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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
BRIGHAM BUSY.
Determined to Make Midwinter Expo
sition Better Than Ever.

Correspondence preparatory to the
holding of the Kansas Nidwinter expo
sition in the Auditorium next January
has been under way for several weeks
now and Manager r. S. Brigham is
shaping his plans for the coming show.
In its general plan the coming eXposi-
ton will be carried out much after the
fashion of those of preceding years.
be so different as to furnish novelty for
the visitors. This will be particularly
true N respect of the amusement fea
lures which Mr.. Brigham proposes to
put on but for which he is not vet
ready to announce his programme.
The exposition management is in pos
session of considerable money left over
from The exposition of a year ago. and
this will be devoted unsoaringly to
building up another good show A very
desirable arrangement of allotment of
booth spaces was gotten up last year
and will be pursued this year. Consid-
cradle revenue will be realized from the
DISPOSAL of this space. all of which will
be spent upon decorations and attrac-
tons. The Midwfnter exposition is a
self-supporting although not money
making scheme. Two weeks before the
opening of the doors for the exposition
opened in Topeka and outside of town
In the past the advance sales have
been very large. as a considerable re-
duction is made for advance pur-
I
price will be 10 cents. while after the
opening of the exposition the aduais-
sion will be advanced to Is, as in years
past.
President Davis of the exposition COM
pany, has named the chiefs of divisions
and commissioners. The. entire staff OF
officers for the exposition is TO be as fol-
lows:
President, w. H. Davis; vice president
John E Frost; treasurer, William Green;
secretary and general manager r S
Brigham.
Directors: W. H. Davis, president
Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile company;
John E. Frost, Santa F'e lands; c. P
Adams, Adams Bros, printers and pub
fishers; Otto kuehne, president Topeka
Vinegar and Preserving works; William
Green, William Green & Sons. grocers:
T. ]. Anderson, secretary Commercial
club of Topeka; D. J. Greenwald. cloth
ing; NJ. c. Holman, president Western
Wooden Mills company; K. S. Brigham,
street car advertising.
Chiefs of divisions: G. P Grimsley,
minerals and mineral products; J. J.
O'Rourk, dairy and packing house PROD
ucts: William Connors. manufactures
and arts: William H. Barnes, fruits and
fruit products; E. B. Cowgirl, cereals
and cereal products; William Macfelran,
floral.
Commissioners: John Z. Frost. trans
portation; Albert T. Reid, press: Albert
NJ. Patten, illumination: John 3. Mar
shall, music; w. ". Gillespie, dacora-
ton; F. NJ. Bonebrake, conventions; w.
F. Weber entertainment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
RAILROAD NEWS.
Negro Arrested at Gallup, n. NJ,
for Robbing Santa Fe.
Broke Open Freight Car and
Rified 20 Boxes.
WANTED IN KANSAS.
IN KANSAS.
He Is Fugitive from the State
RefOrmatOry.
Shot by New Mexico Marshal
While Trying to Escape.

Las Vegas, n. M. Oct. 29--A COM
munication from Gallup gives additional
information about the negro who broke
into a sealed Santa Fe car at Grants,
resisted arrest near Gallup, and was
shot and taken by Marshal Winders OF
the latter place.
It appears that at least twenty boxes
in the car had been broken into and
rifed, the negro appropriating to his
own use a pair of shoes and a StetsoIt
hat These articles aided in his identi
fication.
Marshal Winders had no trouble I'm
finding his man. about a mile out of
Gallup, and started for town with him
marched in front. Suddenly the man
turned on the marshal and attempted
to disarm him; but the officer was too
quick for him and shot the prisoner in
the thigh, inflicting a flesh wound.
The negros name is j. Smith, and he
is wanted by the officers of the REFORM
atory at Hutchinson. Kan, on another
charge. Smith will be given trial al
Gallup on the charge of robbery and
resisting an officer in the performance
of his duty, after which he will be turn
ed over to the Kansas authorities. The
officers at Hutchinson have been notified
of the whereabouts of the man. The
hobos will probably be detained as Wit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
HORTON COUPLE IN TROUBLE
Santa Fe Engineer and Another Mans
Wife Under Arrest.

