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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-21
RESULTS INDICATE THEM.
Wall Street Losing Its Suspicious of
Rock Island Crowd.

New York, Nov. 21.-That banking
and other circles closely in touch with
Rock Island affairs believe the system
has passed the experimental stage is
shown by the strength in all its issues,
especially the underlying bonds and
senior stock. Heretofore, outside the
First National bank of New York and
the Union Trust of st. Louis,
there has been a coldnesS, due possibly
to a lack of the usual commissions in
floating the companies, possibly to
actual study of the properties. Within
six months the universal decrying of
Rock Island has ceased to be. The
Alton coup, the confidence with which
the First National undertook the notes
Of the company and the speedy sub
scription for the notes have helped.
The Street was suspicious of the
Rock Island crowd. It's capture of
Rock Island the alleged raid on
Northwestern, purchase of Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern, Choctaw
and Frisco, enmity. The very
daring of their acts seemed to Wall
street to require vindication. This has
come. The Alton episode showed that
the Rock Island crowd could keep its
head and its money in financial crises,
and the financial showing of Rock
Island has indicated the methods
one sc loudly decried. 1t remains
only for net earnings to vindicate their
judgment as railroad builders and
creators of securities, and this stage
seems to be coming to pass.
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FOUNDERS, DAY AT BETHANY.
Students and Visitors Decorate DIR.
SWensson'S Grave.

L%indsborg, Kan. Nov. 21-Suhday
was founders day at Bethany college.
During the last few years this day has
been celebrated in memor of the
love and sacrifice of the pioneers who
founded and supported Bethany dur
ing the first struggling years of its ex-
istence. This year founders day had
a peculiar significance in that its
founder and former president, Dr.
Carl SwenSson, is dead.
The programme began at $3.50 Sun
day morning, when the entire college
family and friends of Bethany went in
a. body to the cemetery east of the city
for a brief service at DR.. Swensson's
grave
1t IL o'clock a sermon was preach
ed in Bethany church by Ernest Phil
blad, the president, and others In
the afternoon, addresses were deliver
ed in the college auditorium by DR..
Lagerstedt, royal commissioner for
Sweden at the Worlds fair, and by DR..
L.. H. Murlin, president of Baker uni
versity. Baldwin, Kan. The exercises
closed in the evening with a grand
concert by the conservatory faculty
and the Oratorio society. Several Sc
lections were rendered from the
Elijah"
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Oil at Arkansas City.

Arkansas City, Kan, Nov. 21.-Con-
siderable excitement was caused here
when the report was circulated that a
trace of oil had been found in the well
being drilled by the Kanokla Oil and
Gas company north of town. The
showing of oil was small but was
large enough to give encouragement to
the numerous representatives of CAPT.
tai looking for a location here. The
Kanokla company is hurrying the
work on its well in order to get the
gas drilled in before Tuesday night,
when it is planned by the city council
to grant a franchise to the Morton
lowering company, which now has
three gas producing wells, which will
begin at once to pipe to towns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-21
BRITISH SHIP WRECKED.
The Sicilian Prince Is Stranded OFF
Long Island.

New York, Nov. 21.-Captain Van
Wycklen of the Long Branch, Long
Island, life saving station, reports that
the British steamer Sicilian Prince,
from Marseil1es, Naples and Palermo
for New York, with 612 persons
aboard, went ashore at 5 o'clock Sun
day morning about half a mile west
of the life saving station. The steamer
lies in an easy position. The sea is
smooth. the wind calm and the at
mosphere smoky.
At 8 O'Clock last night it was re-
ported from Long a that tugs
had succeeded in moving the Sicilian
Prince some distance, but it was not
clear. Reports indicated that there
was little hope of getting the steam
ship into deep water last night. Efforts
will be continued at full tide.
The Sicilian Prince is a steel ves-
sci of HOS tons net. 1t vas built in
Greenock in 1889 and has seven water
tight compartments. Her length is
363 feet. James Knott, of the Prince
line of Newcastle, England, is it's
owner.
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ROCK ISLAND TIME TABLE.
Division superintendent and Train
masters VIII Make 1t in Chicago.

