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The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03
ACCIDENT At ASTORIA.
Engineer Harris of the IMagfotCer Probo
bly, Fatally Injured.

6Iy Fatally Injured.
ASTORIA, Or, Dec. 2.-George Harri-
son, engineer on the steamer Mayfower,
met with an accident yesterday which
is likely to prove fatal.
When the steamer reached this city on
its return from Olney it stopped at one of
the east end slips to discharge freight.
Shortly afterward, when Harrison en-
deavored to start the engines, they were
found to have stopped on the center.
The engineer picked up crowbar to use
as lever in throwing the disk over, when
the bar few out of his hands and struck
him upon the body with terrific force.
Four OF his ribs were broken, the back of
his head was cut and it is feared he sus-
tained il ternal injuries.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03
Old Rookeries Destrovea.

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Dec. "A fire
broke out in the rookeries belong
ing to the Spence estate on the southwest
corner of Fourth and Spring streets, oecu-
pied as soda water, cigar and fruit stand,
loss was $1,000; fully insured.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03
Arraigned for a Franklin Crime.

SEATTLE, WASH, Dec. 2.-David Ban
mister, accused of numbering Thomas Day,
night engineer in the Oregon Improve
ment Company's coal mine at Franklin,
last September, was placed on trial for his
life to-day in the criminal department of
the Superior Court. The evidence against
him is circumstantial
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03

Chinese Camp, but nothing serious to the
prisoners is apprehended, owing to the
preparations Of the officers to bring the
case TO speedy trial.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03

to Alaska in search of her runaway hus-
band. having left the child in Seattle in
the care and custody of Mrs. Montgomery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
MISSING WORD swINDLEs.

Still Finding Dapes in England Although
Prohibited by Law.
Though missing word" contests
were declared illegal six months or a
year ago in England and were supposed
to have been definitely stopped, they
are still being carried on. Unfortunate
ly it is only the fraudulent ones that
are now in existence. The missing
word contest was so popular for many
months after it was introduced that it
has been kept up even against the law.
1t never attained any great popularity
in this country. A sentence was print
ed with one word left blank, and the
first person who supplied the missing
word by mail got the chief prize, other
awards being made up to considers able
sum. Each competitor sent in some
thing like a shilling as entrance fee,
and the total amount received in this
way, generally an enormous sum, was
distributed among the winners. That
was the way the competition went when
it was managed fairly. But the most of
the missing word games, if not all of
them, that are now running, are man
aged on no such principle. The period
icals now conducting them are general
ly printed somewhere on the continent,
and are scattered broadcast on British
soil. In many cases they are not peri
odicals at all, but merely circulars
sealed up as letters giving the terms
of the competition and the sentence to
be completed. An instance of how one
of these swindles works is that of a
working man who sent three shillings
abroad to a contest. A few days later
he received in reply letter marked
Private" ostensibiy from an emplOye
of the foreign concern which offered in
revenge" to supply the missing word
secretly for twenty shillings, or about
SIS. The deluded mechanic sent on the
money and received the word Short
ly afterwards he got letter from the
company, saying that he had won, and
that there were several hundred dollars
standing to his credit. The only trouble
was, so the letter ran. that another COM
petitor had lodged a complaint and
claimed two pounds. If he was willing
to buy the man out, sending two pounds
by postal, the prize money would be
forwarded to him in full.
The working man started to pawn
clothing in order to raise the money,
when friend suggested to him to have
tae company send the prize money min
us the two pounds. He wrote to that
effect In answer came a letter stat
ing that he need not send the money, as
1t had ali been settled. But they had a
charge on their books against him for
"notarial and other costs of currency -
amounting to five shillings. Would he
send that over Immediately for ex-
penses. Confidingly he did SO, and never
heard from the company afterwards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
A Question of Feeling.

