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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
PHoNoPLEx TELEGRAPH.
The Santa Fe System to Use the New
Invention at Once

Galveston, Tex, Feb. 17.-Thomas A.
Edison, Jr was here today with w. S.
Logue, one of his fathers principal as
sistants, and c. G.. Sholes, superintend-
ent of telegraph of the Atchison. Tope-
ka & Santa F'e road The Edison pho
noplex, with which the Atchison COM
pany has been experimenting between
Arkansas City and Purcell. will soon
be put into use upon the entire system
The phOnOplex is an elaboration of the
duplex and the quadruplex. 1t is worked
by induction, and serves the purpose of
giving any company that uses it an adj
ditional telegraph line without being
put to the expense of stringing wire.
in use by the telegraph companies, sep
arate the currents that travel along the
wire but they cannot be used except on
trunk lines. If a way wire, that is,
wire that is used at the various stations
along a telegraph line, is wanted for du-
picking or quadruplexing, all the offices
along the line except the terminal
points at which the duplex and quadru-
plex instruments are located, must cut
out: in other words, they must discon-
meet their instruments from the wire
in order that it may be serviceable for
duplex or Quadruplex use, but with the
phonOplex all this is done away with.
The way stations can keep their instru-
any stations, and yet a the same time
the wire can be used for entirely dis
tinct service by the phonOplex at not
only the terminal stations, but at each
and every one of the way stations All
communication is by sound, the Morse
characters being used just the same as
in ordinary telegraphy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
ON THELAMAR CANAL.
To Project Immense Reservoirs
to Hold Waste Water
Which Will Probably Make
River Always Dry in Kansas.

Denver, Feb. IA representative of
the La Junta and Lamar canal was in
the city yesterday and gave some inter
esting facts concerning the plans OF the
Great Plains Water Storage company,
which is about to commence wOk upon
the La Junta and Lamar canal, where
by the irrigating capacity of the canal
will be increased from LOCO acres TO
about 100000.
The Great Plains Water Storage
company has" said he, recently closed
a contract with those holding interests
in the La Junta and Lamar CANA dlla1
whereby the company Will secure con-
troll of the system. The La Juhta anu
Lamar canal taps the Arkansas river at
a point about three miles above La Jun
ia and runs l13 miles east TO point
north of Lamar. 1t is the largest 1rrl-
eating canal in the Arkansas Valley,
and has capacity of 933 cubic Ieet OF
water each second.
1T is the purpose of the Great Plains
Water Storage company to largely IN
crease the capacity of the canal and TO
provide d system of reservOiring the
water of the Arkansas river in such
manner as to always insure an ade-
quate supply for the entire year. IN
carrying out this project use Will be
made of four or five large natural res
erVoirS or basins, located about 10 miles
north of Lamar These natural basins
cover an area of $4,000 acres, and vary
in depth from 40 to so feet.
The capacity of these reservoirs is
about 1S4 OO0-acre feet OF water, sum-
Gent to irrigate like territory of land
The proposition for supplying these res
ervOirs with water is to utilize the flood
waters of the Arkansas river during the
months of May, June and July, and II
is expected that the work will be COM
pleted in time for the floods OF 1888 the
Wing-Off capacity of the reservoirs
will be a depth of 20 feet, the excess
depth of the reservoirs serving as ma
tural drain to catch the sediment from
the water In this manner supply
sufficient to furnish water to the farms
be stored up during the flood months,
which Will have the effect of greatly
enhancing the value of agriculture pro-
perty in the valley.
There are at present 500 farms, COM
prising &C, 900 acres now supplied by the
canal and with the improvements to be
made more than twice this amount of
land can be irrigated.
This is the first irrigating enterprise
ever attempted upon the principle of
natural reservoirs, and will have the eff
feet of increasing the value of water
rights by $40 an acre-fOot. The cost of
the improvements contemplated will be
about $500 Coo and the money is being
furnished by a large financial syndicate
way the first enterprise of the kind in
which the capital has been drawn di-
rect from the investors without the in
termediary of outside parties.
There are over 100. 0O0 acres of arid
land accessible to this irrigation Sys-
tenn in PrOwers county, and it has been
proposed to have the company take
change it into valuable agriculture
land
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
INGERSOLL's INFLUENCE.
His Clerk Attempts Suicide by Means
of Prussic Acid.

