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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

trees overhead and cutting out some of
the bushes which have grown up since
the timber was cleared, but it would not
cost much.
I'm my part of the park there is
natural terrace which could be utilized
to good advantage in building an amphi-
theater with capacity of seating several
thousand people.
Il have talked with President Baker
of the street car company and he favors
something of this kind although he says
his company is not in a position to do
much towards taking hold of the project
at this time.
"If the city will take hold of this now
Garfield park would be good place to
hold the state reunion next fall"
Mr.. James SAYS he feels rather modest
about making these suggestions because
he is the owner of a part of the properly
in question but says he will make his
figure SO bow when the city is ready to
talk business that he will not then be ac-
cused of being over jealous in his own
behalf,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14
MILLIONAIRE Balm.
The Wagon Maker Goes Through To-
peka On a Special.

The Wagon Maker Goes Through To-
peI<a On Special.
Edward Balm, the millionaire wagon
manufacturer of Kenosha, Wis. passed
through Topeka yesterday afternoon, in
company with his family. in Pullman
special car "Haslemere," attached to
Santa Fe train No. 1, enroute to Pasa-
dena, California.
Mr.. Balm is very pleasant, rather old
fashioned gentleman, of about sixty
years of age.
In speaking of his manufacturing es-
tablishment. which is now one of the
largest of its kind in the world, Mr..
Balm said: ~ traded for the business in
1876, when it was very small concern.
1 thought it was a good time to enlarge.
and so did and kept on. Now it is one
of the largest tn the world"
Mr.. Balm asked if there was an agency
for his wagons in Topeks, and said,
"You see, play the old man altogeth-
er, and don't pay much attention to the
operation of the business now. l mean
to spend the rest of my years comforta-
bly,"
Mr. Balm has engaged rooms for him
self and family at the Green hotel, and
will spend the winter in Pasadena.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14
WHY NOT LEASE 1T?
II the City Can Not Buy Park
Area
LET IT BE LEASED FOR 4 TINE

Until Money Cnn Be Raised to Pur-
chase a Pnrk-That Might BE Done
With Garfield Park.
There is a movement on foot to have
the city of Topeka buy or lease Garfield
park for a long term of years and en-
large and beautify that already popular
resort
West of Kansas avenue and separated
from Garfield park by two fences and
the street, is a tract of park timber al
most as large as Garfield park now is,
which it is proposed shall be added to
the present park. This strip of land has
larger and handsomer trees than the
present Garfield park.
Mr. I. b. James who owns the fifteen
acre tract west of Kansas avenue will
either sell it or lease it to the city for a
long term of years at a reasonable figure
and he thinks the Garfield park proper
~ can be secured by the city in the same
way at this time.
To a STATE JOURNAL reporter Mr..
James said: "fhere are eighteen acres
in the present park and l have fifteen
acres in my tract. If the two were
thrown together a splendid park could
be made
at is my notion that Mr. Wilder's ideas
for beSutifying the city park are all
right, and now since we are to have q
good bridge. people will not be afraid to
drive to North Topeka and there is no
reason why the city should not take ad-
vantage of the good park there, too.
81 would other sell or lease my park
to the city for long term of years, and
1t is my notion that the Garfield park pro-
pertv can be secured by a lease. The
city could get enough out of the privi-
leges to pay the lease, and it would cost
the people very little to have a fine park.
"On my property little money would
have to be expended in trimming out the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14
NORTH TOPEKA.

Items of Interest From the North Side of
the River.
c. S. Gillespie has returned from "a
trip to Denver.
DR.. and Mrs Clarence McCIintock
have located at 1909 North Quincy street.
The little baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Graham, of Van Buren, street, died last
night
Congressman Charles Curtis's family
will leave for Washington within a
few days.
George Currier will remove his family
this week to the corner of Quincy and
Fsirchild streets.
Mrs. Nay Shull, who was seriously in
Jured IN runaway ten weeks ago, is
rapidly recovering.
A union prayer meeting will be held
in the Presbyterian church tomorrow
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Miss Byrd Watkins, train dispatcher at
junction City, visited her mother and
sisters yesterday.
At the card party given by the Kaw
club Tuesday evening at the home of
Mrs. Geo. Currier, Mrs. F. NJ futile and
Mrs Fred lies cut for the prize, Mrs.
Hes winning.
J. II. Heller, 1902 N. Kansas avenue
grocery and meat marke& Good treat
mont and fine meats and groceries; you
can do be tier here than elsewhere.
The Magnet Restaurant and Short Or
der house, A. ]. Prudfit, $50 N. Kansas
We. Wholesale fruits and COME csionery.
Geo. J. Graves 6 Sens, 115 and 1T
West Laurent street, North Topeka, fer
buggy tops. cushions. wagons and bug
giss. built to order. Bell Phone $50.
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SHOPS AND OFFICES.
Railroad News Notes of Personal and Con-
erRl Interest.

