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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
WILL HOLD THE OIL.
Lowering of Prices Makes Producers
Indifferent Over Selling.

Coffeyville, Kan, Dec 21.-As a re-
suit of the recent cut in price of crude
oil the COffeyville oil operators are
talking very seriously of shutting down
entirely The most of them have shut
down already and what few are run
ming it is said will stop their rigs and
keep their oil in the ground.
The idea us advanced that as soon
as the Whiting pipe line is completed,
oil will take an upward shoot. But
the very evident purpose of the STAN
dard Oil company is to discourage
production, and it is succeeding. The
Standard just now hasn't the tank
room to devote to storing oil, and if
it should build the room, would have
it all left on it's hands when able to
handle all the oil. So it wants the
production cut down until the Whiting
line is completed. When that comes to
pass, then the local oil men look to see
oil soaring up again around its old
price of year or more agO-$1.3S a
barrel.
Some of the men figure that they
will make money by holding their oil
in the ground. One firm in the city
that formerly operated in the Indiana
field, says that the same conditions
confronted them there at one time.
They went ahead and sold their oil.
Afterward, they figured it all up and
found that they would have made just
100000 by holding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
BREAK PLEDGE: CUT RATES.
Officials of Eastern Road Make Re-
duction-Rate War Imminent.

The solemn pledges made by the
chief traffic officials of the eastern and
western roads at their joint confer
ences in New York November % to re-
frain from rate cutting and to adhere
rigidIy to the agreed tariff rates al
ready have been violated.
The new agreement provided that
nothing improper should be done or
countenanced pending a restoration of
normal conditions in the beginning of
the new year. In spite of this the
New York New Haven & Hartford
business at the same rates as are in
effect from Baltimore, although the
Boston rate. under the agreement,
should be cents higher.
For years it has been the rule that
the Philadelphia rates westbound
and Baltimore was allowed a differ
entail of 8 cents. D1i7
The gulf roads under the agreement
made November % last were to have
a differential on import business of 10
cents below the Baltimore rate.
Not only did the Hartford roads
action cause distrust and bitterness
among the eastern roads but the west
ern roads were placed in an en-
barrassing position, because the gulf
roads insisted on adding the 5 cent
cut made by the Hartford road to their
regular differentfal of 10 cents below
Baltimore rates.
Western traffic officials have just re-
turned from New York. where they
met last week with the eastern traffic
officials and tried to bring about an
adjustment of the fresh complications
Their efforts, however, We're in vain
the Hartford road refusing to recede
period of freight rate wars seems i'm
minent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
FACING CAR FAMINE.
Railroad Rolling Stock Impaired by
Years of Hard Usage.


Railway managers throughout the
country now declare that their greatest
mistake was in canceling orders for
new equipment and cutting down their
shop forces because of the temporary
decline last spring in the general vol
ume of traffic.
Today every railroad between the
Missouri river and the Atlantic sea-
board is short of cars and unable to
promptly transport the freight that is
offered. On some roads there is seri-
Gus congestion of freight now, and
other lines have escaped it only be-
cause weather conditions have been
unusually favorable.
Corn is now moving freely out of
the west, and the total shipments will
be much larger than was estimated a
tors at Buffalo nearly 100000 bushels
of wheat awaiting shipment to the
seaboard. When this grain begins to
move, with the corn from the west,
serious congestion is almost certain to
occur on the eastern trunk lines.
As matter of fact. some of the big
railway systems have a smaller num-
Der of engines and freight cars avail
able for service today than they had
last year. This is due to the fact that
from one to three cars a day are worn
out or lost on the big systems simply
from wear and tear.
These cars are gradually being re-
placed with modern equipment de-
signed to stand the strain of the larger
train loads. Some of the cars ordered
in the last few months will be deliver
ed in time to take the place this winter
of worn out and discarded equipment,
but the managers now regret that the
orders for the cars were not placed
many months earlier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
GOT THE PASS.
Unique Declaration of Arizonan APP
pealed to Railroad Man.