A mother noticed a remarkable change
IN the department of her 6-year-old son.
From being rough, noisy and discourteous
he had suddenly become one of the gcntlcst
and most considerate little fellows in the
world. He was attending the kindergar-
ten, and his mother naturally inferred
that the change was somehow due to his
teachers instruction.
Miss Smith teaches you to be polite?"
she remarked in a tone of Interrogation.
enc" said the boy; 'she never says a
word about it
The mother was puzzled, and all the
more when further questioning brought
Only moro emphatic denials that the
teacher had ever given her pupils lessons
III good breeding.
"Well, then, the mother asked finally,
'fif Miss Smith doesn' t say anything, what
does she do?"
"She doesn't do anything" persisted
the boy. 'She just walks around, and
we feel polite. We feel just as polite as
as anything
That was all he could tell about it, and
his mother began to see through the nys-
tery.-Educational News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
ALONG THE LINES.
News I,ems interesting to RaiIroaders and
the Public.

News I,ems Interesting to RaiIroaders and
the Public.
The Santa Fe treasurer's Office received
$4,000 in crisp new greehbacks direct
from the assistent treasurer of the United
States yesterday.
The work of laying the hard wood
floors in the Santa Fe hospital was COM
pleted last night.
A party composed of Mr.. and Mrs. c.
s. Sutton, F. E. Colver and Norman Jury
rode TO Lawrence last Sunday on their
wheels.
A D. Gray has resigned his member
ship in the Saturday Night club
Erwin lodge No. 290. A. o. U. W., IL
composed almost entirely of Santa Fe
employees.
Dean Low has been appointed referee
for the Missouri Inter Collegiate Foot
Ball association.
A foot ball game has been arranged at
Kansas City next Saturday between
teams from the Wentworth Military
academy and the Kansas City high
school.
The Catholic Young Mems association
is in a fiourishing condition. the IN em5er
ship having greatly increased during the
past month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
ON KANSAS LINES.
Personal Notes and Miscellaneous News
Items.

Personal Notes and Miscellaneous News
Items.
Assistant General Superintendent w.
II. Stillwell, of the Rock Island, &C
companied by Assistant General Passen-
ger and Ticket Agent T. ]. Anderson
and Assistant Superintendent of Tele
graph 4. r. Lingafelt left last night on
a general inspection trip of the south
western division as far as Liberal. Kan.
The party will be joined at Herington
by S. w. Jones, division perintendent
at that point
Mr.. Geo. Sturgeon. of Chicago. for
merly. of the Rock Island law depart.
ment is spending few days in this city
G Two cars of tourists passed through
Topeka over the Rock Island yesterday
afternoon en- route to Los Angeles, Cal,
via FIT Worth, Texas.
II. c. Whitcomb, general manager of
the Wisconsin Central railway. and
party, passed through Topeka yesterday
in his special car. attached 10 Santa Fe
train No. 5. en- route to Colorado Sprin gs.
NJ. ]. Drury, for several years fore
man of the Santa Fe shops at La Junta,
Col, has been appointed general fore
man of the new shops recently con-
structed by that road at Arkansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06

by others, sent us for foreclosure. OF this
number forty three may be termed resi-
dence properties OF these, a majority
were not owned By the occupants,
but were owned by people who rented
them to others and did not live in them,
SO that twenty at the outside would cover
the people who have lost their homes by
foreclosures directed by us, and it may
be pertinent to add if the former owners
of any of those properties do not think
that the properties have cost the pres
ent owners all that they are now worth,
they can have the property decided
back by paying the amour. that the
property has cost the present owners
with Z per cent interest on such amount"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
DO WE WANT THIS
And More of Tt Under a "Wide
Open" Administrations?
DON'T STAY IN The HOUSE.

