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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
WALL STREET FLOPS.
President Cassatt Heads Move
ment Toward Roosevelt Camp.

Washington, Feb. IA correspondent
of the New York Herald has sent to his
paper the following:
Among the guests of President and
Mrs. Roosevelt at the dinner to the
supreme court of the United States at
the White House was Mr.. A. J. Cassatt,
of the Pennsylvania railroad and it IS
understood that Mr.. CaSSatt can no
longer be classed among the opponents
of the president for the Republican
nomination. While Mr.. Cassatt has not
expressed himself publicly. and while
he may make no public announcement
of his attitude, it can be stated that
he is now a supporter of the president.
The Importance of this to the admin
istratiOn at this time can be gagged
when it is stated that Mr.. Cassatt is
the president of the PENNSYLVANIA rail
road, which is rather closely allied with
Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan in the contest
which that corporation has been max
ing against the Gould and Rockefeller
interests, and that it has been general
1y understood that, yielding to the SEN
timents of many important men in
Wall street. large investors in Penn
sylvania railroad stock. had been try
ing to influence Senator Quay to have
the Pennsylvania Republican state
convention. which is to meet at Harris
burg. April g. refrain from instructing
the delegates for the president.
In addition to this the Pennsylvania
railroad interests are exceedingly
rectors of that railroad are personal
friends of the Republican national COM
mittee, and many Pennsylvania rail
road men have been outspoken in favor
of nominating Senator Hanna for pres
ident.
1t is believed here that Wall street is
preparing to execute a somersault and
one of the most important friends OF
the president said that there had been
a marked change in the attitude of
very many prominent fnanciers within
the last ten DAYS.
What has brought this about this
man would not say. but truce is GER
tainly indicated. 1t is said that there
have been no negotiations between the
president ard Wall street, at least none
has been reported. and although Mr..
Morgan has been in Washington sew
eral days attending the meeting of the
Peabody fund. he did not go near the
| White House.
The last time Mr.. Morgan was in
Washington he was sent for and saw
the president for short time, and later
attended a musicale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
MRS. MAVERICK GONE.
She Is No Longer in the Ayles-
bury Prison.

New York, Feb. 1.-THE belief is ex-
pressed, in a dispatch to the World
from London, that Mrs. Florence May
brick boarded the steamer Oceanic last
Wednesday and is now on her way to
the United States. There is, however,
no confirmation of this rumor.
London, Feb. 1.-The London Daily
Mail says this morning that Mrs. May
brick is now in Liverpool, and that the
following conditions attach to her re-
lease from prison:
That she shall not appear on the pub
lie stage or write a book of her expert
enceS and that she shall in no way en-
deavor to attract public attention 10
herself.
In spite of the mystery with which
officials shroud the action in connection
with the reported release of Mrs. Flor
ence AIaybrick. who is serving a life
sentence for poisoning her husband, it
can be definitely said that she has
been removed from Aylesbury prison.
At the United States embassy it was
emphatically declared that she had not
been pardoned and that she was still a
prisoner. Where she has been taken
remains a mystery, but reports from
AyleSbury are that she has been remov-
ed to some institution in Cornwall.
The home office and the governor of
Aylesbury prison refuse to make any
kind of a statement on the subject. If
the ordinary course had been followed,
Mrs. Maybrick would have been taken
to Holloway, if her immediate release
were contemplated, but she is not there
and probably has been removed to some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
oHANUTE READING ROOM.
q. E. Busser Will Open One There
About April l.

