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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
ABoUT RAILRoAp PEoPLE.

The stairs to the second floor of the new
machine shop are nearly finished.
William Burns of the spring shop was
absent from work Monday afternoon.
Santa F'e train No. > from California was
reported two hours late Monday after
noon.
Max Weber Of the boiler shop was alb
sent from work Monday on account of
sickness.
Elmer sorenson. Of the machine shop was
forced TO lay off from work Monday after
noon on account of sickness.
w J. Black. general passenger agent OF
the Santa Fe, returned Sunday from
short business trip to Chicago.
Work on the tool room on the east side
of the new shops was commenced Monday.
A machine shop foreman's office will also
be built
Joseph Mason of the spring shop is the
proud father of a nine. pound baby boy,
born Sunday night The boys have not
Yet seen anything of the cigars
Engine No. 1853 which has been in the
south shop for the last two weeks for
pair of new cylinders, went out her
trial trip Monday afternoon
William Glenn, foreman of the tank
truck department, returned to the shops
Monday, after being absent from work for
the last week on account of sickness
H. McCreary, travelling auditor of the
Santa Fe news service, was in Topeka for
a few hours Monday. He came in on No
5 and left for Newton, his next stop, on
No. 1.
The contract for the new interloeking
plant. which is to be the largest in the
WOTlQ ana W01C0 Is TO De situated at L mon
station in St Louis, has not yet been
| awarded.
]. H. Mullen is new machinist in the
Missouri Pacific shops in Kansas City and
started to work in the south shop Monday
morning.
w. o. Nevill chief clerk to H. S. Ca
BILE. general superintendent of the Rock
Island. is in Colorado Springs for few
days He viii probably return TO Topeka
on Wednesday.
yxrfl1fov, ETro,7I~ T3IaIro,r,orn oud
/ James Wallace are all new men in the
/ brass corner. Blakemore and Wallace for
merly worked in the east shop and Heise
worked in the south shop.
The six children of V. L. Lonergan. an
+ operator in the Rock Island telegraph Of
hce are all sick with the whooping cough
4 thankful that it is no worse.
A. Miller of the night shift in the boiler
shop quit the shop service Monday. Mr..
/ Miller has secured a position in the Santa
/ Fee boiler shop at Chanute, and will leave
shortly to take up his new work
Engine No. $50, which is being over
hauled in the south shop is the last en-
As soon as she is sent out the whole force
win be transferred to the new shop
J. w. Dean has been appointed superin-
tendent OF the Denver division Of the Col
/ orado Southern railroad He succeeds r
/ r. Sears who came with the santa Re a
short time ago as trainmaster of the Chi
cago division. with headquarters at Mar
celine.
T chine and boiler shops is 1915 square feet,
the shop being $50 feet long and 152 feet
cent Of the floor space of the shop, the tool
{ and machine room a per cent and the
boiler shop Is per cent
Mrs Floyd Arnold has returned to her
4 home in Newton after spending a short
! time with her husband in Topeka. Mr..
Arnold lost hand in an accident at Burr
! Santa Fe hospital for treatment He is
/ improving rapidly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
MAY ENCOURAGED TRUSTS.
Senate Passes a Bill Legalizing
Cooperation"

Cooperative societies may be formed
under the provisions of one of Senator
Dumont Smiths bills which the senate
passed Monday afternoon, to engage IN any
of the kinds of business in which the ordl-
nary corporations are engaged This new
bill repeats and takes the place of certain
sections Of the old law governing tins
operations Of cooperative societies and
makes their field Of activity considerably
larger. Under the bill several societies
may buy shares in each others stock and
form trusts" The bill further provides.
Sec 5. Any. such society or, company
may provide by bylaws for the retire
ment or cancellation of its shares. or for
the owning or holding the same temporar-
lily by itself. Such bylaws may also pro
vide the time, manner and to whom the
profits shall be distributed. and may abol-
ish limit voting by proxy
Sec 6. TWO or more societies or com
panies may, by majority vote of the meTsl-
bers of each. consolidate, and adopt tire
name Of either or new name In case
of such consolidation and before the. same
shall become effective. each of said So
cieties or companies. by its president and
secretary. shall duly certify to the secrc-
tarv of state and file in his office copy
of the resolution of consolidation. which
shall contain the name of the consolidated
COMPANY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
ComPLImENrED employees.
Passengers on Snow Bound Train
Look on the Bright Side of Things.

