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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
Big Eastern Railway Trust Is
Failing.
Combine of Lines is in Session
To ReOrganize.
MUCH STRIFE EXISTS.
Rail and Lake DifferentiaIs Are
Ordered Cancelled.
Costly Canadian Pacific Dining
Car Burned.

New York, Feb. 11.-Much interest is
being manifested in railroad circles in
the meeting of representatives of Joint
Traffic association lines to be held in New
York today for the purpose of reorganiZ-
ing the big eastern railway trust and
placing it on firm and more equitable
basis. The officials of the association
deny there was any ground for the SEN
sational stories of impending dissolution
sent out from Chicago last week, but it
can not be denied that much friction ex-
lists among the competing interests in the
Joint Traffic association. and that much
better feeling must prevail if the associa-
ton is to maintain its career of useful
ness.
One of the prime objects of the organi-
cation was to do away with Scrambling
Tor business of reSorting to rate cutting
or other methods for obtaining il. 1t was
even expected that in the course of time
the association would abolish fast freight
lines and establish joint agencies for
handling the traffic. These conditions have
not been fulfilled and the competing lines
seem to be as much at loggerheads as if
no controlling machinery existed in New
York at all.
Strong proofs that rates are being
manipulated are the increase last week in
the total through shipments by the ten
eaStbOund roads from Chicago of Il. 900
tons over the week previous. For the
first time in many months the total ship
ments for the week exceed those for the
corresponding week last year.
Cancellation OF rates and differentials
on rail and lake and rail traffic has been
ordered by the board of managers of the
Joint Traffic association. the cancellation
to take effect not later than February %.
The intention is not to apply the ruling
to rates and differentials on through
business transported across Lake Michi-
gan by boat lines and thence to destina-
ton by rail,
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EMPoRIA CLERGY BOUNCED.
Ordered Out of the City LibrarvWhere
They Have Met for Years.

Fmporia, Feb. 11.-There is a stir in
ministerial and religious circles here
that threatens to cause almost a relig
ious war.
The ministers have had an arrange
ment with the library committee for the
use of the library room as meeting
place for the last five years and have
paid a certain agreed sum for the priv
ilege thus involved.
They were in session Monday when
the city's envoy appeared and intimated
in the most diplomatic language at his
command that the ministers had be-
committee and that the relations here
tOfore existing would have to be ter
minated.
Now the question is: What's the mat
ter with the preachers?
The preachers don't seem to know. A
prominent member of the association,
after the meeting. went to a leading
member of the library committee and
subjected him to the pumping process,
but with little success. The committee
man let out several broad hints, but
would make no definite statements.
But the ministers are still inquisitive,
and they have appointed a smelling
committee.
The ministerial association embraces
all of the protestant ministers of the
city. Among the members are: Revs.
Sauerber, Ferguson, Coker Walker,
Whitby. Tanner, Lidzy, Wright, Sellers,
Bowers, Smith, King. Morley, Kerr,
Hewitt, Busser and Gidley.
The members of the library commit
tee are: Col. j. NJ. Steele, Prof. J. N.
Wilkinson, DIR. J. 6. Nortington, Mrs.
John Hotter and Mrs. DR.. Gardiner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
SANTA FE CAN'T COLLECT.
Overdue Freight Bill on Consign-
ment of Rattlesnakes

The Phoenix, Ariz., Gazette is re-
SponSible for the following snake story
According to railroad record there
was shipped from Hutchinson, Kan
to this city, four months and thirteen
days ago, box purporting to contain
three suits of clothes, the same being
consigned to G.. w. Davis Phoenix,
Ariz. Mr.. Davis never called for the
goods, and yesterday an order was is
sued to have the box opened with a
view of disposing of the contents to
pay the $500 charges.
y. r. McWilliamS and w. z. Elan
merry of the freight department carried
the order into execution, and just as
McWilliams loosened the last screw he
staggered back as though something
had struck him in the face. There, all
coiled up, with head erect. lay a big
rattlesnake six feet long, with it's
tongue darling out for fight. The lid
was closed and the other half of the
box inspected. It contained a huge
ella monster, larger than is usual even
in Arizona. 1t, too, seemed combative.
How these reptiles survived four and a
half months can only be answered by
the climate. The trick of sending such
as clothing is an inexcusable one, and
it might have cost the life of one open
ing the box OF course the imposition
was perpetrated by some Kansan at
Hutchinson, who pulled the wool over
the eyes of the local agent there. The
railroad company does not know how
to realize freight on products supposed
to be Indigenous in this arid region
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
CARNEGIE ISN'T WORRIED.
He Can Reduce Wages if Necessary
in the Iron War.