Argentine Kan, Oct. 29-J. B. Bell
a Santa Fe locomotive engineer, and
woman alleged to. be Mrs. Media Dali
son, wife of a Rock Island fireman of
Horton, Kan, were arrested here yes
terday by Constable r. C. Bowman,
and turned over to o. II. Barlow, con-
stable at Horton, who took the couple
back to that place, on warrants issued
at the instance of Mrs. Dalson's hus-
band. According to the officers state
ment, they left Horton together last
March and since that time the officers
have been searching for the couple all
over two states.
out a romantic element. Before he dis
appeared Bell was a locomotive eng1-
neer on the Rock Island running out
of Horton. Some time last winter, it is
said, he met Dalson on one Of his
runs and took liking to him. Dalsen
at that time was out of employment
and Bell secured him a job as fireman
on the Rock Island. Dalson went to
Horton to live and finally brought his
pretty. young wife of 10 years, and his
2-year-old daughter to that place. Bell
naturally became acquainted with Dali
sons wife and the trouble Logan.
Early last March Mrs. Dalson, with
her little daughter and J. b. Bell, DIS
appeared simultaneously and the young
woman's husband began at once TO
hunt for them. Finally he made formal
IcornDlaints before Justice P. E. Sellars,
of Horton and warrants were issued
for the arrest of Bell and Mrs. Dalson.
At ore time, it is said, they We're To-
Gated in a little town in Missouri and
the warrants were sent there for their
arrest They arrived, however, day
after the couple had left.
Bell went to Argentine August 70, nav
ing secured employment as Locomotive
engineer on the Santa E'6 a few Gays pc,
fore. He secured board and room N a.' WeSt
Mt
in that city. He often spoke TO ms iaI ~
lady of his wife and their child IN 81
Louis, and showed letters that ne CANNED
Masonic watch charms conducted nlInselI
in a gentlemanly way and LETT 1aNora-
BILE impression with everybody: Last SaS-
urday he told his landlady he mad just re-
eeiyed a telegram from his wife in St
Louis saying that she was Ill and ASKING
him to come to her He said that he Would
to Argentine. Sunday night his landlady
says he arrived and introduced modest
little woman to her and the boarders as
his wife He also seemed very proud OF
a beautiful little girl about 3 years old
whom the woman brought with her
Shortly after the couple returned 10 Ar
gentine the authorities of that city re-
ceived a telegram from the snerln at Hor-
the lookout for a man. and woman VINO
had run away together Constable X. Z;
Bowman went to work on the case ana
soon found@the persons he believed were
wanted at Horton When arrested Sem
denied having run away with Daison s
wife.
not agree and that he gave her enough
money to take aleFf bac4Nsl 70 st. Louis,
where he SAYS she went to live with her
relatives. He still maintained that the Wo-
man with whom he was living is his wife.
Constable Barlow, however, identified the
woman as Mrs. Daison
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FIGHTING FOR sEABoARD.
Southern Syndicate Said to Be Trying
to Get Control.

Baltimore Nd. Oct. "a syndicate
is being formed by financiers of Balti-
more, Richmond and other southern
cities to cooperate with the banking
houses of John l. Williams & Sons and
j. William Middendorf & Co., in con-
tlnuing in southern hands the control
of the Seaboard Air Line system John
Shelton Williams. president of the Sea-
board, stlll says that the two firms and
their associates control the Seaboard
1t is reported in financial circles here
that a proposition has been received to
purchase in a block all of the aboard
stock held by the two firms. If so, it
IS the impression that the. offer came
from either the Rock Island-F'risco in
terests, which recently acquired a large
lot of Seaboard stock and are anxious
to secure control of the property. or
from the Gould interests.
Robert G. Davidson, chairman of the
committee in charge of the affairs of
the two banking houses, when asked if
an offer had been mNEle, said he could
not say anything about it. Tt is be-
lIeved here that if the Rock Island or
Gould interests or other northern or
western people secure a dominating
power, Baltimore and the south will
lose it's identity with the property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
TO HAVE GRAND JURY.
To Investigate Boodling in
Kansas City, Kansas.

