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The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23

ing the number of years in actual serv-
ice at 81.
Mr.. Charlton now lives at Guyton, q
few miles from here. He says at the
time of which he speaks the Central
railroad had been built from this place
to Pooler, a distance of ten miles. The
rOadbed was of light and insecure con-
struction, unfit for fast or regular serv-
ice.
The company imported two locomo-
tives by way of canal from Charles
ton, and they We're placed on the mar
row-gauge track. Mr.. Charlton says
that in comparison to the giant moguls
of today they would strongly remind
him of a dog and an elephant. They
We're small affairs, known as the Ten
nessee and Georgia.
Charlton was conductor of the first
train that traversed the road, and when
the terminus was reached in an hour,
the owner. Col W. W. Gordon, was
dumbfOunded.
Ten miles an hOur!" exclaimed he.
Wonderful, Wonderful Wonderful"
The Central system, of which this was
the beginning, now embraces many
hundreds of miles.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
MISSING AGENT FOUND.
NJ. B. Archer Who Suddenly Left
Garfield in a Mysterious Way
is in Topeka.

About two weeks ago dispatches from
Garfield. Kan. the small station on the
main line OF the Santa Fe, II miles west
of Larned, announced that NJ. b. Arch
er, the Santa Fe station agent there.
had mystertously disappeared after
closing his Office one afternoon, and no
traces could be found of him.
Rumors of suicide, defalcatiOn and
murder at once became current, and
the incident caused the greatest eX-
element at Garfield.
When the Office was found closed by
the Santa Fe trainmen in the morning,
a search was first made for Archer, and
not being able to find him, the men
communicated with the Santa Fe agent
at LaTned, and through him the Santa
F'e officials in this city were notified a
relief agent was at once despatched to
Garfield station, and the travelling aud
itOr ordered to report at once to that
station and examine the accounts of
the missing agent
In closing the office, Archer had
placed all the station accounts in the
safe and locked it, and when the trav-
cling auditor arrived, the safe had to
be broken open. On examination, it
was found that there had been no de-
falcatiOn by Archer and that all the
accounts of the station We're in per
feet shape.
This of course ended the rumor that
Archer had left for parts unknown
with considerable of the company's
money, but the rumors of murder and
suicide became more widespread than
before.
Yesterday afternoon a neatly dressed
man walked into the office of Mr.. I. s
I-auck auditor of disbursements of
the Santa Fe at the general offices in
this city. and inquired for Mr.. Lauck
personally. He was shown into the
auditors office. and, after greeting Mr..
Lauck. said:
My name is NJ. B. Archer, and I was
formerly agent at Garfield station. I
have just found myself, and came in
to see if I left the accounts at the sta
ton all o. X"
It was neither suicide nor murder. His
mysterious disappearance from his
post at Garfield station, as he after
ward admitted. was due simply to his
intermixing with spurious liquor. In
other words, he went out on tear,
and only found himself as he expressed
it, q few days ago.
Archer was informed by Mr.. Lauck
that the accounts of the station were
found in perfect shape, and registering
a request that the amount due him for
services as station agent be RENTED as
soon as convenient, he went out, ap-
parently satisfied with himself and the
world.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
SANTA FE LOCAL NOTES.

David McNary of the car shops, is on
the sick list
Engineer D. E. George is in Kansas
City on business.
Engine 629 has left the roundhouse
for service at La Junta.
Fireman Lundquist is able to be out
after an illness of three weeks.
Rev. S. E. Busser, of Emporia. was a
visitor at the yard offices yesterday
Frank James, foreman in the car
shops, is confined to his home with
tonsiEtis.
Mrs. H. NcNeeIy, wife of Fireman
McNeely. Will spend Christmas in Dem
iSOn. Texas.
William and Walter Mitchell, of the
rOundhOuse. viii spend Christmas with
their father at Ottawa.
Engines No. 119 and 1O4 were turned
out of the Topeka shops today for ser
vice on the Santa Fe-Pacific.
The ice to be cut for Santa Fe ice
house in Lawrence is six inches thick
and at Atchison eight inches.
John Stafford, of the coach painting
department, found a pOcketboOk in the
postOfice during the noon hour Tues
day and turned it over to the money
order clerk.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23

