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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESD A V EVUJNINU, AUGUST 14,
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ALEX, AWISE BIRD
He TYoeld Steal Something
Then Have Sister Fay.
Once He Took a Shirt on a Line
.. and Left 11 Cents.
DiQ HE GRAB PLYMOUTH ROCKS
Of Course He Didn't Only One
Was of That Variety.
Tells Sheriff Folks Think He's
CrazyBut He Isn't.
When Hugh Larimer, sheriff, and
Robert Miler, deputy, rounded up
Alex Johnson at the Oak Grange
building Tuesday night he maintained
he was perfectly sane- and that he
wouldn't steal. He had the officers
partially convinced of both until Miler
pulled a sock from his pocket. The
Bock had the feathers of a Plymouth
Rock chicken on it.
"So you've been stealing chickens,
have you?" said Miler.
No, I haven't," Johnson replied,
"I don't steal anything."
A farmer who had made Johnson's
acquaintance vouched for his honesty.
'He won't steal," the farmer said,
"there has beerf $2.40 in a drawer here
in the room ever since he's been here
and he knew it. The money still is
there."
"Of course he'll steal," said Miler.
"Why, Johnson, I even can tell you
what kind of chickens you stole."
"What kind?"
"Plymouth Rocks," said Miler. w
"Just one Plymouth Rock," said
Johnson, "the other one was a white
chicken."
Then Johnson scratched his head in
a puzzled manner. He desired to
know how anybody knew he stole m
Plymouth Rock chicken.
. He Never Told a Soul.
"I never told a soul about it," he
said.
"I'll bet he would have taken that
12.40 too," said Miler.
"Well. I wouldn't steal it," Johnson
said. "I was going to take it and
write to my sister and tell her to re
turn it."
Miler drew a slip of paper from
Johnson's pocket, and written on -it
wast
"Dear Sister: Please send 92.40 to
Mission Center Auxiliary."
Johnson explained he always wait
ed until he was ready to leave a place
to send word to his sister: that other
wise she would be able to trace him
and send him back to the -asylum.
"So you are crazy, after all," Miler
said.
"Oh. I'm not crazy but folks think
I am," replied Johnson. "And I don't
steal. See this shirt I have on? It
used to belong to another man. but I
didn't steal it. I saw it on a fence and
I left 14 cents to pay for it."
Johnson is wanted in an asylum in
Iowa. His sister, who has been seek
ing him, was notified of his arrest.
PEjp WITH U. S,
Bolshevik! Say War Is With
J France and England Only.
Object, to Landing of Allied
Forces at Archangel.
Amsterdam. Aug. 14. The Bolshe
vikl government of Russia as late as
AuKust 6 crrnsidered itself still at peace
with the United States altho at war
with Great Britain and France, ac
cording to a note delivered on that
date by Foreign Minister Tchitcherin
to Consul General Poole at Moscow, as
quoted by the German semi-official
Wolff bureau.
AT ANOTHER POINT
Allied Armies May Pick Out
One More Weak Spot.
Germans Trying Hard to
Fathom Foch Tactics.
Paris; Aug. 14. While Germans
have gained their equilibrium in Pi
cardy at least temporarily, and ap
parently are determined to make a
stand on the. Bray-Roye-Lassigny-Noyon
line, they are showing unusual
jumpiness on the whole front.
They are trying by small raids for
prisoners and persistent air reconnais
sance, to find out where Marshal
Foch's next punch will land. On
widely separated fronts they are seek
ing to ascertain what new dose the
allies are mixing for them, and where
it will be administered.
Meanwhile Foch is keeping them up
!n the air by exerting strong pressure
at vital points in tne uerman line.
Military experts are speculating as
to whether Koch will exploit his gnins
In Plcardy to the utmost by another
attack, or will merely keep the enemv
busy there while delivering another
blow elsewhere. Most of them are in
lined to the latter view, pointing out
that thereby the allies would retain
the all important initiative and would
use a maximum number of German
reserves by keeping them racing up
And down the lines.
NOW WHO IS "ZEKE"?
Alleging that her husband. O. R.
Addis, and another man named "Zeke"
brought two women to her house and
kept them there several nights, during
which time some of the furniture wni
t-roken up and the house literally
"turned upside down," Viola Addia,
S Monroe street, filed a petition
with the clerk of the" Shawnee county
district court Tuesday asking for
a parate maintenance. The court
granted her request that a restraining
order he Issued, preventing Addis from
disposing of any money or property in
Ilia possession until after the case was
settled and also to keep him from
coming on her property.
