flour
from the present price of $10.50 to
$12.50 at the mill, and. Inasmuch as
we are anticipating a crop of approxi
mately 900,000.000 bushels of wheat,
this Increase would be equivalent to
the immense sum of $337,000,000.
Such an increase of the price of
wheat in the United States would force
a corresponding Increase in the price
of Canadian wheat. The allied govern
ments would, of course, be obliged to
make all of their purchases at the
increased figure and the whole scale
of their financial operations in this
country, in which the government of
the United States is directly assisting,
would be thereby correspondingly en
larged. The increase would also add
very materially to the cost of living,
and there would inevitably ensue an
increase in the wages paid in practi
cally every industry in the country.
These added financial and economic
difficulties, affecting practically the
whole world, cannot, I assume, have
been in contemplation by the congress
in passing this legislation.
(Signed) WOODROW WIT-SON.
IN COPIOUS TEARS
Topeka Newspaper Weeps (Her
Deserter From Nary.
How F. C. McQuarry "Put One
Over" on the Sob Squad.
Francis C. McQuarry. alias Albert
M. McQuarry, alias William J. Kelley.
who is said to have been pronounced
by Dr. H. L. Clark, city physician, to
be in the last stages of tuberculosis
while confined in the city jail on a
charge of being a deserter from the
navy, has been taken to the naval au
thorities at Chicago by J. L. Kennedy,
a polioe patrolman, on the charge
which waa to the effect that he de
serted in 1913. Naval doctors, Ken
nedy says, pronounced McQuarry to
be as "sound as a dollar."
McQuarry was arrested In Topeka
several weeks ago by Kennedy and'
Zach Gragg, Santa Fe special officer.
While he was confined in the city jail
he showed signs of throat or lung
trouMe and claimed to have tubercu
losis. Several station officers, 'nclud
ing Sergeant Frank Summers and
Charles Fergason, petitioned Chief F.
S. Harbaugh to turn him loose, ac
cording to Kennedy and Gregg. There
was considerable censure heaped upon
the two police officers who arrested
McQuarry at the time and on Chief
Harbaugh, but the chief refused to
turn the man loose. When Kennedy
took McQuarry to Chicago the prisoner
laughed about the way he "put it
over" on several police officers, in
cluding the city physician, and a To
peka newspaper which decried his im
prisonment. The naval physicians
pronounced McQuarry'a trouble noth
ing more than a slight bronchial af
fliction. McQuarry, naval authorities
said, would be sent to Boston, and his
case dealt with in the regular way.
McQuarry, according to officials,
deserted from the navy twice, once in
1909 and once in 1913. When arrest
ed by Kennedy and Gragg he was
booked at the police station under the
name of William J. Kelley.
NEED OF EQUIPMENT
Athletic Material Wanted for Use of
Boys at Fnnston.
Athletic equipment for the men at
Camp Funston is needed and neede'd
badly, according to a letter received
by the State Journal today from Capt.
Benjamin V. Ogden, cantonment ath
letic director. Captain Ogden .asks
anyone who possess such equipment to
send it along if they can spare it. His
letter follows:
"I am writing you in the hope that
thru your agency I may be able to
obtain athletic supplies for the men
in Camp Funston.
"The number of men In this camo
makes a heavy demand for athletic
supplies of all kinds and, then, hard
usage wears them out quickly. I
need only to mention tile important
part that athletics play in the making
of a soldier to emphasize how badly
this equipment is needed. And I am
asking you to make a direct appeal to
anyone who can spare a medicine ball,
baseball equipment, or other athletic
good to do so. This material if col
lected in one center can then be sent
more cheaply and in bulk."
PUT 0. k. 6ncigaret
Medical Corps, U. S. Army, Says
Effect of Smoke Is Wonderful.
Paris, July 13. Ahti-cigaret re
formers would get scant consideration
from the medical corps of the United
States army, according to major sur
geons stationed in hospitals along the
front, some of whom say that the
cigaret produces a relaxation for
the wounded and the men just out of
the trenches that no medicine could
possibly produce.