For this October the Santa Fe paid out
at Emporia so. .6S9. .26.
The Gazette publishes two tables,
''A' and b and further says:
Table a. shows the wages and men
employed in Emporia, and the money
paid out for October and November,
1896, and October and November 1897.
From this table the Times may take
what comfort it can from the fact that
the number of men was Increased in
October. 1897. by forty-eight over Oc-
tober, 1896, and the days worked is in
creased 675 days. Engineers and fire
men and conductors work by the run
or by the mile. and their time can't be
computed in days. The average in
crease in pay per man at EmpOria is
$1.19.
The Times will observe that the San
ia Fe has paid out in the five months
from July to November inclusive, $685.
124.36 in excess of the amount paid for
the same period in the previous year,
making an average increase of over
$loO,0C0 per month. OF this the editor
will notice from statement of herewith.
the mechanical department shows an
increase of 1924. .394.S7, the train service
$61.2S5.67, and the track department
employees $154, 74967- This further bears
out the statement above, that the road
is employing q great many more men
this year than in the previous year
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
WILD SCENE ON NAr&s.F. TRAIN
This Story is Vouched for by Several
Well Known Prevaricators

Z beg your pardon, madam, but this
is the smoking car said a we'll dressed
travelling man to a middle aged lady
who seated herself in the seat that was
facing the travelling man, on a west
bound Santa Fe train as it stopped at
PaWnee Rock.
The lady carried a poodle dog under
her arm and walked with the air of d
person who did not intend to be discon-
certed.
I don't care if it is" said the lady,
looking over her gold bowed speeta-
cles at the man. The other cars are
full and l can't get a seat"
She seated herself and placed the dog
on the seat beside her.
But madam, I wish to smoke" said
the travelling man.
You should have better manners
than to smoke in the presence of a
lady" was the rejOinder from the op-
pOsite seat.
There are plenty of cars in the rear
where no one viii inconvenience you by
smoking said the travelling man.
I am going to stay right here" said
the woman.
..AlI right. madam. you Will have to
excuse me if I smoke said the trav-
cling man. and he took his pipe out.
filled it, lit it. and was about to replace
mis- tobacco pouch in his pocket, When
the woman grabbed the pipe from be
tween his teeth and threw it out of the
window.
The travelling man was angry. He
turned round, grabbed the poodle dog,
and sent it following the pipe out of the
window.
I viii have you arrested. sir, at the
next station shrieked the woman,
thrusting her head out of the window
to see what had become of the dog.
The next stop was Larned, and when
the train stopped there. the travelling
man and the woman both made rush
for the door. They raced up the plat
form side by side to an officer wearing
a star who was standing near the
waiting room door.
Arrest that man for killing my dog,
screamed the woman
Arrest that woman for stealing my
pipe" " yelled the man.
Just then the poodle dog came run
ming up the track with the pipe in his
mouth.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
AMELIA GLOVER DYING.
Consumed S38 Worth of Kansas
City Whisky in a Week.

Kansas Ceiy, Dec. 23.-Amelia Glover,
the dancer, who appeared at the Au-
ditOrium last week, is very i'll, probably
dying, at her home in Brooklyn. She
is unconscious most of the time.
Miss Glover is supposed to have
caught cold last week in Kansas City.
She remained in the city until Sunday
night. when the Kingsley sisters and
other performers of the house took her
to the depot and put her on the train
for the east.
She did not seem sick, but rather
what theatrical people call ''nutty. 3"
talking incoherently of her husband,
John H Russell, a former well known
manager, who, for the last two years,
has been an inmate Of private asy-
lun, and is now said to be dying Of
paresis.
Miss Glover had a room at the ILL
fated Auditorium hotel during her stay
in this city. After each performance
she would retire to her room and con-
sumo quantities of whisky, her liquor
bill for the week being $3S.
The dancer is woman about 81
years of age. She has been on the
stage nearly all her life. and had a pc
culiarly graceful and easy motion in
dancing. which gained for her the
name of the American fawn." She
originated the custom of "saluting'
with a high kick when she first came
on the stage. Her sister is the wife Of
Henry Z. Dixey
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23

RAILROAD NEWS.
Walter Burns, a Santa Fe Fire
man Out of Newton
Drops Dead With Heart Dis
ease On His Engine.
WAS ON ACTIVE DU TY
Station Agent Archer at Gar
field Suddenly Turns Up.
Other Railroad News of General
Interest.
WAS ON ACTIVE DU TY

