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New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

PRIVATE MESSENGER.-Bv young coI-
ored man: 20 years reference; can Elv,
bond or cash security. Write OF call A. b.
3. iO7 East 76th-st
New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

COOK (ccloredl. drst class. FOR private
family: personal references. veEes $50 10
SIS COOK. care CT Grants ErapIOyuenr
Agency, 9 West 134eh-st
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SALESMAN, dryEoocs. by young man;
tiree years last place; reference. CHAS.
0fONNOT. 9s6 Colum5uS-avs.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

COOk.-Ey American woman; experiences
all kinds good cooking. desserts. zood
bread maker. sm1u family. suartlnsut CT
school; NOT young; rGlla.bl0 references. 54S
2d-sve.. first BELL.
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H0USEWORK--Ey widow: OF al housr-
keeper tor wld1We-'S family n the cour--
t-y NIrs. MARTEES. cars of 11-s. SmiLi.
3l1 WssV 3Sth-s--
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CHTLD'S SURSE.-Gsrman. good city rse-
ereuces for baby or grown chiid. L..
Hoffman, er' Bureau. f53 ~ esl 23I-sL
Teiephoue 1sG4-Cheisea-
New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

COOK-Japanese: thoroughly competent;
private family or hotel: excellent per
snnal reference. SAD. Country Club House.
West Chester. y. Y
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BUTLER and COOK.-By first class Frencf
couple: both thoroughly competent IN Al
branches: also good valet; coed references
- l. P. 516 East 3Oth-st.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

BuTl4EIe.-Frelch. so: able e make AL
kinds or salads and side dishes; eAcellent
refeEences- PAFAREIS, care Of Gutliod,
az 7th-avs.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

REPAIRING. &c.-WorE done nt your own
home or office At mechanics wages; tine
furniture repairing; mattresses made over.
carpets laid. vanishing, polishing or furui
ture- CHARLES STLDE. so 9th-sve-.
eIectriC!an.a Sue.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

NURSE -Tbcrcugar- experiences. -.fi.sf.
sud capable % Caklug entire Chssr-s ~
ehi.d rom ol-ta; references y, RcT ~
Tribune once -
New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

PIANIST. - German: thorough teacher:
would accept some pupils. also tnstruc-
ton IN harmony and composition. terms
moderate. classical and modern music
Address T43 'Fremort-ave.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

COACHMAN.-slngIa strictly temperate:
careful city driver; 81 years IN lass
place; best city reference. ,. H, iOT Wsst
9Sth-St
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Do1IEsu0 srrUATIoSs WANTED.
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Nale.

SIsC -aoulz nan. % tust arrived from
England as x-oovn. well m IN s-abI~
S.s SS.-e-sas eeod references. J. EDW ARDS, L.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-17

BUTLER - tPrOtestant}; strictly sober;
speaking French and English; tnoroughly-
competent; experienced: wiling generally
useful servant: best OF references. ..
kASBAR. us Eas; SOth-st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
ARouT RA11RoAp PRoP1E.