Kansas City. Kan. Oct 29.-Judge z.
L. Fischer of the district court this
morning signed the call for grand
jury to be convened for the December
term of the district court. beginning
December 7. The grand jury is called
for the purpose of investigation the nu-
merous charges of boodling, grating
and other open violations of law.
The petition. signed by 576 resident
tax payers of Wyandotte county, was
presented to Judge Fischer last Satur-
day morning. He has examined the
petition which fills the requirements
of the law, only the signatures or
four hundred tax payers were required.
The grand jury will be drawn from
the jury box by County Clerk Frank
Holcomb in the presence of Sheriff II.
A Mendenhan and two justices or the
peace thirty days before the beginning
of the December term of the district
court. The grand jury will be COM
posed of fifteen men. twelve of whom
may return an Indictment.
This is the first grand jury called Ill
Wyandotte county for many years.
There are now the names of about l. 70u
tax payers in the jury box from which
to draw the fifteen names. Under the
law it is the duty of the county attorney
to attend the sittings of the grand jury,
draw up and sign indictments voted 10
be returned by the jury.
The committee which has had charge
of the preliminaries to secure the calling
of the Jury have been making q fight
on County Attorney James Gibson anG
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
VENEER CASE URGED.
Judge Grosscup Hearing Case
Against the Rock Island.

Chicago. Oct. 29.-For two hours yes
terday arguments were presented to
Judge Grosscup on the question whether
the federal or the state court has iuris-
diction over the suit filed some months
ago by Clarence H Venner of Boston,
against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific Railway company and other de-
PENDANTS.
The hearing was not concluded and
the judge said he would fix a time for
closing the arguments. The case was
filed originally in the state court and
was removed to the federal tribunal on
motion of Attorneys J. J. Herrick and
John S. Miller Yesterday Attorney H.
Lewis quoted a number of authorities
to sustain his contention that the case
should be remanded to the state court.
William T. Rankin of Iowa was the
only. stockholder of the company pres
ent.
In the suit Mr.. Venper. the holder of
100 shares of stock, seeks to have the
court declare illegal the agreement by
which another corporation was formed
in Iowa to take over the stock of the
original Rock Island corporation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
GOULD ROADS COMBINE.
East of st. Louis All Will Be oper-
ated as the Wabash.

Chicago. Oct. Heterogeneous are
said to have been COMPLETED for the
consolidation of the Wabash, Wheeling
& Lake Erie and Ann Arbor railroads.
They are to be operated as one road
under the name of the Wabash rail-
road company. The Gould interests,
which control these roads. are said to
have been at work ever since the TAX
ing over of the Ann Arbor and Wheel
ing roads on plans to unite the lines
The three roads include all of the pres
ent Gould lines east of St Louis and
Chicago. with the exception of the
Western Maryland. which is as vet
without a connection with the lines east
of Pittsburg.
A deal is said to be pending by which
the Goulds expect to get another line
that will give them a connecting link
between the terminus of the Pittsburg
division and the Western Maryland 1t
is probable that the West Virginia Cen
trail will be acquired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

diseases, poor digestion, when obliged to
pass your water frequently night and
day, smarting or irritation in aasslnga
brick-dust or sediment in the urin@S
headache, backache. lame back. dizzii
ness, sleeple5sness, nervousness. hears
disturbance due to bad kidney troubles
skin eruptions from bad blood. neuralgia
rheumatism, diabetes. bloRtinR. irEftaj
bility, WORKOUT feeling, lack of ambi -ions
lOss of flesh, sallow complexion. OF
Bright's disease
If your water. when allowed TO res
main undisturbed in a glass OF bOttie
for twenty flour hours, forms sediments
or settling or has cloudy appearance
it is evidence that your kidneys and
bladder need immediate attention.
Swamp Root is the great discovery oe
DIR. Kil1ner. the eminent kidney and
bladder specialist Hospitals use it with
wonderful success in both slight and SEE
we're cases. Doctors recommend it ia
their patients and use ii in their own
families, because they recognize in
Swamp Root the greatest and most suci
cessful remedy.
Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and
is for sale the world over at druggists
in bottles of two sizes and two prices
fifty cents and one dollar. Remen1..ep
the name, SwampRoot, Dr. Kilmer'S
Swamp-Root, and the address. Bing~
hamton, N Y. on every bottle.
. the slightest symptoms of kidney o4
of it in your faxnily history, send II
N. Y, who will gladly send you b%
a sample bottle of Swamp-Root and q
upon thousands of testimonial letters
In writing, be sure to say that you Rad
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

