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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
SEND FOR SHERMAN.
Residents Along the Kaw Would
Have Him Move Back.

For about 20 years, Pat Sherman
the veteran trainmaster at the Santa
Fe depot, lived in the City park on
the Kaw river. During all that time
flowing waters. Some of the north
siderS< think that Mr.. Sherman should
be put back into the City park, a
nice villa built for him and he be
kept there because of some mysterious
influence which he apparently held
over the river. communication from
one of his friends tells the thing in
detail: ~
'The North Topeka people are very
much concerned about the future.
Hence this proposition, or negotiation
that is under consideration with Mr..
Pat Sherman. He lived for about
twenty years in the beautiful City
park on the bank of the Kaw, know
ing nothing but peace and quiet and
happiness, and no troubled waters or
mind.
1.-The citizens of the north and south
sides all know that Mr.. Sherman does
not pose as a prophet, magician, di-
vine or Christian Science fake-but as
an every day business man doing unto
others as they would have them do
unto him.
1.-THE proposition is a beautiful villa
near or on the same spot where his
old mansion stood-modern in all re-
spects- But as to the water, he will
have reserved to himself all right
and control of the Kaw as in years
gone by. 1t seems to me that the
proposition is the most feasible and
money saving one we can consider,
for if Mr.. Sherman can go to the
waters edge, and with his wand, say:
'Kaw, be STILL and it will be STILL
as it did for over twenty years-the
problem is solved and peace and quiet
will once more reign over North To-
peka. Ask Pat about it.
He says the villa will not cost as
much the rake-off in rip-rapping
and dYking.''
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A Marvel of Nature.

There are few things in nature more
wonderful than the common impulse
which seizes these millions of undeveI-
oped insects living in dark tunnels I'M
derneath the ground and urges them
to cut their way upward, that they
may complete their appointed life in
the upper air. Stirred by this strange
unrest, the mighty host begins to move.
What engineering skill directs their
course aloft? What instinct guides their
movements and enables them with I'M
erring accuracy to burrow to the sun
light? If we suppose that a pupa reach
es the surface before 1t is quite prepar-
ed to transform, or, when the surface
is reached, that weather or other condi-
tions retard the change to the winged
form, we have the influences that re-
quire it to build a shelter. It's manner
of proceeding is interesting and ingeni-
Gus. 1t brings up from it's burrow a
little ball of mud, which it carries be-
tween its mouth and strong forepaws.
The latter are admirably designed for
digging The pellets are placed atop
of one another. as a mason would lay
stones while building circular tower.
They are moistened by savila, which
serves as a sort of cement, and are
pushed down upon each other by the
head and feet, and thus adhere ten
acicusly. The inside is smoothed by
continued motion of the jaws, as a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

months relative to an increase in pay
and betterment of conditions have
ended their sessions and the new
schedule of wage regulations was
signed by both General Manager c..
A Goodnow and the chairrnen of
the committees. The principal change
IN pay goes to the hremen, they re-
ceiving an average increase of $40
per month, and are also exempt from
cleaning the exterior of engines, the
work of cleaning being limited to the
interior of the cab. The cleaning
question was the principal difference.
mere are also some improvements
relative to overtime and also in re-
spect to seniority. The engineers do
not receive any increase in pay, as
their stand was. largely for better
ment OF conditions. These were adj
Justed to the satisfaction of both
sizes, the company making several
concessions. The new regulation is
effective July l.
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and maintain a uniform charge and
rate for transportation, and that their
conduct is in this respect clandestine,
of the United States.
1t is also charged that this alleged
criminal combination to prevent the
defendants from continuing their bust
ness is in order to enable said COM
plainant and it's associates to deprive
these defendants of the right to fol-
low a legitimate. and lawful occupa-
ton and thereby enrich themselves at
the expense of these defendants and
the travelling public.
1t is also charged that the roads
have at all times been aware that the
defendants were and have been for
many years engaged in buying and
selling tickets described, and that
either directly or indirectly have been
supplying the defendants with the
tickets.
Would Confiscate Property.
1t is also charged that to grant the
injunction as prayed for would de-
stroy and render valueless the prop
erty and business of the defendants,
and take away from them their prop
erty without due process of law.
1t is also charged that the complain
ants have a full and complete rem
edy in an action for damage against
the original purchasers for the alleged
violation of his contract, or against
other persons who may sell or use
contrary to the terms the tickets
described.
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A H114L-HARR1MAN COMPACT.
Agreement Said to Have Been Reach
ed About Northwestern Traffic.

