The Topeka State Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 7

THE TOPEKA DAILY, STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 31 1917 7 it KANSAS MAY BE THRE ATENED WITH A CATTLE FAMINE Livestock Kaisers Are Rushing rroducts to Market. Dry Pastures and Damage to Corn Responsible. MOHLER MAKES A PLEA He Urges Owners of Dairy Herds To Keep Them. Breaking Up Fine Herds Would Be a Calamity.

Kansas is threatened with a cattle famine this winter, according to statements made this morning by cattle misers of the west and central sections of the state. Hundreds of cars of cattle will soon be forced to the market Dy tne oreum sequent burning up of pasture lands and -of the corn crop. The markets will be flooded, commission men in Karma City stated this morning and the market is scheduled for some liernliur A record run of 40,000 cattle was predicted this morning by a Kansas City live stocK aeaier. me ru oeming and will reach Its climax some time within tne next ween, it was Keceipta for the last two days have been extra heavy in Kansai City, caused, -partially by the weather con ditions in the state ana paniauy the railroad trouble at Chicago which necessitated a practical closing of that market Receipts at Kansas City were 20,000 cattle Monday and 22,000 today. At Chicago only ,000 head reported Monday and an equally light ran was predicted for today.

In the face of the threatened flood of cattle, the market at Kansas City was reported as steady to strong this morning, prices on corn fed- stuff climbing within 15 cents of the highest price ever paid on the Kansas City market. The top Monday was 13.75. The prediction on corn fed cattle was good in spite of the heavy receipts that are expected. Within a week top prices on corn fed cattle will pass the S14 mark and will establish a record high price for the Kansas City market. Feeders Cheaper.

Stockers and feeders, the lighter class of cattle, promise to be a real burden on the market. Cattle raisers of the state are afraid to load up on fairly high priced medium weight cattle in the face of high com, a light alfalfa crop and poor ensilage. Packers, at Kansas City, are expected to hear the market on this class of cattle. Farmers and cattlemen in Iowa and Missouri, both states having had more favorable weather conditions ar.d not being -burned to crisp by severe drouth, are expected to unlofd the market. They will he the main outlet for the overaupply that Is predict for early in August.

The packers, too, will bid on light stuff, but probably will attempt to batter the market. In' Kansas crop reports from the various sections show a practical loss of the entire corn crop south of Wichita and west of Phillips county. Sorghum is reported as being backward ind pastures are completely gone. The alfalfa crop in this section of Kansas, too, is reported light and of poor quality. The first cutting was reported as good.

But scorchirg dry weather has nearly ruined the aecond and third cuttings cf this year's crop. In Mitchell county the corn is reported as completely dried up. Face Cattle Famine. In the eastern and northern sections of the state crops promise to turn out better than were predicted. Light local rains proved life savers to the corn crop' in these sections.

That Kansas is facing a cattlr, famine this winter was seconded by the commission men of Kansas City and seconded again by the report male by J. C. Mohler of the state bureau of agriculture. In the country, traders are not active. Farmers loaded with, cattle are unable to sell to local men.

former heavy country speculators have given up business, and are waiting for a break in the market. This means that practically every head of cattle In the state mui soon be shipped to market. Even ensilage for the winter has been partially ruined. Planting of cow peas, rye fin other fall products are being encouraged to fill the silos this wirter. In addition to the usual marketable cattle that are predicted in the market rush, thousands of Kansas dairy herds are expected to be offered for slaughter.

J. Mohler, secretary of the Kansas board of agriculture has sent out a report Insisting that Kansas dairymen hold on to their dairy herds in spite of the heavy 'financial drain that such action may cause. With prospects for corn and sorghums maturing grain rapidly diminishing, because of the continued drought, the feed situation is looming up as a serious problem in the larger part of Kansas, according to a statement issued by Mohler. The situation threatens seriousiy to affect state's live stock industry, says the report. -Hold Dairy Cattle.