masters VIII MIKE IL III chicago
The division superintendent and
trainmasters of h various divisions
of the Rock Island system will assem-
BILE in Chicago next week to work out
the details of the winter time table
which will go into effect on Christmas
day.
1t is believed that no important
changes will be made respecting the
passenger service.
The Golden State Limited. the Cali
fornia train of the Rock Island, will
go into service at that time.
1t is given out that the Colder State
Limited will carry a tourist a this
year in addition to the other equip
ment. Heretofore this train has never
carried anything but equipment for
first class travel. The fact that the
service has been established but a
short time and that it has consequent
ly not grown to profitable proportions
is responsible for the decision to add
facilities to accommodate second class
travel to California on this train. It
is the only train on the Rock Island
which is run through to the Pacific
coast as a solid train. Through sleep
ing ears for the coast are carried on
the other trains which are handled
west of Ell Paso on the Southern Pa
cifc railroad and west of Colorado
Springs and Denver via the Denver &
Rio Grande and Southern Pacific.
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warm recognition and sympathy among
those of either sex.
All the leading traffic officials of st.
Louis and Cincinnati and many promi-
nent business men of both cities were
observed in the hushed gathering, and
the services were very impressive. Rev.
DR.. George, who was Mr.. Parker's for
mer pastor, came expressly from Chi
beautiful memorial address, followed
by an extempore prayer. Mr.. Parker's
favorite hymn, Lead, Kindly Light"
opened the musical portion of the exer-
cises. The interment was private.
The pallbeareTs were as follows: Rob-
ert H. Whitelaw, H. G. Krake, Frank
n. johnson, H. d. Williams, A. II. Me-
Leod and Hal F. Ray.
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Funeral of c. A. Parker.

st. Louis, Nov. 21.-The funeral ser
vices over the remains of Charles Allen
Parker, vice president of the Pere Ma
quette and the Cincinnati. Hamilton
and Dayton, took place yesterday after
noon at the First Congregational
church, DeImar avenue. There was a
large gathering of prominent people
and the beautiful edifce was heavy
with the odor of flowers, a wealth of
roses and violets and chrysantnemums
in appropriate designs, tributes of love
and affection, of sincere esteem and re-
gard from relatives and friends not
only in st. Louis, but throughout the
unit Mr.. Parker was a man of no
ordinary personal magnetism, and his
delicate, refined sensibilities found
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used on the Overland Limited" be-
tween Chicago and Omaha, n were
built with a view to shutting off the
smokers from the other occupants of
the car.
In the rea is a large observation
platform and observation room for
general use. Immediately forward is
a buffet, and adjoining the buffet is
the mems cafe and smoking room. In
both the observation and smoking
rooms writing desks have been pro-
vided.
The lighting scheme gives each
reader a lamp, and the arrangement
is such that the passageway between
the apartments does not shut off the
view from one side of the car.
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Large Sums Spent Annually in
Redeeming Unused Tickets.
Santa Fe Refunds $4,000 Per
Month-$6O,O 900 Per Year.
BENEFIT OF PATRONS.
Claim to Pay More for Unused
Tickets Than ScaIpers.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Persons who have unused railroad
tickets or the return portions of round
trip excursion tickets should sell them
back to the railroads rather than to
ticket scalpers.
Most people are of the fact
that every large railroad annually
spends thousands and thousands of dol
lars redeeming unused portion of rail-
road tickets, but nevertheless such is
the case.
In most cases a person can get a
larger sum refunded to them from the
railroad for their ticket than can be
secured by selling it to a ticket Scalper.
The Santa Fe railroad averages high
er than $1,000 a month or 1904 o per
year in refunds to persons for the un-
used portions of railway k pur-
chased from the Santa Fe.
Cheap rate tickets which are sold for
one n a third fares for the round
trip for instance will bring more to the
holder by having it redeemed by the
railroad han by selling to a ticket bro
ker.
In the Santa Fe general offices in To-
peka one clerk is kept busy all the time
investigating the claims of those who
want refund for unused portions of
tickets. Every month from 300 to 500
tickets are sent in for a refund. This
clerk takes the matter up with the aud
itor's Office of the company and learns
the amount of one the purchaser
paid for it from the railroads. If the
ticket was used but a portion of the
trip one way or if it was used all the
distance of the one way trip and the
return portion was not used, this clerk
learns the amoun the regular fare
would be for the distance travelled and
deducts that amount from the amount
paid for the ticket and the balance is
refunded to the patron.
The drafts on the treasurer of the
company are constantly being sent out.
A bunch is mailed every day. Every
large railroad maintains a similar de-
partment and all tickets which will not
be honored by for the rea-
son that the time limit has expired
will be redeemed by the company in
cash equivalent to the amount paid by
the patron for the ticket.
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Coopers ont on a Strike.

