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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
r. r. RESPONSIBILITY.
Where Does It Begin Or End in
Cases of Accident
TO EMPLOYEES OF THE ROAD.

Many Cases to BE Heard Before Judges
Foster and Riner-GeneraI Railroad
News.
The custom so prevalent in this coun-
try of suing railroad companies for dam
ages in the event of death or injury to
individuals at the hands, or through the
instrumentality of the company, is we'll
illustrated by four important damage
cases brought against the receivers OF
the Santa Fe, which are to be tried before
Judges Foster and Riner in the United
States circuit court during the next
week.
The case most familiar to the people of
Topeka is that of EImine Payne against
the receivers for $4,000 damages on &C
count of the death of her husband last
spring.
Payne, it will be remembered. boarded
the Santa Fe plug" at Kansas City in an
intoxicated condition. and when the con-
ductor passed through the train collect
ting fares he refused to pay his fare in
cash or to exhibit either ticket or a
pass.
The train was stopped at Morris, a
small station few miles west of Argen-
tine, and he was forcibly elected from
the car by Conductor Charles Short
A few minutes later he was struck and
killed while walking on the track by an
east bound freight train.
Mrs. Payne brings suit on this ground
that his death was indirectly due to his
ejectment from the train.
Damages to the amount of $4,000 is
asked by John F. Newkirk, at the time
of the accident a helper in the Santa Fe
blacksmith shop at Ottawa, Kan. New
kirk was standing at the foot of a ladder
holding it in position for mechanic who
was working at the top turning large
burr with a heavy ten pound iron wrench,
The wrench slipped from the mans hand
and fell, striking Newkirk on the head,
fracturing his skull and rendering him
unconscious for several hours.
In his petition, Newkirk states that the
operation performed by the company
surgeon saved his life, but that the in
jury destroyed his health and incapaci-
tated him for labor of any kind.
Vina P. Harrington asks for
$4,000 damages for the death OF
her husband, which occurred in the
Ottawa yards about year ago. Har-
rington was an employe in the yards and
was struck and killed by switch engine
while in the act of stepping out of the
way of passing passenger train.
Caroline Dowell, the widow of a
Waterman killed in the Argentine yard
while performing his duties, also wants
$4,000 from the receivers, claiming that
it was through the negligence of the
employees of the company that her hus-
band met his death.
While watching a passing train on an
other track, Dpwell was struck by a
backing freight land Instantly killed
The plaintiff petition states that no
signals were displayed on the rear OF
the train, and that the engineer gave nc
warning. d
Two of the cases will be tried Satur-
day, the remaining two Monday and
Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
Wonderful Growth.
6,4O7
1880
1884

The boast of the Topeka
Capital that it pays more
postage than all other To-
peka dailies combined, only
proves the meagerness of its
local circulation as COM
pared with that of the STATE
JoURNAL-as no postage is
paid on any circulation
within Topeka or Shawnee
county.
The STATE JOURNALS local
circulation is far and away
ahead of the combined cir
culation of all the other
Topeka dailies.
The circulation of the
TOPEKA DAILY STATE Jour-
NAL in the towns near by
and tributary to Topeka is
very large, as the evening
trains in various directions
carry the STATE JOURNAL
giving its readers the first
and latest Associated Press
and state news of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
SPECIAL TRAIN TO KANSAS CITY

Thanksgiving DaV-The "Rock Island"
Comes to the Front With = Flyer.
The Crock Island" will run a special
train to Kansas City on Thursday, leaving
Topeka at 10 o'clock a. m. and arriving
at Kansas City at 11:55 a. m. Returning,
special train will leave Kansas City at
11:20 p. N. and run through to Topeka
WITHOUT STOP. Rate for the round
trip only So. Excursion tickets at this
rate will be good on trains leaving To-
peka at 6:l5 a. m. and 800 p. m.
as we'll as the special, and to
leave Kansas City at 1850 a.
N. and $40 p. m. and the special at II. 20
p. m. Those who wish to witness the
foot ball game or transact business and
do not care to remain for the special can
leave at $40 p. m. and reach home at
1O:40 The attractions are.the champion
ship foot ball game Kansas vs.. Missouri
university teams; William H. Crane, at
the Coates; "Down in Dixie" at the
Grand; camille D'Arville" at the Audi
toTium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
ALONG THE LINES.
News Items Interesting to RailrOadsrs
and the Public.