New York, Feb. 17-Robert J. Wilson,
a clerk in charge of Colonel 1ngersolfs
office at IS William street, attempted to
commit suicide by swallowing prusslc
acid. He was prevented from doing so by
Charles Wynne. a mining operator OF
Spokane WASH and a stranger who was
The effort of young Wilson to end his
life was in many respects the most start
ling OF the attempts made by believers m
Colonel Ingersol's creed of suicide. He
had some domestic troubles and had peeh
continually talking about suicide.
Colonel Ingersoll created sensation
last year by defending the right OF man
or woman to commit suicide; In ms lee
lures and magazine articles he maintain
ed that those fatally ill, in misery, in
want. or dishonored, were justified in end
ing life to end their woes He adhereS to
that opinion still Colonel lngersQu IN
speaking of Wilson's crime. said; 1t was
a silly thing for him to do-a very silly
thing. 1t is wonder to me, though,
looking at all the misery there is, that
more persons do not kill themselves.
1t appears to be more than a coinci,
a storm of criticism by insisting that sui
eide no sin and in many cases deSlrac
bic and worthy two of his clerks and
own lives. Young Wilson is the fifth OF
those either related to the colonel, or
closely associated with him who put into
practice his teachings on self destruction.
VIM. Sanford Lawton, who was for sev-
eral years a student in Colonel lngersolIs
office, shot himself to death in Lincoln
park. Chicago, last Saturday
coloneIs chief clerk, took his life on Aug
uSt Il last. He jumped from a station OF
the Sixth avenue elevated raliroad ana
ing train. He leaped from the track TO
the ground when , ne vas PP pursued 4y tbe
fall and he died from his injuries few
Mrs. Hattie Cooper. a third cousin of
Colonel Ingersoll and her mother, Mrs.
Sarah s. Cooper, were suffocated from
coal gas in their home in San Francisco
on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
RAILROAD NEWS.
Case of Rate Clerk James
o. Payne Finally Settled.
g. s. Court of Appeals Affirms
Kansas Case.
COMPANY NOT LIABLE.
Payne Elected From a Train
and Afterwards Killed.
At the Time a Santa Fe EN-
plOye in Topeka.

st. Louis, Feb. IA decision render
ed yesterday by the United States cir
cult court of appeals presents a case of
peculiar hardship.
On September 10, 1894, James O.Payne
a rate clerk in the employ of the Santa
F'e took passage at Kansas City, where
he had been on company business, to
return to his home in Topeka, Kan.
The evidence showed that Payne was
Intoxicated and used insulting lang
uage to the conductor in the presence
of ladies and made himself generally
disagreed bic. At last the conductor
picked him up, carried him through the
car in his arms and dumped him off the
forward platform. Payne fell on his
face and lay in the weeds and grass
until the conductor got off the train
and turned him that he rested on
his back In this condition the train
left him. The same afternoon Payne,
While on his way back to Kansas City,
walking along the track, was overtaken
nailed and whistled, but Payne instead
of leaving the track, ran on ahead of it
and was finally struck down and re-
ceiVed injuries from which he died in
three days.
The widow brought suit against the
company, alleging that her husband
had been elected from the train so vio-
lently that the shock of his fall had
daZed him and blunted his faculties,
thus rendering him unfit to take care
of homself, and that in consequence of
this disability he lost his life.
The company demurred to the COM
plant on the ground that it showed no
cause of action. The court sustained
the demurrer. The complainant then ask
ed leave to dismiss without prejudice,
which leave was denied and the jury in
structed to return verdict for the de-
PENDANT company. The widow appealed
and the United States circuit court of
appeals yesterday affirmed the judg-
ment of the lower court, but filed no
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
LIVE woMAN's TOMB.
Remarkable Eccentricity of a Norwich
(COnn.) Lady.

