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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
Railroad Earnings Too Large to
Be Comprehended by Man.
Hundreds of Millions Represent
Earnings Pennsylvania Lines.
TWO BILLION DOLLARS
Equals Combined Revenue of q,
s., Great Britain and France.
Gossip and Matters OF Interest
in Railroad Circles.

The gross earnings of the PennsyIya-
mia railroad in the calendar year 1904
were $11S. 900. This sum is too great
to be grasped by the ordinary compre-
hension. Only by comparison with 9TH
er concrete things can we get an ade-
quate idea of its magnitude:
Mexico has a population of $4,000, 600.
1t covers an area equal to that of the
United States east of the Mississippi.
Mexico's annual revenue is SIS. 600, 900.
The next largest and richest of the
Latin-American countries, except Bra
I'll, is Argentina, which has revenue
just half of that of the Pennsylvania
road. In the past year or two Vene-
zuela has stood off, the United States,
England, Germany, France, Italy, and
other countries, sometimes successfully,
but oftener simultaneously. The Penn
sylvania railroads income for two
weeks equals that of Venezuela. for 70
months. If we bulk the independent
countries of the Caribbean, and of Cen
trail America-Cuba, Haiti, Santo Do
m1ngo, Panama, Guatemala Honduras
Costa R1ca, Nicaragua, and Salvador,
and add to them Diaz's country and
Castro's, we get population of a.
100000 and a revenue only equal to that
of the Pennsylvania railroad That cor
poration has twice the income of the
I,UU
600 Inhabitants and an area greater than
that of the United States. Except the
United States, the only country in the
western hemisphere which has as large
a revenue as the Pennsylvania railroad
is Brazil
Belgium fills an important place on
Europe's map, but that country's in
come, dollar for dollar, is only about
the same as Mr.. Cassatt's road Portu-
gaPs income is but half as great The
Netherlands, with its Hague confer
ences, past and projected, has filled
Sweden orway's internal troubles,
threatening the secession of Norway and
a civil war which might involve greater
nations, have aroused some concern in
the world. The Pennsylvania railroads
earnings are greater than the treasury
receipts of the Netherlands and Sweden
Norway combined. They are much
greater than the revenue of Turkey and
its old enemy, Greece. They are greater
than that of all the Balkan states-Rou-
mania, Servia, Bulgaria, and Monte
negro-taken together.
Japan's, army and navy have been
filling the trump of fame for over a
year; yet the income of the government
of the 100000 Japanese, in the fiscal
year 10000, was 1approxinaa tely the
same as that of thee Pennsylvania rail-
road. Only the large nations exceed in
revenue that roads earnings.
And this is but one of the United
States railway lines. If the entire
American railway system be taken into
consideration it would be hard to find
any basis of comparison with it. The
income of the 215, 900 miles of railway
in the United States in 1904 was s., 000,-
100000 This is only a small fraction
short of the combined governUental
revenues of the United States, Great
Britain and France in that year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
TRESTLE FELL.
Two Men Killed and Three In
jured at Onaga.
Serious Accident on the Topeka
& Northwestern Road.
WAS AT A so FOOT FILL
Four Cars Loaded With Dirt
Down in the Crash.
Caught the WOrkmen Midway
Down the Dump.
WAS ATA so FOOT FILL

Onaga, Kan, Aug. while unload
ing dirt cars at a 60-foot high fill on the
Topeka & Northwestern new railway,
six miles south of here, two men were
killed and three injured late Monday.
DEAD.
JOHN BISHOP, Fail River, Mass.
GEORGE SUTTON, believed to be
from Texas.
INJURED.
Joseph Burns. crushed about the
chest.
Charles Mcqueen, brakeman, leg bro
ken near thigh.
Robert Carr, ankle crushed.
The accident was caused by the CIV
ing way of the upper deck of the tres
tie work upon which the cars were run
out to be dumped to make the grade.
The train had IA cars. Four were load
ed out over the dump and the trestle
fell while they We're being unloaded.
The men were caught by the cars about
midway down on the dump. The men
are all strangers in this section of the
country.
A coroner's inquest will be held today.
The contractors are Fitzpatrick Bros.
from Beatrice, Neb.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
RAILROAD NOTES.

