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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-02-15
MY LADY'S BOUDOIR.

TT HE brightest paper on the walls see.
The richest carpet is upon the floor;
A quaint carved easel stands a-near the door;
O'erhanging It, rich folds Of tapestry;
The wealth OF tape stry quite o'erpowers me-
For there ere dainty plates and plaques galore.
There too the trifes that maids hunger for
Are spread about the most tastefuliy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-02-15

I note program with pink ribbon bound,
jewel case beside boutonniere
An ivory fan that's resting on a shelf.
Admitting all. hear grateful sound
The tread OF fairy feet upon the stair
The prettiest thing OF all appears-herself.
NATHAN NJ. LEVY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
ARour RAII.RoAn pEopIE

&C. Mayors is a new clerk in the freight
auditors office
William Gilmore of the water service
department has drawn his time.
Martin c. Blashfie1d is a new revising
clerk in the freight auditors office.
c. w. Fletcher of the concrete gang at
the Santa Fe shops has quit the service
Of the company.
Mrs. Richard Wilson. wife of Conductor
Dick Wilson, IS slowly Improving from a
months sickness.
Charles A. Hinkle. chief clerk to W. o.
Skinner, freight agent for the Santa Fe
at Pueblo, Col, was in the city yesterday.
John Cannon of the office of the general
storekeeper, is the proud father Of a ten
pound baby boy, born Monday afternoon.
Engineer William Rain has resumed his
run on and and and = after being
off for several days on account of sick
ness.
Ray. Stevens oiler in the machine shop.
sickness. He is now at his home in Law
renee.
Austin Martin has quit the shop service.
w. W. Lang of the machine shop is an
other man who quit the service of the
company.
A. E. Cooper, division passenger agent OF
the Rock Island. has returned to Topeka
from short business trip to Coffeyville
and Wichita
dent of machinery for the Rock Island
with headquarters in Chicago was in To-
peka yesterday.
Albert Lowell, assistant superintendent Of
motive power for the Santa Fe. has re-
turned to Topeka from an extended bush
ness trip in the west
The clerks in the store accountants Of
flee have been working on Saturday after
noon for the last few weeks The work is
especially heavy at this time of the year
S c. Nichols. chief clerk to the Santa
Fee ticket auditor. is taking a trip over tbs
Okla homa division in company with II. A.
Tice. the superintendent. Mr. Nichols will
return to Topeka the last of the week
Theo. Rickenbacker of the freight aud
tors office has quit the service of the
company to go to Little Rock, Ark, where
he has secured a better position with the
ChoctaW Oklahoma and Gulf railroad. Mr..
Rickenbacker has been in the employ Of
the Santa Fe for about ten years
It is reported that A. A. Rulings Of the
pattern shop is to be married shortly.
Mr. Rulings himself made the statement
which started the shop to talking. He
laid off from work the other afternoon and
Just before he left he told one or the boys
that he was going up town to buy his
wedding clothes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
HONOR DIR. WASHINGTON.
CoIored Men Entertain Him at Din
nor in New York.

New York, April 1.-two hundred col
ored business and professional men attend
ed dinner given in honor Of Booker T.
Washington at Carnegie hall last night.
Announcement was made of the founding
of two scholarships in the Tuskogee insti-
tute Mr.. Washington will name the ben
etciaries. Charles w. Anderson, in re
spending to the toast "Our Guest" said
that Dr. Washington, aside from many
other claims to public confidence. has the
saving grace of sanity-the genius Of COM
mon sonse
'-As an evidence of rare achievements -
said Mr.. Anderson, Il want to call our
guests attention to the fact that over 100
of the diners here tonight paid their sub
scriptiOn with their personal checks This
is significant fact. It means thar a
party OF 200, over one-half have bank &c
counts. and you know a bank account
commands respect, no matter who carries
it."
Mr. Washington said in part;
i am more concerned about our making
tangible visible progress than am about
adverse criticism Each one should help
forward friendly, sympathetic relations be-
tween the two races. This can be done
not in a groveling manner. but in d manly.
straightforward honest way 1t requires
little courage or craftsmanship for man
in New York or Boston to tell the cOlored
people what they should do in the way Of
exhibiting courage in the south Some
times it requires more courage to keep 81
lent or refrain from action than it does
to speak or act
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KILLED BY BARTENDER
Obed Paddock Shot in a Bowery
Resort.

