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The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
FRoM HERINGToN.

Ed. Henderson, W. B. Freeland and 9TH
ers from Herington, and Frank Secor, of
Horton. attend Shriners' meeting at Sa-
lima Thursday night.
Bridge Carpenter Ha1loran has brought
his family back to Herington from To-
peka. and has purchased the NJ o. Con-
nor property.
The bridge carpenters have returned
from Arkalon, but report the work as
far from completed A great deal of new
bridging has been replaced and added to
the original structures, washed out by the
high water of the first of the month.
Dispatcher W. H. Krammer and family
left Tuesday for Pennsylvania to spend
an annual spring vacation among rela-
tives.
Each dispatcher has moved up a notch
during Krammers absence and Relief
Dispatcher Irwin makes the third man.
Harry Burnett handles the south end OF
the office.
Conductor E. NJ. Scott and wife have re-
turned from their extended trip to Iowa
and Dakota Mr.. Scott is back on the
Salina run.
Clarence Weaver, who fires the 21s OF
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
RAILROAD NEWS.
RumOr of Santa Fe ssCut Off"
to the Coast Revived.
Line From Amarillo, Tex, to
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
MUCH SHORTER ROUTE
Several Hundred Miles Would
Be Saved by the Move.
Difficult Grades of Ration Pass
Would Be Avoided.

"a dispatch from Santa Fe, New Mex
leo, revives the rumor that the Santa
Fe will build ''cutofr' in order to
shorten its line to the Pacific coast. The
dispatch reads:
TT is asserted here that the Santa F'e
will extend its road from Amarillo, Tex
as, to Albuquerque. across Guadalupe.
San Miguel. southern Santa Fe and
Bernalillo counties, cutting off the diff
ficult grades of the Ration pass and of
northern New Mexico, for its through
trains from Chicago and Kansas City,
thus shortening its line to Los Angeles
and San Francisco by several hundred
miles.
1.-The Denver & Rio Grande has an en-
gineering corps out surveying for an
extension to Albuquerque and White
Oaks, there to connect with the Ell Paso
& Northeastern railroad for Ell Paso.
The first extension will be 20 miles to
Bland, by way of White Rock canon. A
site for a bridge to cross the Rio Grande
directly west of Santa Fe has been Sc
lected and the contract has been let for
$4,000 ties to be delivered at Espanola
in May. President Jeffery has long IA
vored tapping the Cochiti district, but
until now the foreign bondholders of the
Denver & Rio rGande have opposed the
project. 1t is said they have now yield
ed to the demand for the road.
1.-THE agreement which existed be-
tween the Rio Grande and the Santa Fe
railroad companies by which both
agreed to remain on one side of the
Sangre Christie and Santa Fe range ex-
pired April 1 and was not signed again.
This will result in the Santa Fe Rail-
road company building its projected
line from Las VegGs to Mora and Taos
and the Rio Grande railroad seeking an
outlet by way of Ell Paso over the pro-
| jected road to White Oaks.''
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
SANTA FE FANS.
They Are Enjoying a Game of Base
ball This Afternoon.

al game of baseball is being played
this afternoon at Athletic park between
the Santa Fe crack team, 1.-The Reds, .
and a team called the "Knockabouts''
composed of a number of baseball en-
thusiasts living in the western part of
the city.
This is the first game the ''Reds" have
had this year. The young men belong
ing to this club are all gentlemanly and
courteous and play clean game OF
ball. Mr.. Whipple, who has assumed
management of the club this season has
every reason to be proud Of the team
Their line up is as follows:
Pitcher-Ira Henry.
Catcher-Hank Bair.
First base-Archie Baughman.
Second base-Geo. Sherman.
Third baSe-Robert HeWie.
ShOrtstop-Wm. Powell.
Left field-Harry Sullivan.
Center feld-Howell LarIxins
Right field-Frank Thompson.
SubStitute-Wm. Gardiner
Umpire-Dan Laynm.
The game was called at 3 o'clock.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
sTILLwELL RETURNS.
Brings With Him Mexican Capitalists
Interested in His Scheme.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 2S.-Arthur E.
Stillwel, who proposes to build the Kan
sas City & Orient line from Kansas City
here from Mexico, in company with some
distinguished Mexican capitalists, Alonzo
Ferdinandez, nephew of President Diaz;
Lorenzo Enzaga, brother-in-lay of Presi-
dent Diaz, and W. W. Sylvester. These
men are interested with Mr.. Stillwen in
the new line and will remain in Kansas
City until Monday during which time the
corporation to construct the road and the
corporation to own and operate it will be
formed.
Kansas City fnanciers, who knew some
thing of Mr.. StilwelPs plans, gave it out
that ample American and European cap
ital stands ready to back him in the un-
dertal1ing. Holland capitalists who were
Mr.. Stilwell's supporters in the Kansas
City, Pittsburg & Gulf line, are said to
be the most ardent believers in his abil-
ity to build the Pacific line.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
DYING F1REMAN's LETTER.
"Dutch" Postelwaite Dictates One Is
Minutes Before Death.

