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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
CANNOT LEASE R1GHr-oF-wAY.
NO on Wen Drilling on Railroads
Running Through Oklahoma.

Guthrie. Ok Dee. 23=Governor
Ferguson has received from Secretary
of the Interior Hitchcock a letter con-
firming the decision of the school land
leasing board that it has no power to
grant permission for the sinking of oil
wells on a railroad right-of-way. across
school lands. The secretary advances
the same theory recently held by the
United States court in Kansas that a
railroad has no authority to use rs
right-of-way for anything but railroad
purposes, and that an oil lease of its
right-of-way is not valid.
1t the rights of that sort still remain
IN the owners of the land from which
the right-of-way was taken, in the case
of school land it would be the same
thing as drilling on the school section
itself, which it has already been de-
cided cannot be allowed. The decision
Of the secretary was obtained as q re-
suit of the recent application made to
the school land board by ex-Congress-
man J. B. Showalter of Pennsylvania
who had secured from the katy" rail-
road the oil right on a considera BILE
part of its right-of-way through Paw
nee county.
Secretary Hitchcock, in his letter to
the governor, also asked for informa-
ton as to what extent oil operations
were being carried on on the railroad
right-of-way outside of school lands,
and 1t is believed that an investigation
of that matter may be made. Oil wells
along the Tight-Of-way are especially
numerous in and about the town of
Cleveland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
CAR BLooKADE AT SHAWNEE.
Immense Freight Traffic Ties Up the
Santa Fe Yards.

SANTA + . AdlAOS-
Shawnee. Okla, Dec. 2S.-Forty
miles of tracks, comprising the South
Shawnee freight yards of the Atch1-
son, Topeka & Santa F'e railway COM
pany, are covered with freight cars
and the yards are blocked to a stand
still. AS fast as one train gets out OF
the yards another replaces 1t. and the
congestion remains. A special agent,
E. c. LiIley, of Cleburne, Tex, has
been here for the last few days try
ing to relieve the situation, but is
making haste very slowly. About two
miles of track in the uptown yards
is in the same fix, as is another ex-
tending from the Canadian bridge
three miles south.
The crowded condition of the yards
is due to the amount of freight traffic.
Kansas and northern Oklahoma are
rushing their crops to the gulf, and
the Santa Fe, by virtue of direct lines,
is receiving a very generous share of
the business. A great part of the en-
tire Kansas shipments is passing over
this line, and of a consequence a con-
dition such as exists here is not at all
surprising.
The main concentration point of the
Kansas shipments to the gulf is at
Winfield Four very important feed
ers dump their product at that place,
and the freight is all sent from there
over the Shawnee division to the
southern points of destination. In adj
ditiOn to the traffic from these lines,
there is also a, great deal of freight
concentrated at Arkansas City and
Wichita, Kas., all of which passes over
this division.
The bulk of the traffic is composed
of wheat and corn. The Santa Fe
main line runs directly through the
immense wheat belt of central Kansas,
and is likewise in direct touch with
the corn country in the eastern and
northern part of that state. The road
also has excellent connections with the
wheat country of western and north
ern Oklahoma. The gigantic crops of
these sections are loaded into box
cars and sent via the Shawnee line
through this the greatest corn coun-
try in the world, and its gigantic pro-
duction is piled on top of this i'm
mensity of freight.
Four more miles of track are to be
added at once to the South Shawnee
yards They will be placed in the
open space between the main track
and the west yard tracks, and will ex-
tend from the south side Of the bridge
over the Canadian, through the yards.
to distance of about one-quarter of
mile south of the present temporary
station at South Shawnee Work on
these tracks will begin immediately.
Large forces of men are stfU en-
gagged IN grading and ballasting the
yards. A few more weeks VIII see the
entire work along this line completed
SO far as the present area of the wards
is concerned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
Dead Bodies From Old Fort Hays
Taken to LeavenWOTth.
BURIED 40 YEARS AGO.
At Last at Rest in National
Cemetery at the Post.
Much Quibble Over Whether the
Plague Might Start.

