The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • Page 5

THE WICHITA EAGLE, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1915 PAGE FIVE PEEP IN Peep THINKS HENSON INSANE MAo)IH jwJL AuiLlLv uuu DRY GOODS GARMENTS 320 EAST DOUGLAS 135 HORTll MAIN STREET -WILL START THEIR REDUCTION INVENTORY SALE JANUARY 3 A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS JEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY Last Day of the Year- End Sale Don't look for any further price-cutting on Ready-to-Wear for today for the limit of price-cutting was reached when we quoted prices yesterday. Our inability to wait on all that came is an indication that our price is low. The greatest of Coat values $3.95, $6.95, $9.75, $13.75 and $15 00 The remaining Suits are limited. There is still about ten suits at $5.00 and about eight at $10.00 and ten suits mostly Velvets at $15.00 Our Dress stock is all shot to pieces what's left is yours for I $3.95, $6.75 and $9.75 nmurp Tnn kxt error 1. UU1UJ Look at These Used Cars Today 1 4-cyl Maxwell 2 Ford Touring Cars 1 35 Auburn 1 Chalmers You can buy These Cars at Your Own Price Evans Reser Cor.

Lawrence and William Street satttieNews WILL SOMEOXE PLEASE PASS THE IUSHf Abe Martin says that the who can properly brown fried mush will be in no immediate danger of neglect. And the first restaurant man Wichita who serves fried mush, properly browned, will need help to count his money, and should have a statue in Riverside lark. HERB'S YOUR OLD GRIP CURE "You have the said a pat-tron of the stamp window at the postoffice. "Yes, sir," answered F. M.

Cruse, the clerk. "Well, 111 tell you how to cure it," said the customer. "Just before you go to bed tonight, twenty hot biscuits, covered with horseradish." And Mr. Cruse felt so badly he threatened to try the remedy. FAILED TO GET THE IDEA.

What was intended to be an afternoon tea turned out to be a party. The young ladies were invited in to meet the visiting girls. But what promised to be a very formal affair i was made very Informal, indeed, by the first arrivals takine off their hats- i i -TTT, -x CommerciaJIy Wichita is a humdinger, qui ii win do some iew weeKS yet before a great many of her people dress for dinner, or wear high hats to the opery. The Frats Wichita is not the only city in Kansas now having trouble with High School fraternities and sororities. Topeka is in the midst of a bitter court fight, and other places are met with opposition in the effort to enforce the law.

In one sense the fight seems somewhat childish on the part of the school authorities. Why not, ask many well meaning parents, let the children have their fun? What's the harm? But there is a deep-seated and fundamental reason why the fight must go on. Our schools are the bulwark of our democracy. Whatever may be the faults of our social structure, and however alarming may be the growing division of that society into classes, we have insisted that real democracy must prevail in our schools. The fraternities and sororities aim a death-blow at the democracy.

They would institute in school the class lines of later years. They would humiliate a very large proportion of the pupils of the schools, and increase the snobbery of certain boys and girls into whom has been breathed the society virus. So, while in some of its manifestations the fight against these societies may seem petty, it is nevertheless one of the biggest and most worthy fights of our time. It is the fight to keep untarnished the democracy of our schools. AUTOIST WAS KEEN After Smashing Road-Wagon He Gets Release Before Injured Man Could Think.

After Moses Lappin, bridge rnspec-tor for the city, picked himself up from the debris incident to a traffic crash at Thirteenth and Market streets, the first of the week, he was confronted by an automobile driver, who handed him a dollar and said: "Sign here." Lappin, who resides at 134 Locust I Son of Slain Woman and Brother of Murdered Cripple Here to Bury Cattleman's Victims. TWO WARRANTS ISSUED FOR ALLEGED MURDERER He's In County Jail and Will Be Tried In January On Two First Degree I Accusations. i B. W. A.

Henson, the Beaver county. Oklahoma, cattleman, must have been crazy when he shot his wife of a hionth 1 and clubbed to death Walter Schafer, his sten-snn. for nf Schaflr is th v. ueau woman, xie arrived In Wichita yesterday to take charge of the body of hls mother and brother "The sooner this crime is off everybody's lips and forgotten the better," he remarked. "Henson surely must have been insane." Mr.

Schafer, who was informed of the double killing soon after it happened Wednesday morning at the Henson home, 824 Mathewson avenue, arrived in the city yesterday from Missouri. He says that he was shown every courtesy by the relatives of Mr. Henson, who is in the county jail. He knew Henson but slightly. The Missouri citizen is the only surviving son of the slain woman.

