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-fl Total Circulation Yesterday 3 3,5 9 8 Total City Circulation Yesterday 9,513 AX VOLUME XXXVn NO. 77. TOPEKA, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1913. TWELVE PAGES ITU mm 1m the weather pniipiirn Tn nrimi ARIZONA PASSES WIDOW OMI UnUGflLU IU ULIlill TVaaklaglou. C.

May fe Forecast HARMONY MELTING CALLED WEDNESDAY Kansah Demands J. G. Blaine and Declares He Is Graduate of U. S. Electoral College HUSBAND IS BY 2-TOW GRAWE hourly temperatures yesterday The wtre: 7 a.

m. E9 8 a. 50 a. fi 10 a. 69 11 a.

SB 12 noon 60 1 p. ES 2p. m. 3 Tn 34 4 p. 6 p.

56 6 p. m. C6 7 IX 06 More Drastic Measure Than Matthew Miller Killed While Special to The Capital. Philadelphia, May 5. A well dressed News, of Murder Kept From Girl Bride l5y Police in Order That They May Question Her.

Highest temperature. 60: highest this Shawnee Delegates and Others Will Meet to Organize and Plan for Coming of State Delegates. date in 36 years was 96, In 1900. Helping Prepare Box Car, Off Track, for Lift by Steam Derrick. California's, Preventing For-eingers Who Do Not Declare Intention Owning Property.

man giving his name as John Alderman, of Lawrence, Kansas, called upon De Liowest temperature. (6: lowest this data In 36 years was S4, In 1890. Precipitation. LK and Is the greatest tective Shay today, asking him to look up the whereabouts of James G. Blaine, and Thomas B.

Reed, speaker of the this date In t6 years. fakes, and I know they are in hiding in this city." Realizing that he had a crank to deal "with. Detective Shay asked the man to be seated, and sent for Police Surgeon John Eagan, whom he introduced as secretary to James G. Blaine. Alderman stood upon a chair, waved his arms, and cried: "I am a graduate of the electoral college, and I am here for the purpose of landing these enemies of the country." Dr.

Eagan quieted the excited man, led him to the sixth floor' and sent him to the Philadelphia hospital. The temperature averaged i degrees below normal. house In Cleveland's administration. SHOOTS AN INVALID OFFICERS ARE INVITED JAPS STDDT MEASURE r2Qrl 7 p- mllca- CABLE ON BEAM SLIPPED Alderman produced a number of documents, covered with red seals, and waving them In the air, shouted; Sun rose at 5:20 a. set.

p. m. want James G. Blaine. Tom Reed Screams of Brother and Other Courts Will Have to Pass on and Teddy Roosevelt.

They're all 3 Man With Whom Wife Admits Relations Pleads Self -Defense, and Claims Wronged Man Threw Stones. Call for Meeting Includes Many Outside Regularly Elected Delegates and Alternates MeetCag Opens at 2 0' Clock. FIGHT FOB LIFE IN KANSAS FLOOD Workmen Too Late to Save Kansas Cityan Raymour Has Close Call. Measure as Soon as Johnson Signs 'iCTj'ygXeTica Cease. OPEN JOHNSON TRIAL FIND TRAIN ROBBER IN GRADING CAMP? WHIT SLAVE CHARG Caught beneath the huge steel arm Phoenix.

To take the Kansas City, May 6. The Kansas I of a wrecldnc crane, weighing about place of the unenforced measure en Special to The Capital. Chicago. May 5. Not until this after, noon did 17-year-old Irene Westfall La Count, whose husband, Harry Leon La Count, was slain last night by Joseph A.

Williams, an admirer of the City police are believed to be on the acted a year ago the lower house of trail of the man who robbed the Kan the legislature passed an antl-allen young woman, learn that she waa a land ownership today far more sas City Southern train near here early last Saturday morning and shot Jesse widow. drastic than the California legislation She was In a cheerful frame of mind M. Short, wealthy Joplin miner. Ray Sisson, foreman at a grading when she left the Hyde Park police station and was taken to Woodlawn station, supposing her husband and Wil camp at Birmingham, was stand on the same subject. The act prohibits any alien who has not declared his intention to become citizen from acquiring title to real property.

ing near ms oince Sunday, when a Chicago, May 5. Twelve jurymen to tiy Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, on a charge of violating the Mann "white slave" act, had been selected by the government when the first day of the trial ended tonight. None of the panel had been accepted by the defense. Johnson Is charged with having transported Belle Scheiber from Pittsburg to Chicago for immoral purposes In 1910. J.