Railroad News Notes OF Personal and Com
erRl Interest.
Walter Shreves has Joined the clerical
force in the mileage room of the car ser
vice superintendent's Office
Amos Smith. chief clerk in the office
of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe agent,
at Brannon, Tex, is visiting his sister in
this city.
]. w. Brown has been appointed San
ia Fe agent at Scott City, Kan, vice J. j.
Roberts resigned.
The Santa Fe has established an agen-
cy at Dean Lake, Mo-, dating from No
vemb Der 10. Oliver Bucklen has been APP
pointed agent.
Fireman John Clark of the Santa Fe
has resumed his duties after short i'll
ness.
James Gibbons, foreman of the Santa
TIE roundhouse paint shop, has returned
to work after few days Illness
Freight Conductor r. II. Stockton of
the Santa Fe is laying of on account of i'll
ness, and Conductor 81. R Rice is taking
his run.
Santa Fe Fireman Edgar Powell has
returned from short vacation spent with
his daughter in Colorado.
Santa Fee Engineer Charles Jewell has
returned from months visit with his
brother in Chicago.
Engineer J. E Policy of the Santa Fe
has resumed his duties, after fifteen
days vacation.
J. F. Donohoe, chief clerk in the gem
eral agents Office of the Santa Fe at Ell
Paso, Texas, resigns his position Dec. /,
to accept the post of commercial ag ent
of the Mexican Central at that point.
Arrangements are being made by the
Santa Fe to restore the midnight train
7 -
taken off ten days ago. and start another
out in its stead at o'clock in the after
noon in order to make connections with
the Chicago Los Angeles limited train.
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DIDN'T ORGANIZE.

Meeting Called to Organize n Res
cue Circle" in Topeka "A Failure.
The effort of the ladies of the W. c. T.
Q. and the Social Purity league to organ
ize ''resuce circle" at the Third Pres
byterian church on East Fourth street
yesterday afternoon was failure. The
Social Purity league has decided to
take the matter up and push it alone.
The organization was to have been in
line with the rescue work advocated by
G. n. Crittenton, the millionaire evan
gelist. The fact is. there are very few
women of the class that need rescuing,
in Topeka When the saloons were
driven out of Topeka in 1884, the -'bus-
mess" of the disorderly houses fell off
and they disappeared. They will I'll
come back along with the pIcK pockets,
footpads, gamblers, confidence men ana
murderers, when We get resubmission.
Better Come Now
And set for your Xmas photographs.
You will get better satisfaction by avoid
ing the rush.
SNYDER, 632 Kansas Ave.
Try Washburn's pure apple cider, 10
cents per gallon.
Little GEN." sc. Everybody smokes it.
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Dogs INSTINCT TRUE.
He Swan the River Rather Than Cross the
Old Bridge.

He Swan the River Rather Than Cross the
Old Bridge.
The people of Topeka have known for
several years that the Kansas avenue
bridge was in dangerous condition, and
in reality unfit for use, but never was it
supposed that the defects were SO visible
that even dog could notice the danger.
That this is fact was demonstrated to-
day by an intelligent shepherd dog, fol-
lowing a farmers wagon in North To-
peka.
The dog was trotting fully half a
block behind the wagon when it started
across the bridge. When he reached the
approach of the bridge he stopped,
shifted the air, surveyed the iron work and
door and then, as though undetermined
what to do, sat down, with his eyes fixed
wistfully on the departing wagon.
The farmer drove slowly on unmind-
full of his faithful canine, and the dog
seeing that his master did not intend to
return, sent up howl moro prolonged
and piteous than any ever made by the
citizens of Topeka to the city fathers on
the condition of the bridge.
Howl after howl rent the air, but the
wagon still progressed onward. Sudden
ly an idea seemed to strike the dog. He
turned, ran through Councilman Skin
ner's yard, down the sand bank and
jumped in the water In few minutes
he reached the island in the middle of
the river, crawled up one side and down
the other, and into the water again.
The current in this part of the river
was strong and the dog was swept a short
way down the river, but managed to
reach the bank in time to catch the far
mer and his wagon as he drove off tho
bridpe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