"I have seen men borne In on
stretchers or staggering in on their
feet, with thier faces contorted show
ing either physical pain or mental
strain from their grim experiences in
the trenches, relax, smile and ask for
something to eat, after having a
whiff" of a cigaret," said a surgeon
in charge of a casualty clearing sta
tion. "The effect of the cigaret is won
derful. It certainly is not medicinal
for the action is too quick. As soon
as the lads take their first whiff."
they seem eased and relieved of their
agony."
CASE OF TILLAGE
Better Methods Would Increase
the Kansas Yield.
Enough for Flour To Feed
18,S00,000 Persons In Year.
PLOW 7 INGHls DEEP IN JULY
Cultirate Ground to Prevent
Weed Growth, K. S. A. C. Says.
Rotation of Crops Increases
Yield at Less Expense.
Manhattan. Kan., July 13. Better
methods of Ullage in Kansas would
furnish wheat flour for 18,800,000 per
sons for a year. This is the estimate
of L. E. Call, professor of agronomy in
the agricultural college.
These methods, Mr. Call points out,
would have increased the Kansas
yield probably five bushels an acre
this year, thus adding 33,000,000 bush
els to the crop. This quantity of
wheat would nill 1,4 70,150,000
pounds of flour. At the maximum al
lowance of the United States food ad
ministration 1 pounds a week for
each person this flour would suffice
for 18, 800, 000 persons for an entire
year.
Here are the better Hilar recom
mendations made by Mr. call from
the results of tests carried on for sev
en years at the Kansas Agricultural
experiment station:
Plow In July.
Plow six or seven inches deep In
July. Cultivate the plowed ground
as much as necessary to prevent weed
growth.
If plowing cannot be done in July,
double-disk the stubble soon after har
vest and plow when other farming
operations permit.
Listing can be dona mort rapidly
than plowing. Where listing is prac
ticed, list in July. Work the ridges
down with a lister cultivator when
weed growth starts. Cultivate subse
quently if necessary to prevent weed
growth or before seeding time to set
tle and firm the soil. Double listing
or splitting the ridges does not give
profitable results over single listing.
In western Kansas cultivation of
plowed, ground should be practiced
from the standpoint of preventing
weed growth but precaution should be
taken against the use of cultivating
implements that fine the surface soil
and thus make it subject to blowing.
Raising wheat In rotation with oth
er crops increases the yield and les
sens the expense of preparation.
ON QUICK NOTICE
Rnin Club Gets Vn Soldier Dance in
Two Hours Another Tonight.
A hurry-up call for entertainment
for thirty-five soldiers of the adjutant
general's department en route to a
southern camp found the Rota club
on the Job, and a dance was arranged
at the Chamber of Commerce in less
iuan two hours after the notice of the
I ...uys' presence in town had been re
ceived.
It seems that the Rota club has
gained quite a reputation at Camp
r'unston for its Chamber of Commerce
community house entertainments,
dergeant Kirchner, in charge of the
detail, found that it was necessary for
he and his men to stop over in Topeka
from 6 o'clock untii after midnight
r riday night, so he went to the Cham
ber of Commerce and inquired of Mrs.
Edna Pelton what coulu be done in
the way of entertaining the boys. Mrs
1'elton immediately aot in touch with
the Kota club ana the plans were has
tily made. At 5 o'clock a dance was
on in full swing to the music of a
piano and a violin played by Miss
Jmma Snyder and Miss iielen .fhipps.
.iii;5 uuseu aoout 11 o clock.
The Kota clnb has made its arrange
ments for holding the resrular Kati-
day night community house soldier
uance at tne cnamber of Commerce
looms tonignt, ana a Sunday after
noon entertainment and receDtion to
morrow afternoon. It is rumored that
the boys who put in an appearance at
tne reception tomorrow aiternoon will
bs fed on the choice portions of real
fried chicken.
