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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
A PRINCELY GIFT.
Carnegie Presents 3d. OO,O 900
to His Former Employees.

Pittsburg. March 1.-Two communica-
lions from Andrew Carnegie. which are
officially made public, tell Of the steel
kings retirement from active business life
and Of his donation Of 5000 GOO for the
endowment Of q fund for superannuated
and disabled employees of the Carnegie
company. This benefaction Is by far the
largest Of the many created by Mr. Car
negie. and is probably without a counter
part anywhere in the world This fund
Will in no wise interfere with the continu-
ance of the savings fund established by
the company fifteen years ago for the
benefit Of its employees In this latter
fund nearly S. 000,000 OF the employees
savings are on deposit. upon which the
company by contract pays er cent and
loans money to the workrnen to build
their own homes The letters follow:
New York, March II. 1901.
s'To the Good People of Pfttsburg:
An opportunity 70 retire from bust
ness came to me unsought. which I con-
sidered il my duty to accept Ny resolve
was made in youth to retire before old
age. From what have seen around ne,
i cannot doubt the wisdom OF this course,
although the change IS great, even seri-
Gus, and seldom brings the happiness ex~
pected- But this IS because SO many hav-
ing abundance to retire upon, have so lit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
NEED = FORWARDING BUREAU
Many Things Left on Trains by
Thoughtless Passengers.

As an instance Of light way in which
the travellers and moneyed people of
Kansas treat the loss OF such small
things as overcOats, grips, etc, may be
cited the following from the Newton
Kansan:
thar passengers leave coats. hats, grips.
umbrellas and ether articles upon the
train every day. and the railroad com
pany and employees are put to much
trouble taking care OF these things and
sending them to their owners One day
last winter a pocketbook with over $500
in money and drafts was found in a
coach that came from Newton The
p0cketb0ok was held by the agent sew
erai days and no inquiry coming it was
sent TO the general offices. The owner
was never found.
Conductors say they hardly ever leave
a division Or q point where people
change cars without receiving at the
next station a message to send back
some article that has been left in the
car Ladies leave their hats. men their
overccats-evan shoes are found. Not
long ago a woman waiting in the Santa
E'e depot took Off a. pair of new shoes to
rest her feet When the train came she
was so illustrated she walked ont in her
stocking feet and got upon the train
sage came back from the next station
and the depot porter found them in the
waiting room.
THE foregoing is taken from the Wei
lington Mail. and the same condition
prevails at all division HEADQUARTERS
the south and after spending several
hours in the station here waiting for q
west-bO9Ind train got on it and left q
four-year-old child in the depot The
prevent any serious complications. how
ever
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
New Missouri Pacific Line.

Kansas City. March 1.-THE thirty
eight-miIe line which the Missouri Pa
cific viii build between Boonville and
Jefferson City viii give that line a river
grade between Kansas City and St.
Louis The line VIII be three miles
longer than what is known as the main
line OF the Missouri Pacific between the
two cities. but the easier grade will make
it much more economical route for
freight traffic. Passenger trains will
continue to use the line via Pleasant
Hill and Sedalias because the country
along this route is more thlckly popu-
lated and has many more large towns
than the new Lexington and BoonviIle
route. On the latter there are but three
large towns between Independence and
Jefferson City. These are Lexington,
BoonviIle and Marshall
The Missouri Pacific is putting in two
rock crushers. one near Lake City and
the other east of Lexington. to supply
ballast for the new r0adbed, and also
for the line between Independence and
Boonville. Seventy -fve-p0und steel
viii replace the present rails between
Independence and Lexing on From
Lexington to BoonyilIe heavy steel is
already laid Grading outfits are row
the ground, and work on the line
from Boonv1lle to Jefferson City will be-
gin at once and be completed this sum-
uAF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
New Board For =. q o.