w. K, Etter, trainmaster of the Santa
Fe at Topeka, was out on an inspection
trip yesterday.
Mr.. E. Stronger has been appointed SUI
perintendent of the Union Pacific at Den
yer, Col, to succeed Mr.. H. c. Ferris, re-
signed.
Herbert Murphy has been appointed d.
vision engineer of the Missouri Pacific at
Kansas City in construction of the new
yards.
Frank Dolan assumed the duties and
responsibilities of superintendent of the
southwest district of the Rock Island this
morning.
The carpenters are repairing the ceiling
in the legal department of the general Of
fees of the Santa Fe and the rooms are
somewhat torn I'D.
city passenger and ticket agent for the Ei
Paso and Southwestern system and the
Rock Island at Ell Paso-
J. o. Crockett, whose resignation as su-
perintendent of the southwest district of
the Rock Island goes into effect today, re-
turned from a pleasure trip to Colorado
yesterday.
H. u. Nudge, second vice president of
the Rock Island, and Dan E. Cain, general
manager of the same road, arrived in To-
peka yesterday afternoon and left today
for a trip over the system.
Conrad E. Spens, who has been appoint
ed general freight agent of the o. lines
west of the Missouri river. is said to be
the youngest general freight agent on a
big railroad in this country.
Eastern papers state that Mrs. Beach
am holds the contract for grading some
ten miles of the new Tidewater line west
of Kilby in Nansemond county. Virginia.
She has a camp of her own and works a
gang of about 100 men.
F. B. Sheetz, assistant engineer of the
Missouri Pacific at St Louis, has been ap-
pointed engineer OF bridges and buildings
Mountain and Southern. with headquar-
tiers at St Louis, succeeding E Fisher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
FrankIin county Wheat.

w. NJ. Staley of Peoria was in town
today and reports the biggest wheat
yield which has been reported up to
this time. He had in seventy-f1ve
acres of wheat and the entire field av-
eraged thirty-four bushels to the acre.
Mr.. Staley says the crop this year on
his land was more than double what
it was last year where it was not
washed out. The land on which the
wheat was raised was in the flood of
last year and only three hundred
bushels of wheat came from the entire
field. Two years ago Mr.. Staley paid
twenty-five dollars an acre for the
farm on which the wheat was raised.
The wheat from the seventy acres was
sold for an average of $3.50. Mr..
Staley has been offered fifty dollars an
acre for the farm but will not sell it
for that.-Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
3. o. DonbIe Tracks.

As the result of the heavily in
creased traffic, the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad has decided to extend the
double track of the Metropolitan
branch from Gaithersburg to German
town, a distance of about four miles;
and from GAINESVILLE to Dickerson, a
little over two miles. The contracts
have been awarded and work will be
commenced at once, which will re-
uuire about a year for completion and
will cost in the neighborhood of $780,
600. When this is done the Metro
politan branch will be double tracked
from Washington to washington juno
ton, a distance of 43 miles, with the
exception of six miles between Ger
mantown and GAINESVILLE and seven
miles between Dickerson and Wash
ington Junction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
work to do and I'm going to do it."
Hyde'S Flight to EuPope.