Agreement Said to Have Been Reach
ed About Northwestern Traffic.
New York July 14.-Negotiations
for harmonious adjustment of the
Hartman Hill interests on the Pacific
coast are said to be practically COM
pleted. Recent purchases of about 2
million dollars of tidewater terminal
lands in Tacoma and Seattle gave rise
to reports that Mr.. Hartman was plan
ming to build an independent outlet for
the Union Pacific to those cities. 1t is
now announced semi ofhcially that in
order to prevent the construction of
rival line to Puget sound, tariff ar
rangement with the Oregon Short Line
from Portland to Tacoma and Seattle
will be made.
Mr.. Hartman and his associates. it is
understood, were prepared to follow up
the purchase of the million dollars
worth of Puget Sound terminal lands
by the expenditure of 10 or Is million
dollars in the building of a new line
and extensive freight and passenger
terminal stations. A potent facter in
bringing about this harmonious ar
rangement was the Rockefeller inter-
est which has become power to be
reckoned with in transcontinental rail-
road affairs. A financier conversant
with the facts in the case said today:
THE Rockefellers are for peace in
the building world and are opposed to
the building of new lines simply to
beat some other line The conflicting
interests of Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Hartman
will be adjudicated outside of the
courts. Their differences will not reach
a stage where rival and parallel lines
will be built in the northwest and ex-
pensive terminal facilities constructed.
Neither Mr.Hill nor Mr.. Hartman owns
a majority of the stock of the roads
they control. The actual owners are
in a position to assert themselves and
they are opposed to spending any more
millions of dollars in improbable rival
railways. If Mr.. Hartman should build
an independent line to Puget Sound. a
war of rates would be certain to fol-
low, and the dividend paying power of
the railroads concerned would be less
ened materially
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Coal at WaVerIy.

Another and a thicker vein of fine
coal was discovered here Saturday. In
the Hill well at Agricola, at a depth
of 770 feet. the drill entered a vein
of coal, and six feet strong of it was
drilled through. A nice lot of sam
pies of it were secured. The coal is
of fine satiny appearance, is quite
hard, gives off no smut burns to
gray ash, is very close grained. and
seems to be almost devoid of sulphur
and to have no pyrites in it. The find
is a valuable one. When submitted
to a test we think this will prove to
be the most valuable coal in Kansas
yet found. The coal seems to be
very fine quality of camel coal. Sam
pies of it will be submitted to compe-
tent authority to decide as to just
what it is. 1t seems to be a demon
strated fact that large beds of coal
this part of the country at
from 40 to 500 feet. The stockhold-
ers of the company are feeling good
over the find.-Waverly Gazette.
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THE GUARDIAN OF OUR BODY.

The foremost biologist of our day,
NJ. Metschnikoff, has shown the world
of science that there are 1eucocytes in our
blood that act as scavengers or policemen.
cykes look out for the noxious or poisonous
elements in our blood Various offending
elements are picked out of the blood and
tissues by these policemen and destroyed.
Therefore our lives are protected by
these blood-cel1- policemen, the bhagocykes,
long as our blood contains plenty of phago-
cytes and red blood corpuscles
"A new broom sweeps clean land in
order to put our own house in order we
must get nd of all the poisons in the blood
with new broom such an Alternative
out the use of alcohol, as DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, a specific for
making rich red blood-for eradicating the
poisous from the blood. In some way the
policemen In the blood are increased in
number and strength-so that we are put
to cure neuralgia, colds, catarrh, and in
cipient consumption.
1.-THE more study and time Is given to the
subject the more we find that the blood is
the center of life says DR.. X. " Pierce,
the noted specialist of Buffalo, Uthe health
entirely on this blood supply-for the heart
must have pure blood or it will not pump
and keep the body supplied regularly like
the beautiful automatic engine 1t is. The
nerves must be fed on pure blood-or we
suffer the pain of neuralgia, which is the
aches, cold in the head, catarrh-and many
other things are due to stagnation of the
blood"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a mild
laxative. No other medicine equals them
for gentieness and thoroughness.
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~ XIII Rais.U