News Items Interesting TO Railr0ad0rs
and the Public.
The Santa Fe company is constructing
handsome frame depot at Alva, Indian
Territory, similar to the one recently
built at lola, Kansas.
Harry French has taken a position in
the mileage room of the Santa Fe car
service departme
F. F. Baxter has been appointed agent
for the Santa Fe at Grand Summit, Kaa,
vice R. F. Maybee resigned.
A twenty pocket coal shute is being
built by the Santa Fe at Joliet, ILL.,, as an
addition to the present bnilding.
]. II. McEntire, receiver of the Wichita
and Western, was in the city yesterday
on official business.
D. s. Zero, boo1keeper in the auditors
office of the Santa Fe, returned today
from Peoria, ILL.,, where he has been
visiting for the past two weeks
The Rock Island company is digging
a large we'll at Elsmere, Col, at the
junction of the main line with the branch
road to the Macfarren mines.
c. F. Jilson, assistant treasurer of the
Rock Island, is visiting for few days
in Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
Time is Money.

What is the sense in fooling away time
on the road to Kansas City Thanksgiv-
ness man can do a days work by 10
o'clock then take the Rock Island"
special to Kansas City and arrive in time
for big turkey dinner at noon, smoke a
good cigar after dinner, swap lies with
the denizens of pockopolis, go to the
championship foot ball game At 230, buy
a few lots after the game, take supper
and leave for home at $40 p. m, or take
in the theater and return on the special
at 1880 without a stop, and all for 81.
only.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. Mary Herman, who defended he
own case in Justice Furry's court yester-
day afternoon, did it with such success
that at the conclusion of the trial Judge
Furry dismissed the case against her.
The annual entertainment of the high
school Athenaeum society will be given
at the high school building tonight
Rev. C. Fl. Richardson will preach the
Thanksgiving sermon at st. John church
tomorrow. a Thanksgiving dinner will
follow.
The Santa Fe kindergarten auxiliary
has adopted plan for educational work
among the mothers that might be help
full in all the auxiliaries as we'll as in the
parent society. 1t is to have little IL
hrary of kindergarten books to loan the
mothers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
Daily ~

This is the greatest show
ing the STATE JOURNAL has
ever been able to make for
a period of any six months
in its history.
This is a greater figure
than was reached by any
daily paper in Topeka for
the year 1894. The Ameri-
can Newspaper Directory,
issued in June, 1895, and
covering the year 1894, gives
the average daily circula-
ton Of the Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1894, as
only 8,744. These figures
we're furnished by the pub
fishers of the Capital to the
Directory, and are guaran-
teed to be correct by a for
felt Of 800, which will be
paid to any one disproving
their correctness.
The following figures, sub.
stantiated by sworn state
ments in detail, giving every
issue for the first six months
in 1898, 1894 and 1895, shows
tie TOPEKA STATE JOURNALS
WOr1derfus Growth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
WILL TAKE Up HIS PAPER.
a. A. Stewart to Return to Manhattan and
Run the Republic.

4. A. Stewart who is to retire next
Saturday from the management of the
state deaf and dumb school at Olathe,
will return to Manhattan and resume the
publication of his newspaper which he
still owns.
Superintendent Stewart has received
many endorsements of his work by the
leading educators of the deaf in the
country and they all agree that he is
man especially adapted for that work.
Professor Hammond the new superin-
tendent is now at Olathe and will take
charge Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
Looked over U. P Property.