Mrs. Addis alleges that Addis Is a
rambler and says he maintains a
gambling den at his place of business
at 1113 Kansas avenue. Sometimes ha
loses money and sometimes displays
lane rolls of -money that he has won.
he . She accuses him of extreme
cruelty, neglect of duty and unfaith
fulness and declares that he is in the
hsblt of etirslng and beating her.
Mrs. Addis claims that her husband
- has a sufficient Income to pay her $80
- a month for the support of herself and
two children.
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
The Woman's Benefit association of
the Maccabees will hold Its annual pic
nic at Gage park Friday evening
Harold Spaeth, the 8-year-old boy
who is 111 with lockjaw at the home
of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
Stellhorn, is improving. His chance3
for recovery are good.
: A cablegram was received Tuesday
night by Robert Stone, announcing
that Lieutenant McDermott had ar
rived overseas. McDermott was for
merly a member of the law firm of
Stone & McDermott. He was stationed
at Camp Dodge, Iowa, before being
sent abroad.
Harris Larimer gave a lecture Tues-
flav niaht on the lawn of the J. o.
Wood home. 311 Clay street, on the
developments of the war on the Ital
ian front and the western front, illus
trating his lecture with war maps. He
will speak on the naval side of the war
in the near future.
The weekly examination of Kansas
men who apply for overseas service
with the Y. M. C. A. will be held in
Topeka Friday, at the State Y. M. C.
A. headquarters in the New England
building. Twenty-one men are ex
pected to take the examination. One
or two of the men are Topekans.
Two bicycles were stolen Tuesday
night. Joseph Schiefelbein, of 513
East Gordon, reported that his wheel
was taken from in front of the Best
theater, and Vernie Heyl, 303 Jackson
street, came out of the Gem theater
to find ' that his bicycle had been
stolen. In the last few weeks more
than a dozen wheels have been stolen,
and about nine-tenths of them have
been recovered by the police.
A community sing was held at Cen
tral Park school house Tuesday night,
led by N. W. Benning, secretary of the
Central Y.' M. C. A. Mrs. Benning
played the piano accompaniments.
The Rev. Willis Goldsmith, who has
been in Y. M. C. A. work at the camps
at Camp Pike, Pensacola, Fla., made
a speech. Miss Florence Fair gave
some whistling solos. Another com
munity sing will be held at Central
Park school next Tuesday night
Percy Atkins, head of the bureau
of personnel for the State Y. M. C. A.,
will be out of town next week on a
speaking trip to enlist men in Y. M.
C A. work. He will speak Monday in
Kingman; in Wellington Tuesday; In
dependence. Wednesday. Sunday he
will go to Wichita, and lecture in that
city Sunday evening. Early this week
he was in Lincoln, Neb. He made an
address Sunday before an audience of
between five and six thousand per
sons. Topeka Is going to be one city where
the traffic ordinances are enforced, ac
cording to the police, who declare that
they are going to continue to arrest
violators until everyone in the city
knows what the ordinances are and
obeys them. In nearly every case of
alleged violation of the traffic ordi
nances in police court Tuesday after
noon, convictions were secured and
after the defendants had paid their
fine they left the station with a copy of
the ordinances under their arms and
a resolve in their minds to study them.
NO WHEAT EMBARGO
Santa Fe Releases Tleup Effective at
1 Midnight.
An order has been released by F.
C. Fox, general manager of the Santa
Fe, effective at midnight today, releas
ing the embargo placed Sunday on all
wheat shipments for delivery at Kan
sas City.
Mr. Fox says that weather condi
tions since the middle of July have
been such that the wheat harvest pro
ceeded with unusual rapidity, the lack
of rain allowed the roads to stay in
good condition, which all resulted in
wheat- coming into shipping points
faster than it could be handled. As
most of the wheat In the west is
shipped on lines converging at Kansas
City a congestion resulted at that point
which Fox says could best be relieved
also adding released rolling stock for
moving other wheat, by stopping fur
ther shipments temporarily until the
tie up could be broken.
According to Fox the three davs
during which shipments were not re
ceived resulted In conditions being re
lieved. EAST SIDE NOTES
Notes and personals from Er.st Side
by Frances Jones. Telephone 3530.
Mr. snd Mrs. Claude Miller and chil
dren have returned to their home in Car
Imnrtale, 111., after spending a month visit
ing Mrs. Miller's sister. Mrs. A. W. Bur
bank and family, Woodruff avenue.
Miss Kuth Johnson and father. Mr. Lewis
Johnson liave returned to their home. 210
Lake street after spending a week in Pitts
burg. Kans.
