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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
BIG TUNNEL CAVES IN.
Costly Accident Will Delay Santa Fe's
Entrance Into Frisco.

The biggest cavein that has been re-
corded in railroad construction for
years happened in the three mile tun-
mel the Santa Fe is constructing on its
way to Point Richmond, where extern
sive docks have been built and from
where trains are to be taken on i'm
mense barges across the bay to San
Francisco. ID Il
. The San Joaquin Valley line had been
utilized to its northernmost point, and
from there work began six months ago
with great force of men to extend
the road to Point Richmond, a narrow
offered were tempting, the Santa Fe had
not been able to purchase terminal IA
cilitieS in Oakland or territory north of
that city, the Southern Pacific, at that
time, bitterly contesting every foot of
the way.
A barrier of mountains doomed up be-
tween the point and the San Joaquin
and solving several difficult engineering
problems, it was decided to tunnel
through.
The tunnel was the last remaining
work to be accomplished. The barges
were ready and the rails were laid from
the point to the western end of the tun-
mel Then the great tunnel caved in,
before the engineers had opportunity to
strengthen it. Among local Santa F'e
officials doubt is expressed as to the
course the engineers will now pursue
to reach the point. 1t is probable how
ever, work will be continued on the tun-
mel.
The extent of the Gavin caused
temporary pause, and so days, it is now
given out from headquarters, will be
consumed before the great bore can be
cleared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
W1oH1rA GAR LINE.
Material Ordered and Men to Be Put
to Work February Is.

Wichita, Jan. 6.-S. L. Nelson, form
erly general manager of the Springfield,
Ohio, street railway company, and who
is to have charge of the construction of
the new street railway system here
has arrived in Wichita and, in company
with Coler Sim and Superintendent W.
@. Church of the old lines, looked over
the railway property and the city gem
orally.
He has already bought 700 tons Of
rails, 300 tons of which is already ship
ped from Joliet, Ill. The other 400 tons
are to be shipped from Pennsylvania
at an early date. Two cars of spikes
have been ordered for shipment jan
uary 10th. Two cars of rail joints have
been contracted for March 1st under a
forfeit of 81, 900 to be paid by the manu-
facturer if the stuff is not delivered on
that date.
Ten 16-foot vestibuled car bodies have
been ordered for immediate delivery
and trucks for shipment from Kingston,
New York, January %.
Ten open cars have been ordered, four
to be shipped March 20, two March %,
and four April 1, and two combination
cars, e feet over all, to be shipped June
1. One boiler for the power house is to
be shipped in fifteen days and engines
are to be shipped ninety days from date
of contract, December %. New gener-
ators will be here some time the first Of
May. One hundred men will be put to
work on the line February Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06

accept similar ones with the Southern
Pacific Co.
A c. Potter, depot baggageman, who
has been on a furlough at Richmond
Mo-, has resumed his duties.
Former Passenger Conductor w. II.
Wheeler has been assigned to a bag
gage run between La Junta and Albu-
querque.
o. NJ. Wilson, a, civil engineer in e.
w. Grants Office, has resigned from the
service and will probably return to his
Topeka home.
a good many trainmen are on the
anxious seat, waiting to hear the re-
suit of the Chicago meeting.
T. II. O'Brien and J. a. Mcclure have
been named as baggagemen on trains
Nos. 2 and II, between Albuquerque and
La Junta.
James Tolle, switchman in the Las
Vegas yard, who had his hand caught
between couplings and mashed, has
had to have the middle and index fing-
ers of his right hand amputated at tne
railroad hospital
John Bieber, who had been firing on
the Santa Fe branch temporarily, has
returned to the city and resumed his
old position running out of here on
freight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
KANSAS NEWS.
Cottonwood Falls and Strong
City Grow Metropolitan.
VIII Shortly Be United With an
Electric Car Line.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, TOO
Superior Company to Buy Water
Mill and Power
And Build New Dam and Erect
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, TOO
And Build a New Dam and Erect
a Plant.