LABOR DAY PLANS
Many Unions to Have Charge of Fair
Grounds Concessions.
Plans for the observance of Labor
day by the local trades unions are
practically complete. One of the
features of the day will be the drill
of the state guard itr" the fair grounds.
The concessions have been let to the
various unions as follows:
Railway carmen, watermelons;
teamsters, parking of cars; clerks,
DoDcnrn anH iinom... . ,
- f ... , i i:ii a, uu u
rack; plumbers, soft drinks; -machinists,
ice cream and soft drinks; cooks
and waiters, dining hall; printers,
knife rack; pressfeeders, dining hall;
electricians, candy: sheet metal work-
' L-icam, mailers, ice cream;
blacksmiths, ice cream and soft
drinks; painters, soft drinks and ice
cream; pressmen, watermelon: meat
cutters, hamburg; boilermakers. near
beer and non r oianr mairnr i-,..
and tobacco.
ARTHUR ITORTER THERE
Word Received by Parent of Safe
Arrival Overseas.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McCarter. R R.
27. Topeka, have received word of the
arrival of their son, Arthur, in France.
He writes that the American soldiers
are treated with the utmost cordial
ity by the French people, who look
upon them as great benefactors. He
continues, "I cannot say much for
the French way of living. The people
are about twenty-five years behind
the times, and the good old U. S. A. :s
good enough for me after the war."
McCarter joined the national guards
April , lsii, ana was transferred to
the 139 Infantry band. Thirty-fifth
division, August 5. 11T. He has lived
in or near Topeka nearly all his life,
completed the grade school at High
land Park, spent two years in the
Kansas State Agricultural college,
Manhattan, and was a student in the
Denver university one year. He was
a member of the Sigma Alpha Ep
silon fraternity and belonged to both
college bands while at school. Be
fore enlisting in the army he was a
member of the firm of W. E. McCar
ter Sons Continental Transfer com
peny.
WHEATLESSJM IS FOUND
U. S. Specialists Make a 100 Per Cent
Wheat Substitute Bread,
Washington, July 13. The wheat
less loaf has been found. While the
whole country has been seeking the
100 per cent wheat substitute yeast
bread, a recipe has been developed in
the experimental kitchen of the United
States department of agriculture and
the United States food administration
may mean the saving of thousands of
pounds of wheat flojr before flour
from the next wheat harvest is avail
able.
The recipe is -oon to be published
by the office of home economics.
United States department of agricul
ture, on a new food card which car
ries directions for making three new
wheat substitute breads the half
wheat loaf? the one-fourth wheat loaf
and the wheatless loaf.
The directions for making the
wheatless bread are as follows:
A Loaf or Bread Using No Wheat Flour
All of these:
(1) 1 cups liquid.
1 tablespoon corn syrup.
cake yeast.
2 teaspoons salt.
1 whole egg.
With one of these:
(2) cups barley.
2 cups ground rolled oats.
And one of these:
(3) 2 hi cups corn flour.
2 H cups rice flour.
. 2 cups sweet potato flour.
- 2 cups (scant) tapioca flour.
M-ke a sponge of materials under 1
(except egg) and H of ingredients
used from 2 and 3. 8ponge should
stand in warm place until very light,
at least two hours. Work in balance
of substitute mixture when sponge is
light. Work in egg beaten slightly.
Shape into loaf. Place in pan. Brush
top of loaf with melted fat. Let rise
to double bulk and bake in loaf pan
in hot oven for one hour.
WAR BREAD Wn.l NOT KEEP.
Food Heads Say Sulmtltute Brand
Must Be Kept In Cool Place. '
Wichita, July IS. Complaints
have been received by the food ad
ministration from many sections of
Kansas that bread containing substi
tutes spoils in hot weather, much more
quickly than bread made wholly from
white flour.
In reply the food administration to
day issued the following:
"Bread made from flour with 25
per cent substitutes will not keep in
hot weather as well as all wheat bread.