"From some sections stock cattle are being shipped to the market," continues the statement, "and many dairymen report that they; have been producing milk at a loss because of the high prices of feed. Owing to the unfavorable' crop outlook and the increase for rations necessary to sustain cows and maintain a paying flow of milk, there iS apprehension that excellent daivjr herds may be dispersed. Should dairy -cattle be forced on the market they will largely go to slaughter. This will mean a set-back that will require years to overcome." Secretary Mohler. poiU( out that very dairyman should put forth every effort to carry his stock thru another seafeon.

even- though the load may be extremely heavy. He urges every nanKer to use tne same diMgence in encouraging and helping the man with a dairy herd thru the season that he does In assisting the wheat farmer. As a remedial measure, the dairy farmers are urged to plant up to the middle of August' the earliest variety of cane seed that can be secured, provided that there should be a break in the weather and moisture should be secure after crops already- planted have, or hnve become so dwarfed ae to give little promise of recuperation. Cow peas also may he sown late. It is pointed out.

I'se of the silo to make the most of the feed that la produced la strongly urged. fall pastures, especially rye, may re lieve the situation, explains juc. The latter crop is said to 'make an excellent pasture for all kinds of live stock. "It is hoped that our dairymen will go to the extreme limit in keeping their dairy herds intact In these trying times." writes Mr. Mohler.

"Under the administration of the food law which congress will pass, dairymen will certainly be protected Higher Dairy Products, "But whatever government action may be taken, the dairy nerds that have required so much time, effort and expense to build up irfust ribt go to slaughter. The dairyieen cannot afford it and the public la-int afford it. In the east many dairy cows have been sent to the slaughter, estimated carefully as high as 15 to 20 per cent. This naturally increases the demand for Kansas dairy products, which should eventually work to the benefit of the Kaesas dairymen who keep their herds intact. The public cannot afford the dispersal of Kansas dairy herds because in time there would be real suffering for dairy food.

Dairymen should now be allowed prices for their products which will enablo to continue in business. "Higher prices, for milk' and Its products are fully Justified. The upward flight in the cost of production, owing to marked increases ir. prices, cows, feed, labor and everything else necessary -the operation of a -dairy has been appalling, while the price milk has remained almost the same. Surely the public is willing to pay a fair price for dairy products now rather than have many of these valu able animals milk machines lost to us forever.

Plenty of milk at high prices is greatly preferred to a shortage of milk with prohibitive, prices and the consequent suffering. Now is the time to save the milk cows, not after they are gone." TWO FIRES AT ONCE Small Damage Done at 320 Kansas Avenue and 612 Fast Seventh. There was only one minute's difference in the report of two Topeka fires this morning. At 8:45 o'clock, an alarm was turned In from 320 Kansas1 avenue, where Greek roomers on the. second floor had permitted a cigaret to burn a hole in a mattress.

The interior of the room was badly burned and a hole burned" lh the floor, causing slight water damage to goods in the second hand store of Mike Thompson on the first floor. Firemen from stations Nos. 1 a' fl 2 responded -to the alarm. At o'clock an alarm was turned in from 612 East Seventh street. where boys with matches- "had acci dentally set fire to an outbuilding owned by the Karlan Furniture com pany, littie damage was done.

POPE WONT INTERFERE He Refuses to Start Peace Move For Austrian Monarch. TO FIGHT POLL TAX Indignation Meeting at Park- dale School This' Evening. East Side Up In Arms Oyer jfotices From City. FAITH IN THE SUPREME COURT Senator Schoch Believes Law Will Be Knocked Out. Washington, July Si.

Pope Bene dict XV' has rejected a plea put forward by Emperor Charles of Austria, thru the imperial Austrian chancellor that he intervene in favc of a gen eral peace, according to cable des patches- received here Trum Berne, Switzerland. Kaopeooi Charles prauositlon was that Austria-Hun -jury should remain Intact. George Helwig of Santa Fe a Leader in Local Fight. An indignation meeting of "all To-pekans who the poll tax as un just and are interested in testing its validity In the courts" will be held this evening at the Parkdale school on the East side. Members of a newly organized East side society known as the "East Side Anti-Poll Tax association" will officiate at the meeting.

