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The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
SPORTING NEWS.
The Kansas University Football
Eleven Will Travel.
Will Go East, South and West
to Frisco
TRIP FOR PLEASURE.
NJ. 8. q. Defeats Tarkfo at
Tarkio % to o.
Missouri Team Not Scored
Against This Season.
TRIP FOR PLEASURE.

Lawrence, Oct. 24.-Football enthusi-
asts here are jubilant over last Satur-
days victory over Drake. They say
it assures Kansas an easy victory over
everything except Missouri, which is an
unknown quantity this year.
For some time Coach Yost has had
under consideration a trip through the
south and west during the Christmas
holidays with a select team of Kansas
players. They will call themselves THE
Kansas Cyclones and if K u con-
tinues to play as good ball as she has
so far they will come home triumphant.
The trip will be merely for pleasure,
only enough games being played to
meet necessary expenses. The follow
ing games have already been arranged,
though dates are not yet agreed on:
Charleston, S. c., New Orleans Athletic
club. Galveston, Leland Stanford uni
versity and Denver Athletic associa-
ton. The team will go south, then to
California and back through Denver.
Elliott viii be the manager and Yost
the coach.
Positions on the team have not yet
been determined, but the personnel of
the team will be largely made up of the
men on the present team IN addlt14n
to these, Shorty Hamil who is coach
ing Haskell this year, will go along.
Sal Walker will probably be given his
old place on the team. DR.. Wylie Wood
run may go COdcn AelIOTu, OF W ASH
burn, has also signified his desire to
go. He was captain of the Nebraska
team last year and helped to defeat
K. U.
There are enough heavy men on the
team to make the line a stone wall
Hess will not play in the line as he is
too light, but he will be taken along. In
the game Saturday Hess bucked Mails
by, his opponent at center, who weighs
240 pounds, so hard that he was sick
at the hotel all night Avery, Wilcox,
Tucker and Moore who are famous
ground gamers, will be given positions
where they can do effective work. All
of the rest of the team viii be taken
along and the extra men used as sub
stitutes- Practice will begin after the
season is ended.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
Railroads Arranging For goth
Kansas Reception.
Santa Fe and Rock Island Roads
Will Borrow Cars.
SCORES OF SPECIALS
Will Run Into Topeka From
All Directions.
Railroad News of a General and
Local Nature.

The Santa Fe and Rock Island roads
are arranging to secure additional pas
senger equipment from eastern lines in
order to be able to handle the traffic in
to Topeka for the Twentieth Kansas re-
ception.
Special trains will play a continuous
performance over the state on the
night preceding the day of the recep-
tion, and on that morning as late as 10
O'Clock The railroads expect to han
die the largest crowds that have ever
been handled into Topeka or any other
point in Kansas before.
The most conservative of the railroad
officials in Topeka place the attend
ance at 100000 Others say it will reach
5O,0OO while the most sanguine of the
Topeka men interested in the success
of the reception declare there will be at
least rs, 900 visitors in Topeka that day,
and possibly 100000.
The passenger departments of the
Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific
roads, in addition to those of the Santa
Fe and Rock Island. are now arrang-
ing schedules for special trains and
equipment to handle the trains. At the
passenger offices of the Santa Fe and
Rock Island in this city inquiries are
pouring in daily in regard to special
service, and the schedules will be an
nounced as soon as they can be made
up.
Special trains will run the entire
length and breadth of the state for the
Twentieth Kansas reception. Practical
ly every town of any size will be repre-
sented here on that day.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24

