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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
MAKE UGLY CHARGES.
Kansas City Grain Men Say Santa Fe
Force Is Inefficient.

Kansas City, Mo. Aug. 1O.-The Kan
sas City Star says: A determined move
ment is on to force the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad to cease discrimtn-
ating in the handling of grain ship
ments to Kansas City. 1t is charged by
the grain men that the company has at
tempted to follow a practice of handling
only grain consigned to Richardson &
Co, company which is the line opera
tor of the Santa Fe railroad with its
headquarters Office in Chicago. The grain
men go still further and charge that the
difficulty in handling shipments is due
largely to ineffective and incompetent
organization of the local working force
of the Santa Fe railroad in Kansas City.
The grain men say that there Is no
other way to account for the fact that
the railroad is hopelessly tied up when
as a matter of fact the company Is
handling less business than it was able
to take care of two and three years ago
They contend that if the work was in
efficient hands the shipments could be
handled, provided, of course, that there
is not a deliberate conspiracy on the
part of the railroad company to tn1ure
Kansas City as a grain market.
THE Santa Fe railroad makes the
plea that it cannot handle the business
because of a local congestion" said
grain man yesterday, but they are able
to handle shipments for Richardson q
Co. They should treat all firms alike.
If a congestion exists in the Santa Re
yards let them stop all shipments until
the yards are cleaned up, and then treat
everybody alike in the matter of ship
ments A record of shipments one day
This week showed $50 cars received. 30
scattered and the balance for the Rich
ardson Grain company. 1t is under
stood that 500 cars of grain are standing
on the Santa Fe sidetracks at New
tom
The board of trade is preparing 10
take legal steps to compel the Santa Fe
to cease its policy of discrimination in
the handling of grain cars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10

complied with it will help matters i'm
mensely. The shortage of equipment and
the congestion of freight throughout the
busy months in past years have been
caused largely by the abuse of their priv
Leges by shippers and consigneeS-
Cars placed at the disposal of shippers
have frequently been allowed to lie for
days before being unloaded, and a IA
vorite practice of consignees has been to
use the cars in which their freight is taken
to them as warehouses for storage. Any
demurrage charges that the roads have
exacted have not been sufficiently high
to break them of the practice. They have
been considerably less than what the cost
of warehousing the goods would have been.
but If the practice is persisted in the roads
will have to unload the cars themselves
and warehouse their contents at the ex-
pense of the owners of the goods. officials
Of the roads generally have reached the
conclusion that change in the old prac-
tice is imperative and must be brought
about al any cost.
The per diem system of accounting for
cars sent to foreign lines. which was put
into effect little over year ago afforded
considerable relief. but not all that is re-
quired and the action then taken must be
supplemented by that which is now intends
ed before the largest use can be mad from
the available equipment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE

Ralph II. futile IS new clerk in tn.
freight auditors office. He was employed
Saturday.
L. A. Bonnen. a clerk in the office of W.
!. Healy, freigh6 suditor for The Santa Fe
has resigned his position in that office OIL
account of sickness.
r. q. Wallace. clerk in the office of tie
Santa Fe freight audi d. Ietri ned to v Ork
in that office 81 Al y II orniny after
orado.
The Santa Fe ran an excursion yesterday
to Kansas City and return Jhe e>cur-
run under the auspices of the Woodmen of
the World.
Mr.. Harmon Finley of Lawrence is visit
ing in Topeka at 405 Lake street with The
family of William BoyeS, assistant seore-
tary OF the local Railroad Y. NJ. (. A.
He will be here for several days.
William Cartilage, stenographer in the
office of the Rock Island and claim agent.
left Saturday evening for Colorado, where
he will spend his three weeks vacation. He
Maurice o. Rourke. both of this city.
Charles Real, special rate clerk in the
passenger department, at the Sauia F.
fees this morning after weeks vacation.
Mr.. Real spent his vacation listing lis
brother in Eden, Ia.
office of w. J. iIealy. freight auditor fer
the Santa re. Up i'rtfl short lime ago
senger boy in the Santa Fe telegraph Of
fee He is a son of Assistant Foreman
Mehleisen OF the Santa Fe boiler shop.
Mrs. .. y. johnson of this city died at
10 o'clock aeus1ay morning a Christ hos
johnson has been sici- fer some time. She
was the wife OF y. }. Johnson 4 car e
pairer for George Elliott foreman Ct the
Santa Fe Sixth streets Yards The L.
neral viii be held Tues1ay afternoon AZ 2
O clock from rhe Third Christian church
Kinney Ross died at 80 O'Clock Friday
evening at his home on the corner of
Fourth and Branner streets. He had been
suering with consumption for some time
was employed IN the storeh rlsa at the
Santa F'e shops and was well known by
ali OF the men who worked there. He was
a son of Constable Ecss and WAS about rs
years of age The funeral was held yes
terday afternoon at o'clock from the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10