General Manager E. Dickinson of the
Union Pacific inspected the property of
the company in this city yesterday after
noon, returning to his home in Omaha
last night. He was accompanied by his
private secretary, Joseph L Sykes, who
was formerly an employe in the mechan-
ical department of the Santa Fe, and
who visited that department during his
STAY in this city,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
Harper'S Magazine
IN1aes

Briseis. a new novel by WILLIAM
BLACK, written with all the authors we'll
known charm of manner, will begin in
the December Number, 1895, and con-
tinue until May. A new novel by
GEORGE Dc MAURIER, entitled The
Marian, will also begin during the
year, It is not too much to say that no
novel has ever been awaited with such
great expectation as the successor to
TriIby. The Personal ReCOlleCtiorS
of Joan of Arc will continue and will
relate the story of the failure and mar
tyrdom of the Maid of Orleans. Other
important fiction of the year will be
novelette, by MARK TWAIN. under the
title, Tom Sawyer, Detective; hum
orous three-part tale called Two Nor
mons from MuddIety, by LANGDoN Ell
wYN MITCHELL; and short stories by
OCTAVE THANET, RICHARD HARDING
DAVIS. MARY E. WILKINS JULIAN RALPH,
BRANDER MATTHEWS, OWEN WIsTER,
and other we'll known writerl.
Prof. WOODROW WILSON will contri-
butte six papers on George Washington
and his time, with illustrations by HO-
WARD PYsLE. PoULTNEY BIGELOw's
history of The German Struggle for
Liberty, illustrated by r. CATION WOOD
VILE, will be continued through the
winter. Two papers on st. Clair's de-
feat and Mad Anthony Wayne's victory,
by THEODORE ROOSEVELT, with graphic
illustrations will be printed during the
year.
A noteworthy feature OF the MAGA-
ZINE during 1896 will be series of ar
ticles by CAsPAR w. WHITNEY. describ-
ing his trip of 1900 miles on snow-shoes
and with dog-sledge trains into the un-
explored Barren Grounds of British
North America in pursuit of wood bison
and musk-oxeD. MIR. WHITNEY's series
will have the added interest of being
illustrated from photographs taken by
himself.
The Volumes of the MAGAZINE be
gin with the Numbers for June and
December of each year. When no time
is mentioned, subscriptions will begin
with the Number current at the time of
receipt of order
Remittances should be made by Post
Office Money Order or Draft, to avoid
chance OF loss.
Newspapers are not to copy this advertise
ment without the express order of Harper s.
Brothers.
HARPER'S PERIODICALS
Harper's Magazine. one year..$4 90
Harper's Weekly, one year .... 4 90
Harper's Bazaar, one year. 4 90
Harper's Round Table .-... 2 90
Postage Free to all subscribers in the United
States. Canada. and Mexico.
Address HARPER s BROTHERS
20. Box $50, N. Y. City
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

The large drill for deep well boring,
which has been completed at the Rock
Island shops at Horton, will be taken to
Bona, Colorado, the first of next week
for the purpose of boring a we'll for the
service of the company at that point.
Miss Sadie Stickney, of the car service
department of the Santa Fe, is absent
from the office on account of the illness
of her father,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
DOWN THE ROAD.
Person ais and Transfers of Employ
the Railroads.

Person ais and Transfers of Employees on
the Railroads.
w. P. Wilson, engineer of one of the
Santa Fe switch engines in the Topeka
yards, is laying off on account of ILL.,
ness.
Passenger Engineer F. c. Heady of
the Santa Fe is taking few days lay
off
Santa Fe Engineer A. Dunlap has been
transferred from Argentine to Topeka.
The Rock Island ran a special train
out of Horton this morning to Beatrice,
Neb., for the accommodating of the "Sin :
bad" company, which left this city on
the regular westbound morning train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

The following statements of campaign
expenses have been filed: Frank Stahl,
treasurer. to county central committee.
$780, Scott Kelsey, county com mission
er, county central committee, $35, dis
trict central committee, SO. Frank
Leech, Populist candidate for county
clerk. for printing cards, So.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

John E. Frost, land commissioner of
the Santa Fe, says that large numbers of
eastern people are settling along the
lines of the Santa Fee in eastern Colo
RADIO. Mr.. Frost attributes this movement
to the splendid system of irrigation
which has been perfected in that section
of the couutrV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
HARPER's PERIODICALS
Harper's Bazaar


