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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
ROADS COMPLY WITH RULING.
Pere Marquette and Michigan Central
to Reduce Icing Charges.

Steps have been taken by the Pere
Marquette and the Michigan Central to
comply with the ruling of the inter-
state commerce commission in the
Michigan fruit case by obtaining a re-
duction in the rates charged for icing
The traffic heads of both roads have
requested a meeting with the head of
the Armour car lines, and it is under
stood that a conference soon will be
held with a view on the part of the
railroad men, at least, of correcting the
condition complained of by the Mich
igan fruit growers and declared by the
just.
Should the Armour car lines show
disposition to disregard the finding of
the commission and agree to a reduc-
ton in the alleged exorbitant icing
charges, the railroads may see fit to
cancel their exclusive contracts on the
ground that they have been found to
be illegal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

built by the workingmen of this city
and vicinity.
The same is true on the farms. Far
mers who have been renters all of their
lives are now buying farms. The re-
cords of the register of deeds show that
comparatively few mortgages are being
recorded, as compared with several
years ago. and the majority of the mort
cages that are being given are being
paid off promptly and discounted. The
district court docket last term had but
three foreclosure cases, and the next
term shows but six cases, while a few
years ago there were as rule from %
to 40 foreclosure cases on the docket
every term. There are more families
owning their own homes in Pittsburg
today than ever before, and eight out of
ten of the new homes being built in
Pittsburg, and in every other town in
the county, are being built as homes,
and not as rented houses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
Crawford County Families Are
Lifting Their Mortgages.
Census Bulletin Shows Most of
Citizens Debt Free.
FORECLOSURES.
FEW
Fine Workers Are Now Buying
Instead of Renting.
Hundreds of New Houses Being
Erected for Homes.

Pittsburg, Kan, Oct. 29.-The last
census bulletin issued shows that a
larger percentage of the families of
Crawford county own their own homes
than ever before in the history of the
county.
OF the S,291 families reported in the
county, 4.075 own their homes. There
are APIS families, or a. little over one
half, who are renters. The majority of
renters live in the towns. OF the 1854
families living on the farms the bulle-
tin shows that but 1.053 or about one
third are renters, the others owning
their farms. OF these $40 are incum-
bered by mortgage to a great or lesseE
extent.
There are 5. 707 families living in the
towns, and of these 3,163 are renters,
while 2,544 own their own homes, 63S
of these incumbered by mortga ges.
There was a time in the history of
this county when almost every farm
and home in the county was covered by
mortgage. The showing of the census
bulletin that less than one-fifth of the
farms of the county have mort cages in
numbering them is an interesting one.
The bulletin also shows that a larger
per cent of the people in the towns own
their homes than ever before.
Not many years ago nearly all of the
miners in the camps were living in
rented houses, mostly belonging to the
companies. Today there are more homes
owned by workingnen in Frontenac
Chicopee and other coal towns than
ever before, and the same is true in
Pittsburg. During the past two or three
years hundreds of new homes have been
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ercise the retirement clause in the
mortgage was approved and that the
bonds probably will be retired In Feb
ruary, at the time when the next cou-
pom is payable. In order to retire the
bonds on that date it would be neces-
sary to notify the bondhoIders by No
vember l., as the mortgage provides
that the bonds can be retire at 102 "A
upon notice to bondholders three
months before any interest day.
The object in retiring the bonds,
which were issued to the amount of
$50, 491. 900, is to remove the encum-
brance that locks up the Northern
Securities stock in the treasury of the
Short Line. The holders of the bonds
also would be able to call for part Of
dividends from Northern Securities
stock in excess of per cent on the
bonds. They were originally issued to
finance the purchase of Northern Pa
cific stock by the Hartman interests
in 1901
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COLLEGE FOR NEGROES.
CoIored People of Crawford and Cher
oLee Have a Plan.

Pittsburg, Oct. 29.-The colored
people of Crawford and Cherokee
counties are taking the preliminary
steps toward the building of a college
to be used exclusively for the educa-
ton of their race, and their general
improvement morally, Intellectually
and religiously.
board of Incorporation has been
organized and met in this city to con-
slider the proposition and plan of work
to be adopted in the erection of the
building. During the meeting of the
incorporators' board an executive and
trustees board was created. A COM
mittee was also appointed to look up
a location for the school. In this the
committee was instructed to ascertain
which town of four. Pittsburg, Weir
City, Cherokee or Girard. would offer
the best inducement, and when the
committee has completed its work the
plan of building will be taken up. The
departments of the school will be col
legiate, normal, primary, grammar.
theological, industrial. commercial,
musical and missionary.
The incorporates will ask for help
in this work and every effort will be
made to make the building and school
a credit to the towp-s-in which it is
located.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
TWO RURAL ROUTES.
PIainviIle Is to Be Favored After De-
cember 4

