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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
FEAR QUESTIONS.
Four Packing House omcials Taking
Vacations.

Chicago, March 17.-Have the
packing companies of Chicago sud
denly reached the conclusion that the
health of their most trusted employees
requires them to take vacations
abroad? The query came with sud
den force to United States District At
torney Bethea yesterday when infor-
nation reached him that many of the
most important witnesses subpoenaed
to appear before the federal grand
jury next Monday, when the beef trust
will be placed under investigation, had
left the city, their destinations un-
known.
Captain Thomas L Porter of the
United States secret service was the
first official. it is said, to learn of the
fitting of four or five of the most i'm
portant witnesses.
Captain Porter learned that four
Chicago men had boarded a steamer
at ST John, n. B., bound for Europe.
Attorney Bethea and United States
Marshal ATnes were quickly given the
same information and an investigation
was started.
The names of the men, now in the
possession of Attorney Bethea, all of
whom are understood to have been
served with subpoenas to appear be-
fore the federal. grand jury, and who
have left the city are:
F. A Sphinx, general traffic man
ager National Packing company. Of
fees in the Roolery; resides in Austin.
Edward A. Allen. assistant secretary
Hammond Packlng company; resides
at $50 Fifty-third street.
James Brennan, department man
ager Swift & Co; resides at 6521
Peoria street.
Irving A. Want, assistant treasurer
Swift & Co; resides at 7O40 Normal
avenue.
A hurried inquiry yesterday after
noon failed to disclose the where
abouts of these men. At the office of
Swift a. Co, at the stocxyar rds.t nobody
fell
in the city or not. Mr.. Want was said
to have left the city. and it was not
known when he would return, No
trace of Mr.. Allen was to be found by
the deputy marshal who went out on
the search.
]. w. Roberts of the packing firm
of Roberts & Oake was enormously
reported to have been in the party
sailing for Europe, but Mr.. Roberts
was found at his home last night with
no intention of avoiding the grand
jury investigation. It was admitted at
Mr.. SDink's office that he was out of
the city.
District Attorney Bethea ordered an
investigation. not only to ascertain
VIII ether the men had left the city, but
also to learn whether other important
witnesses had followed their example,
for it has been quietly rumOred for
some time that vacations were be-
ginning early at the stockyards. Mr..
Bethea was cautious in discussing the
new aspect of the grand jury investi-
cation. refusing even to admit that the
men named had been served with sub
poenas.
Mr.. Bethea may conclude to go
after the missing witnesses. regardless
of the distances they have placed be
tween themselves and Chicago The
subpoenas issued by the United States
district court have an importance and
dignity which make it a serious Of
fense to disregard or ignore hem, and
it is possible that extradition proceed
ings may result.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
H. L. BEVELLE IS DEAD.
Former Local Manager of Western
Union Passes Away.

Horace L. Bevelle, one of the old
time telegraph operators of the south
west, died this morning at his home No.
1919 Quincy street. He was 45 years old.
Mr.. Bevelle was one of the best
known operators in this section of the
country. He was one of the early day
men in the Santa Fe railroad telegraph
department. He entered the service of
the Santa Fe at Emporia and was
transferred to Topeka in December,
1890. In 1891 he resigned from the tele-
graph service to enter the general
superintendent office. In 1898 he re-
signed from the Santa Fe general
superintendent office to become local
manager for the Western Union at To-
pelxa, position he held for twelve
years. He was re-employed by the
Santa F'e in 1901, and was with the
Santa Fe up to the present time. He
held the position OF night chief operator.
Mr.. Bevelle leaves a wife and family.
The funeral will be held from his late
house Sunday afternoon at 2:30.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
AFTER SAFE BLOWERS.
Four Men Arrested in Kansas City on
Suspicion