Chanute Kan, Feb. Is. z. Busser
has been here arranging for the estab-
lishment of a reading room and library
at this place. The building formerly
occupied by Division Superintendent J.
L. Barnes at the corner of South Grant
avenue and West Third street has been
selected as the location Of the proposed
institution and will be fitted up and
equipped in a thorough manner.
The building will have all the con-
veniences and accommodations of the
most modern and up-to-date club
houses There will be an excellent Ii
rooms furnished with writing tables,
comfortable chairs and everything that
will be conducive of comfort. There will
also be billiard and pool parlors where
the railroad men may enjoy a social
game in one another'S company.
In the gymnasium annex there will
be a number of bath rooms equipped
with shower baths, tubs and all the
other facilities for ablution. The build
ing is located conveniently to the right
of way, between the round house and
Main street, and these baths will I'M
doubtedly prove very popular with the
men, as they come in dirty and be-
grimed from toll.
I'VE expect to have things in readi-
ness in a short time" said Mr. Busser.
1.-The building can be fitted up very con-
Veniently and will make splendid head
quarters for an institution of this sort.
If the weather is favorable the work OF
remodeling and furnishing it should be
completed by the first of March.
scarcely think, however, that the wealth
er will permit us to open by this time
and it may be the first of April before
everything is in readiness. 1t will be
necessary to make connection from the
bath rooms with the sewer and this will
be more likely to cause delay than any
other feature of the work.
The Santa F'e system regards Cha
mute as very important point and is
contemplating some decided and extern
sive improvements here The room and
to the use of the railway employees with
out charge. The motto of the COM
pany. you know, is Give a man a bath,
a book and an entertainment that ap-
peals to his mind and hopes by music
and knowledge and you have enlarged,
extended and adorned his life; and as
he becomes more faithful to himself, he
Is more valuable to the company "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
WANT new ONE.
East Eighth Avenue People
Prefer Steel Bridge.

People living on East Eighth ave-
nue. have proposed that the city can
eel its contract with the Midland
Bridge company for the repair of the
wooden bridge damaged by the flood
and build, instead, steel bridge to cost
81 100, of which the city will pay $500
and the remainder shall be raised by
popular subscription among the people
interested. So favorably impressed was
the ways and means committee with
this proposition that it instructed the
city engineer to prepare and submit to
the council Monday night plans and
specifications for a steel bridge to cost
from 81, 900 to 1000.
The next thing will be for the coun-
Gil to get out of its contract with the
Midland Bridge company. This will
probably be a difficult thing to do. For
some time, the council has been threat
ening to cancel the contract because
the company had been unable to go
ahead with the work of repairs. Its
material has been tied up on some
Arkansas railway waiting to be hauled
up here. 1t seems, however, that there
is a clause in the contract which pro-
tects the company in just such an en-
Urgency. 1t says:
1T is further agreed by and between
the parties hereto that should the
weather or condition of the said stream
be such as to preclude the repair of the
said bridge within the time above spec
flied, or should the same be delayed by
the failure of the railroads to trans
port any portion of the same within
such time, then the time for the
fulffllment of this contract shall be ex-
tended for a period of not less than
that caused by such delay"
This leaves the city with no way out
of the contract except by buying the
material which the bridge company has
purchased for the bridge, and paying
the company some bonus to be released
from the contract.
1t is a peculiar coincident that just
as the city has about decided that it
does not want the old bridge repaired,
the Arkansas lumber which the com
pany has been waiting for for two
months arrived in Topeka. The car
came in over the Missouri Pacific Fri
day afternoon. The big 34-foot timber,
Ii inches square, which could not be
obtained except Oh q, special order, was
in the lot.
The contract price for the repairs on
the bridge was S276. 1t is probable that
the city would have to pay at least $3.50
for the material which the company has
on hand here, and the privilege of be-
| ing released from the contract. Street
| Commissioner Snyder says that all the
material could be used by the city IN
future bridge repairs, and that it would
| involve no loss whatever to buy it.
If the city went ahead with the re-
pairs on the old bridge, it would cost
! S276. If it adopted the proposition of
the East Eighth street people, it would
put up $500, plus whatever loss would
be incurred by cancelling the repair
contract Most of the councilmen be-
lieve that the city can I'll afford to
pay the additional mones Tor the pur-
pose of getting a substantial steel
bridge in place of the present wooden
| structure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