Otis Hungate and Maj. A. M. Harvey have been asked to address the members of the association. The association is willing to enter into a lawsuit to test the validity of the poll tax law.

George Helwig, of the Santa Fa freight of fice, is at the head of a band of Santa Fe men who are fighting the tax. They planned for a time to employ John J. Schenck. Mr. Schenck has been obliged to leave the city and has advised that all per-, sons resolved to fight payment of the tax.

unite with the East eiders and attend the meeting tonight. law Won't Stand. i "There Is little doubt in my mind that the law will be killed by the supreme court," said Mr. The poll tax law was' passed the last day of the legislative session. Senator W.

F. Schoch declared today. 'Several senate bills containing similar provisions to the one finally passed have been killed. "I was at a meeting of a conference committee when the bill from the house came up for passage," said Senator Schoch. "The fight on it was hot 'and I was called in to vote.

I voted against it but it passed by the narrow margin of 22 to 17. Senator Getty -worked In his amendment, ex empting Kansas City, while I was out of the room. He has the largest city in the state in his district and it is much easier for him to get his city exempted than senators living in districts containing smaller cities of the first class." Senate calendars produced today! show that after Senator Getty obtained an exemption for Kansas City he turned around and voted for i the passage of the bill. Senator Thompson of Hutchinson, was the only other senator living in a district containing a city of the firit class who voted for tho passage of the bill. Old Law Wouldn't Hold." Senator Schoch believes the bill will be knocked out by the supreme court, so- far as cities of the first class are -conperned.

He pointed to decision in the eighty-eighth Kaijaa supreme etmrt report where tjie supreme court, upholds contention that ihe poll ta does not apply to cities rf. the first class. That decision was made In (fie ease of J. W. Shane vs.

the city of Hutchinson where, HutchinsonS atf tempted to collect a poIttax under the old law. v. WALES INTO BUSINESS! Popular State'. Journal Advertising' Man To Open Up New i R. O.

Wales, who has been ed with the.advertlslng depattmelot the Topeka State," Journal for thd' last seven years, today severed his' cpn7' nections witl -the paper and begin ning tomorrow he will -devote iris en tire time advertising agency work. in Topeka, to be "known, as the' Wales Advertising agency. Offices of the new concern will be in -the Kaa sas Reserve State Bank building, i "I El I P. I I I It. O.

Wales, who has resigned his position with the State Journal to open up an advertising agency In Topeka. 11 Mr. Wales came to Topeka from the Leavenworth Times seven years ago and has built tip a reputatioa as one of the -best advertising meit in the city. In addition to his regular work on the State Journal, his services have been in demand by large advertisers and he has been connected with some of the biggest deals ever "put over" here. For several years he has gotten out all the catalogs for the Santa fre Watch company and has handled the national advertising of this company, having full charge of Its advertising that runs regularly in the large eastern magazines.

Mr. Wales also has written the ad- vertising eopy for a number of large Topeka firms and will continue to do this in connection with his business. Practically all the big advertising of the Elmhurst Investment company, both for Topeka and its Florida holdings, and practically every real estate addition to the city, has been handled by Mr. Wales. The Wales Advertising ageVicy will handle both local and national advertising campaigns and will make a specialty of preparing copy placing Those who know Wales, and he has a large list of per sonal and business friendrf in 'ttia citj and thruout the state, predict tlifet 'he will make a big success of his "FILL THECRADLE" I That Is Jew Motto Adopted Thruout England.

Depopulation Has Become Peril, Churchman Say s. business venture and' that he will build up an institution that will be a credit to himself and to Topeka. Mr. Wales was born and reared in southern Kansas. He began life- as a school teacher after leaving college, hut gave up teaching to serve in thie" bpanish-American war.