Have you heard anything about Mr..
H :.{Ka,, ;, 49, 80 1,,,,.,,, ;. ,..u,,.,
the secretary, grimly. 81 had no idea
he was going away from the country
a. letter from Mrs. Hyde explaining that
she was responsible for his departure.
that she had purchased herself his
steamship transportation and had in
sisted that he go away on account OF
his health She said he was in danger of
nervous collapse
Concerning the inquiries now being
made into the scandals by the depart
ment of justice. Secretary Wilson did not
''ManifestIy,'' said he, cit would
scarcely be proper for me to discuss the
in the present circumstances. Only two
cases now are before the attorney gen
eral from my department., that of Holmes
result of the inquiries I have no idea DR..
Moore had accomplished some fine results
and if he had only made clear to the de-
partment his entire connection with the
Nitro Culture company. 1 think we could
have kept +, him z, ION on straight course
to an inquiry about the statement of T.
d. Hartman, manager of the Farmer and
Stockman, at Pittsburg, made in a letter
to the president as to the proofs he pos
sessed against DR.. Moore, Il have not
seen the speelfc a proofs ne refers to; but
est. You would not publish them if YOU
had them
Outlines His New Plan.
linen secretary wilson outlined MS new
plan for the bureau of crop statistics.
''This is entirely new" said he. land
never has been published. 1t is my inten-
ton to create board with Assistant Sec
rotary Hays at its head which shall handle
all crop statistics. 1 appointed a board a
little while ago, the members Of which
handle the statistics individually and turn
in their results to me or Mr.. Hays. The
present board is a sort of make-shift af-
in a hurry from people in the department.
1t is my intention to organize a board OF
four men, two of whom will be from the
south. The other two will be from other
parts of the country. They will be the
best men we can find in the country, meg
of character, standing and educatioA.
They will be scientific experts in whom
the country will have absolute confidence.
All reports will be sent to me from the
time in the hands Of these scientists. Each
will make I'D his estimate and the four
estimates will be resolved either by me
or by Assistant Secretary Hays.
THE members of the board will be reg
ular employees of the department and they
will spend some of their time in travelling
in search of any information which may
bear upon their work. Through the work
of this board I think we shall have per-
fect1y reliable estimates made of all crop
conditions. This plan will be better than
that providing for only one man at the
head of the bureau of crop statistics. That
one man might leave the department, he
might get sick or he might prove to be a
rascal. This idea eliminates any of these
feet security and confidence"
Secretary Wilson will go west in few
days, probably, but the date of his trip
has not been fixed.
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A Harvest Story.

Charlie Mays, Bluford Roth and
Orien Thompson, who have been
threshing on DR.. Biddle's farm finished
the job last night. They began three
day since that the weather permitted.
In that time they threshed 8,S77
bushels of wheat. 1900 bushels of
oats, $50 bushels of barley, or 11,127
bushels of grain altogether. The wheat
which yielded an average of 20 Il
bushels to the acre. One field of wheat
yielded 40 bushels to the acre. The
gross value of the wheat was some
thing over SIT to the acre and the net
about. S13 per acre, making a s per
cent. per annum income from land
valued at SIS the acre.-Emporia Ga
zette.
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AN UP-To-DATE HOTEL.
Congressman Reeder's Town Is Inn
proving.

Logan, Kas., Aug. 1.-Congressman
Reeder's town of Logan is to have a
modern hotel. Logan has grown SO
rapidly in the last few years that an
up-to-date hotel is needed. It is being
constructed of cement, made in Logan
by II. P. Andrews, ex-member of the
legislature from Phillips county and
assistant file clerk in the house of rep
resentatives at Washington.
Mr.. Andrews is a Logan boy, and
unless he can see every nail driven
and every block of cement piled up
he couldn't be contented. The new
hotel will have about thirty rooms,
and every sleeping room will have no
less than two windows. The hotel will
cost to complete and furnish close to
$4,000. It will be known as the
Hotel Becker, with Mrs. Emma Beck
er, who has been conducting a hotel
for many years in Lenora and Logan,
in charge. The new hotel will be
opened for business on or before the
first of October.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01

road life, says the New York Com
merclal. 1t is the understanding that
the list includes the Alton, which, three
years ago. was one of the first to make
the limit 35 years, and will now, it is
further stated, employ at least so per
cent OF its men without regard to age,
only experience and adaptability being
considered. The policies of the Boston
& Maine, the st. Paul and the Bur-
hngton are said to be practically the
same. It is thought that other big
lines will follow suit. Railroad en-
ployes say the rule was too arbitrary
to last and has failed to produce re-
suits expected. They brand it as I'M
philosophical, unwise and unnatural,
as We'll as ungrateful, cruel and in
human, and add that as there never
was any valid reason or necessity for
it, its failure was inevitable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
JUBILEE AT LOGAN.
Counties of Phillips, Rocks, Norton
and Graham to Celebrate.


Logan, Kan, Aug. 1.-The annual
jubilee of Phillips, Rocks, Norton and
Graham counties will be held in Lo-
gan August 22-25. This Jubilee" was
organized several years ago, and the
lovers of amusement in the four coun-
ties have kept them up to a high
standard. And all who want to see
one of the wide-awake towns of north
west Kansas will come to Logan.
1t has the most modern opera house
west of the Republican river. and
modern stone, cement and brick build
ings have taken the place of most of
the wooden structures.
It has a complete newspaper Office,
the Republican, which is one of the
best papers in the north half of the
state, and Calvin D. Walker, its editor
and publisher, never lets any of the
news get away from him. He will
issue a daily during the jubilee. One
day of jubilee week will be devoted
to the old boys in blue, and army
rations will be served.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
A TWO MILLION DEFTCIT.
Government Ownership of Railways
Receives a Setback in Canada.