Druntzs That Come Out on the stree Is
and Make NuEsRnces OF Themselves.
A Big Raft" OF Them.
There was good crop of DRINKS yester-
day, but not as many as might be ex-
pected on such glorious occasion. There
was nothing else but DRINKS in police
court this morning. The smallness in
numbers, however, was more than made
up by the size of the jag that each one
laborsd with. They were the drunkest
kind of DRINKS.
One of the most Interesting was
Charles Stiles. an old soldier. "Whee!
Gee whizh, but this ism rotten whisky"
This was the dialogue he carried on with
himself at the corner of Second street
night. Here comesh these polceh, but
1 amt goin with 'em." But he did He
will be tried this afternoon.
Harry Palmer is pump repairer. Par
ties at $40 West Sixth street telephoned
the police to come and look after him last
night. His horse had walked up to the
curbing and stopped, and Palnrr was
lying in the cart too full to hold up his
head. This ish a shame, l shay. I can
take care of myself all right. I'd just
as shoon go, but you charge too much for
tOUgiuRs Nc WAS aDIo TO eJacuiates ne
pleaded guilty and was fined So.
81 haven't voted yet, l tell you
won't hurt anybody, even if am jagged,
and I vanish you to let me GO" was the
way Whittlesey Johnson expressed his
feelings at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
He fairly screamed, and greatly dis
'turbed afternoon police court He was
found lying on a board back of the
Throop hotel, so drunk that he was
thought to be dead.
George Huston at o'clock, police
station: "You fellers have got it in for
me, that's what you have. You took tina
box of cigars half an hour ago. and now
you rest me. That'sh all right, that'sh
all right" He felt better this mornin g
and paid his So fine.
II. Wilkersou is a farmer who came to
the city to see how an election was run
in a great city. He became sadly confused
and at o'clock last night he rode over
from the Union Pacific depot in the
patrol wagon. He will contest his case
Henry Seiber maintained through it
all that he wasn't driving too fast last
night and that he wasn't drunk. lie will
try to prove it this afternoon at police
court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES.
Foreign Santa Fe Stockholders
Reach New York.
RAILROAD NEWS OF INTEREST
Personal Items and news About the
Kansas Lines and Kansas Railroad

Personal Items and news About the
Kansas Lines and Kansas Railroad
Men.
Robert Fleming, chairman of the Lon
don stockholders committee and John
Luden, chairman of the Dutch stock
holders committee, arrived in Now York
city yesterday to join the reorganization
committee of the Santa Fee, and the pro-
ceedings of that body are now looked
forward to with great interest in railroad
circles
There is no doubt that a deadlock now
exists in the committee, for had matters
been progressing satisfactorily to all,
Messrs. Fleming aud Luden would never
have taken the trouble and time to come
to this country, but would have voted by
proxy.
Great significance is attached to the
fact that both Mr.. Fleming and Mr..
Luden we're members of the reorganiza-
ton committee of the Denver s. Rio
Grande, which put Mr.. Jeffery in as
president, and it is conceded that their
influence will be used in favor of mir.
Jeffery for the presidency Of the Santa
Ea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
1T is NOT TRUE.

Tho Statement Made BY Charles Holiday,
Says President t. Is. sweet.
Mr.. T. B. Sweet, president of the Trust
Company of America, has written the
JOURNAL letter in which he denies the
statements made by Charles K Holiday
about the number of homes in Topeka
the company has acquired through
mortgages. Mr. Holiday made the
statement that the company had taken
in 800. hr. Sweet says:
"Our book shows that we have been in
business here nearly twenty-three years,
that during that time We have acquired
for our customers, by foreclosure. sixty
nine pieces of property in the city of
Topeka, including vacant lots, business
houses, and residence property, on mort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
ALL OVER KANSAS.
Local and state RoIIroad Items Gathered
Here and There.

Lo cal and State RoiIrOad Items Gathered
Here and There.
Santa Fe Conductor A. B. Simpson,
running over tho kinsley brarch has
taken weeks vacation and is off on a
hunting trip.
a Missouri Pacific freight train ran
over a 10 year old boy at Atchison las
Sunday evening, MASKING his right leg
SO badly that an amputatlon was neces-
eary.
H. P. Hartman, cashier at the Santa Fe
depot in Hutchinson, Kan, is visiting in
Titfin, o.
c. G. Hall and wife of Albuquerque,
New Mexico, are visiting in this city,
the guests of his brother-in-law, Gen
eral Manager J. J. Frey of the Santa Fe.
W. 7. Vary, Santa Fs agent at De Soto,
johnson county. has resigned, and F. T.
Curran has been appointed TO succeed
him.
W. ]. Black, assistant general passen-
ger and ticket agent of the Santa Fe
left this afternoon for Chicago on bust
ness.
Rock Island Passenger Conductor II.
P. Cooase, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, left yesterday for a visit in
Cripple Creek, Colo.
A party, composed of II. P. Dillon, T.
]. Kellam and w. A L. Thompson of this
city and John Dillon, Jr., and John Moi
Ter of New York city, left yesterday
afternoon in Santa Fee special car n o. 212
over the Rock Island for two weeks
hunting trip in the Indian Territory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06

