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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
INTEREST VERY LIGHT
In the Spring Election Which Makes
Registration Light Also.

The registration has been unusually
light even for an off year. Commission
er of Elections YOunt says that there
are not more than 400 people register
ed including the female voters.
Some of the Republican politicians
fear that this endangers some of their
candidates. They say that the opposi-
ton may have been making a still hunt
and registering their voters, while the
Republicans have given the matter no
attention.
1t would probably be nearer the truth
to say that the neglect is general and
that Republicans, Democrats and Pop
ulists have all been derelict.
Commissioner YOunt says that he is
unable to give even an approximate of
the registration by wards and precincts,
but people from the Fifth ward say
that the voters in that section have not
been registering, and that there is
grave danger that Councilman Warner
may find a stubborn opposition on that
account.
The registration books will close Fri
day evening at o'clock. 1t will be too
late after that hour if you have not
registered before, and you cannot vote
at the election this spring.
The fact that people interested in
candidates are frightened at the small
registration may result in a rush at the
office this week, but even should the
clerks have all they can do from now
until the books close, the registration
cannot be large.
If 5000 people registered before Fri
day evening the registration would not
be considered large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
CENTRAL BRANCH ITEMS.
Increased Business Causes a Rush All
Along the Line.

Greenleaf, March 22.-Owing to in
creasing business on the Central branch
division of the Missouri Pacific the en-
plOyes in the car department in the
AtchisOn shops are working on fun
time.
In February the Central branch
Cawker City, showing an increase of
$1,000 over the earnings in the same
month in 1897. This month the same
station has already handled 43 cars of
stock.
The Central branch is running extra
trains almost daily. If the company
would furnish all the grain cars want
ed from one end OF the road to the oth-
er they would more than double their
extra train service.
The Washington people appreciate
their Sunday mail service. Although
the town has two railroads it has been
several years since she had Sunday
mail The change of time on the Cen
trail branch filed the bill.
The PrOsser branch of the Central
branch hauls on an average 20 cars of
grain daily except Sunday. Most of this
comes from the Republic county towns
of Scandal, Republic City and Norway.
Mrs. SohIinger of COncOrdia, wife of
Conductor Mike Sohlinger of the Pros
ser branch, gave an interesting enter
tainment to a large number of her
friends on the completion Of their new
house.
The railroad company could make
their Greenleaf park more inviting by
putting a new fence around it, the pres
ent one looking as if a cyclone mad
struck it.
Between Clyde and Clifton the Rock
Island and Union Pacific tracks paral-
lei the Central branch Frequently the
former and latter trains run a race.
which makes the passengers hair stand
up.
The railroad company haven't made
any public announcement of what i'm
prOvements they intend to make in
the division towns of GreenIeaf and
of
needed.
With the amount of stock and grain
shipped out of the north Solomon cOun-
try the towns in that portion of the
Central branch territory are entitled to
better train service.
The Central branch is acknowledged
to be among the best if not the first in
business as a feeder, of the main line
of the Missouri Pacific.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
FROM LAS VEGAS.

Conductor Fred Bacon has taken a
80 days lay off in which he will visit
the Klondike. He was expected to leave
yesterday afternoon.
Fireman Arthur LangstOn, on the
switch engine, has traded runs with
Fireman WestIing, of engine 91S, for 60
days.
A number of the Santa Fe firemen
went to Ration Thursday to attend the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen's
ball A large number of railroad men
from La Junta were present
Geo. w. Still has been assigned as
fireman to 1896, the third pusher at Lany
and he and Marion Stewart, the engi-
neer, are down from the hill, with the
engine, for the usual monthly washout.
Fireman Bushey is on the sick list
and unable to be on duty.
w. D. Marsmer, a railroad employe
of San Marcial, is in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
FROM DODGE CITY.

Passenger Conductor Brown is on
duty again.
Sam Rankin has secured employment
with the bridge gang.
Conductor Stockwell and crew are on
the work train this week.
Extra Conductor Ellis has reported
for duty again after a twenty days lay
off.
and Extra Brakeman Arnold has his
run.
Extra Brakeman McCIintock has
been running with Conductor Pond in
place of Jones during the past week.
Brakeman Cowley has gone to New
ton on a visit and Extra Brakeman
MuIIigan is working in his place.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Hurd, Misses Ida
Tarbox and Edith Conn, and Messrs.
AL Warren, Harry Taylor and Bert
Hobble attended the ball at Newton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
AMONG RAILROAD MEN.