Minutes BEFORE Death
.sDutch" Postelwaite, one Of the most
popular firemen on the Kansas division
of the Union Pacific, died a few days
ago in the company's hospital as the
result of injuries received in a wreck.
Fifteen minutes before he died he fin
ished debating the following letter to
one of his old railroad friends in Kan
sas:
ssDear Paul-It has been long time
since I wrote to you, so thought
would write you for the last time.
am dying. / have been a fireman for
the Union Pacific railroad company,
and last night, when coming down from
Como with the daily express, it COM
menced to snow so hard we could not
see ten feet ahead OF the engine we
ran into the hind end of a freight train
that was stuck in the snow. The engi-
neer was killed instantly, and am so
badly hurt the doctors say won't live
till morning. I am so weak now that
I cannot hold a pencil. One of the
nurses is writing this for me. How are
all the boys getting along-Row Dew
ing, Buck Hub Downing and all the
other boys? We used to have some
good old times there, didn't we, old
chum? Clyde Harris, Frank and Fay
Brown, the Vineys, Roy Cain-I can re-
member them all. Now that am going
to die L can remember things that I
had forgotten. I remember them as
though they happened yesterday w ell,
I hope you all have good jobs and I
hope you will grow up to be somebody
in this world. There amt no use to
answer this, for I will be dead by the
time you get this letter. Tell the other
boys about my bad luck. Have you
ever heard from my mother or brother,
CLYDE? I don't know where they are.
Well. Paul, 1 will have to close, SO good
luck to you, if I have had bad luck.
Goodbye. This is for all my old friends.
Your friend-Dutch Postelwaite. I can
feel death coming on me-
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
SANTA FE LOCALS

Andy Coyne has been laying off on
account of sickness.
Oscar Rosendohl of the blacksmith
department, is on the sick list.
r. P. c. Sanderson is in Chicago.
Until further notice the shops will be
shutdown each Saturday afternoon.
Sam Miller was taken home Friday.
He was taken suddenly ILL.,
Day Caller Vim. Wilson is one of the
proudest men in the roundhouse. Cause
nine pound son born yesterday.
Amos Beeler and Fireman McNeely
are making the trial run with engine
No. 499 today.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
ANOTHER JOINT RAID.

Thompson and Klauer Places Agaiu.
Visited by Police.
Friday evening the police arrested
Mike Thompson and Harry Kennedy for
running joint in the rear of the Royal
billiard hall and later arrested George
Klauer and George Buford for running
q joint in the rear of Klauer's cigar
store.
Both places have been raided three
times in less than two weeks. Thompson
was arrested on Tuesday. All are old
Offenders. The usual pineboard and
small supply of liquors were found
Cleanse the liver, purify the blood, in
vigorate the body by using De Wits Lit
tie Early Risers. These famous little pills
always act promptly. At all drug stores.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
Revised Block Signal Rules.