He is a creamery manager at Mountain Grove. Last night he had not decided where the bodies of his mother and his brother should be buried. Interment may be in Wichita. unout a tremor or wink of the Henson sat in the jailer's office of the countjr jail Thursday evening and carefully listened to the reading of two warrants by Marshal 0.P. Hicklin of the city court, which charged Henson with murder in the first degree in each warrant.

The first warrant read to Henson charged him with the wilful and premeditated murder of his wife, Pearl Henson, the second warrant charged him with the murder of Walter Shafer, his stepson. In the jailer's office at the time of the reading of the warrants were Hen- son's two sons Gus of Kiowa, and F. Henson of Englewood; his nephew, i W. B. Powell, of 1420 Fairview avenue, and Albert D.

Bennett, an attorney of Vinita, Okla. Mr. Henson refuses to discuss his case in any way with nearly five minutes, and not once did Henson speak. It was not the intention of officers to serve the warrants on Henson until Friday morning, but Marshal Hicklin was afraid an attempt might be made to get him out on a habeas corpus, He will be arraigned this morning at 8:45, before Judge Grover Pierpont, of the city court, and an early date set for his hearing. An attempt will be made to hold the preliminary hearing next week, so the case can be tried at the January term of the district court.

To do this the case must be certified in the district court before January 10. When Henson is taken to the city court this morning for his arraignment, hewill be handcuffed and guarded very closely. Officers do not fear an attempted escape, but they are not taking any chances. Clinton Shafer, son of the murdered woman, took possession of the home on Mathewson avenue. It appears that erty of the two will be separated.

The heirs of Mrs. Henson will agree to waive all claims on Henson's property and Henson and his heirs will waive all rights to Mrs. Henson's property. FORD FOUND Thief Who Stole H. 3YL Long's Car Found Exhausted Near Broken Bridge At Kaw City, Okla.

A broken down bridge and exhaus- tion from driving all night, brought about the capture of F. N. Terry, a Tulsa jitney driver, and the recovery of the stolen auto of H. M. Long 226 North Lawrence avenue, this cntv.

at Kaw Citv. vesterdav morninrr. Mr. Long's car was stolen from in front li you are interested in stylish Ladies' Ready -to -Wear and appreciate prices that are cul in half and in many instances more than half you should not fail to visit the Gigantic Receiver's Now in Full Blast at 128 N. Main St.

EYE COST HIS ROLL While William Mock, Wealthy Sumner County Farmer, Obliged Stranger His Wallet Was Stolen. 'DIP GOT $6,300 IN PAPERS AND CASH Young Man Wanted Mock to See If His Eyes Were Blood- shot From Drinking They Were Not. A new method for diverting the victim's attention while a confidence man extracts valuable property from his pockets, was introduced into Wichita' Monday. While William Mock, aged 6, a wealthy retired farmer from Corbin, Sumner county, was looking in the eyes of a stranger to determine whether the optics were bloodshot, his pocket was "picked" of $6,300. Mr.

Mock arrived in Wichita Sunday from Caldwell to visit his son J. O. Mock, United States Inspector at the stockyards and to transact business, lie purchased a residence in this city Monday through the agency of W. H. Rauch.

In addition to paying cash for the property Mr. Mock paid off a mortgage on the house, held by the An chor Trust company, lie placed the i receipt for $566, the amount of the mortgage, in his pocketbook with a number of other valuable papers. Mr. Mock then visited a drug store i at Twenty-first street and Lawrence avenue, Monday afternoon. While he was standing ln the store, a young i man attired in a stylish suit, stepped up close to him and.

said: "Neighbor, I want to ask you to do a favor for me. Look in my eyes, riease take a good look in my eyes. You'll do me that favor, won't you." "Look in your eyes" replied the farmer. "What for?" "Well its this way," continued the stranger. "There's a mighty pretty girl who wants me to quit drinking whiskey.

Ghe has been doing everything she can to get me to quit drinking, but I just keep on. I can't quit and I want you to look in my eyes and see if they are bloodshot. Are they bloodshot? Look in them and see, please neighbor." Mr. Mock looked Into the other's eyes, examining them carefully and the stranger pushed close up to him. "His eyes might have been a bit red but I could not see that they were bloodshot," said Mr.

Mock yesterday. Following the inspection of his optics, the stranger departed from the store to "go and see the girl." Mr. Mock 'remained about the place for some time and then went to the home of his son. It was not until the next day, at noon, Tuesday, that he had occasion to use his ''pocketbook. He had carried it in the inside pocket of his coat.

