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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
CLASH OVER Taxes.
Cowley County and the Santa Fe in q
Shit Over Water Tax Levy.

AS a result of the attempt of the
county officials of COwley county to
make the levy necessary to pay the
judgment of the Arkansas City Water
company, the Santa Fe company and
the county will come together in a law
suit.
The water company secured a judg-
ment against the city several years ago
in the federal court, and some time ago
the United States circuit court issued
an order instructing the county officials
to make a levy on all taxable property
in Arkansas City sufficient to pay the
amount Accordingly the levy was
made, amounting to q mills on the dol
lar, and an assessment made on the
Santa F'e property in the city for this
additional amount. The Santa F'e
mills on the dollar, holding that as a
city of the second-class Arkansas City
could not exceed a levy of 10 mills, and
made a legal tender of over $12, 900 on
the 10 mills basis. This was refused by
the treasurer, and today a warrant will
be issued to the sheriff for the cOllec-
ton of the remaining 1,4S0, represent
ing the additional levy on the Arkansas
City property.
Mr.. E. T. Cartilage, tax commission
er of the Santa Fe, will at once apply
for an injunction as soon as the war
rant is issued restraining the sheriff
from collecting this amount, and the
matter will be taken into the courts.
Federal and state authority will clash
in this suit, as the supreme court has
fixed 10 mills as the levy limit in cities
of the SecOnd-claSS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
YAWP FOR SPOILS.
A Big Majority of Members of
the House
Want the Gates Opened So That
They Can
Reward Their Henchmen and
Heelers With Office.
CIVIL SERVICE LAW
Is in Peril and May Not Stand
the Onslaughts
OF the Faithful Who Want Pay
for Campaign Work.

Washington, Jan. 15.-The canvass
of Republican members of the house of
representatives on the question of
changing the civil service law, which
has been conducted by the Republican
steering committee is about completed.
OF the POP Republican members of the
house, the canvass is said to show that
a majority varying from IS to 40 is
favorable to the change in the law, ac-
cOrding to the degree of change pro-
posed. This last factor leads to some
difference of opinion as to the result of
the canvass. Representative Pearson
of North Carolina, a member of the
committee places the number of Re
publicans who can be depended upon at
112 Mr.. Evans of Kentucky, another
member of the committee places the
number at 1876. Those who have made
the canvass say that in a number of
cases entire state delegations are
shown by the canvass to favor change
in the law, notably North Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia
and New Hampshire. The Minnesota
count shows all but one for a change;
Michigan all but two, Pennsylvania %
out of 81 Republican members are
counted in the canvass for change in
the law.
Beyond completing the canvass, the
opposition to the civil service law is
taking no active steps for the present,
the purpose being to wait until the reg
ular civil service committee of the
house takes action on the bill before it
proposes a modification of the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
AMONG RAILROAD MEN.

The Wagner Palace Car company has
decided to remove its cOlOred cooks and
walters and substitute white men. The
change is already in effect on the limit
ed trains of the Lake Shore.
1t is said at Chanute that as soon as
the new time card goes into effect, the
Santa Fe will run an accommodation
train to lola from Chanute every morn
ing and the engine will remain there
all day to do the switching in the
yards, returning in the evening.
Conductor S. c. Hutchinson of Cha
mute has just recovered sufficiently
from a severe illness to be able to take
his regular run on the Santa F'e again.
Engineer Baker, of the Lawrence
branch, was making his run on the
passenger train yesterday afternoon,
when nearing Baldwin he was surpris-
ed to see a gray-haired man in the
middle of the track coming towards
the engine, apparently unconscious of
his surroundings. Engineer Baker sud
denly brought the train to standStill
when the old man stepped off and al
lowed the train to pass. Engineer Ba-
ker says the experience was almost as
horrifying as though the engine had
struck the man and killed him.-Otta-
wa Herald.
William Brannan, who has been an
engineer on the Santa Fe, Prescott &
Phoenix is the new conductor on the
passenger run to Ash Fork Thomas
McGrath takes the opposite run to that
held by Mr.. Brannan.
Conductor McClaf1in and family will
leave Winslow the first part of next
week for California, where they will
probably make their future home.
Conductor Gill, of the Ell PaSO &
Northeastern road, has encountered a
fine flow of water in the we'll bored for
the company out IS miles northeast of
Fort Bliss. The well is 43o feet deep,
with a first-class quality of water
There is talk of putting the Howard
branch back under the control of the
Cottonwood division instead of being
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
BRADsTREET'S.
Finds Industrial Activity Most Mani
fest in the West.

