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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
FROM EMPORIA-

Engineer Moody, who has been laying
off for several weeks, took out a third
section of train SO yesterday. Fireman
Marshal accompanied him.
Conductor James Plummer has re-
turned from the salt marshes west of
Hutchinson, where he spent a week
duck hunting. AS a fruit of his sport
the conductor brought back 40 ducks.
Five engine crews were taken out of
the pool yesterday and put on the ex-
ira board. The engineers are Bryson,
Samuel, Mcknight, Smith, Jackson; the
firemen are Simons, Ruggley, Carter,
Smith and Cooper.
The engine men are doing some heavy
kicking because of shortages in their
pay last month. Some claim to be as
high as $25 short. The trouble is most
likely caused by mistake in figuring
the time and will be settled satisfactory
to all in the end.
Uncle Ed Tytherleigh, the veteran
baggag emaSter at the Santa Fre depot,
returned to work this morning after
six weeks layoff caused by sickness.
He has been baggagemaster here for 20
some odd years and says that he is lost
unless he is checking trunks.
Walt Law, who has been Santa Fe
policeman here for the past four or five
years, has resigned and gone to Illi-
nois, where he has secured a more
lucrative position in a mine. Carl Jill
son, who has been baggagemaster in
Uncle Ed Tytherleigh's place during the
latter's sickness, has taken Laws place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
FROM LAS VEGAS.

Operator Kilgore has returned from
Missouri and is again doing night
work at the key.
Fireman Lee Boyd, who has been at
the Las Vegas hospital for the last
thirty days, owing to an injury to his
spine received While at work at FL
Paso, left yesterday for Ration on a few
days visit to his family.
John Booklet, a well known Santa F'e
Pacific engineer, was killed at Luna
station, twenty-five miles west of
Gallup, n. NJ He was pulling a freight
train and went over some cars with wa
ter to put out a fire when he fell
through. The train ran over mis- body,
crushing off both legs at the thighs.
Division superintendent Hurley has
returned from Topeka headquarters &C
companied by c. H. Hanford, his stem
ographer and Trainmaster H. c. Fox.
Mr. Hurley stated that the only change
made in the running time of passenger
trains under the new card is that No
1 will reach Albuquerque an hour
earlier, though still lying here an hour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
FROM NEWTON.

Linerepairer R. c. Whiteside and fam
lily have moved to their new home in
Hutchinson.
Ed Andrews is taking a short vacation
and Conductor Conner has charge of his
car and crew.
Cy. Alexander has returned from To-
peka where he accompanied his broth
er A. L. Alexander, who has entered
the hospital.
Adam Cox is here from Hutchinson
and will be assigned to service in the
Newton yards. Jerry Dunkleberger
will take the extra board.
c. G. Sievert, now of Great Bend, and
Miss Jeanne Heffner of Sterling were
married Saturday at 1880 p. m. The
groom is a brakeman on one of the local
runs out of Great Bend and is one of
the most popular men employed by the
company.
Engineer Miller. with the SO2.
smashed all former records into
smithereens Saturday night with train
No. 4. 1t is said that he made up an
hour and fifteen minutes lost time be-
tween Dodge City and Newton. 1t was
just two hours and fifty-fve minutes
from the time he pulled open the throt-
tie of the SO2 in the Dodge City yards,
until he arrived at the station in New
ton The distance from Hutchinson to
Newton is a trifie over thirty-thre
miles which was made in thirty min
utes, or a little better than sixty-six
miles an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
TRANscoNTINENTA1 LINE.
of the Colorado Midland a
Step In This Direction.