PIainviIIe, Oct. 29.-This town gets
two free rural routes on and after De-
cember l.. One of them is 81 miles
long, has 107 houses, and contains a
population of 42S. The other is 20
miles long, with 112 houses and 44S
population.
The acreage of wheat sown on Para
disc Flats, of which Plainville is the
center, is large and nearly up to the
acreage sown two years ago. The crop
is growing fine, and the season is I'M
usually favorable for it. Some fields
are alyeady being pastured.
The corn crop has commenced to
move. The yield is larger than for sew
eral years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
CHEroPA HAS A FIRE.
CoIumbia's Livery Barn and Several
Business Houses DESTROYED.

Chetopa, Kas., Oct. 29.-The big
gest fire this town has ever had start
ed at 5 o'clock last, evening, in the
Columbia livery barn and burned for
three hours. 1t is supposed to have
been caused by spontaneous combus-
ton in the baled hay in the loft. The
losses are: W. P. Columbia, livery,
$4,000; w. H. Smith & Son, hardware
and implements, buildings and part
contents, $4,000; r. Summers, harness,
$50; Lucy Woods, restaurant, 500;
Alex Walker, $4,000; George P. Bush,
two buildings, $4,000.
This is the third time Columbia's
livery had burned and twice in the
last year. He had just moved into
new barn. The rigs and horses were
saved with difficulty. The only fire
protection Chetopa had, a wooden wa
ter tower, also caught fire and was
small losses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
TO INVESTIGATE PRISON LABOR.
Visit of Special Agent from Wash
ingtOn at IeaVenWOrth.

Leavenworth, <as., Oct. 29.-R. w.
Durham, a special agent of the bureau
of labor in the department ofcom-
merce at Washington, has arrived here
to make an investigation of prison
labor at this place. He was taken over
both the old and new federal peniten-
tiaries by Major r. w. McClaughry.
the warden, and inspected the work in
progress. He will probably remain
here a week and will investigate the
prison labor conditions at the Kansas
penitentiary.
Mr.. Durham said that he was gath
ering statistics and information for d
special report of the connection of
prison labor with that of outside free
labor. He said that all the peniten-
tiaries and reformatories in the country
would be visited before the report was
made up. The value of prison labor,
the best way to employ it, and COM
parsons with methods in other coun-
tries will be embraced in the report.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
TO CONVENE AT SALIVA.
Swedish Mission Churches Will Hold
Two DAYS Session.

Salina, as, Oct. 29.-Salina will have
another big convention next month
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Young Peoples society of the
Swedish Mission churches of Kansas
and Missouri will be held in this city
commencing at 1880 o'clock the even
ign of November II. The delegates
will arrive in Salina on Friday and re-
main here in convention until Sunday
night. Over two hundred delegates will
attend this meeting from other points
in Kansas, while there will be many
others from the vicinity of Salina.
The sessions of the convention will
be held in the gationaI-Un
Brethren church. Arrangements are
being made to serve meals to the dele
gates in the basement of the same.
church.
Rev. J. H. Hedstronn, of Mcpherson,
is chairman of the society, and Prof.
C. H. Peterson, of ST. Johns military
school in this city, is the secretary.
The programme committee is now at
work preparing the work for the con-
yentiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
SUES FOR RIGHT OF WAY.
The Choctaw Nations Suit Against the
Katy Railroad.

4
katy" Railroad.
Atoka, L T.. Oct. ga case of wide
interest to the Choctaw nation has
been called in the court of the Central
district at this place. 1t is a suit filed
by the Choctaw nation against the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas railroad
company for the value of the right of
together with all ground used for sta
lions and terminals.
The railroad will hight the s1is on the
grounds that the company was given a
grant by the United States government
But the Creek nation secured Il set
tlement with the Katy" ana now the
Choctaws want to know why they have
never been paid. The right of way in
cIudes 100 miles of property.
The action was brought about by the
failure of the Dawes commission TO
allot the lands occupied by the rail-
the railroad has ever been allotted. 50
rar as can be learned. there is no law
which says such a right Of way shall
become the property of he railroad in
stead of the ChoctaW nation. IT is
on this allotment point that the fight
Dawes commission has been sum-
moned to appear IL court as a witness
and he is expected to produce all the
official correspondence. that has passed
relative to the allotment of lands used
Ivy the railroad.
& Texas has Strengthened a lot of track
and thus left the old right of way
abandoned, but the company still
claims it. All right of way acquired
since 1899 has been by condemnation
and there is no question of title about
this. The suit involves the title to all
station grounds and right of way not
acquired by condemnation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