Ottawa, Ont, Aug. Powerful i'm
petus to the opposition to government
operation of railways in Canada has
been given by the recent announce
ment of a deficit of some $2,000.00G in
the finances of the IntercoIonial rail-
way for the past year by Mr.. Emmer-
son, Dominion minister of railways and
canals. The disclosure of the unsatis-
factory condition of the finances of the
government owned and government
managed railway was made by the
minister in the course of an animated
debate in the house of commons, and
the facts, as they have percolated into
the columns of the country press, have
produced a profound impression.
Although the conduct of the govern
ment railway system can never be said
to have given any encouragement to
government ownership theories in the
Dominion, some sentiment in favor OF
the theory has nevertheless been fos-
tered in recent years. The recent an
nouncement of the financial condition
of the Intercolonial railway, however,
has presented a serious obstacle to the
movement. The theory of the owner
ship by government or municipality of
any public service operations has suf-
fered a corresponding setback.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01

above all, a woman who has had
more experience in treating female ills
than any living person.
Over one hundred thousand cases Of
female diseases come before Mrs. Pink
ham every year, some personally,
others by mail, and this has been GO
ing on for twenty years, day after day.
Surely women are wise in seeking
advice from woman of such expert
ence, especially when it is absolutely
free.
Mrs. Pinkham never violates the con-
fidence of women. and every testimo-
NAL letter published is done SO with
the written consent or request of the
writer, in order that other sick women
may be benefited as they have been.
Mrs. Fred Seydel. of 412 North 54th
Street, West Philadelphia, Pa, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
"Over year ago wrote you letter asking
advice, as 1 had female ills and could not
carry child to maturity. received your
kind letter of instructions and followed your
advice. am not only well woman in con-
sequence, but have beautiful baby girl l
wish every suffering woman in the land would
write you for advice, as you have done SO
much for me-"
Just as surely as Mrs. Seydel was
cured, will Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound cure every
woman suffering from any form of
female ills.
No other medicine in all the world
has such record of cures of female
troubles as has Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. Therefore no
prudent woman will accept any substi-
tute which druggist may offer.
If you are sick. write Mrs. Pinkham,
Lynn, Mass, for special advice. It ID
! free and always helpful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
FIRE At SWIFTS.
st. Joseph Establishment Damaged to
Extent of $4,000.

st. Joseph. Mo-, Aug. Fire of
unknown origin which started about
a. M in the beef rooms of the local
plant of Swift & Co. entirely de-
stroyed the beef department. The
entire fire departments of the packing
company and of the city were called
out, and after battling with the flames
for four hours got the fire under con-
troll The beef and oleo departments
were burned out and part of the poul-
try department destroyed. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
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NO MORE SPECULATION.
Union Pacific Stock to Be Taken on
the Market.

Chicago, Aug. lit is predicted
that in few years from now Union
Pacific stock will disappear from the
market as a speculative commodity. 1t
proposition. This, it is intimated, will
be brought about by the policy now
being pursued by the E. H. Hartman
administration of putting back such
large percentage of earnings into the
property for permanent improve
ments. To such an extent has this
been done that it is asserted Mr.. Har-
riman regards dividends as the only
unproductive expenditure a railroad
makes. It is stated that the Union
Pacific's profits on the Northern Secu-
rites equities which it owns will at
the lowest estimate exceed $50,000.-
900. It is reported to be now willing
to part with these securities and to
have already disposed of consider
able quantity of them on a very favor
able market,
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HE SHOT HIS BROTHER.
Deed OF a Fort Scott Boy Who Re-
scented Slapping.

Fort Scott. Kan, Aug. Lee A.
Meador, a young married man, was
shot late Monday afternoon by his 16-
year-old brother, Verne Meador, and
the doctors say he cannot live through
the night. He went home and found
his mother crying. She said the
younger boy had been abusing her be-
cause she would not give him money
to pay his way to the circus. Lee
reprimanded the boy and slapped him.
Verne went into the house and got a
shotgun and while Lee was attempting
to take it away from him he shot the
older brother in the abdomen, inf1ict-
ing a probably mortal wound. The
boy was arrested and is now in jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
PLAINvILLE's JUBILEE.
To Hold a Harvest Home Picnic on
August 1911.