master Starkweatner@who did nothing
except look after the. train. Some fast
time was made and this was made pos
sible by the excellent shape in when the
track and road bed is kept. Yesterday
the train made the distance from Ard
more to Oklahoma City. 1O2 miles, in
10S minutes. This was running time
homa City to Guthrie. a distance of 50
miles, the running time was 81 minutes
This is pretty fast. Engineer r. n
Myers pulled the train and Conductor
Griffin was in charge of it.
At Winfield last night the engine died
and freight engine was used from
Winfield to Newton.
The above speaks well for the Okla
homa division, the largest on the sys-
tenn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
To Prove what Swamp-Root the Great Kidney Remedy
Will Do for YOU Every Reader of The State Journal
May Have Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail

suffering other OF
ard
eaus do mo and need ttentio first
organs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
She Got Fer Child Back.

Atchison, Kan, Oct 2s.-Dora. Donald,
the 4-year-old daughter of James Don
aid of the dry goods firm of Donald
Bros, who was adopted two years ago
by Charles Bennett of Adrian, Mich,
was brought back to Atchison by Mrs
Donald today. Bennett. who had legally
adopted the child, refused TO asEe it up.
but a flaw was discovered in tbs adsr-
ton papers and the child was released.
Donald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
-Four Big Men Chosen.

Cincinnati. Oct 2s-At the annual
meeting of the stockholders or the
Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago & st.
Louis railroad today the following d.
rectors were reelected for three years:
w. K. Vanderbilt. Chauncey NJ. De-
pew. J. Pierpont Morgan and Melville
E. Ingalls,
At the directors meeting in New York
the old officers will be reelected. Reso-
lutions were adopted guaranteeing three
million dollars of bonds of the Chicago,
Indianapolis & st. Louis short line and
two million dollars of bonds of the Cen
trail Indiana railway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
CUT OFF FIVE MINUTES.
Wabash Broke the St Louis-Kansas
CITY Speed Record.

Wabash train No. 9. fast mail between
ST. Louis and Kansas City, made a record
breaking run from St Louis to Kansas
City Sunday afternoon.
The scheduled time for starting is 2:20
D. m. and the regular time for the run is
seven hours and ten minutes No 8
started one hour late. lost twenty minutes
on the way and pulled into Kansas City
on time. making the run in five hours and
fifty minutes, five minutes faster than any
previous record.
There was full equipment of a mail
car combination car. chair car and diner.
At many places along the route the train
showed a speed of seventy miles to the
hour and between Mexico and Montgom-
cry City a mile a minute was reeled Off
The distance is twenty-four miles and il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Freight Rate War.

New York. Oct. pa rate war be
tween freight lines plying between New
York, Atlantic coast and Mississippi
points. which was settled some time
ago has been renewed, and the Rrst
class rate already has been cut five
cents on the hundredweisht. The reg
ular rate. first class, to Missouri river
points from this section is SLAP per 100
pounds. the reduction therefore brings
the rate down to $1.37, and applies to all
kinds of merchandise The trouble
arose over a special rate between this
city and Shreveport. La.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

The San -Bernardino Sun says: The
largest night force that has done time in
year at the local Santa Fe shops was on
duty the early part OF Friday night. Be
sides the regular night force. about 120
men were worked overtime. 1T was just
like old times, remarked a Santa Fe man
yesterday, recalling the time before the
new shops were built, when the company
was obliged to work heavy night shifts in
order to keep abreast of the work. Not
since the new shops were completed have
we had so many men duty at night
The men held were in the locomotive de-
partment and spent the time working
the dead engines. among which are the
Vanderbilt engines, which are being
fitted with larger boilers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

one shoulder was disIocated and his left
leg was broken. Winiwick died in the
police ambulance as it was crossing the
James street bridge on its way to ST.
Margarets hospital The body was
taken to Daniels & Comforts undertake
ing rooms. No arrangements have been
made for the funeral.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
"COLnS."

