The Topeka State Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 2

THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1916 I FEDS LOST FI6HT Kansas Democrats Smash the Thompson Machine. IVevertheless, Enough Support Was Rallied to Aid Him. SAPP NAMED COMMITTEEMAN Mrs. Harris, A. M.

Jackson, A. Doerr, Thompson "Big Four." Charge and County Charge at Hutchinson Convention. Kansas Drmocrats smashed the Thompson federal machine in their atnta innventinn at Ml 1 1 ti i nsnn and with an air of scorn and derision sent the United States senator to the national convention without the vote of a majority of the delegates. Thompson received fewer votes than any of the four delegates at large and fell short of a majority. Then the convention defeated J.

W. Orr of Atchison for national committeeman and walloped George A. Neeley in his aspirations to become a member of the Big Four. While Thompson is a member of the Big Four In name, his victory is the most hollow ever credited on che bulletin board of a United States senator's winnings. His success was due to the efforts of Gerge H.

Hodges, former governor, and at every stage of the fight Senator Thompson's destiny was clay in the hands of the anti-postoffice crowd. At every stage of the game, there was sorrow for the federal machine. In the final round of the fight Neeley's Reno county delegation threw the harpoon into the Thompson candidacy. The Thompson crowd retaliated by adding the finishing touches to Neeley's downfall and as the curtain fell on the spectacular convention, Thompson himself was saved from lasting disgrace at home when hib enemies consented that he go to the convention without the approval of a majority. Sapp Took First Trench.

The victory of W. F. Sapp of Galena over J. W. Orr of Atchison in the fight for national committeeman was the first trench won by the insurgents In their charge on the federal crowd.

Orr was the victim of over-zealousy on the part of his friends and too ardent love making with the fifty Kansas postmasters and twenty federal appointees. Then, as a climax to the ficht. both Hodges and Hugh P. Far- relly took the floor against Orr and Hodges replied to the fight on Sapp with the counter charge that Orr represented every issue in politics that occasioned criticism of Sapp. To Political Obscurity.

Neeley's defeat was a virtual return -as to political obscurity. He barely escaped an adverse instruction from his own congressional district and was beaten by A. A. Doerr of Lamed by a large majority. Insurgents were in control at all -'times during the convention.

They cheerfully "spotted" the federal crowd the chairmanship ajtid proceeded to beat the postnffice boys at their own game. Two of the delegates at large are positive and determined opponents of Thompson. Mrs. W. A.

Harria, elected by acclamation, is neutral and supported by both factions. Then, fourth on the list from every angle, ia Senator Thompson himself. The convention was bitter and red hot. In many respects it was one of the most spectacular political meetings in Kansas in several years. Behind the heated contests were personal feelings and resentments sufficient to keep the Democratic harmony crew busy during the campaign.

Attempts to harmonize were sad failures. The withdrawal of John E. Wagner from the committeeman fight and the short campaign of E. E. Murphy, failed to relieve Then Orr and Sapp entered the ring to fight it out.

Hodges Saved Him. In their desire to punish the federal ring. It is probable that Senator Thompson might have fallen a hundred votes short of an election had not Hodges stayed with the Thompson candidacy. He declared the party could not afford to go on record by defeating the senator and he delivered his personal following in the conven-I tion to Thompson even in the face of the red hot Hodges-Thompson-Neeley Jigrhi of two years ago. Farrelly succeeded in peying Orr for his efforts in inducing Neeley to run senator in 1914.

That move cost the senatorial nomination. 3 showed his appreciation in his fight which lost the Atchison man the committcemanship. A dozen other sore thumbs were exhibited by men prominent In both factions of the party and the factional 9 strifes of two years ago have been dragged from the closet, dusted and painted and ready for use in the com- I ing campaign. A Standard Cement for 40 Years Best Bros. Keene's Cement has been in use upwards of 70 years.

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The German assault on the Verdun front west of the Meuse was renewed this morning. Troops advanced on Caurettes wood south of Cumieres, the war office announced, using flame projectors, but were repulsed. East of the Meuse in the Douau-mont-Vaux sector there was only artillery fighting. The war office says it has been confirmed that the German losses yesterday were very heavy. New Attack on Hill.

While bringing up reinforcements to resume their attack on Dead Man's hill, the Germans are trying to recover the ground regained by the French in Caillette woods and to the north between Douaumont and Vaux. The French position there describes an arc from a point south of Douaumont fort to the center of the village of Vaux and the front is a little less than two miles in length. For three days the only actions on the east banlc of the Meuse have been centered there with the habitual preparation In heavily concentrated artillery fire with a finishing touch in the form of a couple of hours of heavy shelling with suffocating and tear-provoking gas projectiles. After a bombardment with high explosives, lasting eight hours, and the use of gas for another hour or two, the Germans would attack in two columns simultaneously on two flanks. There was no visible diminution in their courage and ardor, neither did the French show the slightest fatigue, and the consequence is that the unprecedented carnage of the battle of Verdun goes on.