E. Johnson and A. E. Peck, of Aurora, the first two men examined, were excused when both declared they had decided opinions as to Johnson's guilt, and strong convictions as to the punishment they would mete out to him. liams had engaged in nothing more Hays.

May S. Reports are two tons, as It accidentally dropped oa coming Into this city that many cattle, tn ro)t derailed box car near tha horses and hogs were drowned In the Santa Fe Junction In North Topeka floods beginning with the ralna of laat yterday afternoon. Matthew Miller, a Friday, who nthere were several cloud- "n'0 was crashed to dtb- Hia back was broken, several hursts and a heavy rain all over this rlbB wer ana the htLt9 othls section. skull crushed. The aocident happened Three men.

Including William Monny. bout o'clock, and ha lived but a tt few minutes, of-Hays, who had made a trip to La Crosse and return, had a narrow es- hJ5 ISJ Wb cape from death. They started from hJd "iV the engineer In charge of the wrecker Lacrosse at 6.0 clock Friday night in t. Ji, engine as tne cause 01 the accident. W.

itv 1 i the JifiiwinJ Rmour. nothor member of th. tZ following crew waa by tfc, -OK of th morning. heavy beam of steel as It fell and nar- large man with dried bloodstains on his shirt and mud cakes on his yf ace serious than a fist fight. Police Cap tain Alcock left her under this Illusion ana nanas, stumbled Into the camp.

for some time, while he questioned her He had a bandage on his left ear and JAP STUDIES KETLAW. Washington, May Japanese as to her relations with Williams and could not rest one foot on the ground. The injured leg was bound up with about her brief career as a wife. embassy was supplied by the state de The members of the Shawnee county delegation to the state-wide harmony conference, to be held In Topeka on June 8. will meet at the National hotel tomorrow afternoon to organize the county delegation and to consider plans for, the entertainment of the harmony conference delegates who will be present from over the state.

Besides the thirty-two delegates and thirty-two alternates chosen at the county mass meeting, all the state officials who vote In Topeka. all the Shawnee county officers, officers of county Republican and Progressive organizations, officers of the local W. C. T. U.

and Topeka and Shawnee county editors and publishers are members of the Shawnee county delegation to the atate-wlde harmony conference. The call for tomorrow's meeting was Issued yesterday by the Shawnee county members of the legislature. Senator James A. Troutman and Representatives C. Q.

Blakely, Robert Stone and Fred Volland. The meeting will be called to order at 2 o'clock. Following Is the complete list of delegates, alternates and others who are entitled to membership In the Shawnee county delegation to the state-wide harmony conference: rags. The man asked for work. Sis SHE MATED AT NEWS.

son gave him a position, but kept an Suddenly the police officer broke the news and the girl fainted. A dash of cold water restored consciousness and eye on the stranger. partment today with a copy of the alien land owning bill passed by the California legislature, and the ambassador will employ the time between WADB WATER KECK DEEP. Irowly escaped the death that Miller When within seven miles of Hays met. Sisson says he fitted well the description of the train bandit.

Tonight he notified authorities in Kansas City they were in three separate cloud- BROxmcn np-tTit iranr. that he had a close watch, set over the bursts and were finally compelled to ZZ. r.ow and Secretary Bryan's return In preparing a formal protest against the measure. man at his grading camp. It Is ex MOTHER ADMITS LYING TO SAVE WAYWARD SON pected the suspect will be arrested Apparently the embassy has no hope leave their machine and wade to high teMay fVVm Kanaaa citV to repIacVa ground.

They waded in water to their Ka 77. tT necks at midnight, in darkness that fS" BJSS early tomorrow. ANOTHER BANDIT TRAIT. was uenBc may cvuiu i Kansaa City. Kan.

Ha waa 41 years mill fi nil wIXav that any word Wilson may send after Secretary iBryan return will Influence Governor Johnson withhold his signature from, the act, so the 'only object of the protest will be to acquaint the American people I. W.M. KVV VUH- auw uvih ui rtran. all uiuIiip IS vm mi. tears came to her eyes.

