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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

seven years ago the state or Illinois granted
30 the Physicians Institute of Chicago a charter.
There was need of something above the ordi-
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number OF specialists acting independently
could do, so the State itself, under the powers
granted it by its general laws, gave the power to
the Physicians Institute to furnish to the sick
such help as would make them well and strong.
Ever since its establishments this Institute has
endeavored in every possible way to carry out
the original purposes of its establishment under
the benefcieDt laws Of the State.
Three years ago, the Physicians Institute,
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
NEW ROAD TO WICHITA.
Will Run from the Cotton Fields to
Kansas.

Tulsa, I. T., Feb. 13.-The Midland
Valley surveyors were here all last
week engaged in preliminary work for
a location of their line. said to have
been determined upon from Wichita,
Kas., to Hartford, Ark. The road is
now completed from the latter point to
Panama. I. T.. a distance of ffty-six
miles. and will be completed from Pan
anna to Muskogee by June 1, sixty
miles further As soon as possible 1t
will be completed from that point to
Tulsa, according to reports, thence to
Wichita. a distance of approximately
$50 miles. From Panama, 1. T., to Tul-
so the road follows the south side Of
the Arkansas river. From the latter
point it is believed that it will run to
Pawhuska, Usage nation. thence to
Wichita.
When completed the line will connect
the coal field of the Indian Territory
with the cotton fields of Arkansas on
tie south and the grain belt of west
ern Kansas on the north, and is looked
upon here as one of the best enter
prises that can enter this territory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
SETTLERS ARE STARVING.
Railroad Company Refuses to Take
Their Cordwood to Market.

Settlers along the Canadian Northern
railroad between Warroad and Fort
Francis, on the Minnesota side boun-
cary, nave filed with the state railroad
commission complaints in whici, tbav
accuse the management of the COM
pany with practically reducing them
to starvation point Settlers who took
up claims along the Canadian Northern
are mostly poor and depend almost
solely upon the cordwood they cut Tor
their living. Owing to the refusal Of
the railroad to provide loading tracks
and sidings, these settlers have been
unable to send any wood to market.
They can not sell a stick of 1t. They
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
POOR aDApv MILLER.
71-Year Old Engineer Crushed Under
His Engine.

Leadville, Col, Feb. 13.-William Mil
Ter, known all over the west as Dad
Miller and probably the Oldest engi-
neer in service in the United States,
has been crushed to death under his
engine while working some repairs. He
was employed by the Rio Grande road.
The switching crew ran some cars
against the engine and the wheels
passed over Miller's body, killing him
instantly. Miller began railroading so
years ago on the Reading. He brought
the first Rio Grande engine west. He
was II years of age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
Better Than Gold.

II was troubled for several years with
writes F. ]. Green. of Lancaster. N. H.
mo remedy helped me until began
using Electric BitterS, which did me more
good than all the medicines 1 ever used.
They have also kept my wife in excellent
health for years. She says Electric Bit
tiers are just splendid for female troubles;
that they are a grand tonic and invigo-
rator for weak. run down women No
other medicine can take its place In our
family Try them. Only SOC. Satisfac-
ton guaranteed by Arnold Drug Co.. s21
North Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
Best Limo to Florida.

There is a through sleeper running
every day from Kansas City over the
Frisco System and Southern Railway
to Jacksonville, Fla. This is the old
established line.
Many new and attractive features in
Florida tours this winter.
Full information will be given on APP
plieation to
VIM. FLANNELLY, T. P. A,
Board of Trade building,
Kansas City. Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

are out of money and the storekeepers
have refused settlers further credit As
a last resort the settlers have appealed
to the commission for relief, and have
asked that body to compel the Cana
dian Northern to put in side tracks at
suitable intervals on the American side
of the line. The company claims there
is little business along the line, and
side tracks can not be laid in winter.
The commission, however, will probably
insist that needed sidings be laid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
DEPOT IN A COACH.
Florence, Kas, Will Soon Have 9
New Station.