I.eavenworth. Kan, Dec. 2S.-Ihe
bodies or all that remains of the bodies,
of the ia soldiers who died Of cholera
about 40 years ago. at Fort Hays, Kan,
have arrived in Ieavenworth and will
be inferred IN the National cemetery at
Fort Leavenworth today The bodies
were taken from the ground at Fort
Hays. now Hays, several days ago, but
in some way shipment was delayed
For several years there has been a
fight waged as to whether these bodies
should be disinterred or not. People
claimed that as the dead were all vic
TINS of cholera there was great danger
OF starting an epidemic Of the disease
by disinterring the bodies. The matter
was discussed and the best known med
ical authorities were asked for opinions
IN the subject. Finally after much
clubbing it was decided that there could
be no danger of contracting the disease
from the dead soldiers, and the order
was given to remove the bodies to Fort
IeaVenWOTth.
The total weight of the bodies. in
Guiding the caskets. is 5,541 pounds, and
erheadstOnes accompanying the bodies
weighed 1910 pounds.
The cars bearing the caskets ana
headstones will be taken to Fort Leav-
enworth this morning and unloaded
there. Teams win transport the entire
shipment to the National cemetery
where a plot has been set aside for
the reception of the remains. They
will be quietly inferred without Osten-
sound, no salute will bid farewell to
the mortal remains and nothing save
the old headstOnes will show where the
Fort Hays dead repose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23

for domestic use. including TT com
pound locomotives. The total built
this year exceeds that of any previous
year.
In analysing these reports, it is in
teresting to note what the totals really
mean by calculating the expenditure
involved. At an average cost of $1,000
the total spent for freight cars would
be $165,455, 1000; at an average cost of
$1,000, the total spent for passenger
cars would be s17,S5700O, and at an
average cost of $4,000 the total spent
for locomotives would be $76.S74, 900
the total amount spent by the railroads
in 1905 for motive power and rolling
stock approximating $260,1S6, 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
AFTER PARSONS DRUGGISTS.
Two Arrested and the Other Seventeen
Nav Be.

Parsons, kan, Dec. 23.-Max Shannon
and J. W. Reynolds, two of the nineteen
druggists of Parsons, were tried Friday
in the police court for selling liquor. w.
B. Newton, another druggist, will be
tried today. The evidence was very
conclusive of guilt and a verdict for the
prosecution is expected from the court
who took the cases under Amusement
The cases will be appealed to the dis
trict court. These are test cases and If
convictions are secured the arrest OF
every druggist in the city may follow.
w. B. Newton was arrested under the
search and seizure law ana quantity
of liquors seized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
ALL RECORDS ARE BROKEN.
Car Building Plants and Locomotive
Works Do Enormous Business

Car Building Plants and Locomotive
Works Do Enormous Business
official returns from all of the car
building plants in the United States
and Canada as colIated by the Railroad
Gazette show that 168.006 cars were
built during the year 1905, including
cars for use on subway and elevated
railroads, but exclusive of street and
interurban electric cars.
These figures do not include cars
built bv railroads in their own shops of
which there were an exceedingly large
number Of the total 1855, 445 are for
freight service and 1851 for passenger
service, 1872, 7O1 are for domestic use
and 5,305 are for export.
This is the largest car output in any
one year that has been reported, and
is considerably more than double the
total output for last year. The next
largest output for any one year was in
1902. when the total was 164.547.
During the last three months the car
companies have booked some record
breaking orders. The majority of
these are for 1907 delivery, and among
them are orders from two of the lead
ing railroads which alone amount to
almost as many cars as the total car
output in 1904. During the year 2.164
cars were built by firms in Canada, an
increase of 222 over the number built
in 1904.
Official returns from all of the loco
motive builders in the United States
and Canada show that there were 5,491
new locomotives built in 1905, as
against s3,441 in 1904. Like the car
total. this does not include locOmo-
tives built by railroads in their own
shops, nor does it include orders given
for repairs or rebuilding.
OF the total reported built, 14O were
electric as against ninety-five for last
year; 5s3 were for export, and 1896
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
500 REWARD.sIOo

The readers of this paper will be pleas
cd TO learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
shie to cure in all its stages, and that is
-s+srrh Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
Dosjtfve cure known to the medical fra
fernitv. Catarrh being a constitutional
55saaSe REQUIRES a constitutional treat
-enf Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
terneIlv. acting directly upon the blood
sT5 mucous surfaces of the system, there
~ destroyfng the foundation of the dis
esse. and giving the patient strength by
bu5Iding up the constitution and assist
- nature in doing its work. The proprie-
tors have so much faith in its curative
novyers that they offer one hundred dol
lars for any case that it fails to cure
send for list Of testimonials. Address
F d CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold BY all druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
EUGENE ZIMMERMAN TALKS.
Got His Money for c., H & D. and
Everything Was Square.

