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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
WILL PATCH 1T UP.
City Railway to Lay 2 1-2 Miles
of Track-CarS Bought.

At a meeting of the directors of the
Topeka city railway, held in New York
last week, President C. c. Baker was
authorized to lay 21a miles of new S5
pound rails in Topeka and to purchase
seven 30 foot cars. The cars have al
ready been shipped from st. Louis.
They have been used four years. The
rails will not be ready for delivery till
late in the summer, owing to the over
crowded condition of the steel and iron
manufactures of the country.
The cars which have been purchased
have 20 foot bodies instead of 16 foot
bodies. The veStibuleS are also slightly
larger. Two of the cars have trans
verse seats, with an aisle through the
middle. The other five cars have longi-
tudinal seats.
The new rails will be laid on Kansas
avenue and on West Sixth street.
This is about the biggest job of
''doctorings' which the street railway
has had for some time. There is APP
parently no hope that the company will
appropriate a sufficient sum to put the
road in thoroughly good shape. That
would involve issuing bonds. and the
owners of the road won't listen to that
sort of a proposition yet. They think
that they are making more money out
of their poor equipment than the per-
centage of increase on an increased in
vestment would justify The Topeka
management is not to blame They do
the best they can with what they have.
P1eSlOGnI y. T. Baker WAS asked To-
day to make statement concerning the
condition of the street railway, and the
proposed improvements He said:
THE road has been paying out such
large sums in paving during the past
two years that we have simply been
forced to abandon other improvements
which we desired to make. The owners
of the road have recently so arranged
the financial situation that we will save
a large amount of annual interest which
has heretofore been eating up our earn
ingS. The owners have also given me
full authority to expend all the net
revenue of the road in improving the
property. / therefore expect to have
eonSidera BILE money every year to in
much as we can conveniently handle.
Even if we had plenty of money to
spend in Improvements, it would take
number of years to re-equip the line.
/ realize as we'll as anyone that we need
large amount of new track, with
heavier rails. We can not use much
heavier cars on the existing rails. Our
new rails will be good ones, and we
expect to add to them from year to
year.
IF the company should issue bonds
to the extent of say 100000 1t would
involve paying about 81, 500 more every
year in interest. 1t is doubtful whether
the investment would be profitable.
II think that the proper way for peo-
pie to help US improve the city rail-
way is to patronize us All that the
road makes will be used in improving
the property. 1t is nickels that we
want"
Mr. Baker certainly knows that the
way to induce people to patronize the
tiRn which no doubt he would like to do
if he could.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
MORE HOPEFUL
Boston Strike Situation Re-
r~ garded as Improved.
Since Ralph Easley's Arrival to
Effect a Settlement.

Boston, March 13.-With the labor
leaders in conference with Secretary r.
M. Easley, of the Civic Federation, with
the prospect of general meeting of
representatives of all the leading busi-
ness interests, at which Mr.. EaSley
should be heard after having learned
the workmen's side Of the case, and the
indications that teaning is to be re-
sumed by some concerns after tie-up
of two days, Bostons strike situation
was more hopeful this morning than it
has been since the trouble began last
Monday morning. Still p, 600 men were
numbered among the forces of the
strikers, and threats that hundreds of
Others would join the movement were
as freely made as at any time this
week.
Secretary Easley arrived here early
and his conference with the labor rep
resentatives was begun al O'Clock. Be
sides the committees of the freight
handlers, team drivers and Longshore-
mems unions, James Duncan, vice presi-
dent of the American Federation of La
Dor; John F. O'Sullivan, fourth vice
president of the International Typo
graphical union; Frank H. McCarty,
president of the Massachusetts state
branch of the A. F. of / and others
were present at the meeting.
The sitting was behind closed doors
and it was announced that nothing
would be given out until Mr.. Easley
was fully in touch with the situation.
While the general aspect of the strike
was much the same as II mas been on
previous days. there were some slight
changes. Until late yesterday the Brine
Transportation company (non-union)
was doing principally all the teaming of
the city, all other teamsters having been
tied up by the sympathetic strike. Dur
ing yesterday however some concerns
found that in order to save their con-
tracts with large firms, they m ust un-
dertake to deliver goods or give the bus
mess over to the Brine company. This
led two of the union teaRSterS to start
out with non-union drivers and today
several others followed this action. AS
those at work yesterday met with no
trouble it led to the hope that opera
tions might be resumed in a limited de-
gree, although it was felt that the pres
ence of non-union men on the teams
might cause disturbance in the great
army of strikers.
The coal situation was improved con-
siderabIy during the night, several firms
having taken advantage of empty
streets and darkness to convey coal to
large consumers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
BROKE INTO BANK.
Robbers Secure Between So 900
and So 900.