New York. March 1.-THE Evening
Post says. Chairman William Solomon
Of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad is 60
ing to retire from that position and from
active participation in the active man
agement Of the company. The Baltimore
& Ohio voting trustees is to be abolish
ed or entirely reconstructed in the in
terests OF the Pennsylvania railway
which now controls the Baltimore &
Ohio. Additional Pennsylvania officers
will be elected to the Baltimore & Ohio
board as soon as the Pennsylvania. di-
rectors themselves make up their minds
just what representation they want
They Will probably have majority Of
the board Practically the Pennsylvania
Is already in control of the affairs of the
Baltimore & Ohio
Philadelphia. March IA director OF
the Pennsylvania railway when shown
the statement of the New York Evening
Post that the Pennsylvania Railroad
company now controls the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad. denied the story he said
the Pennsylvania has secured Baltimore
& Ohio trust certificates to the amount
of $4,000, 900, but does not own a share
OK the common stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
CORONER ENDORsEs Ia.
Verdict in Case of Henderson who
Was Burned by Mob.

Corsicana. Tex March 14.-Justice III.
G. Roberts. acting coroner. held an in
quest over the remains of Henderson.
who was burnt alive yesterday. and gave
the following verdict:
Il find that the deceased came to his
Just death at the hands of the incensed
and outraged feelings Of the best people
in the United States, the citizens Of Ma
varro and adjoining counties. The evil
dence as well as the confession Of guilt
by deceased shows that his punishment
was fully merited and cOmmendable."
Austin Tex March 14-Governor
Sayers this afternoon said he would to-
morrow call the legislators attention to
the burning Of the negro John Hender-
son at COrsicana.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14

be disturbed. both employers and en-
ployed remembering what 7 said in my
last speech 70 the men At Homestead.
are the three legs Of a three-Iegged stool
Neither is first. neither IS second. neither
is third There Is no precedence al being
equally necessary He who would sow
'dIscord among the three IS an enemy Of
all
II know that have done my duty in
retiring from business when an oppor-
my heart is full I have enjoyed so much
my connection with workmen foremen,
other classes, that It is great wrench
indeed. to say farewell Happily. theirs
IS no real farewell in o1le sense, because
although no longer an employer, / am
still and always must be a friend. deeply
Interested in the happiness Of all whom
it has been my good fortune TO know
and work in sympathy with for so many
happy years. Always truly yours.
ANDREW CARNEGIE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14

ties Of London. To a representative Of
the Associated Press Mr.. Yerkes said:
7 have come to England to look after
the work I have undertaken here, name
" the ChariHg Cross and Hempsted rail-
way That is my sole mission I do not
know how England will take to Amerl-
can methods. but it strikes me there is
a great field in London Our railway will
run underground to a point several miles
beyond Hempsted Heath. Thence we pro-
pose to run an extension trolley seven
miles further
Accompanying Mr.. Yerkes were J. r.
Chapman, an electrical engineer associ-
years, and VIM. Clark, foreign manager
of the General Electric company
Mr.. Yerkes will remain only fortnight
IN London and will return to New York
from Cherb0urg early in April
Mrs. Yerkes and Mrs c. E. YerkeS will
remain in England until Sunday and then
proceed to Paris, where Mr.. YerAes will
ioin them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
MUST REGISTER TO VOTE.
Books VIII Be Open Only Ten Days
More.

The registration books in the Office Of
the commissioner of elections show that
4,459 men and 1894 women have registered.
Two years ago the total number of wom-
en- registering was 1,219, men 5,793 There
are nine days more in which to register.
The records SO far show that the women
are taking an interest in the campaign
it may be because of the letter issued by
Helen kimber after the vote of the sem
ate on woman suffrage x
The books in the registers office win
be sent to the different wards next week
and those who have not registered will
be given the opportunity near at home.
The First ward North Topeka is the
only ward which IS behind in registration,
and It Is very much behind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14

ChickasEa to Pauls Valley. I. T.. a dis
lance Of fifty miles. an extension Of the
Guthrie Center branch from Guthrie
Center TO Carroll. Ia; an extension Of
the Indianola branch from Indianolar Ia,
to LineEille on the Missouri state line
a distance Of IS miles, a branch from
AnadarzO to Fort sill. Okla, a distance
Of % miles and an extension of the Enid
and TonkaWa from North Enid to Ton
probable that later on the Guthrie Cen
ter branch will be extended to Sioux
City, or to some other point in South
Dakota The contemplated improve
ments viii cost about s.. OOQ. 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
Willis Is Appointed.