The passengers on Rock Island train
No. A. the Golden State Limited. which
was snow bound at Llano, n. M, on
March T. failing to find anything else
ing their short captivity, passed the
following resolutions and presented
them to the employees of the train:
Whereas. We the undersigned pas
sengers on the Golden State Limited
train of the Rock Island system. now
lying at Llanos, n. NJ, and which train
left Chicago on Thursday, February
&c. 1903, having been delayed by rea-
son of snow blockades and now being
about 100 hours behind schedule time,
and in view of the most unusual cOndi-
tons and disCOmfOrts resulting from
such delay, among which are the COM
plete exhaustion of gas. electric light
ing supply a serious depletion of the
stoves, which has necessitated our be-
ing placed on short rations. a. greatly
curtailed menu. 4 scarcity of water
and fuel for culinary and other pur-
poses, we deem it a great pleasure and
privilege to here record our fun ap-
probation of the uniform and IN
failing courtesy Of the steward of
dining car No. 200. Mr. O B. Nytchkee.
and his assistant, walters and chefs in
serving to Us under the trying circum-
stances described well-cooked and we'll
served meals and to thank them for
the same To Afr F. Lincoln Pullman
conductor of the train crew. and his
assistants we also extend our thanks
for the prompt and courteous attention
to our varied wants and demands
among them; therefore, be it
Resolved. That q copy of these res
olutions be furnished to each of the
gentlemen named and a copy sent to
each of their superior officers.
John Weir, Waldorf. N Y. John
Sharp. Los Angeles. Cal: NJ n. Rog-
crs. San Francisco: Charles Afuchfnas
Mrs. H. c. Barker. G. b Shaw. Chi
cago; Cora z. F'rary. Cleveland, Ohio.
H. c. Hollis. R.-N. Robson. N A. New
ton. +. Nasburn. Chicago. Mrs Emma
Ransom Kalamazoo. Ind. Charles
Catlin, Laura Catlin. Milwaukee. Wis
Mrs. Brewster, Rochester. n. Y:
Woodbury. Ransom, II. c. SLAYER, C.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
National Bank Chaneea

Washington, March 10.-The comp
troller of the currency has approved
changes in national bank officials as
follows: Kansas-The First National
bank of Beloit, A. T. Rogers, president,
I'm place of II. A. Phelps; F. c. Sheldon.
vice president.in place of A. r. Rogers
II. A Phelps. cashier. in place of V. Fl.
Branch First National bank of COT
feyville J. IT. Wettack, president, in
place of Thomas Seurr Jr.; Thomas
Scurr. Jr., vice president. in place of
w. II. Read. w. r. Shepard, cashier,
I'm place Of j. IT. Wettack; F. f. Wet
tack. assistant cashier, in place of w.
H. Shepard. Home National bank.
Hutchinson. A. w. Eagan. assistant
cashier, First National bank of Ster-
ling, j. L. Wohlslagel, assistant cash
Ter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
LET FOWLS ALONE.
Legislature Makes Their Theft
a Penal Offense.

The new chicken stealing law. just
passed by both houses, will tend strong
~ to restrict the operation of the chick
en- raising business to the hours of
daylight. The theft of a little scraWny
13-eent pullet during the night time"
will be just as serious an offense in the
eyes of the law as the theft of a $50
bill after Governor Willis J. Bailey gets
through putting his signature upon the
house bill No. 275 by Mr. Adams of
Sedgwick. Other things are included in
the list Of property which is protected in
this bill, and Section l. which names
them, says.
Section l. Every person who shall be
convicted of feloniously stealing, taking
or carrying away any money, goods,
rights in action or other personal pro-
perty or valuable thing whatsoever OF
the value of $50 or more. or any horse.
mare, gelding, colt, FLY, ass, mule, neat
cattle, sheep, goat. hog, or, in the night
time, any domestic fowls, harness. or
saddles, belonging to another. shall be
deemed guilty of grand larceny"
The senate also passed Senator Smiths
bill providing for the appointment OF
persons to fill vacancies in the boards
of county commissioners by the COVER
nor. The present law authorizes va
cancies to be filed by the remaining two
county commissioners.
Other bills which the senate fixed with
its seal of approval and a constitutional
majority vote We're the following:
Bale Waggener's bill for the suppress
sion of mob violence
The house bill authorizing the secre-
tary of the state horticultural society
to gather statistics and issue reports.
The house bill providing for the issue
of annual reports by the state historical
society.
The house bill authorizing private cor
porations to decrease the amount of
their capital stock.
The house bill making an appropria-
ton with which the state board of medi-
cal examination and registration may
carry out the duties exacted of it by the
law passed two years ago.
Senate bill No. AIS by Codding, proVid-
ing for suits for the recovery of real
property.
The house bill for the protection of the
banks of the Kaw river and the other
streams in Wabaunsee and Pottawato-
ME counties.
A bill authorizing Baker university to
maintain an electric lighting plant and
to furnish power and light to persons
outside the college.
The senate killed the bill prohibiting
the employment of telegraph operators
under the age of 81 years. This bill was
strongly favored by organizations of tel
egraphers and railroad men. It's purpose
was to secure the employment of men
who, in the eyes of the law, had reached
Z
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10