Armourdale. Kas., Nov. 21.-Fifteen
machine ope employed at ]. R.
Kelley's cooperage. First street and
Usage avenue, Armourdale, went on a
strike Saturday afternoon. The plant
completely tied up. Police pro-
lection was asked for, as it was feared
the strikers would resort to violence.
No acts of disorder were reported,
however, by the officers detailed to
watch the plant. Mr.. Kelley said that
the cause of the strike was his refusal
to grant the men an increase in wages.
The men had been paid by the piece
and were earning $2.25 a day, ac-
cording to Mr.. Kelley, but wanted
an increase that they could make
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Fifth street bridge. was let Saturday
to the r. ]. & N. NJ. Boyd .Construc-
ton company for $4,000. The dyke
will be constructed under the direction
of the Kaw Valley Townsite & Bridge
company for the purpose of protecting
from floods the lands and buildings
of the new packing plant of the Amer
lean Dressed Beef & Provision COM
pany which, when finished, will cost
one million dollars.
The dyke is to be finished before
next spring. 1t will be fourteen feet
high, fourteen feet thick at the base,
tapering to the top, where it will be
only one-half the thickness of the
base. The dyke will be constructed
of concrete and will be protected from
driftwood by riprap IN the river side.
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DAN CAIN HERE.
He Directed Reconstruction of Santa
Ee After Floods on Mountain Lines.

Dan e. Cain, general superintendent OF
the western division of the Santa Fe, and
C. NJ. Taylor, mechanical superintendent
of the same division, whose headquarters
are at La Junta, Col, came to Topeka N
meeting with the delegates to the conven-
ton of engineers and fremen of the San
OFFICIALS was held Saturday in General
Manager H. U. Judges office. General
chanicai Superintendent N. F. Risteen of
the eastern division were also present
he is one of the best known and best
liked railroad men ever with the santa
Fe here; He was in direct charge OF the
railroads from the foods which extended
almost from end to end of the mountain
General Manager Nudge and Chief En-
gineer w. B. Storey were upon the scene,
but the main part of the details of the
Superintend.
The floods were the worst in the history
of the road for a good many years and
some trying and strenuous times were en-
countered. The work was pushed rapidly
and vigorously from the start, but 1t ne
cessitated close attention to open the line
for traffic as quickly as was done;
the work, and it was no small task to
work out the details of the commissary
provided for the men who were working
at places inaccessible to trains and towns
Some particularly daring and difficult
engineering problems were presented
which required quick decisions as to the
best methods to accomplish the desired
ends and then required quick action in
working out the repairs after they had
been decided upon.
The Santa Fe officials have not been
able to announce Just what the loss to
the company was in dollars and cents, in
aSmuch as all the various reports from
the different departments nave not been
compiled yet. When this report is com
piled it will not tell all that the railroad
lost in the floods because it can not take
into account the indirect losses. 1t is
believed the losses will not be found to
be less than one million dollars.
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WRECK TIES UP TRAFFIC.
Peculiar Accident on Rock Island at
Manhattan, Kan.

Manhattan, Kan, Nov 21.-As a re-
suit of a local freight train being
wrecked here on the Rock Island Satur-
day afternoon, traffic is practically tied
up between here and Clay Center for a
time. Passengers were run over the
Union Pacific to Clay Center by the
way of Junction City. The accident oc-
CURED in a peculiar manner. The train
broke in two twice and as only cars of
forward portion of train were equipped
with air, the middle section was badly
wrecked. Four cars were nearly de-
molished. The train broke in two and
lille the engineer was endeavoring to
run ahead of the hind portion, the for
ward portion again broke, setting the
air brakes and causing the last cars to
crash into the first cars
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SMASHED BY THE CARS.
Manhattan Student Fatally Injured on
the Rock Island.