Florence, Kan, Feb. 13.-Business at
Florence has resumed normal proper
lions again. A good passenger coach
Is used for a waiting room and ticket
office, while Roadmaster Beton's office
on south side of the track is used by
operators.
A string of freight cars protect the
baggage and freight
The new depot building will doubt
less be built promptly, but one-half
block west, and on the main line
tracks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
An Electric
Belt Free
Send Your Application At Once To
The Physicians Institute.

They VIII Send You Absolutely Free One
ofTheir 400 Guage Supreme Electric Belts
the Belt w hich Has Made SO Many Wonder
full Cures-Xou Needn It Send Even q Postage
Stamp, J ust Your Name and Address,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Abraham Lincoln. more than any
other man, except possibly George
Washington, was the incarnation of
American citizenship. It has been said
that he was a man of the common peo=
Pile; if so. he did not long remain com
mon, for by his own labor, by the
purity of his character and purpose, he
became one of the most uncommon
men that ever walked the earth.
by his own efforts he rose to the
highest pinnacle of worldly renown, and
when he fell the nation mOurne1 as
though the destroying angel had snit-
ten the first born at every hearthstone.
Though the eternal years, SO long as
virtue, honesty. heroism and sacriAce
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
Knew Uncle's Appetite.

Johnny said Uncle Peter. "do.you
suppose l would sit at this table and
eat as long as you have?"
mo, uncle" responded the truthful
child. There wasn't enough on the
table to keep you busy for more than
five minutes Chicago Tribune.
Retired From Small Function.
Eleanor-Have you given up society,
Josephine?
Josephine-No, but I've been brides
maid so often lately that I've nothing
but bridal frocks to wear.-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
Came Home BrOke.
Jiggson-I heard you were out at the
fair.
Jaggson-Out. l should say SO. l
was out all I had with me.-Chelsea
(Mass.) Gazette.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
Meeting Of Stockholders.

Office of Donovan-McCormick Com
pany, Billings, Montana, July 9, 1904
Notice is hereby given, that a special
meeting of the stockholders of the
DonovanlMcC ormick company will be
held at the Office of said company, at
their store building in Billings, Mon
tana, on the twenty-seventh (27th)
day of August, 1904, at two (2) o'clock
p. H., for the purpose OF considering
the question of increasing the capital
stock of said corporation from one
thousand shares, OF the par value Of
one hundred ($100.00) dollars each, to
two thousand shares, of the par value
of one hundred ($1OO. O0) dollars each.
making the capital stock two hundred
thousand dollars ($2OO, 600. O0), instead
of one hundred thousand dollars $780,.
OOO.O O).
T. C. POWER,
A. C. JOHNSON,
PAUL MCCORMICK,
A majority of the Directors and Trus-
tees. 21-T
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
HE PAID HER FARE.
Now Mrs. Standish Is Wondering
Who the Gentleman Was.