Third Presb. yteria1 church. The remains
We're inferred at the Topeka cemetery
In the recent record breaking run of the
Lowe special from Chicago to Los An
geles, the Santa Fe used the fastest and
most durable engines that could be found
The fact that these engines were not of
the big prairie type will no doubt be
surprise to the admirers of that particu-
lar class of engine A light engine was
used for every mile of the run with the
exception of the mountains in New Next
co. where the big Mikado freight engines
were used The engine that pulled the
SPECIAL from Kansas City to Newton was
No. n, the eight wheel Mcqueen, which
brings the Colorado flyer through here ev-
cry evening. The drivers this style of
engine are very high and the engine itself
is light and strong. Consequently this en-
CINE is better adapted for fast running
with light train than the prairie type is
The run up from Kansas City was prob
ably the best run that any engineer made
with the Lowe special and considering the
conditions it was the fastest. The engi-
neer was completely in the dark AS the
result of the storm no wires were work.
ing and he was cut off completely with
the railroad authorities who were super
intending the run. In spite of this. how
ever. he made the run from Kansas City
to Topeka in the remarkably short time
of an hour and thirteen minutes. This was
less time than the fast mail takes for the
run when ii has clear track and nothing
with which to contend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
GASOLINE ENGINE WORKS.
Kansas City Secures Locomotive
and Automobile Factory.

Kansas City, Mo, Aug. 1O-Ground
Will be broken in Armourdale this
month for the erection of a gasoline To-
connective manufacturing. plant to cost
quarter of a million dollars. This
latest acquisition to the Industrial in
terests of Kansas City is to be known
as the Prouty-Pierce Locomotive Man
ufacturing company.
Enoch Prouty, a Chicago capitalist
the maker of the Prouty gasoline en-
CINE, was in Kansas City yesterday and
signed the necessary papers completing
the details of the transaction.
The Prouty-Pierce company has pur-
chased tract of ground, situated at the
corner of Wyoming and Adams streets
in Armourdale comprising four acres.
The purchase was made on behalf of
the company by S. w. Pierce, president
of the Central National bank of juno
ton City, Kan. The price paid for the
land is said by Mr.. Prouty to have
been $30 900.
The tract of ground has a frontage
on Wyoming street of 275 feet, running
north on Adams street to a depth of 400
feet. 1t was known as the Kansas City
Elevator company's addition.
The Prouty-Pierce company filed arti-
cles of incorporation at Jefferson City
this week. 1t is a close corporation,
with an unlimited amount of resources
to draw upon. Mr.. Prouty is president
of the company. His wife is secretary
Il
nephews of Mr. Prouty residing in Chi
cago, are also interested in the COM
pany.
The company's plans call for the cree
ton of a manufacturing plant to be
thoroughly modern in every detail.
When completed two acres will be I'M
der roof. The plant win give employ
ment to 500 men. Contracts for clear
ing the ground and the preliminary
building work have already been
let. The company is purchasing ma
chinery and hopes to have one section
of the plant in operation by cold
weather.
The Prouty locomotive is high pow
er gasoline engine. 1t has been used
successfully on .irterurban railway lines
and is employed in developing mines
and industries in the south and west
The company will begin the manufac-
ture of automobiles next summer
Mr.. and Mrs Prouty left for Chi
cago last night on the Santa FSe rail-
way They will return in about ten
DAYS. Mr. Prouty will buy property
and build home in the southern part
Of tho rifU
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
ART OF TAXIDERMY.
Stuffing and Mounting Animals and
Birds Is Complicated.