"Over in Arizona a few years ago.
said General Passenger Agent Byrne of
the Santa Fe coast lines, "a fellow
who published a penny size sheet in a
new mining camp wrote to the rail-
road headquarters in Los Angeles ask
ing for pass to send his wife back
to Kansas to visit the old folks. A
letter was dictated to the editor in
reply, saying that the passenger de-
partment had never heard of his paper
before, did not know that such a paper
was published, and wanted to know
what circulation it had. The editor
back as follows: My paper goes into
thirteen states and territories, and
have hard work to keep it from going
to HI
1.-THE pass was Immediately sent to
the Arizona kicker" said Mr.. Byrne,
"and the wife no doubt was soon af-
forwards with her old folks in Kan
sas."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
PAOLA OIL FIELD.
Standard Soon Prepared to Buy All
of Its Products.

To the Editor of the State Journal.
I noticed, in a recent issue of your
paper, a communication from indie
pendence, Kan, which was calculated
to do the Paola oil field gross in
Justice The correspondent stated
that there were only 1913 oil wells in
the Paola territory with total yield
of only 125 barrels per day; and, on
account of the light production the
Standard Oil company hal decided
rat to extend the pipe line 70 that
field. Your Independence correspond
ent must have been misinformed.
During the last six months the
writer of this article has visited a
Kansas and the Indian territory, and,
after considerable investigation. de-
cided to invest at Paola. However, l
have no oil stock to sell and no
selfish motives in booming the Paola
field. AS matter of simple justice
l feel that the errors contained in the
communication from Independence
should be corrected. Instead OF the
total yield of all the wells of that sec
ton being only 1926 barrels per day,
there are numerous individual wells
alone will produce more than that
amount. The quality of the Paola oil
is also exceptionally fine testing from
thirty-three to thirty-five and One-half
gravity. On account of the shallow
ness of the Paola wells, the expense
one-fourth to one-third of what it is
in southern Kansas and the Indian
territory. A little honest investigation
will soon convince the intelligent read
er that an operator can take ten
thousand dollars and produce as much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
BIabon Gets place on the ALTON.

Following the recent resignation of Gen
eral Freight Agent F. A. Wann, the Chi
cago and Alton railroad announces the
creation of the position of freight traffic
manager for that line and the appoint
ment of Joseph w. Blabon, fourth vice
president of the Great Northern railway,
to the position. For the present Mr.. BIa-
bon will assume the duties not only of the
new office, but also those of general
freight agent, although it is possible a
successor to Mr.. Wann, who left to take
the vice presidency of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton road, will be named
later.
The creation of a freight traffic mana
ger for the Alton is in line with the
changes made in the passenger depart
ment of a number of western railroads
during the last few years, in which pas
senger traffic managers have been ap-
pointed to have general charge of freight
traffic. The roads have been slower in
making the change in the freight depart
ments, but the resignation of Mr.. Wann
paved the way for the innovation on the
Alton. Mr.. Blabon was born in 1858 at
Farmington, Ne, and entered the railway
risen steadily. In 1896 he was made pur-
chasing agent for the Great Northern, in
1899 western traffic manager of the same
line and then fourth vice president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21

menced his employment as an en-
gineer and was engaged in that ca
pacity for twenty years. He then en-
tered the air brake department when
that invention was first introduced
and has been connected with it con-
tinuouSly since.
He was honored by selection for en-
gineer of the pay car, and for pulling
trains which carried notables of the
early days.
When the great Chicago fire was
burning, in 1871, he pulled the special
train which carried the Bloomington
fire department to the scene, making
the run of 127 miles in two hours and
thirty minutes, a record that stood
for twenty years.
Mr.. Hawks is in good health and
bids fair to keep actively in the har-
ness for several years to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
PRAISES UNION PACIFIC.
Railroad Man Says 1t Controls Traffic
West of Mississippi

prominent New York railroad
man says:
Union Pacific is to my mind the
most remarkable railroad proposition
in the world. 1t is in complete con-
troll of the railroad traffic west of the
Mississippi river.
"It has 100000 shares of Atchison
stock, which, while not a controlling
interest, is large enough to give the
Union Pacific a strong voice in the
mana cement.
Union Pacific has $350,0O0,000 of
interest returning securities and this
places it in control of the transcon-
tinental railroad traffic, for the Union
Pacific ownership in the Northern Sc
curitieS roads is great factor in
harmonizing the transcontinental rail-
read interests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
GOT HIS HAIR BACK.
Was Perfectly Bald When He Started
to Use Newbro's Herpicide.

