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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-28
Reported That Rock Island Will
Make Important Change.
General Superintendent May Be
Moved to Kansas City.
QUEER CIRCUMSTANCES
Byram's Headquarters Not Spe-
Gifted in His appointment.
Local Officers Say They Have
No Information.

According to the Kansas City Star,
arrangements are said to have been
made to remove the Office of the gen
eral superintendent of the Rock Island
lines west of the Missouri river from
Topeka to Kansas City. ]. NJ Gruber
general superintendent, has resigned,
and the circular announcing the ap-
pointlnent Of H. E. Byram as his sue
cessor oInits the statement as to where
Mr.. Byram's headquarters will be To-
Gated. Mr.. Byram succeeds to his new
position tomorrow. Then it is expected
that the formal announcement will be
made removing his headquarters to
Kansas City
The office of the general suDerintend-
ent will probably be in the Bryant
building, at Eleventh street and Grand
avenue. with the other general offices
removed from Topeka The removal of
the Offices of the assistant general pas
senger agent and the general freight
agent from Topeka in the summer of
1902 was accompanied by the statement
from Rock Island officials that the op-
Grating offices of the lines west of the
river would be consolidated with the
st. Louis line and placed in Kansas
City. It is this policy that is being
followed in the proposed removal of
the general superintendent office from
Topeka to Kansas City.
The officials here say they know Moth
ing of the above reported change They
say 1t was rumored two months ago
that the change would be made soon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-28
IDAHO FOR ROOSEVELT.
State Central Committee Passes
Resolutions Endorsing Him.

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Hepburn
of Idaho called on the president and pre-
sented to him a telegram which he had
received from the chairman of the cen
trail committee of his state giving the
text of a resolution adopted by the COM
mittee cordially indorsing the administra-
ton and Mr.. Roosevelt personally for
nomination for president.
Following is the text of the resolution
I'VE, the Republican state committee of
Idaho, in regular session assembled at
Boise, Idaho, most heartily indorse the
strong, unequivocal, determined and up
right course of President Roosevelt in his
administration of national affairs as well
as his fidelity to the best interests of the
people of Idaho and the Republican party
therein. We recognize in him a man
whose views are not bound by the condi-
lions and needs of any particular sec
ton of the country, but a champion of
the peoples rights and an executive
whose knowledge of and experience in the
great west especially fit him to deal in
diligently with the problems seeking So
luton in that section of the union. We
unhesitatingly declare in favor of Hon
Theodore Roosevelt as the next nominee
of the Republican party for president and
we earnestly favor the selection of dele
gates from Idaho to the coming national
convention instructed to work for his
nomination"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-28
CUTS GRAIN RATES.
Great Western Again Starts Trouble
for FreighA Officials.

Kansas City. Mo-, Jan. 2S.-The Chi
cago Great Western railway late yes
terday announced a drastic cut in the
freight rate on wheat from Kansas
City to Minneapolis, that completely
overcomes the discriminating rate re
Gently adopted from Omaha to Min
neapolis. The present rate is IA cents
a hundred pounds. The Great Western
announced that from January 80 it will
haul wheat for nine cents, which is
the rate recently put on at Omaha.
The Great Western road not only an
nounces a reduction of cents in the
Minneapolis wheat rate, but it also
will cut cents from the rate from
Kansas City to Chicago and to the
Mississippi river. The result is likely
to be a Generalization of the whole
western rate situation, for the other
roads will meet the reductions made
by the Great Western, and it is likely
also that there will be a big cut in the
rates to Gulf ports. It is not unlikely,
also, that the reductions may extend to
some lines of merchandise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-28
REBALLAsr THE 8. z.
Biggest Rock Crusher in West Being
Installed by Santa Fe.