Santa Fe- engine No. 1907 was taken out
on her trial trip Saturday afternoon after
being repaired in the local shops.
Homer ShulL timekeeper at the Santa
Fe division offices in this city, spent
Sunday in Kansas City with friends.
Ed Smith, employee of the Santa Fe
freight auditors office is again at work
at his desk after a weeks absence due to
sickness
local freight run between Topeka and
Atchison, has returned to work on the
road after absence of several days.
due to sickness.
Fred Stewart, a clerk in the Santa Fe
ticket auditing department, has returned
to work in that. office after a short alb
sence due to sickness.
A. w Parks, an employee of the Santa
Fe dispatcher'S office, is spending his two
weeks vacation with relatives in Mil
waukee. He is accompanied by his fam
lily.
Miss Jennie Burlingame, stenographer
in the office. Of W J. Black, general pas
urday and Sunday with friends in New
ton, Kan.
Thomas Lagerstrom is new employe
auditor for the Santa F'e. Mr.. Lager
strom began work as a clerk in that Of
fee this morning.
Miss Mabel wills of the office of the
Santa Fs car accountant, is spending a
months vacation with relatives in Los
accompanied by her mother.
George W. Bell, chief clerk to A. E.
Cooper, division passenger agent for the
Rock Island, is expected back to work
this week after being confined to his
home for several days with the grip
A large number of shopmen were in
attendance at the Sunday afternoon meet
ing in the rooms of the Railroad Y. NJ. c.
A. The IA delegates who represented the
local association at the recent Y. M. c. A.
| convention in Newton, made their reports
at this meeting.
A novelty in the way of freight trains
passed through Topeka today over the
Santa F'e- The train referred to con-
| sisted of 10 cars of paint fresh from the
factory of Sherman-Willians at Chicago.
This enormous amount of paint was re-
ceived by the Santa Fe at Kansas City
and will be delivered to the purchasers
at Fort Worth, Tex.
| The report that J. NJ. Gruber, who late
| ly resigned the position of general super
| intendent OF the western district of the
! Rock Island, was going to the Union Pa
cific as general superintendent of that
sent out from the headquarters of the
Union Pacific in Omaha. Mr.. Gruber' s
new appointment is effective at once.
Earl Cafferty, who has been braking
out of Topeka on the Santa Fe for the
past few months, has resigned the posi-
ton of brakeman and gone to San Fran
cisco, Cal. Mr. Cafferty has serious in
tentions of enlisting in the japanese army
and ia king part in the war between that
country and Russia He is a son of T
S. Cafferty, roadmaSter for the Santa Fe,
with headquarters in Topeka. and has
served three years in the regular army.
During that time he saw active service
IN both the Philippine islands and in
China.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08

landed in a snowdrift and was badly
stunned.
The runaway engine assumed such a
high speed that when it struck Frisco
engine No SS3, which was standing only
a few blocks away it hurled it clear off
the tracks and continued it's flight. La
borers who were walking the tracks on
their way home from work ran in every
direction. The engine had no headlight,
but they could hear its rumbling and
heaving for several blocks and shouted
to each other as a danger signal. At
the Ewing avenue crossing several pc
destrians and teamsters had a narrow
escape
Railroad men who saw the engine
estimate that it covered the distance
from Grand avenue to TWenty-second
street insl less than thirty seconds At
that point the engine jumped the tracks
on the south side. The tender broke
loose, turned over several times, and
was almost completely destroyed. The
engine ran on for 400 feet, where the
pilot plowed into the ground and it came
to a stop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
ENGINE ON A TEAR.
Frisco Locomotive Ran Away in st.
Louis Railway Yards.

Frisco passenger engine No. 5ss. a
huge, ten-wheel locomotive, weighing 80
tons, broke loose from the Frisco round
house near Vandeventer and Chouteau
avenues. says the St. Louis Globe
Democrat, and raced madly to the yards
at Twenty-second street, just back of
union station. The engine covered the
distance Of about a mile and a half in
one minute, hurting an engine almost its
own size from the tracks and made
scores of pedestrians and teamsters run
for their lives.
The engine had just been brought to
the round house by its crew after the
completion of a run. They backed it
up to the entrance and left it standing
with a full head of steam. It stood
heaving and trembling, waiting for the
hostler to give It its usual rubbing down
so that it could be backed into its stall
Hostler Jesse Burns mounted the iron
monster to begin his work when from
some unknown cause the throttle was
thrown open and it started on its mad
flight. Burns grabbed the reverse lever
and attempted to bring it to a stop He
was nearly successful when the lever
with powerful reaction. overcame his
strength and hurled him several feet
through the open cab window Burns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
TAKE 1T INTO COURTS.
Stock Shippers Do Not Like Delay OF
the Railroads.

