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MONDAY EVENING.

TOPEKA, KANSAS.. MARCH. 22,1915.

MONDAY EVENING.

THIS EDITION 2 CENTS

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AUSTRIAN

FORTRESS

CAPTURED

Przeinysl lias Surrendered to

the Bussian Forces.

After Siege Lasting Since Early

Days of War.

FIRST IMPORTANT VICTORY

Won by Either Side Since the

War Began.

It Opens Up the Way to Heart

of Austria.

FIGHTING IS CONTINUOUS

Fierce Assaults and Counter

Attacks for Four Days.

Trenches and Villages Change

Hands Several Times.

' London, March 2 2. The British of

ficial press bureau this afternoon is

sued the following statement:

"Information has been received that

the fortress of Przemysl has fallen and

that the garrison has surrendered to

Russian arms."

The siege of Przemysl. an Austrian

stronghold in the province of Galicia,

has been under way since the early

days of the war. It has been a bitter

and relentless siege which has never

been relaxed for a day since the Rus

sians invested the city. Several at

temps of the Austrians to raise the

siege, the latest of which was made

only a short time ago, have failed.

With the fall of Przemysl the Im

portant town in Galicia which is ptill

in the hands of the Austrians is Cra

cow in northwestern Galicia, close to

the German border.

In the early days of war the Russian

offensive campaign as outlined, unof

ficially, contemplated the invasion of

Germany, through East Prussia, on the

north, and simultaneously into Silesia,

from Galicia. The Russians succeed

ed in penetrating Galicia, but the suc

cess of the Austrians in holding Prze

mysl and Cracow blocked attempt to

invade Germany across the Silesian

border.

Cut OIT from World.

The siege of Przemysl has been one

of the most picturesque phases of the

war in the east. The Austrian gar

rison defended the city with deter

mination and vigor and during the

earlier months inflicted considerable

losses on the Russians by frequent

Forties. The only means of communi

cation with the outside world was by

wireless telegraphy and areoplanes.

Although there have been several

reports recently that the surrender of

Przemysl was imminent, news from the

city itself described conditions there

as nearly normal except for the regu

lations imposed by the military

authorities, all supplies of food were

taken over by the army officials, who

issued rations to soldiers and civilians

alike.

The last direct word from Przemysl

before the announcement of its sur

render was t hatt he R ussian attac ks

ClIIlltlUn or f ,t r- - WO

FOURlODRWNED.

Commander of the V. S. Scorpion

and Three of His Sailors.

Constantinople, March 22. Lieu

tenant Commander William Bricker

of the United States converted yacht

Scorpion and three sailors, named

Ford, Dowell and Leverings were

drowned on the night of March 20

while attempting to reach the vessel

with a rowboat. The Scorpion was

anchored in the Bosphorus, .ff Con

stantinople near the Dolmabaghoheh

palace.

The rowboat was swamped in a

heavy sea. Lieutenant Herbert S.

Babbit and one sailor who were in the

boat were saved.

Lieutenant Commander Bricker ar

rived at Constantinople only on

March 16 to succeed Lieutenant Com

mander Edward McCauley, jr., in

command of the Scorpion.

A MAX AND A Bit OTHER.

The scene is laid in a military

hospital, where a Highlander is

found with a German helmet.

"So you've brought back his hel

met, Sandy, my man;

And you killed him, I guess? It's a

trophy you've won ?"

"Na-a. na-a!" replied Sandy, "that

wasna the plan;

The man was a freend, gin ye'ill

wait till I'm done.

I dressed his wound an' he sorted

mine.

No" a word could we speak, the ane i

tae the ither; !

But I lookit at him, an' I kent him

a brither;

An' I gied him my bonnet, in token,

ye ken.

He lauched, an' he grippit my

han' and then

He gied me his helmet; an' it cam'

tae my mind,

Here's a trophy, thocht I, of a new

fangled kind.

I dressed his would, an' he dressit

mine;

No' a word could we speak, the ane

tae the ither;

But tho' he was German, I kent

him a brither."

H. J. Dawtrey.

ALTARS IN TRESCHES.

Cologne, March 22. The useful

ness of the field altars that have

been sent by Catholic societies

throughout Germany to priests at

the front with troops is described

by one of the Catholic chaplains

now with the soldiers near Kheims.

With the altar with which he has

been furnished he has been able

to gro into the trenches even, into

the hospitals and to hold services

in a. dozen places a day instead of

one or two.