Denver, March 2O.-In the negotia-
lions for the purchase of the Colorado
Midland railroad which. although not
officially announced, are generally adj
mitted to be under way, the Colorado &
Southern and the Rio Grande Western
roads have a share. The formation of
a new transcOntinenta1 line is conceded
TO be the chief end of the consolidation
of these three interests. The Colorado
& Southern road will form the Denver
connection, and by its short line up
South Platte Canon will lop off 80 miles.
The Rio Grande Western has it in its
power to make much use of this air
line. Especially is this true in relation
to Southern California points. The Rio
Grande Western now has under con-
structiOn an extension from Marysvale,
Utah, heading toward Los Angeles.
Indications point to the fact that the
Rio Grande Western is an active party
in the negotiations which it is said are
now going on in New York. According
to officers of the interested roads the
result of the conference is not likely to
be an outright purchase of the Color
ado Midland, either by the Colorado &
Southern, or by the Rio Grande West
ern, but rather an acquisition of a con-
trolling interest by both roads together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
Colorado Roads Will Have Much
Business This Year.

Pueblo, March 20.-Beet sugar inter
ests down the Arkansas valley have
been responsible for great deal of
railroad building in that section on a
small scale in the past few weeks. The
Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe roads
have put in spurs that. while they are
not very extensive, cost money and are
an indication of the growing import
ance of the valley.
At Sugar City, the new town near
Ordway on the Missouri Pacific where
there is an immense factory to be put
up, a spur has been constructed from
the main line to the site of the factory.
In all several miles of track have been
laid and the company is prepared to
put in more as fast as the factory may
require it. At Rocky Ford, the Santa
Fe has built a spur to the American
Beet Sugar comPany's plant at that
place that is a little more extensive
than spurs usually are. 1t is about
three miles in length and viii handle
all the business that the factory will do
for some time.
The railroads will get a big business
out of the Arkansas valley this year.
There is as usual the great melon crop
to be handled as well as the vast ship
mentS of stock that will and have al
ready been made. Then there is the
beet sugar industry which will I'M
doubleday prove of immense benefit to
them. All in all it is doubtful if any
portion of Colorado will prove as bene-
fetal to the railroads as the valley
country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
ABOLITION OF AGENCIES.
This Will Be Next Economical Step
Taken by Western Roads.

st. Louis, March 20.-The vice presi-
dent of a leading western road says the
abolition of ticket commissions is only
one of the economic measures planned
by the railroad managers. The next step
will be the abolition of individual rail-
way agencies outside of the territory of
the lines maintaining them.
Within sixty days, he said. the only
railroad agencies in California would
be those of the Southern Pacific and
Santa F'e, which viii undertake to dis
tribute equitably all the east-bound
business. The experiment will be tried
next in New England territory. After
ward the agencies in eastern trunk line
territory will be closed by managers of
the western roads. The present plan
is to establish joint agencies of all the
western roads in cities like Boston, New
York and Philadelphia. and the eastern
roads propose to do the same thing in
Chicago, st. Louis and other western
business centers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
Insurance your Kdneys

The most important organs in the
human body are the kidneys.
They remove all the waste and poison
from the system. They are the natural
filters of the body, and just as sure as
water is purer and clearer after it has
passed through a filter, so is the hui
man system purer, so is the blood richer
and more rosy when the kidneys are
properly performing their functions.
You may feel as though you have no
kidney or bladder trouble. 1t is best
to be on the safe side. Find out whether
your father or mother had kidney trou
BILE, and if so be on your guard, for no
disease follows from generation to gen.
Grafton like kidney disease.
When your kidneys are not doing
their work, some of the symptoms which
prove it to you are pain or dull ache in
the back, plenty of ambition but no
strength, sediment in the urine after
standing twenty-four hours, scanty
supply with scalding irritation in pass
ing it, may be obliged to go often dur
ing the day and to get up many times
during the night. Catarrh of the blad-
der, gravel, excess of uric acid, you
may feel as though you have heart trou-
BILE rheumatism. bloating, dark circles
under the eyes, weak stomach, poor
digestion are unmistakable evidence
that your kidneys need immediate at
tentiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
PEcos VALLEY TO EXTEND.
Surveys Are Being Made For Line
Into Ell Paso.