New York. April 16.-Obed Paddock,
a driver, was shot and killed in a
Bowery resort early today and the bar
tender in the place, James Carter, was
locked up. The police say he confessed
that he did the shooting. Paddock s
body was found in the hallway of the
resort with a bullet hole in the back of
the head and the officers who arrested
Carter say they found him standing
behind the bar with the revolver in his
hand and that he readily confessed he
had shot man and that his body was
in the hall The bartender's expIana-
ton, according to the police, was that
the driver had tried to rob a man in
the place, and when interfered with,
had tried to draw q revolver. Besides
Carter, four other men were taken into
custody. The police say the driver did
not have a revolver in his clothes and
they think he was running away when
shot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
NEW SANTA FE LINE.
That Between Newkirk and Kansas
City Completed.

Arkansas City, april 16.-Superin-
tendent Tice and other division off
Gals are out on their annual inspec-
ton trip. While out they will inspect
the line recently completed between
Newkirk and KaW City, and that por-
ton Of the new line will probably be
turned over for operation within the
next week or ten days. This leaves the
strip of track between Kaw City and
Fairfax yet to be laid, in order to COM
plete the Santa FEES new line between
Guthrie and Newkirk. This work is
being delayed on account of the con-
structiOn of bridges over the Arkansas
river at Ralston and Kaw City.
The present wooden platforms at Ar
kansas City and Purcell, I. T., are to
be renewed with brick.
Harry Titus, division live stock agent,
was a caller at the superintendent 3
office at Arkansas City yesterday. He
is looking after the movement of cattle
into the Usage Nation for pasture.
The park at the north end Of the
passenger depot at Arkansas City is
being enclosed with a hedge fence.
The Arkansas City passenger depot
is pointed out by passengers as the clean
est on the Santa F'e.
superintendent Tice and Master Me-
chanic Grandy held sham court at
the trainmaster's office here Sunday.
The movement of stock from Texas
to Oklahoma, for pasture. is heavier
this year than evev before. It takes
about eighteen extra crews to handle
the business.
The bridge over the canal at Arkan-
sas city has been renewed with a ball
lasted deck. Bridges AZ and 81 main
line are also to be renewed with bal
lasted decks
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DEMAND FOR CARS.
Eastern Roads Fear Another Freight
Blockade.

Chicago, April 16.-According to traffic
men oe trunk lines there is imminent
danger of another freight blockade.
both east and west bound from Chicago
Urgent demands are being made by
western roads on eastern connections
for cars ii which to move grain. flour
and provisions. and the eastern lines
are demanding a quicker return of cars
which they have permitted to go west.
There exists a slight congestion OF
freight at important junction points
west of Buffalo and acres of sidetracks
outside that city are filed with loaded
cars waiting sportation.
The situation is somewhat aggravated
by the concentration by the Pennsyi~
vania, the Baltimore & Ohio and the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie of as many cars
as possible at Pittsburs. This is due
to the fact that these companies expect
an abnormal demand in the west for
coal and steel products this summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
RAILROADS Pay LESS.
Average Railway Wages Are Lower
Than in 1892 and 1898.

Chicago, April 16-The interstate
commerce commission has furnished
figures showing that on the average rail-
way wages at present are lower than
they We're in 1892 and 1898. The state
ments are interesting in the face OF
what the railroads of the country have
done since the first of the year in re-
vising pay rolls and raising the pay OF
employees generally. The statement of
the commission is as follows:
General officers have steadily re-
ceived higher pay, the average rising
from s7.S3 to $I0.97. officers other than
general officers receive 1886, instead of
$7S3 General clerks wages have de
creased from 1925 to $219, and station
agents from $1.S5 to s1-77 Other sta.
ton men have advanced to $1.69 from
s1e5.
"Switchmen, fagmen and watchmen
have been decreased to $1.75 from S1-S2.
section foremen from Sis to $171, and
laborers from S1-70 to 1859. Engineers
have been advanced from $3.50 to So. r.,
firemen from s2.O6 to $2.16, conductors
from 1910 to $317. other trainmen from
81. 92 to 81, machinists from 1921 to 1922,
trackmen from S1.22 to $123. and tele-
graph operators and dispatchers from
$3.50 to $1.9S. The advance of 10 per
cent being made by some of the roads
is not included
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
TO CROSS CENTRAL AMERICA
A New Line Which VIII Affect Elk
ports of That Country

