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The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26
BURNING GUMBO.
Union Pacific Meets Difficulties In It's
Expsrim ent-

The Union Pacific Is trying the expert
ment of burning gumbo, a kind of soil
found in Kansas for ballast
The burning is progressing under ad-
verse circumS tanceS.
Owing to the heat and fumes from the
burning dirt, men are not physically able
to stand the strain.
Twenty-Five or thirty men go to work in
the morning. and usually but a small
number are able to put in the full day.
These conditions have retarded the work
to a large extent.
Men are paid $40 per day. It is re-
ported that there is employment for an
unlimited number of men at that price.
During the hot yeather of the past few
weeks only a small number of men have
been able to work steadily.
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Kansas City Livestock Market.

Kansas City, Aug. 26.
CATTL LE-Receipts 100; Market unchang-
ed; native steers 81 4.60q6.O0; Texas
steers, 50 l0G4.OO; Texas cows: $2.35
M315; native cows and heifers.
81. .00Q4. rs; stoc1ers and feeders So. .25dD4. IS;
H0GS-Receipts 5000 Light strong;
others steady: bulk of sales 4.55d4. 70;
heavy 81 .501I4 50; packers 4.55d4 .65; mix
ed 4501I4 60: light 81. .55Q4. 80; yOrSers S4- 75
al 80: pigs "a 600t4. 70.
SHEsP-Receipts 500 Market strong.
Lambs So. .G5G5. 90; muttons S.. .00Q4. %.
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New York Money Market.

New OTk, Aug. 70
MONEY-Money on call nominal. Prime
mercantile paper 4A65 per cent. Sterling
exchange steady with actual business in
bankers bills at 81. .S664. S6z for demand
and at s.. .S3AI4. S315 for sixty days Posted
rates $4.S4 and 4.S71z. Commercial bills,
81 .S2G4. .S215.
SILVER-Silver certificates 60d6Olac.
Bar silver SO 11-16c- Mexican dollars 475sc-
BONDS-State bonds inactive: railroad
bonds irregular: Government bonds steady
ed 1881; IS, coupon 10S15; new As, register
with Z. s. Is, registered 1O019; IS, register
ed 112A; old As, coupon 113; 5s, registered
11115; IS, coupon 1119s.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26
ANOTHER KANSAN.
This One Now Commands a Gunboat
at Manila.

Ensign Luke AGcNamee of the gun
boat Pampanga has been promoted to
be commander of that boat now pa
trolling Lingayen bay, Luzon.
Commander McNamee is an Abilene
boy who has a brother who is major
in the Ninth regular cavalry. The new
shown in the recent fight with the in
surgents when the U. S. S. Saturnus
was burned
The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26
ADVERTISE REUNION.
Committee With Posters Will Start
Next Week.

Charles Lindsey. Lee Carter and D. NJ.
Cline will start out next week to supply
the towns on the Rock Island and Santa
Fe with matter advertising the state G.
A r. reunion to be held in Topeka.
Thorough advertising will be done and
all of the towns will be literally sup
piled with Autographs. These advertising
and are expected to reach Topeka today
The advertisers will leave Topeka Tues
dav afternoon.
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Kansas City Produce Market

Kansas City, Aug. 26.
e6ssc. Cash: No. hard sc: No e25Sa65c
No. 2 red Tic: No. 3 671k6D7Oc-
CORN-Septembe 27a4c: December 245sc;
Cash: No. mixed 29c; No. white 2934c;
No. 3, 2S%c.
OATS-No. 2 white 2202Sc.
RYE-No. 2, 54c.
BUTTER Creamery 1791sc; dairy 15c.
EGGS-Fresh HE
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Chicago Llvestock Market.

Chicago, Aug. 26.
HOGS-Estimated receipts of hogs today
10 600; tomorrow 10000; left over 5.496.
Steady; mixed and butchers 81 .30d4 so;
good heavy $4. 1904 20; rough heavy 4.00Q
4. 25: light "a. .50GI4. go
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Steady.
Official receipts and shipments for yes
terday:
HOGS-Receipts $3.50: shipments 4, ASS.
CATTLE-Receipts la shipments 1886.
SHEEP-Receipts 1873; shipments 1,032.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26
PERHAPS FROM KLONDIKE

Young Woman on a Train Worked q
Soldiers Home Veteran For Cash.
Leavenworth, Aug. 26.-The Kansas
City police are looking for young wo-
man who is evidently a railroad train
confidence operator.
R. B. Griswold, a veteran who lives
ct the Soldiers home here, started
Wednesday night for Kansas City with
her. He had a small grip in which were
some personal effects and $40 in cash.
When they got on the train they had
The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26
Marshall's Band

