The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-23
TOPEKA FREICHTS.
Why kuehne Moves = Horton is
Given Rates Denied Us.

The directors of the Commercial club
were called together by President Frost
Tuesday afternoon to take some action
regarding the removal of the Topeka
Picking and Preserving works of Otto
kuehne & Co., from this city on ac-
count of freight determinations.
The matter was thoroughly discussed
and from figures at hand the opinion
prevailed that there was scarcely a
point in the country where the railroads
charged rates which were so unjust to
shippers compared with rates given
other towns and cities less favorably
located and less entitled to considera-
ton.
1t was shown that the town of Hor-
ton, about so miles north of Topeka and
about the same distance west of the
river rates. In other words, a merchant
at Horton pays no more for freight
than merchant at Kansas City. A
business man, manufacturer, or ship
per located at Topeka must pay 20 cents
more per hundred pounds for firSt-class
freight shipped from st. Louis or the
east to this city than would be charged
him If he were doing business in Hor-
ton.
Another remarkable condition of af-
fairs is shown by the fact that a car
load of goods ordered by a Horton man
ufacturer is brought from st. Louis via
Kansas City through Topeka and taken
on up to Horton and the Horton man
Topeka man who receives car of fden-
tica1ly the same kind of goods. Further
more, the railroad will haul a car of
freight from st. Louis to Kansas City
and 200 miles up the river to Omaha
and charge the Omaha man sixty cents,
while for the same kind of goods If
hauled 81 miles west to Topeka, instead
OF 200 miles northwest to Omaha, the
company will charge Twenty-Five cents
more.
The town of Holton, about 30 miles
north Of Topeka, pays 10 cents less than
Topeka The town of Mayetta, about
20 miles north, pays 10 cents less than
Topeka The little town of Hoyt, IA
miles north of Topeka, pays Is cents
less, and Elm ont, almost a suburb of
this city, pays cents less than we do,
and yet all of this freight is hauled
through Topeka and on to its destinA-
ton.
This is the sort of thing that operates
against Otto Kuehne and similar man
ufacturers and this is the sort of thing
from which relief is sought What To-
peka wants and needs to build up it's
shipping interests Is the Missouri river
rate. Why can't we get it?
Inc discrimination against Otto
kuehne alone amounts to forty or fifty
dollars car and he often ships two or
three cars day. He has now orders
for four cars of goods to go to Texas
which he can't ship on account of the
freight rates.
with Mr. Kuehne and see what can be
done President Frost named Frank p
MacLennan. w. s. Bergundthal and Deli
ke1Zer, who called upon Mr.. Kuehne last
evening and discussed the situation with
him. Mr.. Kuehne said he Wanted to be put
on basis so that he could compete with
Kansas City manufacturers and jobbers
It is absolutely impossible for him to do
this under the present unjust and inconsis-
tent freight rates.
The map given above shows the freight
rates charged per 100 pounds to the Diff
ferent points on first class freight from ST
Louis and the east by way of Kansas City
and Topeka to the destinations