"Why did not you tell me; why didn't you let me see him?" she exclaimed, and then became composed. She was accompanied by her mother. Facing her was Williams, but they did not speak. In the course of the questioning, Alcock asked Mrs. La Count whether she liked Williams or her husband the better, and she expressed a preference for the latter.

Being under, age, however, she admitted that she had thought of seeking an annullment of the marriage, because she was of one religious belief and her husband of another. BRIDE CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN. La Count and his wife eloped to Another bandit trail developed at Liberty, where a man appeared on the streets who limped as he walked and whose head was bandaged. boarded New Tork, May 5. "Happy Jack and hogs in the nearby wu broth Frimk Mm wno work.

almost deafening. One farmer lost Z. Mulraney must die for the murder of "Paddy the Priest h0.r.'r hL" LMt when th. accWt happened- a freight train. A few minutes later a posse from the Kansas City detective "Happy Jack," who was granted a sixty-day reprieve, by Governor Sulzer, with- the Japanese contention, and if possible, to influence the executive branch of the government to endeavor luoi vv I nd will Innk a ft.r th.

11.. Ul. II, V. State offices who vote In Topeka department rode into town on horse BOAV In mnmm ft-w changed his story time after time, and finally said he had been lying and was back. They had been following' the to nullify the action of' the California arownea on omer rmi.

a lon.d1 bo o.r ahtiHt.A tn legislature. trail of a bandit all day. ready to take his "medicine." He re Secretary of State Charles H. Sessions; State Superintendent W. D.

Ross; Justice J. S. "West; State Accountant J. C. Gafford; State Architect Charles H.

tlreljr and in many place, telegraph 4 COURT MUST iJECIDE. lied mostly on. his aged mother to es poies were carnea away oy tn. pur" I Both trucks left th. rail, and low.d The embassy will make known the Joliet.

111., four months ago, and were Chandler; Samuel T. Howe, member tate tax commission; F. D. Coburn, NOVELIST LOSES LIFE married. The bride returned to the fields 400 and 600 feet from the tracka to repUee the cmr on the traek wlthoilt Bridges were carried away and the tm.

tablish an alibi. She swore he was at home in bed, helplessly drunk, on the night of the murder. Today the feeble old woman broke down and admitted to the district attorney that the story was She perjured herself, she secretary state board of agriculture; home of her parents, withholding news of the wedding from them. La Walter Wellhouse. secretary state water is reported to have been higner crane and wreeklng train from Kansas than hfnT fennwn.

I rm ground of Its protest in- a diplomatic note to' Secretary." Bryan. It Is well understood that to 'settle the question will require the action of the United States court. It Will be for Secretary Bryan to determine the United States government Itself shall TRYING TO SAVE DOG returned to his duties as Inspector at v-ty. board of horticulture; George W. Martin, secretary state historical society; the Panama canal.

The wrecker reached her. vamtrAn said, to save berbdy. Mulraney' will NEOJHO RISES IS FEET. I noon. Th.

lrU A few weeks ago, Williams, an art J. N. Harrison, department commander 6 i I i ii 7 Z.m4t"cute4 during the week of May 18. G. A.

R. -Dri-JtJ, from Kansas City, jnet Mrs. Council Grove. May a. naavj 1 bv a.

hup. in i.mj become this charac London, May 5. -Alice Maud Meadows Blate "board of 'health Jr lis King, state-' La Count at a dance at an amusement ter in the capacity 'of an Inventor. the novelist, was accidentally drowned SMOTHERS BROTHER rains today following the heavy rains around one Th. steam crane was of Saturday and Sunday, resulted In a run aJongsld.

th. ditched car on a International lawyers' hint that the today at Red Hill, a few miles from park and they became frlendsj Recently La Count waa Invalided home. 16-foot rise or tne neosno, wnna nearby track. Th. steel arm was PILING PILLOWS ON HIM London, while attempting to rescue and his conscience-stricken wife Is threatens to destroy tne new on over th.

end of th rr her dog, which had fallen into the administration is in an exceedingly delicate position for the reason that, while apparently a champion of the Japanese cause through the -secretary said to have admitted her relations concrete arcn Dnage unaer connrus- water. with Williams. lion nere. im. uuuse.

R.fftP. th. rmr k. According to Williams. La Count and Alice Maud Meadows began to write rldue to of state before the California legislature, probably, from this point It Mrs.