Cloud of Gas Hangs Low. Yesterday the whole front, beaten by gas projectiles, was overhung by a yellowish cloud of chlorine vapor, which seemed to be suspended from the sky. When the cloud lifted, the Germans bounded forward, seemingly indifferent to the thick death dealing curtain of fire from the French artillery. Some of them got through it, but only to find that the French had abandoned the first line trenches to allow the gas cloud to dissipate. German reinforcements were sent up to fortify the trenches, but before they had reached the line, the French came back with an irresistible counter attack and in a few minutes drove out the Germans from the few points where they had penetrated the trenches.

TEUTONS CAPTURE FORT. French Also Claim Victory In Artillery Battle on Greek Frontier. Paris, April 12. Resumption of violent cannonading along the Greek frontier in the vicinity of Gievgeli and Dolran is reported in a dispatch from Saloniki to the Journal. It is said the French artillery had the advantage.

It Is also reported that the Germanic allies captured the fortified position at Deve Tepe. WEATHER STAYSlOOD (Continued from Page One) April 12. This mark is 83 degrees and it occurred in 1899. The lowest temperature on record is 28 degrees, established in 1914. The wind Is blowing at the rate of 18 miles an hour from the southwest.

Temperatures today averaged 20 degrees above normal. Following are hourly readings for the day furnished by the weather bureau: 7 o'clock 63 11 o'clock 78 12 o'clock 82 1 o'clock 82 2 o'clock 82 8 o'clock 65 9 o'clock 70 10 o'clock 74 DAILY WEATHER REPORT. Fornibed by the local Office of the Weather Bureau, Topeka. Kansas, for the 24 boors ending at 7 a m. today.

Stations in Kansas. High Low Rain or Temp. Temp. Snow Anthony 80 44 t'oldwater so flo Concordia 86 60 House City 86 48 Dresden 90 no Emporia 80 BO Eureka 78 4ii Ft. Scott 78 44 Goodland 86 44 Hnnover 86 48 Hays x2 40 Morton 84 48 Iola 76 2 Liberal 90 44 Mel'herson 80 52 Manhattan 88 58 Pblllipsburg 88 44 Scott City 90 44 70 50 TOPEKA 81 02 Wichita 7G 50 82 44 Kansas City 80 04 St.

Joseph 82 04 Reports From Other State. Amarillo. Tex 80 52 Boston, Mass 62 42 Buffalo, N. 48 34 .28 Cnlffary, Alb 30 30 24 Chicago, 111 70 44 .0 Cincinnati, Ohio 72 52 02 Corpus Tex 74 .0 Denver, Colo 70 44 .0 Pes Moines, la 74 56 El Paso, Tex. 80 2 .0 tJalveston, Tex 72 66 Havre, Mout.

.1. .56 Huron. S. 52 .0 Jacksonville, Fla 70 58 .0 I.itle Rock. Ark 78 58 .0 Los Angeles, Cal 60 48 Moorehead.

56 44 .0 New Orleans, La 74 58 New York. 58 44 1 North Platte. Neb 86 30 .0 Oklahoma. Okla. .,.,,,.78 60 .0 Oniaha.

Neh ,.,,.,..86 64 .0 Phoenix, Ariz 80 50 0 Pittsburg. Pa tit) 42 St. Joseph. Mo ,...82 64 0 St. Louis.

Mo 80 00 .0 Suit Lake. Utah 62 SJ .10 San Francisco, Cal HO 50 .0 Seattle, Wash .,,.,.52 40 .12 Stierlilan. Wyo ori 44 0 Sprlnirflelii, 111 78 54. Swift Current, Sas 48 3H .20 Toledo, Ohio 66 44 .03 Washington, D. 64 50 .01 Winnipeg, Mnn 54 34 .0 VILLA SACKS A CITY One Hundred Bandits Raid Santa Rosalia But finally Repulsed.

Columbus. April 12. The village of Santa Rosalia, about sixty miles northeast of Parral, was attacked and sacked by about 100 Villa bandits two days ago. according to reports received 1 General Pershing and brought here today by aeroplane by Lleuts. H.

A. Dergue and E. S. Gorrell. Carranza forces and Villa bandits clashed about 50 or 60 miles south of Chihuahua City last FViday, the Villa forces being defeated, according to reports received in Chihuahua.

TO FAVORITE SON Sherman of Illinois Into Presidential Race With 56 Votes. Roosevelt Not on Ticket, but Made Strongest Showing. Chicago, April 12. Voters In the Illinois presidential preference pri mary yesterday declared in favor of President Wilson on the Democratic ticket and Senator L. T.

Sherman of Illinois on the Republican, theirs be ing the only names on the ballots. The names of Roosevelt, Hughes, Root and Mayor William Hale Thompson were written in on comparatively few Republican ballots and of Champ Clark on some Democratic, but Roosevelt was the only one to secure a material number of votes. The Sherman vote in Chicago was Roosevelt, 1 1.620; Hughes, 959: Root, 198, and Thompson, 2. President Wilson polled 79,398, at the head of the Democratic ticket, and Champ Clark 75. I lull Delegates Chosen.

The eight Republicans who were chosen as delegates-at-large to the national convention are: W. J. Calhoun, Chicago; I. N. Evans.

Milledge-ville; G. De F. Kinney, Peoria; Medill McCormick, Chicago; Wm. B. McKin-ley.

