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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

w. E. Needles. of Reading, was in
town yesterday to pay his subscription
to the Gazette. Mr.. Needles is the
proud possesscr Of fifty helpful hens
of a domestic nature. and five gallant
roOsterS. These chickens follow the
hogs, and get q little Kaffir corn, and
a preparation from the drug stores
that cheers but does not intOxicate.
During the last two months Mr.. and
Mrs. Needles have sold $50 worth of
eggs from these fifty hens and five
punctilious ROSTERS. The hens get
all the credit for this and in the
spring when the new chickens come
on the young ROSTERS will be killed
first, just as they have always been
killed first. In View of this showing
of Mr.. Needles the Gazette demands
an equality of sexes. If the Needles
case had been reversed, if there had
been fifty roosters and five hens,
could the hens have done so well q?
How many eggs would have been sold q?
Is it not fair then that when the roost-
ers had so clearly an equal partner
ship in that $50 earnings that they
should have equal rights before the
ax?-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

complete cures as that of Mr.. c. E.
Janvrin of Hampton Falls, n. H,
whose recovery furnishes convincing
evidence of the power of the new
remedy.
Mr.. Janvrin was attacked about
three years ago by what he at first
thought was rheumatism He did the
usual thing-applied liniments to his
legs, which were the parts affected,
and got temporary relief But the
trouble always returned and, each
time with greater severity. He real
lied that the disease was gaining a
firner hold of his system all the
while, and after he had endured the
pain and discomfort for more than a
year, he began to consult physicians
in great anxiety.
lie was startled by the verdict,
which they agreed in pronouncing in
his case He learned from them that
he was in the grasp Of a fearful dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
BEST PAYING ROAD.
Santa Fe Earns Good Dividends on
the Prescott & Eastern.

1.-THE Prescott & Eastern railway"
Prescott the other day, lis the best
the whole Santa Fe system. Some
the most profitable division of rail-
road in the whole United States. I
don't know about that, but there is no
doubt whatever that it makes more
money than any other branch con-
nected with the Atchison.- The road
is almost completed nov to the great
Crown King mine in the Bradshaw
mountains and after a week or so we
intend to run two trains each way
daily over the line, one making the
round trip from Prescott to the
Bradshaws and the other making the
round trip from Prescott to Mayer
and Poland The amount of business
done in the way of supplies for the
innumerable mining camps along the
line is simply enormous. The figures
showing the monthly freight business
at some of the small distributing sta
lions will run often between five and
ten thousand dollars. -
The Prescott & Eastern road has as
good a roadbed as can be found any
where on the Santa Fe and it is kept
in the finest of condition. 1t has cost
more to construct than any other line
of similar length in the west and the
grades are something remarkable. I'd
on mountain side near the Crown
King the ascent is made by means of
seven switchbacks, the train literally
going cow fashion I'D the hill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
sPURTs Blue PAM.
New Machine Which Automatically
Marks Defects in the Track.

American railroad development has
reached the point where a man can sit
comfortably in a private car and see
recorded on paper before him every i'm
perfection of the rails over which he is
riding. Twenty years ago, a track
walker with a hammer tramped the
crossties to find out this same thing.
The track walkers work and much
more is now done by the dynograph, a
mechanism which not only records the
deviations the rails make from a
straight and level line, but automati-
cally computes these deViatiOns in feet
and inches. 1t is the invention of DR..
p. H. Dudley. The invention is at
tached to his private car, which has
been his home for Is years. The dyno-
graph tests rails. 1t is machine AZ
inches high and looks like a hand prime
ing press 1t makes records on the roll
of paper attached to the machine, made
through power gained from the rolling
of the wheels of the car over the track.
The paper is unrolled by a shaft attach
ed to the axle of the car The paper
is thus moved slowly as the car travels.
Suspended over the paper are a num-
Der Of glass tubes, each containing red
ink
They are really glass needles that
make a continuous mark on the paper.
| There is one needle for each track, one
for the gauge of the rails, another to
measure the distance the car is travel
| ing. These needles are all connected,
Z
and then by delicate mechanism at
/ tached to the shaft. If the car is
/ travelling over a perfectly level track,
/ these glass needles make a straight
4 line If there is an undulation in the
4 track of a fraction of an inch, the SEN
! sitive mechanism waivers, and the line
/ becomes broken. Since no track is per-
/ fectly level, the record for the best road
/ bed in America is wavering.
When the undulation or break in the
/ level of the track is one-eighth of an
| inch or more, the mechanism opens a
1 hose attached to a can of blue paint
on the trucks. the paint is spurted on
/ the rail and the defect is thus plainly
marked for the section gangs. Every
/ time the paint is thrown on the track
/ a mark is made by the glass needle
/ giving a. record by which to check the
work of these track repairers.
At the end of a test trip, a perman-
! ent record of the roll is made and cop
les are printed for the various mechan-
/ ical departments of the road. By this
record the railroad is apprised of the
! actual condition of the roadbed.-
/ Worlds Work for Nav.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
SAYS HE IS THE BROTHER.
A Letter From Alabama Claiming a
Share in an Emporia Estate.