Miss Laura Morfran who spent last week
Tisiting In Kmporla has returned to her
home, Jefferson street.
Mrs II B. Edwards. 613 Liberty street
has had as guests the Rev. and Mrs. J.
Guy Munsell of Hartington, Nebr. They
have now returned to their home.
Rnlnh Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. f.
n. Weaver. 1! Grattan street who was
sent to Fort RHev two weeks ncrn hna hp.n
assigned to the Rase Hospital and Is In a
Medical Officers Training Camp. Mr.
Weaver spent the week end with relatives
in the eltv.
Charles Foley of Kansas City la a visitor
at tne nome- or nis cousin, Mrs. J. J. wil
llama snd Mr. Williams.
The Golden Hod Card Clnh will meet
Thursday with Mrs. J. H. Taylor. BO Frank
Un avenue. The members will meet Thurs
day morning at Sixth and Kansas avenues
at 10:4, o'clock.
Mrs. Ray King and three children who
spent the week end with Dr. and Mrs. C. C.
Howard. 3211 Kast sixth avenue have 1
tnrned to their home in Everest. Kans.
Miss Ressie Wilson. 218 Chandler street
who underwent a minor surgical operation
at fftormont hospital over s week ago is
recovering and expects to return to her
home, Thursday.
Mrs. William J. Peterson and children
Woodruff avenue will leave Friday to visit
relatives at Osage City.
Mr. and Mrs. Klmer Sutton have returned
to their home at Great Rend. Kans.. after
spending several days the first of the week
at the home of Mr. Sutton's brother, the
Rev. Fred Sutton, Lake street. The trip
was made overland.
The Ladles Aid Society of the Kast Side
Methodist church will have a birthday re
ception Friday evening at the home of
Mrs. Ernest -Rhodes. Seventh and Lime
streets. The entertainment committee is
composed of the following ladles; Mrs. A.
V. Rltts, Mrs. B. S. Tltua and Mrs. Charles
Naylor.
Mr and Mrs. Ira TreadweH are gnests of
Mrs. Elliaheth Harold at Atchison. Mra
Harold Is Mrs. Treadwell's sister.
Mrs. John Frye. 711 Lawrence street who
has been III at a local hospital has returned
to her home.
Verne Rurnank. Woodruff avenue will
leave Thursday for Lee Ball, Vlrglnla.where
he will work.
Mrs Jo Miller. Lime street Is recover
ing after being quite 111.
The Gleaner's class of the Second Tnited
Rrethren church will meet Thnrsriav after.
noon with Mrs. Lurlle Harwood. corner of
r.ar fwtn ana Niemann: avenues.
Little Harold Spaeth who haa been dsn
gerously 111 at his grandparents home, 21
Madison street with incklaw is improving
um bu ntvTcrj assured.
BOYS WILL SIGNAL 1
' 1
Tnnpka Youngsters Taught STS- i
tem Used in the 3fa?y.
Director J. B. O'Meara, U. S. X,
Formed First Class Today.
WIG WAG FROM CAPITOL DOME
System to Be Established Be
tween City and Nearby Towns.
Indicat eResnlt of the Subscrip
tions Next Liberty Loan.
A course in signalling for the bene
fit of the boys of the Y. M. C. A. as
it is taught in the navy was begun this
morning under the direction of J. B.
O'Meara. U. S. N. The first class of
twenty-five boys met at 9 o'clock in
the boys' room and marched to the
evmnasium. where the director save
them preliminary instruction in the
two arm semaphore system of signal
ing. . After the boys have learned this
system the "wig wag" system will be
tak?n up.
O'Meara stated that ne would soon
have a class of fity boys and outlined
some "stunts" he expected to stage
when the boys were proficient in the
art. During the next liberty loan, he
said, boys would be stationed in towns
near Topeka to signal information to
Topeka concerning the sale of bonds.
Boys will be stationed on tne dome
of the state house and other signal
stations established between here and
the small towns, so that the message,
when sent from the town, will be
taken up by the first signal station
and flashed- -to the next and the next
until it reaches Topeka.
O'Meara was formerly In the signal
service in the navy and is now teach
ing the art to boys connected with
Y. M. C. A. work and scout organiza
tions. He has conducted classes at St.
Joseph, Mo., where his classes were
well attended and his ability highly
praised. . He is at present connected
with the local recruiting station and
is conducting the local classes while
on a two weeks' vacation.
SOUGHT TYPHOID
Interned Huns Feared Trans
fer to Military Camp.