At Leavenworth the other day the man
ager and property man of the "Black
Crook" company stopped to argue a
point with the depot baggage master
and each now has black eye.
Mr.. E. B. Merriam and Governor Wood
bury are having corn cribs built along
the Mcpherson branch, in Mcpherson
county. at the rate of three a day. Each
crib will hold 10000 bushels of corn.
Roy Krebs, who played ball with the
Topeka Giants last summer, is now en-
ployed by his father in the county clerks
office at Atchison. His father has been
county clerk of Atchison for over twenty
years and was recently reelected.
Napoleon Bonaparte Burgs of tho
appellate court, who was brought up to
milk seven cows nights and morning,
feels that he has acquired pull enough
10 entitle him to seat in congress and
will be candidate in the Sixth district.
Specimens of the Fox family's hand
writing submitted to W. E. Pagan have
puzzled him to know whether. any of the
family wrote the anonymous letter to
Judge Hazen. 7 he writing will be sub
mitted to number of bank cashiers for
expert examination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES.
Gossip Among the Railroad Men
of Kansas.
GENERAL NOTES ABOUT RAILROADS.

Local Items Relating to Officials and
Employees and miscellaneous Rail-
road Matters.
Robert Moore of St. Louis, consulting
engineer, representing the reorganization
committee of the Santa Fe in company
with Joseph Fletcher. mine inspector of
the Santa Fe, left in special car No. 218
attached to train No. for Los Cerillos,
New Mexico, for the purpose of inspect
ing the mining interests of the Santa Fe
in that territory. Mr.. Moore is the gen.
tleman who inspected the entire Santa
Fe system in the interest of the reore an
ization committee about year ago.
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RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.
Personal Notes Among the Railroad
Shops and Offices.

Personal Notes Among the Railroad
Shops and Offices.
T. c. Webb, superintendent of the
Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf railroad
at Trinidad, Col, stopped of on his way
from New York yesterday afternoon to
visit his brother, c. J. Webb auditor of
the Leavenworth, Topeka and South
western railway and chief clerk in
Division Superintendent McLeuan's Of
fee.
Santa Fe Engineer A. F. Eames has
been transferred from the Santa Fe, N.
Mex. branch to the main line, with head
quarters in Las Vegas.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Whitcomb, of 119
N. Klane street, are the parents of a boy
born Tuesday. Mr.. Whitcomb is a
Santa Fe fireman.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Williams,
of 329 Lawrence street, yesterday, girl.
Dir. Williams is fireman in the employ
of the Santa Fe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14
FAMOUS MAN COMING.
Prof. Geo. D. Heron TO Be Here a Week
in February.

Prof. Geo. D. Heron, the famous
writer on applied Christianity, who is
this winter writing a series of articles
on that subject for the Arena, is to be in
Topeka whole week in February.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon has informed
a STATE JOURNAL reporter that he has
made arrangements with Prof. Heron
to come to Topeka and make series of
addresses next February on his favorite
subject Prof Heron will. be here
week and will deliver at least five ad-
dresses, most OF them at the Central Con-
gregational church and all will be free
to the public Dir. Sheldon thinks To.
peka people will give Prof Heron a
warm greeting. Prof. Heron now fills
the chair of applied Christianity" in the
college of Grinnell. Iowa. He is noted
all over the United States for his altru-
istic writings and talkings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14
Another Man Hit.

Santa Fe train No. 8 Struck an I'M
known man walking on the track near
the Rex mills. few miles this side of
Argentine, yesterday. The man was
thrown several feet from the track, but
was seen by the rear brakeman to get
up and walk away. This is the second
time this kind of &C cident has happened
there within two weeks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14
C. NJ. TAYLOR Appointed.