county Both Bucl1lin and Buschow live
in Thomas county, so it was q local fight
between them. Bucklin fought the biz.
and Senator Buschow asked Jones OF
Cove to get it through the house. Ac-
cordingly. when Bucklin moved to strike
it from the calendar, Jones Of Cove put
up a fight to keep it on the calendar,
but Cyrus Leland and q half dozen other
Republicans voted with the minority and
helped Buclxlin to carry his motion by
a vote of 3S to %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
EVANS TO GET IT.
Pretty Certain to Secure His Allow
ance for Interest.

George a. Evans. the contractor for
whose relief an appropriation Of 81. 500 is
got his money The bill for it has Oeen ia
Torably recommended in the senate and
Eanvs' friends will probably get it through
the house. For years Evans held the
enormous contracts for the stone work
upon the state capitol building From these
contracts he received large sums of mon
ey which he invested in Topeka property
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
SANTA FE CoLoNIsr RATES.
Cheap Rates to California Are Now
in Effect.

The colonists rates with which the
Santa Fe has at last decided to meet
the special colonist rates made by other
transcOntinental roads to California
went into effect yesterday. The new rate
is S25 from Missouri river points and
other western territory, and S33 from
Chicago to points on the Santa Fe in
California This is a one way rate for
colonist purposes, and will be good until
June Is.
The Southern Pacific. Union Pacific,
Rock Island and other lines with coast
connections announced the special SIS
rate on February Is, to remain effective
until April 80 At that time the Santa
Fe declined to join in making the rate a
common one on the ground that its reg
uIar winter business during February
and March was all it could conveniently
handle, but it seems that since then it
has been found necessary to make the
rate.
Santa Fe officials here say that an
enormous business is expected while the
rates are in effect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
Rock Island Statement for January.
Mortgage for $4,5oo,ooo Filed.

Guthrie, Okla, March ia mortgage
was filed here today in the sum of 81
900 by the Blackwell. Enid & South
western Railway company, covering the
construction of that railway from
Blackwell. Okla. to Vernon, Texas, 235
miles The road was recently trans
ferred to the Frisco. The holder of the
mortgage is the Standard Trust COM
pany of New York city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
MISSOURI PACIFIC BACK OF IT
New Road from Texarkana, Texas, to
Denver.

Guthrie. Okla, March ia terri
torial charter was granted today to the
Texarkana Oklahoma & Northwestern
Railway company with S15.000,O0O capital
stock. and with Oklahoma City as the
principal place of business. The pur-
pose is to construct a line HOO miles
long, running northwest from Texar-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10

kama, Texas, to Denver, Colo. passing
through the Seminole and Chickasaw
Indian nation and through the counties
Of Pottawatomie, Lincoln, Oklahoma,
Logan, Canadian, Kingfisher. Blaine,
Dewey, Woods, Woodward and Beaver
IN this territory. The inco1porators are
Territorial Secretary Grimes and other
Oklahoma capitalists. The road when
completed, it is announced. will be oper-
ated by the Missouri Pacific.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
Has ARRIVED AT LAST.
Equipment for Santa Fe Shops in San
Bernardino

San Bernardino, Cal. March 1o.-The
long lost structural steel for the loco
motive transfer table and big steam
hoist have arrived at last, coming out
of the snow storms of Kansas and the
terrific winds of New Mexico safe and
sound. and viii be put up as soon as
presence of a bridge gang. He has al
ready sent in his application for the
gang, but it is not known when they
will arrive The new machinery will
greatly facilitate the work of the ma
chine shops, which has a vast amount
of heavy work on hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
Pill S
Piles Can Be Cured Quickly and With
out Pain by Using Pyramid
Pile Cure.