The equipment of the field altar

enabled him to say mass and to

administer the sacrament, where

previously he had to content him

self in many cases with an out

door sermon. Whenever possible

he borrowed the use of a church,

and to this would come, often on

foot, the Catholic soldiers in

troops nearby. In many villages,

however, he found either that no

church existed or that . the town

had been devastated.

TRY TO BURN PARIS

Germans Drop Incendiary

Bombs in French Capital.

One Death and That a Woman

Dying of Fright.

Paris. March 22. While no one was

killed, directly by the Zeppelin bombs,

which' were dropped in Paris and its

environs early yesterday they resulted

in one death, that of Mme. Charles

Pesson, who lived in the Rue Des

Dames. The aged woman died of

fright. After Public Prosecutor Les

couve and his staff had visited all the

places where bombs exploded and ex

amined several witnesses he drew up

a report to which will be annexed re

ports made of previous airships' raids

upon the city.

A city analyst who spent the day

collecting bombs which did not ex

plode and fragments of those which

did, took them to his laboratory for

chemical analysis. From a cursory

examination he found most of the

missiles dropped were incendiary, con

taining a mixture of phosphorus, tar

and benzine, provided with a lighting

contrivance consisting of a wick

soaked in petroleum.

to IMeTcourt

Kansas Supreme Court Appeals

Three Cases.

Important Matters to IT. S. Su-

preme Court Soon.

Notices of appeal to the United

States supreme court in three impor

tant Kansas cases were served today

on officers of the state supreme court.

The cases include the stock yards

Case. Sllit testing thp nnndtitntmnalitv

of a Kansas liquor law and an action i

to determine the distribution of taxes

and rebates by county treasurers.

In both the stock yards and liquor

case, the state is a party to the ac

tion. The stock yards case was

brought hp John S. Dawson as attor

ney general on the allegation that the

Kansas City stock yards company was

illegally operating as a common car

rier and violating its corporate func

tion. The state supreme court held

against the stock yards company and

issued an order which in ef

fect ousted the company from doing

business in Kansas or compelling it to

cease its function as a common car

rier. The stock yards company served

notice that it had appealed to the su

preme court of the United States.

The liquor case comes from Shaw

nee county. William Briggs was con

victed of selling liquor and maintain

ing a nuisance. He was held to be

a persistent violator of the liouor law

and sentenced to the 'state penitentiary.

as me persistent violator claim was

not recited m the information. Brierers

appealed in an effort to set aside the

judgment of the trial court. He also

sought to declare unconstitutional the

persistent violator act. The supreme

court found for the state and now

Briggs will go higher.

bamuel Stewart is defendant in a

suit concerning the distribution of

county taxes and rebates. He is coun

ty treasurer of Wyandotte county and

exception was taken to his method of

distributing the county funds. The

proper method of distributing this tax

nas Deen fought through the . state

courts and was today appealed.

SPRING? YES-NO?

Calendar Says So But Weather

Doesn't Indicate It.

This was the eighteenth cloudv

day this montll. Twenty cloudy days

is the record for month of any name

in the twenty-eight years that obser

vations have been made in Topeka.

There has been but one clear day in

the last 33 a gloom record.

March thus far has averaged 7 de

grees below normal, and if the same

brand of weather continues, will be

the third coldest corresponding

month on record. ".Snow has fallen on

fifteen days. There was snow on 16

days in March,- 1912, and the total

depth of the white stuff was more

than 26 inches. The snowfall March

23 and 24, 1912, was 12.3 inches.

The minimum temperature Sunday

1 6 dgrees was the lowest since

January 29. The March temperature

thus far has been lower than the av

rage for February.

The forecast indicated unsettled

weather late today with the possibil-

itv of snow flnrripfl The sun is ex

pected to break through the clouds i

Tuesday here's hoping.

Shippers' forecast: "Protect thirty

six hour shipments in all directions

against temperature of 28 degrees."

The temperature today averaged

ten degrees below normal: normal

afternoon temperature is now 53. The

wind was twenty miles an hour from

the north this afternoon-.

The hourly readings

7 o'clock .

8 o'clock .

. . 30

1 1 o'clock . . .

12 o'clock. . .

36

33

33

34

38 j

37

38 j

9 o'clock . .

10 o'clock. .

1 o'clock . . .

2 o'clock. . .

