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THE ATCHISON CHAMPION SIX ATCHISON, KANSAS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1917. PRICE TWO 'CENTS. NO. 3024 HARRY K. THAW INDICTED FOR KIDNAPING AND WHIPPING KANSAS CITY BOY UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD UM bE 06 Above, Harry K.

Thaw; seated, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw: below, Frank P. Walsh. Harry K. Thaw, acquitted of the murder of Sanford White in 1906 011 the ground of insanity, has been indicted by the New York grand jury on the charge of kidnaping and assaulting 19-year-old Frederick Gump, jr. It is alleged that Thaw enticed young Gump to New York on the promise of educating him and after holding him prisoner in the McAlpine hotel, beat him with a whip.

Thaw's bodyguard, George F. O'Byrne, has been arrested, charged with aiding Thaw. Frank P. Walsh, former head of the United States industrial relations committee, has been retained by Gump's father, a trunk manufacturer at Kansas City, to seek, the prosecution of Thaw. KANSAS HAD 355 FIRES DURING DECEMBER, 1916 Report of State Fire Marshal L.

T. Hussey-Defective Flues Caused Majority TOPEKA, Jan. There were 355 fires in Kansas during the month of December, according to the report of State Fire Marshal L. T. Hussey, issued today.

The total fire loss amounted to $539,528. these fires 337 were buildings and 18 were miscellaneous, such as tanks, freight cars, automobiles and the like. Of the known causes of the fires defective flues rank highest. Forty. five fires during the month are due to this cause.

Kerosene: caused 14 fires last month and the much blamed gasoline caused one less. The fact that there is a state law requiring gasolene to be kept in con-1 tainers red may have helped to keep the gasoline fires less. Hot grease caused one fire and the habit of smoking caused 10. The careless smoker and other users of matches who carelessly toss aside a lighted match, caused 11 fires in the state last month. HOBO HAD THE GRIPPE.

R. M. Rice, a well-dressed hobo, beating his way from Omaha to Charlottesville, applied for aid at the police station last night suffering from a severe case of the grippe. He was sent to the Atchison hospital by County Physician Dr. Charles Robinson.

A. C. M. S. HAS FAST BASKET BALL BUNCH Atchison All Stars will Find Hard Sledding when They Meet Effingham January 17.

The Atchison County High school team defeated the Whiting basket ball team on the Effingham court last night by the score of 59 to 17. Hamner of the Effingham team, was the individual star of the game, making 34 points. Several of his goals were made from the midfield. Friday night the A. C.

H. S. team goes to Netawaka to play the high school there. The A. C.

H. S. has a fast team this year and has not lost a game. Wednesday night. the Fine team of Effingham defeated the Whiting town team by a 28 to 11 score.

The Fine team plays the Atchison All Stars oll the Effingham court. January 17. A fast predicted. BIG K. OF C.

MEETING. The Knights of Columbus held their first meeting in their new lodge hall over the Waggener law offices last They have one of the finest lodge in Atchison. On February 11 the local lodge will have a big meeting, at which time 200 or more visitors from Horton, Kansas City, St. Joe and Leavenworth will be present to witness the exemplification of the second and third degree. There will be a large class of candidates.

Read The Champion Want Ads. GYMFEST! Y.M.C. SATURDAY EVENING January 13, '17, 7:30 50 to 60 Gymnasts from Kansas City, Topeka, St. Joseph, Lawrence, Leavenworth COME AND SEE SOME CLASSY WORK. Swimming exhibition, life saving demonstrations.

The stunt in the swimming pool is worth the price of admission alone. The small admission is to defray We are bringing the expenses. gymnasts here so that our members and friends fine may see some gymnastic work. ADMISSION ONLY TEN CENTS INTERURBAN TALK IS AGAIN REVIVED WITH COAL MINE KANSAS CITY-ST. JOE INTERUR- PURBAN OFFICIAL HAS BEEN HERE TWICE.

MO. PAC. COMPETITION Proposed Line Would Be Strong Competition in Central Branch Territory at Least as Far West as Effingham -Would Run From Dearborn, to Topeka. The interurban proposition is being talked of again. The time the plan under consideration is a line connecting with the Kansas City-St.

Joe line at Dearborn and running through Atchison to Topeka. The same people are having a look at the Atchison coal mine. J. H. VanBrunt, superintendent of the Kansas CitySt.