La Count's brother followed Wll when she was 14 years old. Her pub and catch the large hook hanging from Special to The Capital. Winfleld, May 4. Leroy, the 3-months-old son of Mr. and i drift which haa lodged against It.

liams home last night, and-La Count must defend the California law against struck Williams. At this, the art All available men are employed by 'VI Japan in the diplomatic struggle about llcatlons include "The Infatuation of Marcella," "An Innocent "The Moth and the Flame," and many other Mrs. L. D. Neal, living near New student drew a pistol and fired twice to begin.

the contractors in an attempt to keep te -te on th n. n.nnal 1 Salem, was smothered to death Both bullets entered La Count heart. novels. by his little 2-year-old brother. The mother left the baby asleep -o JAP.

AGITATORS ARE QUIET. Tokio, May of the WIFE STANDS BY SLAYER. librarian; A. W. Dana, district Judge; George H.

Whitcomb, district Judge; State Senator James A. Troutman; Representative Fred Voiland; Representative O. Blakely, Representative Robert Stone. Editors and publishers Arthur Cap-, per, Harold T. Chase, T.

A. McNeal, T. A- Borman, Albert T. Reld, 1. D.

A. D. Bauer, Nick Chiles, Frank P. MacLennan, F. M.

Stahl, Mrs. E. A. King, Ernest Tucker, C. P.

Adams, Paul Lovewell, Anderson Peter Navarre, J. N. Graft. County officers). K.

Swayze, Matt "Welghtman, R. F. Tasker. Hugh Mac-Farland. 1 L.

Kiene, Dr. J. H. Rine-hart, John F. Eby, C.

TV. Bower, S. H. Haynes, Fred E. NIpps, James C.

Shlmer, Robert D. Garver, A. Bartel, George B. Frost. J.

E. Larimer. Officers of Republican and Progressive committees John T. Chaney, Fred H. Jewell, F.

M. Charles E. Suit, Will S. Fulton, W. W.

Mills, E. TV. Rankin. 7 in its crib with the other child -o ping when his waist reached the edge of the roof, he bent over, face down wards, until he was almost lying on the car roof. Then as h.

was In th. act of connecting the hook from the crane with the chain, the crash came Kansas City. Mar 5- "I think Joe 3-DAY RAIN IS ENDED; playing about the room. During ASSIGNMENTS ARE MADE final passage of the alien land ownership bill by the California legislature has not created any excitement In her absence the little fellow. roust have been Justified in shooting, and I will stick to him through thick piled a number of pillows on the and thin." said Mrs.

Joseph A. WI1- Tokio. The government officials, the hat killed him 'earn, without an cradle, and when she returned to -e- FAIR WEATHER PROMISED i nstant's warning. The cabl back In METHODIST (Continued on Page, 10, Column 6.) the house she found the baby press and the leaders In all walks are counselling patience and dependence the engine room of the wrecker dead. -v slipped and the steel arm.

about three PATTON RESIGNS PLACE on the evident determination of the American government and the vast Vnw that all fit KlTIIAI 1 WCll I Km-, Vi IsKap.v f.lt -1 I. It. Charleston, W. May 5. After a AS PRINCETON PRESIDENT soaked with rain tho weather roan full weight, pinning hfm to the roof majority of American people to treat Japan with friendliness and fairness.

The agitators and those who have promises fair skies with sunshine tor I and crushing the life out of his body. five days' session, the international board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church closed its meeting today, choosing St. Louis for the next Princeton. N. May 6.

Francis SEVEN SAILORS DROWN been making hysterical outcries today. A light frost was predicted for The crash of the falling arm and th. last night ln the north and west por- shrieks of men near who saw It drop tions. No danger from the frost is ex- told the engineer of the accident. II.

Landey Patton resigned as president of against the proposed legislation havj the Princton Theological seminary to Officers of W. C. T. U. Mrs.

Lillian disappeared and the sudden cessation of the excitement is taken to indicate day. Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield. senior member of the seminary faculty, pected. as only once In the last twenty- sprang to his engine and raised th. seven years has a killing frost ap- arm.

Bat he waa too late. Miller peared after May that time was May was taken from the car and laid on an meeting, October 22. Assignments of bishops include: Bishop Quayle. Wisconsin and Min nesota. AT WRECK OF Mltchner, Mrs.