In the smoking Compartment OF the New
York Sleeper, group of men were chatting
and exchanging business condolences. A
particularly well groomed man on being
asked what his business was. surprised the
others by saying. Il kill rats YES" he
continued. II kill more rats in one day than
would fill this car, for I make Stearns
Electric Rat and Roach Paste. a sure death
to rats, mice and other vermin. Rats and
mice greediiy eat it and run out of the
house to die. Dealers generally sell this
Paste. or package will be sent express pre-
paid, on receipt of price by the Stearns' Elec-
tric Paste Co., Tribune Building. Chicago.
Ill. The small size costs Csc: Hotel size.
8 times the quantity. 81. co." IS
Sold by Rowley s. Snow.
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Sale Of a Fort scott Bank.

Fort Scott, Kas., July 14.-Grant
Hornaday, president of the First Ma
tional bank of this city, has consum-
mated the purchase of the entire cap
ital stock of the Bank of Fort Scott
The books and cash of the bank were
moved last night to the First Ma
tional bank c. F. Drake, founder
and president OF the Bank of Fort
Scott. recently died. His heirs con-
tended for control of the bank with
other stockholders. Mr.. Long of
Kansas City bought up a majority of
the stock. Charles Nelson, for many
years vice president of the bank, was
elected president. He will now as
sist in the liquidation and will there
upon retire. The Bank of Fort Scott
was capitalized for $4,000 and sold
for over 100000
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ST. LoUrs-CHnoAGo SERVICE.
Frisco System Announces Opening OF
New Line.

Frisco System Announces Opening of
New Line.
ST. Louis, July 14.-President A. J..
Davidson announces that beginning
August l. the Frisco will operate night
service between st. Louis and Chi
cago and a day service to Danvi1le, Ill.
Until the road bed is settled and
all improvements are fully completed
the new service will be routed over
the Big Four between Pana and East
st. Louis, the cutoff not being ready
for use at present.
The line between Woodland and
Villa Grove has been completed, as
well as the extension to Pana.
The new st. Louis Chicago line will
be 290 miles long and in connection
with the Big Four will offer double
tracked route between the two cities.
While the schedule for the trains has
not been finally determined, it is ex-
pected that they will depart early in
the night and arrive at Chicago on
a ten-hour schedule.
President Davidson returned yester-
day from an extensive trip over the
Southwestern lines of the system and
states that on the whole conditions
are satisfactory.
New equipment is being prepared
for the st. Louis-Chicago night ser
vice, and the Frisco line will I'M
doubtedly get a good share of the
business. For the present the day
service will be to and from DanviIle,
but ultimately through day service will
pc established between st. Louis and
Chicago.
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KANSAS NEWS.
An Atchison Firm Will InvestI-
gate Apple Crop.
Sends a Nan Out for a Three
Weeks State Tour.
WHERE is THE FRUIT {?
Only Three Loads Have Reached
the City This Season.
Sold for $I.5O Per Barrel But
Are KnOtty and Specked.

Atchison, Kas July 1.-THE Globe
says: L. w. Voight yesterday, sent
out w. T. Bailey for a three weeks
tour of this section of Kansas and
Missouri to ascertain the facts con-
corning the apple crop. Mr. Bailey
will personally visit every farmer
who has an orchard and make a
record of the quantity of apples he
will have
Usually at this season of the year
Atchison commission men are busy
buying and receiving apples, but SO
far there have been only three wagon
loads of apples on the Atchison mar
ket. One of them was brought to
Atchison this morning by n. y. Nc
Elfresh, of the Rushville neighbour
hood. The apples were full of specks
and knotty growths. and McElfresh
said they certainly called for an
apology. The apples sold for $3.50
a barrel in spite of their faults.
McElfresh expects to gather 100
barrels of apples from his fifteen
acres, but the only neighbor who will
do correspondingly well is Greenup
Sutton. Other farmers, for miles
around, including Ben Stuart. will
have no apples McElfresh says that !
while the scientific farmers cultivate |
their orchards by blowing them, he |
does not. This and the fact that he is \
located on high ground may have I
something to do with his success this /
year. His crop has been success
during the past four bad years.
McElfresh says both early and late /
apples, the few that Will mature, will /
be of very inferior quality.
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SEVENTH DAY ADvENT1sTs.
Holding Daily Tent Meetings i'm Trying
to Convert Atchison.

