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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
SANTA FE ANNUAL.
Stockholders and Directors Meeting
Here Today.

The annual meeting of the stOckhOl6-
ers of the Santa F'e was held in this
city at noon today. a meeting of the
board of directors was held immediate
" following it.
Those present at both meeting were
Aldace F. Walker, chairman of the
board; President Z. P. Ripley, General
Counsel Victor Morawetz and Directors
H. Rieman Duval, r. Somers Hayes,
William Rotch, Thomas P Fowler. Ed
ward \. Gibbs Charles S. Gleed, c. K.
Holiday and A s Jobes
At the stockholders meeting the
acquisition by purchase of the following
branch railroad companies was ap-
proved:
The Denver and Santa Fe Railway
company, the Pueblo and Arkansas
Valley Railroad company, Wichita &
Western Railroad company, the Bur-
Iingame & Northwestern Railway COM
pany the Blackwell & Southern Rail
way company, the Hutchinson & South
ern Railway company. the Santa Rita
Railroad company, the Hanover Rail-
way company, the Silver City & North
ern Railroad company.
The acquisition by purchase or lease
of the Chicago. Santa Fe K California
Railway company. the AtchisOn, Tope-
ka & Santa Fe company in Chicago,
and the St. Joseph. st. Louis and San
ia F'e Railway company together with
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the Sibley Bridge company and the
Mississippi River Railroad and Toll
Bridge company was also approved.
Amendments to two of the bylaws
of the company were adopted at the
stockholders meeting. One provides
that notice of annual meetings shall in
the future be published but % days
prior to the meeting Heretofore,
notices have been published As days in
advance of the date of the meeting,
and as the stock transfer books close
on the day of publication and remain
closed until after the annual meeting,
objection has been made to this long
period of time.
The other amendment is important,
from the fact that it allows the board
of directors, without the approval of
the stockholders to acquire or construct
as much as 200 miles of road in any one
year. Up to this time it has been neceS-
sary for the stockholders to approve by
vote any proposed extension or acquis-
ition, and but $75O,000 in bonds was
available any one year. At $4,000 per
mile, the usual cost. this meant but so
miles per year. The amendment as
adopted is as follows
I'm addition to branches and extensions
which may be constructed. leased or ac-
quired and the stocks, which may be ac-
quired under sections 2 and g. without.
previous vote of the stockholders. the
board of directors, by affirmative vote of
authorize the construction, lease or pur-
chase of spurs. branches and extensions
of roads operated by this company and by
companies of whose capit-I stock the
greater part shall be owned, by this COM
pany and the acquisition of stock and
bonds OF other companies owning such
spurs. branches and extensions and may
obtain funds for any such construction.
purchase other acquisition in such
manner as the board may deem exped-
lent provided. however, that the aggre-
gate length of all such additional spurs,
branches and extensions which may be
constructed, leased or purchased. and of
those belonging to other companies the
stock whereof may be acquired, under
authority of this section, in any one fis-
cal year, shall not exceed 200 miles"
H. Rieman DuVal. Thomas P. Fowler.
Charles 5. Gleed and Victor MOrawetz,
whose terms as directors expired today,
were reelected.
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SMALLPOX ARKANSAS CITY

Kansas City. Mo. is considerably
alarmed over smallpox cases there. The
Star of December 18th says: The
health department of the city is be
coming anxious over the increase in
smallpox cases that comes to its notice
every day Where it was thought that
the $1,000 being appropriated for a de-
tentiOn hospital would be sufficient for
the seasons epidemic, DIR. Coffin says
that already there is use for much
larger hospital than can be tructed
for that money, and declares that moth
ing short of a $4,000 building viii an
SWer the winters demands 1t will be
useless, he says, to build $1,000 hospi-
tai now for it would not hold more than
half the persons now under quarantine.
Two new cases of the disease We're
discovered Yesterday and another one
this morning. The patients were taken
to the pest house and the houses were
placed under guard. Three extra cleo
tiOn booths, that are used for pest
houses, were taken to the grounds this
morning to accommodate the new pa
tents
Already the city is under an expense
of over 500 a day for quarantine alone,
and the expenses of the pest house are
of quarantine over 20 guards are so far
employed at 81 a day, and it was to re-
lieVe this expense that DR. Coffin pro-
posed the detention hospital. It takes
several guards for every quarantined
family now and every new case devel-
Oped neCeSSitateS new guards. If the
city udQ q 0eIenllOn HOSplldI WneEe all
the suspects could be in one enclosure.
but separated from one another. this
hospital could be guarded for the same
cost it requires now for a single family,
and besides they could be much more
cheaply fed.
80 far as original cases of smallpox
are concerned none has yet originated
in Kansas City Every patient now in
the health officers hands has come to
Kansas City from the surrounding
country. exposing persons on trains and
those they meet and live with until
they are discovered. There seems to be
no way to prevent these afflicted ones
from coming to the city,and it requires
the utmost vigilance on the part of the
health department to find them before
they have exposed a great many per
sons
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CHECKING GRAIN WEIGHTS
May Be Discontinued by Kansas
Grain Dealers Association.

