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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-17
FROM Las VEGAS.

Engineer Ottys of Dodge City is at
Las Vegas Hot Springs for his health.
Workmen are busy putting up a new
seventy-f1ve foot smoke stack at the
round house.
Brakeman Will Rodes and family
have returned from a visit of several
weeks duration at Caney, Kan.
Three conductors have been let out
on this division; one for tieing up, one
for insubOrdinaticn and one for declin-
ing to deliver a message.
Engineer Jeff Roberts and Mrs. Rob
erts have returned to their home at San
Marcial from pleasant visit with
friends in Boone county, Mo.
Conductor George Rhodes and Mrs
Rhodes have returned from a visit at
Usage City. Kan, and Kansas City,
Mo. At the latter place they took in
the carnival.
Fireman Harris was quite badly hurt
at Albuquerque by falling into the turn
table pit. He was brought to his home
here.
Freight business of late is very rush
ing on the Santa F'e and almost every
train arrives in late, due to the heavy
tonnage of the trains. One train, q
double header came in recently with
1910 tons of freight.
1t is said that it will take from $1,000
to $4,000 cars to handle the California
orange crop this season. The Santa
Fe road will handle fully half of this
or between 400 and 500 train loads and
the Southern Pacific about as much.
The shipments will commence about
November IS, and continue through
December and into January.
Engineer Henry Hoffman of Ration
has returned from visit to Kansas.
Engineer Sweeney has returned from
a sixty days visit with Denver friends.
Engineer Thomas Bourne and wife
of Ration left last week on visit to
NediIl, Mo.
Fred LagerwaH Of San Marcial is
now night clerk at the Ration depot,
having assumed the position Saturday
night.
Geo. Shields. clerk at the freight
house, will leave in a few days for an
extended visit to southern New Mex
leo and Arizona.
Homer Schulz formerly a fireman on
this division, but now a clerk in the
master mechanics office at La Junta,
is in the city visiting friends.
A number Of shop men who have been
let out at San Marcial have been trans
ferred to Albuquerque, and more will
follow. The Albuquerque shop force
will be very materially strengthened.
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NONE TO TELL THE STORY
Of Murder and Robbery on the sloop
Dream

Baltimore, Oct. 1.-THE little oyster
sloop Dream on fire, drifted into Rock
Creek yesterday, bearing evidence that
a murder had been committed on her
deck The dismembered portions of a
white mans body, supposed to be that
of Captain Oliver Caulk, her owner, and
commander, were found after the fire
had been extinguished. A colored deck
hand named Frank Collier, is missing
and he probably shared the fate of the
captain
The police are searching for a mys-
FERROUS stranger who boarded the
Dream on Saturday and asked to be
taken to St Michael, Talbot county, her
home port. whittier she was bound. The
vessel sailed Saturday evening. Sun
day morning she drifted into Rock
Creek. eight miles below the city. An
unknown man was picked up off Spar
rows Point, nearly opposite Rock
Creek yesterday morning from a yaWl
boat by the crew of the schooner Amelia
and brought to Baltimore, where he dis
appeared The police believe that this
man is the murderer. Captain Caull1
had about $500 on his person when he
sailed on Saturday.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Powerful Compound LOcOmO-
tiYes For the Santa Fe
Will Outclass Any Now In SerV-
Ice on the Road.
SPEED AND ECONOMY.
Driving Wheels Will Be ~
Inches In Diameter.
Believed That Long Distance
Speed Record Can Be Broken.