w. J. Black, general passenger agent
for the Santa Fe, is expected back the
first of this week from a short stay in
ST. Louis.
F. W; Thomas, engineer of tests for the
Santa Fe, with headquarters in Topeka,
has returned from a short business trip
to Newton. Kan.
Thomas E. Prout, secretary of the Rail-
road Y NJ. C. A, and William Boyes his
assistant, returned from Newton where
they have been attending the state con-
vention of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A
H. E. Byram, who has been appointed
to the position of general superintendent
Of the Rock Island to succeed ]. M. Cru
Der. has arrived in Topeka from Chicago
and will assume the duties of his new po-
sitiOn Immediately.
Rev. Frank Mallory, pastor of the
Third Christian church, addressed the
of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. The subject
of Mr.. Mallory's address was The, Elk
cited Governor" Miss Gertrude Tryon
sang solo.
President ingalls, of the Big Four rail-
road has offered to give $4,000 toward the
erection of the 100000 gymnasium at Pur-
due university, Lafayette, Ind, as a
memorial to the II students who lost their
lives in the wreck of the football players
train on October 81, 1903
At the Santa Fe storehouse in this city
there is an old ticket case which the of
ficials claim to be the first one ever used
at any station on the lines of that road.
1t is probable that this relic of the early
days Of the Santa Fe will be sent to St.
Louis, where. it will figure. in the COM
panys exhibit at the worlds fair. Until
lately it has been in use in the local
ticket office
The c.. B. and Q. intend to issue a
to defeat scalpers and others who at
tempt to manipulate the passes. It is
stated that the distance to be travelled, as
well as the points named, will be punched
No single trip passes will be issued. For
a single trip the round trip form will be
issued, leaving the check properly can
celled attached.
It Is stated that the trans Missouri
committee OF me the western Passenger as as
Louis decided to suggest the discontin-
uance of the present system of issuing re-
duced rates to parties of laborers. This
system has been the source of a great
deal of trouble to the railroads. In many
cases laborers who secure transportation
In this way ave no intention of enter
ing into the service of the road but quit
the moment that their destination is
| rAoNbad
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ROBBED OF $4,000.
Left the Money in His Room at
a Hotel.

London. Feb. Scotland yard detec-
tives are confronted with a mysterious
robbery, entailing the loss of 100000,
which has just taken place in the Hotel
Metropole. George Marshall, of Ret
ford, solicitor for the Duke of New
castle, came to the city with the money
in wallet. It was to have been used
in the purchase of some property for
the duke. Marshall left the wallet in
the hotel safe over night and after TAX
ing it to his room in the morning he
went for few minutes to the barber
shop, locking the room as he left. Upon
his return the wallet was found cut
open and $50, 900 of the $4,000 it con-
tanned stolen. No definite trace of the
thief has been found, but it is presumed
that a band of experts had followed the
solicitor for the purpose of seeking an
opportunity. it being known that he
made regular visits and carried large
sums.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
SWINDLED PEARS.
Played ssCon" Game on Superintend-
ent of Haskell.

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 1.-After hav-
ing been sought all over the southwest
by officers of the postoff1ce and interior
departments, Peter Ko1as. alias Pedro
Caldaron, alias Jose I. Trujillo. was
arrested here by the limited States au-
thorities. He is wanted on a charge
of defrauding the superintendent
and directors of the Haskell institute.
Lawrence, Kas., and the additional
charge of using the mails for purposes
of fraud is made against him.
Early in December it is alleged that
he wrote to H. D. PEARS, superintend-
ent of the Haskell school, stating that
he had a large party of Indian boys
who desired to enter the school and
asked that transportation be sent for
them The TRANSPORTATION was sent,
but when the supposed wards of the
nation arrived it was found that all of
them were Mexicans to whom the
transportation had been sold.
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RAILROAD news.
Gruber VIII Take a Position
With Union Pacific.
Nay Become superintendent of
Transportation at Omaha.
NOT YET ADMITTED.
Gruber Remains in Topeka
Byram Also Here.
Denied That Mr. Gruber Was
Dismissed by LOree.