Kansas. City, Dec 14---President. L. Cor
teIyOu of the Kansas Grain Dealers as
sOcia ton is in the city for the purpose of
Investigating the workings of the Kansas
City check weighing bureau. which is un-
der the control of the association The
association may discontinue the bureau
as it is now being run at a loss. The bur
eau was established fifteen months ago.
with q force of ten men who are station
ed st the various elevators for the pur-
pose of checking all grain weights as the
grain comes in from the farmers. A tax
Of . cents is charged on each car un-
loaded and this tax should pay the ex-
penses of conducting the checking.
This expense has been in the neighbor-
hood of $500 per month and lately the re-
ceipts have not reached this figure. There
was a deficit of $50 during November.
making heavy draft on the surplus
which was raised during the summer The
local bureau is in charge of G. y ConsIey
who says that the surplus will soon be
exhausted IN that event unless assist
ance is secured from the board of trade.
the bureau Will be discontinued. The
checking system is looked upon with great
favor by both the farmers. and the ele-
vat0r men and its possible diScOntinuance
is a matter of regret to those interested.
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IRON ORE DEMANDS.
Scramble Not as Great as Last Spring
Prices Stationary.

Cleveland, Ohio. Dec. 1.-THE Iron
Trade Review says: Sales Of the old range
on Monday of this week. While it is not
to be expected that the scramble Of last
spring, when prices were about $2.50
ton lower will be repeated, large con-
tracts have been entered into IN the past
few days and in the case of some large
producers the bulk of the output for 1900
mas been sold: MeS5aba 9t45 Bes4sem9ers' 49 "a; as
wabi at $4 25 but have sold on basis OF
81. so for Fayal.
Eastern furnaces have been in the mar
ket but as heretofore are letting central
western buyers set the pace Imports of
Cuban and other foreign ores will be on
an enlarged scale next year, but even
with 25o,OO0 tons from Cuba and 100000
shipments of low phosphorus ores from
Med1terranean ports, the total Will be but
a fraction of the wants of the east apart
from its local ore. The scale Of ore buy
ing thus far in the iron markets the
quietest month of the year is taken to
indicate the general confidence in the con-
tinuance of substantially the prices of to-
day for pig iron and steel.
Some effort has been made to gauge the
condition of the foundry trade and Its
outlook. Reports show that stocks of pig
iron in foundry yards are light, that foun-
s qrles see lndlcauqn OF an , increase Tath66 I666
G1ire9ents of foHndrV iron for The first
half of 1900 are yet to be met. A factor
that viii be more in evidence next year
is stoppages for repairs many furnaces
having been driving this year to their
utmost and refining and repairs postponed
70 take advantage of rising prices
When high priced raw materials come in
and profits are lessened, shut downs can
be better afforded and in many cases they
will come because they can not be put off.
The week has brought no changes in
prices and the indications are that the
quiet period of the year will be marked
by neither advance nor decline. The fact
that the leading consumers of iron and
bridge and structural wOrks-are supplied
with work for so many months of~the new
year, is taken as an indication that
1Pectatio95 PTa e Of f any my @ ggner9 %
will g1nt he a 1iyad
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ENGLISH TACTICS POOR.
Declares General Thomas Anderson
Should Concentrate Forces.