Champaign; W. A. Rodenburg, East St. Louis; Wm. Hale Thompson.

Chicago, and Roy O. West, Chicago. ine only other candidate aDDearinc on the ticket was John Maynard Har lan, wno nad been camDaigning for Colonel Roosevelt. Harlan received 72,315 votes in Chicago, which kept him in the race, but available down state returns indicate that he is defeated, running approximately 20,000 votes) behind his nearest competitor. In the Republican fight for control in Cook county no faction received a majority.

The administration won a majority of the 35 wards, while the remaining 21 were. divided between the followers of former Gov. Charles S. Deneen and Edward J. Brundage.

Deneen lost the committeeship in his own ward, was eliminated from the Republican county committee and may fail as a delegate to the state convention. Two Run on Roosevelt Platrorm. Senator Sherman becomes the Republican candidate for the presidency from Illinois, as fifty-six of. the delegates to the national convention are undoubtedly his. Two delegates, John Siman and Charles H.

Sergei, both of Chicago ran on an announced preference for Roosevelt. In the Democratic fight the forces headed by Roger C. Sullivan won easily, giving Sullivan control of the Cook county committee, the state central committee and of the votes that will control the state Democratic convention a Springfield, April 21. According to incomplete returns the Democrats, delegates-at-large are Robert E. Burke, Chicago; J.

R. Creighton. Fairfield; Edward F. Dunne, Chicago; Carter H. Harrison, Chicago; Henry T.

Rainey, Carrollton; Roger C. Sullivan, Chicago; Robert M. Sweitzer, Chicago and Michael Zimmer, Chicago. A total of 7,765 women expressed their preference for president of which Roosevelt received about one-fourth. "UNIONS" TO TOPEKA fCnntlnqed from Fair One.l Boiasevain were in the party.

The two women were among the leaders who were slated to make the western trip. Both women were to have made speeches in Topeka today and to have directed the campaign for the suffrage cause. As soon as the train stopped. Miss Mabel Vernon ran to the rear car the special occupied by invading unionists. The first woman she met was Mrs.

Harriott Stanton Blatch. The women threw their arms around each other and indulged in a long kiss. Others of the party Mrs. Newell, Helen Todd, Mrs. John Rogers and other leaders in the party greeted Miss Vernon with kisses while a crowd stood on the depot platform and grinned foolishly.

Posed for Pictures. Then Mrs. Monroe, Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Casement and other women prominent in the councils of the congressional union in Kansas, met the visiting workers.

The party spent twenty minutes at the station. Members of the party smiled and posed for a score of camera bugs. Others talked freely of conditions "back east" and some of the women declared they were coming to Kansas to live. It sounded well and right away Kansans began to edge a little closer to the invading unionists and the distance between Topeka and Broadway really didn't seem great after all. Paraded Before Feds.

Twenty cars were at the depot to meet the party of 23 a strange number, but possibly meant to intimidate the opposing federals who were holding opposition receptions. The mere mention of the national suffrage association and the State Federation of Women's Clubs seemed to give some one a new idea. Right away there were suggestions of drives. So right away the visiting women were taken for a parade and the parade led right by the grotinds of Washburn college. And it Just so happened that the opposing club women were holding their Catt reception in opposition to the attraction offered by the congressional union.

Most Prominent leaders. Some of the most prominent suffrage leaders of the nation are in the party which today invaded Kansas. The party left Washington Sunday and Topeka Is the second stop on the itinerary, which wilt carry the "votes for women" agitators across the continent and home again. In Topeka, though, there was a reception that is not included in the regular itinerary of the suffrage special. For two months since the isit of President Wilson to Topeka suffrage leaders and club women of the state have been in almost open war because of issues involving their fight for a national suffrage amendment.

With the coming of the Congressional Union envoys, the trouble started all over again. It is because of the conditions existing in Kansas women's club circles that representatives of the union in this state are today making every effort to bring to the surface the Kansas spirit of enthusiasm for the eastern pilgrims. No "Wet Blankets." If anything slips today, it will be due to a contingency which the union did not anticipate. They have taken every precaution to close the gate against any move which might dampen the enthusiasm surrounding the meeting. They have worked industriously for weeks and now the forces under Miss Mabel Vernowill seek to stage a- show that will discount any effort on the part of the ma a short, abbreviated word for the federation of clubs and the natjonal suffrage association.

This morning Miss Vernon returned from a pilgrimage to Wichita and Hutchinson. She laid the plans and Bet the pegs for big meetings in those towns this week. She also took a look at the Democratic state convention. But her mind was concerned with a plan to put the feds in the discard. A social victory over opposing club Women and suffrage leaders in Kan- sas concerned the Delaware worker rather than the adoption of a resolution by the state committee.

Best Talent Offered. Talent which the union brought to Topeka today was the best the nation could offer. There was no question about that. So Topeka was to be given the best of everything the suffrage leaders could offer in the way of a real demonstration in a campaign for votes. Hours before the eastern pilgrims arrived in Topeka this afternoon, automobiles decorated in purple, white and gold the official colors of the union were prominent on Topeka streets.