The process of stuffing and mounting
birds and animals, called taxidermy, is
a more complicated one than the aver
age laymen SuppoSes. Some seem 20
have The impression that it is simply
necessary to remove the '1nS1deS" or the
corpseS and then fill UP the hole with
some soft material that will fill out the
skin. The result from such perform
ance would be interesting, but it would
bear mighty little resemblance to the
original animal
The processes used in stuffing and
mounting a bird and a mammal differ
somewhat and each taxidermist has his
individual method of working. Some
taxidermists prefer to work on mann
mails, Others prefer birds. And there is
even difference in birds. some taxider-
mists having particular skill in mount
ing the small birds, while others prefer
the large, heavy specimens As to which
is the hardest to mount. that depends
on the individual workman largely.
There are some things about the small
bird that make it a more difficult sub
iect while on the other hand there are
features of work on the larger birds
that make them particularly difficult to
handle.
The first thing to do with a bird to
be mounted is. of course, to remove the
skin; or rather one might say, to re-
move the meat or flesh from inside the
skin as il is the skin that is the part
thoroughly as every particle of flesh
must be taken out before anything fur
Their is done. The leaving of any flesh
in the finished specimen would ruin the
entire work. The removal of the flesh
from the body proper is a compara-
lively simple matter, the more difficult
work being done when one comes to the
legs. neck and wings. Usually almost
all of this IS done from the one cut in
the skin at the under side of the bird,
turning the skin back like a stocking
over the legs and the neck so as to
reach the flesh of these parts ThS
wings are always rather bothersome.
and it is necessary to make another
small cut under them on the outside.
Once the flesh is all removed-in the
case of some birds where there is much
fat, such as ducks, it is necessary to be
careful and get off from the skin every
veStige of the grease-then the skin is
prepared by rubbing into it a mixture
of dry alum and arsenic. The alum is to
help dry out the skin, while the arsenic
poisons it and so keeps it free from all
vermin, which would otherwise soon
spoil the finished specimen. To one
ignorant of the science there could be
nothing much more hopeless than the
limp skin of a INDEPENDENTLY a large
bird. Yet it is the whole thing, and the
body must all be supplied by the skill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
IT is EARNING MONEY.
Rock Islands New Purchase and It's
Advantages.

In connection with the requirement of
control of the Evansville & Terre Haute
road by the Frisco it is explained that
the Frisco was DESTROYS of acquiring the
property at the time it secured the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois. but could not
agree upon terms. The Evansville &
Terre Haute is practically an extension
of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, con-
Meeting it with the Louisville & Nash
Vile, distance of 100 miles. The total
mileage of the road is about 307 miles.
but of this mileage only the main line
OF 100 miles is productive of large earn
ings.
For the year ended June 30 the earn
ings of the Evansville road amounted to
per cent for the 10000 shares of COM
mon stock after paying 5 per cent en-
the $1,2S2O00 of preferred.
Acting as a buffer between the Frisco
and the Louisville & Nashville the COM
pany has been able to maintain an in
has succeeded in paying off all floating
debt, has added LOO new freight cars
and five locomotives to its equipment
and has brought its roadbed up to the
standard of its neighbors so that it's
acquisition by the Frisco will require
no extraordinary expenditures. The price
paid by the Frisco for control is under
stood to have been $3.50 a share, which
is considered a very favorable one for
the purchasers.
BY the purchase of the line the ST.
Louis & San Francisco gains access to
the best freight producing territory of
the south, and it is naturally the south
ern extension of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois, the western branch forming the
direct line with the best branch of the
Eastern Illinois from Chicago to Evans
Vile via Terre Haute. The eastern
branch connects with the western
branch of the Chicago & Eastern Hi
nois at Brazil and meets the Louisville
& Nashville at Evansville. The import
ance of the purchase lies in the fact
that it puts the Eastern Illinois owned
by the st. Louis & San Francisco, in a
position to receive Chicago's traffic from
the Louisville & Nashville and the Hill
nois Central at Evansville and Mount
Vernon, and it puts the St. Louis & San
Francisco at once in position to obtain
fair exchange of tonnage south bound
from Chicago to southern points and
fair percentage of the northbound ton
mage of the Louisville & Nashville, an
air line from Birmingham to Chicago.
This line will at once become a strong
competitor for the southern business
with the MonOn from Chicago and the
northwest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
RAILROAD NEWS.
Enterprising Negro Runs a Big
Kansas City Excursion.
Hauled a Thousand People from
Shreveport, La.
MADE $1,000 PROFIT.
Sold Tickets TO Both Negroes
and Whites.
Most Expensive Special Ever
Run to Kansas City.