Alice Wright. Mrs. Clara R. Baker, Mrs. Almeda Heller.

County delegates Mrs. Charles that it was largely manufactured. will act as president until Eoctor Pat- 19, 1898. The temperature today will improvised stretcher msde of bagaair ton's successor is elected. Bishop Smith, southern Illinois and Spencer, Mrs.

D. C. Nellis, Miss Nannon be about the same as yesterday, the trucks In the little Junction depot, Missouri. Helgoland, Germany, May 5. Seven Herron, Mrs.

Lucia O. Case, Mrs. J. weather report says. where he died before Dr.

J. H. Rln-- MEXICANS SLAUGHTER Thurston, Mrs. W. A.

McCarter, Mrs. Bishop Mcln tyre, Oklahoma, Texas sailors were drowned here today by Raln has fallen since Saturday morn-1 hart, the coroner, who had been called. INDEX TO NEWS and southern Swedish mission. the capsizing in a heavy sea of a saJ J. Fred Scott, Miss Effle Graham, George Godfrey Moore, D.

H. Brana- vage boat. The sailors were working Bishop Bristol, Kansas, Nebraska and at the wreck of the torpedo boat S-178 man, B. H. Hogueland, J.

B. Larimer, ing in all parts of the state except the eould reach the depot northwestern portion and that was cov- ACCIDENT DAZED COMPAWfO. red with rain Friday. Th. preciplta- The work of the wrecking crew was tion was moderately heavy in south- dropped with the fall of the fatal steel western, central and northeastern Kan- beam.

The unfortunate man as car 1,500 OUTSIDE SONORA Iowa. 'Bishop Shepard, northwest Iowa. of the German navy, lost with 71 H. G. Larimer, James Ramsey, John A.

lives on March 5, after it had been cut Alexander, W. F. Schoch, N. B. Burge, Bishop Luccoek, Montana, Idaho and In two by the cruiser Torek.

North Dakota. Joseph L. Longshore, A. S. Embree, tas, tne weatner Duuetin says, ana rled Into the little depot where hi.

ashlngton. May B. Reports from Mexico City today estimated that from from one to two Inches reported gen-1 companion laborers and brother stood erally during the forty-eight hours ln silently around his lifeless body daxed C. Holland. Clyde Miller, E.

E. Ridley. Oscar Sanderson, Charles O'Neill, Floyd Ross, Boyd Pollom, Erl Hansford, Grant Kelsey, C. C. Bradley, A.

Cain, Dan Nygren, Frank Pasha, M. L. the southeastern part of the state. I by the scene they had witnessed. With For th.

twenty-four hours ending (the begrimed felt hat tbst he had 1,200 to 1,500 lives have been lost In engagements outside of Sonora during the hist week. The reports confirmed the blowing up of a railroad train by Zapatists at Napantla, when 150 per last night at 7 o'clock Topeka received worn placed over his face, hiding sev- Foltz. L44 Inches of rain, which made the eral cuts and bruises, there ws. total 2.5 Inches for the three daya The! nothing about the senseless form Clad Tomorrow Booklovers' Contest Picture No. 1 sons were killed.

It was said that the Alternates Mrs. J. W. F. Hughes, Mrs.

L. L. Klene, Mrs. Amos Beeler, Mrs. W.

S. Fulton, Miss Kline, Miss maximum temperature was but 40 de-lln the laborer, uniform of overall. federal forces have driven Zapata from his stronghold at Chinameca and are grees yesterday and the minimum ES, land Jumper to suggest the awful Viola A. Troutman, Mrs. T.

F. Garver, making the day three degrees below work of the heavy steel arm. pressing him hard. Matehuela, recently under siege, is again isolated and Amer leans have been advised by their em normal. Wth the predicted cold "I didn't touch the engine till after weather for last night today's tempera- the accident happened." was the only ture Is expected to stay below normal, explanation of the engineer.

whoM ln spite of the scheduled sunshine. duty was to raise and lower th. steel J. D. Norton, Captain C.

H. Titus, George K. Bunce, John W. Newall, E. .8.

Clark," 8. L. Courtney, E. D. Keever, Hugh T.

Fisher, C. F. Cllnk-scale, Elisha Scott. John C. Waters, ployes to leave, as anti-American feel 1 Crushed to Death by Huge Crate, Artioaa Paaaea Worst Laad BUI.