Cottonwood Falls. Jan. e.-This city
and Strong City are to have electric
lights, and an electric car line.
The Superior Electric Light company
has made a proposition to purchase the
mill and water power on the Cottonwood
river at the edge of town and erect an
electric plant capable of running arc
and incandescent lights and furnishing
motive power for the street railway. To
provide against failure of water to op-
crate the plant steam engine and
boiler will be put in.
Mr.. Lee, the manager, says the first
thing to be done is to build a new dam
and a new mill. This will furnish con-
siderable work to our stone men,
The city council here has awarded the
franchise to the company and the
Strong City council will take favorable
action Tuesday night.
Each city is to take a number Of arc
lights at So a month. Electricity will dis
pense with the mule car line now in
operation between the tive towns and
give rapid transit service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
A CAR ROBBERY.
Merchandise Thrown Out by Couple
of Thieves at Leavenworth.

Leavenworth, Jan. 6.-Policeman Lar
kin and Merchants Policeman Titel
found a new pair of skates, three cad
dies of tobacco two boxes of crackers,
and a box containing 1000 cigars on
the railroad tracks at the foot of Shaw
nee street, this morning before day
light
The goods had been thrown out of a
Missouri Pacific freight car presuma-
bly, by thieves who had been stealing a
ride in the car. About o'clock the
two officers arrested a white man who
gave him name as Bill McCune, on sus-
picion. It was said the theft was COM
mitted by a white man and negro
who rode here in the car during the
night from AtchiSon. AS McCune had
been seen with negro he was taken in
for investigation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
FROM DODGE CITY.

Ben Oldham, an engineer on the Colo
RADIO Southern, was here this week. His
family returned with him to Pueblo,
where they will make their home.
Homer Blocker received a Christmas
present in the form OF clearance pap
ers," and he is now a. brakeman run
ming on the Santa Fe running between
Dodge City and Newton
On invitation of Superintendent Park
er, Fred Gardner, agent, accompanied
that official and others en- the yearly
inspection of the road. Many points
were visited during the three days alb
sence, the party going into Nebraska
Chas. E. Gallagher, who spent three
months at Hot Springs, Ark, has re-
turned. Mr.. Gallagher has not alto
gether recovered the full use Of his
eyes, but the treatment he received was
beneficial to him.
f. G. Hasbrouck formerly foreman OF
the Dodge City shops, was here en- route
to Bloomington, ILL.,, where he win take
charge of the round house of the Chi
cago & Alton railroad. L. e. Foote sue
ceeds Mr.. Hasbrouck at Ration.
Clarence Petty and family, of Her
ington, Kansas, visited the family OF
Conductor Heustis this week. Mr.. Pet
ty was formerly q resident here. He IS
a conductor on the Rock Island road
and runs from Harrington to Caldwell
Fred c. Briggs and family are visit
ing friends in the city. Mr. Briggs IS a
conductor on the Florence & Cripple
Creek railroad and makes his home aC
Florence, where he has been for year
mast He saws Colorado is prospecting
Good wages are paid and money IS
plenty. He has a 80 days leave OF aD<
sence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06

proposes to straighten out its title by
foreclosure and the others are short
local lines, mostly in the experimental
stage The totals covering all these con-
d1tlonS represent ten companies with
LOIS miles of road and a capitalization
of a, little over $52, 600, 900.
The long, dark era of railway bank
ruptcies, which eliminated in 1893, when
seventy-four companies, with nearly
10000 miles of lines were handed over
to receivers, has ended and the new
year starts with the railroads of the
United States, with very few exceptions,
in a solvent and hopeful condition.
In 1876 the 1852 miles of roads for
which receivers were appointed repre-
Sented over S12 per cent of the total
mileage of the country, then 76,S00 miles.
The receiverships for 1899 cover only
1,019 miles, or a little over half of per
cent of the present mileage.
The record of foreclosure sales also
shows a large decrease in number OF
roads and mileage over Immediately
preceding years, indicating that the
supply of bankrupt companies is being
steadily reduced. Nevertheless, the fore
closures for the year included thirty
two roads, with 1924 miles of lines, and
$267, 900 900 of capital, of which $155, 00Os-
600 was represented by bonds.
An appalling proposition of our rail-
ways have now gone through the costly
experience of foreclosure sale. For the
past twenty-four years the foreclosure
sales have averaged more than thirty
four a year, the largest number in one
year being Sixty-five and the smallest
fifteen. In 1898 IA roads, representing
29, $40 miles and bonds and stocks to
the amount of 81, 49, DAG, 900 were in the
hands of receivers. In the last six years
273 roads have been sold, a. yearly aver
age of forty-fYe and a, half, not count
ing a number of insolvent companies
that have been reorganized without
sale. 1t is not conceivable that the COM
ing quarter century will show any such
rate of mortality among railway cor
rOrafi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
LANDLORD WANTS DAMAGES.
His Hotel Guaranteed For Smallpox
Which Proved Measles