Railways Ready Relief cures and pre-
vents colds. coughs, sore threat. influenza,
bronchitis, pneumonia, swelling of the
joints. lumbago. inhamma tons. rheuma-
tisn. neuralgia, Iheada che. toothache. astfl-
ma. difficult breathing Railways Ready
Relief is a sur- cure for every pain. sprain.
bruise. pains in the back. chsst or limbs.
1t was the first and only pein remedy tha-
instantly stops the most excruciat ting
pains. allays Inflammation and cures can
gestions whether Of the lungs. stomach.
bowels or other glands or organs by one
apDlica fio0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
New Filter at Wellington.

Wellington. Kas, Oct. 29-The large
amount of aIkan and other substances
in the water that hinder the making of
steam and aid the corrosion of the
boilers on the locomotives, have caused
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railway to build a large filter at this
place. Several carloads of machinery
lumber is here. Work is expected to
commence within a few days, as soon
as the lateral all arrives
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
SANTA FE ENGINEERS DEMAND
Coast Line Brotherhood Said to Want
Increase in Paw,

Los Angeles, Oct 29-The Express
says: Advices from San Bernardino are
to the effect that Brotherhood engineers
employed or Coast lines of the Santa
Fe system have presented to General
Manager Wells a request for an in
crease of pay schedules. and have made
other demands the purport of which is
not known. 1t is said also that similar
demands Will be presented by conduct
ers and switehmen. General Manager
Wells is absent in the east. His as
sistant. John Hitchcock. says the story
has no foundation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
Cause of Lockiaw.

Loekjaw. or tetanus, is caused by
bacillus or germ which exists plentifulIy
in street dirt. 1t is inactive so long as
exposed, to the air, but when carried be
meath the skin, as in wounds caused by
when the afr is excluded, the germ is
reused to activity and produces the most
be destroyed and all danger of 1ockjaw
avoided by applying Chamberlain's Pain
Balm freely as soon as the injury is re-
ceived. Pain Balm is an antiseptic and
causes cuts, bruises and like injuries %
heal without maturation and in one-thsrd
the time required by the usual treatment,
For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29

have applied to Governor Bailey IN ali
endeavor to induce him to request the
attorney general of the state to take
charge of the investigation The COM
mittee says that it wants to investigate
the county attorneys office, and cannot
do so with that officer in charge or the
grand Jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
INSPECTING GULF LINES.
President Ripley and His staff Max
ing Southern Trip.

E. P. Ripley. president of the Atchi-
son; Paul Morton, second vice presi-
dent; j. w. Kendrick, third vice presi-
dent and John Dun, chief engineer: L.
j. Polk. vice president: W. c. Nixon,
general manager. and c. F. w. FeIto,
chief engineer of the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe. are making a tour of in
spection of the Texas lines
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in s. per cent as much work as he did five
years ago. The only explanation | can
give is that the old laborers are getting
into shops or on farms for themselves and
the new class of labor isn't as good. It is
also more independent. One day a con-
tractor viii have all the men he wants.
and the next day he may not have any.
1t seems that the laborers now simply
want to sample grub at a contractor )
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LANTRY DISCUSSES LABOR.
Says Quality Has Deteriorated and
Price Has Advanced.

Charles J. Lantry, the big railroad con-
tractor of Strong City. is in the city on
business. He said today in speaking of
labor conditions:
Common labor is deteriorating. I pre-
sumo am as large an employer of com
mon labor as any concern in the west. and
therefore can speak with some authority
During the past four or five years wages
of common labor has advanced about p
per cent. while the labor itself has de-
Perforated about 50 per cent. In other
words laboring han-now doesn't do with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-29
CONSOLIDATE OFFICES.
Rock Island Will Have Only One
Office in Each City.

Traffic officials of the various lines
making up the Rock Island system will
hold a meeting in Chicago Friday to
arrange for general consolidation of
the agencies of the Rock Island, the
Frisco. Choctaw and Eastern Illinois
railroads. 1t is said that in the near
future there will be but one office in
each of the large cities.