J. N. Gruber, who resigned a few
days ago as general superintendent of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
lines in the southwest district, has been
appointed superintendent of transporta-
ton of the Union Pacific system, ac-
sordiug to the Kansas City Star.
A general order from the Chicago
office of the Rock Island-Frisco system
extends the jurisdiction of Henry I.
Miller, general manager, to the lines in
the southwest district. Formerly the
general superintendent reported direct
~ to John F. Stevens, fourth vice pres
tdent of the Rock Island-Frisco system.
Topeka officials of the Rock Island
would not admit today that Mr.. Cru
Der was to be superintendent of trans
portation for the Union Pacific, though
1t was admitted that he was to become
connected with the Union Pacific in
some official capacity.
One Rock Island man said: 1T is
not likely that Mr.. Gruber would take
the position of superintendent of trans
portation for the Union Pacific because
that is not as good a position as he
held here"
The present superintendent of trans
portation for the Union Pacific is E.
buckingham. No information has been
and this indicates that there may be
some mistake about the appointment
Of Mr.. Gruber to that position.
Mr.. Gruber is still in To0eka. but is
no longer making the Rock Island Off
ces his headquarters. Supt. Byram is
now in active charge. 1t has been re-
ported from Chicago that Mr.. Gruber
was let out by President Loree, and
that numerous other changes would
follow the Inauguration of the new
president Mr. Gruber, however, denies
this report. He insists that he re-
signed voluntarily to accept a better
position with the Union Pacific.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
ROSWELL IS REJOICING.
Railroad in Sight and Mineral Well of
Hot Water Discovered.


Captain Lea returns from Dallas con-
WINGED that the Dallas road to Roswell
will soon be a reality, says the Roswell
Register. He had frequent talks with
the directors while there, and they as
sllred him that within fOrty-fiVe days
breaking dirt will begin. The directors
say that there is no hot air about this
proposition but that they mean business
and are going to push this road to an
early completion. Over sixty miles of
the road is already graded. Their fran
chise and their terminal properties there
in Dallas with the right of way that
they have already secured along the
route make a very solid foundation for
all future plans. Directors of the road
just as soon as they begin rail laying
will be in Roswell to make and to listen
to business propositions. Tell your
people" they said to Mayor Lea, that
this road is to be built and to be built
at once" Another project now on in
Dallas, and one which Roswell should
initiate at once, is the deep well propo-
sition. They have gone down 1900 feet
and have secured hot mineral water the
equal of that at Mineral Springs Not
satisfied with this, they have put a
small pipe into the well so that this
water may be saved and are going still
deeper with the expectation of greater
things
Captain Lea has already about $1,000
subscribed here for a deep well; $4,000
is all that is wanted now. This should
be given at once. No greater thing
could happen to Roswell than to get
the kind of water to the surface right
here in town which is undoubtedly be-
low US.
What does it mean? It not only
means a natatorium, a health resort, a
well that will make Roswell famous but
it means if soft water may be secured
railroad shops and other enterprises that
Roswell needs and must have. The
railroad and the deep well are two prop
ositions Both need pushing and little
work will bring both about
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USE MORE MONEY.
Rock Island Increases It's Appropri-
alton for Advertising Southwest.

The Rock Island has decided to make
a determined effort toward colonizing
its territory in the southwest. An in
crease in the usual appropriation has
been made, and the passenger depart
ment has decided to put in extremely
low colonization rates. With this end in
view the passenger department submit
ted a proposition to the Western Pas
senger association yesterday for three
one way excursions into the southwest
at cheaper rates than ever before. The
dates named in the proposition are
February Is, March 1 and 10. The rate
proposed for Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory one way is SO, and for Texas
$11.50. The one way normal tariff to
Fort Worth is $3.50, to Houston SOL Is,
to Magnum, Ok, $3.50, and to Lawton
L L. S253O
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BUILD a Denot al Gnthria.