Joe company, was in Atchison against yesterday, his secfond visit within a week. Mr. VanBrunt was accompanied by a company engineer and talked with several Atchison men in regard to the interurban and also, it is understood, looked at the coal mine. None of the Atchison men were willing to give details of the propositious Mr. Van Brunt has under consideration, as they are yet in a rather formative stage, but from what can be gathered there is a great deal of possibility that something will be done shortly.

understand that the proposed line will go through Effingham before turning south in the direction of Topeka," said an Atchison man today. "If such were the case the tral Branch would get very little passenger business from this end of the line after the new schedule goes into effect, as the interurban cars would run at more convenient times, and would make frequent stops." Atchison has had so many near interurbans that it appears certain there will actually be one within the course of a year. Among the interurban lines suggested have been one from here to St. Joe on this side of the river, an extension of the Leaven worth-Kansas City line to Atchison, one from here to Topeka, and one from Oskaloosa to Atchison in event of the electrification of the old Leavenworth Topeka railroad. FELL DOWN STAIRS Miss tnez Keene Fainted at Kresge Ten-cent Store Miss Inez Keene, employed at the Kresge Ten store, sustained slight bruises at 12 oclock today when she fell down the stairs leading to the basement of the building.

Considerable excitement was caused in the store by the accident and it was feared at first that she was seriously injured. Dr. Dingess was called. RUSSIANS WERE HERE Russians were at the Atchison depot. between trains this morning enroute to St.

Joe. landed in Seattle a few days ago. One of the party could speak English and read a morning paper to his. fellow countrymen. Tim Ford, conductor on the St.

Joe plug, says that when the men alighted from the train in St. Joe they were met by Russian men who fondly kissed the new arrivals. GOING TO POTTER Tonight Atchison will send 40 guests to Potter to attend the church conference which will be held there. This is a gathering of ministers and church boards from seven different churches in this district The orga-1 nization of those churches into an association was done sometime ago and meetings are held every months. The Rev.

Jesse M. Bader is president. The Rev. Taylor of Potter is secretary. The trip from Atchison and other towns will be made by the visitors in automobiles, A program will be given on rural subjects.

Mr. Bader will give a talk on the rural church and Mr. Taylor, farm agent, will also give a talk. The meetings promise to be of much good. DOES NOT IMPROVE Mrs.

Phemie Lewis returned from Muscotah, where she has been helping take care of her brother, drew Little. who is not expected to live. Mrs. L. Kaufman is quite ill at her home at 710 Santa, Fe street.

FIRST WOMAN TO GET HIGH FEDERAL JOB! MRS. F.C.AXTELL 4 Mrs. Axtell of Bellingham, is the first woman appointed to a high government post. President Wilson selected her one of three members of the United Employes Compensation commission, which will administer the federal workmen's compensation act. Mrs.

Axtell was elected to the Washington legislature in 1912 and is a progressive in politics. MAY CALL REV. FISHER H. H. Hackney and Ira J.

Beard, who were "scouting" last Sunday for a Presbyterian preached, found one in Manhattan who measures up to the requirements of the Atchison church. The Rev. D. G. Fisher of Manhattan, suited the Atchison men and they talked with him in regard to the acceptance of a call.

Rev. Fisher's congregation in Manhattan recently completed a new edifice and Manhattan likes him. He is 40 years old, married an has two daughters. DEAN BLACKMAR AND DEAN WILLIAMS TO SPEAK HERE Educators from Lawrence and Col. will Address Meeting of Knife and Fork Club Dean Frank Blackmar of the graduate school of the University of Kansas will explain the proposed constitutional convention to the members of the Atchison Knife and Fork club at the first meeting of the year to be held next Friday evening.

At the same meeting Dean Walter Williams of the school of journalism of Missouri university will also speak. The committee in charge of the winter's activity of the club has devoted much time to securing first class speakers- fact the money of the organization will be spent on speakers rather than dinners, although the latter will be good. The dues are only $5 a year and the members will be given an opportu nity to hear some of the leading men of the country. 'SKILL" WRIGHT GUILTY TO ONE CHARGE County Attorney Gundy Asked Dismissal of Burglary CountyApplied for Parole "Skill" Wright was taken before Judge Jackson in the district court this morning to answer to the charge of burglary and grand larcony. County Attorney Gundy had the burglary charge dismissed and the defendant pleaded guilty to the larceny charge.

Wright's parents and Tom Smith, a lawyer, were here from Hiawatha this morning and made formal application for a parole. They also requested that if the parole is not granted that the defendant be committed to the state reformatory instead of the penitentiary. The theft of skunk hides from the Schott hide house, with "Bunch" Alexander, was Wright's first' offense, his parents said. MISSOURI WOMAN DIES. Mrs.

Ida Trosper died at 3-o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of her son-in-law, C. K. Griffith, two miles east of Rushville. Her death was caused by diabetes. Mrs.

Trosper had made her home with her son for a number of years. Her brother, Ort Adair, lives on an adjoining farm. The funeral will be held from the Griffith home at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning and burial will be in the Mt. Bethel cemetery near Iatan. The Missouri Pacific pay checks will arrive Sunday.