"Therefore bread should be kept in
a cool place when the weather is hot.
The ice box is the best place.
"Bread placed in an-ice box should
be wrapped to keep out moisture and
the odors from other foods. Any paper
will be good, but waxed paper is the
best.
"Breed which Is not kept In an lee
'ox also should be wrapped. In moist
weather the paper will keep out the
moisture and in dry weather will keep
the bread from drying out so rapidly.
"In case it is impossible to keep
bread in a cool place the baking should
be small, so all the bread will be
consumed before it has time to spoil."
TEACH WOMEN TO USE TRACTORS
Several Thousand Will Meet in Sallna
to Train for Men's Duties.
Sallna, Kan., July 13. The organ
izing of the Women's Power Farming
auxiliary in this city during tho Na
tional Tractor show, July 29 to August
3, will be the leading feature of the
tractor event. Mrs. Fay Malvern.
Minneapolis; Mrs. Caroline Sissons,
Hyde Park, Chicago, and Mrs. Robert
Stcckbridse, Missoula, Mont., all
wealthy land owners who have been
affected by the shortage of m-in pow
er, formed a temporary organization
that is pushing the work.
Hundreds of thousands of letters
sent to women all over the continent
bring favorable replies, and several
thousand women are expected her.
They will be taugrht the use of heavy
machinery on the farm and R thou
sand acres of land near Salina hits
been leased for their exclusive use in
demonstrations and practice. Mrs.
Malvern declares farm work by vomm
Is sure to come if the war continues
much longer, and she wants them to
know how to use machinery when the
time comes.
PRISONERS FLEE FROM GUARDS
Military "Convicts" With LonR Terms
at Large from Leavenworth.
Leavenworth. July 18. The three
prisoners, H. Y. Henson. George D.
Sharp and Dan Roach who escaped
from the disciplinary barracks at Fort
Leavenworth are still at large. They
were out working with a big gang and
managed to break away. The guards
could not go after them at once as
they had to hold the other prisoners
and march them into the cell houses.
The prisoners gained the timber on
Sheridan's Drive and when last seen
were going west. They were mili
tary prisoners with long terms.
This is the time of year when pris
oners are prone to try and escape, as
they can hide in timber and corn
fields. They can also live on corn
and fruit and vegetables without go
ing near houses for food. More
prisoners escape in July and August
than in other months of the year, as
a rule. .
NEW DIVISION TO FTNSTON.
Report That 87,000 Men Will Arrive
i Within a Few Weeks.
Junction City. July IS. Immediate
formation of a new division of na
tional army men, including cavalry,
artillery, infantry and allied arms of
the service, at Camp Funston, la in
dicated in reports received at the
camp today. One of these apparent
ly authentic reports is to the effect
that 67,000 men will arrive at the
cantonment within the next few weeks
and that buildings aggregating S 3,
000,000 in cost are to be built at once,
as an addition to the present camp.
Included in this estimate is a large
hospital unit to cost 1. 000, 000.
Two divisions already have been
trained at Camp Funston since last
September. They are the gSth, which
was commanded by Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood, and the 92d. commanded by
Major General Belleu.
COAL FIELDS SHORT OF MEN.
Lews or Production In Kansas Is
Threatened, Operators Say.
Pittsburg, Kan., July IS. A serious
shortage of labor in the Kansas min
ing field is threatened, operators say.
With more than 700 members of the
United Mine Workers of America gone
to the war from the Kansas district,
and with hundreds more on the eve
of answering the call to the colors, the
problem of getting men to dig coal
needed to help win the war looms
large. One large company operating
in the Kansas field would be glad to
I employ 00 miners now.
TOPEKANS IN MITj
J. F. WHHanuBenker Asks Be- j
eeivershlp for Oil Company. '
Anderson ConcernPitteu1 Against j
Okla.-Kan. Syndicate.