Will render an interesting program at
their concert tomorrow afternoon.
Garfield Park Marshall's Band Con-
cert tomorrow
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Irritating stings, bites. scratches
wounds and cuts soOthed and healed by
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve-a sure
and safe application for tortured flesh.
Bewae of cOunterfeits. Geo NJ Stans-
field, ". H Wilson, A ]. Arnold & Son.
q. ]. Kane & Co.
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Travelling Men

Should always carry a bottle of Beggs'
Diarrhoea Balsam with them. Safe and
sure. Squires' Pharmacy, 1872 Kansas Ave.
A chance to hear the Modoc club be
fore they leave for Philadelphia. Car
field park casino, Tuesday evening,
August %. Admission, 10 cents.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26

The best talent of the city in a musi-
cal under the management of F.
Weightman, Garfield park, August %.
Admission, 10 cents
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Snear Market

New York Aug. &c.
SUGAR-Raw, quiet and steady. Refined
quiet and steady.
COFEEE.-TOn1l
The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26

F. Weightman at Garfield park ca
sino in his latest comic songs, Tuesday
evening. August %. Admission, 10
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Ranees of Prices on stocIr.


Furnished by ]. c. GoinSs. Commission
Merchant, 112 East Fifth street. Topeka
Kan, receiver and shipper of grain.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26
Irritating stings,

Irritating stings, bites, scratches,
wounds and cuts soothed and healed by
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve-a sure and
safe application for tortured flesh. Be
ware of counterfeits. Geo. w. Stansfield,
w. H. Wilson, A. J. Arnold & Son, A. J.
Kane & So.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26
Market Gossip.

Liverpool wheat 14d lower; corn un-
changed
London: Wheat cargoes close steady.
Options I'D lower. Worlds shipments g.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-26
Stocks.
Range of PRICES.

Furnished by J. c. Goings Commission
Merchant. 112 East Fifth St, Topeka,
Kan, receiver and shipper of grain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
CR1TTCISES MR.. SHELDON.
Chicago Lecturer Finds Fault With
@Ln His Steps,"

In his annual sermon to his philoso-
ply class in Chicago, Jenkin Lloyd
Jones criticises Rev. Charles NJ. Shell
don's book. For his theme he took the
book In His Steps" He said:
Genius does not catch the crowd
with its first utterance. The great
books never sell by the millions. Shell
don has well diagnosed the case, but
his remedy smacks of a panacea, and
all panaceas are to be distrusted. The
very simplicity of his remedy is an ar
raignment of it. He has made plain
dark, and has made easy that which
structiOn of a life habit and the re-Or-
not simple. But if it were and the rem
edy obvious, our author has begged the
question when he has appealed his case
to the courts of Jesus.
THE very recommendation Of Shell
don in this book is part of the blunder
of the past-the ignorance of the head
in the interest of the heart, the as
sumption that conscience, at least the
sanctified conscience, the saved con-
science, is some kind of a holy compass
that will always point to the right
without consulting that judgment that
rests on experiences not of the individ
ual alone but of humanity. There is
not enough in this book to save the read
er from sinking again into a sentiment
tai imbecility, that is guided by pity
rather than by judgment, that mistakes
sympathy for justice and elevates Civ
ing above living and being
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
NEW DEPOT FOR WICHITA
Missouri Pacific Will Build a Hand
some Structure There.

Wichita, Nov. 1.-THE Missouri Pacific
will build a fine two-stOry stone depot
on the site of the present station, cor
ner of Second and Wichita streets. This
has been definitely determined upon
and the plans for the building are al
ready drawn and have been sent here
for inspection and approval by Division
superintendent Webb. The building is
to be of fine white stone, something
similar to that used in the construction
of the court house. 1t will be one hun
dred feet long and two stories high.
with a two hundred foot platform. On
the first floor will be a double ticket Of
fee, a private office for the passenger
agent, two 20 foot waiting rooms, a
baggage and express room. On the sec
Ond floor there will be the elegant Of
fees for the division superintendent,
train dispatcher, train master and road
master All in all the station will be
one of the finest in the state.
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A Peculiar Locomotive Building
For the Santa Fe.
Will Be Equipped With a Tubu-
lar Marine Boiler.
1T is AN EXPERIMENT.
Performance Will Be Watched
With Interest.
Railroad News of a General and
Local Nature.