Ottawa, Kan. Jan. 2S-The Santa Fe
will reballast its entire Southern Kan
sas division this spring. The company
is installing the biggest rock crusher
in the west at Pottawatomie, three
miles north of Garrett to prepare the
rock for the ballast work. A large
force of men with 80 teams is now en-
gagged in constructing yards at the
crusher.
This division of the Santa Fe has
been long in need of Improvement The
track has been in such condition that
it was impossible to make anything
like fast time. The purpose of this i'm
provement is more far-reaching than
to improve the conditions for local traf-
fic. The Santa Fe will, when this work
is completed, send it's through trains
to California over this route. From
North Ottawa these trains will run
south through lola and Chanute to the
end of this division, and then over the
Panhandle in Texas. 1t will be posi-
BILE in this way to decrease greatly the
time necessary to make the run. This
route is shorter and more free from
grades.
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SHOW THEM GOOD TIME.
St. Louis Will Entertain the Passen-
ger and Ticket Agents.

st. Louis, Jan. 2S.-Members of the
American association of general pas
senger and ticket agents will arrive
today from al1-parts of the country
to attend the special meeting called
here at the invitation of the Worlds
fair management and in pursuance of
the resolution adopted at the New Or
leans convention last October. The
meeting will be called to order at the
Southern hotel at 10 a. m. tomorrow
At 10:45 a. m. the passenger men and
the ladies accompanying them will be
taken in special cars from the hotel to
the Worlds fair grounds. After ira
versing the grounds, luncheon will be
served at the Inside inn at 1870 p. m.
To this luncheon all the visiting pas
senger officials in attendance at the
meeting being held in this city, the To-
cal officials and the ladies accompany
ing the American association are invi-
ted. President Francis and the direc-
tors and officials of the Worlds fair
will be present likewise, and all are in
vited to participate. The street cars
will leave the grounds at p. m. for the
return trip to the Southern hotel. III
the evening at 7:30 the American asso-
citation will be entertained at dinner at
the Mercantile club by the Business
Mems league. In the parlors of the
Southern from $50 p. m. to 11:30 p. m.
the ladies accompanying the American
association will be entertained by the
ladies of ST. Louis. On Thursday morn
ing the American association will as
business session, and Worlds fair rates
will be discussed and the recommended
tions of the ST. Louis terminal lines
will be received.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-28
ABOUT RAILRoAD PEoPLE.

E. G. Little of the Hartman lines was
caller at the loca! offices of the Rock
Island yesterday Mr.. Little's headquar-
tiers are in Kansas City.
The Union Pacific Railroad company. in
anticipation of possible strike among
the bituminous coal miners, has stored
100000 tons of soft coal at Omaha.
E. G. Gavitt a Santa Fe machinist in
the employ of the company at Newton,
has returned to that place after a short
visit in Topeka. Mr.. Gavitt was here en-
business.
J. n. Blair. superintendent Of the Kan
sas City terminals division of the Rock
Island, has returned to his headquarters
in Kansas City after a short conference
with the general superintendent of the
road.
George c. Peters, an employee of the
local lso.sa Santa Fe shops. is visiting his
by the Santa Fe at their shops in San
Bernardino, Cal. Mr.. Peters will be away
for about two months.
The Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
have opened an office in Kansas City, in
charge of Assistant General Passenger
Agent Harry Kali of the Union Pacific
who is also general agent for the South
ern Pacific.
1t is reported that the Great Northern
Express company has taken out a policy
with an indemnity company for 100000 to
protect it against train robberies.
1t is stated that the Santa Fe is ex-
yards in San Francisco, which does not
include the cost of the buildings.
1t is stated that the Santa Fe is build
at both Albuquerque and San Bernardino
the same as was done here a short time
ago. The company states that their pur-
pose in building these fences is to pro-
tect their property from sneak thieves
1t has been found that watchmen are not
very effective in the protection of the
company's property.
Almost all the westbound Santa Fe pas
senger trains were delayed Wednesday on
| account of a slight freight wreck at Sib-
ley, Mo. The wreck occurred at Z o'clock
yesterday morning, and although the en-
CINE was deraiIed and the train badly
shaken up, no one was hurt. AS the re-
suit of the wreck the California limited
arrived in Topeka six hours late and No.
1 four hours late.
An FL Paso official who is troubled a
great deal about passes has some cards
printed with Biblical proof that passes
should not be given. The card has print
ed across the top these words: They did
not use passes then" and among the quo
tations are the following: Thou shalt
not pass. Numbers Xxx Is. Suffer not a
man to pass Judah. None shall ever
pass Mark viii 80. $50 he paid the fare
and went.'-Jonah i:3.'
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