YOUNG GRATTE

IS VINDICATED

Coroner's Jury Sets Boy Free

in Four Minutes.

Saved Mother From Injury by

Drunken Father.

KILLED HIM WITH BALL BAT

Youthful Figure in Saturday

Tragedy Restored to Freedom.

Prominent Topekans Testify

Freely in Boy's Behalf.

Following a four minute delibera

tion, the jury in the coroner's inquest

held 'over the body of O. P. Cratte,

1612 Western avenue, who died Sat-

AMERICAN OFFICERS WITH GERMAN ARMY AT THE FRONT

i

The German government has permitted six officers of the U. S. army

t the front. Several of them are shown in the pictnre.. They are gaining

Ijrill be utilized by .Uncle Sam on their retua-to this country after thewjir

urday afternoon as the result -of a

blow over the head with a baseball

bat in the hands of his son, Irving

Cratte, returned a verdict which

cleared the boy of all blame for his

father's death.

The verdict was to the effect that

O. P. Cratte came to his death by a

blow struck by Irving Cratte and that

the act was excusable because at the

tlme tnat the act was committed the

elder Cratte was making an attack

upon the mother of the boy and her

life was in deadly peril. In the ver

dict it was found that Irving Cratte

was not in any manner to blame and

acted wholly in the defense of his

mother and that the blow was not

intended to kill the father, but to pro

tect the mother.

While choking his wife because, it

is said, she would not give him a

locket to pawn to buy liquor, O. P.

(Continued' on Page Six.)

SHIMSjIlD UP

Hamburg Uner Tries to Leave

Writhout Clearance Papers.

She Is Stopped by Shots Fired

Across Her Bow. ' .

Washington, March 22. The Hamburg-American

liner Odenwald, stop

ped from leaving San Juan, Porto

Rico, yesterday by shots across her

bow, is being held under the recent

congressional resolution empowering

the president to prevent supplies go

ing from American ports to ships of

the European belligerents at sea.

Under the resolution the president

was authorized to direct collectors of

customs under the jurisdiction of the

United States to withhold clearance

from any vessel, American or for

eign, which he has reasonable cause

to believe to be about to carry fuel or

arms, ammunition, men or supplies

to any warship or tender, or supply

ship of a belligerent nation in viola

tion of the obigation of the United

States as a neutral nation. It fur

ther provides that "in case any such

vessel shall depart or attempt to de

part from the jurisdiction of the

United States without clearance, for

any of the purposes set forth, the

owner or master or persons or per

sons having charge of such vessels

shall severally be liable to a tine of

not less than $2,000 or more than

$10,000 or to imprisonment not to ex

ceed two years, or both, and, in ad

dition, such vessel shall be forfeited

to the United States." Officials would

not disclose what grounds they had

for believing that the Odenwald came

under the terms of the resolution.

This report was received today from

Lieutenant Colonel Burnham. com

manding the Porto Rican regiment:

"Hamburg American commercial

steamer Odenwald attempted to' leave

this port about three this afternoon

(March 21) without clearance papers.

At request of collector of customs to

prevent departure and in compliance

with instructions in your telegram

March 19, warning shots were fired

with machine guns and one"; shot

across her bows with five inch, rifle

from El Moro. Ship then came to

anchor under El Moro. None was

injured. Ship returned to her anchor

age in the harbor. In presence of col

lector of customs Mtrch 19, I person

ally informed and warned German

consul and commander of Odenwald

that force would be used if necessary

to prevent vessel leaving without

clearance."

ANOTHER TIEUP

IN LEGISLATURE?

Discovered Today That Appro

priations Are in Error.

No Repealing Clause in Executive-Judicial

Bill.

NOTES EN A HOPELESS TANGLE

Amendments Are Vague and

Sections Uncertain.

Speaker Stone Sends Out Call

for Conference.

When the legislators grabbed their

hats and rushed to catch early morn

ing trains for home Sunday, they for

got to provide a repealing clause in

4 f

the necessary paragraphs of the exec

utive and Judicial bill, r Today the mil-

lion and a half dollar appropriation

Item is tied up and late this after

noon the -Temnant of the legislature

will meet and try to relieve the ex

pression of sorrow and concern on the

faces of state house officials who see

their pay checks tied up for two

years.