Women and girls, enthusiastic in the case for national suffrage waved flags and wore the colors of the suffrage organization. While the advance demonstration was in progress, another delegation was busy making the final preparations for the luncheon for the Belmont party of eastern workers. At the same time plans for the counter and rival attraction were being made by the leaders in the fed camp. Mrs. Catt was to sit at the table as the guest of honor of the feds, while Mrs.

Blatch was in the spotlight throughout the union demonstration. So intense became the rivalry of the club women and factional organizations that lines were today said to have been tightly drawn to keep members away from rival luncheons and receptions. This morning a report was current that the feds had urged members of the suffrage association and the federation of clubs not to attend the Belmont luncheon. Dr. Harding There.

A number of the feds were invited to the union luncheon. Among them was Dr. Eva Harding of Topeka. It was Dr. Harding who started the fire under the congressional union in Kansas and for two weeks kept Miss Vernon and Mrs.

Lilla Day Monroe awake nights to answer embarrassing questions. Big Meeting Tonight. Following the luncheon at 1:30 this afternoon, street speeches, the distribution of suffrage hand bills, receptions and personal crusades were planned by and for the women in the party from the east. At 3:30 this afternoon a reception was given for the women at the executive mansion not Governor Capper's residence, thank you and at 4 o'clock Mrs. Harriett Stanton Blatch meets pioneer suffrage workers at the executive mansion.

Tonight a big meeting will be held in representative hall. Mrs. Casement of Manhattan, president of the Kansas organization, will preside. Members of Party. Members of the Union party in Topeka today are: Miss Lucy Burns, New York.

Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, New York. Mrs. John Rogers, New York. Mrs.

A. R. Colvin, Minnesota. Mrs. W.

D. Ascough, Connecticut. Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, Delaware. Mrs.

Townsend Scott, Maryland. Mrs. Agnes Morey, Massachusetts; Miss Katherine Morey, Massachusetts, (mother and daughter). Mrs. Nelson Whittemore, Michigan.

Mrs. Dorothy Mead. Ohio. Mrs. Gertrude B.

Newell, Massachusetts Miss Julia Hurtbut, New Jersey. Mrs. Percy Read, Virginia, Mrs. Jane Goode, District of Colum bia; Miss Edith Goode. District of Columbia, (mother and daughter).

Miss Anna Constable, New York. Miss Helen Todd. New York. Miss Caroline Katzenstein, Pennsylvania. Miss Ella Riegel.

Pennsylvania. Mrs. Robert Baker, District of Co- ium uia. Miss-Winifred Mallon, District of Columbia. Miss Agnes Cambell, New Jersey.

Among Kansas women prominent in the reception of the eastern crusaders are: Mrs. D. D. Casement, Manhattan; Mrs. Edward Arnold.

Chapman: Mr. W. H. Haskell. Kansas Citv; Miss Iris Calderhead, Wichita; and Mrs.

Frank Yantis, Scott City. The party will leave Topeka tonight for Wichita, Hutchinon, Emporia and Dodge City. Episcopal Dean Dead. Garden City, April 12. Rev.

Dr. John Robert Moses, dean of the ca thedral of the incarnation of the Long Island diceose of the Protestant Epis copal church died here. He under went an operation for appendicitis last Saturday. Civil War Xurse Dead. Hartford, April 12.

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Topeka, Ave. VILLA AIDE DEAD Keport It Was Bandit Leader Merely as a Ruse. Pablo Lopez, Wounded at Columbus, Meets His Finish. MEX CinLEMAPEVEALS PLOT Got Story From Villistas Band at His Kaneh. Villa Sot Eren Wounded Brigands Loot Villages.

El Paso, April The story oi the death of Villa was branded a hoax by a Mexican cattleman who arrived here today and said his ranch near Bachi-niba recently was visited by a ban of Villistas. This man said Villa was neither dead nor wounded but that Pablo Lopez, the bandit's notorious lieutenant and executioner In chief, had died, and that Villa had deliberately used his death as the basis of the story of his own finish. The cattleman told the following story: "I was in Guerrero at the time Villa came and afterwards when the American soldiers arrived. I believed it was safe for me to return to my ranch. 20 VUlistas Have Berbeoue.

"Last Thursday a band of 20 Villistas rode up to the ranch house. They took a little grain that I had and killed one of my cows and had a great feast. They had several bottles of liquor that they had secured at Guerrero and Minaca and got pretty drunk. "They ridiculed the American soldiers and boasted about the way Villa had fooled the "Gringoes" by sending guides to the American officers with stories of definite places where he was hiding. Then they talked about Lopez and said he was dying and said that as soon as he was dead the Orin-goes would be told it was Villa and then they would all go home.

Outrage Women: Loot Towns. "They did not say anything about the whereabouts of Villa but I understood from their talk that he was far to the south and that they were under orders to meet him somewhere near Parral." The Mexican who told this story is well known to several Americans and is considered reliable. Villa's ride south has been a disastrous one for the villages through which he passed, according to numerous reports here, -is men have looted at will and have been ruthless in their destruction of property. Several report relate instances of women being outraged and of Mexicans who were shot because of their supposed friendliness to Americans. The most reliable information now puts Villa in northern Durango, trying to arrange for a concentration for the Villistas who have been operating under Canuto Reyes.