Remarkable Eccentricity of q Norwich
(COnn.) Lady.
Mrs. Mary futile (''Diamond') John
son, formerly a resident of Norwich.
Conn, now of Chicago, for whom 4 can
servator was recently appointed by re-
quest of her husband and sons, has had
u remarkable grave constructed in her
lot in Yantic cemetery, destined to re-
ceive her body. 1t is the most costly,
massive. unique and elaborate one in
Connecticut.
Mrs. johnson purchased her ceme-
terry lot some time ago and had her
grave made. She is haunted by an
overm astering dread of graveyard
ghoulS and robbers, and she had barely
completed her grave when she decided
that it was not strong enough to battle
n possible assault after her body had
been committed to it.
With a corps of skilled professional
workmen she went to work at once to
reconstruct and immensely strengthen
it, carrying on the work clandestinely
in order to forestall opposition on the
part of her conServator and her watch
full husband and sons. The result OF
her craftiness and the dispatch and
deXterity of her wOrkmen was that she
not only acomp7ishe her project with
out betraying her design. but SO neatly
that there is not an outward token 10
indicate to a casual observer that the
old grave had ever been disturbed.
The grave is IN many respects the
most remarl1a bic and wonderfully con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
BUILDING a NEW RAILROAD.
New York Company Constructing a
Line Around Okefenoke Swamp.

Waycross, Ga, Feb. 1.-THE G. S.
Baxter company of New York has be-
gun the construction of a railroad at
Haylow. ten miles south of Dupont, on
the Plant system.
Haylow is Just across the line of
Echols county, and about one mile of
the new line is in Echols. but it runs
out in an easteriy direction across the
south side of Clinch county. II will
cross the SUwannee river about four
miles below Moxon's ferry at a point
known as Pepper Hill. and will cOntin-
ue from there in a southeast direction
around the Oxefenokee swamp and Will
connect with the Dial and Upchurch
road, which starts at Crawford, Fla,
running westward
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17

trived one probably in New England
Apparently it is impregnab!e to assault
Its floor is a huge smoothly chiseled
slab of Rhode Island granite, weighing
more than a ton, while a similar gigan-
tie slab of stone. which weighs 2.7e0
pounds and can be handled only with
the aid of n derrick. forms its cover.
The walls of the grave are of ce-
mented pressed bricks, solid as ada
Inant, and as thick and enduring SEEM
ingly as those of a modern fort.
Mrs johnson is greatly pleased with
the remodeled tomb, and convinced
that after her body is placed between
its two Ponderous granite slabs it viii
be absolutely secure.
Not long ago Mrs. johnson had n
magnificent granite monument erected
on her cemetery lot at a cost Of $4,000,
which is said to be the most ornate,
unique and expensive private NOR
tuary memorial in New England. It IS
a lofty, shapely shaft. handsomely pol
ished and carved. bearing the allegori-
cal figures, also superbly sculptured, OF
Faith, Hope and Charity. The monu-
ment was erected by famous granite
cutters of Westerly. r. I.
Mrs. Johnson's ruling passion is an
immoderate fondness for diamonds, on
account of which the title of Mrs.
Diamond" johnson was popularity be
slowed on her more than quarter of q
century ago. At all times she is a.
glitter with the gems from head to
DOT. and she rarely appears in public
with less than S25, goo to $4,000 worth
of them displayed on her person
1t is said to be her intention to have
her fabulous store OF jewels buried
with her body, a fancy that may ac-
count, in part. for her determination
to make her tomb absolutely iJnpreg-
nable to grave robbers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
M'KINLEY IS BETTER.
He is Able to Get Up but Will Not
Receive Callers This Week.

