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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-13
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Tho Usage City Commercial club have
completed arrangements with the
Parker Amusement company of Abb
lene to give street fair here October
y to 81 inclusive. The committee in
charge of the affairs hope to have one
of the biggest fairs given in the state
this year. The people are preparing
to entertain the largest crowds in the
history of the city and glorious time
is expected.
Ben Heilbrun left here Sunday for the
oil and gas fields of southern Kansas
on behalf of the Usage City Oil and
Development company Mr. Heilbrun
VIII secure d company to do the boring
for oil and gas for the company here
AS soon as he can complete a contract
work will begin here with best hopes
of good results
The basket ball teams of both the
nigh school and the Athletic association
nave been in practice for some weeks
and both will have excellent teams
Ihey Will meet in series of games
during street fair week to decide the
city and county championship
Mayor T. NJ. Zane has called a mass
meeting of the citizens in and around
this city for Wednesday night of this
week to consider the question of pur-
chasing a rock crusher and roller for
the purpose of macadamizing the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-13
COLLEGE FOR THE oUAKERs.
Have Raised Necessary Fund and
Now Hold Friends University.

Wichita Kas Oct. 13.-Kansas
Quakers now hold Friends university,
the only Quaker college in the state. as
their own, subject only to certain con-
ditions in the trust deed, chief of
which is that neither the college build
ing, the fifteen acres of campus, nor
the dormitories. shall be alienated in
any way. either by deed or by mort
gage.
With the college ground go 6S2 build
ing lots in the city, valued at $50 900.
The final turning over of the property
to the church was announced when it
was stated that the $4,000 endowment
fund had been raised. The entire prop
erty was bought five years ago by
James NJ. Davis, millionaire manufac-
turer of New York and st. Louis, who
announced that it would be turned
over to the church whenever it had
raised a $780, 900 endowment giving it
six years in which to do so. That mark
was passed at this meeting. so the deal
was contaminated on Education day.
There is not a dollar against the prop
erty. while the endowment now
amounts to S57. 6O4. "a and it is expect
ed that it will reach $4,000 before the
meeting ends Thursday
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IT WILL SHOCK WHEAT.
Mcpherson County Farmer Has La
Dor Saving Invention.

Salina, Kas.. Oct. 13.-Henry Johnson,
of Mcpherson county, has new in
vention that. attached to self binders.
will facilitate the harvesting of wheat
The attachment. he says, will carry the
bundles along and place them in the
shape of a shock without the aid of
the shockers farmers have heretofore
emDlC--ed.
1t will carry about a dozen bundles
The scarcity of harvest hands in Nc
Pherson county during the recent har-
vest gave birth to this invention of Mr.
Johnson's. which is calculated to take
the place of one or more men at
much less cost to the farmer. This in
vention will not materially affect the
price of binders, as it takes the place
OF the present bundle carrier, and the
cost of the manufacture and material
used will be about the same
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NEW STYLE OF TANK.
Important Discovery Made Relating
to Storage of Oil.

The Santa F'e Railroad company has
given orders for the construction, at sew
eral points along it's lines, of a new style
of oil tank that is expected to entirely
supersede the steel receptacles now in
use, says the San Bernardino Times In
dex.
Engineers have discovered that the
crude oil used in the engines contains
a considerable percentage of asphaltum,
and that, when allowed to stand on the
ground for short period, the oil Iene-
trates to a depth of six or eight inches
where the asphaltum hardens and forms
a crust through which the petroleum
cannot pass.
The plan is to dig circular pits to a
depth of six to eight feet and then bank
up around the edge to a height of u
feet, thus forming a tank 20 feet deep.
Once the oil has sunk into the surround
ing earth there can be no leakage. and
the oil from the surface of the tank can
easily be run into the engines by force
of gravity.
Careful investigation of the recent
burning of the steel tank at Williams
has convinced the railroad engineers
that there is always great danger of
the old style tanks being destroyed by
fire. In addition to this the cost of con-
struction is very heavy.
The largest of the new tanks Will be
constructed at Seligman and Flagstaff,
two tanks of $4,000 gallons each being
designed for each place. At Williams,
Winslow and Ash Fork will be placed
$4,000 gallon tanks. two at each of The
points named.
All of the new tanks will be rooted
over with lumber, covered with d coat
ing of gravel One hundred thousand
feet of lumber has been ordered for
the roofs.
Though the tanks viii not be entirely
fire proof, the loss will only be that of
the oil in case a confiagration does oc-
chr.
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EIGHT SPECIAL TRAINS.
Dowie's Followers Will Spend $4,000
on Railway Fares.