Sheriff Lucas today received from
Chief of Police Hays of Kansas City a
telephone message stating that Chief
Hays had captured four men whom he
believed to be the men wanted for the
Silver Lake safe blowing.
Lucas went to Kansas City this af-
ternoon, taking with him a man from
Silver Lake who saw the suspected
gang at that town the day before the
safe blowing. If it proves that the men
under arrest at Kansas City are the
ones wanted, a requisition will have to
be secured in case they refuse to come
without requisitiOn.
Chief Hays stated over the telephone
that the men he had caught were well
loaded down with new trousers, knives
and other plunder such IS was taken
from the store at Silver Lake Sheriff
Lucas says:
out of the safe. They found two or
three dollars in the cash drawer, how
ever, and took that They ransackeo
the store and took a lot of merchan-
disc"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
Communications Severed Behind
the Russian Army.
That Is the Report Current in
st. Petersburg.
BORROWAT HOME
Russia Is Negotiating With Her
Own Bankers.
Arrangements About Completed
for SIOO,OOO,OOO.

st. Petersburg, March 17.-6:45 p. m.-
There is a persistent report that rail-
road communications have been cut be-
hind the Russian army. No official dis
patches have been given out up to this
hour and no private or press dispatches
have been received. News is awaited
with intense anxiety.
An internal credit loan of $100, 900 600
on a five per cent basis is now being
negotiated by the ministry of finance.
The loan will be. fioated probably in a
short time. The price of issuance has
not been determined upon but probably
will be SO to 50. The Associated Press
was informed at the ministry that the
issuance of this loan is entirely inde-
pendent of the French negotiations
which have not yet been concluded.
Domestic rentes will be issued for a
long term and will, as in the case of the
internal credit loan, not be subject to
the obligations of foreign loans. The
payment of the interest and principal
will be in gold and probably be taxable.
The determination of the govern
ment to turn to Russia itself for funds
was taken only recently. Yesterday
the minister of finance conferred with
a number of the principal bankers OF
st. Petersburg and Russia generally
and received the assurance that the
project was feasible. The banks are
prepared to underwrite on suitable
terms The government savings bank
it Is said, will assume $25, 100000 OF
the total and such banks as the Mos
cow Merchants and the Volga and
the Kama banks are we'll able to un-
derwrite large portions of the loan
from their resources.
A director of a prominent bank
said the banks of Russia could if re-
fused take the bonds and hold them in
their own vaults. Questioned about
the price he declared that 80 would be
very cheap" but he said the condi-
tions on that point had not yet been
determined
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17

officials that the rate from Benedict
TO kansas City would be 10 cents a
hundred, and from Benedict to St.
Louis 3 cents. st. Louis is over 300
miles further from Benedict than
Kansas City, yet the rate from Bene-
dict to St. Louis was less than the
rate from Chanute to Kansas. City.
Benedict is not connected with the
Standard pipe line and consequently
oil shipped from there would not be
in competition with the pipe line.
Important testimony of the meth
DDS the Standard has of disciplining
independent producers was secured in
the examination of Harry Scott, for
merly a director of the Prairie Oil and
Gas com pany. now working independ-
entity in this field When the Stan
dard quit buying oil during the legis-
lative session the Lorena Oil COM
pany, in which Scott is interested,
after vainly trying to sell two tanks
OF oil to the Prairie, sold them to the
Humboldt independent refinery. Later
on, offering more oil to Griffin, the
Prairie manager in this field, he says
he was turned down with ''go and
sell it to the parties you sold the other
to. you know our rules"
The rule referred to is that the
Standard dfsconnects wells from its
lines when oil is sold from them to
Independent refiners.
Gardiner aLathrop, general counsel
of the AtcbisOn, Topeka & Santa F'e
railroad system, was on the stand
lie Sa1Q ne OlQ not know VINO the
directors Of the company were. He
said he would give the names of but
three of them. He was asked if H.
H Rogers and James StillInan are not
directors of the road. He said he did
not know. He was asked if John D.
Rockefeller was a director. He said
that it was well known that Mr..
Rockefeller was not now and never
has been a director of the Santa Fe.
When asked how it was he knew
that Mr. Rockefeller was not a di-
rector and his memory was faulty as
to Rogers and Stillman, he said that
was a matter susceptible of proof and
declined to answer. But he admitted
that Robert Dunlap, who is attending
the hearings and who has declined to
accept service hitherto, is the general
attorney for the Santa Fe and that
Kansas is his territory.
J. J. Griffin, assistant superintend-
ent Of the Prairie Oil and Gas COM
rany pipe line department, could re-
member only his name and address
and the color of his hair. He did not
know anything beyond that. He
could not even remember the name of
the president of the company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17