Joliet, ILL.,, March 13.-A band of six
men early today broke into the Ex-
change bank in Minooka, nine miles
west of Joliet wrecked the safe with
dynamite and secured between $1,000
and So 900 in cash. Theodore Krine, a
citizen, who heard the explosions, rose
from a sick bed and went to warn A.
K. Knapp, president of the bank The
robbers discovered Krine on his return,
assaulted him viciously and left him
gagged. He was not found until nearly
two hours after. The robbers took a
handcar on the Rock Island and went
west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
Replevins croft's Outfit.

G. W. Moffitt filed a replevin suit to-
day against Chief Tim Donovan and
Ed Pavey for the recovery of the gamb-
ling furniture taken from the house
run by Harry Croft The outfit con-
sists of one crap table, one stud poker
table and two poker tables and the
entire lot is valued at $50. Moffitt claims
to have a mortgage on the tables. CHIEF
Donovan will give a redelivery bond
and hold the property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
Temperatures of Large Cities.

Chicago. March 13.-7 a. m. tempera-
lures: New York. Boston and PhfIa-
delphia Sc; Washington So; Chicago So;
Minneapolis so; Cincinnati and ST.
Louis a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
NEW MEMRERS ELECTED.
Mexican Central Buys the Monterey

Mexico City, March 13.-Final papers
relative to the purchase of the Mon
terey & Mexican Gulf railroad by the
completed and four million dollars have
been paid to the vendors The Central
gains 3S7 miles by this consolidation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
MORE SPRING WEATHER.
Government Bureau Says 1t Will
Soon Be Cooler.

Cider Smith scores again. He an
nounced pleasant weather for today.
The weather bureau this morning is
sued the following forecast: Generally
fair tonight and Friday. Warmer west
portion tonight. Cooler Friday after
noon or tonight The wind this morn
ing was from the southwest, blowing
10 miles an hour. The minimum tenn
perature was 81. The hourly tempera-
lures. according to the government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
Boundary Still Unsettled.

Santiago de Chill. March 13.-It is Off
cially announced that no direct settlement
of the boundary dispute between Chill and
Argentine has been arrived at, but If
will not refuse to consider it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
Weather Indications

Chicago, March 13-Forecast for Kan
sas; Generally fair tonight and Fri
day; warmer in west portion tonight;
cooler Friday afternoon or night: south
west to west winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13

Chicago, March I3.--The last day of Gen.
Funston's visit in Chicago was a quiet
one for the soldier. He spent some time
talking to Gen. Otis and devoted the rest
of the day to receiving callers and an
swering his mail He will leave for Wash
ington over the Pennsylvania road at 500
O. clock this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13
Wm Nzduet on Kansas Ava.

tions as will properly protect the rights of (
the city and all other parties Interested
PROVIDE TOPEKA" BUTTONS. |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-13

George f. Tucker, the young editor of
the Eureka Herald, called the conven-
ton to order in the absence of Chair
man McElfresh, of Usage county. Tuck
er is rapidly coming to the front in
Fourth district politics. He is good
presiding officer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09
oP1E READS NEW BOOK.