Cincinnati. Dec. 23.-In an interview
that is published here Eugene thinner
Hamilton & Dayton railroad, said:
IF the plans of the Cincinnati, Hamfl-
ton & Dayton directors are carried out as
outlined in New York dispatches, it will
mean that the Cincinnati. Hamilton &
Dayton will be clear of the Pere Mar
quette and the Chicago, Cincinnati &
Louisville. There is positively and abso-
lutely no truth in any of the statements
made to the effect that there was a
stormy conference between Mr. J. P
I did not have any conference with Mr.
Morgan before the purchase of the Gin
cinnati Hamilton and Dayton by him.
nor after it was turned back to him
again by the Erie. I have received all of
my money for the Cincinnati. Hamilton &
Dayton securities I held, so have no in
terest in the properties. can only say
that the transaction from beginning to
end was square and above board and the
full records of the various properties
were gone over"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
: on A CHARGE OF FORGERY.
Luther Starr Brought From Texas to
CLAW Center.


Clay. Center, Dec. 23.-The Dispatch
says. Sheriff Drumm came in on the
belated Rock Island train from the
east, which arrived about noon today
with Luther Starr, charged with
forgery and embezzlem whom he
arrested down in Texas.
Mr.. Drumm left Clay Center last
Thursday morning, going first to To-
peka Tor the necessary papers, then to
Austin to make it all right with the
Texas authorities and then he went to
Cleburne, Johnson county, about the
center of Texas. With the assistance
of Sheriff Rogers of Johnson county he
succeeding in locating his man near AL
VaradO, a little town twelve miles from
@Gleburnes Tuesday Starr was selling
kitchen cabinets in that country.
Starr is charged by G. w. Tate, rep
resenting the Wrought Iron Stove COM
pany of st. Louis with having, last De-
cember, forged a note for s73 purporc-
ing to have been given by Ed Burr
and Anna Burr, who reside in the
southern part of the county, in favor
of the Wrought IRON Stove company.
This note was made payable in two in
stallments for $3.50 each and bore
per cent interest. The first payment
was fixed for September 1, 1905, and
the other year later. This note was
turned in to the company.
Starr, as agent, had sold a range to
Mr.. and Mrs. Burr for $50 and had re-
ceived his pay in a check for the
amount stated on the bank of Wake
field, pockeung the proceeds himself.
It was made out in his name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
Tourist Cars PopuIar.

The idea that an inferior class Of
neonle patronize the tourist sleepers is
an error. On many trips only the best
cIass Of travellers are found. They are
merely men and women Of good sense
x19o would rather travel to California
in this manner and save a snug sum
Of money to be used elsewhere. It is
beginning to be understood that it is
h. no means necessary for the traveller
to spend large sum Of money in or
der to enjoy trip to the acific coast
IF YOU cross the continent in one OF
the tourist sleepers Of the Union Pa
cifc you viii enjoy your trip and save
considerable money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
OLATHE MERCHANT SUED.
A Kansas City Widow Alleges Breach
of Promise to Marry.

Kansas City. Dec. 23-Hannah J.
Landers widow of the late Robert E.
Landers, has filed suit for damages in
the sum of s25. 900 against ]. NJ Eagle
hoff, a we'll known and wealthy mer-
chant of Olathe, Kan.
The complaint alleges breach of prom
Use to marry. and states that Mr.. Eagle
hoff proposed to Mrs. Landers last Au-
gust and she consented to marry him,
but although she has repeatedly request
ed him to have the marriage cerel~~ly
performed, he has as repeatedly refused
and in consequence her feelings have
been injured in the amount named in
the suit
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FARMER CLARK MISSING.
Franklin County stockman Not Heard
From for a Week.