Drank Polluted Water In Order
to Get Sick.
Asheville. N. C, Aug. 14. Half a
dozen German civilians interned at
Hot Springs, N. C. are reported dead of
typhoid fever and 165 ill as a result of
drinking unfiltered water from French
Broad river with the hope that their
illness would prevent the war depart
ment from transferring them to the
military prison camp at Fort Ogle
thorpe, Ga. All of the patients have
been transferred to a local hospital
and plans for sending the remainder
of the interned enemies to Oglethorpe
are being completed.
The camp at Hot Springs Is to be
made a hospital for American soldiers.
HOLD TOPEKA LADS
Boys Who Escaped From De
tention Home at Valley Falls.
Mayor Couldn't Find Keys to
Jail S.'0. S. to Sheriff.
Hugh Larimer, sheriff, made
hurry-up trip to Valley Falls today
because the city marshal had left
town and the mayor could't find the
key to the calaboose.
Five Topeka boys, ranging in age
from 11 to 15 years, wanted here on a
burglary charge, were arrested in
Valley Falls Monday. The probate
judge was notified of the arrests, but
no particular speed was put forth to
return them to Topeka. An appeal for
renei was sent this morning by the
mayor, ne was worn out, it was said
trying to keep five boys in sight
while -waiting for the marshal to re
turn to town with the kev to the lall.
The boys are Francis Nichols. John
Estes. Arthur Wallace, Carl Ward and
1 neodore-- Nichols.- They were arrest
ed by the' police, several days ago and
piacea hi- tne county detention home
renaing a nearing. They walked away
irorn. tne nome in aayugnt.
HOOPER GETS IRIS
Owner Orphenm Theater Closes I .case
for Seventh Street-House.
It. l. Hooper, the theatrical man
who has made such a success of the
Orpheum theater in Topeka and who
has given to motion picture patrons of
inis city one of the best series of semi
weekly bills ever offered for local
patronage, today closed a lease for the
operation of the Iris theater, corner
seventh and Quincy streets. .
The Iris will be opened soon under
tne new management.
"I will maintain the Orpheum pol
ley thruout ," Mr. " Hooper said. ":
will give to the public the best mov-
mg pictures on the market and will
engage the best music I can find. The
nouse will be put in shape imme
diately." .
The Iris, for years after motion nlo.
tures became popular, was the best
recognised theater of Its kind In the
city. It has been operating recently
under different managements and
iinany, two months ago, closed indefi
nitely.
G. L. Hooper has made a wonderful
record In Topeka. He came here two
years ago from St. Joseph where he
was In the grain business. He entered
the Orpheum without any theatrical
experience. He has built up the pat
ronage at this theater until it is one
or tne best managed and most com
fortable houses in the west. He has
made a specialty of music and sup
ports an orchestra difficult to equal.
Hooper also is an active worker in all
civic, commercial and patriotic work
in the city.
$580,000,000J STAMPS
Savings and Thrift Stamp Kates Bare
Readied That Flgnre.
Washington, Ana;. 14. The Ameri
can people have bought $580,000,000
of war sarintrs and thrift stamps,
treasury reports today showed.
North Side News
"tems fut itu.- winmn may Be ien
at Petro drug store, or phone
K!i i.- Kimball after I p.
boiis phone 2630. -
m; . other
Fifteen boys of the North Topeka
Baptist Sunday ' school met at the J
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Van Ness
to reorganize their class. The boys
are all between the ages of IS and 21
years and at present the enrollment Is
about twenty.- ', '
Officers were elected as follows:
Teacher, Edna D. Kincaid; president,
Benjamin Forbes: vice president, El
gin Button; (Secretary treasurer, Byron
Wallace; chairman of entertainment,
Orvill Diffenderfer; class visitor,
Ralph Baird; reporter, Ferdinand Vio
land. Watermelon was then served on the
lawn. The boys expect- to have many
good times this summer and at the
same time swell Iheir enrollment frpm
the bovs of North Topeka. The fol
lowing bovs were present: RusseH
Zarker. Roy Cook, Ben Forbes, " Elgin
Button. Ralph Baird. Thomas Voiland,
Byran Wallace, Otis Compton, Warren
Robinson, Joe Cochran. Harold Ret
ter. Winnett Robinson, Floyd Tiffany,
ni-ville mffenderfer. Carroll Button.
Mrs. .Van Ness is assistant with this
class.. - - -. ...
An Expensive necessity.