He ran his hand in his pocket to get the pocketbook and found that It was gone. The pocket was empty and Mr. Mock's thoughts immediately settled on the young man who asked him to look in his eyes, the stranger with the alleged bloodshot optics. It was while he was looking into the stranger's eyes that the latter robbed him, Mr. Mock believes.

lie went the store and made inquiry for the man and reported his loss To a police officer on a beat but no trace of the "con" man could be found. Mr. Mock yesterday made another visit to the office of Mr. Rauch on business in connection with his property Interests. When he related his experiences to the real estate dealer, who advised him to report the loss to Jack Hay.

chief of police. Mr. Rauch accompanied him to City Hall and although three days had elapsed nince the theft, officers were promptly dispatched to make a search of the city for the "slicker." In the pocketobok when stolen were a $2,000 certificate of deposit, three $1,000 certificates and a $500 certificate Issued by the Stock Exchange bank of Caldwell, a $200 promissory note signed by S. J. Goodacre, the $566 receipt and $40 in cash.

The total value of the papers is $6,306., Mr. Mock wired the Caldwell bank, notifying them not to cash the certificates. He fears) however, that they will be presented as security to some small bank In another town which may extend some cash on them. "I never was robbed before and I hardly knew what' to do about it," said Mr. Mock.

"It was a new experience to me but I wired the bank not to pay the certificates." The stranger was described by Mr. Mock as being about 25 years af age. of medium height and attired in a neat blue serge suit. Mr. Mock is a widower and part of the time resides at the home of his son at 2012 Jackson avenue, not far from the drug store where he met the "con" man.

WIXDOW rni7.ETO DOCKUM'S J. Clyde Snndrrn Get $30 for Torch ninplay J. Clyde Sanders, manager of Dockum drug store, number the is in receipt of a circular which in- forms him that he has taken a $20 prize for window trimming in a con- test held by the manufacturers of electric lorciies. The picture of Mr. Pander's window was one of 15 from this class to be published In the circular, though there were 100 fclmilar prjzes awarded.

Mr. Sanders has won many prizes in window trimming contests since he has been associated with the Dockum Drug company tn finpa Tint fool nartiAiilaTlo tt.J over having taken a prize in this one. His windows show originality in design, this particular one representing I'ncle Sam using the torch advertised. PREPARE FOR M'RSIXG. Fourteen Girls to Tnke Course at Hospital.

A probation class of fourteen will be admitted at Wichita hospital on January 1 for a course In nursing. The time of probation Js three months and is given the applicant to determine her fitness for the work. Following Is a list of those in the class: Ruby Booth, Kiowa, Pauline Poott, Maize, Reed, Buffalo, Ethel Helphrey, 727 North Lawrence avenue. Wichita: Blanche Bixby. 925 South Water street, Wichita; Edith May Palmer.

Enid, Eunice Sanders, Trlplett, and Gertrude "White, Medicine Lodge, Kan. in Ik Sale. 128 N. Main St. IF APPLES The evenings of holi day time are not enjoyed in full without some quality fruit from The Hoover Orchards Gty Market We deliver one or more boxes 217 South Water Street i imut ivyjj ii SOME BIG BARGAINS IN r.SEI) CARS.

Will Anv Time. CO. 238 S. Lawrence Ave. Pfcoct Mkt.

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ANSA MAS. i ntvMVijv.v. max Exclusive Ladies' Shop, ichita, Kansas is I UUllliJ SAY LACK OF ROOM COSTLY County Treasurer Believes $1,500 In Interest Lost Annually By County. Because of the inadequate means to handle the taxes as fast as they are received in the county treasurer's office, Sedgwick county is losing about $1,500 annually, according to W. R.

Hewey, deputy county treasurer. Mr. Hewey stated Thursday that at least J1.500 is being lost each year In Interest because the cramped quarters of the treasurer's office won't permit rapid handling of the moneys received. At the present time the treasurer's office has two tax windows -one for the city taxpayers and. one for the country taxpayers.

The country taxpayers can be handled all right with the present facilities, but the big loss is in the city department. There Is only one set of city books and only one set of employes can work on them at one time. With scores of taxpayers lined up ready to put their cash in the county's coffers, this creates a big delay. Every year the time for paying the taxes has to be extended on this account. But, according to Mr.

Hewey, the bis loss comes through the taxes received by mall. As fast as mail containing checks or money for taxes is received it is filed away until the force has time and access to the city books to check the accounts up. At the present time there is more than $500,000 in checks and money filed away in the vaults, and it will be "attacked" as soon as possible. Most of it has reposed in the vaults for more than a month. As the county receives 3 per cent interest on money deposited in the banks, the county is losing nearly $1,500 In interest each month because this money lies in the vault, states Mr.