Heer is a native of Kansas and was
born near Concordia. His first shoot OF
note was at Atchison in 1886. There
were IO4 entries and Heer, with his ten
bore gun and black powder, was laugh
ed at. He turned the laugh in the first
event. however. by breaking straight 70
targets and repeating the record with
two others He broke the first As
straight. In 1899 Heer won the state
championship at Ottawa. He, with
three others. broke 80 straight. On the
shoot off two dropped out and Heer
again tied on 80 straight for the cham
pionship. On the final shoot off he won
176 targets out of 180. At Lincoln. in
1891. he averaged "a per cent on a three
days shoot, breaking 564 out of a pos
sibIe 500. The famous Gilbert broke one
more than Heer. Heer also won the
Rochester cup in 1901, which is contest
ed for in Kansas. Missouri, Nebraska
and Oklahoma At the national shoot
in Kansas City Heer made SO out of
possible 53.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
LAST STRONGHOLD GONE.
KuropatIzin May Make a Stand at
Kirin.

st. Petersburg, March 17.-With
the evacuation of Tie pass Wednesday
night, the Russian army abandoned
the last stronghold in southern Man
churia and definitely turned over the
section to the Japanese for the cam
pa:gn of 1905.
At least no other strategy is pos
sible for General Kuropatkin, in view
OF his scanty supplies of ammunition
and stores, the shattered condition of
his army and the wide enveloping
movements which the Japanese have
continued almost without a stop since
the Russian defeat at Mukden-
Nothing has been heard of the part
which General Kawamura' s army is
taking IN these operations, but Cen
erals Nogi and Oku. operating in the
low hills of the Tie pass gorge, were
themselves sufficient to turn the shat
tered Russian army out of the forti-
hcatiOns which had been prepared
with a view to being held by the
army after it should have been with
drawn from Mukden.
The japanese evidently are doing
their utmost to accomplish the en-
Velcpment of the Russian army which
all but succeeded at Mukden. but
General Kuropatkin. with the railway
for a line of retreat, probably viii be
able to keep ahead of his pursuers. A
constant succession of delaying rear
guard encounters may be expected
Military men here have but the
haziest ideas as to where the next
stand will be made. Apparently there
are no more fortified positions in
readiness, and the retirement prob
ably will not stop short of Kirin or
Kuanchentzy, on the railway line, and
II the japanese press the pursuit. the
Russians may retire beyond and up
the Sungari river, there to await new
levies, the mobilization of which will
begin Immediately in Russia.
The evacuation of Tie Pass involves
the loss of the coal mines in that vi
cinity, which. with the F'ushun and
Yentai mines gone, is severe blow
The railway shops at Tie Pass and more
supplies were sacrificed.
A further mobilization has been de-
termined upon. and preparatory orders
to quartermasters. etc, are already be-
ing issued but the extent of the mo-
bilization is not known.
No change in the command Of the
army in the far east has yet been
gazetted- One high military official
told the Associated Press yesterday
that to remove General Kuropatkin at
this moment would be much like trad
ing horses in the middle of the stream -
and that it would be better to give Ku-
ropatkin a chance to get what is left
of his army out of the claws of the
japanese before committing it to a new
commander, who necessarily would need
a little time to get a grasp upon the sit
uation.
General Kuropatl1in and-the remnants
of tae army which was defeated by the
Japanese on the Shakhe and Hun rivers
and again around Mukden and Tie
Pass. are now in the mountains a. few
miles north of the southern entrance of
the pass. trying to shake off their pl1r-
suers, who apparently are not going to
repeat the mistake of Liao Yang ana
allow the Russian army to escape.
kuropatlin has been reinforced nv
the garrisons of Tie Lung and other
fContfnued on Papa si-1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
PATIENTS RUN AND SKIP.
A Dozen Children Prove BIoodIess
Surgery Not Myth.

Chicago, March 17.-Twelve little chill
dren, all of whom were year ago suf-
fering from congenitaI hipjoint disloca-
ton, skipped gleefully up and down
the aisles of the assembly room in the
Public Library building last evening,
while scores of staid doctors, members
of the Chicago Medical society, scanned
their movements kindly, but critically.
Each of the children, ten of whom
were girls had within the last three
years been patients either of Dr. A
Lorenz of Vienna or of DR.. F. Mueller
of St. Luke's hospital and their child
ish scamperings of last evening were in
tended as a demonstration of the ulti-
mate results after bloodless reposition.
''I have treated tllirty-tyvo cases per-
sonally,'' said DR. Mueller, under whose
care the children had been assembled,
eleven of which resulted in normal
function, while the other twenty-one
were not so fortunate, as in their cases
only anatomical function -resulted.',
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
THREE BALLOTS.
stin No Choice of senator by Missouri
Legislature.