Kansas City, Mo, Feb. S.-The poor
service rendered by the railroads in the
handling of live stock shipments, to
and from the stock yards, ever since
the food has aroused the commission
men and shippers to a. fighting mood.
Many of the regular shippers to this
market, who have sustained heavy
/ losses in the last year by the poor SER
vice, have made trial shipments to 9TH
er markets without better success, and
are ready and willing to join the Off
GERS of the exchange in any movement
that viii result in better service. The
Kansas stockmen are thoroughly
aroused, as shown by their denuncia-
lions of the railroads at the recent an
nual meetings of several associations.
The matter will undoubtedly be pre-
scented to the next Kansas legislature,
with a request that a bill be passed re-
curing the railroads to make a GER
tain time schedule. similar to the law
in Texas, where live stock shippers get
the best service in the United States.
In former years, when there was actual
competition between the railroads for
live stock shipments. an average run
of twenty miles an hour was guaran-
teed to a shipper In the last year the
average schedule is below ten miles an
hour
"One of the worst features said a
shipper yesterday, lis that the rail-
roads have everything their own way.
If they keep my stock on the road two
days instead of ten hours, of course it
shrinks heavily, and 1 sustain a loss
when it is sold. I file a claim for the
amount, based on the actual loss, sup
ported by a detailed account of the
delay. The local agent holds my claim
until he is tired of my visits in the
next three or six months after it is
fled then he informs me that it has
been turned over to the legal depart
ment-the railroad graveyard-and I
must hereafter deal with it. That is the
last you hear of your claim in most
cases. Now, if the shippers will take
these claims back home to a lawyer
sue the railroads before a justice of
the peace, they will get judgment in
nine cases out of ten, as the claims are
inst
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
HERE'S A GREAT FIX.
5calpers Accuse Railroad Officials of
Bieng in a Deal.

New Orleans, La, Feb. S.-Sensation-
al statements are contained In affi-
davits filed by Ticket Broker Charles
T. Kelsko, and others in the suit
brought by several railroads in the
federal court here to prevent "scalp-
ing" during the carnival and subse-
quently. Kelsko swearS that his firm
had made arrangements with the Louis
vile & Nashville railway, made direct
with c. P. Atmore, it's then general
passenger agent, whereby it was agreed
that in consideration of the firms rout-
ing and ticketing passengers via the
Louisville & Nashville, the road would
agree to stamp and validate without
question all return tickets, both iron
clad and otherwise, which the firm
would purchase and sell and if from
any cause these tickets should be re-
fused on the train the fare paid would
be reimbursed to the firm. Kelsko
charges that reimbursements were at
all times made to him. He states in
the affidavit that it was agreed that
the firm could make any rates 1t
pleased for two or more persons. The
selling rates agreed to. 1t is charged,
were in some instances 80 1-3 below the
regular fare. Kelsko sWears the agree
ment was verbal and that Mr.. Atnore
terminated it when the Louisville &
Nashville Joined a local association.
Five similar affidavits were filed by the
scalpers, the other roads affected being
the Queen & Crescent and the Texas
& Pacific.
Judge Parlange said he would rem
der a decision Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
NEGROES TO CELEBRATE.
They Will Honor Lincoln's Memory
February IL

Lincoln Day exercises will be held in
Representative hall at the state house
on the night of February II, under the
management of the Kansas Lincoln
Day club, an organization of well known
colored people. This will be the fourth
annual celebration of the Lincoln ami
versary held by this organization Rev.
F. C. Ransom. of Chicago. will be the
principal speaker of the evening. Fol-
lowing the exercises at the state house
a reception in honor of Mr.. Ransom
and banquet will be held at 618 Kan
sas avenue. The programme for the
evening will be as follows:
Music, "Star Spangled Banner" jack
sons Military band.
Invocation. c. G. Fishback. A. -.
D. D.
CAN to order. Alex Reeves. president
Address of welcome on behalf of citta
zens, Miss Lillian Jeltz.
Response, @. W. JONES' of Hill City.
Music, Bethany Commandery," jack
sons Military band.
Vocal selection by quartette.
Selection in elocution. Mrs. F. z.
Aoten.
Selection by mixed quartette
Music, Uncle Sammy" Jackson's
Military hand.
Address, Rev r. C. Ransom, of Chi
cago, ILL.,, Abraham Lincoln and the
Emancipated After Forty Years"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe to Settle 10000
COlOnists in Texas.
Has Secured II Million Acres of
Farm Land.
IN THE PECOS VALLEY.
Irrigated Tracts in New Mexico
Also Acquired.
Large Appropriation Made to
Boom Colonization.
IN THE PECOS VALLEY.