Two colored women in a street ar
were discussing the high ost of liv
ing. "Ev'thing cost so much." sa'd
one "Co'n meal tastes lilt money,
in' T ain't et a egg since my ole hen
die." "Yes, sah," agreed the other,
that sure a f ac , an I'm 3us nonm
fo' a bacon rin' ter grease my in
nards, but tain t id use lavorin yo
insides these davs. Vittles so expen
sive po" fo'ks cain't affo'd ter hab.i
stummicR.
Notes and Personals.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Snook of Gar
field, olace made a." business trip to
Van.. Tuesday.
A S. Strain .has gone to r ort bcoii
as a representative of the postal clerk
employes at tne laoor rraerauon.
Miss Helen .nigger or juacuson street
has taken a position at the Warren
M. Crosby store.
Mrs. I.' E. McGrew of 1131 Harrison
street left today for Portland, Ore.
where she will visit relatives.
Mrs. Hetzel and daughter Gertie Of
1329 Topeka avenue have left for
Portland, Ore.
The choir of the Second Presbyter
ian church gave a swimming party
and picnic suprer at Gage park last
evening.
Mrs. T. H. Sutton and daughter
Eleanor will occupy the Robinette
home in Oakland during the family's
absence in Canada.
Mamie -Petree of -Effingham, Mo., Is
visiting her father and friends on the
North side.
Ted Blakely of Wheaton. Kan., who
has been visiting the C. M. Cooper
family of 917 Jackson street, left to
day for Chanute. Kan.
Miss Mary Hahn of Kansas City, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. C. Snediker
of 924 Jackson street. -
Mrs. W. F. Bryant and sister, vMarie
Kennedy of 1226 Harrison street, have
returned from a visit to their sister,
Mrs. J. Mix of Holsington, Kan.
Harold Lee Rude of route" 5, will
be inducted into service tomorrow and
will leave for " Lawrence for special'
training at the university." ;
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stewart, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Klstler. Mrs. A. J.
Klstler. Miss Bertha Klstler, Miss
Zorah Reed and Miss Mary Holm
baum have returned from the -Maple
Hill c ana p, where they have been en-
Joying a nouting.
Miss Mabel L. Neiswender gave ft
slumber party Saturday night at her
home at Kiro in honor of Miss Minnie
Pottorff of Severy. who has been at
tending Kansas State Agricultural col-'
lege at Manhattan, and who has been
her guest during the past week. The
girls attending were: Miss Pottorff,
Miss Alice Attebury, Miss Florence
Comstock, Miss Vivian Neiswender,
Miss Eirla Spaulding, Miss - Gertrude
Haves, Miss -Janette Root . and -Miss
Neiswender. ! "-'
Princess theater will open Friday.
Aug. 16, with "A Fight for Millions."
Serial, featuring W. M. Duncan. 'Adv.
OAKLAND NOTES
Notes and iwrsons from Oakland by
Frances Jones. Telephone 3530.- - --
Mrs. E. TI. Galvean. 321 Kansas arenoe.
but formerly lirlne In Oakland, has re
turned borne accompanied by her two chil
dren. She spent six weeKs in Colorado,
vlRitlng relatives.
Airs, sam Henderson. 3i i.euam avenue.
Is recovering, after befnfr ill.
The Rev. J. S. Mackenzie and danphter,
Mlfjs Bps a Mackenzie, left the first of the
week for Colorado. The trln will be
made by motor and they will loin Mrs.
Mackenzie whohs been in Colorado for
some rime Jn 41ve -interests of her health.
The annual nicnlc of the Oakland Meth
odist Sunday-school trill be held at Ittpley
parK xuesoay, August
An announcement of the courses to be
given next fall in he Oakland high school
will soon be'off the press and ready for
dUtrlbutron.
Minn Mnriraret Morton has retarned- to
her home in YVaukegan, 111., after spending
some time this summer wun ner nrntner,
James Horton and family, and with her
granoratner. Ainyor r. a. unpoam. Alias
Horton is a student at the Chicago uni
versity and will entet- ner senior year, at
tne college tuis rail.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bonnett and fam
ily were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Sawyer. They have returned to
their home at Cabool. Mo.
Mrs. C A. Duncan, Sumner street, is suf
fering with a broken arm.
Mrs. A. C. Koser of Westphalia and Miss
Ethelyn Kozer of Topeka were guesta
Monday evening of Mrs. George Hntson
and family, Sumner street. Mrs. Koser is
visiting friends in the city.
Orlin Smith, the little son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Smith, Sumner street, has
been quite ill but is slightly Improved.
Miss Ella Hutson of Lowman Hill, Mrs.