Work has been commenced at the
Santa Fe shops in this city on two
compound locomotives that are expect
ed to display, wonderful power coupled
with great economy in the hauling of
Santa F'e passenger trains. The plans
were designed by Mr.. John Player, sup
erintendent of machinery of the road,
and the engines will be an experiment
until they prove themselves otherwise
On this point, however, Mr.. Player has
the utmost confidence.
The new locomotives will have driv-
ing wheels n INCHES in diameter, seven
inches smaller than the big passenger
engines of the New York Central and
Lake Shore roads, but considerably
larger than the wheels of any of the
engines now in service on the Santa Fe.
The boilers and fireboxes will be con-
structed with view of saving both
fuel and water, it being estimated that
but 5000 gallons of water will be need
ed in covering the distance between To-
peka and Newton, something over 121
miles. The tanks of the engines Will
each have a capacity of 5000 gallons.
None of the engines now in service on
the Santa Fe are able to cover this dis
lance without taking water.
In addition to the economical features
the new locomotives are expected to
show a greater speed than the recently
purchased Dickson engines, the most
powerful passenger engines now in use
on the Santa Fe.
If the new locomotives prove all that
is expected of them, the Santa Fe man
agement will likely use one of them in
an attempt to break the long distance
worlds record for fast running. This
record is a fraction over Sc miles per
hour, exclusive of stops, for a distance
of something over 400 miles. General
superintendent Nudge announced some
time ago that he believed he could
break the worlds record for 200 miles
with an ordinary passenger engine on
the stretch of track from La Junta to
Dodge City. With one of the IocOmo-
tives now building it is believed that a
train can be taken from La Junta to
Emporia, 429 miles, at a greater rate
per mile than the record now standing.
The new locomotives will probably
not be turned out of the shops here I'M
til after the first of the year.
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SING HAIL COLUMBIA.
British Public and Press Take Defeat
Good Naturally.

London, Oct. 7.-Partly owing to the
diminished interest after so many abor-
i've attempts, and partly to disaproint-
4Fneht over the result of Mondays race
LOT Ine Americas cup. London demon
sILauonS We're rather tame Great
Groves had collected on the Thames EN-
r D15l7IneQt and at other places where the
RLoSIeSS OF the race was exhibited and
[hheers were frequently raised for both
t &c OolumbIa and Sir Thomas Linton but
very keen AeSUAI WAS
At the Hotel Cecil, where a crowd If
@AIIleIlcans had collected to await the an
I itSdHceinent of the result on the ticker
Snsers resounded. Yankee Doodle was
, S-I.sY a. an the music halls. When the
465sJldI va, was communicated to the audiences
mere Was a general manifesto ton Of 7fs
appointment but this speedily gave MACE
played American tunes Janus
Inc Daily News says editorfalIv this
~ me Shamrock was Handsomely. bea+eD
rms IS the more mystifying as the ,-ee h.
er was that in which the Shamr0ci- ~
sa1d 70 revel- Every prediction has bae II
1alsifled for she only began to p1IIi mn 81
fallen "4hu mad
According to our correspondent. sea-
nanshlp had a deal to do with if She's
E0ek was outpointed and outfooted from
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WINNER READY FOR WORK.
Grading Will Be Commenced on the
Line East of Lawrence.


Kansas City, Oct. 17.-Thus far three
trolley line systems with headquarters
in Kansas City have been projected
Kansas City, Lawrence & Topeka, and
of construction. When finished they
will give Kansas City several hundred
miles of trolley roads as auxiliary SER
vice to the many steam railways al
ready centering here.
Grading will begin on the Kansas
City, Lawrence & Topeka tomorrow,
probably at Lawrence. 1t is probable
this road will follow the north side of
the Kansas river to a point opposite
Eudora, where a bridge will be built
across the river. TwO-thirds of the
right-of-Way has been secured and
thirty seven miles of road bought. The
company also owns the entire street
railway system in Lawrence. At that
place many improvements will be
made, notably an extension of the
South Massachusetts line to Haskell
institute. This latter line will be built
at once.
The Kansas City & Leavenworth
company, which will have its line in
operation between the terminal points
in about three weeks, has obtained
control of the Leavenworth city trolley
system with a, view to extending the
Interurban line to Atchison.
Each company centering in Kansas
City is exerting every effort to finish
its system. The LeavenWOrth line will
be finished by November L, the Lees
Summit line by January and the To-
peka line may be finished by June 1.
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RUMoR SHATTERED.
Ell Paso & Northwestern Will Not
Build to Rock Island Connec-
ton at Liberal

Ell Paso, Oct. 17.-When asked about
the chances of an extension of the Ell
PasO & Northeastern with the Rock IS
land, Col Boies, one Of the heaviest
stockholders stated positively while
here that the Ell Paso & Northeastern
had no such intention and that no ne
gOtiatiOns were in progress to that end.
However, he said, Il consider it ex-
tremely probable that such a line will
be built in the near future. A connec-
ton with the Rock Island at Liberal,
Kan, would reduce the distance be-
tween Chicago and California and Mex
leo some 285 miles. and it seems to me
very probable that the Rock Island will
extend through a connection with our
line.
Il am also informed that the Choc-
taW, Oklahoma & Gulf is building this
way through Oklahoma and the Pan
handle, while another very probable
connection is an extension of the Santa
Fe and Pecos Valley through Lincoln
and White Oaks. Any of these roads
would profit by building into the coun-
try, and while we do not intend to build
any further it is likely that one or the
other of these roads will act''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-17
The Prompt Way to Cure Yourself When Symptoms
Show That Your Kidneys Are Out of Order.
To Test the Wonderful Merits of the Great Modern Dis
oovery, Swamp-Roo Every Estate Journal Reader May
Have Sample Bottle Sent Free By Mail