Emporia, Kas., May 13=Henry
Kreitmier, an Atchison. Topeka &
Santa F'e engineer, committed suicide
by drowning in the Cottonwood river
last winter He left considera bic
property. A brother John, of whom
nothing had been heard for ten years,
was supposed to be dead.
A letter purporting to have been
written by him in Montgomery, Ala.
was received here yesterday. It said
that because he was a striker in 1894
and had been placed on the railroads
blacklist, he had changed his name
to John Myers. Myers, or Kreitmier,
will come here to claim share in the
brothers estate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

Leavenworth, Kas., May 14.-Chas.
Erman, the barber who stabbed
Charles Pullen a week ago here, is
reported to have lost his reason.
Erman was kept in Jail and was Wor-
ried greatly since the stabbing. When
informed that Pullen was dead Erman
could not control himself and was
in a stupOr for several hours. Physi-
clans who examined him last night
said his mind was unbalanced. He
was taken from the jail to his home.
where relatives and a physician are
caring for him. Pullen's mother says
that she will swear to a warrant
charging Erman with murder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

A Name to Make Men Shuddcr no
LOnger-LOcOmotOr Ataxia Now
in the List of Durable Diseases.

Fresh proof is furnished daily that
a path to recovery has at last been
opened before the most hopeless vic
tins known to medical science, the
sufferers from locomotor ataxias the
pains Of which are. in the language
of the highest medical authority,
probably the most agonizing which
the human frame is ever compelled to
endure
The achievement almost passes be-
lief, for this most dreadful of nervous
diseases has long been regarded as in
evitably fatal One cannot, however,
refuse credit to such well attested and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

The influence of climatic conditions In
the cure of consumption is very much
overdrawn. The poor patient and tha
rich patient, too, can do much better ae
ton and a regular use OF German Syrup.
Free expectOratiOn in the morning Is
made certain by German Syrup, so IS a
good nights rest and the absence of that
eakenfnE cough and facilitating night
sweat Restless nights and the exhaus-
ton due to coughing, the greatest dan
ger and dread of the cOnsum ptive, can be
prevented or stopped by taking German
Syrup literally and regularly. Should
Won be able to 20 to a. warmer cline, you
will find that of the thousands OF con-
eIln1ptives there the few who are bene-
Hted and regain strength are those who
use German Syrup. Trial bottles. &c;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

They have cured hundreds of cases
probably just like yours. Isn't the
chance worth taking2 You try them
free. Send US your name We Will
send you by return mail a pair OF
Magic Foot Drafts-prepaid If you
are satisfied with the comfort they
give YOU, send us One Dollar. If not
send US nothing. You decide Magic
Foot Drafts are worn without the
least Inconvenience and cure rheuma-
tism in every part of the body by
stimulating expulsion of acid poisons
through the great foot pores Splen-
did booklet illustrated in colors, free
with the trial Drafts. Don't suffer,
but write today to the Magic Foot
Draft Co, BL IA Oliver bldg, jack
son, Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
Work on the Orient.