Kansas City, Kan, Jan. 6.-The pro-
prietor and guests of the National hotel,
which was placed under quarantine,
Tuesday evening, because the county
physician, DR. Clark, had mistaken
case of measles for smallpox, are
wrathy at the action of the doctor,
which they say was unnecessary. W. c.
Evans, proprietor of the hotel, stated
today that he would file a bill for dam
ages with the city council. He claims
that his business has been injured and
that he will hold the city responsible
for the action of the county physician,
who oficiates in all smallpox cases in
the metropolis.
DIR. Clark first established a quaran-
tine at the hotel, after which he called
in Drs. Wowns and Gray. who declared
that it was & case of measles. The con-
sultation was held between 8 and 10 p.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
BOTH OPERATORS.
superintendent Dyer and Euperin-
tendent Dunaway Served at EN-
poria and Usage Citv.

It is rather a peculiar coincidence that
Charles Dyer, superintendent of the west
ern division of the Santa Fe, who has
been appointed general superintendent of
the Colorado and Southern railway. and
T. F. Dunaway, the man he will succeed,
were Santa Fe agents and operators with
in so miles of each other in 1871. Mr..
Dyer was agent and operator at Emporia
and Mr.. Dunaway had charge of the San
ia Fe office at Usage City.
General Manager Nudge of the Santa
F'e is in Chicago and so far as known
here Mr.. Dyer has not yet rendered his
resignation as division superintendent of
the Santa Fe, The Denver announcement
states that he will assume the general
superintendeney of the Colorado and
Southern on February l.
At the time that Mr.. Dyer and Mr.. Dun
poria and Usage City, Mr.. Charles Gertei-
sen, Santa Fe agent in North Topeka,
was agent and operator at Reading.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
SANTA FE MAY TAKE IT.
Rumor That Negotiations Are on For
Titus-Waggener Road.

Wichita, Kan. Jan. GA rumor that
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
road is making an effort to get hold of a
new line the Denver, Oklahoma and Gulf,
that is being projected from Kiowa south
into Oklahoma is current in this section
and emanates from the same source that
first limited the sale of the Hutchinson
and Southern. The Denver, Oklahoma
lists, and about twenty miles of grade has
been built, much of the work being done
by farmers who contributed their work
in preference to voting bonds. The final
survey has been made as far south as
Augusta, Ok, and that town is exper-
fencing a boom in consequence.
Senator A J. Titus of Anthony, Sena-
ator .Brockway and B.. P: Waggener of
Atchison are the principal promoters of
the Denver, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad.
It was their original purpose to sell it to
the Missouri Pacific. The road is being
built by subscriptions in work and cash
from farmers along the route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
CATHOLIC BUILDINGS.
Planned For Wichita by Bishop Hen
Messy to Be Erected.

Wichita, Jan. st is now certain
that the great improvements in this
will be advanced far toward completion
during the summer. 1t was planned
some time since to establish a college
on the West side, erect a cathedral,
bishops residence and two school build
ings on the Meade property on Central
and North Topeka now owned by the
church. Arrangements for carrying out
these plans are being rapidly consum-
mated
The immediate question now to be
determined is whether the cathedral or
the bishops residence shall be built
first. 1t can be confidently stated that
a very large majority of the Catholic
people desire to see the bishops resi-
dence first completed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
FIRST KANSAS LOCOMOTIVES.
Geo. W. Martin Is Engaged in Com
piling History Concerning It.