John Player, superintendent of ma
chinery of the Santa Fe, has issued a
circular announcing the appointment of
c. NJ. Taylor as division master mechanic
of the Rio Grande division, with head
quarters at Ration, New Mexico, vice w.
L. Symons resigned. The appointment
takes effect Nov. 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14
Grand Concert ana Eaeertainment.

Given for the sole purpose of raising
money to procure new Instruments for
Jackson's Military band, at Hamilton
hail. on Thursday evening. November ii,
1895. The following local talent of the
city has been engaged for this event:
McNary's quartette, kennedy's Concert
company. Silver Leaf Mandolin club. Vo-
calsts, Merritt sisters Pianist, Mrs. NJ.
E. Johns. Admission, % cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

Prof. Palmer, the elocutionist. will
read Eugene Fields humorous poem "a
1aller Baby" at the First Christian
church tomorrow night. It is great
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

Special meeting at the Salvation Army
hall Fourth and Monroe streets, Saturday
night and all day Sunday led by Adjt.
and Mrs. Valdez late of New York. big
times expected. CAPTAIN DoDDs.
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of running a tourist train once a week
from Chicago to California for the ac-
commodation of the heavy travel now in
progress to that state.
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IF YOz want

Christmas Photographs, come before the
rush. Snyder will do your work the way
you want it
632 Kansas Avenua
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

DR.. H. W. Roby will read a strong, pa
triotic and dramatic original poem at the
First Christian church tomorrow night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

Edmund c. Stedman contributes an
unpublished poem to be read at the Sted-
man club entertainment at the First
Christian church tomorrow night.
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Beggs' German Salve.
Beggs' German Salve.
RaUUs' German Salve.

The greatest pile ointment in the
world. 1t cures where all others fail.
A positive guarantee with every box.
Call for sample box. Sold by all drug
piSts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

We can keep you clean-Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia W. Eighth.
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BLAMEs THE SANTA Pc.
Coroner's Verdict in the Bartlett KILN,
espite EngIneer,s Precautions.

Coronsr's Verdict in the Bartlett Killing
Despite Engineers Precautions.
The inquest on the body of Bartlett
the farmer who was killed by Santa Fe
train No. at White Water hill Monday.
was held by Coroner James Mckee of
Newton.
The verdict returned was to the effect
that Mr.. Bartlett had come to his death
by being run over by Santa Fe train,
and that the accident was due to negli-
gence on the part of the employees of the
railroad company.
The coroner stated that. in his opinion,
the evidence did not warrant such a YER
dict, but the jury held that it did.
Whistling is the only precaution re-
quired of engineers at road crossings,
and Engineer Snyder can prove by GER
tlfcates in his possession. by the passen-
gers themselves, and by the members of
the section gang who were working near
the place of the accident. that he whis-
tied several minutes for this crossing.
MAY HAVE STILL ANOTHER TRAIN.
Santa Es Traffic So Large That Trains
Have to BE Divided.
Santa Fs train No 1 pulled into To-
Deka yesterday afternoon with ten cars
A special car was attached to the train
here, and as one engine could not pull
eleven cars on schedule time, the train
was divided into two sections, leaving
thirty minutes late.
1t is to avoid this difficulty of having
to divide trains at division points, which
tho company has been experiencing for
the past month, that the passenger de-
par:neRt is considering the advisability
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

Mr.. Andrew Downing, Mrs. Sarah Har-
gr9aves and Mrs. J. R. Hague will read
original poems and Mrs. c. S. Baker
an original story at the First Christian
church tomorrow night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

Read the programme of the Stedman
club entertainments published in another
column. Tickets % cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14

The fnestn the west. Come and try it
j. W. PHILLIPS, 612 ". Eighth ave.
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ss2 calls up the Peerless.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