Revised block-signa1 rules were un-
animously adopted by the American
Railway convention. The rules We're
revised for the purpose of prescribing
uniformity of operation under the sew
eral systems of block signaling so far
as practicable, and of harmonizing the
language of the rules with that Of the
rules relating to the operation and
maintenance of interlocking plants.
Some of the changes recommended by
the committee will require that a few
alterations shall be made in the phrase
ology and arrangement of rules for in
terlocking in order that uniformity may
be had.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
SPOKE FOR GOV. STANLEY.
Mr.. Sloneeker Represents Kansas at
st. Louis Worlds Fair Hearing.

Washington, April 2s.-At the after
noon session Of the committee on trans
Mississippi exposition yesterday, Col.
John r. G. Pitkin, of New Orleans,
president Of the trans Mississippi con-
gress, spoke for the extended interests
represented by that organization.
In the absence of Governor Stanley,
of Kansas, who was unable to be pres
net. Judge SIonecker, of Topeka. Kan,
presented the views of that section. He
said that Kansas, like Colorado, felt a
personal interest in the exposition. It
was desired, too, that the enterprise
should be the greatest ever undertaken,
truly national and International, and
this could be achieved only by the gen
erous cooperation of the federal gov
ernment.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
CLOUDBURST At Waco.
Eight Persons Drowned and
Much Property Destroyed.

Waco. Tex. April 2S.-A cloud burst,
accompanied by a high wind descended
upon this city yesterday and the result
is that eight people are known 70 nay nay (
perished in the city limits and properly
valued at several thousand dollars mas
been destroyed or injured. The known
MRS. NANCY CAUDLE.
MISS CLARA CAUDLE.
ROSE CHAPMAN.
EMMA DECKER
THOMAS CAPPS.
FRANK WALKER.
TWO NEGRO MEN, names unknown.
The downpour of rain commenced
about noon and was incessant until
dark It was in the shape of a water
spout and the rise in the creeks and
branches was so rapid that it did not
give the inhabitants time to flee. Three
persons two women and a man, all col
ored, were drowned within a hundred
yards of the city hall. Their bodies were
washed in to the Brazos river and have
not been recovered There were several
people most negroes, standing on
| bridge watching the rapid rise Of Bar
| ron's branch when the bridge, brick
| structure, gave way without warning,
| precipitating them into the water. The
| number positively known to have been
! drowned within the city limits is eight
/ and it is almost certain that several
more lives have been lost Searching
4 parties are out looking for the drowned
4 and helping to move those who are in
danger or distress In the southern
| part of the city where the two white
women, Mrs Caudle and her daughter
| lost their lives the rise was the highest
| ever known. The damage done by the
/ storm will be heavy.
Incoming reports indicate that one oi
the heaviest rain falls experienced il
| years visited many sections of the state
and rivers and smaller streams arr
again rising rapidly. All points along
the Brazos and Colorado rivers have
been notified, and while much damag'
to property may result from anothe
rise yet it is believed that the timel.
warning was sent to those who live il
the valleys to fully protect themselves
Reports from Belmont and Rockpor
state that the storm was especially Sc
we're in those sections.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
AFTER RAILROAD VOTE.
Governor Stanley Proposes That Road
Employees Shall Have the
Privilege of Voting.

Governor Stanley recently wrote a
railroad acquaintance at Newton, who
is a prominent trainman in the en-
ploy of the Santa F'e, asking for an
estimate of the number of railroad
men deprived of their votes at general
elections by being on the road election
day. The Santa Fe man replied that
he believed 1000 to be a fair estimate.
The governors reason for wanting this
information is contained in his letter,
which reads as follows:
You remember you spoke to me be-
fore was elected, calling my atten-
tion to the fact that a number of train
men were deprived of their votes by be-
ing compelled to go out on their runs
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
From DODGE CITY.

Engineer Thomas L. Davis is taking a
vacation.
Brakeman Edwards will soon move
back from Coolidge.
Brakemen Chaffee and Lynn are at
work out of Pueblo.
Brakeman Bowen is sick at the Topeka
hospital with stomach trouble.
Engineer c. Ault will join his wife at
Madison, South Dakota He had a 60
days 1ay-off.
Engineer McQuiston is running in Gill
bert's place, who is off on account of sick
ness.
Yardmaster Gallagher is improving
slowly in health but not near as fast as
his friends would like to see.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
Candidate From Hong Kong.