Now Mrs. Standish Is Wondering
who the Gentleman Was.
When the conductor came through he
stopped before Mrs. Standish and SAID,
"Faur-us-urs. please"
Mrs. Standish swallowed a pepper
mint lozenge whole and said:
Il have no money. My husband will
pay for me-"
The conductor looked around on b
serried ranks OF femininity doubtfully.
"Where is 'e?" he asked.
"Out on the back platform. He stay
ed OUT there to smoke"
There are a dozen men out there"
was the reply. How am l to know
which one belongs to you? What kind
Of looking mar is he?
Handsome. He is tall. he wears a
blue suit, and he's got the incest black
mustache and the kindest brown eyes
you eve saw"
The conductor went away, only to
return Il moment later, presenting a
lugubrious cast of countenance.
Say" he said, che won't pay. He
says you amt his wife. He says he
amt got any wife-says he amt
been married"
"Well, what do you think of that?"
gasped Mrs. Standish. you must
have asked the wrong man."
That's what l thought. To make
sure got the right one l asked every
man out there. They all swore to the
same thing. They're all single"
Mrs. Standish blushed deeply. ''This
is outrageous" she said. II can appre-
ciate a joke as we'll as anybody, but
this is carrying it a little too far. Oh,
dear, l wish the car wasn't so crowded
so l could get out there! Tell him,
please-the dark eyed man-that |
don't want to make Il scene, but that If
he doesn't quit playing the fool and
pay my fare I'll be obliged to come out
there in a minute and say something"
Yes. ma'am,' said the conductor.
Again be retired to the e Of the
car. When he came through the next
time he nodded at Mrs. Standish en-
couragingly. Its all right" he said.
Gle paid up"
After awhile the car stopped at Mrs.
StanulSlS StreeC. SDe Wen out Tue
front way and waited for Standish to
join her. But the a passed. and he
did not appear.
"How very careless he is" said Mrs.
Standish, ''to allow himself to be car
ried past his street! There is really no
excuse for such ~inattention."
She stood at the corner, looking anx-
iously up and down the street. Soon
another car stopped. and Standish got
off.
You needn't say a word," he said.
"It's your w fault. A truck got in
the way, and l couldn't catch that car
you got in to save my neck. l called to
you to get off, but you didn't hear. ]
worried all the way uptown. l knew
you'd be hopping mad because I didn't
come inside"
"Oh,' said Mrs. Standish, "I'm not
thinking of that. l am wondering who
that man was that paid my car fare
New York Press.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
The Big Ditch Company.

Notice is hereby given that at a
regular meeting of the trustees of the
Big Ditch company, held July 16, 1904,
an assessment of so cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock OF
the corporation, payable on or before
August 16, 1904, to the secretary OF
the corporation at his office, No. z
North Twenty-eighth street, Billings,
Montana.
Any stock upon wnicn the assess
men shall remain unpaid on August
16, 1904, will be delinquent and ad-
vertised for sale at public auction,
and unless payment is made before
will be sold on September 1, 1904, to
pay the delinquent assessment, to-
gether with costs of advertising and
expenses of sale. 23-4
HENRY WHITE, Secretary.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.
The Suburban Ditch Company, Prin'
cipal Place Of Business Bill
ings, Montana.

Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the directors held on the
10th day of July, 1904, an assessment
of so cents per share was levied upon
the capital stock of the corporation,
payable on the 18th day of August,
1904. to S. w. SOule, at No. Z North
Twenty-eighth street, Billings, Mon
tana.
Any stock upon which the assess
ment shall remain unpaid on the 10th
day of August, 1904, will be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auc-
ton, and, unless payment is made
before, will be sold on the 31st day
of August, 1904, to pay the delinquent
assessment, together with costs OF
advertising and expenses of sale.
Signed and dated this 18th day OF
July, 1904. 23-4t
J. A. MILLER, Secretary.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
Cheap Rates to Boston via New York
City and Boat.

Cheap Rates to Boston via New York
City and Boat.
5000 for the round trip from Chi
cago, via Nickel Plate road, August
10, IL and Ia, with liberal stopover at
New York City returning, and also
stopover at Niagara Falls and Chau-
tauqua Lake within final limit, if de-
sired. Also rate of SITS from Chi
cago to Boston and return, via direct
lines. Tickets good on any train on
above dates and also on special train
from Chicago at 8 a. M. August 10.
Final return limit September 30, by
depositing ticket. Through sleeping
car service. Meals in Nickel Plate
dining cars, on American club meal
plan, ranging in price from 35c to 81;
also service a la carte. Write Cbas.
3. johnson, district passekger agent,
Nickel Plate road, room Kos Century
building, Denver, Colo, for reserva-
ton Of berths In Through standard
and tourist sleeping cars, and full
particulars. ka12
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02