Holding Daily Tent Meetings I'm Trying
to Convert Atchison.
Atchison. Kan. July 14.-Elder E.
Russell of Lincoln, who is preaching
the sermons every evening in the Sew
enth Day Adventist tent on Atchison
street between Third and Fourth
streets, is delivering a chain of dis
courses on the prophecies of Daniel.
and showing a prophetic outline of the
history of the world. Elder A r.
Ogden of Ellsworth. Kan, will arrive
the latter part of this week and will
assist Elder Russell with the meetings.
Both elders will for some time deal
with prophecies in the Bible. The
Seventh Day Adventists believe that
the wars combinations of wealth and
labor, and the strikes and unrest fol-
lowing in their wake, are what are re-
ferred to in the oath chapter of
Isaiah.
The Seventh Day Adventists believe
that these wars and great industrial
and financial clashes are the beginning
of the end of the world. They point
to the fact that within a. few years
three wars of nations have been de-
clared, and that the bloodiest of them
all is now being fought Also, that
the Boxer uprising in China was al
most war, and that the English as
sault upon the Tibetans. and the in
surrection in the Philippines. were lit
tie less. not to mention the fighting in
South America.
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DEMOCRATS FIGURES.
Leaders Mention the States They Hope
to Carry for Parker.

New York, July 14.-According to
the predictions of Democratic leaders
the battle ground of the coming ma
tional campaign will be the states of
New York. New Jersey, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Idaho and Colorado. and possibly ILL.,
noiS.
The Democrats are figuring on sew
eral combinations by which they hope
to control a majority of the electoral
college.
In the electoral college this year
will be AIS votes. To elect the presi-
dent 239 of these will be required. The
Democrats assume that they are GER
tain in advance of 169 of this number.
These votes they expect from the solid
south. Missouri, Delaware and West
Virginia, all three of which they are
confident of carrying. To these 169
they must add seventy more electoral
votes. gathered from what are con-
sidered doubtful states.
The states the Democrats are count
ing on in advance and the electoral
vote of each are.
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Is Accused of EmbezzIement.

Coffeyville, Kas-, July 14.-E. H.
Ricksecker, ex-waterworks superin-
tendent and electric light conlznis-
sioner of this place, was arrested at
his home here on the charge of en-
bezzling $4.0S3.S6 from the water
works funds He was confined in a
room in a hotel and will be given his
preliminary trial as soon as his phys
ical condition will permit. The COM
plant was sworn out by one of the
members of the city council. Mr..
Ricksecker denies the charges.
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Rural Delivery for Harvey.

Wichita, Kas., July 14.-Represen-
tative Victor Murdoch has received
official notice from Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Joseph Bristow
that county system of rural delivery
will be installed in Harvey county as
soon as it can be arranged This Will
be done on special request of Mr..
Murdoch. To obtain it it was neces-
sary for him to show that Harvey
county had good roads in every sec
ton. Sumner is the only other county
in the Seventh district that has a
county system.
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The Smoky Hill Stationary.

Junction City, Kas., July 14-After
falling five inches Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning, the Smoky Hill
river is practically stationary. No
change in the depth of the overflow
which continues to flood the whole
smoky Hill valley in this county
Practically all of the upland farmers
in this county have been able to put
in full time yesterday and today har-
vesting.
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Story of a Patient Hen.

Four weeks ago last Thursday when we
had the heavy rain and the Bull Foot
bottom was flooded, w. E Marsh had a.
box in his yard with three hens setting
in it The flood took it down stream and
deposited it up side down in the. wheat
field a quarter of a mile from the house.
They looked high and low for it, but
could not find it. Thursday when they
were cutting wheat they found the box
and when they turned it right side up one
hen jumped out and started to run. The
other two were dead. That hen had lived
under the box four weeks without any
thing to eat drink, and was still alive
and able to walk to the house. This is
a remarkable case indeed.-Lincoln Re-
publican.
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Death of J. w. Hamilton.

