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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

term frontier counties" used above re-
ferS to such counties as Jewell. CoWley,
Reno, Sedgwick, and Smith, all of which
are this side of Great Bend. The coun-
ties above mentioned were the ones
which received the largest portion of
the supplies sent out.
In speaking of the nature of the dis
aster, the report goes on to say:
THE restitution is not general, but
limited. 1t is mainly confined to the
frontier counties, in which the growing
crops were destroyed by the grasshop
pers in the months of July and August.
In the older counties there is abundance
to meet the wants of the people. Even
in these frontier counties, the lack of
supplies exists chiefly among the immi-
grants who have come to the state with
in the past year or so, and who had no
dependence for a living but the sod
crops which the graSShOppers destroyed.
Strictly speaking, large number of the
destitute are hardly citizens of Kansas
at all. They have but just arrived. with
very slight resources from states seast
of Kansas. In our judgment it is the
duty of those who live in the older pOr-
lions of the state to see to it that even
the immigrant of yesterday having
pushed to the border with the honest
purpose of making home for himself
and his family shall not lack the neces-
saries of life
In response to this appeal, contribu-
tiOnS of cash and carloads of supplies
commenced to pour in. The report gives
the following summary of the receipts:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
WOMEN LOST THEIR CAR.
Went After Poor Lone Conductor
With Hammer and Tonps.

An amusing incident occurred at the
station last night. says the Albu-
querque Journal-Democrat, when
crowd of tourists, who had gotten off
the train to see the sights, came back
to get on their car and proceed west
ward The car had vanished into thin
air, and more perturbed set of traV-
elers was never seen. They wanted to
go to the Grand Canyon, and the whole
excited crowd got around one poor de-
fenseless conductor and made his ears
ring. They thought evidently that their
car had been spirited maliciously away
by the railway company, and that they
would never see home and friends
again, not to mention the disagreeable
prospect of having to walk the ties
from here to the Grand Canyon. Most
of them were women The conductor
finally succeeded in convincing them
that their car had been switched off
and would go west on the late train.
An amused crowd gathered to see the
conductor do wOrdy battle with the gar
rulouS and excited tourists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
WOMEN WHO SUFFER.
Listen to What DR.. Hartman Pro-
poses to Do for You Without
Charge.

Doubtless hundreds of thousands of
women all over the United States have
seen DR.. Hartman's offer in the papers
how he has undertaken to treat every
woman suffering with any form of
female disease who will write to him,
free of charge.
To those who have not heard of this
it may be said that DR.. Hartman is a
physician and surgeon of great renown
in medical circles, especially in the
trea tment of those disease which wo-
men alone have to bear
He has arranged to answer all letters
that are sent to him from women
troubled with any form of female weak
ness, free of charge, giving the benefit
of knowledge which has cost him forty
years to accumulate.
The medicines he prescribes are with
in the reach of any women, and she can
get them at any drug store.
All she is required to do is to send
her name and address, together with
her symptoms. duration of sickness,
and age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

be true. yet it does not preclude the posi-
bility Of an interchange of securities be-
tween the two systems whereby the Rock
Island might secure equal rights over the
Santa Fe tracks west of Albuquerque Such
to both roads, as the Santa Fe would no
longer have to meet the competition of the
Rock Island, and the latter would secure
shorter line to southern California than it
now has via FL Paso and the Southern Pa
cific
of whereby passenger trains of both the
Santa Fe and the Rock Island may use
Rock Island, Frisco and Choctaw lines.
thereby shortening materially the Santa
Fe route between Chicago and Albu-
querque.
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PHOENIX GIRL IS MAD.
She Wants Santa Fe to Pay for Use
of Her Face