Homer Allison and children and Mrs. Clar
ence Webb and little daughter were dinner
guests Wednesday of Mrs, George Hutson.
SANTA FE NOTES I
NotPa and prsouala from Santa -Fe;
by Francea Jones. Telephone 3530. .
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Morgan, Misa Lanra
Morgan and little Laura and Milton Slay
baugh spent Wednesday in Kansas City.
1. H. Ellenberger of the pattern shops
will leave Thursday for a trip - thru the
east. He will visit relatives in Buffalo
snd Till also visit New York city. Philadelphia-
and '-Hanisburg V.
Alva Mitchell who left recently for Camp
Funston, lias been rejected from military
service because of physical disabilities and
is employed in the machine shops. .
Miss Mabel Eastbera- of the transcribing-
bureau at the motive power building. Is
spending a two---weeks . vacation -on :-a
camping trip.
Miss Fern Bnrbank has returned to her
work in the motive power building, . after
a vacation spent in Colorado.
Miss Esther Etcher of the general claim
department - is spending ber vacation -in
Kansas City.
Misa (roldle Conoway is a new employe
In he motive power building.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Volgt and children will
leave Saturt"ay to spend a vacation In Col
orado. Because a man fixed a lock for a neigh
bor did not send ber a bill, sbe left him
in her will S5.000 that enabled him to leave
a Sew Jersey almshouse.
ASKS MORE WAGES
-. -
IV. G. Tandy Files .Budget for
. I Streets and Improvements. :
Engineering Dept. Xeeds Money
for Salaries Exclusively.
$10,000 EXTRA FOR LABORERS
Commissioner Includes Big
Item for Increasing Daily Pay.
Asphalt Section Keeds $7,500
$600 Goes for Coal.
The annual budgets of the city
commissioners come dragging; in one
at a time.- W. G. Tandy, commissioner
of streets and public improvements,
filed his budget with Commission Was-
son today asking for a total of $67,100.
The one big item of moment In the
Tandy budget is the special $10,000
appropriation asked for to be paid out
in salaries to tne teamsters ana la
borers- working- for the", crty.- - Tandy
said today that he asks this $10,000
increase on account of the competition
for this class of ldbor which the city
is -unable to meet while paying- the
present salaries.
, Street Department.
tn the street department the budget
calls for $43,600, of which the" biggest
listed items are for salaries for teams
and labor. Salaries for 12 men with
teams are listed as totalling $13,600:
and salaries for 24 laborers amount to
$15,400. Both of these items. are ex
clusive of the $10,000 additional asked.
The" other items in this departmental
budgetare: Salary for superintendent
of streets," $1,-00-, salary street fore
men, $2,400; one brick layer, $900; 2
crossing men, $1,500; 2 sewer men,
$1,560: 6 white wings, $3,600: 2 men
with teams for flushing the streets at
night," $1,000; new sidewalk intersec
tions, $S00, and lumber, pipe, tools and
repairs, $2,440.
: All Salaries.
In the engineering department
Tandy's budget deals exclusively with
salaries. This section calls for a total
of $6,000. divided as follows: -City
engineer. $2,400: assistant city engi
neer. $1,400: office engineer. $1,200;
and excavation inspector. $900. i
Fop Asphalt Plant. '
In the asphalt department Tandy's
budget asks for a tot-j.1 at $7,500. The
biggest, item in this account,- too, is
the item of laborers' payt $4 200 ex
clusive or tne exira iu,uuu aasea.
Other Items in this department are;
One man with a team, $1,100; coal for
heating, $600; and material for asphalt
plant, $1,600.
In both the street and the asphalt
department the laborers and team
sters are slated for a- participation in
the $10,000 additional salary asked for.
91 COUNTIES OFFICIAL
No Change In Standing of Candidates
e';': n the Prlmaricsj., .
Official returns from last week's
state wide primaries have been re
ceived from 91 of the 105 counties, ac
cording to announcement this after
noon from the office of J. T. Botkin,
secretary, of St lite. Returns from the
14 absent counties will probably reach
Topeka in tne next Z4 nours.
t Only minor changes have been made
thus far in the official vote on varl
ous contested offices. L. J. Pettijohn
of L'odRe City continues to hold
seemingly safe- lead for secretary of
state, while Miss Lizzie E. Wooster of
Salina appears to have won the nomin
ation for state superintendent of public
instruction. ., Both won in the Repub
lican primaries. -r--- .VC
Reports have been received by the
State Journal from all except two
counties Cheyenne and Thomas--on
the secretary of state fight. Returns
from 78 of the 103 counties are offi
cial. The total returns independent
of the soldier vote gives Pettijohn
49,498 and Frank J. Ryan 48,150, or
a plurality for Pettijohn of 1,348. Ex
cept at Camp Funston and Fort Riley,
the soldier vote was light. Unofficial
reports indicate Ryan has carried the
soldier vote by 400 to 450. Ross car
ried the soldier vote over Wooster by
big majority.