New York. April 2S.-A World dis
patch from Hong Kong says: It is re-
ported here that Rounsville Wildman,
the American consul general, is leaving
for the United States on a political
mission. Mr.. Wildman it is said has
been asked by Republican leaders in the
west to become a candidate for the
vice presidential nomination
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28

the Salina passenger run, will move to
Salina. next week.
Haskell and Bosworth's new egg and
butter depot is rapidly nearing compile
ton. It is a large modern building with
an S0-foot frontage on the track and will
give them ample room to handle their in
creasing business.
superintendent A. T. Abbott returned
from Chicago Thursday after a confer
ence with all the officials in completing
the new time card, April %
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
CONFERENCE FASTENED.
Combine on Transpacific Business
Will Be Effected Next Week.

San Francisco, April 2S.-Owing to the
arrival here from the Orient of represent
atives of a number of steamship compan-
les interested in traffic between Pacific
coast ports and China, Japan and Siberia,
the proposed conference over oriental bus
mess is to begin next Monday instead of
late in May. It is said that the entire
freight schedule affecting transpacific
shipments, both to and from Pacific coast
ports, is to be exhaustfvely reviewed at
the conference and that many changes,
will be adopted.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
AIR FOR CAR KITCHENS.
Device Adopted by Santa Fe For Com
fort of the Cooks.

Device Adopted BY Santa Fe For Conn
fort of the Cooks.
There are in the Santa Fe shops in
this city two dining cars which are be-
ing repaired and refitted.
Among the improvements adopted is
new method of tanning air into the
kitchen. Two holes are cut in the roof
of the car and a fan inserted in each.
The motion of the car makes the fans
turn, no matter in what direction is
the wind.
These dining cars are to be repainted
the Pullman brown color adopted by
the Santa Fe, and when out of the
shops will be two of the handsomest
cars on the road. The interior decora-
tions will be much grander than be-
fore.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
From Religion to Politics.

independence, April 2S-The outlook,
a religious publication. was today trans
ferred to T. S. Salathiel, a politician.
The paper was started about two
months ago by Rev. Mr.. Ira A. Hol-
brook, pastor of the Congregational
church of this city. It is said the mem
bers of his church requested him to dis
pose of the paper or resign as pastor,
as he could not fill both positions salts
factorily, and he sold his paper
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
CARTER IN PRISON.
Former Army Captain Begins Work
as a Bookkeeper Pleasant
Room.

Leavenworth, April 2S-Oberlin M.
Carter, late captain U. S. A, arrived at
the federal prison here at 7:3O o'clock
Friday evening under guard of Lieut..
Thomas Harker, Fifteenth infantry. a
corporal and three soldiers. BY special
orders issued from the department of
justice newspaper men We're not per-
mitted to interview the prisoner, who
was Immediately dressed in the prison
garb of gray and assigned to a, cell. His
prison number is 2O94 and he is now the
occupant of cell No. 425
When the late army officer begins the
monotonous grind of prison life today It
viii be as prison bookkeeper for he
has been assigned to this task in the
harness. broom, shoe-repairing and car
pet-weaving shops. which are in the
third story of the big east building. The
Workroom which the prisoner will oc-
cupy' commands magnificent view,
taxing in great sweep of the Missouri
river, beyond which green hills and fer
reach. 'H
Carter is under sentence of five years
imprisonment on charge of conspirine
720, 600. ON' u ~
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28

Each county has the same number OF
delegates in the convention. B. H
Tracy, who is a Burton candidate for
delegate at large to the national con-
vention from the Fourth district held
PottaWatomie county in line for a Bur-
ton man in this convention while Ira
Collins of Sabetha contended that a
Baker Instruction should be giXan-
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
Ordered to Philippines.

Washington, April 2S.-Surgeon Wy
man of the marine hospital service has
ordered Assistant Surgeons Lunsford D.
Fricks and Halstead A Stansfield to the
Philippine islands as assistants to Sur
geon Perry. Surgeon Fricks is now in
Washington, and has been connected
with the hygenic laboratory, and Sur
eenn StanSfield is at Honolulu.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
Lady Yard-Buller Insane.