Pittsburg, Feb 11-Andrew Carnegie
arrived in the city last night and was
closeted today with the officials of the
Carnegie Steel company limited, deny
ing himself to all interviewers. None
of the officials of the company would
express themselves upon the recent col
lapse of the billet and rail pool and the
threatened dissolution of the iron ore
combination The iron and steel mar
ket is in a highly agitated state over
the present condition, but it is evident
that the Carnegie company is by no
means worried over the prospects of
open markets with the fiercest competi-
ton.
A prominent steel manufacturer said:
AS far as low prices on billetS and steel
rails are concerned, it is generally con-
coded that the CarnegieS are prepared
to compete under any conditions Their
recent completion of the two largest
blast furnaces in the world by which
the cost of pig iron is reduced, their al
lance with the coke interests and the
fact that they are paying a wage scale
which contains 10 per cent bonus that
can be taken off at any time gives them
an advantage that is conceded in iron
and steel circles
A matter that is interesting the trade
particularly at this time is the question
whether the iron ore combination can
Withstand the influence that has been
Wreck1nS the com blnatiOnS on finished
products. Last year the output of ore
was apportioned among the manufac-
turerS with a view to limiting the pro-
duction to $1,000, 900 tons and putting
the price up from $3.50 per ton to 81
and sustaining it at that point. This
was accomplished throughout the year
but it had a sustaining influence to steel
rail, billet and beam pools which kept
up the price of finished products.
The recent so year lease of the noun
tain iron mine in the Mesa a range
from the Rockefeller interests by the
Carnegie Steel company may prove a
large factor in the ore. 1t will ena bic
this company to secure a large amount
of its ore a a decided advantage and
this advantage will be enhanced by the
low railroad rates on the Butler and
PittSburg railroad, which the Carnegie
company is building from Pittsburg to
the lakes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
SIN JIM LANES DAY.
Captain Henry Booth Tells of Early
Kansas Trials.

Henry Booth of Larned, has written
the Dodge City Globe Republican of the
early history of the Kansas plains In
part he says:
The history Of the plains ought to be
written up for future genera tons; that
the people of a hundred years hence
might view some of the experiences and
hardships of the present generation
/ have driven oxen across the plains
in my bare feet, tramping over hot
sands in a constantly rising tempera-
ture and wind blowing from Dantes
Inferno a rate that carried with it
sand and blister. The IsraeIite before
he reached Mount Sinai suffered no
more. perhaps. in torture of bodily dis
comforts, thirst and blistered feet than
l did in treading the sands under a
July sum- though we had ample provis-
ion in hard tack and SOW belly; nor did
Moses asses protrude their tongues
farther than did my oxen in pulling
through the sands, hoping to reach a
fountain a Elm, an oasis in the desert.
Where their thirst might be Slaked and
their bones given rest.
1hnSS have changed: but the Incl
dents of the past could be told in de-,
ughttui memory, in striking contra ST
TO the rose as ii blossoms in a subdued
atmosphere, where the lack rahbif
gently skipS about and the low of the
ktne,in reverberati echo makes a Glad
tiding. AS COW and sheep give ano3har
token Of their coming as they slovvII,
tread the lane that leads to home a
ray of hope and a CLEAN of gladness
spreads about the home under the shad0
OWS of the setting sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
LODGE OF PAST MASTERS
Degree of Master Mason to be Con-
ferred by Sloan Lodge Tonight.