Active work has been commenced on
the new marine tubular boiler engine,
which is being built at the Santa Fe
shops here. The work will be pushed
ahead as fast as possible and the merits
of this new style engine tested
The engine is being built as an ex-
pertinent, as the merits of it are prac-
tically unknown. The engine will prob
ably be put into switching service, as
it win be equipped with small sized
wheels 1t is really an ordinary en-
CINE equipped with a Scotch marine
tubular boiler. similar to those used
on steamships
The boiler is very large aud running
through the center lengthwiSe is a large
corrugated tube In this tube the FIRE
is built and this, 50 it is claimed, gives
more heating surface, and does away
with the crown and stay bolts
Already many of the castings are
made for the new engine, and in a COM
paratively short time the engine should
be finished Its completion is awaited
with much interest, by the engineers
and mechanics generally, as nothing
like it has been tried in the west A
great deal of speculation is being in
dulged in by many OF the machlniStS,
as to whether the engine will or will not
be top heavy. Many think that 1t will,
owing TO the immense sige and pecul-
lar shape Of the boiler, and its cOnse-
heavy iron. Also, the large hues and
the usual trimmings that are placed on
ordinary engines, are to be put on top.
If this engine is successful, and comes
up to the expectations of the builders
others like it will be built.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
COMBINE ADVANTAGES.
Big Railroad syndicates Will Operate
For Common Good

In eastern railroad and financial
circles there is much discussion OF the
plan outlined under which the con-
trolling interests of the great railroad
for the purpose of economy in opera
ton. AS already stated, it is not de-
signed to be an actual merger of the
capital stock of the various systems,
but a. compact between various groups
of roads to carry out certain plans and
to adhere to certain methods for the
common benefit, and it is claimed that
the Vanderbilt, Cassatt, Morgan, HILL
Harriman-Rockefelle and Gould groups
of railroads will support the plan.
The principal objects of the consolt-
datiOn are summarized as follows. The
com binatiOn viii undertake at once the
establishment of rates and their
maintenance on a permanent basis. IL
will begin at once to cut down the eX-
pensiYe departments OF the railroads
Advertisements will be withdrawn from
all the small country newspapers, which
receive transportation in exchange for
advertising and sell 1t, thus dlStur pin
rates. It Will abolish the sO-called
fast freight lines" which are expensive
and unremunerative parasites. 1t viii
do away with the selling agencies and
the various subsidiary companies own
ed and operated by officials of the
parent companies. 1t will abolish the
travelling freight agent as far as pos
sible, as he is universally voted the
root of all evil
1t will resist the demands Of all big
corporation for rebates, and it will,
following the lead of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, cooperate with the
interstate commerce commission in the
maintenance of low rates. It will estab-
lish both the anthracite and bituminOus
coal trades on a permanently profitable
| basis 1t Will abolish differentials at
the Atlantic seapOrts and establish a
grain tariff from the west to the sea-
board, based on the prevailing market
price Of the cereal on the Chicago board
of trade.
It will take up and provide for a set
tlement OF labor questions, as far as
possible. The board of arbitration will
! probably be composed of these men:
William K. Vanderbilt. William
Rockefeller, George Gould, J. PierpOnt
Morgan, E. H. Hartman, A J. Cassatt
James J. Hill and Geo. R. Blanchard
Mr.. Blanchard will probably be chair
man. His position will be similar to
/ that occupied by him as commission OF
the joint traffic association.
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FROM EMPoRIA.

Conductor J. J. Short has returned to
duty He has been sick for few days
at Newton.
Conductor Joe Hummer, who has
been visiting near Lawrence, has re-
turned to work
Fireman Fairchilds is here for service
Fireman Hatton, Of Arkansas City, is
here for service.
Engineer Harrop has returned from
Newton, where he has been for the past
two weeks.
Engineer Webb, of Topeka, has come
here for service in the pool
Engineer Lynn, who has been run
ming a switch engine in the Argentine
yards, has been assigned to the En-
porfa extra board
Lew Snyder returned to work today.
He has been sick for about a week
There is a great scarcity of engine
power at this point. A great many of
the Cottonwood engines have not yet
come in from the west.
Fireman keeler went to Chicago last
night, where he expects to take a run
on the Baltimore & Ohio road He is
regarded as a good fireman, and has
many friends here who wish him much
success.
Mrs. James Painter went to Ottawa
this morning to see her son, Frank, the
account of a mashed hand. She will re-
turn by way of Topeka and be at the
Twentieth reception.
Ramp, Gordon, Cloud. Estey, John
SON. 0. C. Jones. Austin Ike Wilson and
Fairchilds are now firemen, having re-
ceived notice Saturday afternoon of
their promotion to that position. These
are all good, steady boys, and their
friends are pleased to note their promo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
PORTO RICAN CENSUS.
Enumeration Will Begin About the
10th Inst.