Kansas City, July 13. The suit in I
federal court Tasking for a receiver for
the Oklahoma-Kansas Oil Syndicate
brought originally by the Anderson 1
Drilling company, has broadened out
to include nearly one hundred certifl- 1
cate holders of the People's Oil com
pany, the stock selling medium lor
the syndicate. Twenty from Colo
rado, thirty-nine from Hutchinson.
Kan., and forty from Newton, Kan.,
have joined in another suit asking also
for a receiver, and during yesterday's
hearing before Judge Van Val ken
burgh, sixteen other shareholders in
tervened in the -case.
The hearing probably will take
most of today before it goes to the
court for a decision.
The oil syndicate, which was a
partnership comprising W. J. Hogue
and E. G. Reinsch, took in between
half million dollars and JTOO.OOU from
the sale of certificates of the People
Oil company. The syndicate book
keeper, on the stand yesterday, could
show only $261,000 that had been
spent for equipment, leases, salaries
and development No accounting oZ
the balance was made on the books, it
was sand. .
Stone Leads Fight, j
Robert Stone, of Topeka, attorney
for the certificate holders asking for
a receiver, declared that Hogue had
purchased oil leases on about 1,200
acres of land which had never been j
turned in for the benefit of share
holders. .
When the syndicate was first formed
it developed from testimony by
Reinsch he had put up the sole capi
tal, $1,500. He later sold out his
part of the business to his partner,
Hogue. for about $30,000. After that
he worked for Hogue for a time for
$35 a week and expense
J. F. William Renker of Topeka,
manager of the Anderson Drilling
company, who brought the original i
suit for receiver, stated on the etand
that Hogue had offered to pay his
drilling claim of more than $3,000 it j
he would drop the suit. This was be
fore the filing of the suit by certificate
holders. . j
Sues for Widows. !
"I refused" tor two reasons," he
stat.'l. "I was suing not only for my
self, but for the benefit of any widows
and orphans among the certificate
holders.
"And then again. I had a contract
with Hogue for ten barrels of oil a
day for marketing the syndicate oil
and taking care of production. I have
confidence in aome of that property,
if It were properly managed. In fact
if $10,000 wera spent to clean out the
wells the shareholders In the People's
OH company would have a good
property.
"As a result of having my con
tract with Hogus he tried to use me to
smooth down angry shareholders who
were asking why they did not get
dividends. These questions finally be
came so insistent that Hogue agree!
with me that a receivership would be
advisable but later repudiated it I
then advised friends among the Colo
rado shareholders that trouble might
;TeveIo and to protect themselves."
IDENTIFIED BY KEYS
Man Who Was Burned in Kinsley
July S, I. Z. Wright. Norborne, Mo.
Kinsley, Ka.i., July 13. A bunch of
keys serv- as the clue which identi
fied the charred skeleton found in the
ruins of the Uotel here which burned
on the night of July 3. as the remains
of I. Z. Wright of Norborne. Mo..
wealthy bank- r and stockman with in
terests in Missouri and Kansas. The
proof became conclusive when, upon
being sent to Kansas City, it was
found that the keys fit Mr. Wright's
house lock and safety deposit box. A
coroner's jury here brought in a
verdict that Mr. Wright pame to his
death in a . unknown manner.
Mr. Wright had been visiting his
son c th . Wright ranch near here,
and started homiKfln Wednesday. In
stead of catching a train that after
noon as he originally planned, he took
a room for a night at the hotel. That
was the lr.: L ever seen of him. The
body was completely incinerated, only
a fev, charre bones remaining.
GANGER
SYMPTOM BOOK
Free. Dr. Bishop,
220 W. 12th St..
Room 15. Hours 2 to 5 p. m. Kansas
City, -o.
BLAIR & HOPKINS
MERCHANT POLICE
Residence MOT West 8th.
I'hnne 7ft4 Black.
DYEING
DRY CLEANING
HAT RENOVATING
Suits and Dresses Delivered
on Hangers in Envelope Covers.
Laundering of Every Description
Expert In charge each
department.