An interesting event in Masonic cir
cles will occur at the Masonic Temple
on Jackson street this evening" ST.
loan lodge No. 225, A. F. and A. M,
will confer the degree of Master Mason
on Mr.. Phillip Eastman in lodge of
Past Masters, every station in the lodge
being filled by an actual Past Master of
Sloan lodge.
1t is quite a remarkable fact that ev-
cry member who has enjoyed the dis
tinctiOn of having been Master of ST.
loan lodge is living and will be present
to assist in the work tonight The sta
lions will be filled by the following
PastmaSters:
c. H. Lockwood-Master
Bester F. BroWn-SeniOr Warden
o. w. Blood-Junior Warden.
Charles J. Webb-Senior Deacon.
II. F. Morris, Junior Deacon.
VIM. HOdson-Senior Steward
A. o. Wellman-Junior Steward
]. b. Furry-Tyler.
There will be a very large attendance
of members and visitors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
Called a POlled Hereford OF
Hereford Without Horns.
A QUEER DISCOVERY.
First Noticed a "Freak" Calf
Eight Years Ago.
Trial of Miss BEEN, of Hutchin-
son Again Postponed.

Atchison, Feb. 11.-Gen. w. W. Guth-
RE of Atchison has developed or rather
is developing. a new breed of cattle. 1t
is what might be called a POlled Here
ford. He now has a Hereford without
horns.
What he is trying to perfect in brief
is breed of cattle that will meet both
beef and milk requirements with better
satisfaction than any other breed He
now has larger animals than the Here
ford, with square hips, and is now
working on the milking quality me
way the general became interested IN
this matter was mere accident
A bout eight years ago he discovered
in his Chase county herd calf from
one of the thoroughbred Hereford bulls
that had the Hereford white face and
was a "muley-" The COW was also a
''muley'' with Hereford markings. An
other 'muley' COW gave birth to norm
less bull calf. This set the general to
thinking that the horns could just as
Well be bred out of a Hereford strain.
Three years ago he brought to his Atch
4son farm a bull and eight heifers, all
"muleys" with Hereford marks. The
bull was no relation to the eight heif-
ers. He bred the bull to one of his
Hereford cows, and now has year
old bull that is practically at the head
of the herd. He was bred to- Y cows
with horns and % of the calves were
''muleys."
Gen. Guthrie has also bred to full
blood Jerseys with SOOd results Inc
calves were large, well formed with
Hereford markings, the Jersey showing
only in the color
He now has a herd of his Polled
Herefords consisting of % heifers and
two bulls. Next spring there will be
calves from all sorts of cows and the re-
suit Will be watched with a great deal
of interest. There is no question that
Gen. Guthrie now has a separate strain
of cattle better than the HerefOrds. And
1t remains to be seen what he can &C
complish in improving the milking
quality of his big herd of cattle.
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Marvellous Results.

From a letter written by Rev. J. Gun
derrnar, of Dimondale, Mich, we are
permitted to make this extract: I
have no hesitation in recommending
Dr. Kings New Discovery, as the re-
suits were almost marvellous in the case
of my wife. While 1 was pastor of the
Baptist church at Rives Junction she
was brought down with Pneumonia
succeeding La Grippe. Terrible par
oxySmS of coughing would last hours
with little interruption and it seemed
as if she could not survive them A
friend recommended DR.. Kings New
Discovery; it was quick in it's work and
highly satisfactory in results Trial
bottles free at J. K. Jones' Drug Store.
Fifth and Kansas Ave. Regular size
soc and 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
WASHINGTON'S SISTER.
Her Home at Fredericzsburg In an Ex-
ceIlent State of Preservation.


ceIlent State of Preservation.
The house in which lived and died
Betty, the only sister of George Wash
ington, is still standing on the out
skirts of Fredericksburg, a stately re-
hinder of Revolutionary times and a
noble example Of the endurance of the
colonial builders art. 1t was to this
house that Betty went as the bride of
Colonel Fielding Lewis, a wealthy
planter who owned large tract of land
in and around the village. When Betty
was an unmarried belle, she often ex-
pressed desire to be the mistress Of
a fine mansion, and Colonel Lewis did
everything in his power to crafty that
wish
Even today Kenmore, after standing
stress and storm for century, is as fine
a house as most persons would desire.
The interior is severely simple, but i'm
posing. The doors are high and narrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
DYNAMITE FINDS WATER.
How an Abandoned Dry Well was
Made Fruitful.