Chicago, Oct. 29.-E. 3. Boyd, for
merly of the Rock Island and now
traffic manager for the board of trade,
is trying to induce the railroads to
place Chicago on a parity with the
Twin Cities in the matter of grain
rates. Yesterday Mr.. Boyd was told
by traffic managers that at several
meetings which had been held with
reference to the matter important in
terests had not been represented, and
therefore the matter had been post
poned. 1t is understood that several
of the traffic men recognize the dis
elimination against this market and
are ready to remedy it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
ssDO Tt Today"

The time worn injunction. Never put
off til tomorrow what YOU can do today
is now generally presented in this form !:
do it today!" That is the terse advice
we want to give you about that hacking
cough or demoraIizing cold with which
you have been struggling for several
days, perhaps weeks. Take some relia-
BILE remedy for it TODAY-and let that
remedy be DR.. Boschee's German Syrup
which has been in use for over 30 years.
A few doses of it will undoubtedly relieve
your cough or cold, and its continued use
for few days will cure you completely
No matter how deep seated your cough,
even if dread consumption has attacked
your lungs, German Syrup will surely ef-
feet a cure-as it has done before in thou
sands of apparently hopeless cases Of
lung trouble. New trial bottles, &c; reg
uIar size, 75c. For sale by Rowley &
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this sort) stopped him and said they
could capture him alive. So they got
behind it and gently "shooed'' it into
the parlor, after which they got a rope
around it's leg and had it safely cap
tured. 1t is presumed that the pelican
was attracted by the light. 1t was no
tjCed that when one of the household
carried a lamp from one room to an
other it would always follow as though
fascinated by the fame. The bird
measures eight feet from tip to tip and
is three feet six inches tall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
Vandalia Recefvership Ended.

Judge Francis Baker of the United
States court in Indianapolis has en-
tered an order dissolving the Vandalia
reeeivership. the order being effective
November l. On that date the re-
ceiver must deliver to the Terre Haute
& Indianapo Railroad company pos
session of the railroad owned by that
company and of the St. Louis, Wanda
liza & Terre Haute and of the Terre
Haute & Peoria railroad. Until fur
Their order the Terre Haute & Peoria
road will be operated by the Terre
Haute & indianapolis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
Apples in Cold Storage.

Hutchinson, Kan, Oct. 29.-Produce
men say that there are now in cold
storage in this city something like 200
cars of apples. The crop is nearly all
picked and the select fruit that is to be
held is about all in storage. There
has been a continuous heavy shipment
of apples from Hutchinson ever since
the early summer apples began to
come in and scores of cars of the fruit
have been sent out in this way besides
the carload shipment There are
great NANNY lots being held in the
farmers, cellars all over the county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
Natural Gas for Fort Scott.

Fort Scott, Kan, Oct. CIV. c.
Gum, a local real estate man, has
closed a deal by which natural gas will
be piped from the Allen county field to
this city. an eight-inch pipe will bo
land and the city mains of the local
gas company will be used for distribut-
ing the gas. Work will be commenced
at once and it is expected to have gas
here by the first of January.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
Cantures a Pelican.

The Westmoreland Recorder tells of
a somewhat novel capture of a wild
pelican by a citizen of that town. The
citizen was reading about midnight,
when he was startled by seeing
through the open door big white bird
alight on his porch. He got a shotgun
and was about to shoot it, when his
wife 1.-THE women are always steady
headed in tremendous emergencies of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
. PnlIman Company Wants Money.

Efforts are being made by the Pull
man company. it is said, to collect con-
siderable sums of money due from the
railroads for equipment used during
the Spanish Am erican war and there
after in the transportation of troops.
1t is understood that fully $4,000 is
due the Pullman company from vari-
Gus roads, but that collection has
proved impossible owing to the con-
troversy between the government and
the railroads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
To the Worid's Fair via the Missouri
Pacific

L you do not live on the line of the
Missouri Pacific, ask for your ticket
via that line from Kansas City There
are seven daily trains between Kansas
City and St. Louis, making connection
with all trains on all lines running
into Kansas City. Any ticket agent
will sell you a ticket at the reduced
rate reading over the Missouri Pacific
from Kansas City
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
Improve ST. Louis Terminal.