Chicago, April ia dispatch to the
Tribune from New York says:
Plans have just been consummated
for the immediate completion of a line
of railway in Central America, extend
ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast, which it is believed will have
the effect of diverting a large share of
the Central American exports from
foreign ports to those of the United
States The coffee output alone aver
ages 100000 bags annually. of which
almost the entire amount is shipped to
Hamburg and other European ports,
due to the difficulties in transportation
to the Atlantic seaboard.
Alexander Hollander, who has for
several weeks been in Central America
in the interests of an American syndi-
cate of which James McNaught, former
counsel for the Northern Pacific rail-
road, is president, has just returned 20
New York The new railroad is to have
its terminal at Puerto Barrios. The
freight will be carried by way of the
Gulf of Pensacola or New Orleans and
it win reduce the time of Transports
ton from two months to two weeks.
Already 40 miles of road are compile
ted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
Many School Children Are SiekIY.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for
Children, used by Mother Gray. a nurse
in Children's Home, New York, Break
up Colds IN "A hours, cure Feverishness,
Headache, Stomach Troubles, TeeJhing
Disorders, move and regulate the Bow
els, and Destroy Worms. Mrs. Emily
Marom. Meriden, CT, says: ct is the
best medicine IN the world for children
when feverish and constipated. !" Sold
by all druggists or by mail, 25c. Sam
pie sent FREE Address Allen S.
Olmsted, Leroy, N. K.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16

]. W. Jones: substitutes. W. c. Lines
George Shepherd. New Cambria. reg
ular. Horace A. Stahl: substitute. E. b.
StahL Republic, regular, Edgar Policy;
substitute. Hugh W. Policy Valley
Falls, regular, Ami Boyer; substitute,
Ray Boyer Morrowville regulars,
George H. Peckham. j. NJ Chubbock.
substitutes. Lyle B. Peckham. p NJ
Winkelman; substitute. John Thomp.
SON Greene. regulars, Ernest NJ. Will
kins. John Evans; substitutes, Otto A.
Smith. John Evans, jr. Assaria. reg,
ular, Emil E. Linderholm: substitute.
w. H. Deits. Bridgeport. regular Eric
B. Ericsson: substitute. Otto F. OberN
Falum, regular. Fred Peterson: substi~
tute. Otto w. Peterson. Haddam, reg
ular, c. F. Higgins: substitute Charles
Troup- Hollis. regulars. J. B. McCahan.
John Petering; Cyrus Gordon: substl
tutes. Walter A. McCahan, Robert +
Petering, George G. Gordon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
MURDOCH ON MOVE.
Seventh District Republican Candi-
date and His Itinerary.


Victor Murdoch. Republican candidate
for congress. has made out complete
itinerary for his campaign 1t will keep
him on the jump every day for the next
five weeks. IN that time he Will visit
about forty towns in the Seventh dis
trict. going into nearly every county.
He has his itinerary made out, even to
the train he will take to go from one
town to another and the route he Will
take.
Mr. Murdoch started in at Attica and
Medicine Lodge on Monday. Tuesday
at Syracuse, tonight he goes to Car
den City to attend the big irrigation
convention there. Friday he will be at
Dodge City. and Saturday at Sterline
The balance of his dates are as fol-
lows:
Monday. April 20, Lyons; Tuesday, q.
HoisinSton. Great Bend and Rush
Center: Wednesday, %, La Crosse ana
Friday, "A. Hutchinson. and Friday
night at Wichita to attend COMMITTEES
meeting; Saturday, % Wellington.
Monday, 27. Kinsley; Tuesday, 2S.
Thursday 80, Sterling and Wichita.
Friday. May l. Sedgwick and Newton;
Saturday, 2, Mcpherson.
Monday, 4. Hutchinson and Kingman:
Tuesday, ., Pratt and Bucklin; Wednes
day, 6. Meade: Thursday, z, Anthony
and HarDer: Friday, 8, Kiowa: Satur
day. 9. Wichita.
Monday II, Ashland; Tuesday. Is,
Coidwater: Wednesday, 49, Norwich:
Thursday. IA, Wichita: Saturday, Is,
Monday. Is, St. John and STAFFORD.
Tuesday, 10. Burton; Wednesday, 20
Belle PLANE: Thursday IL Wichita,
Friday, p, Leoti; Saturday. %, home to
The election comes the following
Tuesday, May IS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
Breath
Q e a s ed During
Painting Spells.
Revived by Artificial
Respiration.
DR.. Miles Heart Cure
Cured Wife.