Frederick Manuel, Maryland block,
Butte, Mont, bought a bottle of Newbro's
Herpicide April 6, 49, and began to use it
for entire badness. The hair follicles in
his scalp Were not dead and in 20 days
he writes, 'and today my hair is as thick
and luxuriant as any one could wish. .
Newbro's Herpicide works on an old prin-
ciple and with a new discovery-destroy
the cause and you remove the effect. Her
picide destroys the germ that causes dan
druff, falling hair, and finally badness, 50
that with the causes gone the effect can
not remain. Stops falling hair at once and
a new growth starts. Sold by leading
druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample
to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. Row
ley & Snow, special agents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
A CONVICT MAY WIN.
A Leavenworth Court Heard Testimony
in the "Good Conduct'' Case.

Leavenworth, Kan, Dec 21.-The habeas
corpus case of John Callahan, the convict
in the Kansas penitentiary who raises
the point that good time can not be lost
by convict when once granted or while
out on parole, was argued in the district
court The state was represented by an
peared as his own lawyer and argued that
a prisoner on parole was not free man,
that he had to live up to certain rules, re-
port monthly and not change jobs with
out consent of the prison officials. If he
failed to do these things he was brought
back
He showed by the prison records that
he never violated any prison rule while in
confinement and argued that the commit
ting of an alleged crime while on parole
had no effect on his good time. Judge Gill
patrick intimated that he would sustain
Callahan in the points raised by him and
told the prison officials to bring Gala
han back into the court Thursday De-
cember %, the last day he must serve if
the % days good behavior is not taken
away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
KANSAS NEWS.
LeaVenWOrth Thinks Another
Prison May Be Built.
For the LOO New Military
COnvicts Expected.
WOULD BE GOOD THING
The Prisoners Could Be Used In
Building Roads.
Also for Work of Constructing
Hill FOritficatiOns.

Leavenworth, Dec. 21.-The Times
says:
No actual time having been set when
the federal penitentiary is to be turned
over to the federal authorities the Off
Gals at Washington do not know what
10 do with the prisoners confined in the
various guard houses throughout the
country. Whenever they have touched
upon the subject at all in their annual
reports. division and department COM
manders OF the army have strongly con-
demned the present system of caring
for military prisoners and recommend
ed the establishment of a central prison
for that class of offenders. From nearly
every department comes the report of
the over-crowded guard houses, a bur
densome increase of guard duty, diff
Guilty in maintaining proper sanitary
conditions and the demoralizing inf1u
ence eXerted by the presence of so many
prisoners upon recruits just entering the
service. All conditions and all the tes-
timOny favor the Establishment of a
central prison, either at this post or on
the military reservation near Indianap-
oils. 1t has been known for some time
that the military authorities at Wash
ingtOn wished to make the federal pen
itentiary at this post the place for the
confinement of all the military prisoners
and it is not likely that their plans will
be changed.
There was some talk of building a
prison in the vicinity of Indianapolis,
but it is not possible that this plan
viii be carried into effect as the peni-
Tertiary here will be turned over to the
military authorities about July, 1906,
and the government could not build
prison at Indianapolis in that time. The
prison here is certainly strong enough
to hold the most desperate of these
prisoners.
A very good point in favor of the
establishment of a central prison is
shown by a report of mutiny in the
Philippine islands only a few days ago.
About so prisoners started a mutiny in
one of the prisons and the result was
that several prisoners and several
guards were killed and many others
seriously wounded. The attempt to es-
cape was successful, many of the pris-
oners managing to make good their
getaway" from the island upon which
they were confined in boats.
It is estimated that there are about
loo military prisoners confined in the
various guard houses in this country
and in the Philippine islands. Some of
these prisoners are short term men and
are only garrison prisoners while on the
other hand there are many long term
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
WHAT DO YOU CARE?
YOU'VE GOT YOUR HEALTH.
Great Natures Do Not Despair at Dis
appOintment-They Look for
Something Else to Do.