Chicago. Dec. 14-"There is one feature
of the in the Transvaal that is not
generally considered" said General Thorn
as NJ. Anderson today, "and that is that
the English are violating the military
usage by fighting with three armies of
invasion" He continued: 1T has always
been considered good tactics in wars of
invasion to concentrate the invading force
and the rule is seldom violated The Eng
lish campaign against the Beers is being
made with three distinct armies operat-
ing in many parts of the enemy'S cOun-
try. In this case this is made permissible
and is doubtless being done for the reas-
on that not the least important danger
for the English to guard against is the
invasion of the thus far pacific colonies
by the Beers. These colonies are honey
combed with Dutch and the presence of
any cOnsidera BILE number of Beers in them
might lead to revolt This the English
must prevent. as well as carry on an of
fensive campaign, and if it can be ac-
compIished at all it will be by attacking
from several different points, as is being
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Collins was confined.
Mr.. Yoeman stated at the county
jail that he would accept the sentence
and would fight the case no further.
His interests We're admirably handled
by his attorneys and the final result is
a victory for them.
I have not the means necessary to
appeal the case" he said. If I could
appeal it, it would mean not only much
additional expense for me, but also for
Shawnee county. 1t would also mean
hardship for my family, and for that
reason 1 would not appeal it anyway.
1t would be necessary for my family to
appear in court again, and I wish to
shield them from that, and can serve
my sentence while the case would be
pending.
1T does seem to me- continued Mr.
YOeman, that the jury might have
taken different view of my case and
the tears welled into his eyes as he
spoke. of course, am more interest
ed than they were and presume I am
prejudiced, but I did not expect that
verdict"
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AMERICAN SYNDICATE.
Purchases Eng ish Interests In g
Chicago Packing Concern

Chicago, Dec. 14.-The Times Herald
says: Seventy-fve per cent or $3.000,000 Of
the stock of the G.. H. Hammond Packing
company was purchased by an American
syndicate from the English company that
owned the. concern. The syndicate was
organized by J. p. Lyman, general man
ager and includes the principal officers
and American directors of the organiza3-
ton The English company retains %
per cent of the stock, having refused an
offer for the entire issue The price paid
BY the American syndicate Is withheld
The English company. owned all the
capital stock of the Michigan corporation
The purchase by the American syndicate
Will make difference in the manage
ment as the syndicate includes only the
officers and directors of the concern and
few of their close friends
The, purch2sing syndicate Is composed
largely of Boston. New Y Ork. Chicago,
Providence and Detroit capitalists.
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be mobolized. or are on the way, while
advance orders for a sixth division OF lO-u0V
men are being executed and there are
warnings Ilat a seventh ulNlSlOn OF the
same number Will soon be collected at
Adershot for shipment to the Cape
a dispatch to the Herald from London
tiOn to know that the queens mental anX-
tety gives the gravest alarm to the Royal
household.
The queen insists on receiving the min
utest Information from the war office as
to the state of affairs. Yet she is COM
pletely overcome when the particulars OF
each engagement are related
Even when discussing other matters and
conducting ordinary correspondence the
and makes a pathetic reference to the
misery and hardSh1pS entatled upon her
soldiers and their rela tives, as well as
upon the Beers themselves.
No matter where one went last night
to the theater. the club or to the hotel
there was but one topic of discussion
MethUen's defeat and his probable losses.
Later in the evening when it became
known that General Wauchope and the
Marquis of Winchester were among the
killed, the tension was increased as the
thought flashed through all minds that
the list of killed and wounded Will carry
grief to many stately as well as to many
to say that almost every handsome man
sion in the fashionable West End con-
tains anxious and sleepless men and wo-
men this morning.
An undertone Of condemnation of the
inactivity of the war office before hOStili-
ties began. which resulted IN the British
forces being inferior in numbers to the
Beers. has found its way to the surface
This feeling was expressed in strong
anxious men and women congregated be
fore the doors or walked through the lob
by. reading the bulletins all through the
day and evening w heu II was annOunc-
ed. after midnight, that no more news
would be given out until tomorrow, they
slowly dispersed. Many women were un-
IN
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GREATLY WORRIED.
Feeling In England Amounts Almost
to Panic