The way to be well is to pay atten-
ton to your kidneys.
They are the most important organs
of the body-the blood filters.
All the blood in your body passes
through your kidneys once every three
minutes.
The kidneys strain or filter out the
impurities in the blood-that is their
work.
Purifying your blood is not a, question
of taking a laxative or pyhsic.
Does your blood run through your
bowles?
What the boweI-cleaner does is to
throw out the poisons confined in your
bowels ready for absorption into your
blood, but the posions which are al
ready in your blood, causing your pres
ent sickness, it leaves there.
There is no other way of purifying
your blood except my means of your
kidneys.
That is why boweI-cleaners fail to do
their work-they fail to help the kid
neys.
When you are sick, then, no matter
what you think the name of your
disease is, the first thing you should do
is to afford aid to your kidneys by
using DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the
great Kidney Remedy.
In taking Swamp Root you afford ma
turaI help to nature, for Swamp Root
is the most perfect healer and gentle
aid to the Kidneys that is known to
medical science.
DR.. Kilmer, the eminent physician
and specialist, has attained a far famed
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WHOLESALE sLAsHING
Texas Lines Are Drawn Into the Bur-
lington-M Memphis Middle.

Kansas City, Oct. 1.-THE war be-
tween the Memphis and the Burlington
on the Omaha-Kansas City packing
house differential to the southeast and
the Mississippi valley has reached a
stage where other lines are taking
hand. The fact that the combination
of locals through New Orleans would
cut the esta bliShed rate TO Houston 10
cents per 100 pounds forced the direct
Texas lines into the fight and yester-
day the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gull
announced that, effective October 20, it
would reduce the packing house rate
to Beaumont, Houston and Galveston
to the same basis, namely A cents per
100 pounds. The Missouri, Kansas &
Texas will make the same rate to the
points named, and the Memphis and
Cotton Belt viii meet the situation at
Houston and Galveston. The Pfttsburg
& Gulf, in order to meet the situation,
have also reduced the rates to Texar-
kama, Shreveport and Monroe. To the
first named point the rate will be 3S
cents, which is made to meet competi-
ton, and to the latter points the rate
will be 35 cents thus preserving the
differentiaI of cents as between
Omaha and Kansas City.
The Santa Fe, Frisco, Rock Island
and Missouri Pacific viii doubtless be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-17
SKATER HAS ONE LEFT
After Being Retired From One Of His
Generalships.

San Francisco, Cal, Oct. 17.-Najor
General Shafter has received the fol-
lowing telegram from Washington:
washington, Oct. 16-.Major William
r. Shafter, commanding department of
California. San Francisco: The follow
ing has just been signed:
War Department, Washington, Oc-
tOber 16, 1899 By direction Of the presi-
dent, Major General William r. Shat
ter, United States volunteers, Cbriga-
der general U. S. Al, is retired from
active service on October Is, 1899, as
brigadier general of the United States
army only, under the provisions of the
act of congress approved June 80, 1882.
He will remain in command of the de-
partments of California and of the CO.
lumbia., under his commission as major
general, United States volunteers, until
further orders.
'ELIHU ROOT.
Secretary of War.
&c BY command of
4" MAJOR GENERAL MILES.
ss I'll. C. CORBIN,
'Adjutant General
General Shafter will be probably re-
tanned in the service until the work OF
sending the latest army volunteers to
Manila has been accomplished and per-
haps longer. The law relating to the
volunteer officers of the Spanish-Amer-
lean war, who remained in the service
after the close of that war, provides
that they retain their commissions un-
til July, 1901
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-17
MODERN ENGINE.
The Marvel of the Locomotive Used
on Our Railroads