Chicago. Oct $50 far as the rail-
roads are concerned everything is IN
readiness for transporting John Alex
ander Dowie and his followers to New
York Wednesday. r. n. Austin, gen
eraI passenger agent ofsthe Baltimore
&. Ohio in Chicago and chairman of the
committee of railroad officials having
charge of the arran gementS for carry
ing the restorationists eastward. an
nounced yesterday that all the roads
Interested in the movement were pre-
pared to fun nish the necessary equip
ment on schedule time.
Owing to the fact that DOwie and
all his followers in this part of the
country are going to leave Chicago on
the same day. the various trains de-
parting within an hour of each other,
the executive officials of the railroads
are watching the plans and awaiting
the outcome with considerable interest.
The movement from Zion City to Chi
cago IS one of the largest of its kind in
the history of railroading, and the
traffic arrangements were completed
only after several weeks of close study
and planning on the part of the pas
senger officials. The transportation of
the Dowie host involves a cash pay
ment of about $4,000 to the railroads.
and nothing has been expended by the
latter in advertising, the Zion City
authorities attending to this them
selves
So perfect are the arrangements that
have been made that the Northwestern
officials intend handling this vast vol
unIe of foreign equipment from Zion
City to Chicago without interfering
with the regular traffic on that division
of the system. Each of the eastern
roads will be obliged to deliver one bag
gage car Monday. SO that the work of
loading may be completed before the
coaches and sleepers arrive.
The Northwestern will not bring any
of the eight trains into Chicago proper
but will run them from Evanston over
the Mayfair cutoff and the ST. Charles
air line Some of them will be deliv-
cred to the eastern roads direct. while
others will be turned over to the Belt
Line for delivery.
Dowie himself will travel over the
Nickel Plate road and his train will
consist of one private car, five sleeoers
and one baggage car. He will be fur
nished with hourly Geographic mas
sages informing him of the where
aDouts of each of the seven trains
carrying his followers.
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RAILROAD news.
Hartman Lines VIII Let Out
1000 Shopmen.
Follows the Lead of Vanderbilt
in the East.
ROADS TO ECONOMIC.
Nearly 1000 Men Discharged
by Lake Shore.
May Result in Similar Action
by Santa Fe.

Chicago, Oct. 1s.-The Tribune today
says:
The Southern Pacific railroad is to
follow the example of the New York
Central and curtaI expenses by laying
off employees. The Hartman line is
preparing, according to an authoritative
report Just received in Chicago, to re-
duce it's force by 1900 men immediate
ly. The chief cuts will be made in the
shops, but there will be economizing all
along the line.
Cleveland. Ohio, Oct 13-At the head
quarters of the Lake Shore road here
Monday it was stated that probably
not to exceed 400 men would be dis
missed by the company as a result of
the order sent out from New York Sat
urday to reduce the forge of help in all
shops on the Vanderbilt system Wher-
ever possible one hundreo ana nLty
of the 800 men employed in the Lake
Shore shops at Collinwood were dis
charged today and an equal number
will be dismissed at the Elkhart, Ind,
shops.
the force of shop men on the Wander
biIt system has caused the discharge or
about 500 employees at Buffalo and
Depew.
WHAT WILL SANTA FEE DO?
So far nothing has been hearo oy
Santa Fe officials here to indicate that
a cut is likely to be made in the work
ing force of that company in this part
of the country. The very heavy trafnc
in grain. live stock and other goods
may prevent any reductions In the
Santa Fe force for the present.
The sac. that the Santa F'e has sus-
pended all of its important construction
work and is to be run this year. ac-
cording to Third Vice President Ken
drick. on very economical basis. in
dicates clearly that the Santa Fe Off
Gals realize the Tightening condition of
the money markets, and are preparing
to undergo period of financial depres-
sion 1t is therefore not unlikely that
the management of the Santa Fe will
eventually follow the example of the
eastern lines and the great Hartman
system. and reduce the number of its
employees and the size of its payroll.
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KILLED BY A TRAIN.
Body of an Unknown Man Badly
Mangled Near Lebanon.