Jefferson City, Mo, March 17.-Three
more Intellectual ballots for United
States senator were taken today by the
legislature which then took recess till
1880 this evening.
First ballot:
81; Warner 3. Necessary to choice SO.
Second ballot:
Cockren 50; Niedringhaus AZ; Parker
"a: Warner IL.
Cockren 80: Niedringhaus 46; Parker
35: Warner II.
l. F. Parker was given a boom ia
that the support of the Kerens faction
was turned to him. Senator Nelson. the
Democrat. who had threatened to get
into line with the Republicans, remain
ed true to Cockrell- Representative
Lyons (Rep.) in announcing his vote
pleaded for harmony in the party and
then voted for Major William Warner
of Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
HENRY ON STAND.
Chanute Shipper Claims He Was Dis
crin1inated Against.

Chanute, Kan, March 17.-At the
hearing in the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe custer case Thursday Foster
Allen, manager for 1. n. Knapp, was
still on the stand. He submitted some
documentary evidence to show the
changes in rates and the effect OF
such changes on the crude oil Dust
ness Although he is reluctant Allen
has been the best witness for the
state Messages have been sent 1. n
Knapp in an effort to induce hln 10
testify, but whether or not his attend
ance can be secured is doubtful. IN
til a month ago Knapp was willing to
frely talk, but since he got the freight
rate he desired and has been made IN
dependent of the Standard by the
maximum freight rate bill, he is not
so talkative- The hearing will continue
all week and may run over into next
week.
Allen refused to give out any CORE
spondence between Knapp and the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e until in
structed to do so by Knapp He said
he had communicated with Knapp. He
was excused until the Knapp reply
The testimony of N. w. Henry.
Chanute oil man, is what Frank S.
Monnett calls the most important teS-
timcny he has yet secured IN the ex-
aminations he has been conducting
The Henry testimony, it is claimed,
is the connecting link which shows the
collusion between the Santa Fe, Katy
and Missouri racine anu o1heI al an
roads and the Prairie Oil and Gas
company to discriminate against KAN
sas independent shippers in favor of
- + Henry es testified that after the santa
Fe had raised the oil rate in 1884
from 10 to IT cents a hundred on
crude oil from Chanute. Neodesha
and Humboldt to Kansas City, points
connected with the Standard pipe line,
he asked for rates from Benedict TO
Kansas City and st. Louis on tank car
load lots Benedict is a small town
twenty miles west of Chapute on the
Santa Fe.
He was informed by local Santa Fel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
INVESTIGATION.
Testimony of Shippers Being
Taken at Chanute.
Difference in Rates Shown Which
Look Like Determinations.
j. r. KOONTz DENIES.
Shows Up Misrepresentation of
Santa Fe Oil Rates.
No Difference in Rates From
Benedict and Chanute.

General Freight Agent j. r. Koontz
Of the Santa Fe railroad today made
the statement that the reports sent out
from Chanute, Kansas, in regard to an
alleged discrimination on crude oil rates
between the towns of Benedict and
Chanute are Misrepresentation pure
and simple.
I notice in this mornings press dis
patches" said Mr.. Koontz, that Mr..
Frank S. Monnett, who holds the dual
position of attorney and correspondent
for VIM. r. Hearst, and the Hearst
string of newspapers, gives out in his
customary style under a special with a
Chanute dateline, what appears to him
to be the connecting link showing that
collusion exists between the Santa F'e,
Missouri Pacific, Katy and other rail-
roads and the Prairie Oil and Gas COM
pany, to discriminate against the Kan
sas independent oil shippers in favor of
the Standard oil company
InlS startling fact was apparently
drawn out, as indicated by Mr.. Mon
netts communication to the press, from
the testimony given by Mr. NJ w
Henry. Mr.. Aonnett announces that
Mr. Henry testified that after the rates
were advanced in August, 1904, the 10
cent rate continued in force from Bene-
dict to Kansas City, while the rate from
was advanced to IT cents.
In substantiation of my statement
that the condition of affairs that Mr.
Monnett announces Mr.. Henry has tes-
tilted to, is not correct, give a COPY of
item S04, amendment 81 to Santa Fe
system tariff 5947-A issued June Is,
1904, effective August Is, 1904. The item
in question speaks for itself. It shows,
and the fair-minded man will see there
from that the rate from Benedict and
Chanute was at all times the same.
Herewith is a facsimile of that sec
ton of the Santa Fe tariff sheets show
ing the rate in cents per hundred
pounds on crude oil car loads, minimum
weight in barrels "a, 900 pounds in tank
cars, capacity of tank, which was in
effect up to August Is, 1904, from the
points mentioned:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17