]. NJ. Baird and wife to P. B. Lee $40,
lot % Highland avenue, Seabrook sub.
Mary Q. Kreipe to same, 50, lot 16 Mis-
sion avenue and lots Is and q Highland
avenue, Seabrook sub.
H. A Shepard and husband to B.
Henley, 5000, lots 297 and 299 Jefferson
street, Paramore's second addition.
]. B. Dill and wife to A Calderwood.
$125, lots 1913, 1875, 1877, 1879, POI and 2OS
Massachusetts avenue, Highland Park
sub.
A. Ford and wife to E. Westerdale.
81, 100 lots 511 and 513 Seward avenue.
c. R. Jones' addition.
B. Henley to H. A. Shepard, 81, lots
297 and 299 Jefferson street, Paramore's
second addition.
F. J. Mather and wife to P. B. Lee, 81.
lots IS and IS, Mission avenue Sea-
brooks addition.
Tax deed to F. ]. Mather lots 16 and
IS Mission avenue. Seabrook avenue.
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CRANBERRY IN MICHIGAN.
Several Hundred Acres to Be Planted
by One Farmer

Grand Haven, Mich, Jan. 2S.-Lou
Coss, a farmer of Spring Lake town.
ship has been experimenting in the
bogs and marshes that adjoin his place,
and will plant several hundred acres of
cranberries of the yankee variety. 1t
is claimed that others will follow him
in the venture. The cut over lands of
the Pere Marquette and the Grand Rap
ids and Indiana lines furnish rich
tracts for ventures in diversified farm
ing. Both of these companies have
developed vast tracts along their sew
eral lines that has resulted in many
markets being supplied with a great
variety of fruit Peaches, cherries and
other small fruits have been especially
successful, and the experiments have
taken place in places from Grand Rap
ids to the straits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-28

to pass your water frequently night ana
day, smarting or irritation in passing.
brick-dust or sediment in the urine
headache, backache, lame back, dizzi-
ness sleeplessness, nervousness, heart
disturbance due to bad kidney trouble,
skin eruptions from bad blood, neu-
ralgia, rheumatism. diabestes, blOating,
irritability, wornout feeling, lack OF
ambition loss of flesh, sallow complex
ion, or Bright's disease.
If your water, when allowed to re-
main undisturbed in a glass or bottle
for twenty-four hours, forms a sedi-
ment or settling or has cloudy ap-
pearance, 1t is evidence that your kid
neys and bladder need immediate at
tentiOn.
Swamp-Root is the great discovery
of Dr. Kilrner the eminent kidney and
bladder specialist. Hospitals use it
with wonderful success in both slight
and severe cases. Doctors recommend
it to their patients and use 1t in their
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NILE EVERY 8 MINUTES.
C. d. Pattison Drives His Automobile
at Rapid Gait.