about one thousand in transit over the
entire system.
A ]. Wintrode, of the Santa Fe land
department, is in Kiowa county. Kansas,
exarni ming lands for the company.
General Superintendent II. U. Nudge,
of the Santa Fe, left la st night in his
special car for an inspection trip over
the Panhandle line.
VIM n. Allison, for the past two y ears
an employee in tho auditor of freight re-
ceipts office of the Santa Fe, leaves next
Sunday for British Guiana South Amer
lea, where he intends to locat perma-
nently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
san:n Fe Irakemsn Hurt.

F. L. Meek, a Santa Fe brakeman,
was seriously injured at Florence Satur-
dav afternoon.
He was standing on the edge OF tho
track near the coal shute, when a train
of cars was switched on that track I'M
noticed by him II
The cars struck him in the back,
knocking him against the shute aud to
the ground.
Two ribs were broken and other severe
injuries sustained, necessitating his re-
moval to the Ottawa hospital at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
.sa.AsHUP At ATCH1soN.
Box Cars Break Loose an Incline at tbs
StCckyards.

Box Cars Break Loose Incline at the
Stcckyards.
Monday morning about o'clock three
loaded box cars broke loose on the incline
PIT the stockyards in Atchison, Kan, and
crashed into the Missouri Pacific switch
engine No 933. which was standing at
the foot of the incline at the time.
The cab was completely torn from
the engine and badly smashed.
Engineer John O'Connor was on the
engine at the time of the wreck, and was
thrown forcibly against the side of the
cab, sustaining a dislocation of the
shoulder and several severe bruises.
Fireman Wilson. who was on the op-
posite side of the engine, escaped injury.
As it is not known what started the
cars down the incline, the railroad Off
cials are Investigating the accident.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
FREIGHT RATES RESTORED

Trans Missouri Association Ord. RI Rates
& West OF Missouri Back Again.
Tie Trans Missouri Freight associa-
ton has ordered the restoration of freight
rates from Missouri river points 10 Col
orado 70 take effect Nov. II, and has
agreed upon the following schedule, per
one hundred pounds.
First class, $L25; second class, $1.00;
third class. s 81: fourth class, s 50; all
on less than carload lots. For carload
lots, fifth class, S so; class a, s g.;
class B. S a; class c, S 40; class D,
5 So and class q, S 30
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
The Iowa Hog,

The Castana Times tells of a hog
which farmer buried under the sup
position that it was dead, hit the rain
washed the carcass out Of the earth and
the hog returned to his feed. That is the
kind of hogs Iowa farmers raise.-Sioux
City Journal.
List your rentals with Noble & Mer-
Ram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
To Rival the Santa Te Limited.

To compete with the new Santa Fe
limited train to Los Angeles, the North
western has made arrangements where
by their time from Chicago to San
Francisco will be cut to three days, reach
ing Los Angeles on the fourth day.
They propose to put on a new train made
up especially for the service from Chi
cago to the coast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06

Shawnee Fancy, Crosby's No. 1. Hack
ney Patent and Golden Rod, per 80 lb
sack, 80 cents.
Big 4. Topeka Patent, Letter Patent,
Gold Dust and Crosky's Best, per so Id
sack, 80 cents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
To Destroy the weevil.

A -four jobber on the West Side is ex-
perimenting on device for fumigating
flour and -four mills to keep the weevil
out. If he succeeds, he will make for
tune. Heretofore any device that would
kill the weevil spoiled the -four. Chi
cago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
A. r. US NEW WAY.
They Organize Secretly at the Homes of
The Candidates.