"A large force of men is in COffeyviIle
laying the new NJ. X. & T. south from
the depot to Browns new lumber yard.
Several other valuable improvements
will be made on the Katy property
which will add TO its facilities for hand
ling business.
r b. Bowman of Las Vegas, fireman
on the Santa Fe, is laid off from the
bursting of a, water glass, the frag-
ments hitting him in the eye. This Oc-
Cured on the same engine, where
similar accident deprived Conductor J.
8. Cunningham of one eye, both sight
and ball.
At an early date the Santa Fe will
place a chair car on its 1875 a. m. pas
senger train out of COffeyVille and it
will run through to Kansas City with
out change. This will avoid changing
cars at CherryYale and will give this
city another through day train to
Kansas City.
The NJ. K & T. is the only large road
in the southwest that did not show in
creased earnings for February, 1898
Can it be that the gates have thus cut
into the cOmpanyS revenue? This is
the explanation furnished by the COM
mercial tourists, who will never pat
rOnize a gate line when another is
available.
The engineer and fireman on the Ka-
ty at DennisOn were pooled" yester-
day Thirty-five of the oldest engineers
and thirty-five of the oldest 1remen in
the company's service were given the
regular runs, and the balance of the
men are put on the extra list
The Katy broke the record with
stock train from Greenville to DeniSOn
recently. The train left GreenviIIe at
$50 arriving at DenisOn at 1850 an
hour and twenty minutes. The dis
tance was 81 miles 1t requires two
hours and ten minutes for a passenger
train to make the same distance.
Some freight engines are now MAX
ing daily trips from Las Vegas to Al
buquerque and back, on account of the
increase in business. The fruit trade
from California is greater than ever
known.
J. z. Hurley, the division superinten-
dem, has returned from Isleta and
the south. He states that he arranged
with the governor of Isleta to keep his
Indians at home until the village is
thoroughly eXpunged of all kinds of con-
tagiOus diseases.
Engineers Brubaker and Waggoner
went to Purcell with orders to proceed
to Ponca City and commence work at
once on the quarter tracks which the
Santa Fe has had under consideration
for some time. A large force of men
will be put to work at once
Carl H. Haerer, a Santa Fe empIoye
at Fort Madison, got his right arm
caught between the cogs of a machine
he was wiping, and before it could be
stopped the arm was ground into a
pulp.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
UNDER THE DOME
News of the Kansas State De-
partments.
Arkansas City Finally Comes
Up to Seat of Government
DEMANDING RELIEF
From the Hardships Being Put
Upon Her
By the Water Company Which
Has Shut Off the Water.

A petition, several yards in length,
and bearing the signatures of hundreds
of citizens, has been filed with Attorney
General Boyle, asking him to have the
injunction proceedings in the Arkansas
City Water Works case, now pending
in the supreme court, dismissed.
The petition was brought to this city
Monday afternoon by Mayor J. W.
Sparks and Mr. G. A. Miller of Arkan-
sas City. Attorney General Boyle was
absent in lola, and they returned to
their home last night without seeing
him, but the petition is in itself an earn
est appeal.
The injunction proceedings were in
stituted by Mr.. J. Mack Love, in the
name of the state, to prevent the coun-
Gil of Arkansas City effecting a compro-
mise with the water works company,
which held a judgment of 100000
against the city.
The company shut off all water con-
nectiOns with the city as a result of the
trouble, and Arkansas City is now
without water for either fire or sanitary
purposes. The only water in the town
is that secured from wells.
Mayor Sparks says the sanitary con-
dition of the city is becoming danger
Gus, and that unless water for sewer
age purposes is secured in a short time,
an epidemic of disease is bound TO re-
suit.
There have already been several dis
astroUs fires in the city, and all prop
erty is without fire protection. He says
that the basis of compromise agreed
upon was reasonable, as the city would
rid itself of a 100000 judgment for
about $27, O0O
Attorney General Boyle returned to-
day and will take up the matter He
will probably have the injunction pro-
ceedingS dismissed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
FROM LA JUNTA.