The trainmen will be paid, between 11 and o' colck. VIEWS OF INDIA PLEASED CROWD. ELMENDORF PICTURES ARE BEST EVER SEEN HERE. Small Crowd Heard Lecture by W. B.

Moore Last Night, But Yesterday Afternoon He Spoke to 1,200 School Children at Y. M. C. A. Atchison people have seen a great many steoeoptican views of India and heard numerous descriptive talks of that country and its heathenish people, but it was agreed by many who saw the Elmendorf pictures last night and heard the travel talk by W.

B. Moore that the entertainment was the best of the kind ever before seen and heard in Atchison. It was held in the Y. M. C.

A. and the crowd was small. Yesterday afternoon 1,200 school children saw the pictures and heard the speaker tell his travel story. Mr. Moore appeared before the high school this morning during the chapel hour and made all interesting and educational talk.

The story of India is old, but Mr. Moore's tales of his travels, illustrated with colored views and movies, created a new interest in the story of the idol worshipers. India has 000,000 more people than we have i inhabitants in the United States. The natives still worship in that filthy Ganges river, which is more sacred to them than any other thing in the world. They bathe in it.

and drink the water into which sewage empties, and not even: dead body floating in the water deters them from doing what they believe is the holiest of all holy things in the world. When a 11a- tive appears in court they take an "oath" by touching water from the Ganges river instead of the Bible. In his vast travels W. B. Moore had the unusual pleasure of meeting personally the late Count Tolsti, the great Russian poet, who was even greater than the Russian government.

Mr. Moore also met Henry George. The modern buildings that have been built in India are handsome beyond description. The palace where the emperor meets his people was created from white marble with gold trimmings. Views were shown of numerous old structures that have been standing for hundreds of years.

Through the persistent efforts of churches and missionaries, India and her millions of people are slowly breaking the idolatrous chains, yet the process is a very slow one. RAILWAY SPECIALTIES BEAT WEST END GRAYS Annexed Three Straight Contests at Y. M. Last Night- All Scores were Low The Railway Specialty bowlers took three straight games from the West End Grays at the Y. M.

C. A. alleys last night. All the scores were low. The score: Ry.

1st 2nd 3rd Tot. Goehler .154 109 165 428 Schaefer .117 207 127 451 Christian 125 121 134 380 Medlock .140 152 144 436 Smart .182 145 158 485 Totals .718 734 728 2180 Grays- 1st 2nd 3rd Tot. F. Hagen .110 175 164 449 Bennington 134 107 111 352 Richey. 125 114 120 359 H.

Hagen ....153 149 127 429 Grambow .148 177 163 488 Totals 670 722 685 2077 BEHIND SPALDING BONDS. The Commercial club has issued letters to members asking approval for the club's plan to get behind the sale of bonds by the J. A. Spalding Quarry company, which recently WAS approved by committee appointed by the club to buy a bond or two, if they desire a good investment. FEDERAL ATTORNEY HERE.

M. C. List, special United States district attorney in the office of the United States attorney general, was in Achison yesterday conferring with W. P. Waggener, general attorney for the Missouri Pacific, concerning several hours of service actions pending in the federal court.

M. W. A. NOTICE Installation of officers tonight. After installation, eats.

T. J. Ritner, Secretary. BOUGHT DICKINSON FARMS Wednesday evening Jere Kimmel purchased the Don P. Dickinson I farms of T.

MoLaughlin, trustee for the creditors of Don P. Dickinson. Mr. Kimmel agreed to pay $125,000 for the 400 acres just west of Baker and the 680 acres north of Willis 1,080 acres in all. This is an aver age of $115.74 an acre.

The sale is subject to confirmation by Judge John C. Pollock of the United States district court and the creditors of Don P. Dickinson. If the sale is approved the tangled affairs of Don P. Dickinson will be straightened out shortly after March 1 and the creditors will received a great deal more than they at first expected.

NEW SCHEDULES ARE NEW CREW WILL HANDLE TRAIN TO KANSAS CITY. Trainmen Will Not Be Compelled to Move Away -Mail Car May Not Be Set Out, But Clerks May Leave Train Here. The official announcement of the changes to go into effect Sunday in the Central Branch schedule was "presented" to Atchison by the Missouri Pacific this morning. The changes are the same as have been predicted in The Champion since the new schedule was first contemplated. The Central Branch train crews will continue to live here and one new crew will be put 011 to handle the trains to Kansas City.

The members of this crew will also probably find it most convenient to live here. The changes follow: East bound---No. 502 will arrive here at 6 a. m. instead of at 7.