Burr Oak, Feb. 11-Last summer H.
S. Masters, living about two and a half
miles northeast OF town, had a we'll put
down by Ed Stills, the diego we'll man.
At eight feet below, the surface rock
was struck and the well was drilled
through the solid rock until depth of
81 feet had been reached. No water
was found and having reached the blue
shale the we'll was abandoned.
A few days ago Mr.. Stills conceived
the idea of Shooting the last we'll with
dynamite, and consequently came out
and let down u pounds of the explosive
to a distance of 81 feet, the ten feet at
the bottom of the original hole having
been filed up.
When the explosion took place the
earth trembled. Investigation the next
day showed 81 feet of water that seems
to have come to stay.
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AA -
HOME OF wAsHINGToN's SISTER AT FREDER
ICKSBURG.


ICKSBURG.
and of deliberately carved oak The
windows are set with the tiny panes of
glass of the period, and the walls and
ceilings are ornamented with elaborate
designs in stucco. The rooms are all of
generous proportions, and in the i'm
mense drawing room company of in
fantry might be unanswered.
Kenmore has passed through many
hands during the last SO years and at
one time was converted into a boys
school. During the civil war, when
Fredericksburg was bombarded by the
Federal troops, the house was struck in
several places by shells, some of which
remain to this day imbedded in the sol
id old timbers. William Key Howard,
a we'll known Marylander, is the pres
ent owner of the house, having pur-
chased it some IL years ago. He has
had the spacious grounds put in fine Or
der and the house thoroughly repaired
both inside and out, and it is now the
show place of the town and is visited
every year by thousands.
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Harpef's Weekly
In 1907.
In 1907.

With the end of 1896 Harper's Weekly
will have lived forty years. In that
time IL has participated with all the
zeal and power at its command in the
great political events of the most in
tereSting and important period in the
history of the country, and it has
spread before its readers the aecomp-
1ishmentS of science, arts. and letters
for the instruction of the human mind
and the amelioration of human eondi-
lions and of manners
What the Weekly has been In its
spirit and purpose, as these have been
manifested principally in its editorial
pages, it will continue to be So
It is impossible to announce with pre-
cision all that the Weekly viii contain
during the year 1897 1t were as easy
to announce what is about to happen
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GOOD GOVERNMENT are to be won,
what ADVANCES of the PEOPLE are
to be made, what is to be the outcome
of the continuous struggle between the
spirits of WAR and PEACE. what is to
happen in the FAR EAST. what is TO
be the STATE OF EUROPE twelve
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OF SCIENCE are to be revealed, or
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OF ARTS AND LETTERS, for the
Weekly is to be a pictorial record of all
this.
CARTOONS will continue to be fea-
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illustrated by Mr. Peter Newell
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INTERESTING TO AMERICANS, to
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
BYNUM AND COCHRAN
Are Slated for Places Under the Nc
Kinley Administration.

St. Louis, Feb. IA special to the
Post-Dispatch from Washington, says:
President elect Mckinley has written to
the treasury department for informa-
ton concerning the makeup of the board
of customs appraisers stationed at New
York.
The board is composed of nine men,
bers-five Republicans and four Demo-
carts. The salary is $1,000 per year
and the duties light. 1t is said that
Mckinley will recognize gold standard
Democrats on this board and that
Cochran of New York and w. D. BY
mum of Indiana have been given places
on it.
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cAsHED BOGUS CHECKS.
a Travelling Man Arrested at Wichita
Charged With Swindling.