His Play The Starbucks,' in Form of
Novel.
Opie Reads latest book, "The STAR
bucks" published by Laird & Lee, Chi
cago is out. It is written from the play
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09

Crossing the Wabash at vincennes. Ind.
and walking down the Illinois side for
clump of sycamores. whose far-reaching
white branches spread over the mouth of
an old lagoon. The willows have some
what disappeared and the reedy under
brush altogether, but there is little doubt
that this is the place where Alice and Jean
found the wounded Long-Hair and made
him a bed of boughs, and Alice tore IN
her apron to bind his wounds. and brought
the humane old priest to doctor him, al
Frenchmen with good reason were hunt
ing him to put an end to his evil career
The revival Of interest in Thoreau is
steadily increasing. Current enthusiasm
in nature-study, among young and old.
has emphasized the great incentive of this
pioneer interpreter of nature-iore. In adj
ditfon to recognition of his services as nat
sonaIity is removing the Iong-ago charges
of selfishness and inconsistency. Extracts
from unpublished letters and journals OF
the ThOreau family and intimate friends
give value to the illustrated volume, Tho
reau; His Home. Friends and Books by
Mrs. Annie Russell Marble, soon to be
published by T. Y Crowell & Co.
Joseph c. Rosengarten. whose paper.
ed in Lippincett's Magazine. was born in
Philadelphia in 1885, educated at the old
MIA, graduated from the college in 1852, adj
mitted to the bar in 1855. studied at Heidel-
berg and Paris and returned 60 practice s 1.is
at Harpers Ferry when the John Brown
raid took place. and his curiosity led him
scene h W s Vrppa militia 'g spent
the night in Charlestown jail. was released
through the Kindness of Gov. Wise. with
and as a guest of the governors. inter-
viewed John Brown and his ASSOCIATES.
after seeing them surrender to the United
States forces under the command OF Col
Qater GeneraD Robert E. Lee and Captain
Qater GeneraD Fry This incident ne has
well described in a magazine article.
Messrs Houghton Miff1in & Co. announce
a9T q song q
Hiawatha.' prepared with special refer
ence to its presentation as play by
school children 1t has already been sue
cessfully given In Chicago. and it is
thought that it will appeal to both teach
is known and loved In the nature of the
case It has been found necessary to take
some liberties with Longfellow's text. but
these have been mainly such changes as
are involved In turning the third person
into the first and making Hiawatha. or
TEMPT has been made to fit the play for
the professional stage. since II Is evident
that this could not be done without too ex-
tensive departure from the original text
A new edition from new plates Of Liter
ature and Dogma" IL promised by the New
Amsterdam Book company Matthew Ar
nold's masterpiece of literary style mas
long been held model to writer's II
be termed THE Apostle of Sweetness and
Light"
Dodd. Mead & Co will issue in the fall
a new novel by Mrs Amelia E. Barr. en-
titled "A Song OF Single Note" Tbs ac-
tion OF the story takes place in New York
city during the revolutionary war ana
BARS earlier books, 1.-The Bow Of Orange
Ribbon and 1.-The Maid OF Maiden Lane :
the three novels taken together. cover
tropolis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09
AN ABRIDGED STANDARD.
Popular Dictionary Put Into Concise
Form.

The Standard dictionary has been
abridged by the publishers, Funk &
Wagnalls, into what they call THE
Concise Standard Dictionary" for con-
venient use.
The definitions, unlike those of most
abridged dictionaries, are truly defini-
tive; occasionally for the sake of con-
densation definition by synonym has
been reSOrted to. In such cases words
have been defined by synonyms that are
definitively treated in their respective
places. In the Introductory Standard
the definitions really delimit the mean
ing of the words. The illustrations, over
500 in number, aid this process by show
ing essential and characteristic forms
of the objects and ideas defined. Thus
the contrasted terms endogen and exogen
are explained by pictures which are
more Illuminating than a page of text.
The appendix contains simple rules
for spelling; a pronOuncing list of proper
names, historical, geographical, etc.;
foreign words and phrases current in
literature with their meanings in Eng
fish; tables of weights and measures
Qncluding the Metric SYSTEM; tables of
current coinage; symbolic flowers and
gems with characteristic sentiments;
list of authorizations commonly used,
etc.
1t is an ideal book for those who de-
sire essential information in small COM
pass. 1t stands in the same relation to
the commercial series of Standard Die
tionaries that the Introductory Standard
Dictionary does to the Educational
Series,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09
HOW WHEELER HELPED.
The General Gave Miss Rives an In
cident For Her Book.