Cincinnati, Oct. 29.-At the meeting
here today of the officers of the Ter
minal Railway association of St Louis
plans were considered for extensive
terminal improvements at st. Louis,
that Will be submitted to interested
parties in New York, whence President
ingalls, and others go tonight.
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rels of beer during this season should
be run down and punished. In the
good old summer time, say along in
July or August, when the hot winds are
blowing, a deed of this kind would not
be regarded as being out of order.
However, the authorities have taken
hand in the joint deal and ordered it
closed. The brick yard joint is now a
thing of the past.-Downs Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
MISSING Agents Accounts o. X.

Winfield. Kan. Oct. 81. r. Ness,
travelling auditor for the Santa Fe
railroad company, who has been here
for three days checking up the ac-
counts of Guy Gardner, the missing
Santa Fe ticket agent, finished his
work and reports that he found no
money missing. In fact, the records
showed ninety cents too much money
on hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
HOW His Potatoes Grew.

William Higer last spring planted a
bushel and a half of small potatoes
which had been picked over until only
those that were too small for cooking
remained. AS a result he harvested
over forty bushels. How's that for =
small potato story.-Graham County
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
An F,Imdale Shooting.

Cottonwood Falls, Kas., Oct. a.
AIva Bogue of Elmdale was accident
ally shot by Clyde Holmes. The bali
entered the neck causing paralysis
and probably will result in death. A
specialist was summoned from Tope-
ka. Bogue's father is a representa-
tive of the Santa Fe railway in Colo
RADIO,
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
A New Professor at Emporia.

Emporia. Kas., Oct. 29.-John S.
Axtell, of Lafayette college, Pennsyl-
vania, has been secured to fill the
chair of mental, moral and political
sciences and Biblical instruction in the
College of Emporia. This chair for
merly was filled part of the year by
President J. c. Miller and part by DR..
was made so DIR. Miller can devote his
entire time to the financial interests
of the college.
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Paola, Kas, Oct ga northbound
st. Louis & San Francisco passenger
train struck David Combs as he was
crossing the track at a crossing north
of town Friday afternoon, killing
him outright. Mr.. Combs was about
So years old. The train whistled, but
on account of deafness he did not hear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
The Beer Was stolen.

Monday night some low-down mis-
creants entered the joint which has
been in operation down at the brick
yard for some weeks and stole two or
three barrels of beer. Any person
mean enough to voluntarily walk half
a mile, steal and carry away three bar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

Lawrence, Kan, Oct. 29.-Ths
Freshman team of the University of
Kansas defeated the Fort Scott high
school on McCook field by the decisive
score of % to o. The varsity players
had the ball nearly all of the time and
kept it in their opponents territory.
Penniman, Farary, Hobson and Swish
er did the best work for Fort Scott.
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TOPEKA & n. w. MONEY.
The sum of $500 Deposited to Pay
for Right of WaY in jackson Co.

Holton. Kas. Oct. 29@The sum of
$500 has been left with County
the condemnation of the right of way
for the Topeka & Northwestern rail-
way. This looks as though the road
really meant business, of which there
has been some doubt lately.
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Plan to Retire Bonds.

New York. Oct. 2S.-Directors of the
Oregon Short Line railroad in session
here have considered formally a plan
TO retire the Oregon Short Line and
participating bonds. as announced last
Tuesday. Although no official an
nouncement was made. it is stated by
the Herald that the proposition to ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
Buys a Lemon orchard.

here for a lemon orchard near San
Bernardino, Cal. He has been in Cali
fornia for some time and is expected
to arrive here Saturday with the new
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

hotel will be turned over to rsle new
management and Mr.. James and FAM
lily will go to California Immediately
Augusta Journal
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Death of Jesse Jacobs.

Paola, Kan. Oct. 29.-Jesse Jacobs,
SO years old, died at his home here
Friday. He had lived here about 40
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
Come now, own up, tell
the honest truth

You don't like those gray hairs,
do you? And your husband
certainly doesn't like them.
Then why not buy a bottle of
Ayers Hair Vigor? ItreStores
color TO gray hair every time.
Cures dandruff also. Sold
for over sixty years. Io 9; aIs s 60.
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Jefferson Bible" In Demand.

Washington, Dec. 14.-Judging by
the demand upon senator's and repre-
sentatives, 1.-The Jefferson Bible" has
proved to be one of the most popular
books ever published by the govern
ment. The present edition of 10000
copies has been practically exhausted,
and its distribution seems merely to
have whetted the appetite of the read
ing public. Senators and members are
flooded with requests for the book,
which they are unable to comply with.
Resolutions for a second edition have
been introduced in both the senate and
the house, but it is stated that owing
to the expensive nature of the volume
1t is doubtful whether this will be
ordered.