FL Paso Tex, March 20.-News reach
ed this city today that the Pecos Valley
started out from Miller yesterday with
a surveying party to survey q. line from
Miller Station half way between Rose
well and Eddy to Ell Paso. Chief Engi-
neer Caswell, of the Pecos Valley, is in
charge of the surveying party, number
ing fifteen people.
There has been considerable talk for
months past about the Pecos Valley
road building to FL Paso. It's present
connection with this city is through the
Texas-Pacific at Pecos, Tex. 1t is be-
lieved that the Fort Worth and Denver
IS behind the scheme and has arranged
Madra and Pacific, which will be ex-
tended from Casa Grande, Mexico, to
the Pacific, on the Mexican coast. Gen.
Dodge, of the Fort Worth and Denver,
recently had engineers select a route for
the extension of the Mexican line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20

Swamp-Root is the wonderful dis
covery of DIR. Kilmer, the eminent kid
ney and bladder specialist and it will
be found in the dispensary of every well
regulated hospital; it is taken and
recommended by the foremost ply
sicians in the land. Thousands of men
and women occupying useful positions
today owe their very lives to the use
of Swamp-Root the great kidney rem
edy.
In order that all our readers may
know SWamp-Root for what it is, and
participate in its great benefits, every
Estate Journal reader who will, send
their name and address to DR.. Kilmer
& Co, Binghamton, N. Y, will be sent
a sample bottle of Swamp Root abso-
lutely free by mail. Also a pamphlet
of valuable information pertaining to
kidney and bladder diseases and con-
tanning some of the thousands of testi-
monial letters received from grateful
sufferers cured. -Swamp-ROot being so
successful our readers are advised to
write for a free sample bottle and to be
sure and state that they read this gen.
erous offer in the Topeka Daily State
Journal when sending their address to
DR.. Kilner & Co, Binghajnton. N. Y
If you are already convinced that
Swamp Root is what you need. you can
purchase the regular fifty-cent and one
dollar bottles at drug stores every
whore
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20

against the claims of the niddle-of-the-
road Populists from Omaha to be classed
as delegates and barred them from the
convention.
The position of D. Glen Beaver, of
Omaha. as member of the Populist ma
tional committee from Nebraska was de-
clared vacant, and E. f. Thomas, of
Omaha, was chosen in his place. Mr..
Beaver was ousted for the reason that
he was mot considered a member of the
Populist party"
After being denied admission as dele
gates to the Populist conve ntion the mid
dle-of-the-roaders held a small conven-
ton of their own and appointed a Ne
braska delegation to attend the Populist
convention at Cincinnati They also de-
cided to hold state convention in Ne
braska at some date after the Kansas
City convention
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
SUBWAY AT NEWTON.
Santa Fe Will Protect Traffic by a
Tunnel,

a committee of the council, President
Hoisington and a committee of the Com
mercial club, held a conference with
Supt. Dolan, J. H. Banker and Resident
Engineer Earl of the Santa Fe, in re-
gard to the proposed subway the COM
pany has offered to build. The propo-
sition as submitted at this meeting fol-
lows: The company will build a sub
way under its tracks and across vacant
lots, commencing at East Seventh and
ending on Broadway west of Kansas
avenue, and will open a street from
Broadway to Sixth"
The estimated cost of the subway will
be nearly $4,000. The company proposes
lots between Broadway and sixth streets.
In consideration for this, they ask the
city to close the Broadway and Walnut
street crossings. Main street and West
First street are left for further discus
sion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
LEWIS K1NGMAN's SKETCH.
Former Topeka Engineer Writes
About Mexican Life and Scenery.