Chicago, Feb. Snow that the Santa
E'e has become interested in land and
colonization schemes in Texas. it is
Durposed to settle at least 10000 farm
ers Immediately. c. L. Tallmadge of
this city and several others have Sc
cured more than one million acres in
northern and western Texas. The land
is between Higgins and Bovina. Immi-
grafton parties will be taken to Texas
on the first and third Tuesdays of each
month. when homeseekers' rates will
prevail. The manager of the Santa
Fe's land and immigration department
says the plan has been preparing near
ly wear.
1t is understood that the Santa Fe
has made q large appropriation to
assist the colonization movement and
that agents will be sent throughout the
United States to spread information re-
Barding northern Texas and the Pecos
valley of New Mexico. The persons
here who have acquired this immense
tract in Texas are also interested in
large areas Of land in New Mexico,
most of which are irrigated and which
they intend to settle as rapidly as pos
Gtbla.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
He WROTE THRILLERs.
Mr.. Gardenhire's Early Literary Work
in Topeka

Since Samuel M. Gardenhire's new
and widely advertised book, Lux
Crucis," has been put on the market,
some of his old friends in Topeka are
recalling some of his first literary
efforts.
Years ago when Mr.. Gardenhire was
stenographer in the United States
courts he wrote stories that ware
"thrillers." They were Of the dime
novel class. but they were the begin
ming of his literary career and they
brought him large checks. One of the
stories was of a beautiful young lady
who was riding across the plains. She
came upon the carcass of a buffalo be-
ing devoured by buZzardS. She thought
she saw the carcass move. She went
to it and found a man inside the buff
fa1o A band of Indians had captured
the man. had disemboweled the buff
falo, put the man in the carcass of the
buffalo and laced I'D the carcass and
left him to starve. The beautiful young
woman cut the thongs and released the
man. fell in love with him, later mar
ried him. and lived happily ever after.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
AT PAUL MoRroN's OFFICE.
Preliminary Meeting Held to Settle
the Grain Rate Wer.

Chicago, Feb. S.-The executive officials
have taken the western grain rate war
in hand with view to applying rigorous
measures to restore harmony and normal
tariffs. A preliminary meeting with this
end in view took place Saturday in the
office of Paul Morton, second vice presi-
dent of the Santa Fe, and a committee
was appointed with full power to act.
This committee, of which A; c.. Baird,
chairman. will meet today to see if some
means can not be found to end the war.
It is understood that President Stickney
of the Great Western is to be asked to
attend the conference in the hope that a
better understanding can be reached be-
tween him and the western interests,
which apparently opposing his meas
ure at Omaha.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08

was made up mainly of Paola and Osa-
watornie people.
'tDr. D. H. johnson acted as chair
man and William H. Bradbury as Sec
rotary. The meeting was called solely
in the interest of the candidacy of Kelly
for denomination to the Office of state
treasurer and was in the nature of
plea for rehearing in the case of the
People VS.. Kelly, in which the defendant
was found guilty of enbezzlement
forgery, theft and a few other crimes.
Kelly was represented by his attorney,
B. F. Simpson, who made the opening
argument. Like the trained counselor
and skilled lawyer that he is Mr. Simp-
son evaded the issue and the law being
well advised that his client had no case
on a statement of facts or an appeal
to the law. He stated that this was
Hooh meeting, which did not impress
his hearers, most of whom knew better.
Then he set the woods on fire on the
theory that in the excitement of a con-
f1agration there might be a chance for
the escape of his client. He savagely
! attacked the action of the Republican
county central committee in its meeting
held in Paola Tuesday, January 26,
counseled that the committee be over
ruled, its action repudiated and ignored,
a new committee be formed and another
convention called
at was calculated that this would set
the flames to roaring, but the under
brush was not in the right condition,
and after sizzling and spluttering a lit
tie, it f1ickered out. Alpheus Lane was
the next speaker. He took issue with
Mr.. Simpson. He said this was not a
, Hoch meeting and was not called for
that purpose. He stated that they had
no right to organize another committee
OF to call another convention. Two
wrongs would never make a right. He
said the committee acted entirely with
in its authority in the main, their only
acts in which he thought they exceeded
their authority being in the provisions
for the primary caucuses. This, he
said, did not invalidate any act which
the committee had a right to perform,
and he advised that they conform to
the call of the committee so far as it
was clearly legal and ignore the rest
of it.
"This wasn't what Kelly was looking
for nor what he wanted. 1t did not
look as though there was to be much
| of a conhagration. When H. 0. Ward
of Osawatomie addressed the meeting
and practically endorsed what Mr.. Lane
had said, it began to look as though the
| jig was up.
Kelly saw that this wouldn't near
do. and he was as busy as burglar
| Cracking a crib attempting to head
the meeting his way. He finally ia
duced DR.. Reichard to get in action.
The doctor spent most of his time in
| apo1ogizing for the part he had taken
in the bogus senatorial committee that
was jumped up in PaOla a few weeks
ago. Then he attacked the proceed
and expressed hts indignation that the
committee had gone into executive
session and excluded citizens of this
county from their proceedings and per-
mitted a citizen of another county to
! remain in the room. Reichard referred
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
UNION PACIFIC RECORD.
December Increase in Earnings the
Largest in Its History.