The Candidates.
1t is stated by a St. Paul paper that the
A. r. [. has adopted new plan of or
gaaization. Organizers are sent to the
individual homes of the men and obligate
them in private.
No one knows of a mans member
ship but himself, the solicitor and the
general union.
This plan was devised to outwit spies
and spoilers of the railroad companies.
1t is said that two hundred organizers
and solicitors will be on the road for this
purpose by January i.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
Anxious For Criticism.

Scribbler-I always make it point to
submit my poems to friends, for sugges-
tions and criticism, before publication,
and havo brought some pages for you to
look over.
Bibbier-Um-yes, of course. But why
not take it to Nibbler?
Scri bbler-Huh! He's a born idiot
The last time I showed him a poem he
found fault with it.-New York Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
LA JUNrA MACHINE SHOP.
Work Commenced on tho New Ono at Tha
Point

Work was commenced on the new
Santa Fe machine shop at La Junta, Col,
last Monday, which. when completed
will be one of the most substantial build
ings of its kind on the western division
of the road.
The building will be 60 by 210 feet in
size, and will be fitted throughout with
improved modern machinery and me-
chapical appliances.
This is the second important improve
ment made az that point by the Santa Fe
within the last year, that company hav-
ing recently completed u handsome depot
at cost of $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
sizea EEin mn About Right,

George Weaver the colored man about
whom there was SO much trouble over his
registration last year has sent the fol-
lowing notice about his brother to the
JOURNAL for publication: "Mr. Thomas
Weaver one out of the swell Weaver
family left for Chicago" Perhaps the
registration clerk was right in saying
that Weaver didn't have sense enough to
vote. It looks like-it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06

The Missouri Pacific railway put on
an extra freight crew between Kansas
City and Hiawatha last week on account
of increased freight business, and for the
same reason another crew will be added
on the Central Branch this week. The car
department of the Central Branch shops
is working full time repairing and re-
building old box cars, which are being
used to supply the increasing demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06

Matron-Now, is this novel fit one for
my daughter to read?
Bookseller-H'm m. Well, can idly, mad
nln, l think it a book of doubtful morality
Matron-Well I'll take it. Most of
those I've read lately have been of I'M
doubted immortality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
MICE IN HIS LEG.
It Was Wooden Leg and just Suited
AIicc.

II w IFS q ~ OOWon anu y AsS Sulte0
21icc.
George Lechler of the Santa Te freight
office at Atchison, who wears wooden
leg, had occasion a short time ago to
sleep on the floor all night. The next
morning, while on his way to the office,
he observed several mice crawling out
of his leg, and on investigation it was
discovered that the creatures had built
large nest in his inanimate member dur
ing the night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
snoPs AND OFFICES
Gossip Among the Railroad Shops and Of
fees.

a. V. Albaugh, of the auditor of pas
ssnger receipts office of the Santa Fe,
returned yesterday from a ten days vaca-
ton spent in Chicago.
Mrs. Lou Price, stenographer in the
Office of Division Superinte ndent Hobbs,
of the Rock Island at Horton, visited in
this city yesterday.
The Santa Fe loaded three hundred
and ninety stock cars yesterday, and had
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-06

blue about the hem of the skirt, pat
termed with blue and silver rope coils
and anchors. The blue blouse opened
over cream. There was cream-color-
ed sash, and blue and cream yachting
cap. Elbow sleeves were worn and
long cream-colored gloves met them.
For casino wear if it's not white it's
blue. A blue and white figured challie
Is one of the prt.tiest costumes worn
by Miss Evelyn Burden. The full skirt
is caught here and there by rosettes of
black vflvet ribbon The blouse waist
is drawn into a narrow black velvet
belt. The very full sleeves close at the
elbows upon velvet bands. Long white
gloves stitched with black come up to
meet them, and if the day is chill or
the sunshine fails before the prone
made or the tennis spectacle or the
morning concert is over, there is a
short blue silk cape to pull about the
shoulders, with long blue cords to tie
it and deep hood lined with white to
make it gay.
With this challie dress Miss Burden
wears sometimes white leghorn hat
covered with cornfowers and some
times garden hat with frillls of plait-
I'd chiffon laid about the brim and half
hiding a big bunch of blue hydrangeas.
Evening dress at the summer hons is