Fireman Sutton, who has been on the
Chicago & Alton for some time, has taken
run out of here.
o. c. Jones, Vim. Case and George
Vaughn made their first trip on the road
as hremen yesterday.
Fireman Robinson has returned from
Wichita where he went on account Of the
sickness of his mother.
Conductor Ed Dowd will return here
from Newton and make EmpOria his head
quarters again. He has the regular run on
the Superior branch.
Fireman Mauck has returned from To-
peka, where he has been attending the
meeting of the investigating committee.
wreck in the Pueblo yards: He is one
of the Graybiu family of Newton. He
was well known here and all over the
prominent organizers of the A. R. u,
in the big strike of "a.
Chas. Beeler has passed the examina-
ton for engineers and is now an eagle
eye in every sense of the word He will
resume his run on the Howard branch.
Mr.. Beeler would have been passed about
a month ago was it not for the fact that
his eyesight was defective
Brakeman Scott Brady was badly hurt
train had just gone over the hill this side
of Wellington, and was running down
grade. Brady had left the tender and
was going back to the way car Along
toward the bottom of the grade there is
a sharp turn and Brady was leaning far
out to balance himself. He had reached
track and the whip cracker effect threw
him off the rock ballast Another
brakeman saw him fall and stopped the
train. Brady was found unconscious. He
was taken to Mulvane where the Santa
Fe doctor found three ribs broken and
most of his teeth gone. His face was
jured. He was taken to the Santa Fe hos
pital at Topeka.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
MONSTER CONSOLIDATION.
Announced That the Vanderbilt and
Harriman-Gould Lines Are to
Com F1iua

Chicago, Oct. 24.-As a coroliary of
the Pullman-Wa wagner consolidation deal
the readjustment of railroad stock
holdings on an enormous scale is said
on high authority to be the next move
on the boards. A financier with very
close relations to the Morgan financial
syndicate of New York, now IN chi
cagO, is authority for the statement
that the next few months will witness
a sweeping consolidation of railroad IN
tereStS that will wipe out the last VeS-
tige of competition between the Van
derbilt and Hartman Gould interests.
According to this authority, the con-
SOlidation of the two palace car COM
panies was the preliminary step toward
carrying out a deal over which j. Pier
pont Morgan and his financial allies
have been working for more than a
year.
The Harriman-Gould syndicate owns
the Baltimore & Ohio, the Illinois Cen
trail, the Union Pacific and the Oregon
Railway and Navigation company.
When the present extension of the Hi
nois CentraIs Iowa line to Omaha,
Neb., is opened a few months hence the
syndicate will have a transcontinental
line of its own. 1t also has two lines
from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico,
owning the Illinois Central to New Or
leans and having intimate relations
with the Missouri Kansas & Texas and
the Missouri Pacific.
The Vanderbilt system, including the
New York Central, Lake Shore, Michi-
gan Central, Chicago & Northwestern,
Big Four and a, dozen other minor lines,
has never had an exclusive entrance
to the Pacific coast, but has had inti-
mate traffic relations with the Union
Pacific and Oregon lines now in the
Harriman-Gould hands. 1t is said to
be the purpose of the Morgan clique
of hnancierS, who are paramount in
the counsels of both the Hartman
Gould and Vanderbilt syndicates, to
bring all the roads controlled by both
into an actual combination of owner
ship as they are now combined in work
ing traffic agreements. To do this it is
essential that a controlling majority
of stock in the various companies
should be vested in owners who are
willing to be represented by directors
named by Mr.. Morgan and his allies.
This is the practical plan now being
worked out, which is expected to show
startling results before the beginning
of another year.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24

sas City and couldn't get a man. She
then went to Chicago, and took a drop
into Ohio and finally succeeded in To-
eating 100 men, whom she chained up
until ready to start for Colorado.
Il never saw such times,' said she.
South Chicago, but the company had
not paid them, neither would they pay
them until the work was done, so the
men could not get away. But have
them guarded, and they will be through
in four days now and my agents will
herd them aboard the cars for Denver.
I have eleven agents in Chicago work
ing to get men for me. There is a gang
Steel company that I have my men on
guard over, and I think I'll get them
in about ten days. There are one or
two other small gangs we are after.
The fact is, we almost have to steal Ia
borers to get them"
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24

Had it not been for Col. John I. Rogers,
of Philadelphia, two towns would in all
probability have been dropped last
spring. Baltimore has proved a winner
when the magnates anticipated 1t TO
develop into a tail-end team. Cleveland
is practically abandoned, and the same
may be said of Louisville, though the
great finish of the CoIOnels during the
last few weeks of the season has upset
all calculations. In many quarters it
has been asserted that President Freed
man, of the local club, would be frozen
out at the expiration of the present
ten-year agreement, but when it is con-
sidered that the former holds the key
to the situation by controlling Manhat-
tan field and the Polo grounds, the
freezing out process appears easier
said than done.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
About PugiIists.