Wichita, Kan. July 14.-Word was re-
ceived here of the death of James w.
Hamilton, state treasurer from 1896 to
1890, which occurred at Nashville of ma
larial fever. Mr.. Hamilton came to Kan
sas in 1858 and moved to Sumner county
in 1881. In 1884 he was elected treasurer
of that county and three years later was
nominated by the Republicans and elect
ed state treasurer. which office he held
for two terms He was born in Adams
county, o.. in 1913. Five children survive
him. He served during the civil war in
an Indiana regiment
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FOR UNPAID FINE.
One Candidate for the Presidency Has
Been Arrested.

East St Louis. July 14.-Wlliam p.
Scott, candidate for president of the
United States on the National Liberty
ticket, has been arrested on account
of an unpaid fine and taken to Belle
vile, the county seat of ST. Clair
county.
Several months ago Scott, who runs
a saloon and summer garden at Den
verside, was convicted of conducting a
disorderly place and his fine and the
costs amounted to $149. He paid $50
and was given time to pay the bal
ance.
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Parent Won't Tel ChiIdren's Ages.

ottawa, Kas., July 14.-One patron
of the Franklin county schools is go
ing to find himself in trouble. He
has refused absolutely to make a
statement as to the age of his chill
dren, as the law requires shall be done
on inquiry by the district clerk
County superintendent Baker an
nounces that a prosecution will be
brought in this case, as a violation of
the truancy law. The fine is from
one to ten dollars and costs.
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81 WI ote you for advice, and I now
take pleasure in informing you that
my improvement is very great indeed.
did not expect to improve so quick
ly after suffering for five long years.
am feeling very good and strong.
thank you so much for Peruna.
shall recommend it to all suffering
with the effects of catarrh and I con-
slider it a household blessing. shall
never be without Peruna- Mrs. Kate
Bohn.
Pe-ru-na Contains No Narcotics.
One reason why Peruna has found
permanent use in so many homes is
that it contains no narcotics of any
kind. Peruna is perfectly harmless.
1t can be used any length of time
without acquiring a drug habit. Pc
runa does not produce temporary
results. 1t is permanent in its effect.
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lansing Convict Fscapes.

Leavenworth, July IA. B. Mack
lin, an Oklahoma prisoner, escaped
from the Kansas penitentiary Wednes-
day. He was with the brickyard gang
going ouc to work, when he lodged un-
der a box car and ran to a clump of
trees The suard could not follow him
promptly, as he had to watch the 9TH
ers. MacI1Iin was sent in from Blaine
county, Ok. last November to serve
a ten-year sentence. A reward of $50
will be paid for his capture.
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4 case came to light that for persistent
and unmerciful torture has perhaps never
been equaled. Joe Golobick of Colusa.
Cal, writes: For Is years endured in,
sufterable pain from rheumatism and
erything known I came across Electric
Bitters and it's the greatest medicine on
earth for that trouble. A few bottles ~
1T completely relieved and cured me -
Just as good for liver and kidney from,
bles and general debility. Only soc Sal
isfaction guaranteed by Arnold Drug Co
81 North Kansas ave. -'
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Another on Wen at Toronto.

Toronto, Kas., July 14.-An oil well
in the district was brought in two
miles southwest of here by the Wyan-
dotte Drilling company of Kansas
City The we'll will probably produce
more than rs barrels a day and was
shot late Wednesday afternoon. More
wells will be put down on the same
farm The well is new territory more
than a mile south of the best pro-
ducers
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soldiers Camp at Manhattan.

Manhattan. July 14.-Three batteries
of regular artillery arrived here at noon
Wednesday and are camping here. They
will proceed to Fort Riley today. The
batteries started from Fort Leaven-
worth July 1. The soldiers welcome the
dry weather. The batteries are the
Sixteenth heavy artillery, the Twenty
eighth mounted battery and the TWEEN
ty-ninth field artillery.