December showed the largest increase
in earnings of any month in the history
of the Union Pacific road. Gross earnings
increased 1884. 94S. or "a per cent, while net
earnings increased 1864, 357, or 81 per cent.
The increase in net was equivalent to
more than one-haf of 1 per cent on the
common stock.
Although the December statement
showed the largest increase in earnings.
yet October, 1903, showed the largest
months earnings on record Gross earn
ings in that month amounted to S. 675, 575.
compared with 81, 956, 33S in December.
the fersI Year The road has NE % .
remarkable record. The following shows
the gross and net increases by months:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
OARS WITH STEEL FRAMES.
Law Is Proposed to Make Coaches
More Safe

Chicago. Feb. 8.-Under the super
vision of the interstate commerce COM
mission, a bill is being prepared which,
If 1t becomes a law, will compel rail-
road companies to build stronger
coaches and other cars, with the ex-
ception of sleepers, in which passen-
gers are carried. The bill will be in
troduced by Representative Esch of La
Crosse, Wis, and will provide that all
coaches and cars for passenger service
shall be constructed with steel sleepers
and steel sills.
The American Railway association
has been asked to submit details which
would be practical, from a railroad
standpoint, and every care is being ia
ken to have the measure such as will
Before beginning the draft of the bill,
Representative Esch spent several
months investigation into the matter,
going thoroughly into the history of
car construction. He conferred also
with government officials, who express
ed the opinion that something should
be done to prevent the further con-
Struction of light railway coaches,
which either telescope or break like
egg shells in the event of a wreck
thereby causing large death and cas-
uaIty rate.
1t is claimed that the immunity from
death and injury which passengers in
Pullman sleepers enjoy is due largely
" lAAG SlGGl unQGI-lIAIIlS COILS
and it is understood that the Pullman
construction will be taken as a stand
ard.
Representative Tawney, one of the
floor leaders of the house. has taken a
step in the same direction by causing
an inquiry to be instituted by the post
Office department as to the number and
character of railway mail cars now in
use on the different railroads of the
country and for which the govern
ment pays a rental. Mr. Tawney has
long been one of the champions of pos
tai employees in the house of represen-
tatives. He has been informed that
some of the cars now in use as rail-
way mail cars are of f1imsy construc-
ton and antique design. He takes the
position that railway mail clerks are
in the most dangerous portion of pas
senger trains, and that the percentage
of fatalities among them is higher than
even among railway employees. He be-
leves that the government shares in
the responsibility for this. and there
should be a requirement as to the
character of railway mail cars that, so
far as structural work is concerned,
will reduce fatalities to a minimum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
IS MR.. LONG SICK.
4 Difference of Opinion About Kan
sas Senator.


Is or is not Senator Chester /. Long
in poor health? Rumors from Washing
ton say that Mr.. Long is in the same
condition he was when in Kansas last
summer before leaving for Washington,
but his friends insist that he is getting
along all right. Ralph Faxon, Mr..
Longs secretary. told people in Topeka
on Kansas day that while Mr.. Long Is
not working very hard, he is getting
along all right physically.
Albert T. Reid, who was in Washing
ton recently, maintains. however, that
the senator is a sick man. Senator
Long told me he is in poor health said
Mr.. Reid, "and he certainly looked it.
He is haggard and thin, and his friends
are alarmed about his condition. They
have urged him to take a rest, but he
insists that he will be able to work off
his ailment.'
Ralph Faxon, who is visiting in New
ton, on the other hand, sends out the
following:
'I have not seen Mr.. Long for two
weeks, but know such reports are ex-
aggerated. When I left Washington he
was in good condition, and 1 have heard
from him several times since coming to
Kansas. Mr.. Long has passed a quiet
winter, free from arduous work and
worry, and I can state positively that
his condition is very much better than
last fall when he left the state.''