Yes" said a Phoenix man. there is Z.
report current that the parents of a we'll
known Phoenix young woman are about to
institute suit against the Santa Fe com
pany for damages that company having
utilized a snap shot of the fair school
teacher as she emerged from the surf dur
ing her outing. The enlarged picture on
your city billboards have been noticed
enough to become familiar to everybody,
nome people and strangers alike.
4, j., j. Byrne, general passenger agent of
the santa Fe, took sancy TO the photo
graph when it was SHOWN to him ard he
forthwith used it more particularly en- ac-
count OF the pose. 1t just happened to be
caught and it came handy to the road as
an advertising card. In one sense It ad-
vertises Arizona, whose people the coast
resort managers desire To have visit for
the summer. Thousands OF Arizonians are
there now" concluded The visitor
An eastern woman not long ago won Il
SUIT from corset company in the sum of
10000. That company pad secured a pho-
tograph of this attractive woman and re-
produced 1t in the pictures made in con-
nection with their make of cCrsets.-Tuc-
son Citizen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
JACK LONDON DIVORCED.
His Wife Didn't Like the Ideas in His
Books.

Oakland, Cal, Aug. 15.-"Jack" Lon
don, newsboy, tramp. sailor. socialist
and author. writer of the ''Kempton
WAGE Letters" and heralded genius, has
found marriage a failure. Love and
literature do not mingle-at least in the
brilliant young Californian's life. He
and his wife of barely three years have
separated.
1t is stated that London's views on
love, as shown in the "Kempton WAGE
Letters" have broken up his happy
home With more than prophetic pen
does WAGE" write of the lovers after
marriage.
Our lovers discover each other to be
mere man and woman after all. That
ethereal substance which the man took
for the body of the loved one becomes
flesh and blood, is prone to the common
Weaknesses and ills of flesh and blood.
He on the other hand betrays little petu-
lances of disposition, little faults and
predispositions of which she never
dreamed in the pre-nuptial days, and
which she now finds eminently distaste-
fu1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
S73.S63.47

The committee estimates that the
value of the goods and supDlies re-
ceived was S161, PAS. The United States
government also contributed $4,000
worth of army clothing and $4,000
worth of army rations. The committee
reports further that contributions di-
rect from the east to various counties
amounted to 81 055.2S. In the way of
free transportation by freight and ex-
press the committee estimates that
the railways and express companies
saved the committee 500. 900.
In distributing the supplies the re-
lief committee complains that some in
equality was unavoidable because
about two-thirds of the goods received
came with special directions from the
donors to what counties they
should be sent to. AS it was, Reno
county received the largest portion of
the goods distributed. Its share was "a
car loads and 1.531 packages Sedgwick
county got "a car loads and $50 pack
ages. Hamilton county received the
smallest portion of aid, its share being
only "a packages.
Instead of sending the cash direct to
the sufferers, it was all spent by the
committee in supplies, and the supplies
sent out. The committee also purchased
$40 900 worth of seeds for spring plant
ing. The cost of all the supplies pur-
chased was SAG, 1876 A great portion
of this money was spent in Topeka, and
some Topeka firms appear frequently
on the itemized statement of disburse-
ments for large amounts. Perhaps the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
TORTURES THE MOTHER.
Grief of New York Woman at Part
ing With Idiot Child.

New York, Aug 15.-Though for 20
years her daughter has been an i'm
beetle, with frequent attacks of mania
which necessitated her being confined
in a small box-like room. the mother
of Helen Hasselhof, of $40 East I54th
girl was removed to the asylum for
idiot children on Randalrs island and
has been hysterical from her grief ever
since.
The story is a pathetic one of par
rental love and self-sacrifice. When an
infant, a blood vessel was burst in the
girls head during CONFUSION, and she
has been insane ever since.
Fearful of allowing the child to go
out of their loving hands, the parents
have maintained her in their squat one
story frame house, and for years the
case has been the talk of the neighbor-
hood.
Frequently at night strange, I'M
earthly screams were heard in the Has
selhof house like the wailing of a wild
beast" one of the neighbors said. There
was never any charge of cruelty pre-
ferred against the parents, and the
neighbors tolerated the presence of the
maniac because they knew the sad
story of the family. Helen was never
permitted to go out doors. She roamed
about the house at will until her vio-
promptly shut up in the dark. cavern
like closet until the spell had passed
Recently strangers moved into the
neighborhOod, and after night of fear
aroused by the rawlings of the girl they
notified Capt. Byrne, of the Morrisania
police, and an investigation was made.
AS a result of the investigation DR.. A.
E. Macdonald, of the Manhattan state
hospital, had the girl removed to Ran
dall'S island
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
NEW ROUTE FOR GRAIN.
Rock Island May Now Send It to
Southern Ports.