Representative Percy Willis has been
appointed special master in chancery to
hear evidence in a tax case against the
Frisco railroad The federal court at
Wichita has made an order requiring
the Frisco to pay the county treasurer OF
Sumner county the state taxes in full
for the years 1899 and 1900, together
with the county, township and school
taxes for the same time. The railroad
and the county are involved in a suit
over some back taxes and the Frisco
attempted to hold up its taxes for the
past two years until the Odd difficulty
was settled
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
Resienation Of e :. Hitchina

Kansas City. March 1.-THE resigna-
ton OF f. s. Hitchins, who has been
agent Of the Chicago Great Western. IN
charge of freight passenger and trans
portati0n business in this city since
June. 1888. was rendered yesterday, ef-
fective April /. About that date, Mr..
F1itchins will move to Olive Hill, Ky.
and become manager Of the Olive Hill
Fire Brick company, in which he is in
terested with his father. This company
employs 200 men and has a capacity of
p 900 fire brick a day. The capacity VIII
be doubled at once
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14

Abilene, March IA special confer
ence of the elders and ministers OF the
River Brethren church OF Kansas was
held here yesterday and delegates were
chosen to attend the international con-
ference III Canada this summer The
church's Sunday school convention was
in session with a big attendance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
VIGOROUS RATE WAR
Inaugurated BY the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company.

San Francisco. March 1.-THE Pacifc
Nail Steamship company has inaugurated
a vigorous rate war on freight and pas
senger buziness between this port and all
intermediate ports between here and Pam
anna.
Freight rates which have hitherto been
from IS to 81 per ton on shipments to and
Of 81 per ton, weight or measurement At
the same time passenger rates have been
cut in half. The other companies in the
business have been forced to adopt the
same rates and it is understood that still
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
YERkES' MISSION.
He Is in England to Build an Under
ground Railway.

Liverpool, March IA number Of re-
porters at Liverpool awaited the arrival
today of the White Star steamer TeutoEic
from New York, in order to interview
Charles T. Yerkes on the object Of his
mission and to ascertain the truth in the
reports of his plans in regard 10 the IN
derground railroads and street railways
which have been greatly enlarged since
he acquired the franchise of the CEaring
Cross and Hempsted railroad and that he
and his assistants were in control, prac-
ucaly, of all the transportation facili-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14

Independence March 14.-in the dis
trfct court here the case of the state vs..
John Walker, charged with the murder
of Ed Lancaster, was begun late yester-
day afternoon. Several hours were spent
in securing a jury for this case Lancas-
ter was shot and killed by Walker dur
ing the campaign last fall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
chronic Rheumatism Cured.

DR. H E. Hettinger Indianapolis. Ind
says. For several months after sprain-
ing my ankle i was severely afflicted with
RheuTnat isn- I finally tried Detchon's
Mystic Cure for Rheumatism. and in 4
DAYS could walk without my cane. two
bottles cured me sound and well. 7 take
great pleasure in recommending the Mys-
tic Cure to all who are afflicted with
rheumatism" Sold by Swift & Holiday.
522 Kansas avenue. Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
ROCK ISLAND EXTENDING

Estimated That New Lines and I'M
provementa VIII Cost 81. 0OO,O 900
Chicago, March 1.-THE Record today
says.
Within the next week the Rock Island
company will build many extensions.
Arrangements have been made for the
construction or q branch line from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
Street Car Barn Burns.

Cottonwood Falls, Kas March H.
The street car barn which houses the
cars on the line to Strong City was de-
stroyed by IRE Wednesday. Consider
able uroperty was lost to the ownera-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
RENTS ENGINES.
Owing 60 a Press OF Business, Santa
Fe Has to Rent.