Walter Burns, a Santa Fe fireman
running out CT Newton on the middle
division, died on his engine shortly af-
ter leaving St. John station yesterday
The train was an eastbOund extra
freight, and had been delayed 20 min
utes at St. John on account of hot
box Soon after it pulled out Of the
station Burns left his seat in the cab
to fire up the engine with view Of
making up the lost time While hold
ing the third shovel full of coal in his
right hand and in the act of reaching
for the chain of the fire box door with
his left hand, he suddenly uttered a
piercing scream and fell forward in the
gangWay of the engine.
Brakeman Mallory, who was on the
engine at the time. jumped from his
seat in the fireman'S cab TO the assist
ance of the fallen fireman. but when he
attempted to raise him to his feet he
found the body rigid. He called to
Engineer SchOppeT. who was looking
ahead from the cab window and be
cause of the noise of the train had not
heard the fireman scream. to get
glass of water from the engine tank,
but before the water could be procured
Burns breathing ceased with a short
gasp and a conVUIsive tremOr of the
body
The train was at once stopped and
the body Of the dead fireman taken
back to the way car. and brought into
Newton. It was placed in charge of
an undertaken there. and Burns par
ents, who live at Wichita, notified.
Fireman Burns death is supposed to
have been caused by heart failure, the
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
PARDONS A BANKER.
Governor Leedy Lets C. E. WighUman
Ous of the PenitantiarY.

Governor Leedy this afternoon par
doned c. e. Wightman, the Tribune,
Greeley county banker. in the peniten-
tiary for having received deposits when
the bank was in an insolVent condition
and also for misappropriating the funds
on deposit for personal use.
Wightman will be released in time
to join his wife on Christmas morning
While running the bank he was mar
ried and the accounts show the eXpen-
diture of $500 marriage expenses and
wedding trip
1t is urged that Wightman is not a
criminal in the accepted sense of the
Word-onIy a fool. He was not com
petent to run the business of the bank.
Wightman first came into prominence
when as a Democrat he contested the
election of William NJ. Glenn, Republic
an. to the house of representatives in
1894. Wightman was defeated but
Glenn his former political adversary
took up his case and was successful in
securing q pardon.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
HIS SIGHT RECOVERED.
Santa Fe Employe at the Age of 20
Returns 10 Work After Spell
of Rlindre ess

William Hazen. probably the Oldest
employe of the Santa Fe shops in this
city, will return to his place in the
blacksmith department on January 3,
after a four months absence from the
shop.
Mr.. Hazen is over 70 years of age and
about four months ago was obliged to
give up his work on account of his
eyesight.s Shortly after leaving the
shop he became totally blind, and on
consulting a physician it was found
that both eyes We're affected with cata-
racts. BY skfllful work the cataracts
were removed, and his eyesight is such
that he can return to his work. Mr..
Hazen was for several years foreman Of
the blacksmith Department.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
SMOKE
-KLAUER'S GOLD BUG.
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. NJ. Weightman of 1927 Topeka
avenue who has been dangerously i'll
with gastric fever is much better. and
DR.. Charles Lowry reports her now out
of danger.
For the free Christmas dinners to the
poor, supplies can be left at the Saliva
tiou Army han at 312 Kansas avenue.
and the American Volunteer hall at 11S
East Seventh street.
Robert Mood. the veteran plumber.
is very dangerously i'll at his home. 407
East Eighth street He has been i'll
with infiammatory rheumatism and
kidney disease for 13 weeks. Today a
consultation OF physicians is being held
as his condition is considered most ser
iOus
Weather Observer T. B. Jennings said
today that the present weather would
probably continue through the week,
This morning the minimum tempera-
ture was 23 degrees. This afternoon
the temperature was 81 degrees.
Mrs. MoIlie Cochran died this morn
ing at 4l2 East Fifth street She was
a prominent member Of the Third
Christian church and took a lively in
terest in O. \ r. relief corps work ami
lodge work The funeral Will be held
Sunday afternoon at the Third Chris
tian church
For the assault on James Rich. the
American Volunteer. the police have
arrested George Sheafer. Fred Kroff
Walter Gaines, Dick and Marion Null
lis. They are all charged with assault.
They are known to have been in the
gang which attacked Rich. Which one
actually committed the assault viii
probably be developed in the trial Of
the cases tomorrow morning. All are
young tOuEhS.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
TO FIGHT THE GATES.
travelling Men Oppose the System in
Adoption on the Katy.