The broad-gauged man of today does
not get blue just because things don't
always come his way unless there is
something the matter with him. If he
falls down" on one proposition he i'm
mediately starts to look up another. He
always looks forward and keeps on hus-
Ting. A man with his health and facul-
ties has plenty of opportunities and the
man who gives up or even feels like it
has either a small nature or some phy-
steal weakness.
Dyspepsia certainly puts the best of
men out of condition for work of any
kind. You cannot blame the dyspeptic
for getting blue. The very nature of
his disease is most depressing and call
culated to deprive him of ambition, en-
ergy and hope. There is hope for him,
however, certain and sure.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are recog-
nized throughout the length and
breadth of the land as the one cure
that's safe and sure. Their unbounded
notwithstanding from the thous-
ands and thousands of cures they have
effected, prove beyond the shadow of a
doubt their greatness as a cure. Where
in lies their greatness? In the very fact
that they are Natures own simple rem
edy. They do the exact work in exact
Nv the same way that the digestive fluids
of the stomach do because they are
composed of exactly the same elements
and possess the same properties. They
relieve the weak and worn out stomach
of it's burden of digestion and permit it
without let or hindrance to rest and
grow sond and well. The stomach will
get we'll quick enough in its own nat
ural way if it is let alone That is
what Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do
They not only let it alone themselves
but make the food taken into the
do the same.
You can satisfy yourself of the truth
of this statement by putting the food
you would eat into a glass jar with
sufficient water and one of Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets. The process of di-
gestion will be taken up and carried out
Just as the gastric juice and other d.
gestive fluids would do it. Their ac-
ton is natural and they cause no dis
turbance in the digestive organs. In
fact you forget you have a stomach
when they begin to do their work so
mild and natural is the operation
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are for sale
by all druggists at soc a box.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21

oil and a better grade and make more
clear money in the Paola field than
he can with three times that amount
in most of the other oil sections of
Paola wells range from 800 to 400
feet, while those in southern Kansas
and the Indian territory run from 100
to 1000 feet. The cost of drilling and
casing we'll at Paola Is from $500 to
5000 while the expenses of drilling and
euuipping a well in most of the other
oil fields range from 81 500 to $4,000
The allegation that the Standard Oil
company had decided not 20 extend
the pipe line to Paola would give the
impression that John d. Rockefeller
had taken the correspondent into his
confidence and has impaired inside in
formation to him regarding the intaaA-
tons and future developments of thu
Standard Oil company which has
been withheld from the general pub
lie. While it may be news to the indie
pendence scribe, the average reader
of the Journal is already familiar With
the fact that Paola and Miami county
have had the Standard Oil pipe line
for over three months. Representa-
tives of that company have recently
visited PaoIa, and after a thorough in-
vestigation of the quality and quantity
of oil in that section, notified the ope-
rators to pump their oil into tanks as
soon as possible, as the engine. tanks,
piping and other equipments for a
pumping and purchasing station had
already been ordered and that the
at that point within a few weeks.
New rigs are being shipped into tn
Paola territory every week, and COZ
tractors who have been idle for some
time in other fields, have no trouble in
procuring contracts for drilling wells
in the Miami county field.
A. J. BASYE.
Belleville, Kan, Dec. 81, 1904.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21

Lackawanna railroad. Best route.
Chicago to New York-three elegant
through trains daily:
Leave Chicago 1926 a. m, arrive
New York $3.50 p. m. next day.
Leave Chicago 2:3O p. m, arrive
New York 1880 p. m. next day.
Leave Chicago 9:15 D. M, arrive
New York $50 a. m. second day
High back seat coaches. New Pull
mans, dining cars, observation cars
Ask any railroad ticket agent, or
write GEO. A. CULLEN
Gen. Western Passenger Agt,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
Indians Will Celebrate

The full blood Indians of Iowa tribe will
celebrate CHRISTMAS by holding a dance
and feast. After a big goose dinner they
VIII have their dance followed by a big
man of dancing, Louis White Cloud is
cook, James White Cloud is head singer
The first head singer among the women
Is little Lucy Roubidoux. Tian-koo-hay is
boss of dance, Bonnie Kent will witness
the dance, and if he likes it he will Join
in the merryma king.-White Cloud Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21