Wichita, Feb I'm B. Edmiston
was arrested in this city by Sheriff Cone
yesterday on charges of wholesale
swindling by means of bogus checks,
Kansas City
Last Friday evening Mrs. Hyperion
asked e l. Fuller, grocer to cash a
sou check on the First National bank of
Kansas CITY, signed by Edmiston. who
is her cousin. 1t was protested at Kan
sas City.
In the meantime Edmiston tried to
get another $50 check on the Kansas
CITY bank cashed by the Fourth Ma
tional bank here. The bank officers
locked him in the private office and had
him arrested Edmiston succeeded in
borrowing the money Of relatives with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
SOLDIERS HOME REPORT.
Congress Advised of the Condition of
the Leavenworth Institution.

Washington, Feb. 11.-According to the
report of the annual inspection of the
Leavenworth soldiers home, which was
submitted to congress yesterday, ex-
penditures shown by vouchers and
transfers We're $685. 79, leaving a bal
ance of $50 739, and a balance in the
general fund of S36, 1872 Improvements
Contemplated are a building for insane
veterans for IS, 300 and a quartermas-
ter's building, water filter, boilers, guard
house and barracks for $S7. 400. For re-
pairs, $26,012 was spent.
For pensions 1921. 230 was paid out,
and a balance due pensioners of $16,17O
was left. June 80, 1896, there were 2,346
pensioners. as against 2.177 the year be-
fore. Seventy-four pensioners had bal
ances, four of which exceeded $500.
Home store, restaurant and beer hall
receipts were $3S. 06O Brick plant re-
ce' pts were So, $50 and expenditures were
s41, %, and the plant has been sold. The
library contained 8.062 volumes. The
Kelley league had 1,046 members. The
average daily sick was 1876 in hOspi-
tai and 900 in convalescent condition.
There were 1854 deaths, 81 cases of in
sanity and Is of blindness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
AN AUDITORIUM MEETING.
Council to Consider Giving Coal Hole
Fund to Such a Building.

The mayor has called a special meeting
of the city council for tomorrow night at
the request of the auditorium committee
of the Commercial club. The question to
be considered will be formal request to
the members of the legislature to pass
bill authorizing the council to turn over
the s1O50O of coal hole money to an audi
torium fund.
The committee will appear before the
council and ask that action be taken. 1t
is the purpose to have the auditorium
question voted on at the spring election
tunity to say how they want the coal hole
fund exDended
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WILSON COUNTY JAIL
Cost $500 and is a Model of It's
Kind.

Fredonia, Feb. 1.-THE new Jail for
Wilson county has been completed and
accepted by the commissioners. 1t cost
the county So, 500.
The building is &c by 90 feet in size,
with ceiling 16 feet high. The walls ex-
cept the front one, are made of ruble
stone, strongly cenented, 10 inches in
thickness. The interior of the building
is divided into two apartments. The
plate of steel, 3-16 of an inch in thick
ness, thoroughly riveted. The ceiling is
made of corrugated steel, covered with
cement and stone eight inches in thick
ness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
THE POOR OLD VET.
Always Being Robbed by ouestiona-
BILE People He Loves to Con-
sort With.

Fort Scott. Kan, Feb. 11.-Ruth Ward
King, a pretty and fashionabIy dressed
young woman, who has been stopping
in this city for a week advertising her
self as a clairvoyant, was this evening
charged with having defrauded Joseph
Dugan, an old soldier, out of $50 pen
sion money he had just received. When
the officers went to arrest her she had
disappeared and they will follow her
south tomorrow. She is charged with
having secured the money to buy lot
terry tickets for Dugan.
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which to make good the first check and
was released
Last evening abe bank at Kansas City
wired the Fourth National that checks
from several other points in Kansas
signed by Edmiston were coming in and
that Edmiston had no funds on deposit
and was not known to them. kilograms
were received from Job Evans & Sons,
of Severy, and E. o. StilweIl of Neosho
Falls, stating that they had been vic
timized by Edmiston and asked his ar