New York, Jan. 15.-Bradstreet's says:
Distribution of trade remains rather
quiet, mild weather throughout the eoun-
try tending to check distribution of VIM
ter goods Prices generally remain steady
or tend upward, except for some grades
of iron. and orders for spring trade, where
received, are encouraging. Industrial ac-
tivity is most manifest at the west, where
the demand for iron is very large
At the east a number of strikes against
wage reductions are reported or expected
in the cotton industry. Some wooden mills
working on heavy mems wear goods are
refusing orders, their capacity being fully
booked.
Anthracite coal production is sucn that
it is said that the trade will be restricted
sufficiently to allow the advance OF ~ 10
40 cents per 900 being maintained. The
weather has been Disappointing at the
northwest But an Improvement in the
demand developed at some centers as the
week advanced. The rush to Alaska has
already begun on the Pacific coast. Freight
charters are reported lower. Export trade
continues large, a gain of per cent on
the total export of breadstuffs, cotton,
mineral oils cattle and hogs and provis-
ions being shown both for December and
the calendar year.
The recent falling off in wheat exports
proves. as was indicated last week in
Bradstreet's, to have been due to the
usual holiday quiet and not TO any falling
of of demand from abroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
SANTA FE LOCAL NOTES.

Ice at st. Joe is reported good and the
SECOND cutting may commence soon.
John Jones, night car inspector is sick
trio lights.
J. l. Pennington, live stock agent of the
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, passed through
Topeka Saturday on No. 1O5 on his way to
No. was was tWo h n5GH Cin ate Saturday
morning when it arrived in Topeka. There
were two special cars attached, one of the
route.
Special car 22O will leave the paint shop
John Stafford of the paint shop has gone
to Dodge City to do the decorating of the
,Royster Waring, designer of the paint
John Segrist Of the, car department is
Peter Hagan of the car department is
sick.
Conductor W. w. Porter is considered
one of the best story tellers on the road.
He can do good limitations.
Mcqueen engine 1872 took its trial trip
Friday in charge of Engineer Beeler and
Conductor Proctor. 1t will go into serv-
ice on the Chicago division.
Engine 7SS left the shops Friday.
Friday afternoon.
Frank Dolman is ''cabin bay at night.
The way of saturating waste with oil
idea of Foreman George Elliott. The
waste is in barrels that have wire netting
the bottom. The oil is turned into
the top of the barrel and soalzs through.
What is not absorbed is caught in a pan
and run back into the supply tank.
When any of the switching crews have
o load to take to North Topeka everyone
knows where they are going. They jump
out as if they were a fast express.
John Sappes of the car department is
laid up with an injured eye.
Snowy weather makes the men who
work in the new car shop thankful that
they are under cover.
Burt Vail and James Kincaid of the car
department will go to Arkansas to look
a some land offered quite cheap by the
Iron Mountain road. The land was bought
by the road for the timber there was on
hat hei ole n hoy
will dispose of it at cheap price on
monthly payments.
Baggage car No. 827 of the Sonora line
is being reprinted in the Topeka shops.
J. D. Sleeper of the coach shop is sick.
Sherman HiN of the coach shop is sick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
SANTA FE ICE CROP.
Road VIII Put Up $4,000 Tons at La
Junta-New Ice Houses.

The ice that is being put up by the
Santa Fe at La Junta is the best that
has been cut for storage there for
years.
It is of good thickness and clear and
solid. The ice is cut on Lake George,
a lake of pure, cold water. In view of
the fact that such good ice is to be had.
the company is making preparations to
put up more than ever before. At pres
ent there are ten ice houses at La Jun
ia and three more are to be finished in
time to be filed with the winters har-
vest of ice.
When the new ice houses are COM
pleted there will be 500 running feet of
houses, with a capacity Of $4,000 tons
Last year the Santa Fe handled large
shipments of melons from Rock Ford.
the famous melon growing region, and
this year the company expects to han
die even more than last year. The mel
on raisers of Rocky Ford have formed
of the melons, and orders have been re-
ceived for hundred car loads that will
be shipped as far east as Boston.
Chicago, St. Louis and New York par
ties have placed large orders for mel
OnS, and this means a greater demand
for refrigerator cars than ever before,
and the Santa Fe is providing for it by
putting up the immense amount of ice
at La Junta and other points, and of
having $50 refrigerator cars built by
the Wells & French company of Chica-
go.
The Santa Fe is the only road run
ming into Rock Ford, and all of the
business is handled by them. For sew
eral years the Santa Fe has not had the
lions share of the fruit business from
California but this season there will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
Reorganization Circular Issued by the
Santa Fe.