Increase Field Ordnance. Columbus, April 12. Preparations to increase the ordnance department at the expeditionary base here were being made today. The men are expected from the government arsenal at Rock Island. 111., to augment the present force which is under the supervision of Lieut.

Clarence S. Ean-ielson of Lead, S. who has issued pieces to the troops in the field Unce the beginning of the campaign. American troops are south of Parral, some of them believed to be over the Durango state line, riding hard on Villa's trail. The phantom Car-ranzista column reported for days to be waiting south of Parral with a widespread cordon ready to head off Villa and force him into a decisive fight, has not yet materialized in reports to headquarters.

If this force is in the three cornered game behind the almost inaccessible Mexican country, Villa's force is not yet out of immediate danger, it was believed, in view of assurances from Carranzista commanders. Carranzistas Friendly. Funston was highly optimistic for a quick, successful termination of the chase. His messages of the past week have repeatedly emphasized the friendliness and co-operation of Carranzista commanders. In addition, he has received encouraging reports on the physical welfare of the expedition.

Both men and horses are in splendid condition, according to advices to headquarters. Funeton today gave unstinted praise to Colonel Dodd for pushing his pursuit so persistently. MRS. CATT, GUEST rrontlnned from Page One.l habit was" stamped out. it would have -to be done through the efforts of the organized women.

A central committee should be organized, which will have a representative from the local women's clubs, the Y. M. C. the Ministerial union, etc. The object should be to organize the boys themselves into societies to fight the cigarette evil.

There is a prize offered of $100 for the largest organization of boys pledged to work ror tne aDonuon of the cigarette, and a prize of $50 for the second largest club organized in I the state." Smoking in Movies. Mr. Foster added to Professor Mc-j Keever's remarks, some of his own. He said: "In the moving picture cen-' sorship work, we are trying to dis-j courage the use of smoking scenes, The manager "of one of the large pic-1 ture studios has ordered his actors to do less smoking- as a result of the cen-i sorship. In England, where my son is a student in Oxford, a reception I was given for Kudyard Kipling.

He was a guest, and he writes that two-I thirds of the women smoked cigarettes at the party. It will be the same in the west if we are not careful. The women here will get to smoking if we let them. The force of public opinion will be needed to combat the i tendency." Women Xeed Equipment. The address of the afternoon was given by Miss Alba Bales, dean of the domestic science department of the Pittsburg Normal school.

Miss Bales told of the lack of equipment for women's work, as compared with the expensive machinery with which men do their work. for the vacuum cleaner, and a few more or less inexpensive electrical appliances, women have very little help in a mechanical way. They could have more machinery if they asked for it and planned it. "The budget system should be used by housekeepers and their buying should be done in large quantities. The meals should be planned by days and by weeks, so that the proper balance can be maintained in the diet Too much food is wasted in American homes enough, we are told, to feed the Belgians and the Serbians.

It is not necessary to buy a thirty cent roast and have no good meat, when one could pay 90, cents, and have enough left from tne Tirst meal ror two or three more dishes. Women need more business sense. We do not wish to be like men, but we wish to i be as capable as men in a different I way. The clock and the watch serve the same purpose, but one may swing from the tower and the other He near the heart." The music at the morning session was furnished by Miss Gertrude Mutton, of Bethany college, pianist, and by the Ladies' chorus of the Topeka Federation. The chorus sang "Gypsy Daisy," by Woodman.

The members are women of the music department of the federation, led by Mrs. George W. Payne. The chorus is to be a permanent institution in Tepeka, and will be built up of the best material the leaders are able to get. What Cabaret The music for the luncheon was in charge of Mrs.

Carey J. Wilson, head of the music department of the Topeka Federation of Women. A feature of the entertainment, kept as a secret from, the guests, was the presentation of the Massenet "Theatrial Suite," which consists of three parts, the Tragedy, the Comedy, and the Dance. It requires four performers, a pianist, a reader, a singer and a dancer. In the first act, the vocal work was done by Mrs.

Horace White-house, and the reading was done by Miss Nanon Herren; in the second act the same performers gave the Comedy section, and for the last act, the dancing was done by Miss Hazel Howe, a professional esthetic dancer and teacher. The dance begins with the minuet, and closes with a waltz step. The piano music was furnished by Miss Hazel Wing of Washburn college. Miss Gladys Gaw played a violin number. Afternoon at College.

The afternoon session is held in Washburn college chapel. D. A. Hirschler, dean of the department of music of Emporia college, gave some pipe organ numbers, and Dean Horace Whitehouse, of Washburn, played Hozanna, by Dubois, on the pipe organ. The address of the afternoon was by Miss Alba Bales, of Pittsburg, on behalf of the department of Home Economics, of which Mrs.

Etta L. Ward, of Hays, is chairman. The guests of honor at the luncheon, besides Mrs. Catt, were Mrs. P.

Worn-er, the wife of the president of Washburn college, Mrs. Arthur Capper, the wife of the governor of the state, and Mrs. J. M. Miller, president of the federation.