Painting spells are a sure indication of
weak heart The heart cannot do the work
required Of it and stops beating. Ifit ceases
for more than a minute death ensues. Weak
hearts must have aid from the outside. such
as DR.. Miles Heart Cure alone can give. Il
IS a heart tonic. 1t regulates the pulse. en-
riches the blood and improves the circulation.
For two years my wife was in very poor
health. At hrss her back troubled her
great deal, then she had shoTtness Of breath
and iuegularity of the periods The pain
IN her back grew worse and extended to the
connection of the spinal cord at the base of
the brain and from there to her heart She
had two very bad sinking spells, when the
pain IN her heart was most intense and her
breath stopped. The second time we had to
resort to artificial respiration to revive her
We were advised to give DR.. Miles Heart
Cure trial and bought a bottle and began
giving It as directed. We found the doses
were too strong, so 1 gave her halfdoses
three tunes day and she began to improve.
Alter she had taken two bottles the pains
were ALI gone and she was feeling like a new
woman. She continued the Heart Cure in
small doses Tor several months and is now
enjoying better health than for the mast SIX
years. M. J. THOMPSON, Dept County
Clerk, Klamath P. o., Cal.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tle Dr.. Miles Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address
DF. Miles Medical Co.,, Elkha1t, Ind.
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Berkeley. Cal. April 1e.-Warren T.
Clark. of the University of California
is pursuing in the care Of insects whose
habitat IS on land. certain lines of re-
search which may be regarded as par
allei to the other experiments with ma
rine forms OF life in which DR. Jacques
Loeb has been so successful AIr. Clark
has demonstrated that the wings of the
rose aphis can be developed or modified
By chemical excitation, and that their
growth is not due to causes hitherto as
signed. As a result OF his experiments
Mr.. Clark has shown that by changing
the food he can alter and control the
growth and DEVELOPMENT of the insect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
PLAN TO KILL OTIS.
Captain Taylor Discovers Evidence of
Old Plot.

Old Plot.
Washington. April 16.-While examin-
ing papers captured from Filipino in
surgents Captain John r. M Taylor of
the Fourteenth infantry has discovered
a remarkable document Endorsed on the
back with direction to Kill General
Gus, that Enforcement, Captain Taylor
insists is in the handwriting of Aguin-
aldo, the insurgent chief. A translation
OF the document follows:
our Hon. President: We, the signed
who subscribe the declara ton appended
by these presents protest against the
American proclamation; we recognize
no authority but that of God and the
revolutionary government and we offer
our lives and property for the indie
pendence of our country.
Manila, San Miguel. Jan. u. 1899.
'FELICIANO CRUZ"
(25 signatures follow.)
On the back is written in the hand
writing of Aguinalldo:
'Leberino kouonko Feliciano de Cruz
TO kill General Otis. Commissioned.
Captain Taylor called attention of the
chief of the bureau of insular affairs to
this document in a letter in which he
says:
The note on the back is in the hand
writing of Emilio Aguinaldo, a hand
writing with which 1 am familiar and
one of such peculiar mannerisms that it
cannot be mistaken by one who has
seen much of it. 1 have a quantity of
Photographic letters and notes in my pos
session The most cursOry comparison
between them and the handwriting of
this note viii show its identity.
ON January 4, 1893, a proclamation
was issued by General Otis in which he
declared the sovereignty of the United
states over the F'ilpinOs. Many pro-
tests We're drawn up in the Philippines
against this; most of them were drawn
up by order of the insurgent govern
ment but this letter was practically an
unsolicited evidence of the adhesion Of
some Katipunan lodge or of one of the
popular clubs in Manila organized by
SandicO while in the pay of the United
States government; clubs whose name
covered their real purpose, the fOrma-
ton of groups ready at a given signal
TO attack the Americans within the city
'PrOba bly, this paper was handed to
AguinaldO by a delegation of the sign
ers. If this was the case, the man who
signs first. FelicianO De Cruz, was one
of the delegates.
''AguinaldO probably talked with him
IN private and as a result of the con
Versauon he wrote this note on the back
of the paper. The other name does not
appear in the signatures. He was prob
ably some follower or intimate of Cruz
1T is to be noted that General Otis
residence was in the ward of San Mi
Euel. The signers of this paper were
men who lived about it and knew the
ground we'll Some of them may have
been servants in the house. The attack
of the American outposts did not occur
until February 4, 1899"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
MORE ENGINES FOR RI.
Nine Big Switch Engines Being Blu l.
at the Chicago Shops.