After the war he served five years in the. railway mail service, then entered the newspaper game and the lure of printer's ink has held him ever since. JUST; ONE, DELIVER Tomorrow 2 or TopekaV Merchants Begin Economy twenty-four of the "lead-, ing Topeka merchants making-only rone delivery a day, Saturdays excepted. in wita sue- While nine soldiers died every hour Bssuons-or national'' council -bfl defense to curtail number. -de-I and'rman "Fill: the' cradles" and the me.

habies" were the slogans of the- cam paign in which the queen, Princess Mary, Mrs. Lloyd George, the of B. Irving and- Other women high, in, England's social world took an 'active "interest. Statistics show that England loses twa hundred thousand babies each year. Of this number -ene hundred thousand are -'born-dead and the other one hundred.

thousand dieih the first twelve thousand babies less, than die veach week and three thousand, less than- 5 years .,1.1 -1 i .4 The. list Of nrizBK a tinea r. in ji i i ami me 1,1 1 ncu fui auvciuacjiieill elsewhere in this issue. The contests will close August' at x' clock. AU essays be sent to the "Secretary, of the Topeka Retailers' Association, Hi East Eighth gngland is.

taking stock V)f Jts u-ture "Citisens-r-the babies of' today who. will replace the waste of human life on the battlefields- of 1 is more-dangerous tq be a baby than a soldier( according, to figures- on display in-towns" and hamlets of Eng land during irs national' baby week. in 191 on the battle fields, twelve babies died each hour in the homes merchants are endeavoring mak peopie- realise una. fnormous waste, coming as an outgrowth of the present delivery system in Topeka, and have offered -prizes, to the persons writing the best essays Enormous Waste of the Present Delivery System." '--i The first will be a. J.10" prize offered hy Charles Trapp, secretary of the i'o.

nemuCTs -association. Then there will be twenty-four other prizes given away "by the- merchants -who have adopted the one-delivery-aday TRAVER WILL RETIRE Wells-Fargo Agent Here Has Been In Service 47 -Years, After serving the Wells-Fargo Express company for forjty-seven years, Charles L. Topeka agent, will retire tomorrow 6n asubstantial pension furnished by the company. Mr. Traver is 70 years of age and will reside at Pomona, California.

He is the oldest man with the company in point of service. Traver came to Topeka in September, 1869, and began with the company as a clerk. In December of the same year he was transferred to Emporia as agent. Between December, 1869, and August) he was agent at and Salina, and then for a year was messenger between Topeka and Newton. He went to Wichita as agent In 1873 and remained there until 187.

when he came to Topeka as general agent for the company. The Topeka office in 1861 was located south of Fifth street on the west side of Kansas avenue. Three employes handled the business, which at that time amounted to about $1,500 a month. The Santa Fe went as far as Burlingame and a stage line took passengers from there to Emporia. Traver has Witnessed the growth of the Wells-Fargo from 300 agencies to 9.263 agencies.

Mr. Traver will be succeeded by James F. Lytle, route egent in the service since Mr. Lytle has lived in Topeka for twenty years. He is one of best know.ij mej.

In the. service and Is popular over 'the -system this waste of human It is esti mated one-half of these children could be saved. An escort'. of 2 9 mothers with their babies formed a guard of honor for the queen when she opened the baby week '-by to exhibition '-at Central hall, Westminster. The queen examined' the various exhibits and much interested by' one which illustrated hy a gigantic model the dangers and diseases spread by th house, fly.

At: one booth she bought a. painting which had been done by an armless boy with his toes. The American which was in Charge of Mrs. Hines Page, Mrs. Whitelaw.

Reid. Mrs. J. J. Astor, i Lady Randolph Churchill and Lady Henry, also seemed to interest the queen greatly.

She noted the pretty baby frocks and underwear which were made on lines favored in the United States for youthful wear. Here she purchased a nursery book filled with color pictures. PLAY BALL SATURDAY Radio Co. and Hospital Unit Will Also Give Military Exhibition, Members of field hospital corps No. 1 and radio company of Topeka, plan to put on one of "the ciggest outdoor entertainments' of the season next Saturday afternoon when they will play their scheduled baseball game.