Oakland, Cal, April 2S.-Lady Yarde-
Butler has been removed to a private
sanitarium for the insane upon the
authority of her sister. Mrs. Stafford,
who recently came here from the east.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
AN EXCITING TIME.
When Boer Prisoners Reach Island of
St. Helena.

, 2 LAL4UIltLs
New York, April pa dispatch to the
journal and Advertiser from St Helena
says: There was an exciting time
among the prisoners at Deadwood when
the last batch of captives arrived in
camp. There was great cheering when
they We're first sighted. Then as one
and another recognized friends and ac-
quaintances, shouts Of welcome, bad
image and laughter
Many Frenchmen were among the
prisoners. According to the hospital
report, twenty prisoners are sick. and
two died on Monday and were buried
with military honrs, a Dutch minister
officiating.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28

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whatever. In connection with this
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to try DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
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continuing their use for several
months all traces of the kidney
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aches became less frequent. . -
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w. G. STANTON,
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The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
GAVE 1T UP.
-Pottawatomie Republicans
Fail to Nominate Senator.

The Republicans of the senatorial dis
trict composed of Nemaha and Potta-
watomie counties who were in a dead
lock at CentraIia, took $50 ballots for
senator without reaching q, nomination
and adjourned to meet again May f.
This is the district where the Baker
Burton contest was forced into the con-
vention, being deemed of greater i'm
portance than the question of nomina-
ton and election of the candidate.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
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The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28

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The Topeka state journal., 1900-04-28
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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
BUTTE CLERKS ASSEMBLY.

Along in November of 1884 this union
began it's existence, but after a short
period the organization lapsed, due to
some internal disturbance. In 1890, how
ever, it was reorganized, with Henry
McMurphy as president and Joseph
Either as secretary. d. j. Hennessy and
Joseph II. Case We're among it's early
members. Today it stands as third or
fourth in the list of great unions where
numbers are considered, and if the
proposition successfully obtains to en-
large it's membership by absorbing all
branches of labor connected with mer-
camille pursuits, 1T will come next to the
mill and smeltermen in aggregation.
The great purpos of the Clerks assem-
bly, has reached fulfillment. i. e., short
mini the hours of labor: and the six
O'Clock movement is part of the history
of Butte. Minimum wages, So, running
to SIS for experienced and expert ~
and women behind the counter Sick
benefit, 81 per week; funeral, SIS. The
union comprehends all working in mer-
camille houses bookkeepers, entry
clerks, collectors, stenographers, stock
keepers and drivers of wagons who So
licit orders. The union has under con-
sideration the interchangeable working
card. Charles Lannin, president at this
writing, is one of the members-elect to
the next state legislature. Justin But.
Ter, Who succeeds him for the term COM
mencing January, has been it's presiding
officer again and again. The neXt secre-
tary will be w. B. Trenery. Meets every
Monday in Elks' hall.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
BARRIERS UNION.

Organized in 1895, starting in with
about so members and now has ia on it's
books in good standing. All barber shops
IN Butte are now union shops, exacting
union prices. John Brosier was its first
president, and he was succeeded by Joe
~Lachapelle. BARRIERS receive SIS per
week, but an accounting is kept Of the
number of "neXts' and the amount re-
ceived from customers for service by
each barber: so, if the tonsorial artist
turns into the cash drawer an excess
over $50 per week, for such excess he is
allowed go cents on the dollar. BARRIERS
come and go, but every knight of the
razor who strikes Butte without a card
must put up $40 as initiation fee before
he can shave a man in a union shop. If
he comes from one of those eastern bar
Der schools, the chances are III he will
be black-balled. Butte BARRIERS receive
the highest wages in the |untry, and
the rule of the Survival of the ~ittest'
obtains; hence. Butte BARRIERS are the test
in the country. Dexter smith is presi-
dent n Louis Faist recording secretary.
Meets every Monday evening in Pioneer
hall.