Jerry Edmunds, of the rip track, has
Quit the service of the Santa Fe.
+ J. Clavin of Denver, travelling pas
senger agent of the Santa Fe, was in
town yesterday morning.
James Cass, who has been employed
on the rip track, has left the service of
the company.
win Spicer, the genial Santa Fe tick
ct agent left this morning for Colorado
Springs to remain a day or two on bus
mess.
James Dorian has returned from Ra-
ton. where he attended the firemen's
, bali given on ST. Patrick's day.
Edgar A. Smith, ex-ticket agent at
this point has secured a position with
a United States surveying corps and is
now working in Utah.
Timekeeper Charles Wymer, of Ra-
ton, has been transferred to Trinidad,
Col. The vacancy in the office at Ra-
ton has been filed by H. E. Fritts of
TOneka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
WON'T CLIMB THE DOME.

The Governor Has an Antipathy to
Stairs Least so Many of Them.
Gov. Leedy has been a resident of the
state house for over a year, but he has
yet his first trip to make to the top Of
the dome. He has never yet viewed To-
peka and the adjacent country from the
dome balcony, and says he is not sure
he will make the trip before going out
of office, no matter how long hence that
may be. He says that he has always
had an antipathy to climbing stairs,
and that as he grows older the antipa-
thy has grown upon him, and the long
winding dome stairways frighten him
out of making the venture. He has
likewise never made a trip to the en-
CINE rooms, in the basement of the cap
itOl.
He rarely ever visits any Of the other
state offices, except the Office of the
secretary of state, where the executive
council meetings are held.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
ROW RENEWED.
The Reichsrath Starts Off at Its Old
Face.

Vienna, March 22.-The reichsrath reas-
sembled today. There was a full attend
ance of deputies and the public galleries
We're filed After Count Won Thun IIo-
henstein. the president of the council of
ministers and minister of the interior, had
declared the session open, Dr. Zurken was
called to- the chair. He made a speech
expressing hope that the house would set
diligently to work, finding special in
centive from the approaching jubilee of
Emperor Francis JCseph's glorious reign
The remark brought forth cheers from the
deputies
Herr Fuchs. Cathode Peoples party, was
elected president. The German Peoples
party. the Progressists, the Christian So
cialistS. SchOenerers and Social Demo-
Gratis did not participate in the election
and the announcement of Herr FUCHS
election was greeted with shouts Of Dis
graceful" He is state criminal and
ought to be in Jail" He belongs to the
former presidential bureau"
While Herr Fuchs was making his in
auguraI speech Herr SchOenerer shouted
deuunciatiOnS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22

Ask your doctor how
many preparations of cod
liver oil there are.
He will answer, "Hun-
dreds of them % Ask him
which is the best. He will
reply, "ScOtt's Emulsion"
Then see that this is the
one you obtain. 1t contains
the purest cod-liver oil, free
from unpleasant odort and
taste. You also get the by
POPhosPhites and glycerine.
All three are blended into
one grand healing and nour-
iShing remedy.
soc. and sI.oo, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists. New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
ABOUT THE NEW LIBRARY.
Question of the Removal of the Books
Again Under Discussion.