Canton. Feb. 17.-Dr Phillips at II 80
left Major McKinleys room much
pleased with the improved condition of
his patient.
Major Mckinley is decidedly better
he said land able to be out of bed to-
day. I think he will be able to take a
drive this afternoon. He will not how
ever, be able to receive callers or do
any work this week"
Col w. w. Dudley OF Washington on
behalf of the Inauguration committee
arrived her today and arranged that ex-
cept the reception committee. there will
be no escort for the Mckinley party
from the train to the hotel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
The Discovery Saved His Life.

Mr.. 9. Cailloutte, druggist, Beavers
VILE, ILL.,. says: TO Dr.. Kings New
Discovery 1 owe my life Was taken
with La Grippe and tried all the phv-
sicians for miles about, but of no avail
and was given up ard told 1 could MOI
live. Having DR.. Kings New Discov~
ery in my store I sent for Il bottle and
began its use and from the first dose
began to get better, and after using
three bottles was up and about again
1t is worth it's weight in gold. We won't
keep store or house without it" Get a
free trial at ]. K. Jones drug store. 5th
and Kansas avenue. Regular size SOC
and $I.00
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
GEN. PORTER FOR FRANCE.
He is to be McKinley's First APP
pOintee-

New York, Feb. 17.-Among the first
nominations that President Mckinley
will send to the senate will be that of
General Horace Porter to be ambassa-
dor to France. 1t is reported from I'M
questionable authority that the presi-
dent-elect has sent word to that effect
to General Porter.
General Porter when seen said in
reply to questions:
There is nothing to say in the mat
ter" He would not further discuss the
subject.
William Mckinley Osborne, secretary
of the Republican national committee
was closeted for ? hours with General
Porter. Nothing could be learned of
the object of his visit beyond the infor-
nation that the Inaugural ton had been
discussed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
IT DIES THE DEATH.
The Interest Bill Unpopular With
Loaners and Borrowers Alike,
IS Killed.

Senator Sheldon's interest bill was
killed in the senate this morning by a
vote of % to IS. The measure came up
for consideration under special order
at IL O'Clock.
In the Populist caucus last Thursday
afternoon, it was decided to refer the
bill to the judiciary committee for
amendment, and when the bill came up
this morning the committee recon-
mended that section 3. providing for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17

The oratriX grew imprisoned.
''Such an institution - she cried, eve
must either mend or end!''
The Woman's Political Cooking league
exchanged glances.
End, of course they remarked de-
cisively to one another. Mend? HUH
The very idea I''-Detroit Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
Straw Goods Firm Fails.

New York, Feb. 17.-Thos. w. Hynes
and Lorenzo Cutler, manufacturers and
dealers in straw and felt goods, this
city, with a factory at Westboro, Mass,
have assigned Liza bilitieS about $780,
OOO: assets 500, 600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
Eckels Would Insure the Poor.

New York. Feb. 17.-Comptroller Eek
els was the chief speaker at the Under
writer's dinner in this city last night.
In the course of his speech he advocated
the adoption of a system for insuring
the poor, such as is in vogue in Ger
many and Belgium
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
1enatius Donnellv,s Bill.

ST. Paul. Feb. 17-An innovation was
proposed in the legislature when Rep
resentative Ignatius Donnelly introduce
ed a bill for a constitutional amendment
exempting homesteads from taxation to
the amount of 81 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17

A weed in the garden can be easily
destroyed when it first starts. Consump-
ton can be nipped in the bud by One
Minute Cough Cure. G. W. StanSfeld,
632 Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
FORT SCOTT HOLD UP.
John Killon Robbed of $40 by Three
Masked Men.