It all sounds simple in the recital.
The wonder of the thing comes into
view only when one reflects on the
speed and nicely with which cumbrous
parts are made to do their duty. The
piston and connecting bar of a modern
locomotive weigh some six hundred
pounds. When the speed is sixty miles
an hour these parts travel back and
fourth five times a second. Ten times
a second, at the end of every stroke, the
piston head is at rest 1t must pass
from this condition to a velocity of
1900 feet per minute in one-twentieth of
a second. The drive wheels measure
more than a rod at every revolution,
but when going sixty miles an hour
they must turn more than three hun
dred times a minute.
Sixty miles an hour is the merest
commonplace to the mind of the up-tO-
date railroad man, but it means other
things besides those described that are
wonderful to the outsider. 1t means a
steam pressure of twenty tons on each
piston head every tenth of a second. 1t
means that up in the cab the fireman
is throwing into the furnace tWO-thirdS
of a ton of coal every hour; No. 500
burns coal faster than ten men can
mine it. It means two quarts of oil
every hour to keep her journal boxes
creased and everything running
smoothly. It means that the engine
with its half dozen cars and load of
human freight is moving through
space with twice the power of a shot
from a hundred ton gun. It means that
the engineer has worked her up to the
point where she can use every ounce of
steam, that he is cOaxtng her as a
jockey urges his mount in a fierce race,
and yet it means that he is ready at a
seconds notice to move the reversing
lever and apply the air brakes that will
stop the mighty steam avalanche with
in the distance that it covers as it
stands on the tracks.-Earl w. Mayo,
in the November AinSlee'S.
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NaY1y ZIokAers
xGratI1ude
[LErrER TO MRs. RINKaAM NO. e6,zssI

No. 1o5IosI
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM-I have many,
many thanks to give you for what your
Vegetable Compound has done for me.
After first confinement was sick for
nine years with prolapsus OF the womb,
had pain in left side, in small of back,
a great deal of headache, palpitation
of heart and leucorrhea. 1 felt so
weak and tired that could not do my
work. became pregnant again and
took your Compound all through, and
now have a sweet baby girl. never
before had such an easy time during
labor, and I feel it was due to Lydia
E. Pinlzham's Vegetable Compound. 1
am now able to do my work and feel
better than have for years. / cannot
thank you enough. - Mrs. Ed. Ell
LNGEB, DEvINE, TEX.
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OTIS Death Roll.

Washington, Oct. 17.-GeneraI Otis re-
ports the following deaths in the IN
tied States troops in the Philippines:
Chronic dysentery, October s, Ser
geant William K. Humphreys, D, Four
teenth; Corporal Matthias T. Harris, 7,
TWenty-first infantry; October II, Dan
iel Mccarthy, Z, signal corps; Sergeant
Murtha Hennessey, B, Thirteenth in
fantry; October IS, Pat Ryan, K, TWen-
tieth infantry Chronic diarrhoea. Oc-
tober 8, Frank Cook, I, Twenty first in
fantry. Typhoid fever, October z, Will
liam J. Flynn, F. Fifth artillery; Oc-
tOber 9, Robert Paige, hospital corps;
october II. Lawrence 3. Harris, I,
IWenty-drst infantry; Lewis Jones, I,
Thirteenth infantry; Harry NJ. Whit
ner, L TWenty-hrst infantry. Acute
dysentery, October 9, Charles Larose B,
Fourth cavalry. Suicide Alfred E
Bernard, hospital corps. Heart disease.
Trumpeter Edward ParneIl, E, Twenty
fifth infantry. Enteritis, Henry AoIler.
p, Eighteenth infantry. Pneumonia,
October u, George Claryton, Eighteenth
infantry.
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drawn into the fight by the action of
the Pittsburg & Gulf and the katy,
and there is every reason to believe
that this will force the matter to be
submitted to arbitration within a short
time. The roads having direct lines to
Texas can not afford to break up the
entire rate fabric to intermediate
points, and it will have the effect of
forcing the Missouri Pacific and Rock
Island roads to reduce the rate from
Omaha to Texas points, both having
direct lines to Texas from the city up
the river
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Fred Harvey In No Great Danger.