The Santa Fe is not the only road in
the west that is building larger switch
engines. It was given out at the Rock
Island division Offices yesterday that
the road now has nine new switch en-
gines in process of construction at their
shops in Chicago.
These engines, like those that the
Santa Fe are building. are to be a great
deal larger than the engines now in
use. At what points on the line the
new engines win be put in service is
not known but they viii probably be
assigned to the divisions where they
are needed the most.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
WARE ON WOODEN LEGS.
Commissioner of Pensions Promul-
gates q New Ruling.

Washington. April Commissioner
of Pensions Ware has issued an order
Interpreting the act of March ,. 1903.
concerning cases of those who have losJ
limbs in the service. The ruling says:
The said act contains the words or
where the same is in such a condition
as to prevent the use of an artificial
limb. The word use" is not to be con-
sidered as equivalent to the worG
wear" A person may be able to wear
an artificial limb when it would be o.
no use. There must be some oractica1
utility to the use. The words above
quoted apply to instances where thA
amDutation is below the middle in
length, of the bone. but above the joint
In such cases where the condition is
such as to prevent the use of an arti-
fetal limb, the increased pensions shah
be granted
Where the amputation is made at the
middle or above. there can be no use
of artificial limb. The middle point Of
the bone shall be determined in ac
cordance with the Curran decision Of
the Office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
40 MI1Es or NEW ROAD.
Gould System to Make Expensive. I'M
provements This Year.

Chicago, April 16.-Extension work of the
Gould system in the line of the construc-
ton of the new roads decided upon for the
present year includes the building of 42f
miles of track in various parts of the
country between tidewater and a few
miles beyond Pittsburg, the construction
of terminals worth 81, $4,000 in Pittsburg,
So 000. coo. including docks. etc, at Balti-
more 81, 100000 al several Virginia points in
the midst of the coal fields and inspect
fed amount in Toledo, where the Ann Ar
Dor syndicate will cooperate with Wa
bash to connect the two lines for advan-
tage in operating.
The assets that will underlie any new
securities issued will therefore comprise
those enumerated above in addition to the
lines purchased. namely: Western Mary
land, West Virginia Central, Ann Arbor.
These lines are covered by their own Sc
curities. so that the actual assets underly-
ing any new securities other than equip
rnent notes and charges for improvements
On old lines will be practically those out
lined above
The new lines that viii be included in the
above total are as follows:
PITTSBURG, CARNEGIE & WESTERN.
Miles.
West Virginia state line to Ohio river %
Ohio river to Jewett-.. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 20
Lumber line (estimated) ---.-...-.-......
LITTLE KANAWHA-
Sandy Bend to huntsville g tunnels). IS
GAINESVILLE to Par1ersburg .-.--......... 68
huntsville to BellingtOn ...-.-.-....-..... 20
WESTERN MARYLAND.
Cumberland to Cherry Run.......-...... 65
Lines in Baltimore OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WEST VIRGINIA CENTRAL
IIll1ins to Durbin ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ~
Local lines near Piedmont. --....-.......
This total of 41s miles of road is a much
greater undertaking than it looks. The
rights of way have been very expensive
and the building of the lines must be car
ried on through territory that is admit
tedly one of the most difficult in the coun-
try for trunk lines. In all. the bridging of
the water ways crossed in the completion
of the route to the sea and the Virginia
feeders will cost something in the neigh
borhood of S. 900 900. More than dozen
tunnels are also included in the undertake
ing Since $500, 600 a mile is not too high an
estimate for the cost of building tunnel
and laying tracks in 1t. it is apparent that
the road is going to be an expensive one
to build
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
Adventists Must Scatter.

Detroit, April 16-A special to the
Free Press from Battle Greek says:
Mrs. Ellen G. White, prophecies of
recognized standing among the Seventh
Day Adventists. has decreed that thu
Review and Herald publishing offices.
destroyed by fire must be built here.
She says the Lord is disoleased be-
cause the Office has been doing COM
mercial work instead Of denomina-
tional work. and declares that the Ad-
ventists, numbering 10000, living in
Battle Creek must scatter.
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survevors Reach Concordia.

veyors of the new North and South
railroad have reached Concordia where
the road will connect with the Burling-
ton which has it's terminus here This
win give the Burlington the best grain
county in this section and also the
most direct route south and connections
with all its northern roads. The town
ship south of here have signified their