Chicago. Aug. 15.-The Chicago Even
ing Post says:
From the traffic standpoint the ac-
quisition of the Seaboard Air Line by
the Frisco and Rock Island interests is
likely to be fraught with consequences
of very great Importance. 1t may
change the trend of export traffic from
the west and southwest to an extent
New York Boston and other north
a tlantic ports.
From the close connection the Rock
Island and Frisco will have with the
Seaboard Air Line at Birmingham and
Montgomery they will get. short line in
lets to the Atlantic at Wilmington and
Savannah at both of which excellent
facilities exist for the handling and
shipment of export grain. The Sea-
board Air Line has line also from
Pensacola to Jacksonville
From the Rock Island and Frisco
there could be delivered to the Sea-
board Air Line at birmingham any
quantity of grain from Kansas, Mis-
souri,. Texas, Oklahoma and Indian
Territory, and owing to the shorter
overland mileage to Savannah and Will
mington the freight charges could
doubtless be reduced materially by
routing shipments over the new outlet
thus formed.
Another effect of these new relations
may be the breaking down of the Chi
neSe wall that has existed until now
against Chicago commerce with the
southern states. When the new Chi
cago-New Orleans route over the East
ern Illinois and the Frisco is opened it
Will afford short lines to most of the
important points in the southern states
over the Frisco's line from Memphis to
Birmingham. and hence over the Sea-
board Air Line.
The executive committee of the West
ern Passenger ASSOCIATION is meeting to-
day. In the absence of any particular
business to be transacted the members
are discussing the proposed change in
the form of interchangeable mileage
which has fomented great disturbance
in the western rate situation. No re-
suits are likely to be reached from the
discussion today. 1t is purely of an in
formal Character
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
j Miss Murlel Armitage I

Address DR.. S. B. Hartman, President
of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Mrs. Senator Roach, of I.arimore, N.
D.; Mrs. Senator Warren, of Cheyenne,
Wyo.; Belva Lockwood and Mrs. Gen
eral Longstreet, of Washington, D. c.,
are among the prominent ladies who
indorse Peruna.
Miss Helen Rolof. Kaukauna. wis.
writes:
Several times during the past two
years or more my system has been
greatly in need of a tonic, and at those
times Peruna has been of great help in
building up the system. restoring my
appetite and securing restful Sleep
Helen ROlOf.
Miss Muriel Armitage,> SO Greenwood
ave, Detroit, Mich, District Organ
izer of the Royal Templars of Temper
ance, writes as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

In summing up the work of the COM
mittee in a letter to the governor print
ed in the report, the committee says:
1--WE have assiduously devoted our
selves to the responsible and arduous
work assigned us, with the understand
ing that our duties would cease upon
the assembling of the legislature.
Now, however, we find these two
facts to exist:
First, that the needs of our people
are increasing rather than diminishing.
OF this we are assured by the uniform
testimony of reliable persons. AS the
season advances, the resources Of our
people are being exhausted.
Second, that our resources are de-
creasing. Our friends in the east seem
to expect that the legislature will pro-
vide for the needy people of the state.
This expectation. together with other
causes, has led to a serious decline In
our receipts and in reports of shipments
made to u.s."
The committee then strongly intimates
that unless the state legislature does
something, the people of Kansas will
starve.
However, the terrible times of the
grasshoppers are safely passed, and the
state is enjoying a prosperity and
growth which perhaps even the MEM
bers of the grasshopper relief commit
tee never hoped to Witness The effect
of the flood in the Kaw river valley will
pass away too, in time, and viii prob
ably be forgotten even more quickly
than the grasshopper plague of 1874.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
ON THE CARPET.
Unfortunate Mistake of a Careless
Clerk at San Bernardino.