Hewey. If it could be banked as fast as received, the county would get this $1,500 interest. Mr. Hewey states that the treas urer's office needs more room. He believes that if there was room for two city windows all the delay would be overcome.

This would not necessitate an extra set of books, but would only require the division of the property in Wichita into two districts. This can be done, states Mr. Hewey, with but vwv little trouble when the tax roll is made up each year. Mr. Nolan, treasurer, and Mr.

Hewey want the countv commissioners to let them have the rooms now used by the county assessor. They are just south of the present rooms of the treasurer, and there is a communicating door between the suites. Mr. Nolan desires to move the country part of the office into the assessor's rooms and use all of the present office for th lty books. EAGLE'S FAMILY LARGE Eiht Out of Twelve at Banquet Former Employe.

At a dinner party given this week at the Kansas club by Trof. B. W. Truesdell, there were twelve guests, all ex-students of Friends university, and of this number, eight of them have worked for the Eagle. After the dinner, the guests gathered In theofflces of v' and i recalling memories of past days spent at F- I Chst'r Farnsworth of this city, who has recently returned from a three I ars' tay in the Philippmes, gave an interesting account of those islands.

Charles conditions on Driscoll, who Automobile Bandits! Are Again Busy. They will leave cars bearing this ensignia. alone 1 fl he W- You get protection and service for nothing as our iis counU more than pay your dues. For Further Information THE ANTI-AUTOMOBILE THIEF ASSOCIATION 125 South Lawrence Avenue. Reductions onBooks See Our Windows HI street, signed and then got his wagon both Henson and his dead wife owned together and his horse straightened I property when they were married and out.

The motorist sped away, bef ore an agreement is being arranged, ac-Lappln thought to get the number, cording to a report, whereby the prop- JJ Truesdell, Dr. Claude Holmes and wife. J. R. Engle and wife.

Misses Alfrede Hornor and Opal Remspear, Chas. Driscoll, Chester Farnsworth. Homer Johnston, Harold McCuae and Adelbert Smiths Mrs. Engle, Miss Alfrede Hornor. Chas.

Driscoll and Homer Johnston have done editorial work-on the Eagle, and while in. school Messrs. Smith, McCune, Farnsworth and Holmes have carried Eagles. JOINT WITNESS HELD Lack of Memory Pnt 111 ii Jail. Walt Dozier, colored, was given a preliminary hearing in the city court Thursday on the charge of perjury.

Two counts have been entered against Dozier. He was bound over to the district court and In default of a $750 bond was committed to the county Jail. Dozier was arrested following the trial of Harry Walker in division number two of the district court on the charge of selling intoxicating liquors. At an inquisition held by County Attorney Ross McCormick, last summer, Dozier testified that he had purchased liquor from Walker. When placed on the stand during Walker's trial, Dozier said he had not purchased liquor from Walker, and didn't remember of giving testimony that he did before the county attorney.

DRINK NO. 10 BLEND WICHITA'S FAVORITE COFFEE ml TEA AND COFFEE CO. WICHITA QUALITY COFFEE HOUSE PHONE MARKET 708 120 NORTH MARKET. WE DELIVER J) Our New Year Resolution During 1915 our prices quality considered a been lower than others. During the coming year 1916 you will find our goods and prices bear the same difference.

i pmcxsixsa. quality wist DOUGLAS AkJC HAPPY NEW YEAR JUBILEE Fall of Vaudeville Hapalaeaa Today, 7t4A and 9:15 SIX PKAC1IK AD A PAIR KAYMOM1 MTBns WAX7.KK AM PALMKR 1)1 AM) 1)1 IK MAItfiUtKT KVA PATH: XLWS ORDKR KATS 0V FOR KW YKAir MATIKK ASH IfiHT EMPRESS lUfllUrtl 30 laill 12 RIO DOIBLE "Charity Child" Vaudeville ft A TlVt T- IV -in WicrtA Kav a. TV tarseat grtrt ff rwt ili aa4 Flaata la ttata. Car4 af Taaaka We re express oar thaeks to the tnany frircd who itetl in ifca xA bereawomer.t our loved re and extended their sympathy by beautifa! floral offerins. CXAIIS.

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j. r. Davis. WE 5 10c AND 20c His blood was smeared all over the dollar which he had pocketed. The injured man didn't realize what he was doing, he said, as the dollar wouldnH pay for the dashboard Lappin broke in falling out of his wagon.