Mr.. c. H Pattison and B. H. Gun
bingham, his chauffeur, drove over from
Independence today, says the Cherry
vale Republican, In his automobile, a
distance Of a fraction over eleven miles,
in thirty-five minutes. which is a high
rate of speed, considering the condition
of the road and weather. as they were
driving against a strong northeast wind
all the way over making allowance for
slow speed in and out of the two towns,
also in meeting a wagon or two on the
road
They made the eleven miles in thirty
five minutes to the second. Mr.. Pat
tison's machine is a fine double seated
touring car of the red devil'' style. and
of a size which is known as the Model
F. packet, weighing $500 pounds, and
is a machine valued at $4,000, and can
run at a maximum rate of forty-hve
miles an hour
The Model F. machine is made more
for travelling than racing, and is the
style of machine used by the profess
sionaI driver Flick when he made his
fast trip from San Francisco to New
York city in the record breaking time
of sixty-one days. Mr.. Cunningham
says under ordinary weather and road
conditions he can make the drive be-
tween Cherryvale and Independence in
twenty minutes time
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Congratulations.

Mr.. John II. Cu11om, editor of the Gar
land, Texas, News, has written letter
of congratulations to the manufacturers
of Chamberlain Cough Remedy as fol-
lows: Sixteen wears ago, when our first
child was a oaby he was subject to
croupy spells AMI we would be very IN
easy about him. We began using Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy in 1887, and fn.I-
ing it such reliable remedy for colds
and Group, we have never been without
FIVE children and have given it TO al. Of
them with good results One good fear
ure Of this remedy is that it is not disas
greeable to take and our babies rcalIz
ike it. Another is that it is not dangeN
GUS and there is no risk from giving 8.
overdose. I congratulate you upon tia
success of your remedy" For sale ~
all druggists.
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TRADES EGGS FOR COAL.
Five Dozen Even Pays for the Fuel in
Central Illinois.

Bloomington, Ill, Jan. ga Macon
county farmer traded five dozen fresh
eggs for a ton of bituminous coal, es-
tablishing new record for high price
of the former. The eggs were valued
at 40 cents per dozen and the coal was
sold for 81 a ton. Both parties to the
deal were satisfied. The egg man
started into the poultry business on an
extensive scale last spring with 100
hens and pullets. He sold during the
summer $3.50 worth of eggs and chick
ems and figures up his feed bill at less
than $780, his net profits being 800. He
finds that the extra attention paid to
this department of his farm brought
in satisfactory returns.
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TAKE NO RISKS.
Chicago Operating Officials Forbid
Excessive Speed by Passengers.

Chicago. IN, Jan. 28-Nearly every
railroad centering in Chicago issued or
ders forbidding engineers of high speed
trains to exceed their schedule time and
inStructing division superintendents to
see that everything possible was done to
insure safety in train operation. In ad-
dition to this many of the railroads were
compelled to place a temporary embargo
against dead freight resting content
with getting the perishable freight over
the road so long as the sharp weather
lasts.
an operating standpoint the railroads
have experienced in many years. Con-
tinued cold spells have necessitated the
constant use of engines until many of
them are unfit for duty and still cannot
be spared for repairs. Yesterday and the
day before nearly every railroad in the
north suffered severely.
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Smallpox Scare at Normal.

Bloomington, Ill, Jan. 2s.-Thirty
cases of smallpox. and eight new cases
reported since Saturday. have caused
alarm at the Normal Special sessions
of the school and town boards were
held last night to discuss the situation.
The school board decided not to close
the schools. but to permit only vacci-
mated pupils TO attend. The town board
voted to strictly enforce the quarantine
laws and appointed additional officers
to assist in their enforcement. So far
as known none of the 400 students or
faculty of the State Normal have con-
Iarcted the disease
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KATY" WILL KEEP HOTEL.
Railroad to Run Its Own Rooming
House at St. Louis

The Missouri Kansas & Texas Rail-
way company is arranging to supply
rOOming quarters for Worlds fair Wis
itors who come to st. Louis next year
from its territory.
The plan proposed is that the Katy
agents will solicit business, with the
understanding that the company will
arrange for accommodations at ST.
Louis.
This arrangement will assure Katy
patrons that their accommodations can
be arranged for in advance, which will
materially tend to very largely in
crease travel to st. Louis.
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WON'T PAY THE BONUS.
$4,000 Withheld by Vernon, Tex.
Because Agreement Not Fulfilled.