What's the use to have assessors
Count our folks?
Why should we depend for census
On such boxes
Who buE give us thirty thousand
When we've Col. sam to rouse and
Make it over forty thousand?
Them'S no Jokes.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-06

with you, and your tell-'-' eyes while
conversing of him too y indicate
that there is growing lceling in your
young heart far stronger than one of
friendship and sympathy for this SOL
der. My dear child, answer me truly,
are you not falling in love with this
man in the ranls?"
The face Of the young girl was red
with bushes, and she threw her head
down into the lap of her motherly
friend to hide ler confusion. Mrs.
Colby stroled her hair tcnderly, and q
smile of intermingled sadness and
sympathy lit up her face, After a few
moments Alice partly regained her
composure, and raising her head she
looked with trusting confidence into
her friends eyes and replied;
T-I-don't know, Mrs. Colby. Mr..
Thornton impresses me as no gentle
man ever before did. | have seen so
few gentlemen, you know. He is SO
gentle, SO kind in nature, so manly and
so heroic in bearing the load placed
upon his shoulders that THAT I
think-a- great-deal of ! him per
haps."
TTn pE coSTINT-Fn
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-06
Az Ab.ent-ArinAsa Man.

The following aAecdote of an absent
minded man has lately come to hand
and while some Of you may have heard
it bofore, it seems TO be too good to be
passed over entirely. aH
Among the personal anecdotes told
of Peter Burrowes, the celebrated bar.
rister, and one Of Ireland's worthless"
Is the following remarkable instance
Of absence Of mind: A friend called
upon him ono morning In his dress
ing-room, and found him shaving
with his face to the wall. He asked
him why he chose so strange an atti-
tude. The answer was: "To look in
the glass"
why" said his friend, "there is no
glass there!'' ~ "
"Bless mel" Burrowes observed, Il
did not notice that before"
Ringing the bell, he called his serv-
ant, and questioned him respecting his
loolsing-glass.
'0h, sir" said the servant, "the mis-
tress had 1t removed H's reeks GS0."--
Harper's Young People.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-06

Havoc Wrought by Lumbormen Who
Sway Power That Is Autocratic.
A western lumber expert declares
that almost the whole forest area Of
the country is now in possession Of men
who are ruthlessly despoiling it Of
trees. 81 have been appalled," he said
to a writer for the New York Evening
Post, "by the havoc that has laid mil
lions OF acres bare by the ak and food
and flames, changing the reserve treas
ure spots of the people into unsightly
wildernesses." The few square miles
of forest reserved by the federal gov
ernment and the states here and there
he regards as mere drops in the bucket.
Drawing picture Of the immense per-
sonal power of the lumber king of the
northwest, he says: "The land is his
and the product thereof; the mills and
water power are his; the stores and
necessarles of existence are his; the
houses and very sidewalks are his; the
cattle and horses are his, and all the
people are his retainers and servants;
the veal or woe of the community is
weighed in his hand, the happiness Of
many families trembles at his word"
Admitting that numbering operations
have increased the population and
built up towns and settlements, he
points out that the work has been a
wasteful and a criminal one. Even
the most ordinary means" he says,
"would have prevented the loss of mil
lions Of trees by fire and many years of
labor and life, for communities have
been lost forever in the immense piles
of slabs, refuse, sawdust and ashes
that surround and overlie hundreds of
milling plants. Stock enough to sup
port whole generation has been
burned up, rotted, or run off in streams.
in the haste to get rich the large,
things only have been seen, and the
little things have been overlooked; the,
future has been sacrificed to the greed
of the present. The men who make
the millions out of these operations
when the timber is all felled and the
mill silcnced pull up their stakes and
fold their tents in the night, like the
Arab, and steal awAy to fresher fields,
leaving tens Of thousands of former
dependents behind to shift for them
selves"
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-06

education and manly instinct, we must
not recognize him while he is in the
ranks, yet were he to be to-day freed
from the service fetters we could ex-
tend to him the hand of friendship, and
welcome him as an equal into our So
cial circles. The gem loses its value
when it falls from its setting into the
gutter. Is not your argument little
shalSy, Mrs. Colby?"
Alice, my dear child, you force me
to palmer words, and | must talk to
you as If were your own mother. In
my conversation with Brown to-day
several times mentioned your name,
and when l did so could read him as
an open book. Every time your name
fell from my lips new light came into
his eyes, his face glowed with increased
animation, and at one time an unmis-
taxable sigh which he vainly endeav-
ored to suppress caught my attention.
Alice, that man is desperately in love