The two military units have some of the best athletic taient of Washburn, K. U. and the Aggie school among the enlisted men, and they promise a game that will be close and interesting thruout. In addition to the baseball game the two units will give exhibition drills of first aid treatment, care of signalling and also company drills. The program will start at 2:30 o'clock and the money taken in will go Into the general funds of the companies.

The mw announce tley expect tb seli l.ouo tickets. One Delivery a Day Complying with the request of the National Council of Defense, beginning Wednesday, August 1st, 1917, we will make one delivery a day, as fol-, lows: Deliveries will be made to all the territory West of Kansas Avenue" and South of the river in the morning, starting at 9 o'clock. Deliveries will be made to the entire territory East of Kansas Avenue, including Oakland and North Topeka, in the afternoon, starting at 2 o'clock. The above deliveries will be made daily with the exception of Saturday, when an extra delivery will be made, starting at 6 p. to take care of emergency packages.

AH special deliveries, other than above mentioned, will be made on a basis of a charge of 10 cents for each delivery. Carry Parcels! Help make this "the fashion" The War Advisory Committee recommends that customers carry their packages to the extent of their ability and thus save thousands of annually to delivery departments. I Shopping Baskets and Bags For those, packages you desire to carry home. This is the logical time for the housewife to provide herself with a good, serviceable Shopping Basket or Bag. We are showing a large diversity of styles and sizes as follows- 1 Fancy Market Baskets, 75f and $1.00.

Plain Covered Baskets, drop handles, 25f 29 and Reed Shopping Baskets, double handles 50, 65 and Japanese Parcel Baskets, closed top, double handles, and fl.OO. Shoestring Shopping Bags, and Japanese Grass Shopping Bags, with drawstrings, and Readr th-StateJournal The Great New State of Oklahoma Rolls in Liquid Wealth. Thousands Made Rich. Oil Hits Top Price Per Barrel THE OKLAHOMA EXHIBIT CAR now. in Topeka has been sent here for the purpose of advertising the opening of a half-million acres of Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian lands, located in Southeastern Oklahoma, which are soon to be sold by the United States Government on easy payments.

All in the Oklahoma Oil Belt. This is a chance of a lifetime, as the Government does not require you to live on these lands or improve them, and they can be bought direct from Uncle Sam at a few dollars per acre, on easy payments. Irrigation not necessary; 45-inch rainfall. timber and grazing lands, close to railroads and prosperous towns. i THE OKLAHOMA EXHIBIT CAR contains an extensive display of Oklahoma products, both agricultural and mineral, as well as numerous photographic views of Western develop- ment.

For those interested in the Indian Lands we have maps, charts, plats, blue prints, geological surveys, on car and demonstrators on hand to acquaint the public with the terms and conditions. State produced 117,000,000 barrels last year. the oil fields are wonderful examples of fame and fortune gained by the gush of oil. Dan Tucker, 10-year-old boy, gets $190 daily oil royalty. Sarah Rector, a 17-year-old girl, receives $35,000 monthly.

Henry Page, former railroad brakeman, gets $100,000 monthly from oil leases. Roy Johnson, a Michigan printer, cleared $100,000 on a $200 investment. Cole McGhee, Oklahoma carpenter, made $83,000 oh a $175 investment. Hundreds of others, purchasers of cheap Indian lands, and heirs to Indian allotments, have reaped huge fortunes from oil royalties. DON'T FORGET The population of the United States doubles.every thirty years, but there will never be any more land than there is today, Do it now or never.

TOPEKA KANSAS AVE. AND ROCK Open daily, 9 to 12 a. m. 1 to 5 p. and 7 to 9 p.

m. Your last ISLAND DEPOT 3 DAYS LONGER 3 DAYS LONGER III tn it.