Guthrie, Okla, Jan. 2S.-The Black
well, Enid and Southwestern Construc-
ton company, with headquarters at st.
Louis, and which built the line from
Blackwell, Okla. to Vernon, Tex,
for the Frisco, has sued the citizens of
Vernon for $50, 600 bonus which. the citi-
to that city. The citizens claim that
the road was not completed within the
required time. and refused TO pay the
bonus Henry S. Ames, E. A. Nixon
and W. B. Doddridge of st. Louis are
among the witnesses assembled at Yer
non to testify in the case.
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Death of b. A. seamans,

Lawrence. Kas., Jan. 2S.-H. A Sea-
mans, 50 years of age. died at a local
hospital as the result of an operation
performed for an abscess of the bowels.
EIr. Seamans was a travelling man in
the employ of the Osborn Art Calendar
company. and was a member of several
travelling mems organizations. He had
been a resident of this city for four
years. He is survived by a widow and
two children
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-28
sw EAR OFF UNIONS.
Pacific Express Company Men Must
Sign q Pledge.

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 2S.-Supt Geo
D. Patterson has presented to the en-
ployes OF the Pacific express company
for their signatures a pledge by which
they agree not to join the brotherhood
of expressmen of America, or any other
labor organization. The pledge contains
a stipulation that failure to observe the
agreement shall be considered by the
employe notice of his resignation Supt
Patterson said he did not wish any of
the men in his division to become
members of a labor union, and took
this plan of assuring himself of their
not doing so.
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To Prove what Swamp Root, the Great Kidney Remedy,
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May Have Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail

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DOG FINDS HEAD INFANT
Mystery at Indianapolis Being Invest
icatsd by the Coroner.

Indianapolis. Jan. 2S.-The police
learned today that a dog belonging to
August Barth. living south of the city,
came home carrying the head of a year
old infant Mrs. Barth placed the head
in box and Barth threw it into
vault. They said the head appeared to
have been cut from the body with
knife. No child has been reported
r11iSSinG
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Perfect Conidanca

Where there used to be a feeling of
uneasiness and worry in the household
when child showed symptoms of crouu.
there is now perfect confidence This is
owing to the uniform success of Cham
berlains Cough Remedy in the treatment
of that disease. Mrs NJ l. Basford of
PooIesville. Nd, in spea king of her ex-
perience in the use of that remedy. saws:
I have world of confidence in Cham
berlatn's Cough Remedy, for I have used
it with perfect success. My child Garland
is subject to severe attacks of Group and
1t always gives him prompt relief . For
sale by all druggists.
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SHOPS SHUT DOWN.
Santa Fe Machine Department Closed
by Bursting of Steam Pipes.

Owing to a break in the steam pipes
leading to the machine shops at the
Santa Fe this morning just about time
for the days work to begin, it was
found necessary by the officials to close
the machine shops for the day.
About LOCO men are idle for the day,
as the result of the unfortunate acct
dent. 1t is thought that the accident
car be repaired in time for work to be
resumed at the machine shops Friday
morning.
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His astreak Of Bad Luck

Engineer Ed Ward had a streak of bad
luck last week. He was taking a train
into Newton and because he couldn't help
it his train stopped across a, street some
time. He was arrested for blocking the
crossing and it cost him 50 to square him
self with the city ordinances. His evil
dence that he couldn't have avoided it
had little impression on the police judge.
-Emporia Gazette.
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INSPECT MIDDLE DIVISION.
Meade, Fox and Earl Start on a Gen
eral ROuuduD

Newton, Kan, Jan. 2s.-J NJ Meade, as
sistant chief engineer of the eastern
pany with Superintendent Fox and Res
ident Engineer W. H. Earl of this city,
started this morning from Newton on a
general inspection trip over the middle di-
vision to include the main line and the
branches. Their train consisted of an
engine and the superintendent private
car