ond No 90, running east, reported Sun
day night at the station in Lebanon
that he had run over a man, four and
one-half miles west of town The train
was Ions freight and was goi * down
grade.
The engineer whistled. but could not
stop in time to save the man. Monday
a tramp reported finding the body.
searching party found the mangled
remains of a man, about 36 years old.
Seven trains had passed over the body
and it was torn to pieces.
In a pocket was found a time check
with Anthony Hollenberg written or it
1t had been issued by the Rock Island
road at Kensington. 25 miles west of
here. In a pocket was also found 81 06
a large seal ring with r. in the Sc,
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STONED THE LIMITED.
Attack Made on Santa Fe's Crack CAL
ifornia Train.

The San Bernardino Sun says: Pas
sengers on board No. 4, the eastbound
California limited had a narrow escape
from injury while passing through the
Rialto settlement last evening, travelling
at the rate of so miles an hour It was
not case of Threatening disaster in
the way of a train wreck but an as
sault upon the flyer by unknown par
ties. AS the train flew through the town
it was greeted by a shower of stones,
two of which took effect, narrowly miss
ing passengers on board One of the
stones larger than a hens egg passed
through a window. smashing the glass,
and lodged in the interior of the dining
car. Broken glass was thrown over
the table, while the missile came dan
gerously near the heads of the seated
passengers. The second rock passed
through the window of one of the
sleepers.
Upon arriving in this city the matter
was reported to the night chief dis
patcher. Higginson, who Immediately
sent word to Sheriff Ralphs. The sher-
if at once sent a deputy to Rialto to
arrest the offenders if they could be
found 1t is supposed that the rocks
were SHE'D either by hoodlums or by
persons having a vengeance against
the Santa Fe.
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the warning symptoms of disease, he is
carelesslv inviting calamity.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures diseases of the stomach and other
organs of digestion and nutrition It
enables the perfect digestion and assin1i-
lation of food, which makes strength.
1t stimulates the liver. cures biIiousness
and removes bilious impurities from the
blood
N had been troubled with pain in lower
part Of nay stomach for three years. severe 1
thought it would kill in time" writes Mr..
aaron Van Dam, of tKensingtoa) z54s IIsth St,
Chicago, III RI could hardly work; it felt like
big weight hsuging on me and got SO bad that
had to take medicine. used Stomach Bitters
for time, but II did good 50 wrote 10 DR..
r. V. Pierce for advice which he gave me i'm
medistely. followed his directions; used two
bottles Of his rnedicue and was cured / had a
torpid liver which was troubling me instead OF
cramps las I thought). DIR. Pierce told me
have pleasure in living now; have gained in
weight IS pounds since then"
DR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation. They do not beeet the pill
habit.
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ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

Eastbound Santa Fe passenger train
No. was eight hours late into Topeka
Monday. The train is due at 2:25 D. M
j. E. Harley. general superintendent
of the Santa Fe, has returned to To-
peka after a short business trip to Kan
sas City.
The r. r. Y. NJ. C. A. will organize
an orchestra next Saturday with L. c.
Lippencott of the Santa Fe general Of
fees as leader.
Santa Fe. returned home on No. this
morning after a weeks inspection trip
over the Pecos Valley lines.
Nat Black of the office of the gen.
eral passenger agent of the Santa Fe,
has returned to Topeka after an ex-
tended business trip to Kansas City,
Chicago, St. Louis and other points
Word was received today from Jack
Umpleby, formerly a Santa Fe fireman
running out of here to the effect that
he is now with the Northwestern rail-
road with headquarters at Cherokee, Ia.
d. NJ. Bowman, general western pas
senger agent for the Erie railroad, was
in Topeka recently on business for his
company. He was accompanied by Ar
thur Moore, travelling passenger agent
for the same road.
The officers of the local Railroad 2.
NJ. c. A. report 160 shopmen to have en-
rolled in the night school. This is con-
sidered to be good many in view OF
the fact that the school has only been
in operation a week.
A tin wedding was held in Oakland
last Saturday night for the purpose OF
celebrating the tenth anniversary OF
Elmer Starnes wedding. Mr. Starnes IS
employed in the Santa Fe ticket audit
ing department and it was his co-work-
ers in that Office who arranged the
wedding and swooped down upon him
at his home in Oakland on Saturday
night Those who were present report
an NxcepffnnalIV good time
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BEER CARS SOLD.
New Company Buys Up $500 Re-
frigerator Cars.