A pile driver and the material to
build two bridges have been shipped to
Milton and the two bridges win be
built between Milton and Viola. Track
laying between Wichita. and Milton will
commence on the goth and the work
will be pushed rapidly. The officers of
the Orient say that arrangements are
made for active operations along the
line and that construction work viii be
carried on steadily through the sum-
mer and fall. Many men and teams are
in and around Anthony, ready to go to
work. The demand for harvest help
may somewhat interfere with the plans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
TROUBLED WITH SICKNESS.
Salt Lake Workers Under Care of the
COMPANY Doctors.

The Salt Lake Railway has its medical
department in perfect condition at pres
emit In the different camps of the con
struction force recently epidemics OF in
festival diseases have broken out among
the men The cases We're successfully
treated. but kept recurring A rigid 1nVes-
tigation was made and the origin of the
disease was found to be in lone careless
" cleansed cooking utensils.
Another similar case. puzzled the doc
tors for some days until they aScertalle9
thar one of the water tank cars used had
been repaired by the use of red lead TIE
prompt investigation and thorough SAM
ia ton resultant has kept the camps in a
healthy condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
Fredonia's Big GLASS Plant.

Fredonia, May III. D. Allen has
gone to Covington, Pa, to close the
contract for the largest glass plant 10
Gated in the west. This plant will be
half larger than the largest plants at
Coffeyville. 1t will employ rs men
with a pay roll of $4,000 per month.
There is now little doubt but what the
plant will soon be put in here. This
means more houses and more people to
the town. Fredonia will probably have
1000 more inhabitants by this time next
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
Found a NIasfodon Skeleton.

Ottawa, Kan, May 1.-Two fisher
men found what is supposed to be the
skeleton of a mastodon on the banks
of the Marias des Cygnes river yester-
day. A tooth seven inches long and
five inches across at its broadest part
was brought back to town. The speci-
men is petrified and the discoveries
declare that the whole skeleton is in
good state of preservation. An effort
will be made to interest the state uni
versity in the find.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
EVEN BREAK IN FLORIDA.
Delegation to st. Louis Uninstructed
With Five Favoring Hearst.

Jacksonville, May lit now
seems probable that the senatorial
race will have to be run again The
vote in AZ counties not entirely COM
plete gives TaIiaferro 2O,6o6 and all
the other candidates 2O,697. Three
counties and about 20 precincts are
yet to be heard from.
The delegation to the st. Louis con-
vention goes uninstructed- No can
didate except Hearst had a ticket in
the field and the delegation probably
will stand FIVE for Hearst and five un-
committed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

Emporia. May 14.-Dr. J. ]. Wright
died from heart failure here Friday
DR.. Wright came here in 1870 and was
up to the time of his death the Oldest
practicing physician in Emporia. He
was born in Fayette county, Indiana,
odist church 43 years and was a prac-
ticing physician SO years. He is sur
vived BY his wife and three sons. two
of whom are VoInay and Ralph Wright
of the Kansas City Stock Commission
company, Wright Bros. & Abrams
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

Arkansas city, Kas.. May 14.-Lu-
Gle Foote. s years old, who for the
past five years has made her home
with Neal Pickett and wife at Ashton,
has been found by relatives that have
been searching for her for a long
time Five years ago Pickett took
the girl away from a peddler who was
travelling overland through the coun-
try. and who was brutally treating
her. She told Pickett that her mother
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
cur OFF ALL FREE RIDES.
Railroad Stakeholder Seeks to In
crease the Net Earnings.

3. I.ewright, an attorney, has fled suit
in the district court of Dewitt county,
Tex for an Injunction against the san
Antonio and Arkansas Pass railway re-
strainine said company from issuing free
masses to members of the legislature. dis
trict Judges and other public Officials, al
leging that he is a stOckholder and thsit
if the free passes were not granted the
company could either pay dividends or
give the public better service. He also
asks for an order calling in all outstand-
ing passes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
Charced With Iannor seIIinr.