The state canvassing board will meet
next Tuesday and will canvass the re
turns from the various counties and
cantonments. Returns - from more
than TO counties have-been enrolled in
the: secretary of state's offrce and the
worK wiil probably be completed Fri
day or Saturday..- ' -" ' "
LoTtl Mention. t
Temple Builders will give an ice
cream social, corner 4th and Monroe.
Thursday evening, August 15. Adv.
Spontaneous combustion of a pile of
coal at the home of "Wesley Hale, 1302
Monroe street, caused a small fire
this morning which was quickly put
out by fire companies with little re
sultant damage. The coal was in a
shed, - -
Friends of Mr; and "Mrsi -George "R.
Stratemeyer, formerly- of North To
peka, received word from Los An
geles today of the death of their 8-year-old
son, Keele He was struck
by an automobile while riding a bi
cycle. Mrs. Stratemeyer is asister of
Bert Keele of the Keele Electrical Co.
New fork stork Market.
(Furnished by T. J. Myers. 301 N. E. Bldg.)
New York. Aug. 14.
- Close
Todav Yea.
Am. Beet Sugar
Anaconda
A. T. ft S. F. c
Baltimore ft Ohio....
Central Leather
Cbeaapcake Ac Ohio..
C. M. ft St. P, e...
C. R. I. ft P
Cbino Copper
ColoradA Fuel ft Iron
Great Northern.--p-.i-.-.
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Miami C-i.
Missouri Pacific .
Penn. Kailroad .,
Reading .........
Studebaker
Sonthern Pacific .
mion Pacific '
V. S. Steel, c
T'tah Copper ....
White Motors ....
Wabash
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New Terk Stork Market.
Wall St., New York, Aug. 14. STOCKS
Adjournment of the Waahington railroad
conference without action caused extreme
recessions of -1 to t points tti today's stock
market. Sales Sirproximsted 375.000 sharea
leaders recorded- further loaaes on sell
ing for both accounts In the final hour
The closing was heavy.
Final price on . m-r t bonns were: 34 ;
100.02. flrat con rtible 4's 94.10, second 4"a I
93.M. flrat convertible H 's 94.2A: second I
convertible 4V4'a &3.S4, third 44'a D&54.
CHASED HIS WIFE
Topekan Saw Her In a. Motor:
. Car With' Another. j
'-.... - . i
He Jumped in a Taxi and Fut'
on "Reel" Movie Pursuit. '
IT ALL ENDED AT GAGE PARK
There Wronged Husband ' Beat
Up the Male Vampire.
Tearful' Wife Then Accom
panied Her "Daddy" Home.
The few folks who know about it
are trying to locate the six-cylinder
Euick owner whose face will show
evidence of a recent encounter, the re
sult of an Interrupted joy ride Monday
night with a woman friend who hap
pened to be the wife - of a fellow
townsman. v
The husband, the - story goes, had
heard about the evening' rides but
scarcely believed it. Monday evening
he was standing on a downtown cor
ner when the Buick-Six rolled by with
his wife dolled up in a familiar veil
beside the man at the wheel. There
was an empty taxi and driver near.
"Follow that car and don't you lose
It," the injured husband directed.
The taxi driver followed the car
over city streets, over country roads
and thru byways, eventually reaching
Gage park. .
"Drive right up beside it and leave
the rest to me," the husband told the
driver.
Next Time's It's Death! "
A Unlnute later husband was in the
tonneau of the Buick, wife was faint
ing avd the owner of the Six was .try
ing to cover a 176-pouhd form his
own with his panama. The hat cov
ered only a small portion and husband
punished the exposed portions with
his two fists.
"The next time I catch you out with
my wife," husband said, "there will be
no fists used. I'll kill you. That s
what observers heard.
The scared wife waf pushed across
into the taxi without- regard for the
flowing auto veil and husband fol
lowed her in.
'Sow drive home to -," husband
told the driver.
ACCEPT 45 RECRUITS
- . .
Topeka National Guairf- Now-Reaches
Full StrenBttji 5g J'
The Topeka national : guard com
pany reached lull strengtn Muesaay
night when forty-five out of fifty ap
plicants examined were accepted. Jt
is now being planned to start another
company and get it completed In time
to be mustered into the first regir.-.ent
of the new national guard, which will
be the Fourth Kansas infantry. .