Milwaukee. Oct.13.-Negotiatio have
been completed whereby all the proper
ty of the Union Refrigerator and Tran
sit company of Kentucky has passed in
to the possession of a new corporation,
the controlling interest and all but a
minor amount of stock being owned by
Eugene Wuesthoff and Z. L. Philip of
this city. The actual property trans
ferred consists of $500 refrigerator cars
and the repair shops of the company. ri
is in the cars of the company that
great portion of the beer in the United
States is transported The controlling
interest in the corporation was formerly
owned by New York capitalists and Of
ficials of the Anheuser- Busch company.
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A BIG strawberry YIELD.
Were Very Large Profits from Small
Area.

Noticing that you wished to hear of
all the big crops raised in Jackson
county. 1 will send the Tribune a re-
port Of nv fruit and berry garden here
in Holton. This year my patch Of
strawberries was so by 10 feet: 1 sold
$50 worth, besides having all we wanted
to use for six weeks and giving to our
neighbors. [ also had raspberries and
blackberries in succession, all we need
ed Cor table use. until the first of Sep
TENDER These grew around the bor-
ders of the strawberry patch. Then
have about four square rods in sage.
from which / have gathered at least
$40 worth. My home here consists of
nine 25-foot lots on the balance of
which ] have raised garden truck
grapes. etc; have Is fine cherry trees
and 20 peach trees, which were we'll set
with fruit buds. but owing to the sea-
son gave US no fruit.-Holton Tribune
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PILLsBURY Is MISSING.
Santa Fe Official May Have Commit
ted Suicide.

San Francisco, Oct 13.-Preceded by
conditions that suggest he may have
committed suicide, Frank B. Pillsbury,
assistant general passenger agent of
the Yosemite line of the Santa Fe sys-
tenn, has been unaccountab1y missing
since last Friday noon.
About nine or ten months ago Pills
bury lost by death his wife and their
child Since then he has brooded much
over that misfortune and has at times
been morose in contrast to his old man.
ner He lived at the Russ house.
rooming there with Otto Zeus, assistant
ticket agent of the Santa Fe. Friday
noon Pillsbury and Zeus left the Santa
F'e office together and went to the Russ
house for luncheon. After leaving the
dining room Pillsbury went to his room
and donned his best clothes. That was
the last seen of him.
He left all his effects in the Russ
house, and at the Santa Fe office he
left two months undrawn salary and
no suggestion of any irregularities in
his business rela tons.
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SOUTHERN KANSAS RAINS.
Soil Now in Good Condition for Plant
ing Wheat.

wellington, Kan. Oct ia heavy rain
fell over this territory Sunday night and
Monday This was very much needed as
the ground was very dry and many far
before they would begin sowing wheat.
This rain will increase the acreage of
wheat for next year a great deal, as many
farmers will pillow all the ground they can
before it becomes dry again, and sow.
Medford, Pond Creek and Enid. Ok, re-
and still raining
Severe lightning at Kiowa and Alva
struck several buildings but did ser
ious damage. Medicine Lodge also reports
good rain there and extending some dis
lance west.
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4: Houston, November 10; San An-
tonic November Is. and Austin, Mo-
vember Il. to consider the proposition
to apply the proposed reduction of ex-
press rates to railroads and request the
latter to handle the express business
on their own account
Suit was filed in the district court to-
day on behalf of the state against A
railway companies operating lines in
Texas, and against Wells-Fargo & Co.,
the American, the Pacific and the
penalties aggregating $42S. 700 for
alleged violation of the antitrust law.
1t is ALLEGED in each case that the de-
PENDANT railway company entered into
an exclusive contract with the defend
ant express company for the conducg
of the express business on its line.
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TRIMMED coRNs ON STREET.
Stranger Took Of His Shoes and
0Pared EN-