The lack of an occasional repealing

clause in the approprition bill is just

one of several things that seem to im

pair the executive and Judiciary meas

ure. Some of the notes are in a seem

ingly hopeless tangle. The amend

ments are in a measure vague, in

definite and uncertain and with it all,

is the glaring absence of a repealing

clause or clauses or claws as the case

may be. Several times while drafting

the 1915 appropriation measure, the

(Continued on Page 6.)

DELKTTSGHARGED

White Slave Warrant for To

peka Mazarine.

Leader of Beligious Cult In

, . duced a Girl!

Warrant was issued in the county at

torney's office late this afternoon for

Rev. James Delk, charging him with

inducing and enticing Letha Hanscher

from one place to another in Kansas

for immoral purposes.

It Is alleged that Delk first met Miss

Hanscher in Falls City, Neb., while he

was holding services there. He is

charged with bringing her from there

to Topeka about a year ago.

Rev Delk is well known in Topeka

where he was at the head of the Naz

arines, a religious cult, for some time.

For several months he has been at the

Nazarine colony at Science Hill, Ky.

County officials believe that he is in

Topeka at the present time and the

warrant was issued by them in the

hopes of arresting him today.

LOST MAN TURNS UP

Family Hart Been Putting Flowers on

His Grave 50 Years.

St. Louis, March 2 2. After he had

been mourned as dead for fifty-two

years, John Wesley Franze, a Civil

war veteran, has been found living in

a small town near San Francisco,

Cal.. according to a letter received by

relatives here. Mr. Franze was found

by his sister, Mrs. William H. Marvin

of Kirkwood, a local suburb.

Franze served in the Confederate

army under General Sterling Price.

The regiment to which he belonged

was captured and placed in the Union

prison at Alton, 111. Believing that he

had died here, members of the Franze

family for more than fifty years vis

ited the Alton cemetery each Decora

tion day and placed flowers' on one

of the unmarked Confederate- graves.

Mrs. Marvin, while at a social in Los

Angeles, mentioned that her maiden

name was Franze. Another guest said

he knew an old man nearby by that

name and the search which resulted

in the finding of the long lost veteran

followed

Weather Indications.

Partly cloudy with snow flurries late

today and in the southeast portion of

the state tonight; slightly colder in the

west tonight; Tuesday fair. - .

ITALY IS ABOUT

TO MAKE PLUNGE

Entrance Into the War in Six

Weeks Assured.

All Ports Crowded With Men

of Military Age.

TROOPS DRILLING EVERYWHERE

i

i Italians Have Been Recalled

From All Over the World.

Whole Country Is Like a Big

Moving Picture.

(By William Phillips Simms.

(Copyright, 1915, by the United

Press.)

Paris, March 22. Italy's entrance

'I

to accompany the German armies

much valuable information which

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in the war within six weeks is now

practically certainty. Only unex

pected international developments can

interfere with the carrying out of the

government's program, which is abso

lutely fixed and of which the entire

nation is fully cognizant.

I have just returned from Italy. I

visited Genoa, Rome and a dozen oth

er Italian cities, going as far south as

Naples. I have talked with govern

ment officials, military and naval of

ficers, editors, and men in all walks of

life. They assure me that the crisis

has come and that Italy is about to

plunge herself in the war on the side

of the allies.

All the Italian ports are crowded

with incoming men of military age.

Genoa and Naples are bee hives of

youths from the United States and

South America, recalled to the army.

Everywhere troops are drilling. The

Continued on Page Six.

DOWN COME RATES

Ordinance Ileducing Charges

for Electricity Is Passed.

Seven Cents per Kilowatt Hour

and 40 Cents Minimum.

An ordinance reducing the rates to

be charged for electric light current

to 7 cents per kilowatt-hour and fix

ing the minimum charge at 40 cents

per month and making it compulsory

for the electric light company to ex

tend its service whenever ordered so

to do by the citycommission was giv

en final passage by the commission

today.

Albert Patten; representing the Ed

ison . company, protested against the

action of the city commission on the

grounds that no Investigation as to

the fairness of the rate fixed by the

commission had been made. He de

clared that a 7-cent rate for Topeka

is a cheaper rate than prevails in

Kansas City, Kan., for the same serv

ice from the municipal plant.

"The municipal plant there has ab

solutely no taxes to pay, receives its

water free from the city and has a

fat contract for furnishing city light

ing. With these things taken into con

sideration, 8 cents or a little more

per kilowatt-hour would be the cor

responding rate for Topeka," Mr.

Patten declared.