Harmony Meetl. Called Weifa-day. Widow Ignoraat Husband I. Dead. Brazil Kill.

America. BnslaejM. Kansas Demand. J. G.

Blaine Prom Oota. Nevra of Sport. Xew. All Over Kaaiaa. 4 Editorial.

On Second Thought. IsHe Walt. Bouquet of Sub flowers. Vest Pocket Eaaaya. Why They Llk.

Kaaaaa. 5 Crop Proaaeet. Above Average. K. S.

A. C. Prepare. Book oa Agriculture. State to Charge Tenth Royalty, ft Iu Society.

7 East Side 5r. Kaaaaa Doctor. Meet. North Topeka Sewa. 8 Board of Education Breaks Eveu.

Short Storlea. Extend Civil Service. Clean Marriage Crusade Discussed. 10 of the Capital Want Directory. 12 Institute to Break Record.

Stewart Get. Clean Bill. Valk Comoaay Inereaaea Puree. Glady. Barton Paroled, ing runs high.

arm. The Daily Capital's Great Free Game, and Your Chance to Win $300 Cash, Begins. B. F. Mitchell, George A.

Dally, James The ear was put on the track n4 th. wrecker went back to Kansas City T. Pennick, A. M. Fuller.

W. H. Mof HYDROPHOBIA FATAL THREE BURN TO DEATH fltt, R. P. Alba ugh.

J. F. Cecil. W. D.

last night. Updegraff. L. H. Neiswander, W.

CLOSE CALL POR itAVMOITI. costs just about HALF as much per copy, If you subscribe, as it costs per P.aynwjr, who lives at CO! Cornell Flemmlng, N. E. Copeland, J. H.

Skin ner, George T. McDermott. copy lr you buy it on the street dav TO DOG'S AGED VICTIM AND FOUR ARE HURT venue. Kansas City. waa lylnr by day? Pertiaps this never occurred to you before.

Look up the subscrip by the side of Miller when th. arm felL Th. edge of tho arm caught his Jacket GOES WITH FIRST WIFE Springfield. Mo, May 5. 6eth TuttieJand tore It from his shoulder, but left Fresno, CaL, May 5.

Three unidenti tion rates, and compare the subscription prices with the cost if you buy the paper each day on the street! Be SURE you look at today's contest 77 years old. died at his homo here I him uninjured. fied men were burned to de.th, one early today of hydrophobia. Tattle was I Dr. J.

IL Illnehart, the coroner, was Get tomorrow's Topeka Capital, whatever else happens! It will contain the first picture of the great free Booklovers contest the Joyful $3,058 game! Cut out picture No. 1, solve it, and put It aside. Then clip out picture No. 2 the day after tomorrow, solve it. and put it aside.

And so on for all the 77 pictures. When the 77th picture has appeared you can hand In your answers, and then the prises will be awarded to those coming closest to having the 77 correct titles in their lists. Each picture will represent the title of a book. Tomorrow's picture will be the most bitten. by a dog several day.

ago. So called Immediately after tb. accident announcement the last one preceding WHEN HIS REASON FAILS many dogs In the city- have shown land held an investigation. waa Injured so seriously that he may die, two others received minor injuries and a girl was hurt today in a fire that destroyed a rooming house. 'Tie explosion of a gasoline stove in the kitchen is thought to have started the symptoms of rabies that Mayor Culler will be urged by th.

council tomorrow Ithaca. N. May B. Harry Thurston tne actual Degmning of the contest. Be ready to clip out picture No.

1 tomorrow. Save it. solve it, and pounce on picture No. 2 the next day. Save all the pictures until all the 77 have appeared.

Then send them all in to to Issue a proclamation ordering all McCoy'. Sentence Likely 25 Year. Xelswaager Head. Studeat Council. Peck, formerly professor of anclen dogs to bo muzzled.

blase. PLACE FLAG ABOVE SOCIALIST RED Most of the occupants were forced to languages at Columbia university, who has been ill at a hospital for several weeks with a nervous malady, was jump from the second story windows. taken to New York tonight by hi Brazil Kills U. S. Business KANSANS GET $100 divorced wife.