The luncheon is given by the federation and Washburn college. Meeting Last Night. A meeting was held in Memorial hall Tuesday night, when Mrs. J. C.

McClintock, the third president of the state federation, gave the greetings from past presidents twelve in number. The principal address was made by Governor Arthur Capper, speaking for the civil service department, of which Mrs. Ida Ferris, of Osage City, is chairman. The governor explained the purpose and construction of the law. He said tl.a.t 255 people had taken the examinations, of whom 224 were successful, and 83 certified to office.

He urged also that the women try to strengthen the mother's compensation act at the next legislature. Mr. T. A. McNeal spoke on the subject of "Peace." He said that the training of an army man at West Point costs the government $20,000.

With its extraordinary educational equipment, the army man is useful only in time of war, and granting that there is a war for every generation, that means that only one-thirty-third of the army man's time is of use to the country. He believes that an industrial army should be trained for peace and take part in the world's work all the time. The district vice presidents made short addresses, telling of the work their respective districts were doing. TODAY'S MARKEOePQRT Chicago, April 12. WHEAT Higher prices for wheat resulted today from a general rush to buy.

The incentive lay in continued adverse reports of the domestic wiuter crop and in bullish cable dispatches bout European continental requirements. Bull leaders here were predicting a renewal this year of the early war time pinch in wheat supplies. Opening prices, which ranged from to ltm: higher, with May at $1.18 to l.lt' and July at to $1.164., were followed by decided further gains. Dry weather complaints from Nebraska were decidedly on the Increase. The market closed unsettled.

lc to L'Uc higher ith May at 1.20 and July at 1.17t. CORN Corn hardened with wheat. Upturns, however, were relatively small, after opening a shade to higher, the market receded a little. Fairly liberal stocks and the slowness of cash demand prevented any radical advance In pricea. The clote was steady at a shade to Jc above Monday's finish.

OATS Oats developed firmness, the result mainly of the action of other grain. Selling was only of a scattered kind. PROVISIONS Higher nnnr-irinna hogs lifted provisions. On the bulge, packers and longs unloaded. CUram Grain Market.

The range of prices tor grain futures cn The Chicago Board of Trade as reported by Thoa. J. Myers, Broker, Columbian MCI Chicago, April 12. Close-Open High Low Today Mon. WHEAT May 120 118t4 111)- 117 Jjlly 117 116 117 115 Sept.

..114 115 114 114 lir, CORN May 75 75 75 75- 73 July 70 76 76 7- 76 Sept. 76 76 76 76 761 OATS May 45 45 44 44 44 July 43 43 43 POU May ..23.17 23.32 23.17 23.17 23.12 July 23.00 23.20 23.00 23.10 22.87 Kansas City (if hid Market. The range ot prices for grain futures on The Kansas City Rosrdo Trade as re- Eorted by Thos. J. Myers, liroker Comm.

lan Bldg.J Kansas tlty, April 12. Open HEAT May ..111 July ..110 Sept. ..108 CORN May 70 July 71 Sept. 71 High Los? Today Yea Ill 109 1101.. 1(19 108 111 110 no no 108 108 9- 9 71 71 71- 71 2 5 09 1-j Liverpool Grain Market.

1-iverpooI, April li'. IffljUT-Spot No. 1 Manitoba, 7d No. 'Jt red, western wiuter, lis ftd No. 2 Lard winter, gulf, lis 3d.

i AQierienn mixed, new, 10s Od. Grain Gossip. By ipecial wire to T. J. Myers, Columbian Minneapolis wbeat stocks bave decreased UoO.OOu bushels In the past three days.

Rlevutnr stocks of wheat In Kansas City decreased bushels Monday and corn stocks Increased 53.271) bushels. Stocks of wheat in Chicago elevators In- creased 168.000 bushels lost week and now amount to 4,306.000 bushels: corn 10.884,000 bushels, decrease 147.000 bushels: oats, bushels, decrease SKt.oOO bushels. A Oyear ago stocks were 1.130.000 bushels of wheat, 15.227.000 bushels of corn and bushels of oats. Foreign reports included the following Holland Wheat supplies are inadeouate and continued purchases are being made fr consumption and to build reserves. Atueri- an wueat is ueuinuu.

itumania Large Quantities of wheat continue to go into ex port channels. Outlook for new crops Is good. Italy Native wheat is sparingly offered and foreign arrivals meet with good demand. Continued purchases are necessary. Crop outlook is satisfactory.

India An official report places the yield of wheat at 05 per cent of normal, with quality fair. Shipping facilities are poor, aria It is feared that weekly clearances will be light. Kussla Ice is breaking in the north, hut very little grain Is there. Facilities for moving are poor and even wheat desired at large centers for local consumption is hard to obtain. Prices have risen sharply." Chicago Grain Market.

Chicago. April 12. WHEAT Close May. July, $1.17 $114. CORN May.

75S73c 76 September. 7tc. OATS May. 44c; July, September, 39e FORK May, July September. July, 76tj(3.

43fe43c $2.1.10. $11.82. 1. ako May, sii.iK: jmy SHORT RIBS May. July, $12.52.

Kansas City Produce Murket. Kansas City. April 12. WHEAT Cash Market unchanged to lc higher. No.