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 1O.-William
Harper, an aged negro, has brought one
of the largest excursions into Kansas
City that ever came here, and he
brought it on his own train Harper is
over so years of age, and was at one
time member of the Louisiana state
legislature. Several years ago he con-
ceived the idea of running an excursion
from his home in Shreveport. La. to
Kansas City, and asked for an estimate
on the train. The price staggered him,
and he gave uD the project for the time,
but this year he again asked and when
told the price was the same he clinched
the bargain and paid over s2.340 to the
Kansas City Southern passenger de-
partment for a train of eleven coaches
and one baggage car.
The trip is $50 miles each way. 1t is
a long one under the best circum-
stances. but Harper is shrewd and he
so handled his excursion that he will
clear more than 81 900 on the deal The
road refused to handle the train on the
usual excursion basis, a percentage deal
with a guarantee, and Harper char
tered the train outright, paying cash
when he ordered his cars and then get
ting out and selling his own tickets. He
had cardboard tickets printed and sold
them himself. soliciting among the ne
groes and whites. Two cars were set
aside for the white people, and Harper
charged them 30 cents more than the
negroes. He also checked baggage for
those who brought any, making a
charge of so cents to whites and %
cents to negroes for this service. The
checks were nothing but pieces of card
board on which two numbers were
written. Harper would take one Of
these, tear II In two pieces. tack one on
the trunk and give the other to the
owner.
When it was noised about in Shreve-
port that a negro was to handle the
excursion train some other negroes
started the story that there was an
account of the flood. that people were
dying by thousands and that the city
was quarantined. The story gained cir
culation among the credulOus negroes,
but in spite of this Harper worked hard
and sold more than 1000 tickets for his
train.
The road had absolutely nothing to do
with the train outside of running it, as
Harper collected his own tickets. set
charges. The special left Monday
morning at 10 o'clock from the Kansas
City Southern depot.
1t was stated yesterday by a railroad
man that the chartered train was the
highest price special ever run into this
city. That of Henry (. Lowe which
sped through here Wednesday night
cost $1,000. but it went through without
stop and is not counted as a Kansas
city special. At the Kansas City South
ern office yesterday it was given out
that Harper had already chartered an
Other train for next year and will re-
peat this years trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
LAYING HEAVY STEEL
Missouri Pacific Replacing rs Pound
Rails With IS Pounds.

Ottawa, Kas., Aug. 1O-The Missouri
Pacific road has this week removed the
rails inside the city limits and placed
the new heavy S5-pound rails in their
place. For a mile west of town the old
75-pound rails have been taken up and
the S5-pounders put down. The Is
will be taken uD and used on Bucyrus
hill, between PaOla and Kansas City
The Pacific now has an S5-pound track
between here and Osawatomie From
Osawatomie to Kansas City it has a
75-pound track. From mile west of
town extending to Council Grove are
15-pounders. From there on west are
the 62-pounders. The old rails removed
from the track along First street were
laid when the road first came through
in 1887
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
COLLECTION OF WRECKS.
Santa Fe Had Bad Luck With It's
Saturday Trains

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad had two wrecks Saturday aft
ernoon aside from a runaway engine
collision in Argentine yards at Kansas
city. The first occurred at Craig, KAN
station on the Emporia cutoff, thirty
miles from Kansas City. A train load
ed collided head-on with work train.
Five cars on the work train were wreck
ed The track was not cleared for four
hours. Ed Webb. engineer on the work
train, received slight bruises.
Shortly after o'clock the suburban
train operating between Kansas CITY
and Argentine was backing on a switch
track. The air brake failed to work
and the train collided with a switch
train The steps of the rear car were
crushed in the collision. No one was in
jured.
The Santa Fe Colorado train was de-
layed four hours in reaching Kansas
city and the night trains were thirty
minutes late in clearing the union depot
because of the various wrecks.
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EARNED BIG WAGES.
Engineer of Lowe Special Paid $500
for Minutes Saved.