EOrm6r topeka EnS1ueeE w Tues
About Mexican Life and Scenery.
Mr.. Lewis Kingman. chief engineer
of the Mexican Central road gives a
pretty description of Mexican life and
scenery in telling the Railway Age of
the building of a branch line. He says:
This line passes through a produc-
tive country and in many places has
some of the finest Mexican scenery.
Lake Magdelene opposite EtZatlan, is
a charming sheet Of water, with noun
tains rising north and west; cultivated
lands along it's shores with groves OF
trees and brambles, rugged breaks in
hills, gently rising slopes, dotted with
lines marked by stone walls, separating
large pastures covered with fat cattle.
From the divide east Of this lake one
sees the city Of AhualulcO surrounded
with orange, mango and peach
orchards, cane, wheat and corn
fields in season, sugar and teQuila mills
with smoking chimneys comfortable
haciendas with their stately palaces,
large granaTies and the adobe houses
of the WOrkmen the high Teuuila Noun
tain to the north and the Ameca noun
tain to the south. a hazy distant view
to the east with dim outlines of the
mountains north of Lake Chapala and
the plains and little mountains nearer
by; a beautiful dream-li1e scene, the
real and ideal blended together, the
present and the sweet by and by with
but a film between: nature in harmon
iOus accord, yet life in real and earnest
effort; the farmer blowing his crops
and harvesting his seed, the labOrerS
preparing the iron way, grading camps
like an army with tents, spelling, tear
ing up. cutting down and running over
the best half acre. The good old times
are gone and as by magic new life and
push is given everybody. The donkey
drivers job is done, daily necessities are
cheapened, products can be shipped
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20

The Ellis military band furnished MI
sic and the whole city decorated.
Quite fight, has developed on Con-
gresham Reeder, on account of his late
speech, but as he is the first Republican
to carry the Sixth district in ten years,
and getting the Fort Hayes bill through
the house, it seems hardly probable that
he will be dOWned-
Many senatorial candidates present,
showing a square fight to be made be-
tween the Baker and Burton forces, al
though the district has a 900 fusion ma
jority to overcome.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
HARVEY POULTRY FARM.
Santa Fe Eating House Man Will
Raise Chickens at Newton.

Newton, Kan, March 2O.-Fred Har-
vey, the hotel magnate of the Santa Fe
system, has leased a ten-acre tract of
land just south of here for a poultry
farm. For years Newton has been a
distributing point for supplies for the
Harvey system, owing to us central To-
cation and connection lines. At this
time of year probably So, 900 worth of
poultry is killed and dressed at this
place every thirty days. 1t is expected
this amount will be increased when the
farm is started.
Newton now has two bis produce
houses and when Mr.. Harvey gets his
farm in working order, this will be one
of the best poultry markets in Kansas,
at least in the central portion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20

Hays City. March 20.-The Republi-
can congressional convention of the
Sixth district is meeting here today. The
city is full of visitors, between 800 to
500 being present, among them Cover
nor Stanley, Secretary of State Clark,
Fairchild of the State Agricultural col
lege. Congressman Reeder The citizens
opened their houses and entertained
the guests, to prevent crOwding at
hotel. This morning every carriage in
town turned out and escorted the WISH
tors over the Fort Hayes Reservation,
Just donated to the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
Santa Fe Buvs More Land.

Guthrie, Okla. March 2O.-Ihe Santa
Fe Railway company has purchased an
additional twenty acres of ground adj
Joining the city on the south, which
week. This land is for terminal facilities
for the new lines now building out north
east and west from here, and for the
Rock Island branch from KingfiSher. A
handsome pressed brick union depot will
be built within ninety days, and Guthrie
win be made a division point
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
March Earnings Start Well.

The gross earnings of 81 roads for
the first week in March were 81, us, 992,
against $7,304,013 for the first week in
Forty roads show increases and 16 de-
creases, and one no change. Since jan
uary l the roads referred to above
earned $76, 500, 29O, an increase of $10,-
523,534 over the $65. 1913, 765, reported for
the corresponding period of 1899. For
the longer period SO show increases and
four decreaS SEES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
WILL FERRY TRAINS.
Santa Fe Coaches to Be Taken Across
the Bav on Boats

With the announcement that the San
ia Fe line into San Francisco will be
open May 1, comes the explanation that
this delay is not due so much to the
work on the track as the preparations
on equipment. A few soft places in the
track have yet to be made firm, and the
tunnel just out of Stockton is yet to be
walled. Local trains are run now to the
tunnel, but the road vii get everything
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20

in the best condition before beginning
it's through service.
The Santa Fe has bought a wharf for
it's ferries at the center Market street
dock Ferry boats on which the trains
will be carried into the Market street
depot are under construction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
Katv's Galena Extension.