A strange young man. dressed in a
we'll fitting suit, stylish shirt, hat,
etc, and appearing to be a man of
some position, walked along Wall street
yesterday going west, He had just
crossed the alley at the rear of the
Goodlander and gone a few feet toward
Judson street when he stepped out onto
the parking under one of the shade
trees and sat down. This was his first
movement to attract attention. With
out any hesitancy or embarrassment,
he proceeded to remove his shoes and
socks. This done, he reached for a
penknife and began trimming his corns.
While he was thus engaged many We
hicles and pedestrians passed. Every
one seemed shocked at the sight. but
the young man proceeded with his
work as Indifferent to the public gaze
as il he were walking along. The fact
that he resorted to this extremity and
that it took him a half hour or so to
complete the job indicated that his
crop of corns was a large one When
he had finished he got up and walked
back down town.-Fort Scott Tribune.
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OPPOSED BY MASSES.
Argentine National Convention En-
counters Violent Protests.

New York Oct 13.-A large demonstra-
ton against the convention has been
made, says Herald dispatch from Bue-
nos Ayres, Argentine. for the nomination
of candidates for president and vice pres
.dent. which will meet today. The con-
vention is composed of the notable men of
the republic and its opponents are of the
general public.
Mobs in the streets INDUCED in attacks
the official candidate. The protests will
continue while the convention is assem-
bled although it is possible that public
feeling may be Needed and the convention
abandoned The agitation is increasing
daily and there are indications of more
violent opposition against Quintana- In a
collision between the mobs and the police
several persons were injured.
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TWO SUITS FILED.
Claims for $4,000 Damages Brought
Against Santa Fe.

Joseph Vogt has filed suit in the
common pleas court in Kansas City,
Kas, against the Atchison, Topeka e
Santa Fe railroad, asking $4,000 dam
ages for personal injuries. He SAYS
that while in the employ of that road
in January. 1903, he was run down by
A switch engine in the Argentine yards
and had a rib broken and badly
bruised.
Percy A. Bateman filed suit in the
same court against the same railroad
asking $4,000 for injuries he received
in May, 1908. He says that while NOV
ing a burning can of oil from the
Santa F'e round-house in Argentine he
had his face and head severely burned
and 9iSfigured.
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a Bone Removed.

The daughter of Mr. Tretbar. near
lnman, swallowed the breast bone of
a duck. Now mind you, this was the
full-sized breast bone All efforts to
remove the same We're futile. and she
was brought to DIR. Halls hospital last
night and placed under the influence
OF an anesthetic and the bone removed
She is doing we'll. and has been taken
nome.-McPherson Republican.
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a Pelican for the schools.

Wellington, Kan, Oct. BE. G. Cor
wine of Mulvane, presented the Sumner
county high school with a large white
pelican that measured feet inches
between the tip of its wings. This is
very fine addition to the high schools
museum which excels the natural his
tory collections of any high school or
college in the state with the exception
of the State university.
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Five Generation Family.

Salina, Oct. ia son was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Boggs her Mon
day. The mother is II years old. the
grandmother. Mrs. Tibitha Po.Iay. ~.
the great grandmother. Mrs Louisa
Stonescyper, SO; and the great great
grandfather and mother. Mr.. AMI Mrs
John F. Upton. of Minneapolis. Kan
are 81 and "a years, respectively. which
makes five generations. the Oldest only
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WITH MANY ROADS.
L L. Hubbard, Who Has Left the
Santa Fe, Has q Record.

I. L. Hubbard. the new, superintend-
ent of the Southern California at San
Bernardino. Cal, was born at Wood
hull N. Y, in 1857. His first railroad
service was on the Erie railroad in
1876. and in 1880 he was made a clerk
in the New England office of that road
in Boston. F'rofn 1881 to 1888 he was on
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To Give Title to Rock leland.

Fort Worth, Tex. Oct. 13-R. S. Low
EFT, attorney for the Southern Pacific
in Texas, is in. New York city, it is
said. to transfer the Houston & Texas
Central and the Houston East & West
Texas properties to the Rock Island
control It is the opinion of railroad
officials that the undesirable attitude
of the Texas railway commission in the
transaction is the cause for The delay in
making the announcement of the trans
fer The matter may result in the rais-
road companies going into court and