The reorganization of the Santa Fe
engineering department will become eff
fective today as follows. The announce
ment of the changes and promotions
was made in the State Journal some
time ago, and the official circular was
issued today:
Mr.. c. A. Morse, resident engineer at
Fit. Madison, Ia. In charge of the Chi
cago division.
Mr.. J. NJ. Meade, resident engineer at
Topeka. In charge Of the eastern and
part of the middle division.
Mr.. M n. Wells, resident engineer at
Chanute, Kan. In charge of the South
ern Kansas division.
Mr.. w. H. Earl, resident engineer at
Newton, Kan. In charge Of the Okla
homa division.
Mr.. F. H. Nudge, resident engineer at
Pueblo, Col. In charge of a part of the
middle division and the western divis-
ion.
Mr.. E. w Grant, resident engineer at
Las Vegas, N. NJ. In charge of the
New Mexico and Rio Grande divisions
Mr.. Nudge and Mr.. Grant were pro-
NOTED from assistant resident engi-
neers, and Mr.. Meade transferred from
Pueblo to Topeka. The other changes
made by the reorganization are in as
signment of territory.
The reorganization was made neceS-
sary by the large amount of improve
ments now underway and contempla-
ted by the Santa Fe company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
WANT SCHEDULE REVISED.
Joint Santa Fe Grievance Committee
Will Ask for a Change


The joint grievance committee of the
this city, composed of the o. r. c. and
B. of r. T. grievance committees, has
decided to ask for. a revision of the
schedule governing trainmen employed
on the Santa F'e.
The matter was taken up and dis
cussed at the meeting Friday, and to-
day a committee will be appointed to
take the present schedule and recon-
mend revisions along the lines that
have been suggested in the discussion.
The recommendations will be reported
back to the joint committee, and if sat
isfactory the special committee will
then go before the Santa Fe officials
and ask that the reViSiOnS be made.
by Mr.. II. r. Nickerson, when he was
general superintendent of the Santa Fe
a number of years ago. Since that time
conditions have changed somewhat, and
the trainmen say that a revision of the
schedule in many instances will result
in benefit to them without causing the
company either injury or expense.
The schedule covers the payment of
trainmen, but the members of the COM
mittee say that no revision will be ask
ed for in this particular as the present
pay of both conductors and brakemen
is satisfactory. Only the rules gov
erning runs, discipline, etc, will be
touched upon.
Mr.. Avery Turner, assistant general
superintendent, stated today that if a
revision of the schedule was asked for
by the trainmen the company would be
willing to grant it along reasonable
lines.
The committee will probably go be-
fore the officials Monday with the rec
concentrations for revision.
The joint meeting is being presided
city, chairman of the 3. of r. T. griev-
a0ce committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