He was interrupted by Roy L.

Bone, city commissioner of finance,

who asked him whether he had made

a careful investigation in arriving at

this conclusion. Mr. Patten said he

had.

The Edison company paid the city

approximately $4,000 for water last

year, and its taxes, most of which the

city received, amounted to more than

J14.000. As the city has its ov.n mu

nicipal street lighting plant, the Edi

son company does not get this busi

ness. The Edison company was wiliing to

stand for a reduction to 7 cents

per kilowatt hour, with a 75-cent

minimum.

Champ Clark in a Fire.

Pass Christian, Miss., March 22.

Lynn Castle, one of the best known

winter hotels on the gulf coast, at

which Speaker Champ Clark, Mrs.

Clark and their daughter Genevieve

are guests, was badly damaged by

fire today. All the guests had ample

warning and saved their personal effects.

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BACK TO NATURE.

Berlin, March 22. Surgery upon

the battlefield, according to a well

known physician, Dr. Ziegelroth,

is becoming more and more a mat

ter of "back to nature." The doc

tors, military and civil, who are

tending the wounded in the west,

are discovering, not without some

surprise, how potent a factor na

ture is in healing wounds.

Amputations are resorted to on

ly in cases of utmost necessity,

and surgeons are acting with the

greatest conservatism where pre

viously limbs were severed quick

ly when certain symptoms ap

peared. The conservatism appears

to be awarded by recoveries that

ordinarily would have been consid

ered impossible. Ordinary wounds

are dressed with antiseptic ban

dages, and then are not rebound

any more than necessary. The

healing is being left to efficient na

ture. The civil practitioners in the

western field, according to Dr.

Ziegelroth, are engaged in a

friendly but spirited contest with

the military physicians, and are

giving extraordinary service. Men

who in ordinary life have a "gold

en practice" are enduring all the

hardships cf the field without a

murmur, and good-humoredly con

test for bundles of straw upon

which to sleep in barns and sta

bles. The snoring of fellow physi

cians seems to bother them more

than the artillery fire.

SHOT OUT HIS EYES

Wife Cites Rash Act as Ground

for Separation.

Mrs. Anna Pries Asks Divorce

From Sightless Husband.

Alleging that May 19, 1913, the de

fendant deliberately shot himself in

an attempt to commit suicide and that

the act destroyed his eyesight, suit for

divorce has been filed In the Shawnee

county district court by Anna Pries

against Otto Pries.

The couple, according to the peti

tion, were married October 6, 1910.

The plaintiff through her attorneys

claims that Pries has contributed

nothing toward her support since May

19, 1913.

Mrs. Pries asks a divorce and res

toration of her maiden name, Anna

Degenhardt. :

CAMPAIGN IS ON

Firemen Double-Platoon Prop

osition in Ordinance.

Av

First Reading of Measure Vot

ing Funds in City.

An ordinance providing for submit

ting to the voters of the city the prop

osition of adopting a double platoon

fire department system, was intro

duced at a meeting of the city com

mission today. A law enacted by the

last legislature, makes it compulsory

upon the city to submit the proposi

tion. It will be voted upon at the city

election to be held April 6.

An active campaign for the adop

tion of the proposition is being made.

Printed cards bearing the following

are being circulated under the cap

tion "The Fire Tax Levy What It

Means":

"It means the institution of a two

platoon fire department.

"It means the addition of twenty

four men to the fire fighting force of

this city.

"It means that where men are

now required to work twenty-four

hours out of each twenty-four, they

will work enly twelve hours.

"It means that where a fireman now

has only twenty-four hours off duty

each week he will be permitted to

spend twelve hours out of each twenty-four

with his family; to have two

meals at home and one on the Job;

to sleep eight hours without being dis

turbed in his own be .

"It means that the two-platoon sys

tem will provide a reserve force to

protect the city when one shift of Are

fighters are exhausted from hard

duty. -

"And above all it means better fire

protection.

"The members of. the Topeka fire

department earnestly solicit your sup

port." savedTy labor men

Lloyd George Proves Loyalty of the

Industrial ClasweH.

London, March 22. David Lloyd

George, chancellor of the exchequer,

placed grave emphasis upon the im

mediate necessity for a tremendous

increase In the output of war material,

in an interview granted today, by him

to a representative of the Daily Citi

zen. He dwelt also on the change

which had come over great industrial

relations as a result of the war and

the value of confidence between labor

and the state. The establishment of a

labor advisory committee was regard

ed by Mr. Lloyd George as a step

which may have almost incalculable

results. He believed this was the first

time such a thing had been done in

any country.