Mrs. c. A. Lockwood, Mrs. G.. w.
Searles, Mrs. W. A Jackson, Mrs. G. T.
BoIman, Mrs. ]. A. Hotham, Mrs. F. NJ.
Baker and Mrs. John Seaton spent the
day at the new county asylum, hanging
pictures, arranging furniture and giving
the rooms a few home-li1e touches for the
inmates, who will arrive tomorrow. Old
age, poverty and helplesSness have lost
their terrors to those who have had the
privilege of visiting the asylum. A bet
ter arranged, a more comfortable, a more
convenient and finer refuge for the I'M
fortunate can not be found in the state.
Make the Christmas dinner at the asylum
a merry One.-AtchiSOn Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
FRAHLEY RESIGNS.
Claim Adjuster of Santa Fe at Well
ington Will Quit Jan. 1.

Wichita, Kan. Dec. 21-Captain
Joseph r. Frailley. claim adjuster at
Wellington, has resigned, effective
January l. He will go to Fort Madi-
son, Ia. where he will be associated
with one of the best known law firms
in that city. He came to this territory
in the employ of the Santa Fe from
Kansas City about year ago. The
railroad men of this city rendered him
a banquet in a local hotel last night
as a FAREWELL affair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
Kansas Rural Carriers.

Washington. Dec. 21.-The following
western rural carriers have been appoint
ed: kansas-Grenola, route 3, Charles E.
Sehul, carrier: Pearly A. SchuI, substi-
ner, carrier; Ruth z. Gardner, substi-
tute; Moline. route 8, Edwin a. Silger.
carriers; Henry C Silger, substitute
Plainville, route 2. Edgar G. Adams. car
rier: Henry 1. Adams, substitute. silver
Lake. route II, Louis J. Masopust, car
rier: John Masopust. substitute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
BOILER ExPLoDEs; TWO DIE.
Accident on Rock Island Railroad
ManoIeS Train Crew

By the explosion of the boiler of one of
the largest engines on the Rock Island
road Monday at Davenport, Ia, Engineer
M: Calhoun and Fireman H. Kinney were
killed Head Brakeman Thomas GimmeI
and Trainmen Gus Smith, Russell Sher-
rod and George Nettleton were injured,
Gimmel seriously.
When the explosion took place the en-
CINE assisted by a helper, was a few
miles west of Davenport, pulling a long
freight train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
With C. & A. Fifty Years.

Bloomington. Ill. Dec. 21.-Samuel
L. Hawks, superintendent of air
with headquarters in this city, is the
only employee of that company who
entered the service in 1854, when the
line was first opened to traffic, and
who has been continuously in service
since.
His career has been contemporaries
Gus with that the railroad he has
served so long and so well. He COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
Cured PARALYSIS.

w. S. Bailey, P. o. True, Texas, writes:
MY wife had been suffering five years
with paralysis in her arm, when 1 was
persuaded to use Billiards. Snow Liniment
which cured her all right. have also
used it for old sores, frostbites and skin
eruptions. 1t does the work. Csc, SOC, 81 co.
Sold by RowIey & Snow and w s. Miller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
The MARCEL Bank Failure.

The bank failure at Highland is being
settled up The depositors will get so per
cent, but the investors in the banks paper
VIII get from 10 to % per cent, owing to
the hold they had on J. E. MARCEL cash
Ter of the bank. An Atchison victim got
Is per cent and is considered very fortu-
nate. MARCEL is in the penitentiary-
Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21

duces a daily output of 100000 feet The,
ottawa Gas and Oil company, which has
made the strikes at Rantoul, entered into
a contract this morning with the Ottawa.
Gas and Heating company, which now
furnishes artificial gas to the city, to sell
its product for term of twelve years. The
gas and heating company viii Hay the pipe
line and distribute the gas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
Express Train Strikes eight, Engine.

the union depot at Kansas City at 6
o'clock last night, collided with a freight
engine on the connecting with the Belt
Line tracks in Toad-a-Loup. The freight
engine was derailed and its tender crush
ed but no one was injured.