Manhattan, Kan, Nov. 21.-Carl
Perfect, a student of the Agricultural
college, and first cornet player in the
college band, was terribly cut UP by a
Rock Island train here Sunday, and
a scarcely recover. One leg was
severed just below the knee, n arm
will have to be amputated, and his
head was badly bruised as a result of
being dragged by the train. Perfect
and some other students were return
ing from the scene of a wreck on a
construction train, when the former
tried to jump from the moving car and
lost his footing.
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Ex-sherif Gary Dead.

Winfield, Kan, Nov. 21.-Captain
S. G. Gary, ex--postmaster of Winfield
and of Cowley county and
one of the oldest settlers in the
county, died Sunday OF pneumonia
after an illness of a week. He was
Ct years Did. He leaves a widow and
three children. one of whom, George
G.. Gary, is assistant cashier in the
First National bank. Captain Gary
was a thirty-second degree Mason and
a m of the G. A. R., having
served in an Iowa regiment during the
rebellion. He will be buried this
afternoon with Masonic honors.
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A New Paper at PIainvilIe.

Plainville, Nov. 21.-A new paper
will be started here about December
l.. With. Fisk and c. Bert Merrill
will be the editors and publishers.
The new paper will be in armon
with the present state administration.
P~lainville is in Rocks county, and is
centrally located on the famous Para
disc fats, a section of country that is
rich in agriculture. The town is
building rapidly and these young men
believe hat two aperS can keep pace
with the growth of Plainville better
than one paper. They are putting in
an ~up-todate plant.
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RIPLEY RETURNS EAST.
President of Santa Fe Changes Plans
and Hurries to Chicago.

ley. president of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad, left Saturday for
Chicago. 1t was his first intention to
make a thorough examination of all
the cOmpany's properties on the San
Joaquin valley road, but urgent BUSH
ness has called him to the east and he
will go directly to Chicago over the
Union Pacific. Vice President Ken
drick, who was also to have accom-
panied him on the tour of inspection,
has also started on his return trip to
Chicago.
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ROCK ISLAND EXTENDING.
Plans Under Way for 100 Miles South
of Little Rock.

The Rock Island road has COM
pleted plans for building 100 miles of
road south from Little Rock. Ark,
with the view of developing a rich
lumber district there. How much
farther, if any, the road may go uIti-
mately is for the future to determine,
but B. L.. Winchell, president of the
company, has stated that no plans are
in contemplation now for building
from Little Rock to New Orleans
through Ell Dorado. as Arkansas pa
perS think will be done.
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Gas for Fort Scott.

Kansas City, Nov. Civ. c. Gun
of Fort Scott was in Kansas City yes
terday. While here Mr.. Gum con-
tracted with representatives of a
P%ittsburg, Pa, pipe factory for $110,-
900 worth of pipe to be used in piping
natural gas to Fort Scott, a distance
of thirty miles from the a fields.
This, says Mr.. Gum, insures natural
gas for Fort Scott. The pipe is to be
delivered in a short time. The COM
pany has already been formed with
one-half million dollars capital. The
stockholders are from Jefferson City
and Fort Scott.
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Leaders Favor Ticket scaIping.

The American Federation Of Labor
has submitted to it's local councils
throughout the country resolutions
adopted at the twenty-third annual
convention protesting against 1.-The nui-
sance of joint agencies and other iden-
LITIGATION annoyances as an unnecessary
imposition upon excursionists and trav-
elers," thanking labor organizations in
ST. Louis, Kansas City and other cities
for defeating anti-scalping bills in their
state legislatures, and d-enouncing fed
eral and state a~nti-scalping laws, city
ordinances and inJunctions.
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Sedalia, Mo-, Nov. 21.-MitchelI
Finnigan, once an engineer on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway, has brought suit
here for $50, 600 damages against the
Finnigan's train colIided
head-on at Cole Junction with another
freight train June Fl, 1903. He was
buried under the wreck and the con-
tents of a tank of muriatic acid
drenched him, burning him so badly
that he was permanently incapacitated
for railroad work.
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from Kansas City, express the opinion
that the Bonner Springs gas is found
at such a shallow depth that the sup
ply will not last. Thus far they have
not been Influenced by the develop
ments at Bonner Springs to propose
any change in the terms of the fran
chises before the council respecting
the price and the length of time de-
sired for fulfilling the obligation to
bring natural gas to Kansas City.
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RAILWAY TO BUILD CREMAroRY.
Missouri Pacifc's New Plan for Dis
posing of Dead EmpIoyes.