A Trial Package Mailed Free for the Asking
We want every pile sufferer to try
Pyramid Pile Cure at our expense.
The treatment which we send will
bring immediate relief from the awful
torture OF itching, bleeding, burning,
tantahzing piles. If they are followed
up as directed we guarantee an entire
cure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
BUCKLIN sCOREs YICTORY.
Defeats Senator Buschow's Bill for q
New Office.

Representative Bucklin of the house
minority won a victory over the Repuh-
lican friends of Senator BuschOw and
succeeded in knocking out Senator
Buschow's bill to provide for the pay
ment of an under sheriff in Thomas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
WATCHED By DEPUTIES.
Trouble Between the Japanese and
Indian Santa Fe Employees.

The trouble between the Japanese and
Indian employees of the Santa Fe at
Needles, which has been noted on sew
eraI occasions, says the san Bernardino
sun, has become so boisterous as to
necessitate the appointing of deputies
to guard the company's property and
men. Upon the request of Chief Gilroy
of the Santa F'e secret service Sheriff
Ralphs has appointed several guards,
who have already left for the desert
town to look after the Santa F'e's in
tersts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10

.Constodo. Milwaukee. Wis. King Ken
needy, Mrs. n. b. Keating. Coeamo.
Ind; J. Flute, Fall River, Mass; J. n
Fieldhouse. Elkhart. Ind; Mrs J. n.
Fieldhouse. Elkhart. Ind: Miss Madge
and Cecil STAFFORD. Kansas City. No. ;"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10

Fortune has gone against him and Ear
years past Evans has been rheum4zzo
cripple and has been in the soldiers honaE
at Iseavenworth He is in Topeka now.
His friends have been working hard TO
secure an appropriation for his relief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10

The annual meeting of the Ingleside
association viii be held at Ingleside
Friday March 10. at 10 o'clock a. m.
BY order of the president,
MRS. j. THOMAS.
MRS. NJ. C. HAMMATT, Secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10

Team Of Martha Washington lodge
No. have postponed their tackey ball
from March IL, 1903. to Wednesday,
March %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-10
''SAFE CURE" CURES BLACKJACK

Ifyouha epains IN the BACK Ism
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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-07
HOW THE new SESSION OPENED
IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE
There was Very Little Demonstration in Either
Body and Both Sent A Delegation to Wait
on the President and Receive the Message

Especial Telegram to Evening Teller.)
WASHINGTON. Dec. THE senate
met at 1880 and closed ten minutes
later for the consideration of nomina-
tions. At 11:50 1t reopened with Platt
of Connecticut in the chair. German
presented a resolution thanking Sena-
ter Frye for the dignified impartial
and courteous manner in which he pre-
sided over the deliberations of the spe-
cial session. A resolution for inVesti-
eating the postoffice department was
favorably reported and Penrose asked
for lis consideration. German objected
and whereupon it went to the calendar.
Frye resumed the chair and declared
the special session adjourned without
a day. etc, the hour having arrived for
the opening of the fifty eighth con-
cress.
In the house the ceremonies usher
ing IN the few floral offerings ani the
roll call of states. there was nothing
to distinguish the day from any other.
In the house, Hepburn, Hemennway
and Williams We're appointed a COM
mittee to join the senate committee to
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-07
OUTLOOK FOR A LONG SESSION
WITH FORECAST OF RESULTS
There Will Be No Financial Legislation, No Tariff
Tnkerng. Long Fight on Statehood
Bills and Ship Subsidy

spending to party demands, many of
the republican members of the house
will be placed in the attitude of openly
opposing a thing which they secretly
favor. The same fear of losing votes
will also stand in the way of any finan-
cial legislation. it is believed.
1t may be safely said that the ma
jority will not pass the eight-hour bill,
which organized labor is prepared to
demand with more aggressiveness than
ever before. This promises to be
troublesome question. The party in
power finds itself between two fires
organized labor on one side insisting
on the legislation, and organized capi-
tai on the other side, not only oppos-
ing the proposed legislation, but threat
ening dire results to the republican
party If such a bill shall be passed.
The minority will insist on additional
antitrust legislation, but it is doubt
full If it gets hearing on the subject.
The majority party feels that from
political standpoint, it is in pretty fair
shape on the trust business. To, be
cure. little or nothing has been ac-
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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-07
FARMERS AFTER
The BEEF TRUST
They Claim That Iowa Has Been
Robbed BY the Meat Com.
bines of $S5,OOO