Mrs. Cornelia D. Peck, FROM RICH UNCLE East Liverpool. May t. Cheered by thousands In th.

street, below, two Worth $3,000,000 for Revenge St. Louis. May 5. The will of Hugh Franklin Lyle, assistant secretary the Mississippi Valley Trust company, which was filed today, bequeathes his and a trained nurse. Mrs.

Elizabeth Dubois Peck, Professor Peck's present wife, left for New York several days ago. It is said she agreed to her husband accompanying the first Mrs. Peck to Connecticut. Professor Peck still is In a precarious condition mentally and his physician has only slight hope that he will recover his reason. HEAT FATAL' TO THREE AS KANSAS SHIVERS $2,000,000 estate to two sisters in Ire land.

Lyle died April 29 from injuries gether. Do not send in less than a COMPLETE set of the 77 pictures, or It will be refused. Partial sets will not be considered. Just as soon as space permits we are goin to tell you in detail Just how each book title was chosen to be represented by a picture, who does the choosing, how the correct title is guarded, and how nobody in this world except the publisher of, this newspaper, who guards its honor as his own knows or can find out all the correct titles. This is a fair, square, open-and-above-board game, and by the time It is under way every contestant wll know all about ow It operates except, of course, what those 77 correct titles are! But YOU can name them, anyway.

The very catalog of 5,000 book titles from which the 77 titles represented by the 77 pictures were selected will be issued to contestants: This catalog. In other words, will actually contain ALL the 77 correct titles! Watch for picture No. 1 tomorrow Without the differential, it Is said, the American producers will be unable to compete with those In Argentina, and the Argentine millera are expected to control the Brazilian flour market. Casting about for means to procure a continuance of the differential. Americans have urged tho state department to retaliate by recommending to congress the imposition of duties on Bra vital one of the contest, for It will set the pace for the others.

If you can solve tomorrow's picture, if you can name the book title It represents, you will be on the road to success, for It will demonstrate that you have the Booklovers' Contest mind! Get going tomorrow. Don't let the first picture slip by. with the idea of catching up later. Start with the first picture, with nobody ahead of you. Then nobody will pass you in the race for first prize! Turn to today's object lesson picture, bo that you will know how to solve the first contest picture tomorrow.

Read the rules, look over the prise list, be sure you are prepared to go ahead. Be ready to get The Capital EVERY day. No incomplete sets will be accepted in this contest, so do not miss any of the pictures. Better arrange to get the paper regularly. Buy it on the street, if you, wish to, or subscribe.

Do you know that the paper Washington. May 5. American manufacturers probably have lost a flour trade amoantlng to $3,000,000 a year, as well as a lucrative business ln cement, typewriters, machinery and other products, as a result of the Brazilian government's resentment at the breaking of the Brazilian coffee valorization scheme by the department of Justice. After several conferences with state department officials, Brazilian ambassador Do Gama let it be known today received in a falL The two sisters who inherit the estate are Mrs. Margaret Clyltle, of Belfast, and Mrs.

Jame Phanna of Newtonardes, county downs. Two nephews and one nleee were left $100 each. They are Albert A. Ramsey, of Carthage, Robert W. Ramsey, of Atchison.

and Elizabeth L. Long, of Independence. Kan. men tonight placed the American flag above the red flag of ftociallam on a building In which the Socialists havo headquarter. Several days ago th.

Socialists flung their flag to the braes, and city authorities found there waa no law to haul It down. Tonight two men. on. a law stodet and the other the owner of the building, ascended to the roof of tb. structure through a trap door.

Incidentally passing the headquarters of the Socialists. The American flag was nailed Just above the red banner. When th. men attempted to leave tb. roof they found tb.

trap door locked. From th. edge of the building's roof the men notified the crowd below predicament. An alarm of fire was sounded and the ladders of the department were used ln aiding th. man to descend.

zilian coffee and rubber. Imported Into America in enormous quantities. It la AVIATOR IS KILLED. Akron. May 5.

Charles Carlson, avi Cleveland. Ohio, May 5. Three deaths from excessive heat were reported today, the hottest May 5 for forty-two years. The official record was S6 degrees. that his country would decline in the ator, today fell 200 feet to his future to extend the 20 per cent dif understood, however, that th.

Brazilians confidently believe Americans must have these commodities at any so that either th. middleman or th. ultimate consumer must pay any tariff tax that may bo imposed. His machine became unmanageable I ferential in custom dues, until and hia body waa crushed under the I April f. was.

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1879-1922