Sedalia, Mo-, Nov. 21.-The Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railway
g1 inc in East Sedalia for the incin-
Grafton of bodies of employees who have
neither relatives nor fixed placed of
abode. The plans have been completed
and forwarded to company headQuar-
tiers for approval and for an appropFi-
alton for the construction of the plant.
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V NEW CARS.
ST. Paul Has Put Into Service a Car :
for Women a

The st. Paul road is about to put
into service two new composite OBJ
servation'' cars, which are a radical
departure from any of the forms hith-
erto used in car construction. Perhaps
the most important feature of the cars
is found in their construction. A
series of solid steel arches extend
throughout and bind the sills and
sides together in such a manner as to
make it almost impossible to crush in
the sides of the cars
The two cars just completed will be
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Robbers FoiIed at Emporia.

Emporia, Kas., Nov. 21.-The gro
Gerry store of Laten Hinshaw was
entered by two masked men, who de-
handed the contents of the money
drawer. Guy Selleck, a clerk, threw
a scale weight at one of the robbers
and struck him on the head. He then
knocked the revolver from the rob-
ber's hand. Hinshaw turned upon the
other robber, who shot once. The
bullet passed close to head.
The bbe then fed. They ook no
money.
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Charged with Theft,

Wichita, Kan, Nov. 21.-ClintL Law
renee was arrested Saturday afternoon
and is being held in the city Jail pend
ing investigation of a charge of VIC
lating the United States postal laws.
The complaint was made by a. NJ.
Miller, a negro editor, for whom Law
renee has been working. Miller says
thai in his absence from the office,
Lawrence opened a letter directed to
him, took a money order from it,
Miller'S name to it, and Sc
investigation of the postal records
seem to bear out Miller's contention.
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ODER OLDEST CONDUCTOR.
Las Vegas Has Discussion as to Who
Is Oldest in Santa Ee Service.

Charley Oder, formerly of Bellefon-
tame, o., is the oldest passenger con-
ductor in service out of Las Vegas,
closely followed in point of time en-
ployed by Richard Hays, Charley
Stevenson, A. P. GatcheI. And there's
Jerry Quinn who is no spring chicken
at the bell cord himself. He came to
the Santa Fe from the Wabash six
teen years ago and was a clever
brakey for ten months before being
given a conductorship with the priv
ilege of wearing a conductors badge
of office either on his hat band or the
lapel of his coat.
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Florence, Kan, Nov. 21.-AI Ham
iIton, a prominent farmer living two
miles east of here. while out hunting
Saturday was accidentally shot. In
taking his gun out of the buggy it
was discharged, the load tearing away
Il part of his right hand and entering
his breast, causing a painful, but not
necessarily fatal wound. His hand is
badly margIed and one finger has
been amputated.
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Gas Association to Meet.

Independence, Kan, Nov. 21.-Pres-
ident Kennedy and Secretary Long of
the Kansas Gas Protective association
have issued a call for a meeting of the
association to be held at Independence
Friday, November 25, at 1870 o'clock.
The belt is getting thoroughly aroused
over the danger of the gas being piped
out and the meeting promises to be a
big one.
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Bonner Springs Gas Limited.

Kansas City. Nov 21.-The discov-
cry of natural gas at Bonner Springs,
a short distance from Kansas City, has
now become a subject of lively interest
in connection with the deliberations of
h council committees on the several
natural gas propositions. Several of
the gas franchise promoters who have
based their calculations on piping gas
from fields 100 to 200 miles distant