George w. Martin, secretary of the
state historical society is searching for
the record of the first railroad locomo-
tive brought to Kansas, which a few
weeks ago, passed to the scrap pile of
the Missouri Pacific Railroad company.
The locomotive was landed in Kansas
in May, 1860, coming across from st.
Joe for operation on the 80 miles of the
old Atchison & Pixies Peak railroad.
1.-The Albany as the engine was des-
ignated did service on that primitive
branch for years and later became the
property of the Missouri Pacific having
been in use in the western part of the
state until sent to the scrap pile.
The locomotive has a strange history
marked by many wrecks and accidents,
all of which Mr.. Martin hopes to secure
authentic history concerning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
OWED TIE BANK s11a,oe6 %.
MartindaIe Have Filed Their
Report.

Emporia, Jan. 6.-The board of arbi-
traitors in the case of Morton Albaugh,
receiver of the First National bank, VS..
William Martindale, have made a re-
port. They decided that Martindale,
who was vice president of the defunct
bank, owed the bank 113,O65.93. This
amount is more than the total of the
Martindale estate, and there are other
claims against Martindale which aggre-
gate $100, 1000. The property is now in
the hands of r. T. Battey, of Florence,
who is trustee, and is worth between
$40 900 and $50, 900. The bank will get
about half of this after the other claims
against MartindaIe have been reduced
to judgments.
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EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY.
The Past Year Has Been Practically
Free of Railroad Bankruptcies.

Chicago, III, Jan. 6-The Railway Age
says:
The best evidence that the year 1899
was one of general prosperity is found
in the fact that it was a year almost
without railway bankruptcies. In only
two years since 1875 have the roads for
which receivers were appointed been SO
few, and in only three of those years
were the mileage and capital involved
so small Only one road of Importance
is found in the list the new Kansas
faulted in it's obligations before it had
time to demonstrate it's earning capaci-
ty, and was placed in the charge of re-
ceivers early in the year. OF the nine
others in the list two are short logging
roads, belonging to private companies,
one is an old narrow gauge road that
has never been profitable and is owned
by a great railway company, which now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
MONEY, WIFE AND SON.
Rev. Lockley In Jail Here Charged
With the Theft of These Items.

Fort Scott, Jan 6.-The colored pseu-
do-preacher, Mr.. Lockley. who is in jail
here for the theft of some clothes from
Brother Morgan on the east side, is
charged with stealing sundrY items of
personal property at Litchheld, Kan,
included in which are some money, a
wife and a son. The man who prefers
the charge is a colored miner. Deputy
Sheriff Jas. Bales has just received a
letter from him in which he expresses a
desire to have them sent back home for
a while. The letter is addressed Ito the
Jaler Balier, Fortscott, Kansas" and
reads:
''Litchfield, Kan, Jan. 2, 1899.
kind Sir would Oblige you if you
would Get my watch from that Coulor
man you take up through the Christmas
G. w. Lockley an also tell him Says
Send me my Money an my wife an an
Son that he stole from him Send them
to Litchfild Kansas, house No "a. to -
's
If Lockley stole the wife. boy, watch
and money, he has disposed of them for
he was absolutely broke when he
reached Fort Scott
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SENATOR BAKER SUES.
Asks Foreclosure on Land Given to
Secure Personal Loan.

Leavenworth, Jan. 6.-Senator Lucien
Baker is the plaintiff in a suit for the
foreclosure of a mortgage to satisfy
a. note secured by the mortgage in the
district court yesterday and the de-
PENDANTS are William F. DreWes and
Emma L. DreWes.
Only one installment has been paid
on the note and as the givers of it have
also allowed the taxes on the land
which was mortgaged to secure the note
to default suit has been brought to
foreclose the mortgage.
The property in question is situated
in the country and consists of a farm
of 22O acres.
The amount for which judgment is
asked is $4,513 and costs of suit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
BETTER FREIGHT SERVICE.
Missouri Pacific Establishes a Fast
Train for Southern Kansas.

Coffeyville, Jan. 6.-Beginning We'd
nesday, the Missouri Pacific installed
fast special merchandise train between
Kansas City and Coffeyville. 1t leaves
Kansas City every evening at 1880
O'Clock and reaches Coffeyville at 6
O'Clock the next morning. On Tues
days and Thursdays it carries refriger-
ator cars out of Kansas City.
to get their freight as quickly as they
can get answer to their mail from Kan
sas City. The new freight lacks only
an hour and a half of making as quick
time as does the passenger train. Under
this service goods ordered by mail Mon
day night reach Coffeyville by freight
Wednesday morning Is minutes sooner
than the bill for them comes by mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
cHANUTE's GAS PLANT.
One of the Mains Burst and Becoming
Ignited Causes Commotion.
[From the lola Register.