"C1O 41,CVO,foA POuluo uOAAO0SAN oA0
1,151,935 pounds foreign, making a
total of 13,055,367 pounds. For the
corresponding week of 1908 they were
8,944,924 pounds domestic and 1884
485 pounds foreign. Total, II, 879, 409
pounds. To July %, inclusive, the
total receipts were lis, 1868, 12O pounds
domestic and 65,5 sac, 294 pounds for
eign. Grand total, 1876, 508,414 pounds.
For the same period last year they
were 88,87O,175 pounds domestic and
ST. 15 ,592 pounds foreign; ~15O,385,767
pounds.
For the week ending July %, inclu-
sive, the shipments amounted to s.
1892, O76 pounds, as against $780, $40
pounds for the week preceding. The
shipments for the week ending July
%, inclusive, 1903, were 4,965,614
pounds. Since December 81, 1903, the
total shipments have been 1888, 09O
pounds, while for the same period
in 1903 they amounted to q 1888, 1894
pounds.
To July %, the xcess of receipts
over shipments was 62, 1924 pounds.
For the corresponding period of 1908
the receipts exceeded the shipments
by 2O,696,7 73 pounds.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
Just Couldn't Help 1t.

Mrs. Goodwin-Sarah Smelling has
promised to marry Fred Simmons, and
she has also promised herself to Harry
Killings. 1 think it is ~disgraceful.
Aunt janet is a little unconven-
tional, l must admit; but Sally, as you
have often said yourself. is such an
engaging creature. you know.-Boston
Transcript.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
Natural

Mrs. Homer-Have you noticed how
weary and worried Mrs. Goodwin looks
Of late?
Mrs. Neighbors-Yes, poor thing; she
has quit doing her w work and Is
trying to keep a hired girl.-Harper's
Bazaar.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
The Catcher. Chest Protector.

the CneBt frOtectOr.
George, dear, is that a bib that the
baseball catcher wears on his breast?"
Eyes, my love. 1t keeps his shirt
front from being mussed up when the
ball knocks his teeth out."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02
Came Home Broke.
Had a Taste.

She-Were you ever in one of these
air ships?
He-No, but I was in an elevator
when It fell once.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-02

Read The Gazette and keep posted
on local happenings.
The progress., 1904-01-30

Persons who become fretful over the
delays Of surfaces cars or the detention
Of steam trains ought to ut up and be
cheerful when they read what the New
York Press has to say Of Z Texas train.
The Press declares that recently Gulf
& Interstate railway train arrived In
Beaumont nearly three years late, and
explains the matter as follows:
The train left Bolivar. just across
Galveston bay from Galveston, on Sep
tember s, 1900. and was caught in the
great storm which 80 nearly destroyed
Galveston. Bolivar is rs miles from
Beaumont. Before the train had trav-
eled far on its journey It was caught in
the storm. Thirty miles OF the track
we're washed away, and the train was
left stranded on sandy waste.
Dozens Of persons who lived on Boil
var peninsula were saveaHfrom death
by taking refuge in the train. After
the storm subsided they walked to-
Bolivar with the passengers. But the
abandoned train was left on the prairie.
The storm bankrupted the railroad,
and no effort to rescue the engine and
cars was made until recently. Had the
road not suffered SO seriously In that
storm the property would have proved
of great value few months later, when
oil was struck at Beaumont. The road
is now undergoing repairs and develop
ment. and little while ago the train
was drawn into Beaumont, where 1t was
greeted by cheering multitude.
The progress., 1904-01-30
HAT PIN DIET KILLS KITTEN.
Mich, Man, Mectn Death in an
Unusual Manner.

y small kitten, the property of
John M. Yore, of st. Joseph, Mich, is
dead. The fact itself is not startling,
but the manner of the kittens death is
so unusual that it has aroused much
interest on the part Of neighbors, ply
sicians. and veterinarians in that city.
The kitten, in moment of excessive
playfulness. swallowed hat pin. The
animal was only four months old, and
of the usual size for such an age. The
hat pin was seven Inches long. with a
stone head. Mr.. Yore noticed the kit
ten playing with the ornament, which
came from his daughters hat Soon
afterward the pin was missing. Search
was futile. and the kitten, which con-
tinued to be as gportiye as ever. gave
no symptoms of distress until few
lays later, when It became i'll and SUBJ
b jeot to fits This started controversy
in the household. One side asserted
that the kitten had swallowed the hat
pin. The other -idiculed the idea as
physically impossible Neither would
weaken, however. ard finally Mr.. yore
became convinced that the only means
cf solving the mystery lay in search
ing examiration OF pussy's anatomy.
bo Array being handy. ehloroform anc
The progress., 1904-01-30