No. will arrive at 2 p. instead of at 1:30 West bound--No. 501 will depart at 10:40 p. m.

instead of at 9, as formerly. No. 503 will continue to depart at 10:50 a. m. Omaha division--No.

131, formerly departing at 7:50 p. m. from Kansas City, will now leave at 6. No. 132, formerly leaving Atchison at 7:25, will now leave at 8.

The mail car coming in from the branch will not be laid over here as some have expected, but will be taken on to Kansas City. However, the mail crew will stop here. Official announcement of the changes in the Missouri Pacific operating department made today confirms the changes announced in The Champion last night. Ernest C. Wills, who will come to Atchison as new superintendent of the northern Kansas division, began his railroad career here 25 years ago.

Mr. Wills was yesterday entertained with a luncheon at the American hotel annex in St. Louis by the Transportation club. He has been in charge of trainmen's schedules in St. Louis.

HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM TONIGHT PROGRAM. C. W. Best Artists' Series, Francis AlIan Wheeler, Baritone; Lois Pianist; Winston Violinist. 1.

Ballade in minor. Miss Brown. 2. Concerto in Wieniawski a. Romance b.

Finale (a la Zingara) Mr. Wilkinson 3. Aria from Un Balla in Machera "Eri tu che Macchiavi" Verdi Mr. Wheeler. a.

Nocturne (for left hand alone. Scriabine b. Dance of the Elves. Sapellnikoff Miss Brown. 5.

Indian Sketches Burleigh a. Legende b. Over Laughing Water c. To the Warriors d. From a Wigwam e.

Sun Dance Mr. Wilkinson. 6. a. "Pauper's Homer b.

"Ah, Love, But a Mrs. H. H. A. Beach c.

"Jinglings Abzug in den Krieg" Homer Mr. Wheeler. Rigoletto Verdi-Liszt Miss Brown. 8. Faust.

Fantasie. Wieniawski Mr. Wilkinson. 9. "Sword of Bullard Mr.

Wheeler. GIDEON SOWLES WAS KILLED IN RUNAWAY TODAY AGED EFFINGHAM MAN LIVED TWO HOURS, UNCONSCIOUS, AFTER ACCIDENT. SKULL WAS FRACTURED Circumstances of Unfortunate Acci. dent Probably Never Will Be Known, as No One Saw Accident- Came to Atchison County From Chautauqua, N. 45 Years Ago, Gideon Sowles, 85 years old, died at 1 o'clock today from injuries recelved when a young horse he was driving ran away two hours before.

He left his home, a mile west of Effingham, to drive to town. No one saw the accident, and it is not known at what the horse became frightened. Death was caused by a fractured skull, and the aged man also received a broken collar bone and several broken ribs. Mr. Sowles did not regain consciousness and the circumstances of the accident probably will never be known.

He was picked up shortly after the accident, and was taken to the Ebert drugstore in Effingham, where Dr. J. F. Preston made every effort to revive him without success. The victim of the unfortunate accident was born in Chautauqua county, New York, and came to Atchison county 45 years ago.

At first he settied on a farm near Monrovia, where he lived until 10 years ago, when he moved to the place a mile west of Effingham. He is survived by a widow and two children, Miss Harmie, who is at home, and Frank, who lives in Oklahoma. He had three grandchildren. Last fall Mr. Sowles made a trip to the east.

He was remarkably hale and hearty considering his age. MANAGED YUKON GIRLS. Aver Schurman, a stepson of C. C. Anderson, who was with the Jarvis Carnival company nine months, left the company when it became stranded at Wiggam, recently and returned to Atchison yesterday.

After driving stakes a week, Aver became manager of the Yukon girls of '49, and remained at that post until the carnival quit business. "Count" Jarvis is in New York and Mrs. Jarvis is in sonville, Fla. NOTHING TO IT. There was a report on the street today that Heber Mize was going to "resign" from something.

When asked about it, Mr. Mize said: "If I going to, resign from anything I am don't know what it is. There is only one job that I would think of resigning, and that is from the school board." It is said that a couple of oil salesmen are finding it hard sledding to sel Itheir stock in Atchison since an article appeared in The Champion a few evenings ago asking the people to be careful when buying oil stock. The preliminary hearing of Mrs. Lou Conwell, charged with plotting 0 rob Joe Linville, aged and blind, began in city court this morning.

It is expected to last over tomorrow. Orpheum TODAY. Paramount Double Bill. PAULINE FREDERICK in THE SLAVE MARKET Also BURTON HOLMES TRAVEL PICTURES. Admission: Afternoon, 5c and 10c; Evening, 5c and 15c.

TOMORROW. CLARA WILLIAMS in "THE CRIMINAL" (A Thomas H. Ince Production) Also GOOD COMEDY. Admission, 5c and 10c..