DR.. W. c. Francis is confined to his
home by illness.
newspaper man says that about one
public officer in 100 knows what news is.
Postmaster A. J. Arnold is able to be at
his post again after several days illness.
Judge Hazen is in favor of abolishing
the justice courts and having city court.
Judge Guthrie has not yet received the
official notice of his appointment as post
master.
The father of Councilman Stephenson
has lived on his farm east of Topeka, for
40 years.
The long distance telephone line between
Topeka and E1nporia will be completed
this month.
Mrs. Morgan lectured at the Art insti-
tute Friday afternoon on THE Law of
Cause and Effect
Mr.. T. R. Hyatt has resumed his place in
the treasurer's office of the Santa Fe
after a severe illness.
Judge Foster will leave for California
with his family Monday. He will return
to Topeka early in April.
Bishop John H. Vincent will preach at
the First NJ. E. church tomorrow morning
at IL o'clock. No services in the evening.
The Rev. J. w Sykes, to be dean of
Grace cathedral, will preach his first SER
mon Sunday morning at Grace cath edral-
Mr.. J. T. Bierce, in charge of a postal
car on the Santa F'e from Kansas City to
La Junta, Col, visited in this city yester-
day.
Mrs Archie Baird, wife of Foreman
Baird ofthe Santa Fe boilermaking depart
ment, is seriously i'll at her home in North
Topeka.
DR.. Countermine of the First Presby>
terrain church will hold a special service
Sunday evening for people who wish to
unite with the church.
Madge Wallace, who achieved notoriety
by sending Harry Stoops, young Chi
cago contractor, to the penitentiary, has
been licensed to marry G. E. Kathary.
Doctors see all the weaknesses of hu-
man kind but newspaper men encounter
more of their stupidities. It makes both
doctors and newspaper writer's contempt
uous.
J. c. McKibben, the man who made
counterfeit money in the Leavenworth
penitentiary, has given a $500 cash bond
and has been released. He changed his
mind about pleading guilty.
officers elected Friday night for To-
pelza Trades and Labor assembly were as
follows: President, A E. Thorson; vice
president, H. P. Miller; secretary, E. D.
wilcox; treasurer, w. s. Bush; sergeant
alarms, D. w. Grubbs; trustees, H p.
Miller, A. NJ. H. Claudy and Edward kim
ninger.
A Topeka attorney says: ut is queer
to see Congressman Curtis and Broderick
making so much fuss about the appoints
ment of a Nebraska man as national bank
examiner for Kansas when they used their
influence to make a New York man as
sistant secretary of the interior"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
FROM DODGE CITY.

John Shaw who Is running between
Pueblo and La Junta is home for a few
days visit.
Engineer Jerry Shaw is laying off for
a few days.
Several OF the boys are contemplating
q trip east about the goth of this month.
Conductor Zwick and wife have re-
turned from their wedding trip to Ell
Paso and have gone to housekeeping in
the north part of the city.
Fred Gardner, agent, occupies quart
ers in the. new depot, with S. J.
Schneider as clerk.
Painters have finished painting on
the Rock Island railway depot building.
The roof is painted dark and the body
a reddish color The new sidetrackS
and switches have been laid and now
the company is in shape to do business
Agent H. r. Breckenridge will move
his quarters to the new depot building
this evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
FROM NEWTON.

Engineer Billy Dix has been sent
to Mulvane to run out of there for a
short time
Conductor Reese has been assigned
to the passenger service regularly and
will relieve Conductor Werten burg, who
will take a freight run.
The car repairers are kept busy these
days. Since the rush is over all cars
that are in bad shape are being sent in
to be repaired.
All the water pipes in the Santa Fe
yards about the back shop are being
buried. During the last cold snap a
number of them frOze.
Engineer Forester came in from his
run the last time and found himself
without a home. That is to say, his son
had developed a case of scarlet fever
and had been quarantined.
Engineer Johnston is taking a short
vacation. O'Rourke has his engine.
Fireman Charles Bourne has report
ed for duty and has been assigned to
his old engine, No. 172.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15

probably be as much, if not more, fruit
handled by the Santa F'e than any 9TH
er road doing business out of Califor-
MIA.
The California fruit business comes
after the Rocky Ford season, and with
both these large fruit seasons the road
will have demand for all of the fruit
cars and for ice to refrigerate them.
Mr.. G. w. Closson, fuel contractor for
the entire Santa Fe system, has the
contract for packing the ice in the La
Junta houses and has everything in
readiness to commence at a days no
tice.
The cutting will probably commence
on the 18th or 18th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
LARGEST EVER KNOWN.
That.is What R. g. Dun Says of Rail
road Earnings for December.

New York, Jan. 15.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade says in its issue
today:
The year has opened with a very salts
factory prospect. 1t is all the better that
there is no wild excitement in the specu-
lative markets, and, while stocks advance
a little grain Yields a little. The pay
ments through principal cleaning houses.
Notwithstanding a decrease at New York.
owing to less activity in stock. are rs
per cent larger than in 1892, and 10.1 per
cent larger outside New York
Earnings of all railroads in the United
States reporting for December, $43.S 64,279,
indicate substantially the same rate of in
crease, exceeding last years by 105 per
cent, and the earnings of 1892 for the
same roads by 1:3 per cent. Since 1892
was on the whole the most prosperous
year thus far, comparisons indicate, not
withstanding the lowest prices ever
known that the volume of business is
larger ard in spite of some cutting Of
rates. the earnings of railroads are larger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
J. FREY GOES TO CHICAGO
10 Consult President Ripley on Santa
Fe Improvements.