Fort Scott Feb. 17.-John Ki1lion. who
resides on the North side of Humboldt
avenue in North Fort Scott employed as
a teamster for the GOOdlander mills,
while driving near the Memphis and
NJ. X. & r.. junction last evening at
$50, was held up by three masked men
and robbed of S45 after which they
threw him from his buggy got in and
drove rapidly away.
Mr.. Kil1ion is a poor man and was go
ing to the house of Andrew T. Curtis
a house mover. who lives at 401 Ivy
street. to whom he was to pay $40 for
removing a house from South Horton
street to Belltown.
The buggy was afterwards found but
the thieves escaped.
NEWTON-At the election held here
yesterday the voters decided to issue
bonds to the amount of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of extending the present waterwOrkS
system seven miles west of the city to
a point on West Emma creek as a new
basis of water supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17

All the different forms of skin trou-
bles, from chapped hands to eczema
and indolent ulcers can be readily
cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel SaIve
the great pile cure. c. W. Stansfeld,
$50 Kan. Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17

Grand lodge A. o. U. W, Salina-
Special train from Strong City Sunday.
February 81. Take the Santa Fe, the
home road, and leave at 1905 noon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
A Diplomatic Crawl.

Mr.. Johnson-Aln yo' de Mistah Jack
son OATS been gibJin out dat Ike Johnson
WASH wEEm enuf toe trail his colors in de
dusts
Mr.. Jackson-Am yo' dat Ike Johnson,
sab?
Fir. Johnson is, sab.
Mr.. .Jackson-Glad toe meet yo', sahl
TIE not de AIistah jackson New York
Sourna1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
Texas Follows missouri.

Austin. Tex. Feb. 17-After a long
bitter fight in the senate, that body pas
sed the fellow servant bill holding rail-
roads responsible for acts of their en-
plOyeS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17

Word comes from all quarters that
the neatest and most satisfactory dye
for coloring the beard a brown or black
is Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
Solid Gold So. SO.

Heavy. Solid Gold Spectacles with
best Lenses properly fitted by Charles
Bennett. Optician, $50 Kan. ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17

We do mendiIig and sew on buttons
free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
Axe and Tool Works Resume.

East Douglass, Mass, Feb. 1.-THE
american Axe and Tool works which
have been running on short time have
resumed operations in full and sufficient
orders have been received to keep them
running for several weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17


r OST-Iittle white dog, spotted with
j 4 yellow. Anyone knowing of its where's
abouts will please leave word at - z Sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17

a great orator and a favorite theme
Thursday night at First NJ. Z. church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17
TOO-LATE TO CLASSIFY.

Tomorrow night 1ss n E. church. CSC.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-17

w ANTED-White girl German pre-
w ferred, for housework- 6c1 w 9Th -Av.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-06

rich harvest and thousands and thou
sands OF dollars have been lost to the
township, county and state, because
men who were elected to Office, either
neglected to do their duty, or were in
competent to perform it. There is but
one conclusion to be reached in relation
90 the loss OF the thousands OF dollars
OF taxes which have been decreed void,
and that Is that the merchants and
property owners who pay their taxes
are bearing an unjust burden OF the ex-
pense Of municipal government. Each
year they are taxed higher and higher,
because orders have been drawn to pay
Tor public Improvement TO the full
amount oi the tax assessed. The mem
bers OF the tax association step into
court and tile objections 90 the tax, for
the reason that the assessment roll was
not copy of the tax roll or because
the question of raising the money was
not submitted to the electors at the
annual township meeting; or because
the records Of the township board do.
not show that the electors neglected or
refused % vote the tax; or because the
board OF education neglected its duty In
making dctlleu StatetnenJ Oh tno ex~
/ penditures OF said board, and did not
spread the same at length upon the
record or the board Of supervisors
/ failed to do something which was neces-
sury 60 be done at their annual. meeting
/ in October, etc, thereby avoiding the
payment of the tax assessed against
/ their property, and the result IL that
men who toll with their hands ia making
public improvements, cannot ret their
orders cashcd without discounting them
! twenty per cent TO the members OF the
i tax association. And this is not all;
tho amount ~ tax decreed void mast be
rnised the following year and IL is spread
again ON the property OF the township.
/ thereby making those who pay their
taxes, pny also portion OF the tax
\ against those who don't. viii we ever
be able 10 raise n valid tax and lit this
unjust and unequal burden oi taxation
from the shoulders Of the merchants aud
other unorganized tax payers1