2 hard, tUSOUS; No. 3, No. 2 red, tl.16fel.22; No. 3. $1.104 1.16.

CORN Market unchanged to lc higher. No. 2 mixed. 71(S71c; No. No.

2 white. 70j7OV.c; No. 3. No. 2 yellow, 7374e: No.

3. 72W73c OATS Market unchanged to lc higher. No. 2 white, 47j48c; No. 2 mixed.

4143c. RYE 87c. HAY Market steady; unchanged. KAFIR No. 3 white.

$1.00. WHEAT Receipts 86 cars. BUTTER Market unchanged. POULTRY Market unchanged. F.1H1S Firsts.

2OV3C CLOSE WHEAT May, $1.11 Jul si.iu. CORN May, July, 71c. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, April 12. BUTTER Market lower.

Creamery, 30fe35c. EGGS Market lower. Firsts. ordinary firsts. at cases included.

l(820c. POTATOES Market unchanged. POULTRY Alive, unchanged. New York Produce Market. New York.

April 12. BUTTER Market firm. Creamery extras, 92 score, 37 37c. EGGS Market unsettled. Fresh gathered extras.

23fe24c. CHEESE Market lrregulsr. State, flats, specials. POULTRY" Alive, uncertain. No prices settled.

Dressed, firm. New Tork Sugar Market. New York. April 12 SUGAR Raw, firm; centrifugal, 5.96; molasses, 5.19; refined, firm. New Orleans Cotton Market.

unchanged etaoln etaoln etaoi etaoniao New Orleans. April 12 COTTON Spot, unchanged. Middling, 11.888. New Tork Cotton Market. New York.

April 12. COTTON Spot, quiet; middling uplands, 12.00. Sales, 500 bales. New York Stock Market. Wall New York, April 12.

STOCKS Supporting orders resulted in rallies of 1 to over 2 points before the end of the first hour and the short interest which helped to bring about the enrly setback, felt impelled to cover contracts because of the seming scarcity of stocks, on the rebound 1 the market relapsed Into its stagnant state of the previous day. traders holding off pending receipt of more definite advices from Berlin. Interest in the foreign situation was heightened by the continued weakness of French anil Russian exchange, the Paris check falling to a new low record. Bonds were steady. The delicate status of international affairs was again reflected in today's earjy dealings, special stocks declining 1 to A points after an Irregular opening.

Standard shares were heavy also but recessions in that quarter were less pronounced. There wus extensive selling of such favorites as Crucible Steel, the Slarines. United Fruit, Industrial Alcohol and metals, especially Zinc shares. United States Steel was lower by a point and Bethlehem Steel fell 14 to 465. Among the rails losses were limited to fractions.

The course of the market suggested liquidation from out of town sources. Nw Tor: Stock Harkrt Close of prices for the leading stocks on The New York Stock Excbsnge as Eorted by Tbos. J. Myers, Broker. Co: am lan Bldg.J New York.

April 12. Close Today. Yes. riet.l,gsvdist5-2-wl taoln taoln taoinoin Am. Beet Sugar 72 72 Am.

Lan, witti uo'ai Am Car Fndy 67 8 Am. Am. Am. Am. Locomotive.

S. S. Tel. Tobacco, Am Anaconda Mining A. T.

a. A. T. S. Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore Ohio Bethlehem Steel Canadian Pacific Central Leather Chesapeake Ohio Chicago M.

St. R. I. Chlno Copper Colorado Fuel Crucible Steel Erie, General Electric Great Northern, Great Northern Ore Inspiration K. C.

Southern, Lack, Steel, Lehigh Valley Maxwell Motors K. A Mo. Pacific Nut. Lead Nev. Con.

Copper N. Y. Central N. N. H.

Norfolk Western Northern Pacific Penn. Railroad Ray Con. Copper Reading, Southern Pacific Southern 86 105 87 53 77 4 0 17 .102 el'. .121 lni 57 23 84 97 .20 .140 1 S4H .117 82 89Vi 63 i Studebaker Tenn. Copper Union Pacific, i Union Pacific, U.

S. Steel, I U. S. Steel, Utah Copper 'Western Union i Westlngbouse Elec Kansas City Lire Stork Market. Kansas City.

April 12. UOIJS Ileceints 8.000. Market steady. Bulk of sales. 9.35S 9.50 heavv.

J9.40ra9.55 packer am! butch-era, light, 0.25fe9.50; pigs, $8.25 feO.00. CATTLE Receipts 3.000. Msrket strong to 10c higher. Prime fed steers. 9.25(i9.75 dressed beef steers.

western steers, southern steers. 18.75: cows. heifers. 9.75 I stockers and feeders. bulls.

$3.7307.75: (-aires. $6.00010.25. SHEEP Receipts 9.000. Market stea.ly. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO.

Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own Offices at Chicago. So. St. Joseph.

So. Omaha. Denver, Slonx City. So. St.

Paul. E. Buffalo, E. St. Louis, Fort Worth and El Paso.

Lambs. 11.75: yearlings. 00; wethers, ewes. stockers and feeders. 50.