From for a Week.
Ottawa, kan, Dec. 28.-Considerable
anxiety is felt here over the unaceount-
able absence of Ernest Clark, son of ex-
County Treasurer "A. E. Clark, and one
Of the best known young farmers and
stockmen Of the county
Mr. Clark left Michigan Valley a
small station near his home, Friday
night to take a carload of cattle to
the Kansas City market The cattle
were consigned to the National Live
Stock Commission company. It has been
learned that Mr.. Clark left the train at
Sheffield Tuesday morning about
o'clock apparently to take a car into
the city. He has not been heard from
since. He was in company with several
men when he left the train, but there is
no indication as to what became of him.
That he never reached the stock yards
was first indicated by the remittance of
the full proceeds from the sale of the
cattle to Mr.. Clark here, and afterward
established by a telephone call to the
commission company. A. E. Clark has
gone to Kansas City to institute
search for his son. The family has no
theory as to the young mans absence,
unless he has been held up or exper-
fenced some accident. He has little
money with him, but many papers
which would have established his iden-
tity.
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TO STUDY DESERTS.
Places in New Department of Carnegie
Institute Are Filled.

Washington, Dec. 2S-Dr. Daniel Trem-
bly, McDougal of New York has accepted
the appointment as director of the newly
created department of botanical re-
search established by the Carnegie insti-
tute of this city. DR.. MeDOugal resigns
as assistant director of the New York
botanical gardens to accept the position.
Godfrey Sykes, a civil engineer and siir-
veyOr of Flagstaff, Ariz., has been made
superiHtendent of the desert reservation
attached to the institution.
DR.. AcDougaI will go next week to the
desert laboratory, where he will remain
four months. The new members of The
staff will assemble there, and, with them,
he will arrange plans for extensive sci
entifc Investigations to extend over sew
eral years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
CHOATE AT THE HEAD.
Will Represent America at The Hague
Peace Conference.

washington, Dec. 2S.-Joseph H
Choate, who recently was succeeded at
the court of st. James as United States
ambassador by Whitelaw Reid. in all
likelihood will be named by President
Roosevelt as chairman of the American
delegation to the second Hague peace
conference. This selection virtually was
decided on by the president yesterday.
The president has not yet decided on
the other members of the delegation,
though he is considering various names
derstood that he desired that former
President Cleveland should head the
delegation, but Mr.. Cleveland, when
sounded on the subject, expressed a
Discrimination to undertake the work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23

years and are no longer fitted for active
duty.
To carry out this PLAN Vice Presidents
Brown and Christensen, General Mana
gers Marshall, Smith, Schaff and
I'Hommedieu and Superintendent Of
Mechanical Department Deems were
appointed q committee, to be known as
the board of pensions, for the estab-
hshment Of rules and regulations for
operation Of the pension fund and the
conditions under which allowance there
from may inure, together with the date
when the pension allowance will be-
come effective
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
DIsAPPOINTED IN LOvE.
Miss Hicks Takes Strychnine but viii
Probably Recover.

BeTevilIe, Kan, Dec. 23.-NTiss Ruby
Hicks, who worked at the hotel at
Wayne until about three months ago
and later for a farmer about two miles
from there, Came back to the hotel
and said she was going to Cuba, Kan.
She remained at the hotel until about
10 o'clock when she swallowed a dose
of strychnine.
The cause assigned for the deed is
a disappointment in a love affair with
a young man by the name of o. Y.
Burr, who is said to be a general roust-
about in that city.
Today the girl is better and will very
likely recover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
EicIlt VIII Be Bitter.

Those who will persist in closing their
ears against the continuation recommen-
dation of DR.. Kings New. Discovery for
Consumption. will have a long and bitter
earlier by fatal termination. Read what
r RI Beau of Beal, Miss, has TO say:
ssT.ast fall my wife had every symptom Of
consumption. She took DR.. Kings New
Discovery after everything else had fall
ed Improvement came at once and four
bottles entirely cured her" Guaranteed
bv the Arnold Drug Co. 81 North KAN
sas ave. Price soc and s1-O0. Trial bot
ties free
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
TWO RAILWAYS FINED.
Northern Pacific and Oregon Line ViO-
lated Safety Appliance Act.