Fighting joe Wheeler is RESPONSE
BILE for a most characteristic bit in Miss
Rives' new novel, Hearts Coura geous,"
which is one of the big popular sellers
of this season.
The authenticated southern girl and
the grizzled little veteran, who has
been a long and close friend of hers, sat
dining together at the Waldorf one ev-
ening a few months ago. The general
was telling stories of the humorous side
of the Cuban campaign.
'One of my colored hostlers." he said.
'unwittingly got under fire on the day
of the San Juan fight and I asked him
how he liked it. ''Taint de cannons an
sech what fustercates me- he said; cts
dem dar zip-screechy critters dey calls
Mousers, what goes eroun' hollerin'
''Whar- -iz-yo'? Whar-iz-iz-yo'?' Dey
needn be lookin' fer dis yere chickenp -
Miss Rives clapped her hands. "Oh. -
she cried, may 1 use that? I've got a
negro body-servant in my new book
that it will fit exactly"
And this is how '-John-the-Baptist, -
the quantity humorous character of
Hearts Courageous was given one Of
his most quoted sayings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09
QUESTIONS BRADY'S RECORD.
May Not Be the Author With the
Swiftest Pen.

A writer in the New York Sun calls
in question Cyrus Townsend Brady's
title of Americas swiftest author. He
SAYS:
The article claims that within seven
months of active work Mr.. Brady pro
duced long stories amounting to 100000
words, short stories amounting to 10000
words, book reviews amounting to &c.,
600 words and sermons amounting to
81 500 words. Or a total of 433,500 words,
which is described as a literary wonder.
From records at his disposal. the
writer finds that a woman author of
this city. Laura w. Sheldon. has pro-
duced manuscript that sees our Phila-'
delphia friends total and goes him sew
eral thousand words better. In the SAINT
period of seven months she wrote four
novels-"For God or Soul,' "As We
Forgive" Caught in the whirlpool"
and THE Girl from Mentana"-of Co.
900 words each, amounting to 100000
words. Some of these during this period
required more than one edition with
consequent revision. She also produced
a series of four shorter stories of 20, 900
words each, amounting to $4,000 words,
and a series of thirteen novelties of
200 words each, amounting to 260, 600
words. During four months of the
period she conducted a department in
a weekly periodical requiring 5000 words
a week, making total for the seven
months of $4,000 words. This amount
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09

It in Original and Delightfully."- En-
tertaining.

Barry Pain has contributed his little
part toward the solution of the difficult
problem of how to make life worth liv-
ing in the summer time. In 1.-The One
Before he has written most readable
story which will dispose successfully
of at least two hours of the heated
term and make the reader quite for
get his chigger bites and other troubles
for that length of time. The One Be
fore" is delightfully."- absurd story of
a magic Persian ring which possesses
the peculiar property of transmitting
the personality of the wearer. 1t isn't
a Dretentious story, but it is very de-
lightfully told, and although you never
forget that it's an idle and preposterous
tale, you get tremendously interested in
the adventures of the ring and the diff
ferent interesting people to whom in its
wanderings you are introduced.
1t isn't the rings whole history. only
a snatch of it, which the author gives,
but one feels that he could stand d
good deal more of it and wonders If it
may not be made the excuse for an
other brief session with some of Mr..
Pains folks at some future tine.
The characters are only sketched in, but
they are vivid and true. and one feels
well acquainted with them at the end
of the books few chapters and rather
loath to abandon their entertaining So
ciety. The book is published by Scrib-
ners and sells for $1.25.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09
TOPEKA STATE JoURNAL SATURDAY. AUGUsT