Kansas City, Oct. 1.-THE cable re-
port last week from England stating
that Fred Harvey, of this city, had
undergone an operation in London and
might not recover was slightly erron-
eous. Mrs. Fred Harvey received
cable from Southampton, England, yes
son of Fred Harvey, had arrived safe
ly and would proceed directly to Lon
don to the bedside of his father. The
operation will not be performed until
his arrival. There is every assurance
that the consequences of the operation
will not be serious.
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down at Blackwell, has returned here
and is now in thespoOL
Agent Greasy. who has been at
Florence for some time, has returned
to Newton.
Runs All, 472 and 473 with Engineer
Huff and runs 425 and 426 with Engi-
neer Kleinheim are vacant for a fire
man. Assignment will be made today.
Joe Young has taken the Benedict
run on the Howard branch, formerly
held by Engineer Eshnaur, who is now
in California. Eshnaur has decided to
remain permanently in the golden gate
state.
Fireman John Campbell has re-
signed his job with the Santa Fe. He
is still in town but will probably leave
before long. By his resignation, the
Santa Fe loses a man intelligent and
conscientious, whose place will be hard
to fill.
c. A. Taylor of Newton, is working
the new operators trick in the passen-
ger depot. This man usually goes on
each fall during the heavy run. There
are now five operators-three day time
and two night. Quick will probably re-
main in Topeka three weeks or a
month.
RAILROAD LOCALS
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New Tourist Manager.

The local Santa F'e office has receiv-
ed notice of the appointment of T. A.
Grady as manager of the California
tourist service, with headquarters in
Chicago. This is a position created in
connection with the winter California
limited trains on the Santa Fe. All
tourist conductors report to Mr.. Grady.
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coIored family, which has since resided
therein.
In a complaint filed with the court of
visitation the citizens of the vicinity
set up the claim that the colored people
who are living in the depot viii not per-
init the shippers to leave freight in the
building For this reason the COM
pIainants demand that the company be
required to place an agent in charge
of the station.
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Wonderfully strengthened.

SCI have been taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, Blood
Purifier and Liver Pills and feel won
derfulIy strengthened. Before using
your remedies was in terrible state;
felt like fainting every little while. 1
thought 1 must surely die. But now,
thanks to your remedies, those feel
ings are all gone. "-MRs. EAnLLE
ScHNEIDER, 1874 HELEN AvE.s DETROIT
MICH.
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Wasting

Are you nervous, restless,
pale and easily tired3 Per
haPs the scales can tell you
why. If your weight is
below your average, that
explains it.
SCOTS Emulsion is a fat
producing food. You soon
begin to gain and you keep
on gaining long after you
stop taking it. For all
wasting diseases, in both
young and old, it is the one
standard remedy.
SOC. and sI.oo, all druggists
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists New York.
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USE OF A DEPOT.
Family Who Occupy It Will Not Al
low It's Use For Freight

The citizens of North Cedar, Leaven-
worth county, want the Kansas City
Northwestern Railroad company to
cancel its lease for the depot at that
point to a. cOlOred family who use the
station as a, residence.
Some months ago the company aban-
doned the station and removed the
agent, renting the depot building to a
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FROM EMPoRIA.

More train crews are running out of
Emporia than ever before at this
time.
Howard Mayberry, of Newton, is
braking out of Emporia. He formerly
called engine crews at Newton.
EngIneer Winans, who has been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-17

Headquarters for all SheIdon's books.
IN His Steps" 10c- Benefits Book
store, $50 Kansas avenue.
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RAILROAD LOCALS.

F.. W. Caldwell, travelling passenger
agent of the Rock Island, with head
Evening capital., 1899-11-22
Lobsters ava Scarce.

That cod eat youD. Holsters is fact
established to the satisfaction of a
writer in an eXchan2y. He says: "The
goldfish are feeding IN the young lob.
sters to such an exits Mt that ii will not
take long to extei initiate them. Through
the efforts of the | nited States Fish
Commission Goldfish seem to have in
creased greatly in n1mbers. The fish.
ermen around Block island and Watch
Hiil say that cod are growing more
plentiful every yea. and they say
further that when dl lessing Goldfish they
frequently find yen ~ Holsters whole
inside of the large fish. Evidently
young Holsters are becoming a delicate
morsel of some of IL FIR companions of
the sea. There is problem for the
Shellfish Commissioners to solve in the
artificial propagation of the lobster
Old fishermen about Watch Hill and
vicinity tell me thas when they haul
their lobster pots meas they get fifteen
and twenty pounds, where they use to
get one hundred.
The fishermen havN no one to blame
but themselves. WI. .en Holsters were
plentiful they would kill the egg bear
ing Holsters as nuiss noes and bait-de-
.stroyers. If they ad thrown them
overheard the resul. might have been
difierent.-The FISH. g Gazette.