The twenty ninth year of HARPERS
BAZAAR, beginning in January, 1896, finds
it maintaining its deserved reputation
both as fashion journal and a weekly
periodical for home reading.
Every week the BAZAAR presents
bea utit al toilettes for various occasions,
SANDoZ, BAUDE, and CHAPUIs illustrate
and engrave the newest designs from
the finest model in Paris and Berlin.
New York Fashions epitomizes cur
rent styles in New York. A f0rtnightly
pattern-sheet supplement with diagrams
and directions enables women to cut and
make their own gowns, and is of great
value to the professional modiste as
we'll as to the amateur dressmaker.
Children's Clothing receives constant
attention. Fashions for Men are de-
scribed in full detail by a man. about
town. Our Paris Letter, by KATHAR-
IEE De FOREST, is a sprightly weekly re-
cital of fashion, gossip, and social doings
in Paris, given by clever woman in an
entertaining way.
Both the serials for 1896 are the work
of American women. Mrs. Gerald, by
MARIA LOUISE Poor, is striking story
of New England life. MARY e. WILKINS,
in Jerome, a Poor rIan, discusses the
always Interesting problems of the re-
lations between labor and capital Short
stories will be written by the best authors.
Special Departments. Music, The
Outdoor Woman, Personals, What We
Are Doing, Women and Men, report and
discuss themes of immediate interest.
Answers to Correspondents. CUES
tions receive the personal attention of
the editor. and are answered at the earl
lest practicable date after their receipt.
The Volumes of the BAZAAR begin
with the first Number for January of
each years. When no time is mention
ed. subscriptions will begin with the
Number current at the time of receipt of
order
Remittance should be made by Post
Office Money Order or Draft, to avoid
chance of loss.
Newspapers are not to copy this advertise
ment without the express order of Harper &
Brothers.
HARPER'S PERIODICALS
Haper's Magazine. ...............$4 90
Harper's Weekly ...............4 90
Harper's Bazaar 90
Harper's Round Table ....... 90
Postage Free to all subscribers in the United
States. Canada, and Mexico.
Address. HARPER & BROTHERS
P. %. Box $50, N. Y. City
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

The foot ball and theater special by
the Santa Fe Thanksgiving Day morn
ing at GAS a. N, carries the crowd. $500
round trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

Special train leaves Santa Fe depot a
9:45 a. m, returning leaves Kansas City
at 1I:15 p. m. Fare $500 for the round
trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
Football and Theater.

$500 for round trip. Santa Fee Route
Ticket good on special and regular trains,
Thanksgiving, Nov. 20
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

Take the Santa Fe special tomorrow
morning at 9:45 a. m, returning leaves
Kansas City at Ills p. IN. after the foot
ball game and theater.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

Attention members of Home Lodge
No. 155 (. of P You are requested to
be in attendance at tonights meeting.
Business of Importance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

Special Train to Kansas City, Thanks
giving Day, For Football aad Thea
cer-Santa Fe Route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27
PICK OUT WHAT YOU WANT.

2 Loaves Bread ... O5
lbs Graham Biscuits ........... %
Comb Honey, each. 20
Choice Country Butter. ......... 20
Creamery Butter, lb..,........ %
Cranberries, OF 10
pkgs n. E. Mince Meat ..... 20
Sweet Potatoes, per blu. ........ 30
Choice Colorado Potatoes ..... 90
You will want cup of Coffee and
cup of Cocoa-eet pound of
our Mocha and Java al. 35
And 1s-lb can of Cocoa at .. %
The finest thing in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

The Santa Fee special for Kansas City
Thanksgiving Day leaves Topeka at 9:45
a. m,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

Seven changes of water is the way we
cleanse all work entrusted to us. Peer
less Steam laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

By its sworn detailed
statement of circulation for
the first half of the year
1896, it is shown to have a
circulation, during the six
months as stated, of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-27

Smoke "Little GEN." best &C cigar made
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-09
PRIVATE CONTRACTS.