Junction City. Kas-, May 1.-THE
deputy United States marshal, Mr..
McGrath, arrested A1ollie Low, a Sa-
lima woman, here en- the charge of
selling liquor and not being licensed.
She had made business of bootleg
ging' to the soldier trade it was said
The United States commissioner, Mr.
Roark, bound the woman over to the
next term of the federal court. She is
in the county jail here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
sruBRs FTXEs DATEs.
VIII Complete Two Big Contracts
During the Early Summer.

w r. Stubs, head of the Stubs, Flick,
Johnson Construction company, has an
nounced that the Alton Burlington cut
off between Mexico on the Alton and Old
Monroe on the Burlington will be COM
pleted July 81. The Rock Island line be-
tween Kansas City and St. Louis, which
the same company is building, Will be I'm
fshed June l.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
Contract Let for New Railroad.

The contract was let few days ago
for 16 miles of the A. M & K rail-
road. There is no guess work or hear
say about his. A St Paul man saw
the contract and talked with the con-
tractor. It begins at the state line and
comes this way 16 miles. There is a
controversy about the route from
Scamnon to the NeOsho county line
and until that is settled a larger con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

Junction City, Kan. May 14-Notice
has been received at Fort Riley that
the Ninth Artillery band, which has
been stationed at the post since it's or
ganization four years ago, is to be
transferred to Key West, Fla, for
station The band is one of the most
noted in the army and for several
years has figured prominently in cele-
brations at many places in central
Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
Fire in a wichita Theater.

Wichita, Kas., May 14.-Sparks
from electric wires set fire to 1000
feet of ceIluloid films in a moving pic
tur machine in the Novelty theater
last night. The house was quickly
filled with smoke. TIL audience was
stampeded. Several people were
bruised in reaching the exits, but none
were MORALLY injured. There were
about 400 people in the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
GUESTS OF SANTA FE.
d. of L. Il. VIII Take a Free Excur-
sion to San DIEGO.

sion to San Diego.
Los Angeles, May 1.-THE Broth err
hood of Locomotive Engineers were
in executive session for several hours
discussing the business of the order,
considering conditions in the cOnstitu-
ton and bylaws, trying to select rules
to fit the requirement Of members In
all sections of the country.
Much Of the morning session was
taken uD in the discussion of the sub
ject of railroad fares It is asserted
that there was strong criticism of the
roads east of Buffalo for refusing TO
pass the delegates.
vention today, the entire body Of dele
gates having accepted an invitation
of the Santa Fe to visit San Diego
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RY.
The WorId,s Fair LING.

Seven daily trains between Kansas
City and St Louis which leave Kan
sas City 6:55, 500, 1910 a. m. and
1:1O, 9:15, HOO p. m. and 1905 mid
Ask for you1- ticket via this line
from Kansas City If you miss one
train. you Will not have long to wait
for another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

second time. but before marrying gave
her away. Frank Lawrence, con-
ductOr on the Union Pacific out of
Platte, Meb., learned of her where
abouts and is coming to see her. He
is a brother of her mother and holds
some property due the girl from her
grandmOther'S estate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

other night he was sent out to flag
No. on the mountain in the dark He
had gone a short distance when he
found that he had a companion in the
form Of a large bear. About that time
he took down the track and from all
accounts he was going some; he tagged
the train and then took to tall timber.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

tract cannot well be let This office
has the contract for printing the deeds
for the right of way through Kansas.
and there is now every indication OF
active work in the construction OF the
line soon.-St. Paul Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
kansas Rural Carriers.

Washington, May 14.-These rural
carriers were appointed today for
Kansas: FL Dorado, regular, Jedekiah
d. Hull; substitute, William l. Riley
Lafontain, regular. Oscar Mckinney;
substitute, Baline Mckinney Weir,
regular. Henry H. Patton; substitute,
Frank Patton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
MORE THAN BEFORE STRIKE
Santa Fc Has Seven Extra Machinists
at Kansas City.