Los Angeles, Cal. Aug. 1o.-Engineer
Warboy, who was in charge of the en-
CINE that drew the Lowe special into
Los Angeles received $3.50 for the skill
he displayed. When Warboy took the
train at San Bernardino Mr. Lowe, in
his anxiety to complete his wonderful
journey, offered $50 for every minute
gained by the engineer over the sche-
dule. The run from San Bernardino to
Los Angeles is sixty miles, and Warboy
covered the distance in sixty=Iwo min
utes. nine minutes ahead OF the sehe-
dule. A great part Of the run was at
the rate of mile for every fifty sec
ondS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
MAKES ANOTHER RAISE.
Stilwell Has Secured l 1-2 Millions
of French CaDitaI

Kansas City, Mo. Aug. 1O.-A E. Still
well, president of the Kansas City, Mex
leo & Orient railway has cabled the off,
Gals of the road in this city that French
capitalists have agreed to subscribe 1@
million dollars for the development of
the road and its kindred interests The
cablegram was from London, where Mr.
Stilwell is al present. Though it did not
state who the persons were that are
about to become interested in Mr. Still
wells enterprise, yet the news was graf
flying to the officers of the road in Kan
sas City
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10

Of Bridgeport, Tex, secretary of the
association. From Dalhart the party
ausDices of the c. r. L & P. railway
company. Joe Myers. general pas
senger agent of the above company
escorts the party. A Pullman sleeper
and cafe car has been placed for the
party's accommodation by the above
company. The general expression of
the party is one of amazement at the
rapid growth of Dalhart and northwest
Texas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
SENDING IN PROTESTS.
People on Salina Branch Want Train
Service Continued.

Abilene, KAN, Aug. 10-The announce
ment that the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific railway will take all passenger
trains off the Salina branch. running
only one mixed train. after August II,
has caused much protest. All the towns
on the line will forward resolutions of
protest to the general offices next week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
FRENoHmEN ARE HERE
Studying American Railroad Con
struction on Pennsylvania Lines.

A party of French railroad engineers
now inspecting the Pennsylvania lines
are expected to reach Chicago the next
few days in the prosecution of the OBJ
ject of their visit to this country. This
is TO examine the American methods of
railroad building and inquire into the
possibility of adapting some of the
methods to their own work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10

of the operator. For this purpose a
form is made resembling as closely as
possible the interior of the bird. As all
birds vary much in size, even those of
the same variety. it will be seen that
this is not an absolutely simple matter.
Measurements are taken before the bird
is skinned. but even with this help the
taxidermist must have almost another
sense that will enable him to make the
form of the proper shape and size, with
slight depressions in the surface for the
legs and wings.-Springfield Homestead.
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BUSINESS INCREASING.
Fl. Scott Topeka Train Stimulates
Trade and Travel.

Fort Scott, Kan. Aug. 10-Since the adj
vent of the new train between here and
Topeka over the Missouri Pacific there
has been a steady Increase in that roads
business between here and that point. This
is by far the shortest route to the capitol
Citv and those that have business there
are not slow to take advantage of the i'm
movement The company also finds it
tons with the main line for the Colorado
and the western excursionists of which
they are now hauling a large number.
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Sale Will Be Made.

1t is declared by officials of the Rock
Island and Southern Pacific that there
is to be no abandonment of the plan
for the sale to the former of half in
terest in lines of the latter in Texas.
Contracts have been entered into for
the transfer and all that is necessary to
close the deal except the actual pay
ment of the money has been done.
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Demand for Steel Rails.

The United States Steel corporation
and the chief independent producers of
steel rails have booked for 1904 deliv-
cry orders calling for nearly 100000
tons Of steel rails. This is over one
third of the total capacity of the steel
rail mills. including the new Lacl<a-
wanna iron and steel plant at Buffalo,