Especial Telegram to Evening Teller)
DES MONIES, Ia, Dec. Iowa
farmers who assembled in Des Moines
today for three days convention
purpose to get after the meat trust
with a sharp stick and find out why
they are receiving so much less for
their cattle products now than form
erly. Reports prepared by Secretary
John Simpson of the state agricultural
society for presentation to the conven-
ton tend to prove that the meat COM
bine has cheated Iowa farmers out of
an average of $50 a head on cattle for
the past year, and $3.50 on hogs.
Whereas beef on the hoof sold in Chi
cago last year at $3.50 to $S.65 a hun
dred, it has declined to prices ranging
from $3s5 to $3.50, though there has
been no corresponding decline in the
price of the dressed product. Iowa's
tribute to the meat trust in the aggre-
gate is estimated at $40, ,000,0 loss on
hogs and $45,000,O00 loss on cattle, to
say nothing of minor losses on sheep
and other small stock.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-07

a real advance in the direction of do
ing all that is possible for the solu-
tion of the questions vitally affect
ing capitalists and wage workers The
act creating the department was ap-
proved on February IA. 1903, and two
days later the head of the department
was nominated and confirmed by the
senate. Since then the work of organ
ization has been pushed as rapidly as
the initial appropriations permitted,
and with due regard 10 thoroughness
and the broad purposes which the de-
partment is designed to serve. After
the transfer of the various bureaus
and branches to the department at the
beginning of the current fiscal year, as
provided for in the act, the personnel
comprised 1889 employees in Wash
ington and S,S36 in cne country at
large. The scope of the departments
duty and authority embraces the COM
mercial and industrial interests of the
nation. 1t is not designed to restrict
or control the fullest liberty of legiti-
mate business action. but to secure
exact and authentic information which
will aid the executive in enforcing ex-
listing laws, and which will enable the
congress to enact additional legisla-
ton, if any should be found necessary,
in order to prevent the few from OBJ
tanning privileges at the expense of di-
minished opportunities for the many.
Bureau of Corporations
The preliminary work of the bureau
of corporations in the department has
shown the wisdom of its creation.
Publicity in corporate affairs will tend
to do away with ignorance, and will
afford facts upon which intelligent ac-
ton may be taken. Systematic, in
CONTINUED on page %
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-07

Especial Telegram to Evening Teller)
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Dec. IA
long, dry, negative session is expected
of the regular session of congress be-
gun today. Leading senators and rep
resentatives unite in the opinion that
there will be no legislation in regard
TO the tariff or the currency.
Representative Payne of New York,
VINO is the republican leader on the
moor in all matters relating to legisla-
tlon affecting the revenues and finances
OF the government. said today: Il have
no idea there will be any tariff legis-
atlen or any financial legislation of
material concern. The tariff is not a
matter to be tinkered with on the eve
Oh presidential campaign. and finance
is equally important"
OF the numerous questions of large
Importance on which the republicans
Ieel obliged to take negative posi-
tlon, the question of tariff legislation,
many persons believe, is fraught' with
most danger, for the reason that the
democrats have practically decided
that the tariff shall be the dominant
issue in next years campaign. In re-
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-07
REPORT ON
BANKRUPTCY
National Law Shown to Be Bene.
fiCial Alike to Debtor and
to Creditor

Especial Telegram to Evening Teller.)
WASHINGTON. Dec. Edwin
Brandenberg. in charge of the bank
ruptcy affairs of the department Of
justice has submitted his report for
the year ending September 80. He en~
phasizes the value of the law to both
to debtor and to creditors.
The number of voluntary petitions in
bankruptcy is approximately fourteen
thousand as again sixteen thousand
for the previous year. Alabama has
the greatest number. New York next,
Arizona two cases and Nevada and
Porto Rico three each, New Mexico has
four, Alaska six, Hawaii seven and
Wyoming eleven.
The report says that the law would
in times of financial depression do
much to prevent a panic