Kansas City. Mo, May 1.-THE Santa
re strike situation in Armourdale remains
unchanged. Fifteen more machinists have
beer imported by the company This
makes a total of 26 now employed, where
as before the strike only - were at work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

Kansas City. No, May 14.-Presi-
dent Arthur E. Stilwen has called a
meeting OF the directors of the KAN
sas City, Mexican & Orient railroad to
meet in Kansas City on May q to
make arrangements for receiving the
100000 Mexican subsidy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14
His Comnanion a TsIaclz Bear.

We understand that Brakeman Con
has just proven his title clear as hero,
and will undoubtedly be one of the first
to oct some of Andrew Carnegie'S hero
money. says the Winslow Mail The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

Itching hemorrhoids were tina
plague of my life Was almost wild.
Doan's Ointment cured me quickly
and permanently, after doctors had
failed" c. F. cOrnwell. Valley street,
Saugertiss, n. z.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-14

of the company but it is thought that
a large force can be employed ana kept
al Work--Anthony Bulletin
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
THE EAST.

Sarah Schermerhorn, of New York, in
her will bequeaths 100000 to charity,
of which $4,000 goes to the'consump-
tives' home in Denver.
When arraigned in court at Elizabeth,
N. j., on charge of bigamy, James H.
Shippie, 80 years of age, admitted that
he had been married AZ times.
In lecture in New York Andrew Car
negie said distribution of wealth was q
sacred trust upon millionaires.
Delegates to the number of 800 sailed
from New York to attend the worlds
Sunday school convention at Jerusalem
Andrew S. Draper, president of Illinois
university, has been elected commits
sioner of education for the state of New
York.
The famous sculptor, Erastus Low
Palmer, died at his home in Albany, N
Y, in his eighty-seventh year.
A pastor in Brooklyn, N. Y, resigned
his pulpit because liquor dealer joined
his church, and the trustees accepted the
liquor. dealer and let the pastor go.
Four men were burned to death in q
box car containing gasoline, which
caught fire ten miles from Harrisburg
Pa.
The Rhode Island democrats named
delegates to the national convention
pledged to vote for William R. Hears!
for president
A bill passed the Maryland legislature
| for a constitutional amendment de.
signed to eliminate the negro vote in the
state.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
WEST AND SOUTH.

Following a night of race rioting,
caused by negro lynching, Springfield,
O., was guarded by six companies of
militia. A mob invaded the colored dis
trict, fired volleys Of shots through the
houses and burned an entire block.
The worst dust storms in years swept
over the central part of Kansas, greatly
damaging wheat
Because of the race war in Springfield
O., ten companies of Ohio militia were
on guard and martial law practically
prevailed.
Eliza Montgomery, who was 100 years
old, died at her home in Chicago.
l. P. Wilson, pest grand high priest OF
the Iowa Royal Arch Grand chapter
dropped dead of heart disease at Bur
lington.
Kansas republicans in state conven-
ton instructed their delegates to Chicago
for Roosevelt and nominated Editor E
w. Hoch, of Marion, for governor.
At Winnipeg Archbishop Machray
prlmate of all Canada, died of pneu-
monis. aged IS years.
In Chicago three persons were fatally
injured and seven others severely hurt
in railway collision.
Rev. D. E. Standard, pastor Of st
Luke's Methodist church in st. Louis
suddenly recovered his voice after being
speeches. for five months IS the result
of a fall from street car.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-17
INTERESTING TO WOMEN.

The Village Improvement Society of
Crawford, N. j., was the first women's
organization to send a petition to
congress urging the passing of the
pure food bill.
The Dowager Empress of China,
while herself fully in touch with all
modern movements, whether social or
political and known to be the guiding
spirit of the Chinese government.
strongly objects to the so called new
woman"
That beaten of wife beaters. Alder,
man Donohue, of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
has been reelected for another term OF
five years He has already served
twenty-five years. There was some
talk of opposition, but the women
quickly suppressed it by letting 1t be
known, as they have done before, that
they wanted every man to vote for
Donohue or there would be trouble.
Donohue's fame first came when he
thrashed a chronic wife beaten and
found it had such good effect that he
has thrashed many others. He Is noted
for his novel decisions and his boast
that justice and not law reigns in his
Office.