Portland, Ore, Dec. 23-The Northern
Pacific Railway company and the Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation company al
lowed yesterday the government to take
judgment against them in the federal
court for violation of the safety appli-
ance act. Judgment was taken against
the Northern Pacific for $500 and against
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation COM
pany for $780,. The Oregon railroad &
Navigation company filed a demurrer,
but withdrew it.
Similar actions are pending against
the Terminal company and Southern
Pacific
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Clear thinking. decisive

Clear thinking. decisive
action, vim and vigor of
body and mind, the spar
kle of life, comes TO all
who use HOlIister's
Rocky Mountain T ca.
IS cents. Tea or Tablets.
GATLIN DRUG co.
7O2 Kan. Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
PENSIONS FOR E0lP1oYEs.
Directors of the Vanderbilt Lines De-
eide to Provide Them.

New YORK, Dec. 23.-At respective
meetings held yesterday by the boards
of directors of the New York Central,
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern,
the Michigan Central, and the Cleve-
land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis
railroads, all Vanderbilt lines. each of
these companies decided to establish a
pension bureau to take care Of faithful
employees who have been in the service
OF the company for a great number OF
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MOFFATT GETTING BUSY.
VIII Put 1000 Men to Work on Dem
Yer and Northwestern.

Denver, Dec. 23.-"We expect to put
two thousand men to work construct
ing the Denver, Northwestern & Pa
cific, beyond the Gore canyon said
David H MOffatt of this city, owner,
president and also builder of the Mof
fatt road. "Our purpose is to push the
line as fast as possible toward Salt
Lake. At the same time there will be
a large fierce carrying on the work
through the canyons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
Mrs. TEACHER Remembers Men VINO
Mrs. Thatcher Remembers Men who
Signed the Pledge.

Leavenworth. Kan, Dec. 23.-An
echo of the recent visit of Mrs. Ella
F. Thacher to the post came yesterday
III the form of fine Comfort bags or
widows" as the men sometimes call
them. TIL ere was one for each of those
who signed total abstinence pledges at
the meeting conducted by Mrs
Taacher. These little bags are Just
what the name would imply They are
about eight inches square. made of
silkoline ana each bag contains an as
sortment Of needles. thread, pins, darn
ing cotton, buttons. bandages, court
plaster, scissors. some temperance lit
erature and a little testament ana
psalms containing the autograph Of the
giver- The bags were sent through
2uartermaster Sergeant Knapp of m"
company, Eighteenth infantry, and will
be distributed to their owners after the
services at the post chapel. There are
forty-dve of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
Irwin to Wilmington.

a telegram from Wilmington, Del,
Arthur Irwin, who led the Nuts to
glorious victory in the mad chase for
the cellar championship last year, is
to manage the Wilmington team in the
Tri-State league next season. Irwin is
in the east at present and consequently
it is impossible to verify the report.
Secretary Shriner is also out Of the
civ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23
H. A. TTCE HAS BEEN PROMOTED
VIII Be Division superintendent on
SANTA Fe Main Line.

Shawnee, Ok, Dec. 23.-Announcement
was made here yesterday that Division
Superintendent Il. A. Tiee, of the Atch
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe, viii be pro-
NOTED to be division superintendent Of
the main line with headquarters at
Dodge City. Mr. Tice, who has been in
consultation here for two days with +.
c. Fox general superintendent, left
here Yesterday for. Arkansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23

a few weeks ago, was IN Leavenworth
shortly after the mutiny and here stole
a suit case belonging to Don Fem and
then left for parts unknown. That the
man was here has been proved posi-
lively. by Detective Jack GIynn, head
of the Glynn Detective agency OF this
city who, after hearing of the myster-
ious stranger, set about to trace him.
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seDo YOU think that the government
ought to own the railroads."
ssSometimes,' said the member OF con-
eress. tsIf the government owned the rail-
Gods we wouldn't be worried by these
Tl1nors of suspended cCurtesfes- Wed
probably get passes for our personal
TRANSFORMATION the same as we now get
franks for our mail w ashington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-23

salina, Kan, Dec. 23.-District court,
which is in session here, had to adjourn
last evening for the want of jurymen
All the cases so far have been jury cases,
and every juror has been used. Twelve
men are now out in the SteifeI- Salina
Mercantile company case, and court ad-
journed until this jury reports, that an
other case may go to trial