Owing to the large amount Of freight
business with which the Santa E-e IS
burdened this month. il was found to be
impossible to handle the business with
the motive pow ar available, and within
the past week ZEN engines have been
rented Of the Union Pacific railroad
These engines have been put through
the shops in this city and will be used
by the Santa Fe until some OF the ad-
vance guard Of The order for 70 IocoEno-
tiwes which the road has with eastern
builders arrive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14


that most sufferers believe Goitre is in
durable DR.. Haig sends a free trial pack
age of his discovery so that patients may
try and know positively that Goitre can
be cured at home without pain, danger,
operation or any Inconvenience.
Send your name and address to DR..
John P. Haig, 1876 Glenn Pudding. Gin
cinuati. Ohio. and he will forward the
treatment. postage prepaid Do not fail
to get this wonderful remedy. In Bombay,
india So. go patients in that infected dis
1rict were cured with this Same remedy.
and wherever used its success has been
marvellous
Write at once. send name and address
today, and DR.. Haig Will be glad to send
YOU a trial package of the remedy free.
Do not delay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14

further reductions may be made in the
near future. It is stated that the rate /
war will not affect coffee shipments from /
Central America as the crop fer the I
present season has been pretty well \
cleaned up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
Rest and Health to Mother and Child

77-77 77714 = sz1l ~ % l-UaIsF anu GIIIl
MRS. WINSLOW-S SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used for over FIFTY YEARS
81 MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their
SE1LDREN WHILE TEETHTNG. with
L1-ESr-ECL SUCCESS 1t S0OTHES thu
Child SOETENS the GUNS. ALL4ATS
aA PAIN RES WIND COLTC and il
the best remedy for DIARRHOEA- Sold
ny Druggists IL every part OF the world
Be sure 20 ask Tor Mrs TfnSl0w'a Gootfa-
Ing Syrup" and take no other kind Twen=
ky-fave cents a bot9l@
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
Coal Strike a. Mound CITY.

Mound City. March 1.-Two veins OF
rich coal have been struck here, which
are claimed to b. the largest f7ntls IL ire
Kansas field w :. Canatsey. manager
Of the Mound Cftv Gas corlnarz- zav-s
that one vein Il five faat fslfcir ~ !
depth Of 500 feet ana aroth s4,r faar
thick at q depth Of 800 Fsa+ rFl7a st~fl~s
has created quite a Sensation here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
WERE CURED OF GRIP.

My heart was badly affected by an
attack o. grip and 4 suffered Intense
agony until began taking DR. Miles
Heart Cure X made me a wen man
= - Holman. Irasburg. VT
Il was In bed i've weeks with che grin
nerves shattered. stomach and liver
paoly aeranged Was cured with DR.
niles Nsrvine and Nerve and LIVER
EllAs- D c. Walker. HRIlsvfne O
Grip robbed me OF my sleeD and r
vas nearly crazy with neuralgia ana
headache DR.. Miles Pain Pills and
Msrvine cured me-'-1Tra. Pearl Ruah.
Holland. Mich
My stomach was affected bv grin and
! could eat n0thinE but crackers and
milk 4 began taking Or. Miles Nervfne
and Pain Pills and the trouble disap-
Peares- Mira J. Lindsey, 1Gontrose.
When was Frustrated with grin and
my heart and nerves were IA kad shape
Or Niles Nervine and Heart Cure gave
tne new life ana health. Hs-Mrn. Geo.
CeIie. ElEin. Ill
II had been in bed three weeks with
grip Wnen my husband brought me DR.
Miles Nerytne. Pain Pills and Nerve
@la4 I've us, was cured. Mrs. J.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14
Cures
Goitre
Remarkable Discovery That Cures This
Dangerous and 'Disfignring Disease
Without Pain, Operation
or inconvenience.
TRIAL PACKAGE SENT FREE.

DR. John p Haig. a well known Gin
einnati physician has had marvellous
success with a remedy that cures GoItre
or Thick Neck Ard owing to the fact
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14

When yen are bilious, use those famous
little pills known as DeNftt's little Early
RIsers to cleanse the liver and bowels.
They never grippe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14

London March 1.-THE Times says this
morning it believes that in addition to the
sugar tax and the reimpositIon Of the
registration duty Of a shilling on corn.
the income tax win be Increased by two
pence or four pence in the pound
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-14

Take Rex Dvspenzfa ranra+a an 1r-,r
glsts are authorized TO refund money in
any case it fails rs ciyra T5rSre ri r~an-e
Per package.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-04-25
WORKOUT STEEL RAILS.
They Are Not Sent to the Scrap
Hemp, But Are Used for SidinGs,
Spurs and Branch Lines.