''Billy'' Stiff. Chicago's crack middle
weight, who meets kid" Mccoy at the
St Louis coliseum Friday evening, also
reached that city Saturday. President
Haughton has arranged for Stiff to put
the finishing touches on his training at
the West End club. Stiff says that a
big delegation will come down from
Chicago to witness his fight with Nc
Coy, and that if St. Louisans do not
think he will go the limit, twenty
rounds, they can be accommodated, as
his friends are willing to bet heavily
that he will go the route.
Jeff Thorne, the English middle
weight, and Bob Fitzsimmons have
been matched to box six rounds before
a Chicago club next Saturday night.
For about a month past Fitzsimmons,
when not on the road with his COM
pany. has been doing light training at
his home at Bath Beach, and he will
step into the ring next Saturday night
in first-class shape. Thorne had a cred
liable record on the other side, but was
chester A. c. by kid" Mccoy.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
CHoYNsKT IN FORM.
Easily Knocks Out Dick Moore In the
Third Round.

St. Louis, Oct. 24.-Joe Choynski, the
well known California boxer, knocked
out Dick Moore, of St. Paul, last night
in the arena of the St. Louis Athletic
club in the third round of what was to
have been a, twenty round contest.
ChOyns6i was in splendid fettle and
after the first round simply played with
the st. Paul boxer. Moore, too, was in
good condition. but this availed him
nothing as against the superior science
of the Californian. Choynski had the
advantage in height. reach and weight,
but Moore was plucky and took a. hard
beating like stole. In the first round
Moore carried to Joe at every turn
and forced him about the ring with
rights and lefts to the body. Choynski
used a stiff left jab which Jared Dick
badly. In the second round Joe had his
man sized up and after rapid ex-
change sent Dick twice to the floor
with rights to the jaw. Moore arose
and made a vicious effort to retrieve
his laurels, the round closing with both
men exchanging hard blows at close
quarters The third round was all in
ChOynskis favor. He outpOinted his
opponent at all stages and put him
down three times in succession with
right hand punches on the jaw. Moore
was game, though groggy, and man
aged to regain his feet twice within the
count, but while essaying to do the
trick a third time was counted out by
the referee, Tim Hurst.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
WOULD REDUCE WAGES.
President Fish Says Tt Is the Best
Plan In Times of Depression.

In giving testimony before the United
States Industrial commission, President
Stuyvesant Fish, of the Illinois road,
said in reference to relations between
railroad companies and employees:
TT does not seem to me that dis
puteS over wages form so vital a QueS-
ton as to exclude arbitration, so alb
solutely and universally as does the
maintenance of proper discipline. The
duty of safely carrying passengers and
freight has been by the state committed
to corporations. They can not share
that responsibility with others, much
less arbitrate, with irresponsible
strangers, the method Of its discharge.
Discipline, if peculiarly severe, will
carry with it increased pay. Wages,
on the other hand, have been generally
controlled by supply and demand, to the
great gain in recent years of the en-
plOyed- That natural law will always
control, except as its operation may be
Influenced by labor trusts seeking to
prevent free men from selling their only
capital. labor, in the best market. By
labor trusts, 1 do not mean organized
labor as exempIified by the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, the Or
der of Railroad Conductors and like
useful and honorable organizations of
intelligent railroad men; but the law
less and disorganized bodies of outsid-
ers who know nothing of, and care
nothing for either the railroads or the
high class of men whom they employ.
mo reductions in pay were made on
the Illinois Central railroad during the
long period of depression (1S93 to 1880
from which we are emerging, excepting
that in some parts of the country, the
fall in the wages of farm 1aborers nee
essarily affected. for a. short season,
those of our track hands. But many
of our men suffered severely through
our diminished need of their services.
Making less use of our cars and en-
gines, we had less of them to repair,
and both the number employed and the
hours of work in the shops were re
duced. It seemed to me then, and it
seems to me now, that it would have
been better for the men, if it had been
| possible for US, by reducing the scale
| of wages a little, to have employed
| more men or to give them work on full
] time"
| In regard to the plan of encouraging
j Illinois Central employees to purchase
/ stock of the road, Mr.. Fish said
/ "On the first of each month the price
/ of shares at the New York Stock ex-
| change is telegraphed to Chicago and
! the paymaster is authorized to sell one
/ share to each employe at that price
| Payment is accepted in sums of S. OF
any multiple thereof. Interest at 4 pei
| cent per annum is allowed on the par
tiaI payments, and, when an employt
! leaves the service, he must either pay
in full for his share and receive a GER
| tificate thereof, or take his money
with interest added
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
THE NATIONAL GAME.
What New Baseball Association Has
TO Do to Rival Big League.
IFrom the New York Post.l