The San Bernardino Times-IndeX says:
There is a young fellow employed in
the Santa Fe depot who will never for
get how it feels to be put on the car
net" The other day superintendent
Reamer had finally decided on the APP
pointment of the new trainmaster, and
for some reason was particularly anxi-
Gus that his decision should not be made
public until the following day. He
wrote out the circular announcing the
appointment of Mr.. Meadows and placed
II in the Office post box for the young
ster, with definite instructions plainly
written on the outside of the envelope
that that particular circular should not
be posted before the following day, and
that its contents should not be made
public. The youth in his anxiety to have
his work over as soon as possible, tore
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

81 suffered for five years with uterine
Irregularities which brought on hyS-
terra end made me physical wreck q
tried doctors from the different schools
of medicine, but without any percept-
ible change in my condition. In my de-
spair l called on an old nurse, who adj
vised me to try Peruna, and promised
good results if 1 would persist and take
it regularly. 1 kept this up for sin
months and steadily gained strength
and health, and when 1 had used ff~
teen bottles 1 considered myself en-
tirely cured. I am a grateful, happy
woman today.'-Miss Muriel Armitage-
Miss Lucy NJ Riley, SO Davenport st..
Cleveland, Ohio, writes:
Il wish to add my Endorsement to
thousands of other women who have
been cured through the use of Peruna-
suffered for five years with sewers
backache. and when weary or worried
in the least I had prolonged headache
1 am now in perfect health, enjoy life
and have neither an ache nor pain,
thanks TO Peruna."-Lucy M. Riley.
If you do not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Pc
runa, write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving a full statement of your case,
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
MAY CHOOSE PORTSMOUTH,, va.
Rock Island Likely to Make It a
Grain Export Point.

Norfolk Va. Aug 15.-The combined
railway interests of the F'risco-Rock
Island and Seaboard Air Line have Sc
sured options on the entire water front
of Portsmouth, Va, giving it the great
est deeD-water terminus in America.
The port will be improved, and it is
now planned to make Portsmouth the
great export point for grain. 1t is sig
nificant that this point should be Sc
lected for a great export center. as it
is a place that John Smith picked near
ly 300 years ago to be the site of the
great city of the new world. NJ. E. In
gals, in locating the deep-water ter
minus of the Chesapeake & Ohio at
Newport News, which is on the same
waters, announced that some day the
place would be the greatest shipping
center in America
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

having shanghaied Joseph Terrell Ruck-
er, nephew of Georgia's governor and
two other young men from this point
on the British bark Kambria. Warrants
were issued for the arrest of the cap
tain of the bark and her shipping mas
ter Others said to be implicated are
being sought by the United States au-
thorities. The bark left this port one
month ago for Santos and will make the
trip in fifty days without touching
ports. The British authorities have
been notified and other arrests probably
will follow. The other boys said to have
page of Rome. Ga, and John Seage Of
Savannah. All three of the young men
are minors. Their relatives are among
the most prominent people of the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
MAY SCARE THE PUBLIC.
Rock Island Afraid to Admit Its
Own Magnitude.

New York, Aug. 15.-Plans are already
under way for through passenger train
service from New York to the City of
Mexico by way of the Pennsylvania,
Seaboard, Frisco, Rock Island and Mex
lean Central. The latter road is now in
all but name part of the Rock Island
system.
In spite of the open statements by
Rock Island-Frisco interests that the
Seaboard Air line has been purchased
by the system, technical denials were
issued today that the control of the
property had actually passed. The deli
cacy in admitting the fact is due to fear
that the public may be alarmed at the
vastness of the Rock Island system TO
the detriment of the stock market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

The startling announcement that a pre-
ventive of suicide has been discovered will
interest many. A run down system or de-
spondency invariably precede suicide and
something has been found that will pre-
vent that condition which makes suicide
likely. At the first thought of self de-
struction take Electric Bitters. 1t being
a great tonic and nervine will strengthen
the nerves and build up the system. It :
also a great stomach. liver and kidney
regulator. Only SOC. Satisfact guaran-
teed by the Arnold Drug cos7S=ny. 81 N.
K&E=2E avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
COMING TO A FOCUS.
Santa Fe-Rock Island Alliance May
Soon Be Contaminated.

chicago, Aug. 15.-Having secured an in
dependent outlet to the Atlantic seaboard
DY acquiring large interest in the Sea-
board Air line, the Rock Island Frisco in
lerests are said TO be seeking an indepen-
dent outlet to the Pacific coast This they
expect TO accomplish by purchasing half
interest in the Santa Fe lines west of Al
buquerque. The Santa Fe people here
doubt the report and say that control of
that system can not be purchased in the
open market, nor is there any interest with
holdings large enough to transfer the con
troll Of the Santa Re road While this may
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SOMETHING PASSED HIM.
Incident illustrating the Speed of the
Lowe Special Train.