PlainvilIe, Kas., Aug. 1.-The peo-
pie of PIainville will celebrate August
16 and II. It will be their first an
nua1 harvest jubilee. No town in
northwest Kansas is making more
rapid progress in building.
1t is located centrally on Paradise
Flats, of which Plainville is the cap
ital. Good crops have generally IA
vored the farmers on these flats, and
this year is not an exception. The
jubilee will be a success, because the
town and her people know no such
thing as a failure
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Opera House for Jewell City.

Jewell City. Kan, Aug. 1.-The new
opera house being erected here by D.
L. Palmer is a credit to the town and
the builder. It will be 40x7o feet with
easily seat 500 people. The building
will be veneered with iron, with metal
ceiling and roof. 1t will be heated by
furnace and lighted by electricity. The
entire building will cost close to $4,000.
Asked of the builder what he was go
ing. to name the new theater, he re-
piled Palmer's opera house, Jewell
City Kansas rersrf1 -,ouT-
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NJ. P. IMPROVES SERVICE.
May Run Two Trains Between Fort
Scott and Topeka.

]. H. Richards, general attorney for
the Missouri Pacific railway, in a re-
cent conversation with Colonel George
w. Veale. who is indirectly connected
with that road. said that the officials
of the company which he represented
were spending considerable money in
the Improvement of the equipment and
among other things had lately pur-
chased forty new cars. The first two
of these new cars to be delivered will
be put in service on the line between
Fort Scott and Topeka. 1t is said that
this change will be made about the
first of September and that the dis
lance between these two points will be
made in five hours.
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Two Died on the Voyage.

London, Aug. 1.-Two deaths and
one burial at sea among passengers of
the North German Lloyd steamship
Bremen, were reported when the liner
arrived here today. Mrs. Dollie Ed
monson Vedder, aged 81 years, widow
of Captain o. o. Vedder, U. S. A, died
July 81. Her body was brought to
port. A child who died in the steer
age was buried at sea.
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Baseball Niagnate Resions

St. Joseph. No. Aug. IA. wend-
over over. president of the st. Joseph Base
pail association, an organization re-
Gently formed to finance tha 1ons1
Western league club, has rendered his
resignation. Business interests de-
manding his personal attention are &c
signed as the reason for his action. The
the stockholders soon. -
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Bic Ranch Changes Hands.

Portland. Ore. Aug. 1.-Contracts
have been signed in this city for the
sale of the French Glenn ranch, COM
prising 10000 acres, to the Co-opera-
Grafton is $1,80O,000. the first INSTALL
ment to be paid within 80 days. The
ranch is so miles long and 25 miles in
width.
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New york and Philadelphia

cannot be more pleasantly or cOnven-
iently reached than by the Grand
Trunk-Lehigh Valley Double Track
Route via Niagara Falls. Solid through
trains. magnificent scenery.
Descriptive literature sent free on
anDlicatiou to Geo. w. Vaux. A G. P.
q T. A., Grand Trunk Railway System,
1875 Adams St., Chicago.
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Piled the Rawhide Vigorously.

Wichita, Kan, Aug. Mrs. John
Peters, the wife of cook, found her
husband in Joint late Monday. She
attacked him with a rawhide riding
whip. Mrs. Peters was elected, but
she threatened to make trouble if her
husband was not put out also. Peters
was then made to leave the place and
his wife used the whip in driving him
home
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Shoot a Gas We'll.

Cottonwood Falls. Kan, Aug. l.
The gas we'll just west of Strong City,
on the Lantry farm, was shot Monday
with twenty-five pounds of dynamite.
This produced a much stronger flow
of gas, which the drillers are now
using to run their engines. Lands are
being leased and other wells will be
put down at once
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Soon Have Natural Gas.

Kansas City, Kan, Aug. 1.-Omcers
of the Wyandotte Gas company have
announced that natural gas would be
turned into the mains across the line
between August 1 and 8. The delay
has been caused by testing the mains
and connections, a precaution to pre-
vent accidents, they say.