IFTom the New York Post.1
AS it costs approximately 81 600, 900
annually to run the clubs of the Ma
tiOnal league, it can at once be seen
that at least two-thirds of that sum
would have to be expended by the
eight clubs in the proposed new associ-
alton before the latter could hope to
rival the national body. Should a war
fare between the two be started and
each side commence to outbid the other
for players, the expenses would i'm
mediately be greatly increased. The
new league magnates claim to have
large capital behind them. but from ap-
pearances up to date there does not
seem to be any great amount of money
in sight With a rival body of some real
Importance, the game of baseball might
be benefited The prices of players
would doubtless go up, while the Ma
tional league would be forced to clean
the game and in mere seIf-defense
abandon its petty strifes.
When the annual meeting of the Ma
tional league is held in this city in De-
cember there will be several trouble
some questions to be answered That
the circuit viii be altered seems to be
certainty. President Young admits
this, but also declares that twelve clubs
viii finish out the ten-year agreement.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24

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The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
WONDERFUL MEMORY.
The Chess Master Submitted to Some
Remarkable Tests

New York, Oct 24-Harry N. Pills
bury, chess expert, gave some wonder
full feats of memory before the Brook
lyn Chess club Saturday. After re-
peating the moves of four games, which
he had played bIindfolded in various
cities of America-these games were
reproduced on big boards on the WALL
so that the spectators were able to fol-
low the moves of each game-he played
a blindfOld game of checkers against
the young Brooklyn expert, w. E.
O'NeiI, which the latter lost. He wound
up the exhibition with a peculiar feat
of memory. The audience was asked to
write down on a numbered slip any
word, and after thirty words had been
written down they were read to Pills
bury aloud along with the correspond
ing numbers from one to thirty. After
awhile Pillsbury was able to at once
supply the corresponding word to any
number or the number to any CORE
spending word.
The champion returned to the club in
the evening, when he undertook to play
twelve games of chess blindfolded and
simultaneously against twenty-four
were placed opposite one board, eight
were placed on the next four boards,
two to play in consultation on each of
these four boards, and twelve, three
consulting on each board, were placed
opposite the remaining boards. The
performance was highly interesting G
from beginning to end. Pillsbury won
seven games. lost three and drew two.
He made 434 moves in all, and the ex-
hibition lasted six hours and fifty min
uteS.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
MAHER THE BETTER MAN.
Was Awarded First Over Ed Dunk
horst.