General Manager J. ]. Frey of the
Santa F'e will leave Monday for Chica-
go for the purpose of consulting with
President Ripley concerning the i'm
provements to be made on the Santa
Fe line proper this year.
Mr. Frey will take with him the esti-
mates for the work, which have been
prepared by the engineering depart
ment in this city, and together with Mr.
Ripley, will go over them. All the es-
Inmates will have been passed upon by
the chief executive by the end of the
present month and arrangements start
ed to carry out the work authorized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
HIS VISIONS OF BLOOD.
El-Congressman JEFF Hudson Predicts
q Revolution.

Ex-Congressman T. J. Hudson of
F'redonia predicts a revolution in this
country similar to the French revoIu-
ton.
american politics will never be puri-
fled except by the letting of Blood he
says.
The revolution may occur within a
year, or it may be ten years. 1t is COM
ing, however, and when it does come,
it will be intense. Men who are now rid
ing highhanded over all law and jus
tice will be compelled to flee before the
wrath of an outraged people. am not
an agitator of public discord, but I
firmly believe that this is the drift
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
DORA CLAY SHOT AT.
Her Brother CIeII Richardson
Tries to Kill Her.

Chicago, Jan. ia special to the
Times Herald from Valley View, says:
General Cassius NJ. Clay's young wife,
Dora, barely escaped death at the
hands of her brother, CIeII Richardson.
at whose house she has been boarding
ever since she left the general two
months ago. He fired two shots at her
with a large pistol at a distance of
twenty PAGES, and then fired shot at
Mrs. Bryant, his mOther-in-law, who
was with her
Dora ran to the home of her sister,
Mrs. Kelly, mile distant where she
now is. Clell declared he would kiln
Dora if she does not leave the Kelly
house
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
NEW PREFERRED RUNS.
Ro-established on Fountains Between
Newton and Dodge City.

Newton, Jan. 15.-The preferred runs
have been re-established between here
and Dodge City. OF late the only pre-
ferred runs were between here and Ar
gentine, but it was determined to re-
establish them to Dodge City.
The runs will be on trains No. 81, %,
So, S4. These are the fast freight trains
that comprise the preferred runs east
of here. Conductors Mclaughlin, Judd,
O'Rourke, Whitford and Hannum have
been given the runs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15

operated by the Southern Kansas di-
vision as it has been done for the last
two years.
Dick Beeth has resumed work as day
operator for the Santa Fe at Larned
and T. NJ. Beardsley has returned to
night duty. James O'Brien who done
night duty in the absence of Mr.. Beeth
has been called to Topeka
The Santa Fe paint car has been at
Arkansas City several days painting
everything red at the roundhouse, and
they came up to the depot this morn
there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
BILIOUS
NESS

bosses many a body and bur-
dens many mind. You can't enjoy
the food you like because you are
bilious. You take all sorts of pre-
cautions, and yet the. bilious attack
leaps on you like a tiger from ambush.
You know the feeling The blood
seeming on fire with a dull heat the
boring pains in the eyes the head
seeming to open and shut; the hor-
rible nausea. You know the irrita-
bility which precedes and the languor
that follows the attack. It's miser-
able, isn't it Why not cure the
trouble There's pill that will cure
biliousness. DR.. J.C LAYERS PILLS
are an acknowledged specific for this
arrangement.
A. Swanger, Texarkana, Tex, writes
For fifteen years I have used Ayers Pills,
and find them very effective in bilious COM
plants. I have yet to see the case where
they have failed to cure"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
INTO THE HARLEM.
A Ian Plunges From Washington
Bridge 147 Feet.

New York, Jan. 15-An unknown man
threw himself or, accidentally fell, from
a parapet on the Washington bridge
over the Harlem river at One Hundred
and Efghty-frst street today-a dis
tance of 147 feet
This is II feet further than the dis
lance gone by the Brooklyn bridge
jumpers.
Contrary to the first expectations of
the physicians, the man died late this
afternoon.