Several thousand miles of new and
heavier rails are laid every year on
railroads in the United States, and
these renewals are made much oftener
than the actual requirements of travel
call for them, there being a steady sub
stitution of heavy for light rails.
Nearly 80 per cent. of the track of
all railways in the United States is
now of steel. A steel rail will usually
wear out first at the ends, owing to
the wheels hammering over the open
Joints. The average life of an iron
rail is six years, of a steel rail 10.
4 4O-pound steel rail-40 pounds to
each yard of length-would be taken
up and replaced by one of 55 pounds;
"A 55-pound rail would be replaced by
one of 20 pounds, and a 70-pound rail
would be replaced by one of S5 pounds,
perhaps. There is about one such
change at the end of each four years,
or three complete requirements of
rail during the time one would serve
in use.
The custom, general among Ameri-
question: What becomes of the old
steel rails, or rather those for which
others we're substituted? Any rail-
road man can readily give the answer:
They serve, secondhand, the inter-
ests of the road, being used for sid1ngs
or spurs.
A siding, in railroad phrase, means
a line of track on which a freight
or accommodation train may be run
while through train is passing, or on
which train may be sidetracked be-
fore loading or unloading. A spur is
an irregular line of track which con-
meets a storehouSe, wareroom, fac
tory, mill, or ship landing with the
main line, and the multiplication, of
these spurs has been of undeniable
service to all roads in the development
of their freight business.
The traffic on sdings is small; on
spurs it is still less, and the deplaced
steel rails may be in use on them for
many years.-N. Y. Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-04-25
POULTRY YARD HINTS.

The dust bath is still one of the ne
cessities in the poultry house.
Make your buildings tight and warm
for your fowls, and they will be better
egg producers.
Green bone and meat scraps in win
ter take the place of bugs and worms
that the fowls have during the sum-
mer.
a pullet is at her best as show bird
just before she reaches the laying
point-as regards color, condition of
plumage and general physical develop
ment.
If you have eggs to sell this spring
it is high time you were advertising
them. Get yourself before the public
in time to get well acquainted before
the egg season begins.
1t is never wise to buy breeding
stock at beginning of breeding sea-
son. Buy before, so that the stock will
have become used to its new surround
ings before breeding season COM
mences.-Barnum's Midland Farmer.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-04-25
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LATEST HEALTH FOOD.
1t Is Compressed MILK, i'm which All
Sorts of LnctcnI Microbes Are
Squeezed to Death.

After ,5asteurized milk, aerated milk,
sterilized milk, peptonized milk, lac
tated milk and matted milk, there is
now to be added new kind of scien-
tific hygienic milk.
1t is compressed milk. BY this new
process the microbes that abound in
COWS milk are squeezed TO death, at
least a part of them are, for there are
100000 germs to every teaspoonful of
raw cows milk
TO investigate the effect of pressure
on bacteria, an apparatus was devised
which is remarkable for having pro-
duccd what is probably the greatest
hydrostatic pressure ever reached,
over 100000 pounds per square inch.
The particular object of these ex-
periments was to determine whether
the bacteria in milk might not be
killed by hydrostatic pressure, so that
il would keep a longer time without
souring. Moderate pressures were
first tried but appeared to have no eff
feet. The pressures were then in
creased and notable results were OBJ
tanned.
MIN SNlA'lNNi't " III NSSul Is VI ~ "
100 tons kept from "a to 60 hours
longer without souring than untreat-
ed milk. The degree to which the
keeping qualities of milk were inn
proved appeared to depend as much
on the time for which the pressure was
maintained as upon the actual pres
sure reached.
Pressures of 90 tons per square inch
maintained for an hour delayed the
souring of milk from four to six days.
Complete sterilization of the milk,
however. was in no case effected, even
at the highest pressures, and the milk
in many cases acquired peculiar tastes
and odors on keeping, indicating that
certain species of bacteria were killed
while others were not.-Chicago Amer
lean.