Guthrie, Ok, Feb. 1.-The Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railroad has compile
ton of a new $4,000 passenger station.
The freight station is already compile
ted and ready for use, and grades have
been finished for eight switch tracks
within the city limits. Workmen were
sent out to lay steel today for the first
time since the trouble over the mill
tax levied against the citizens of Guth-
RE for the right of way, was started
and beyond all doubt the Missouri
Kansas & Texas will be laying rails in
side the city limits before the end of
the week Track is laid now within a
few miles of the city.
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100000 ON HIS LIFE.
Policy Written for Charles Netcher,
of Chicago, by the Mutual Life.

held by any one company on the life of
Chicagoan-has just been issued to
Charles Netcher by the Mutual Life IN
surance company of this city.
Netcher was born in Buffalo in 1852.
When he was fourteen years old he went
to Chicago to earn his living. He got
the job of bundle boy in a retail store.
Now he is the proprietor of one of the
biggest department stores in Chicago
and the owner of a large amount of real
estate.
There was keen competition among
the insurance companies of the country
to write this large policy.-F'rom the
New York Sun, Jan. IT,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
WHITNEY UNDER KNIFE.
Elk Secretary of Navy Under
goes Surgical Operation.

New York, Feb. 1-William c. Whitney,
former secretary Of the navy, has under
gone an operation for appendicitis and is
said to be doing well as could be ex-
pected. Mr.. Whitney was stricken on
Friday. Immediate operation was decided
upon, when, after night of pain, the
symptoms became more alarming. Mr..
Whitneys illness was so sudden and de-
veloped SO rapidly that his condition was
not generally known. Only members of
his family and a few immediate friends
had knowledge of the operation. The ill
ness had its beginning in a cold he con-
tracted while he and a band of fire fight
ers were extinguishing blaze on a place
adjoining his South Carolina estate two
weeks ago.
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Missouri Pacific Adopts Block System

A contract with the Union Switch
and Signal company for the installation
on all the main line tracks of the Mis-
souri, Pacific system has been signed by
William Cotter. manager of the rail-
road. It is thought the system will be
between Kansas City and ST. Louis
and on the 1856 miles of the ST Louis
Iron Mountain & Southern between St.
Louis and Popular Bluff, by May 1.
The other lines of the Missouri Pacific
system will later be equipped with the
block system
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other prison of less rigorous discipline,
where she can recuperate prior to her
release Or, possibly, she has been
conveyed to one of the government
homes of detention, or to an asylum.
The details given in this mornings
Lloyd's weekly newspaper regarding the
visit of Mrs. Maybrieks mother, Baro-
ness de Roques, to Aylesbury prison
January % appear to be correct. She
afterward described Mrs. Maybrick as
very busy with her work, in much bet
ter spirits and looking forward to her
release.
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Edwin Hawley,a Syndicate.

The recent purchase of the Glover
Leaf by the syndicate headed by Edwin
Hawley is now said to be preliminary
to the formation of a new middle west
and Atlantic seaboard line. The roads
to be merged are said to be the Clover
Leaf the Chicago & Alton and the New
York, Ontario & Western, the three
forming a system that would extend
just east of the Rockies through Chi
cago and east to the Atlantic seaboard.
an outlet at tide water being found
at Boston or some other New England
point. Included in the proposition is
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agreements of the municipal, village and
county OFFICIALS are obtained the work of
reconstruction will begin and will include
the laying of an electrical third rail sys-
tenn over or under all the streets, roads
and highways now crossed at grade.
Two immense power houses equipped
with steam turbines, one at Yonkers and
one at Port Morris, will supply the mo-
tive force for the electrical engines which
will take the place of steam power.
The cost of abOliShing grade crossings
is to be borne under the law-one-half by
the railroad, one-quarter by the state and
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Hauled bv the " Bloody 1oo.n

President Loree and Vice President
Winchell of the Rock Island are not
afraid of ''hoodoo'' engines. During
their trip over the Eastern Illinois this
week their special was hauled by en-
CINE 100, known as Bloody 100' In
1898 this eng ne ran into a roundhouse
and killed several persons and it's rec
ord since has been a bad one.
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RECONSTRUCT THE LINE.
New York Central Plans Some
Sweeping Changes.

New York. Feb PLANS have been
New York Central roadbed for a dis
tance of So miles from this city northward
and the elimination of all grade crossings
on the Hudson river and the Harlem di-
visions. These have been submitted to
the local authorities of Yonkers, Mount
Vernon, Irvington, Tarrytown and Ossin-
ing The local and the township authori-
ties between the Harlem division are also
considering plans for the several sections
of the railroad passing through their ter
ritory.
Soon as the necessary consents and