Albuquerque, N M, Aug. 15.-No
more vivid suggestion as to the ter
rlble speed made by the Henry P. Lowe
special as it flew on its way to Los
Angeles has been made than that
offered by the Santa Fe agent at Clare
mont. Although his comment was not
the essence of elegance, it was honest
and to the point. 1t came in answer to
the query made his office from head
quarters asking if the special had gone
through Claremont. His reply read:
Cant say for sure. Some -
thing passed through here Just now.
but couldn't see what it was"
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GOVERNMENT BUYS STOCK.
Mexico Now Has an Interest in the
Mexican CanfraL

Austin, Tex, Aug. 15.-It is reported in
.Igh financial circles of Mexico that the
Ne Xlean government has just purchased
iVo'eVV SHARES of stock of the Mexican Cen
Iral railway company. The purchase is
s9ld 10 have been made through the firm
OF Speyer & Co. of New York This will
give the Mexican government a voice in
the management of the property and is an
other important step in its plan of acquir-
ing control OF all the railroads in Mexico.
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NIcl:KIEERAK. !:
ReSa.yN'ko xa9O5 ako,ssRR Q,

Three Express Trains East every day In the year.
ruIlnan Drawing Room Sleeping Cars on all
rains. Trans Con tinental Tourist Cars leave
Chicago Trf-Weekly on Tuesd avs and SATURDAYS
at ESQ p m, on Wednesdays at 1895 .. II.
Cnlcago to Boston without change. Modern Din
Ing Cars serving meals individual club plan
ranging In price from 800 to 81 90; also service
q Ia Carte Direct line to Fort Wayne, F4ndlav.
Cleveland, Erie. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse.
bingharnton. Scranton. New York CITY. Boston
and all points East. Rates always the lowest
Colored porters in uniform in attend pce on All
Coach Passengers. If you Contemplate a trfp
East. cali on any convenient Ticket Agent OF
ADDRESS JOHN Y. CALLAHAN, Gent AGENT
113 Adams ST., Chicago, M.
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no Meet september 3.

Washington, Aug. 15.-The state de-
partment has been informed by Am
bassador Choate that the first meeting
of the Alaskan boundary commission
will be held on September 3, in the
British foreign office.
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Cbanpe in oerman War Office

Berlin, August 15.-Lieut. Gen. Won
Gossler has been relieved of the post of
war minister at his own request. Lieut.
Gen. Won Einem, the director general of
the department of war, has been ap-
pointed his successor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

open the envelope without reading the
Instructions. and Immediately tackled up
the circular. 1t was not until next day
that Mr.. Beamer learned of the mistake,
and when he discovered it. he was not
in the very best frame of mind. 1t took
the youngster a good half hour to square
matters, and even yet he is not quite
certain but that the mistake may cost
him his iOb
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WIPED OFF THE EARTH,
Prophet Does a Little Business for
Needles. Cal

Needles. Cal, Aug. 15.-On August 16
Needles will be wiped" off the face of
the earth. Such is the representation
u some Prophet VINO 1t IS said, predict
ed the great disasters of recent years.
But predictions and representations
have little effect on the interpretations
minds of the citizens of this happy
burgh though the subject is lightly dis4
cuSsed.
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Personal Letters of Praise.

Each member of the crew which
handled the Lowe special on the South
ern California division received a per-
sonal letter from SuDt w. B. Beamer,
praising their conduct in highest terms
and thanking them for the part they
had taken in giving the Santa Fe the
honor of having made the fastest trans
continental run on record.