Galena, Kan, March 20-The sur
veying party of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas road reached Galena today and
an excavation for the depot has been
started. The site is in Hickory flats,
about 300 yards north of the Frisco
depot. The work of construction will
begin in a few days. When this road
is completed, it will give Galena three
important railroads entering this min
ing district, The Memphis, Frisco and
'.katX,'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
MR. RIPLEY HEARD "a.
Santa Fe President Listens to Lecture
on Beauties of the Grand Canyon.

l7tl11 = . Z OolN1o1IO lis IOIIs % 4AoCIUI0
on Beauties of the Grand Canyon.
Los Angeles, March 20.-Nat H Brig
ham will go to the Grand canyon to-
morrow. He is making the trip for the
passenger department of the Santa Fe
and viii report just what shape the new
railroad to the canyon IS in, and also
the accommodations there are for tour
lists for the coming season, which will
soon open.
Mr.. Brigham has just b1ossomed out
as a platform orator He delivered an
address upon the beauties of the can
yon at Pasadena last night. President
E. P. Ripley and Assistant General Pas
senger Agent H. K. Gregory of the San
ia F'e were present. The lecture is to be
repeated in Los Angeles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20
BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.

with profit and the capacity for en-
joyable life is increased
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-20

A weak stom-
aeh needs a mild.
natural. but thor
oughly efficient
tonic. A remedy
which answers
this description
is the Bitters. 1t
has cured thou
sands of suffer
ers from
Indigestion.
Constipation,
Bi1iousness.
Why don't you
try it2
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-18
Vermont Odd Follows.
Encampmemt Held at Burlington This
Week---Onicers Elected.

Thirtieth Annual Session OF the Grand
Encempment Held at Burlington This
Week---Omcers Elected.
The Both annual session of the grand en-
campment of odd Fellows of Vermont
opened at Burlington Tuesday. The at
tendance from the 30 different subordinate
lodges was good. Twenty-Five new MEM
bers were initiated. The grand patriarch
reported that one new encampment had
been instituted during the year. Welcome
encampment No 3d. at Chester, with 10
charter members Other reports showed
the lodges to be in furnishing condition.
There are 1900 members in the 80 different
lodges. The following officers were elected
Grand patriarch, II. c. Farrar Of Rutland:
grand high priest, l.. +. Mellen Of Spring
field; grand senior warden, II. r. Kimball
of st. Adams; grand junior warden, G. w.
Spaulding of Woodstock; grand scribe, H.
@. Farr of st. Johnsbury; grand treasurer,
L. j. Brown of Bradford. Past Grand Pa
triarch @. II. Lockwood of Springfield was
elected grand representative tn the supreme
encampment. A banquet was given to the
past grand officers of the encampment
Tuesday evening.
There was a large attendance at the SEES
sions of the grand lodge on Wednesday.
Grand Secretary H. f. Parker reported
that there are at present Ga subordinate
lodges with a membership of j242, show
ing a gain of 300 members; AZ Rebekah
lodges with a membership of 1896, gain
OF l64. He stated that American Odd Eel
lowship reached in 1899 for the first time
the coveted position of one million mem
bers. The largest lodge in Vermont is
Wantastiquet No. of Brattleboro, with
1856 members. Officers of the grand lodge
are as follows Grand master, f. H. Jack
son of Windsor; deputy grand master, f.
A. Sherburne of Montpelier grand war
den, S. b. Waite of Hyde Park grand sec
rotary, II. f. Parker of Bradford grand
treasurer, K. H. Adams of Swanton: gra nd
representative, f. NJ. Bartlett of Island
Pond.
The feature of Tuesday evening was the
annual meeting, banquet ard election of
the Past Grand Masters and Past Grand
Patriarchs' association. The officers chos-
EN- were President O. H. Henderson, vice
PRECEDENT, c. A. Perry; secretary, H. L.
Stillson; treasurer, J. w. Goodell execu-
tive committee, J. II. Blakely, II. c. Far
rar, c. H. Lockwood, Z. F. Smith and L.
J. Retting.