New York. Dec. IA dispatch to the
World from London SAYS: The decided
check to General Methuen and the heavy
British loss have added to the panic
among the military authorities and the
Jlnso war experts in London
II IL noted as significant that this was
the nrSt fight on the soil of a South Afri-
can republic As consequence General
MeLhuen reports that he is intrenching to
hold his ground after a two-dayS' fight.
mus the first step in the jubilee parade
70 Pretoria proves. the friends of the
Boers declare another advance in Presi-
dent krugers price that Will stagger
humanity
me war office now is pushed to the ex-
tremity of its resources
Lord Roberts the comma nder-in- chief
Of her maJestys $ forces in ireland who
long held a similar position in India, was
hastily summoned last night from Dublin
to London He broke an gagement to
appear at a benefit performance for a
charitable war fund and took the first
train for the British metropolis
Al its extra session parliament was told
that S50000.000 would cover the expense of
the war 1t IS now said by the best in
formed that S20o000.o00 viii not pay the
bill.
Eighty thousand British troops are in
South Africa now and 10000 more are to
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COMMITS SUICIDE.
Wealthy La Sale Brewer Ends Life
While Temporarily Deranged.

La Sale Ills. Dec. 14-Herman Brun-
ner, head of the Peru Brewing company,
committed suicide at his home today by
hanging TIE deceased had been mental
" deranged for some time. and when the
suicide occurred a physician was in the
house in consultation with members of
the family. Mr. Brunner slipped unob-
served from his room to the garret that
had been equipped as a gymnasium nj
by means OF the cords from an eXerciser
strangled himself to death.
He had been identified with several of
the large manufacturing interests in the
city and had accumulated a fortune,
principally out of the brewing business.
He was a Mason of prominence and had
taken very active part in public mat
terS in general.
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Buried Under a Wreck

Allentown, Pa, Dec. IA passenger
train on the Jersey Central railway.
eastbOund. ran into the rear end of an
extra coal train, also eastbOund, op-
pOsite Laurey's last night. Engineer
Fred YOemans. Fireman William Smith
and Baggagemaster Thomas Ham, of
the coal train of Bergen. n. j.. We're
buried under the wreck and killed The
bodies have not Yet been recovered
The wreck caught fire and the engine.
smoker and baggage car of the pas
senger train We're burned. The passen-
gers escaped without iniurN
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CARRIERS PARTNERS.
All But One of Them Surrender to the
Authorities

New York Dec. 14-D W Green, Col.
John T. Gaynor, E. II. Gaynor and VIM.
CAM 9bert1 NJ Garfer Vas aisoSiafed
in the Savannah river and cumberland
sound. improvements. surrendered this
Shields
The men We're indicted last Friday by
the United States grand jury at Savan-
nah for being concerned in conspiracy
by which the government was defrauded
out of S575 949. Michael A. Connolly. who
is also a members of the Atlantic Dredg-
ing company and who was indicted at
country
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DILLARD'S SUCCESSOR.
Place on Democratic Executive Com
mittee Given TO Kansas City Man.

Chairman J. Mack Love Of the Demo-
cratic state central committee of Kansas
has appointed Judge JuEiuS w. jenkins Of
Kansas City. Kansas. to the place on the
state executive committee made vacant
by the resignation of Judge w p. Dillard.
Judge jenkins is one of the well known
Democratic leaders of the state and has
been Q member of the state Democratic
central committee for many years.
Judge Dillards $ resignation from the
committee was caused by his removal
from the state He is now practiciney law
in kanSas civ. Mo.
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Sale Of ZINC min es.