IFIOIl LHt 1OId INCSIsLtI.J
The report came from Chanute this
morning that last night one of the gas
mains on the business street burst
and the escaping gas was ignited by a
lantern in the hands of a passer. The
flames leaped up around his head. He
fought the demon and swung his arms
and his wife threw her apron over his
head AS soon as they escaped they
took a look at the flames and thought
the fire rose forty feet into the air.
Other observers say the fire. rose twenty
feet The city has owned the plant only
four days and this accident will be dis
cOuraging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
SANTA &c LOCALS.

John McKenna has returned from a
trip in the east and has been assigned
to the coal run.
Fireman Sam Ash has been given turn
in the pool with Engineer Drew, the place
being vacated by McKenna-
Fireman Talbert of Emporia has taken
the place of Fireman Davis, who is TAX
ing a sixty days lay off.
Frank Crawford is firing on trains No.
and 8.
sickness in his family.
The new tubular boiler locomotive has
St. Joe passenger engine No. 1s1 was
broken in today.
P B. Ross of the paint shop, who has
been seriously sick for the past few
weeks Is much better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
Widow of an Old Soldier Sent to the
Poor House

TFrom the Chase County Reveille.1
We have received the following from
Matheld: "Some curious things hap
pen in our county. For instance: our
laws provide that an old soldier, his
widow or children shall never be COM
PEELED to go to the poor house of any
county in this state for a living. Yet
am sorry to say this law is frequently
violated. The party in question at
present is Mrs. Orelia Ketch, who is an
inmate of our county poor house. She
is the widow of Jas. L. Ketch who was
a sergeant in Co. B, 118 N. Y. volunteer
infantry. The particular law referred to
can be found on page 1886 in volume
statutes of Kansas, of 1899 which has
never been repealed"
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THROUGH VIRGIN TERRITORY.
Dallas and New Mexico Road Will
Omen New Texas Country.

Austin, Texas, Jan. 6.-The charter of
the Dallas and New Mexico railway COM
panv was filed here today. The capital
stock of the company is $4,000 and it is
proposed to build a railroad west to the
western line of the state, passing through
twenty-five counties. The total length of
the proposed road is 500 miles and it is
to traverse a section of the country
which is now completely cut off from
railroad communication with the outside
world.
The principal office of the company is
located at Dallas. The incorporators are
Grath, Barnett Gibbs and a number of
other prominent business men Of Dallas.
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Troubles of an operator.

Wichita, Jan 6.-The preliminary
trial of J. P. Neill, who is charged with
robbing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific ticket office money drawer here
Saturday night, was held in the city
court Friday. He was bound over to
the district court, and in default of
bond was sent to Jail Nei1l was day
operator and ticket man of the Rock
Island here. Travelling Auditor Coomer
of Topeka is here examining his ac-
counts with the road. He says he has
found shortage, though he refuses tc
say how much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
Hvdrophobia at Emporia-

Emporia, Jan. 6.-The people of En-
poria and Lyon county are very much
stirred up by the number of cases of
hydrophobia among the dogs. A num-
Der of cases have been reported from
the country and several cases were re-
ported in town today. The police have
killed all the dogs even suspected of be-
ing exposed, among them being $3.50
Ct Rn,.laal- I'd
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Jo1NTIsT PAYS HIS FINE
Commissioners Refused to Throw Of
Fine and Jail Sentence.

lola, Jan. e-After a canvass Of the
city and interviews with the witnesses
ting him in jail, thereby succeeding in
getting the cost bill cut down, Jim Mills
gave a check to the county attorney for
500 for his fine and his time having ex-
pired he was dismissed from custody.
The county commissioners refused to
throw off the fine, when applied to, and
also refused to act in accordance with
the petition of friends who signed their
names to document asking that
Mills and Mccoy be released from
Jail
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Hutchinson, Jan. GA company is be-
ing organized in Hutchinson for the
manufacture of pressed brick. Large
quantities of a fine red shaIe have been
found south of town. This shale has
been tested and makes an excellent Wit
rif1ed as well as building brick. Ma
chinery will be purchased at once.