Again Under Discussion.
To be or not to be, that is the ques-
ton that is just at present puzzling the
executive council In particular it is
whether it would be better to move the
state library at once from the first floor
of the building to the handsome new
rooms in the third story, using the old
shelving and laying a wood floor, or to
wait until an appropriation sufficient to
put in a marble floor and steel ShelV-
ing, can be secured.
The supreme court judges are in IA
vOr of immediate removal and Mrs
Annie L. Diggs, the state librarian, is
in favor of waiting. Governor Leedy is
on Mrs. Diggs' side, and rest of the
council members are in a quandary as
to which side to take. The supreme
court judges say they are tired of
tramping up and down three flights of
stairs every time they want to refer to
a law book, and want the library where
it will be available to them. Mrs. Diggs
says that the present wood shelving
would spoil the looks of the new library
rooms, and that until the library could
be established in its new quarters in
substantial way it should be left where
it is.
The new library rooms in the third
story of the north wing are more hand
somely finished than any other rooms
in the state house. Governor Leedy says
that with steel shelving and a marble
floor no changes will be necessary for
at least a century, and that in the long
run it will be an economical move for
the state He says that in the event of
a special session an appropriation for
this purpose could undoubtedly be Sc
cured, or that if the matter had to go
until the next regular session he be-
lieves the appropriation could be made
available at once without waiting for
the commencement of the fiscal year,
and the improvements be made early
in 1899
Mrs. Diggs and Justices Doster, AL
len and Johnson appeared before the
executive council at the meeting Mon
day afternoon in reference to the mat
ter. The council heard both sides of
the question, and then decided to post
pone action. It is said that nothing
will be done until Governor Leedy set
ties the question of a special session,
as in the event of the legislature being
called together the necessary appropria-
ton could be secured.
If a marble floor and steel shelving
are secured for the new rooms, Kansas
will have the handsomest library in the
west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT
Remarkable Legal Opinion of MI
Smelling on Divine Healing.

Because Jehovah is not subject to the
laws of Kansas, divine healers cannot
be held to be subject to the state laws
governing the practice of medicine and
surgery.
This is the substance of an opinion
given out by Assistant Attorney Cen
eraI George Smelling to DR.. H. 4. Gill,
secretary of the state board of health.
DR.. Gill is preparing to make war on
the "quacks' in Kansas, and he asked
for an opinion from the attorney gener-
al as to whether divine healers, mag
netic healers and hypnotists could be
dealt with as doctors in the enforce
ment of the law.
Mr.. Smelling studied the matter for
several hours, and then told DR.. Gill
that he might turn the thumbscrews on
hypnotists and magnetic healers, but
divine healers would have to be held
exempt.
In support of his opinion he said that
magnetic healers and hypnotists pre-
tended to have personal healing power,
while divine healers declared their pow
er to come from Jehovah. Jehovah, he
explained, was in no way amenable TO
the laws of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
FROM RATION.

Conductor H. A. VanNess, has been
transferred to the Trinidad-Starkville
coal run.
The Santa Fe, received six hundred
Trojan car couples, at the shops here
this week, and are now engaged in fit
ting them to three hundred freight cars
r. A. Chamberlain of the depot force
has taken a leave of absence for trip
to FIT Worth, Texas
Conductor Geo. Davey, is making pre-
paration for his trip to KlOndike.
It is reported that Firemen Harry
Rover and William Baittenstene will
soon be ordered to report to Superin-
tendent Hurley and Master Mechanic
Taylor for examination for promotion
to the rank of engineers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
The
D1ppoP
or The
DPOppoP?

There are cough medicines that
are taken as freely as a drink of
water from dipper. They are
cheap medicines. Quantity does not
make up for quality. It's the quail
ity that cures. There's one medi-
cine that's dropped, not dipped
Ayers Cherry Pectoral. There's
more power in drops of this remedy
than in dippersful of cheap cough
syrups and elixirs. 1t cures Bron-
chitis, Asthma, Group, Whooping
Cough, and all Colds, Coughs, and
affections of the Throat and Lungs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
WILL PAY OLD EmPLoYEs.
Union Pacific Hospital Fund to 3
Distributed Pro Rata.

Omaha. Neb.. March 22.-The distribu-
ton of the several hundred thousand dol
lars contained in the Union Pacific hospi-
tai fund is causing no end of trouble.
This fund accumulated during the life
of the original company, and the new or
ganizat ton desires to pay it back pro rata
to the employees and close the hospital ar
rangement.
The fund was gathered by an arbitrary
assessment of 40 cents per month on every
person employed by the Union Pacific.
Since the announcement was made the
management has been receiving letters at
the rate of 200 day from persons who at
one period of their lives have worked for
the Union Pacific They want their share
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22

of the fund. In some cases it amounts to
$500 in others 800
All these letters desire to know by
whom the fund Will be distributed The
company made public today statement
by which all employees who have worked
for the company during the past twenty
years can have what is coming to them
by sending to the auditor their full ad-
dress. the time when they began working
for the company and the time of quitting
1t is estimated that over 10000 people
throughout the United States will partici-
al in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
AVOID DECEPTION.
Ask for the Popular and Reliable
Diamond Dyes.