Syracuse. N. Y, Oct 24-Ed Dunk
horst, of Syracuse, lost to Peter Ma
her in the seventh round of what was
to have been a ten round go before the
Monarch Athletic club here last night
on a foul.
The rules under which the men
fought stipulated that they should
break clean at the command of the ref
cree. When Dunkhorst saw that he
was bound to be whipped he deliberate
ly violated this rule and after repeated
warnings the referee gave the decision
to Maher. Dunk never had a chance.
He was completely outpOinted by Ma
her, who gave him a terrible pummeI-
ing. Maher had little difficulty in
reaching Dunk's face and chin when
he pleased, but could not put him out.
The fighting was not very hot until
the sixth round, when Maher opened
with a volley of swings and jabs that
would have put an end to the fight then
and there had his opponent been a more
vulnerable man than DunkhOrst. The
latter could offer no defense and began
catching Maher's glove under his arm
after every blow. He refused to stop
when ordered to dc so and lost the de-
0fG
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
Warrensburg 1e, Fort Scott O.

Warrensburg, Mo-, Oct. 24.-On the
Normal gridiron, in the presence of sew
eral hundred enthusiastic rOoters, the
State Normal team defeated the Fort
Scott, Kan, high school team by the
score of II to 0. This was by far the
closest game played on the Normal
grounds for several years, and the ex-
ceIlent showing made by the Normal
team, which went through the game
without putting in a substitute, attests
the good training of Coach Mosse. The
line held we'll and the backs played
good, snappy ball. Hollister, Fergu-
son, Clay and Spicer proved the best
ground gamers for the Normal, while
Boisseau ran the ends well, and Stone
played a fine game at quarter. Blair,
McElvain, Gilbert and Stinson played
the game for Fort Scott. This is the
first defeat Fort Scott has sustained for
two years, and the third in five years.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
REDUCE PASSENGER RATES.
It Is Said That Many Railroad Mana.
gers Favor q 2 Cent Rate.

Chicago, Oct. 24.-At the time the
general passenger managers were in
convention at Boston last week there
was a rumor afioat in the vicinity of
the convention hall that a quiet effort
was being made to establish 274 cents
a mile as a universal basis. Tt was
said that the Vanderbilt lines were at
the head of the movement, but officials
of those roads emphatically denied that
there was any ground for the r1nor.
1t is known that some railroad officials
have much faith in the possibility of
such a basis. T. c. Winnett. traffic
manager of the Detroit & Maclzinac
line, has expressed himself in favor of
such basis, under the condition that
no reduction be made on round trip
tickets.
Some railroad men favor a 2-cent
basis, believing that with it in use the
general passenger business would be
greatly stimulated. They hold that
the railroads in New York are among
the most prosperous of the country
The maximum fare in the Empire state
is fixed by law at cents.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
soALPERs IMPLICATED.
Believed to Know Something of
Counterfeit Tickets.

Chicago, Ill, Oct 24-Passenger
agents of a number of Chicago lines are
complaining because the officials of the
Colorado Midland railroad did not noti-
fy them by telegraph instead of bv mail
that counterfeits of its tickets reading
over their lines had been discovered.
I'VE hOnored four of those worthless
tickets yesterday" said a managing Of
fetal of an eastern line The tickets
were printed on safety paper, so close
ly resembling that adopted by all rail-
roads that it is impossible to see any
difference. 1t is too early to tell how
much the railroads have lost through
the counterfeiting of the Colorado Mid
lands tickets. Nearly every road en-
tering Chicago finds it has honored
some of them, and in a number of cases
the tickets have been traced to the Of
fees of certain ticket scalpers. It is
probable that arrests of the scalpers
will soon occur.''
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
FROM WELLINGTON.

A o. White. cashier at the freight depot
is on the sick list. E. D. Igou is acting
cashier during his absence.
Gus HameI is making preparations to
take a trip to Germany in the spring
Oscar Tucker was taken to the Santa
Fe hospital at Topeka for treatment. He
has typhoid fever.
Superintendent D. D. Bailey, wife and
two boys went to En- Sporia yesterday ev-
ening. They will prepare their household
goods for shipment to Wellington.
A. o. White, who has been holding down
the position of cashier at the freight de-
pot, will go back to the bill desk when he
RECEIVERS from his sickness
Operator Barnhart resigned his position
in the dispa atcher's office at the union de-
pot Saturday night and left Wellington
yesterday.
Conductor r. E. Doweu came off the
Hunnewen freight this morning where he