Waco. Tex, Dec. 23.-The nOrthbound
Missouri Kansas & Texas passenger
train waited here this morning for spe-
ciaI orders in the case of a passenger,
who. having purchased his ticket. de-
cIined to comply with rules adopted by
the line which require gatemen to COM
pei all passenger to show tickets be-
fore boarding the train. In this case
the passenger declined and carried his
point an order having been wired from
Dallas to pass him.
There was a delay of so minutes in
consequence of the action of the pas
senger, which is said to be the carrying
out of the purpose of the commercial
travellers to fight the gate system to a
finish.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
WAGES OF RAILROAD MEN.
Emnoria Gazette Compares Amounts
Received in 1897 With 1896

The controversy between the EmpO-
ria Times. Populist, and the EmpOria
Gazette. Republican. as to whether the
wages paid railroad men are greater
this year than last causes W. A. White
of the Gazette to publish the following:
Fred Becker earned S12S. 81 in OctO-
Der 1896 and S21555 in October 1891
Carl Clark pulled out SO more last No
vember than he did a year ago. W.
in October 81 than he did in 90. James
Farley pulled out to the tune of
S139-02 in October go and S65.39 in No
vember '96; in October and NOvenb Der
80 he strung out within $3.50 of $500.
w J. Buckbee was thirty-Odd dollars
better off on his October pay-check
than he was last year. H. A Pearson
is about the price of a suit of clothes
better off at this payday than he was a
year ago. For October 1886 the Santa
F'e paid out here in Emporia 1s.s7s.54.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
HANGS UP ITS STOCKING.
Christmas Presents That the Santa
Fe Shops Wants in It's Hosiery.

Assistant superintendent of Nachin-
cry Geo. A Hancock is making up a
list of the Christmas presents that the
Topeka shops will ask for.
Several new machines will be put on
the estimate, and the board of direc-
tors will pass upon it.
AT the beginning of each year." said
superintendent Hancock, I'VE look to
our needs for the coming year. 1t can
not be said, as yet, what machinery
viii be added to the present equipment
of the shops, but we will know after
the decision of the board of directors
is made.
THE work will continue on the u
new consolidation engines, and they
will be turned out, it is possible, at the
rate of one each month. The shops can
readily turn out an engine a month,
but it is some times difficult to get ma
terial at the proper time and some
times an engine is delayed two weeks,
and then two may be turned out the
same mont III
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23

result of an attack of typhoid fever
Early last fall Fireman Burns was ta-
ken i'll with typhoid fever, and for sew
eTal weeks his. condition was serious
Before he had reall@ recovered from
the effects Of the attack he resumed
his work on the englne, and it is
thought that the exertion of firing in
his weakened condition was responsible
for his heart becoming affected.
Burns was in the employ of the Santa
Fe road since August. 1891. His father,
John ". Burns, is q conductor on the
Wichita and Western erOad. The body
was taken to Wichita yesterday after
noon. and the funeral Will be held from
the home of his parents.
Burns was unmarried. He leaves
insurance to the amount of $1,000.
Engineer Schopper tells the story of
Burns death as follows;
Never was 1 so surprised as I was at
the death of Burns He had not been
complaining of feeling bad and was in
the best of spirits Yesterday While go
ing out to Dodge City, when near I[ins-
ley, he complained of being tired and
Brakeman Mallory fired the engine for
him into Dodge City. Burns said that
he was going to get something to eat
and then so to bed. which he q "a.
We left Dodge City last night about
l o'clock. Burns was feeling good and
said SO. Every thing went nicely until
We reached st. John, when we were
compelled to stop on account of q hot
box on the engine We took water
there and Burns cleaned out the ash
hot box. He did not then complain of
being i'll and looked in the best of
health.
We lost twenty minutes at St John
and as we were pullinS out. 1 said to
him. Walter, we have lost twenty
minutes can we make it up?' Yes
he replied, go after her Those We're
the last words he spoke. Brakeman
Mallory was sitting in the fireman's
seat Burns started to throw in coal
I was looking ont of the window
When we were about four miles out of
St John, Mallory called me and I saw
Burns lying on his face in the gang
way
We picked him up. But he was
oead 1 thought I detected n movement
OF the eve, but I guess 1 was mistaken.
we carried him back to the caboose
ana worked nearly an hour trying to
revive him. but it was useless. With
out a doubt he was dead when he
struck the floor
I got Mallory to fire the engine and
We came into Newton. Burns was a
DIG stout-looking fellow but he was
weak from his previous sickness and
never should have been on an engine"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
NOTHING BUT WAR.
All Peace Overtures Have Been Re
jected by Cuban Insurgents

Havana. via Key West, Fla. Dec. %.
Gen. PandO has written to Capt. Gen.
BlancO to say that all the commission
ers who have been sent to the insur-
gents camp, promising peace with au-
tonOmy, have failed, and that therefore
no other course is open than to finish
the war with war.
In a telegram to Gen. Blanco- pro-
testing in the name of the Cuban au-
tonomists against the killing of Lieut..
Col. Ruiz, Senor Marcios Garcia says
also that hitherto the autononist is
have observed q passive attitude, but
from this date they viii help to crush
the rebellion adding that the war
must be finished with war"
Olof Ekberg. merchant tailor 713
Kansas avenue, frst-class suit OF
clothes for S25
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
TRANSPORTATION OF DOGS.
Frisco Road Makes a Rate of 25 Cents
Per Hundred Miles.