The company Just completed will
be designated as either Company Q or
H when it Is mustered into the state
service next Tuesday night, at which
time the officers will probably be announced.-
Several weeks of hard work
have been put in bt' Lint'"G.LM. Al-
legre and others Mrn J'rieeruitlnsr" the
company. T.ne patriotic rally at Rip
At the
L. M. PEXWELL, Preatdent.
Kansas
1
There's No Reason
Why inyone should complain
about writing an ad on
PRINTING
The work turned out by this
plant is our best advertisement.
JONES & BIRCH
ley park Monday night is credited with I
putting the company over the top in j
such fine shape. Forty-five men signed i
up at she meeting, and five more
went in Tuesday nignt. .- .
Immediate steps will be taken to ob
tain the uniforms and equipment for
the company and the federal' dnU .pay
of $1 a night will begin as soon as the
company is mustered into state service
and is recognized by the war depart
ment. The regiment will consist of fifteen
line companies, a supply and a head
quarters company. The last two have
been organized at Wichita and are said
to be ready for mustering in at the
present time. Six line companies are
already in the state service. Men who
profess to know hint at service for the
Fourth regiment In the near future.
Every man must be present at drill
next Tuesday night when the company
will be mustered into state service, it
was announced by Lieutenant Allegre.
Serious illness of the member or some
of his family Is positively the only ex
cuse that will be accepted for a mem
ber's absence, he declared.-- - ..
BUY COFFEE
Santos "Special," 1 lb...25e.
Choice Brand, t lb...i..t
Silver Brand,' 3 lb $1.00
BITTER ; -
Meadow Gold 47c'
We Pay Cash For Eggs. -
Grand Union Tea Co. ,
610 Kansas Are. Phone 1070
Free
Every Red - Blooded Kansan
-Will Be There
r. S. GOVEnXMFXT WAR EX- '
KIBIT
. Direct - from "Washington,
showing all the latest imple-.
menta of war on land and sen.
New building especially built
for this great exhibit of the
War and Kuvy Departments.
MILLION DOLLAR MVE
STOCK SHOW
Horses. Cattle, Hogs. Sheep.
Poultry, Big array of prise
winners of leading Western
Breeders.
FARM POWER DEMOXSTU.l,
TIOXS - o .- . .,k- li.v
, Fifteen acres rct'-machrnery.-.
tractors, power plants, light
ing plants, implements and la
bor savlag short-cuts to larg
er production.
$30,000 IN PREMIUMS
Will be given under the. usual
competitive conditions.
THE MIDWAY
Parker's Greatest Shows,
"Chinatown." Ferris Wheel,
The Whip, Submarine Chaser,
Merrr Widow Swings. Honey
in. on Trail, Over the Top, and -hundred
other clean, educat
ing and amusing attractions.
A Great
Sep t . 9 - 10 -
6 Big Days
To
Some Men Get the
SWELL HEAD
Yet some men go on
Just as before and the
earning on their sav-
ings swell their savings'""
account.
Of which class are you?
Systematic Savings Accounts
CAPITOL BLDG. & LOAN
534 Kansas Ave.
Our Tire Stock
includes Fisk, Miller, Firestone, '
'Riverside, Goodyear, United"
-States, Goodrich, IftbWawk and '
Ajax. Plain and Non-Skid.
- Straight Sides and Clinchers.
Prices way below retail- cost.
Blacker Bros.
Phone 1648
5th and Quincy Sts.
Buy War Savings "Stamps.
Y
THE WORLD AT WAR -
- A stupendous war spectacle
every night. The biggest' sen-
' satlo . Kansas has ever seen,
featuring the latest battlej on
the Western front; $00 people,
al fresco stage containing 12,
000 square feet.
UORSE RACING AND AUTO
MOBILE RACING
- Four days of harness and riin
: nlng racing and two days of
. daredevil motor champion
ships on the fastest dirt Jriek
' in the West. ,;
M JSIC
Three full concert bands, af
ternoon and evening concerts.
The Modocs, great favorites of
the concert stage.
PEOPLE'S PAVILION
Educational and patriotic fea
tures every day. Home econo
mic demonstrations, Depart-
- menta of Agriculture, Food
Administration. Council of
D't'ense, Red Cross and other
patriotic organizations and ac
tivities will be represented.
War-Fair
pekA
11 - 12 - 13 - 14 '
6 Big Nights
PHIL RASTMAN..ewetr