CCorrespondence of the Associated Press.)
Ponce. Porto Rico, Oct. 25--Census Of
ficia1s have been appointed for all the dis
tricts of Porto Rico and the first enum-
Grafton will be taken between November
10 and December 20. Already the various
officers are busily engaged in the prelim-
mary work ard they are making every
effort and taking every precaution to
avoid errors and to get complete and &C
curate data
The Porto Rican benevolent society Of
Ponce deserves much credit for the very
efficient work it has been doing in relieV-
poor of this city. especially among the
poor and sick women and children. The
society is made up of the leading citizens
Of Ponce and has 100 mem berS. only eight
of whom are Americans The ladies work
Systematically and personally visit the
poor and help them This is quite 4 de-
parture from the ancient customs here.
The society is going to hold q bazaar IN
the remOdelled La Perla theater, IN De-
cernber for the purpose of raising funds
take the numerous beggarS off the street
of Ponce. There is no such institution
here although there is great need of one.
When the aims house is instituted 8 large
number of the INDECENT can thus be taken
care of for comparatively small sum-
Now the crippled and inffrn are seen on
the streets and are supported by the pen
MES given to them each day The society
is sending to the United States by this
mail hundreds of letters to prominent
contributions of goods to be sold at the
bazaar It is hoped there will be a gen.
erOus response for the contributions viii
serve the double purpose Of helping a
can merchandise in what is soon to be a
T1avr m
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pers or helpless people on the passenger
trains without being accompanied by
attendants.
There is some talk Of sending several
of the new Baldwin passenger engines
to Albuquerque to do work on the San
ia Fe-Pacific in order to handle the big
rush of business the road is now hav-
ing.
Air pressure is making life at the
shops easy, these days. They have put
in position an adjustable hook on a
crane which handles all heavy work
with ease All drilling is also being
done with air and work which it form
erly required week to do by hand can
now be done in day and a half.
Conductor c. 0. Clark has his right
arm fractured at the wrist last week.
His train was backing in on the siding
at Wagon Mound and in attempting to
climb up on the side of a car missed
the hand hold on the top of the car and
fell backwards In catching himself
to break his fall to the ground both
bones in his wrist were fractured and
his body considerably bruised.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
SOLDIERS ROMANCE.
How a Private on the Firing Line
Found 9 Correspondent.

daughter ugh Of ". H Golden Of Upper San
TreIcseziyying t the following letter from. a
United States soldier, who Is engaged IN
the battles now being fought IN the EfllA-
-P+'--'e ''Caloocan. P. I. Feb. IS. 1889.
Coed morning, Miss Golden, I found
a piece of a Cleveland paper and IN lr
discovered your name am . loneS 7,l1l'
re ,1 tb 1it tre1ces resting AFTER the bat-
verV close calls found some paper and
cut a bullet for a pencil, and your name
You may do as you please about an
swering. I came from good family and
have as fair q reputation as any young
man full OF life, can , nave, Groves ~
adorn the horizon. Nature IS in her best
Beautiful. eniivening music. Mountains
grandeur In our rear lie the ruins OF
GaIoocan: majestic churches look al
give evidence of the awful battle by It's
Tuinous scars of shot and she'll Bullets
cover the ground like hail. The wounded
have been carried away; the dead are bur
led in single, unmarked graves in groups
we are now besfeging Nabobocan, a
handsome city, with a populatlon OF S.oyy-
charge and another battle won 1t may
be. that while you read this, I might be
in the hospital from some awful wound.
such as a soldier chances in the war But
we are ready for duty and must not count
Written with a bullet on the battle
fields of Caloocan. Philippine islands,
February Is, 1899.
Private, Company NJ. Twentieth kan
sas infantry, Manila, P. L.
will you add to a soldiers pIeasure2 I
am Ohio boy"
Miss Golden did add to his pleasure and
a lively correspondence has been kept Up
b F Golden of Topeka an uncle Of Miss
Golden offered to send her a ticket 70
come to Topeka and meet her soldier boy.
But Private Prouse re-enlisted and did
not return
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
Santa Fe Safe Blown Open.