Out-of-Town Work Solicited.
' Topeka Laundry Co.
J. W. RnLEY, Mgr.
S7th Year. Phone SSS
-WE ARE-
Kodakers'
Headquarters For
Printing and Develop
' inz for amateur
photographers kodaks
of all sizes and prices
Kodak supplies of all '
kinds. Our work la
prompt and satisfactory
and our prices moder
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DRUGGIST
632 Kansas Atc
Tho Farm Mortgage Trust Co.
Capital $350,000
Our service enables a man of small means to obtain equal se
curity with the large Investor We have high grade bonds and
real estate mortgages from to 6. Our certificates enable
you to deposit small amounts until you have sufficient accumulated
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the time it is invested with us.
Thoroughly equipped to handle all business pertaining to the
accounts of corporations, banks, trustees and estates, on favorable
terms.
The Farm Mortgage Trust Co.
Topeka, Kansas.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
J. P. Slaughter J. M. ColUnirwood J. E. Griest
President 1st Vic President Sec'y & Treasurer
Chas. W. Garrison, Trust Officer
DIRECTORS
WUlard J. Breidenthal. Banker. Kansas City, Kan.; W. W. Whit
ney, Mgr. Warren M. Crosby Co., -Topeka ; K. A. Wagner,
Blinker, Meriilen, Kan.; Clay Hamilton, Attorney,
Topeka; Paul If. Heinz, Attorney, Topeka; C A.
Lane, Farmer, Baldwin, Kan.; M O. Williamson,
Banker. Gnleaburg. HI.; H. A. Plonahe,
Banker, Perry, Kan.: P. R. Wolfe,
Topeka; F. D. Sperry, Banker,
. Ellsworth, Kan.
Anderson Auto Livery
OPEN DAY
Oar phones are
always aaswered
by a special tele
phoas mil.
Auto Emergency 6:00 P. M.
First Aid to
New rugs from old carpets!
We'll take your OLD carpets and
iiaka them into brand new, ser
viceable ruga of any size or dimen
sion. The cost is small and the work la
etter done.
TbeMcCormick Rug Factory
r23 Wmm ttnren Street
5awr
On Sale Daily
to and including
Round Trip Fares
Asbury Park ..... 81 .62
Atlantic City, N.J. 78.72
Buffalo .........57.77
Chautauqua Lake
Points 54.71
Charlevoix ......5120
Colorado Springs. 24.00
Denver 24.00
Detroit .. . ..47.40
Duluth 46.42
Glenwood Spr'gs. 39.60
Glacier Park
Stations. . . . . .45.00
Grand Canyon. . .66.60
Los Angeles 72.60
Ludington 46.45
Milwaukee 36.19
Above fares do not include 8 war tax
Grand Canyon Side Trip $7.60
For Official Information About
NATION A I. PARKS AND MONUMR.VTS
Addresa Bureau of Service. United
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22 West Jackson Street, Chicago, III-
Circuit Tours to
CaliforniaPctnts
$93.60 to $103.80
AND NIGHT
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to 7:00 A. M. and Holidays.
House Cleaners
We'll take your ruga and carpets
and give them a thoro and scien
tific cleaning and scouring, refit,
sew and aUe, or relay them.
Call upon u to lighten your
spring house cleaning. We're at
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Phone 431
Excursion Fares
Vacation Lands
September 30, 1918
Limited October 31
Mackinac Island . . 57.70
Mackinaw City. . .57.70
Minneapolis 33.14
Montreal 74.52
Petoskey .5120
Portland, Me 91.94
Portland, Ore. .... 72.60
Pueblo 24.00
St. Paul ...33.14
San Diego 72.60
San Francisco. . . .72.60
Seattle ..72.60
Vancouver, B. C. . . 72.60
Yellowstone Park
Station: 44.40
Yellowstone and
Glacier Stations 57.00
For rates to points not mention
ed or other information, call or
write
T. I King, Agent
Phone 3682. Topeka, Kan.