Joplin. No. Dec. 1.-Two big mining
deals have just been closed in the Mis-
souri, Kansas district, the consideration
in each. case being $4,000 One deal was
the Reding mine and forty acres of min
eral land four miles south of Joplin to
c. H SkiIlman of Fort Worth Texas
The Ada mine at Galena. Kansas was
sold 70 a Boston syndicate yesterday
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ENGLISH REYERSEs.
Cause Daniel Weber to Commit Sui
cide-A Sad Case

New York. Dec 14-Daniel A Weber,
an EngIishman 50 years of age, com
mitted suicide at his home here today
by jumping from the fourth story win
dow. He had been out Of employment
for some time. His son. Daniel, with
whom he lived. said that his father
was made melancholy by this and the
news today that the English forces
We're suffering reverses at the hands Of
the Beers. Just before killing himself
the old man expressed the opinion: I IN
afraid the Boers Will win
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o. E. Pritchett. a brakeman on the
Rock Island road. was run over al l
@ clock this morning at MankatO. and had
both legs cut of He died a few hours
afterwards The unfortunate man was
doing switching in the yards there and in
some way unknown was thrown under
meath the train and injured. It is not
known at the Rock Island offices here
whether the man was married or single,
or where he lived.
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Indians Invade - -.

Washington, Dec. IA delegation Of
Otoe Indians from Oklahoma had an
interview with the secretary of the in
terror today regarding the adjustment
of the question of payment for their
lands in Nebraska sold at auction some
years ago. They had made an agree
ment with Inspector Mclaughlin ac-
cepting a compromise Of about s116OO0
in lieu of the S2S5. .OOO due them from the
delinquent settlers who bought in the
lands and wanted to satisfy themselves
that the department approved the
Agreement
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Frst La fayette D 3llar Coined.

Philadelphia. Dec. 1.-THE first La
fayette dollar, the unique specimen
authorized by congress in aid of the
fund for the erection of the Lafayette
monument in Paris was struck off at
the United States mint in this city to-
day This coin viii be presented by the
president of the United States to the
president of France. Fifty thousand of
the coins Will be struck and are to be
disnosad Of at q cost Of g ariace
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Washington Dec. 1.-THE Kansas dele
CATION in the house is to receive seven
places in the new house organization. but
they are to be third and fourth rate posi-
tions. paying $500 to $500 per year. Only
a few of them viii become available be
fore the first of the year.
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WILL BE MADISON.
Indications That He Will Land Va
cant Ju1geship

The indications are that Governor stan
ley viii name a successor To Judge Price
in a short time and that the man VIII be
e H. Madison OF Dodge CITY
W lille no announcement has been made
from the executive office concerning the
intention OF the governor in this case the
straWs in the wind seem to be pointing
in the direc1iou Of NJ AIalI.uu-
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BROTHER vs.. BROTHER.
Bent Murdock Gives "Brother Marsh
a Hard Rap.

The wichita Eagle is clamoring for bet
ter freight rates 10 Wichita which causes
the editor Of the FL Dorado Republican.
a brother Of the Eagles editor 20 saw
Wichita has the mulligrubs and has
always had them The town was born
chewing it for twenty years and It seems
to have an ArkauSaW rlVeT Saud-hiI plum
pit in its vermiform appendix. Hence the
~
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TRADE EXCURSION
On the Union Pacific to Topeka
Next Tuesday, Dec. 10Th.

It has been decided by the committee
in charge of the Trades Excursions last
season to run an excursion on the
Union Pacific next Tuesday. December
18th from Wamego to Topeka and re-
turn.
Parties from Manhattan can take ad-
vantage of this train, as noted below.
The train has been chartered to run
from Wamego in the morning and re-
turn in the evening.
The following extra ordinary round
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To Put Up Prices

Cleveland, O.. Dec. 1.-THE manufac-
turers of wOodenware, in session at the
HOllenden, decided today to increase
prices. the exact extent to be deter
mined later
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Artiat o,Brien DEAD.

Toronto. Dec. 14--Lucius R. O'Brien.
the landscape artist, is dead, aged 81
years. He painted many celebrated pic
lures. some Of which were given a place
in Windsor Castle and at Osborne.
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Furniture 1o Per Cent Hieher.

Columbus. O.. Dec. 14-At a secret
session of the Ohio State Association of
Furniture manufa cturers held here, it
was decided to increase the price of
case furniture. the only kind manu-
factured by members of the associa-
ton. 10 per cent above the LIST.
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INTEREST ADVANCE.
S5,5Oo,ooo Ready For Clippers of
Coupons.

Washington. Dec. 14-Secretary Gage
has decided to anticipate the January
interest on United States bonds out
standing. This interest will amount to
about So SOC. 900. and will be paid be-
ginning tomorrow. without rebate.