Salina, Nov. 1.-Safe crackers visited
the Santa Fe depot Saturday night and
blew open the cOmpany's safe. A visit
the work of amateurs. Nitro glycerine
was the explosive used The charge,
which seems to have been q heavy one.
blew the outer door of the safe and
scattered things around the room gen
orally. The inner door of the safe was
not blown open and the second charge
was placed behind it, which for some
reason was never ignited. The bur-
glars were frightened away, it is pre-
sumed, before they could finish the job.
No booty was secured and none would
have been had they gained entrance to
the safe, as Mr. Graveley, the agent,
states nothing but books are in the
safe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
RATES TO ADVANCE
Regular Fares Between Kansas City
and Chicago and St Louis to
Be Restored.

St. Louis, Nov. THE executive Off
GERS of the St Louis Kansas City lines
held a meeting here and decided that
full tariff rates from Chicago and St
cago. and $3.50 from St Louis. should
prevail, without delay. The rate of IS
adopted some time since by St Louis
lines was made on account of the re-
and that rate was put in by the Alton
because two competing lines from Chi
cago We're manipulating the rates
through brokers. The St Louis rate
to Kansas City has always been based
on 50 per cent of the Chicago rate, hence
the action OF the St Louis lines.
The executive officers sent a joint tel
egram to the managing officers of the
Chicago Kansas City lines urging an
immediate restoration of tariffs on the
ground that much loss Of revenue would
result in a wide territory if present
conditions were tolerated any longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
Opium Smokers In China

IFrom the Shanghai Mercury
To learn the actual number of opium
smokers is impossible, but we know the
amount of the foreign import of this
drug and the naive confessions of re-
formed opium smokers tell US precisely
the amount of opium required to pass
an ounce daily. An ounce or laing is
consumed in five days, and a catty suf-
fees for eighty days. Four CattieS are
enough for 800 days, and another half
catty will carry the smoker to the end
of a year with comfort. A picul is
enough, then for only twenty tive per
sons, and $4,000 picuIs is sufficient for
not more than 100000 persons. The
law Of cOInpulsiOn in the smoker is Just
as imperious for native opium as for
foreign. 1t is a matter of great inter-
est to know the extent of the evil
In regard to Szechuen, that very pop
ulous and wealthy province. Mr.
SchjOth, in the Trade Report for 1898
informs US that Szechuen produces 1OO,-
900 picuIS of opium. and the cultivation
is always increasing. At Chungching,
where he is commissioner, he is told
that 80 600 piculs suffice for cOnsunp-
ton in the province, and that So 900
piculs are exported. We may conclude
that the smokers of that province can
not be less than $50, 900. Since the pop
uIation is 81, coz. 600 the number of
smokers is one in a hundred. In Shensi
one in $40 smokes, in Szechuen one in
100. In FOrmoSa one in fifteen is the
proportion in cities where the people
are sunk to the lowest point of degra-
dalton, and this is the largest proper
ton yet known of opium smokers as
compared with the general population.
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FROM LAS VEGAS.

Engineer Eames will take the run
between Lamy and Santa Fe when the
new time card goes into effect
E. Bowling, telegraph operator for
the Santa Fe. has been transferred
from Albuquerque to Las Vegas. where
he has been assigned to the duties of
dispatcher
w 7. Sandifer, former passenger con-
ductor on the Hot Springs branch, hav-
ing visited his family here left for the
south where he holds a similar position
with the Mexican Central
Santa F'e conductors have been nOtf-
fed of a rule that they Will not be al
lowed to permit insane. invaIids, pau
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WINNER SECURES LAND.
Right of Way of Electric Line in
Wyandotte County Acquired

WyRndOtte County Acquired
Kansas City. Nov. John W. Nc
Daniel and others, who had several
pieces of property granted them for the
right of way of an electric line between
Kansas City and Topeka, yesterday
transferred their interests to the kan
sas City, Lawrence & Topeka Railroad
company, which promises to have a line
in operation between Topeka and KAN
sas City, Kan, before January %, 1900.
The American Equipments company
was first behind the scheme, but It's
failure to get the support of eastern
capital caused it to abandon the effort
and later willard E Winner took the
matter up and he is now recognized as
the prime mover in the enterprise
The proposed road will run up the
Kaw valley to Topeka and the idea is
to give the people living in that local
fty a quicker and easier access to the
Kansas City markets with their pro-
ducts.
No work has yet been done on the
road and it will be an enormous under
taking to complete the road n the time
contemplated.
The right of way that has been secured
and which was transferred yesterday to
Mr.. Winners company is all in Wyan-
dotte county and is situated near Mr.
McDanieTs big farm at Edwardsville.