ZEPPELINS DRIVEN OFF

Whirring of Machinery Warned the

Inhabitants of Calais.

Calais, March 22. The third Zep

pelin attack upon this city, timed at

almost the precise hour that the aerial

raid was made upon Paris early Sun

day morning, was made ineffective be

cause the whirring of the airships'

motors gave adequate warning of their

approach. The Zeppelins came from

the direction of the sea but received

such a vigorous bombardment from

French artillery that they retreated

before they reached the city. It is

supposed here that they intended to

make another effort to drop bombs in

the harbor and on the railroad junction.

CONFERENCE TO

CLOSEJONIGHT

Kansas Methodist Episcopal

Program Nearly Completed. -

Reception to Visiting Ministers

This Afternoon.

ASSIGNMENTS OUT SOON

Business Announcements Will

Be Made in Morning.

Jtext Conference Will Be Held

at Independence.

The program scheduled for the

Kansas Conference Methodist Episco

pal church, will close tonight with

an anniversary celebration of the

church Temperance society. Ad

dresses will be delivered by H. G.

McCain, extension secretary, and Dr.

Clarence True Wilson, secretary.

This afternoon between 4:80 and

5:30 o'clock a reception was ten

dered the visiting ministers at the

headquarters of the Temperance so

ciety in the Shawnee Fire Insurance

building, corner of Seventh and Jack

son streets.

II. C. McCain, extension secretary

Mctliodtat KplHcopal Temperance

society, who will deliver an address

tonight before Kansas conference at

. First Methodist church.

Bishop W. "6., Shepard state today

that U A ffrrLi"'Y that the busi-

iiess. of Ane-conf erenee would not be

linisnea. oy mis evening ana mat me

appointment of th Methodist minis

ters to their respective charges will be

announcea i uesaay morning.

The question of eliminating at least

one of the nine districts- comprising

the Kansas conference is being con

sidered, and announcement as to the

decision is expected to be made Tues

day morning. The . cabinet, which Is

composed of Bishop Shepard and the

district superintendents, in the body

CoiiI1fiild Pig. Twx

REVVARDOF MERIT

Miss Lenna Bressette Is Re

appointed Factory Inspector.

A. A. Knapn Offered Chief

Clerkship Under McBridc.

Aiiss Linna Bresette of Topeka was

today reappointed state female factory

inspector under Paul McBride, Re

publican, recently appointed state la

bor commissioner to succeed W. L.

O'Brien. Miss Bresette is a Demo

crat and her reappointment under Re

publican rule came today as an ad

mitted recognition of her efficient

work of two years in the labor de

partment. With the appointment loaay or miss

Bresette. Commissioner-elect McBride

also announced that he had tendered

to A. A. Knapp a reappointment as-

chief clerk. Knapp has not as yet

acceDted the place and may on nis

own motion retire from the depart

ment.

The aDDointment of Miss Bressette

was an evidence of the recognition of

efficiency and breaking away from al

leged spoils system by the state ad

ministration. In her two years In the

labor department. Miss Bressette has

made a wonderful record and has

brought about numerous reforms In

the labor situation in the state as af

fecting girls and women. She has

came in. personal touch with the af

fairs and conditions of more than 10,

000 working girls and during the pres

ent session of the legislature was a rec

ognized authority on labor conditions

before legislative committees. Dur

ing the fight for the wage commission

uilU she was accorded the privileges

of the floor in the house and her

statement aided materially in the

passage of the bill.

Miss Bressette is a Topeka woman.

She was named as female factory in

spector during the Hodges adminis

tration two years ago.

BAN ON KISSING.

London, March 22. Cerebro

spinal fever, popularly known as

spotted fever, is so prevalent in

the parts of England given over to

soldiers' training camps that the

local government board has issued

a memorandum of prcautionary

measures in which persons sub

jected to exposure are advised

against kissing. The disease, says

the memorandum, is always likely

to attack people In a low state of

health, especially in overcrowded

districts, and kissing is dangerous

because the first place the germs

attack is the back of the throat.

"The greatest attention should

be paid to this point," it says, "be

cause, contrary to the old belief

that spotted fever Is not Infectious,

it is now largely believed to be

transmitted in this manner."