Some extraordinary revelations are en-
bodied in the communication addressed by
tine Merchants Association to the Street
Committee of the Board of Supervisors,
urging the board to adhere to it's decision
to abolish the system of street improve
ments made by private contracts The
most astonishing disclosure which the
communication makes is that the leading
property-owner in block was usually
secured as a bribed instrument for assist
ing the swindling perpetrated on the
smaller owners. The mode of procedure
is so ingenious and despicable that it de-
serves to be repubished in full. 1t is this:
"The thing which is first tried is to go TO
the man owning the most frontage or pos
sessing the most influence and secure his
signature first. If he does not care to sign
some inducement is given him. Often
this inducement is in the shape of pri-
vate agreement to remit great portion of
the cost on his lot. In other words, if he
signs first he will be exempt from certain
payments. The other owners see his name
and feel that if he can stand it they can
also. In fact they seem to feel that it is
worth while paying for the improvement
in front of their little lots if the wealthy
man can be made to pay Tor improving his
portion. They take wicked sort of salts
faction in it without thinking that perhaps
he has secured some great concessions
that the laugh is really on his side. This
will probably account Tor the fact that the
representatives OF large estates uniformly
favor the doing of street work by private
contract"
This is species Of swindling that surely
the laws ought to be able to reach. The
Grand Jury is given hint in this commu-
nication as to what might be discovered if
careful investigation were made. This
system of mean pilfering practiced by the
rich upon the poor, with rascally contrac-
tors as the agency for making the stealing
possible, must unavoidabiy result in mad
equate work and complete rottenness from
beginning to end. The people of this City
could learn nothing more profitable than
the names of the rich property
who have engaged in this wretched bust
ness, and no great difficulty need be found
in ascertaining them.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-09
NEW YORK FARM LIFE.

The New York Association for improv-
ing the condition of the poor has pub
lished special lea1et giving the results OF
an inquiry into the causes of agricul tural
depression in New York State. In the
winter of 1894 the city was so crowded by
able-bodied men apparently willing to
labor in the country if situations could be
found for them, that the services of an in
telligent farmer were secured to gather in
formation by personal inquiry and OBJ
servati on as to the congested population
in cities and the reported existence of de-
serted farms.
The country clergy, postmasters, school,
teachers, Supervisors and country store
keepers were singularly unanimous in the
statement that the average depreciation in
land was As per cent, and this in the face
of an increase in the States population
from 1870 to 1890 of 1,610,3s9 souls The
railroad mileage in New York has, be-
tween 1908, increased 41S2 miles, while
the increased value of real property for the
same period was calculated to be 81 ,659,
Gas, 90S. The estimated value of farm pro-
ducts was estimated for the year 1869 at
1858, 526, l53, but in 1889 it fell to $16l, $685.
009, notwithstanding increased population
and wealth must have greatly stimulated
and increased the demand for agricultural
products. The fall in prices will hardly
account for so great a loss. The causes
will be found to be the abandonment of
farm property to mortgages by unsuc-
cessful farmers, the low price of farm
products, the opening of Western new
land the proportionately higher prices OF
labor than that of products, the scarcity OF
good farm laborers, want of tariff protec-
ton, and unjust and unequal taxation.
The tendency to leave the farm for the
towns and cities was found to be caused by
improbable farming, greater school al
vantages in towns. difficulty in getting
skilled help in house and farm, higher
wages and easier living in towns and the
fact that Sc per cent of farmers children
could not be induced to follow an agricul-
tural life, owing in many cases to the con-
slant caricature of the farmer as ''Old
Hayseed" and "Mr. Way back" 1t would
seem almost impossible to check the tide
of migration to the cities that already
threatens to make the condition of multi
tudes almost intolerable. The pangs of
hunger and want will be the only instruct
ors to the suffering citizen. They are I'M
known in the country, where the very
poorest can get land enough to enable him
to keep chickens, raise vegetables and to
get through the winter comfortably with
out earning anything by actual labor.