whose names are guarantee that what
meets with their approval must show a
high standard. The general sculptural
scheme, and the figures and groups sx.s
eQtasial ta accordance with It tss,..,n tsrs % nt~
al profession, while Y Ne mechanical work
is placed on an economical basis, the en-
largement of figures being done in one
large workshop insthd of several small
ones, and material fo1this purpose being
purchased in cart-loaf lots.,
Great Improvements have been made
in recent years in mdthods Of enlarge
ment, as the processl lof building up
figures in plaster intola likeness of the
original clay models lei called. BY these
improved processes II is possible, with
an expenditure Of the same sum OF
money, to create much larger number
of figures and groups than could have
been produced for the same amount some
years ago. Not only SO. but it is possi-
BILE to make better reproductions of the
original models. For all these reasons
the statuary for st. Louis will be much
more valuable from every point of view
than might at first glance be supposed.
1t is the fashion with some to cast
slurs upon the modern methods of Great
ing statuary on large scale as though
turning out such a vast number of
figures and groups must involve sacrl-
flee of art. But such a result need not
follow. The improved mechanical in
ventions merely doaway with great deal
of the arduous mechanical labor which
formerly was incident to the enlarge
ment process, and the artist who models
the original figure from which the en-
The progress., 1904-01-30


The tomb o2 Zachary Taylor. twelfth
president Of the United States II fast
falling to decay, says the Kansas City
World.
A correspondent who recently visited
the place says for over half century 1t
has lacked the care Of kindly hand
Apparently, nobody cares. a
The tomb lies five miles from Louis
Vile, and is somewhat OF the road.
Ivy riots over the weather-beaten blocks
of granite. The fastenings on the door
are red with rust. So far as known, no
key has turned the locks for 50 years.
Visitors are rare. 1t is doubtful II half
q dozen tourists visit the tomb during q
twelvemonth.
And this neglected spot is the last
resting place of the hero OF the Black
Hawk and Florida wars. Here is the
dust OF that great soldier, who, with
1900 American riflemen, drove in re-
treat 20, 900 Mexicans under Santa Ana
at Buena Vista. Here are the remains
Of the American Cortez and president
of the United States. He who conquered
the swamps and everglades of Florida
and made Mexico surrender is forgot
ten by his countrymen. Not one in
10000 knows the place Of his sepulture.
The plaintive words of Rip Van Win
kle are appropriate: "How soon we are
forgotten when we're gone!"
The progress., 1904-01-30
PLUCK OF A BOY.
FOurteen-Year-Old YOungster Hangs
in Midair for Two Miles Be-
fore Train Is stopped.

A remarkable instance of pure pluck
on the part of a 14-year-old boy was
exhibited between Washington, N. j.,
and Hackettstown, on the main line of
the Lackawanna road, recently. Henry
Dougherty, of Oxford Furnace. an un-
ruly youngster, stole ride as far as
Hackettstown, where brakeman put
him of. II
He awaited In opportunity for re-
turning in the same manner, and at
tempted to jump a freight as it passed
the Hackettstown station at a speed
OF 80 miles an hour. He grasped the
vertical handrail near the rear end OF
a car, and. missing his expected foot
hold on the step. swung around from
the momentum of the train until his
body was nearly parallel with tho car
to which he hung with a deathlike
grip, humping it as it swayed from side
to side.
This hazardous position the boy
maintained for fully two miles, until
the train passed gang of men near
Rockport, two miles from Hacketts-
town. The men shouted at the train
crew and signaled for quick stop. but
before the heavy train could be stopped
the exhausted boy let go and fell