When Prairie Company OniciaIs TeIe-
phoned Demolition Stopped.

Chanute, Kan, March lit is now
said that the tearing up of the lateral
pipe lines north and west of Chanute
by the construction gang of the Prai-
rie Oil & Gas company yesterday was
a mistake, and that the lines will be
Immediately relaid. The producers
affected believe it was just another
mistake on the order of the boycott in
February As soon as the fact was
published the mistake was discovered,
but the work went along for two or
three days all right and appeared to
be going on yesterday, until some Of
the producers went to the newspapers
and some of the friends of the Prairie
Oil company telephoned the bosses to
call it off. The bosses then called it
off at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17

maximum rate law went into effect
the rate from Peru to Kansas City,
Mo-, a distance of 191 miles, over the
Santa -Fe, and any other line from
Argentine to Kansas City, Mo-, the
rate is 10 cents per hundred pounds.
aRates under maximum rate law
from Peru to Argentine, shipment to
destination on only one line, Santa Fe,
the rate is cents per hundred
pounds.
Benedict to Kansas City, Mo, IA
miles, over two Zines of railroad, un-
der the new law the rate is 91k cents
per hundred weight. Benedict to Ar
gentine over one line of railroad,
cents per hundred weight
'"The rate from Chanute to Kansas
City, No, and from Chanute to Ar
gentine, under new law is exactly the
same as from Benedict
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
CALLS IT ..BuNC.v
NJ. A. Low Talks of the Santa Fe
Investigation

NJ. A. Low of Topeka, general coun-
sci of the Rock Island railway, was
at the union depot at Kansas City last
night on the way to the Indian Terri
tory. Mr.. Low said that he was not
going to the Indian Territory oil field
on business.
1.-The Rock Island is not under fire, -
h said, nor do 1 think it will be- I
do not believe anything will come out
of the charges against the Santa Fe
railway. I think it is all fbunc. It
all comes from the agitation stirred
up in Kansas and the Kansans merely
want to know"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
.Jananese Captured AIuch CoaI.

San Francisco, March 17.-Ohlcers
from five british freight steamers that
were captured by the Japanese while
trying to run the blocade into Vladivos-
toik. have arrived on the steamer China
from Yokohama. The total amount of
the coal cargoes falling into the hanoS
of +ha TaDanese reached nearly 25, 900
tons v, = CSrajensky and A. D. Pos
teff officials in the Russian postal SER
vice. who have been in Port Arthur for
several years. have arrived on their way
to Russia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17

Herewith is a facsimile of that
section of the tariffs relating to the
rate in ceNts per hundred pounds on
crude oil in car loads minimum weight
in barrels $4,000 in tank cars capacity
of tank, from the points mentioned,
in effect after Aug. Is, 1904, and up
to the time the maximum oil rate law
x4re1f into affac+.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
ION RYAN Old.
Friends Of the Kansan in Washington
Are Expressing Anxiety.

Washington. March 17.-Iudge Thon-
of the interior, is III at his home here,
and his friends ar becoming anxious
over his condition. He win be 50 years
old his next birthday anniversary judge
Ryan is suffering from a heavy attack
of grip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-17
Teunerafures in Large Cities

Chicago, March - - a a m, 5s1,, IeIll-
40. PbiIadeluIlia, IS; Washington, A;
Chicago 46. Minneapolis. 3S; Cincin-
natl. Is; ST. Louis, 81