by the same name, staged in the Dear
born theater. Chicago. with Emmett
Corrigan in the leading role of Jasper
Starbuck-"
1.-The Starbucks' are a family in the
mountains of Tennessee. Jasper Star
buck, the centerpiece. is an ex-soldier
in the war of the rebellion. and was on
the winning side. He is a queer char
acter, bordering on the David Harum''
type. He is devoted friend. man
feared and respected by his enemies.
and manufacturer of wildcat whisky
as side line. His daughter Lou STAR
buck, like all raw mountain heroines- is
heavily coated with beauty, innocence
and ignorance. Jim Starbuck, nephew
of the leading character. and also a
mountain preacher, was formerly a
bad man. but has reformed and at
the time of the story is fighting the
ton. Margaret Starbuck, second wife
of Jasper and mother of little Lou. is
a lovable character who carries on a
one-sided quarrel with Jasper most Of
the time and means nothing by it So
much for the Starbucks
Mrs. Mayfield, the divorced wife Of a
rake in high society, comes to the noun
tains to escape from the life which has
proved a delusion. She is romantic.
beautiful and well educated. but falls
in the estimation of the reader by re-
turning the love of the wild mountain
preacher. Her nephew. Tom Elliott,
captures little Lou in time to save her
father from the penitentiary-for he did
not discontinue the manufacture OF
spirituous liquors just because the rest
of the family was in love. The rescue
was managed by means of a talk made
by Jasper to the United States district
judge, who CHANGED to be Tom Elliott's
father. Jasper was SO eloquent that the
stern" court let him CO. notwithstand-
ing his refusal to promise that he would
cease to bile sour mash.' The heavy
villain of the cast is one Lige Peters,
who, his name would indicate. is in
tent on running Jasper and wedding the
flower of the mountains. little Lou OF
course the strenuous attempts on the
part of Lige to kill or otherwise dis
comfort Starbuck are frustrated.
His designs on Miss Lou are also a dis
NAL failure. and he fades away in tina
last chapter. The book is handsomely
illustrated in scenes photographed from
the play, and printed in colors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09

A publisher of cheap books who is
now making his third or fourth venture
In the business is sending out circular
to writer's in which he tells them he is
searching for talent and mentions that
it would take pages to print a list of the
many writers he has brought to the
front. There is room in the circular.
however, for few of the names and
the benevolent publisher mOdeStly indi-
Gates that these are some of the people
he has made famous. Here follow the
names of Robert w. Chambers, Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. Max Nordau. Paul
Sienkiewicz, General o. o. Howard,
Andrew Carnegie. Col. Ethan Allen,
Mrs. Frank Leslie and Emile lola! The
exclamation point should follow each
name.
News comes that Madame Tsiika, who
was Miss Stones companion in cap
tivity among the brigands, is suffering
so much persecution at the hands of the
Turks that she is thinking of coming
to this country for a time, in which
event she will probably write a book
on the missionary life which she has
experienced. Miss Stone is now at work
on her story Of her life among the bril-
gands and the book will be issued some
time this fall.
1t used to be a common saving
among Chicago newspaper men that
more fakes came from Indiana than
from any other state, and yet the Chi
cago newspapers always seem willing
to father any wild story that came
from that wonderful country where
every other person is an author of dis
tinction and the rest of the people are
press agents for their native writers
Now comes the tale that, when Mr..
Booth Harrington takes his seat in the
Indiana legislature he will propose d
bill calling for an annual appropria-
ton on the part of the state of $500 for
a prize to the Indiana authors Of the
best literature during the preceding
year. Mr.. Harrington has not yet taken
his seat. indeed he has not yet been
elected, though the fact of his election
is generally conceded. but it is likely
that some of his Indiana polls friends
invented the story about him. A num-
Der of Indiana authors have been asked
seriously for their opinions on the n at
ter and most of them are against any
such plan.
HERBERT BREWSTER