Chicago Live Stork Market. Chicago. April 12 HOOS Receipt Market strong. 5c above yesterday ,1. Ui.lL- Til- HlTllt.

1 V-. 1 wv. is (15 r( Vouch $0 infoO'UI-' pig 8.7."-. CATTLE Receipts 12.000. Market firm.

i Native beef steers 7 OOfn 10.00: western steers. S7 rJtfVi (2t and feeders. j8.tWtJg.SB; cows and heifers, calves, 10.00. SHEEP Receipts 14.000. Market steady.

Wethers, lambs. $7 75611.90. Kansas City Live Slock Bales. The following sales were mnde this morning at the Stock Yards. Kansas City, and reported over long instance telephone direct to the State Journal by Clay.

Robinson live stock commission merchants.) Kansas City, April 12. CATTLE Receipts 3.000 head. Market 10c hlgber. 1IOGS Receipts 8.000 head. Market steady Bulk of sales.

top, SHEEP Receipts 8.000 head. Market steady. Lambs. $11.75. IVILLI.NW Lr.KS.

No. Wt. Price.lNo. Wt Price. 50 1062 $8.75 1 55 1136 $8.75 132 HUB 9.00 5 972 8.00 1 780 7.50 I COWS AND HEIFERS.

3 1140 5.75 I 8 920 6.10 3 842 6.55 1 31 763 9.10 12 070 8.75 I 1 1410 7.50 1 920 (1.00 I 1 830 5.50 STOCKEKS AND FEEDERS. 18 762 7.35 6 550 7.50 14 607 7.75 CALVES. 1 180 9.75 I 4 233 8.50 4 136 8.75 I BULLS. 1 1100 5.50 I 4 1042 6.00 1 1260 6.25 3 1490 6.50 1 1250 8.33 1 HOGS. 61 248 9.30 33 186 9.40 58 203 9.35 81 198 9.45 52 159 9.10 47 165 9.10 73 176 9.10 Topeka Market.

Prices furnished by Welti Packing Co.) Tnpeka. April 12. CATTLE AND HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS fS.25fti0.15 HEAVY 8.23ft! LIGHT 7.5O49.0( PIGS 7.00i7.50 (Do not want thin hogs or plgs.i STEERS. Good to choice (corn fed) Fair to good 6.00(37.50 COWS.

Good to choice (corn fed) Fair to good Common to fair HEIFERS. Good to choice (corn fed) Fair to good 25 5.500 50 3.50Q 5. 00 o.ooei'7.00 Common 5.00(g6.ui BULLS. Fleshy f5.50r6.50 Medium 4.50(25.50 VEAL CALVES. Prime fat $7.5008.00 Medium good 0.50(37.50 Fair 4.00(g('..oo SHEEP AND LAMBS.

Fat wethers Fat ewes 4.5(fi.5.5( Fr.t lambs 7.009.00 (Positively cannot use sheep or lambs unless fat) Butter and Eggs. Furnished by the Beatrice Creamery Cj-Topeka. Kan. Tnpeka. April 12.

CHICAGO EGGS 21c. NEW VOIIK CREAMERY BUTTER Chicago, 35c; New York, 36 Elgin, 36c wholesale, 36c. Topeka May Market. Famished by T. A.

Beck. 212-14 E. Sth.1 Tofieks, April 12. PRARIE HAY $8.00. Topeka Grain Market.

Furnished by J. B. Blllard. corner Kansas Ave. and Cnrtls St.J Topeka.

AlfcM 12. OATS 86ta3Sc CORN 6Se. HEAT bOlgOOc. Poultry. asd Batter.

Furnished by the Topeka Packing Com. pany. corner Laurent and Madison. 1 Topeka. April 12.

HENS All slses. 14c: springs over 2 12c ducks, 9c geese, tc broilers. 9 lbs. and higher. stags, 11c.

HENS AND YOUNG TOM TURKEYS. 14c; old totos. 12c EGGS 18c. INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 8c. WHEAT No.

2. 95c. Wheat Market. Furnished by Shawnee Milling Co. Third anu ivansas Ave.j Topeka, April 12.

WHEAT No. 3. 90c. WHEAT No. 2.

95c Money Savers A Premium Buttcrine "I fy jL Thursday only, pound--'' yZ. Wolff's Hanis Capital Brand, guaranteed quality, mS skin and fat removed, "I tfM AOC Jg Yellow Cling Peat-hen 1 9 in heavy syrup, K' Shelled KiirUsIi Walnuts 3 38c rand. fancy halves, pound AHparaeus Til Lee Brand White Tlpa in No. 1 square tins, can Creamery Butter unwrapped, pound Meadow Gold Butter in cartons, pound 22c 36c 37c Red Wolf Coffee Of Thursday only, pound''' Marrowfat lt 2 cans for. 15c Extra Sifted Karly June OKn Peas 2 cans for.

Midget Peas a 20c value, can Calumet Baking Powder 25c can for Colorado Tomatoes i 2 can, Doz. SI. 10; can Fresh AKiMfcragtus large bunch Lowney's Cocoa 8 oz. can for QVAJ-IT" CASH GaOCEB.5 I o. tf5( 10c 10c 19c mi.