The rear end of the horse-drawn vehicle was smashed. Mr. Lappin says that the motorist wasn't watching where he was going, being engaged in a conversation with a person at his side. If Lappin finds out who ran into him, he says he will make him pay mre than a dollar or know why. BROKEN RIBS DUE TO GLARE Motorist Blinded By Big Car and Runs His Machine Off Culvert.

Blinded by the glaring light of an approaching auto, Henry Mathews, a Clearwater hardware dealer, sustained several broken ribs before daylight Wednesday, when his car went over backwards off a culvert south of Wichita. In endeavoring to pass the other machine, Mr. Matthews ran over the end of the culvert. The accident happened on the Seneca street road about six or seven miles south of Wichita, while he was on his way home. He was accompanied by "Fred Senter and Fred Likely, both of Clearwater.

Nei- ther of them was hurt. The damage o'clock Wednesday night and Terry Psent is educational editor on the was found asleep in it just outside of gt- Paul Dail' N. told of his work Kaw City the next morning. When the schools in Minnesota found that he could not. cross th I nose Present were: ProT W.

bridge leading into the town, Terry evidently worn out from the all night IS" drive, stopped by the roadside and went to sleep In the auto. He was fl found there by the city marshal, who telephoned to the sheriff at Newkirk. The latter notified the Wichita police. Detective Charles Eagle left yesterday jig for Oklahoma to bring back the carjjH and the prisoner. The auto is a 1516 model Ford electric equipment.

According to the 0 police Terry until recently drove jit- neys at Tulsa and Bartlasville. He went 'SI CRAWFORD Mat. 2:30, Tonight 8:15 New York Cast Full Scenic Kiulpment PRICES Matinee 25c, 35c, 50c. Niflht 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Box Seats $1.50.

SAT. MAT. NIGHT, MW YEAR'S A tnanilfkect production of the famca liitrnatlotsal drara-atlc uccas 'Kick In9 The Play With a -Punch" and a Thrill Written iif Willard Mack 'ONE YEAR Ifl NEW YORK 8 MONTHS IN CHICAGO Present fnf th Vltl2Kuh4 Actor MR. HORMAH HACKETT and a SpIts2Sd Metropolian Caat CoopM Scecle ProJartkra Priea 2Sc 5Cc 75c. S1-O0, $130- MATIN EC PRICES I FiMf.

1XO, $1.50. 75c. Wr Escort Second Bales 2Sc If i lue ai 4jto Kansas City a few days ago Bas 1 I i in the darkness. It was large and Powerful. Mr.

Matthews was taken to the Wichita hospital for treatment. FELL 1XTO LVK WATER. Riiraley Employe Auks H2.S70 for noma. W. S.

Wiley has filed suit in the district court aaginst Finley P. Mount, receiver for the Rumley Products company, for damages. Mr. Wiley asserts in a petition filed in the district court Thursday that he was injured on June 20. 1915, while in the pursuit of his duties as an employe of the company.

He says that he wast instructed to go into the basement and i take the cap off a cistern in which, lye water Is stored. When he reached! the basement water was several inches deep on the floor, and as he WSlkedj through It he fell i i upC leav- iing there and arriving in Arkansas City Wednesday. From the southern Kansas town he came to Wichita Wed nesday evening and promptly made away with the auto. BANK CLEARINGS Jl MP Half 3IUIlea More Dollar Handled ThU Week Than Year Atco. Though there were but five business days in the week just closed, bank clearings for that week show an in- crease over last year of almost half a million dollars.

On a percentage basis, this increase amounts to more than 13 per cent of the business done during the corresponding week of iast year. Books of the Wichita Clearing House association will be closed for the year after the close of business today. Vsnallv the rlearinjrs are com r.i i last -ar enr a of the year, another comparison is of interest. i Clearings for the week endlrssf De-! cember amounted to 12.54.- Zit.29. as against for the corresponding wees of last year.

Daily clearings for the past week were: Dec. 24 Dec. SS2.5S.3 Dec. 2S. S.2S.

Dec. 29. Dec. 30 C.j:.29 I i i but owing to the fact that to-already the last day of th tern, as someone the cap. Marrtace License Charles Douglas, Croft, Tina Sneed, Monett, .59 .23 a Tete Hart, Wichita Elizabeth Gerintfer, Alva.

Okla Andre Mario 132 North St, Francis avenue, sold Brisco touring cars this week to James C. Clutter of this city, August Itusse of Alva. and A. II. Hyer of had removed Want AsSi Briaj 6'g AltuSU.