The Frisco railroad has made a new
rule regarding the transp pOrtatiOn of
dogs. An order was issued yesterday
by General Bagga gemaster Dyer, fixing
the rates for transportation of dogs in
baggage cars at = cents per 100 miles,
and specifying that not more than so
cents shall be charged for one dog on
the run of any train bagga geman. The
bagga gemen, who are allowed to pocket
these fees. have been accustomed to
charge more than twice the rate now
fixed. AS the train bagga gemen have
Ions runs on the Frisco a man can
now carry his dog from St. Louis to
Wichita for so cents.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
RAILROAD IS woRsrED.
Southern Pacific Forced to Make Rep
aration to B. z. Kennedy.

San Francisco, Dec. 23.-B. F. Ken
nedy of Dayton, o.. is travelling home
with $3.50 and a free railroad ticket. all
given by the Southern Pacific Railroad
company.
Kennedy started home early in the
week. but the railroad agent on the
overland train suspected that Kennedy
was travelling on a scalped ticket, took
up the pasteboard and put him off the
train at Port Costa.
Kennedy returned to this city, proved
mis- identity and the Southern Pacific
gave him $3.50 and ticket to Dayton to
drop the matter.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
DEATH OF ENGINEER NIXON.
Buried at Ottawa Yesterday-Wel
Known to Santa Fe Men

Thomas Nixon, the veteran Santa Fe
engineer who died at his home in OF
tawa, Monday, was buried yesterday.
Engineer Nixon was GA years of age
and was one of the first men to run an
engine on the Southern Kansas divis-
ion of the road.
His two sons, Charles and Frank Nix
on, followed in the footsteps of their
father. and are now engineers on the
Southern Kansas division with head
quarters at Chanute.
Engineer Nixon was we'll known
among the Santa Fe men in Kansas,
and his funeral was largely attended
by railroad men. He was stricken with
paralysis in his room last Saturday
and never rallied from the stroke.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
Rapid Movement Of Freight Trains.

In a test of speed of freight trains
on the Indianapolis division of the Pan
rying 2,294 tons, hauled by two engines,
and aided occasionally by Il pusher
made 36 miles an hour west from Col
umbuS. Another train of 81 cars, car
rying 1900 tons, and handled in a SINH
lar manner. made 49 miles an hour east
from Bradford
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
RENEWED IN CRETE.
Conflicts Between MuSsulmans
and Christians Resumed.

Gambia, Dec. 23.-There has been n re-
newaI of conflicts between the Nussul-
mans and Christians. The former yester-
day attacked caravan car and killed
twelve Christians.
Toulon. Dec. 2S.-In view of the dis
quieting news from the Island OF Crete.
two French cruisers have been made
ready to sail for the island at a mo-
ments notice.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
FROM NEWTON TO PURCELL.
Passenger Engineers, it is Said, Will
Have to Make the Round Trip.

Arkansas City Dec 23=Yesterday
morning Engineer James Hays had or
derS to go to Newton from here
with his engine He got excused and
sent a sub. His fireman made the run
TO Newton.
Mr. Hays made the round trip from
here to Purcell and this order to go on
to Newton is supposed to be the in
auguration Of the much talked of order
for all passenger engineers to make the
round trip from Newton TO Purcell.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23

January 1, 1898 Shopmen will also
work only four days per week, seven
hours per day. The order goes into eff
feet today concerning the lay off. All
car repairers and carpenters were laid
off few days ago till notified.
Many of the shOpmen will go east or
west to spend the holidays. There is said
to be plenty of work for the force of
men employed at present and the rea-
son for the cut is not understood.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-23
GIVEN a $4,000 FREsENr.
Employees of the D. L. & W. Road
Remember Their Aged President

New York. Dec. 23.-Today President
Samuel Sloan of the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western road Will be pre-
scented with $4,000 gold table service
by the officers and employees of the
company he directs.
The occasion for the presentation is
that Mr.. Sloan will be so years old on
time Mr.. Sloan viii have been president
of the Delaware and Lackawanna for
thirty years.