Diamond Dyes.
Do not be led away by the false
claims of imitators. No other dyes in
the world can equal the Diamond Dyes.
They are fully warranted to color more
goods, package for package, and give
more brilliant and durable colors than
can be gotten by other dye-stuffs.
The claims of makers of adulterated
dye-stuffs and of colors that are made
up of a very small amount of poor dye
can only lead to disappointment and
the utter ruin of valuable and service
able materials. Many women, for the
sake of curiosity, have tried some of
the imitation makes of dyes, and are
now quite satisfied that Diamond Dyes
alone are worthy of admittance to the
home as true agents of economy. We
say again, do not be deceived by the
statements of any dealer; ask for Dia-
mond Dyes and take no other make.
Diamond Dyes delight the users and
make the family happy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22

Suffering humanity should be supplied
with every means possible for its relief
It is with pleasure we publish the follow
Ing: This is to certify that was a ter
riDle sufferer from yellow jaundice for
over six months, and was treated by some
of the best physicians in our city. and all
to no avail. DR.. Bell, our druggist, rec
commended Electric Bitters; and after
taking two bottles. I entirely cured.
l now take great pleasure in recommend
ing them to any person suffering from
this terrible malady. I am gratefully
yours, NJ A. Hogarty, Lexington KY
Sold by Swift & Holiday, druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22

It is not always the man who wears
the uniform of a soldier, carries a mus
ket with a fixed bayonet and PAGES up
and down that is doing the most faith
full guarding of life and property. There
are f1agmen at railroad crossings who.
through all kinds of weather, are
called upon to watch, and watch care
fully and faithfully lest the passing
trains shall kill or MAIN some passerby.
One of these faithful watchers is P.
r. Symmes, who for 13 years has
watched the crossings at Fourth street
and the railroad tracks. For 10 years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22

Port Jervis and Monticello railroad, had
an exciting chase with deer yesterday.
He was passing through HARDWOOD
when a fine doe, which was drinking in
the lower pond, was frightened by the
noise of the train, and ran up the bank
and down the track in advance of the
locomotive. The engineer pulled the
whistle open, but the deer kept on the
track and ahead of the screeching ma
chine for full half a mile and then
bounded into the woods
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
PENSIONS MADE SOLID.
Cannot Be Stopped Except for Specific
Causes.

Washington, March 22.-The house COM
mittee on invalid pensions has favOrably
reported the Overstreet bill, prohibiting
the Withholding, suspension. modidca ton
or cancellation of any pension except for
fraud, clerical error, mistake OF fact OF
recovery from disability
The committee has recommended to the
house the allowance of a pension of 500
per month to Katherine L. Cushing, widow
of the late Commander Gushing, Y: > y,
who gained distinction by destroying the
Confederate ram Albemarle-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22
NEW ROCK ISLAND CARS.
Gets Two Dining and Four Composite
Cars of Pullman.

OdIS OF EuIIman.
The two dining cars which the C., R
I. & p. have recently ordered of the
Pullman company, are to be delivered
in April.
The general dimensions are 60 feet 8
inches long by 10 feet wide over car
body. The specifications call for Nc
Kee-Fuller wheels, Westinghouse
brakes, National hollow brake beams,
NatiOnal-Miller coupler heads. Stand
ard steel platforms, Pintsch gas, Pull
man wide vestibUles. These cars are to
be used on the Rock Island limited be
tween Chicago and Denver.
The four composite cars ordered at
the same time of Pullman are to be
used in the same service. These cars are
to be 20 feet long by feet inches wide
over car body. The specifications are
substantially the same as for the din
ing cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-22

man had been overcome with the gases
while on the running board in the tun-
mel, and had tainted and fallen to the
ground, but, luckily, besides a few
bruises, he was uninjured
1t was a lucky escape and Norman
will probably not ride on any more
running boards when passing through
q tunnel