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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
HANDLING LONG TRAINS.
Santa Fe Distributes Engines Through
Train ON Mountain Divisions.

In fiat sections. as in southeastern
Texas, and other prairie regions, where
there are practically no grades, trains
are sometimes made up of as many as
so and 100 empty cars, drawn by sin
gle engine, but trains of that length
would go to pieces on the heavy grades
of the mountain regions, even when
propelled by as many as five monster
locomotives.
on the Santa Fe, for instance. a
train of 60 loaded boxes is about the
heaviest that will be permitted to go
out on the road, and then the locomo-
tives, four or FIVE in number are dis
tributed through the train so as to
equalize as much as possible the strain
upon the drawbars. It win be seen
that if the entire motive power was
placed at the head Of the train the ten
sion on the drawbar connecting the
first car to the engines would be some
thing tremendous.
With the engines placed at the rear
OF the train the crushing force would
be so great that it is doubtful if the
cars would stand, especially if there
were any empty cars in the train, while
an unloaded fatcar would double up
like a jackknife. It will be seen from
this explanation how greatly the to-
Biography of the country may increase
the cost of transportation of freight
as Wen as the amount to be invested in
modern power and its maintenance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07

While no woman is entirely free from
periodical suffering. it does not seem to
be the plan of nature that women
should suffer so severely. Menstrua-
ton is a severe strain on q woman g
vitality. If it is painful or irregular
something is wrong which should be
set right or it will lead to a serious de-
rangement of the whole female organ
ism.
More than fifty thousand women
have testified in grateful letters to Mrs.
Pinkham that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound overcomes pain
full and irregular menstruation.
It provides a safe and sure way of es-
cape from distressing and dangerous
weaknesses and diseases.
The two following letters tell so con-
vincingly what Lydia 2. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound will do for
women, they cannot fail to bring hope
to thousands of sufferers.
Miss Nellie Holmes OF $40 N. Davi-
sion Street, Buffalo, n. Y, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
a Your medicine is indeed an ideal medicine
for women. suffered misery for years with
painful periods, headaches, and bearing-down
pains. 1 consulted two different physicians
but failed to get any relief. A friend from
the East advised me to try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. I did 50, and
no longer suffer as did before My periods
are natural; every ache and pain is gone, and
my general health is much improved. ]
advise all women who suffer to take Lydia
E. Pinkhamis Vegetable Compound"
Mrs. Title Hart, of Larimore, N. D.,
writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 might have have been spared many
months of suffering and pain had I only
( ET1rv of ia q
Ask Hrs. Pinkham's Advice "A Won
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
Railroads Have Rigid Rules
Governing Habits OfEmpIoyes.
Demands of Operating Men Ex-
emplary Personal Conduct.
FOR SAFETY OF TRAINS
Intemperance Is Made Cause for
Instant Dismissal.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railway Circles.

Employees of the operating depart
meht of the Alton road have been given
to understand that instant dismissal
win be the penalty Of their being
caught or seen in any questionable place
or detected in any questionable prac-
tice.
The subject came up during a confer
ence which the management recently
had with a committee Of conductors
who complained Of the discharge of
some men who were caught taking q
drink in a dance hall a request to re-
instate the men met with determined
refusal and the mana cement took the
occasion to again lay down the law Of
q rigid moral life.
Under the present rules of the Alton
1t is impossible for q man engaged in
the operation Of trains on that road to
visit a race track or a dance hail, q beer
saloon beer garden or concert hall, or
any resort where liquor is sold, or where
there is gambling, or where any i'm
moral or questionable practice is per
mitted.
None of the officials in the operating
department ever carry intoxicating
liquors on their private cars when on
Alton rails, nor do they enter saloons
in towns along the Alton road In
short, they have undertaken to obey the
rules and Instructions which they have
laid down for the government of the
men.
The Alton management" said Geo.
Charlton, general passenger agent,
makes such rules not because they are
trying to control the morals of the men,
but for the purpose of safer operation
Of trains. All of the things which are
prohibited either tend to or might tend
permanently or temporarily to impair
q mans mental and physical being.
"A man employed in the operation of
trains needs his best capabilities of
mind and body always at his instant
command, and anything that tends
toward and ether possibility is harmful
TO the service and disastrous to life and
property. Alton operating employees
have got to be men Of unquestionab BILE
habits, and there is no deviation from
that requirement"
The officials Of the operating de-
rules in force as strict as those of the
were given a taste of discipline for dis
obeying these rules recently when a
dozen trainmen were summarily dis
missed at Emporia, Kansas
The Rock Island railroad is also as
strict as the Alton. Because the Alton
operating company is controlled bv the
Rock Island, it is believed that the or
ders in this regard on the Alton orig
mate from sources which control the
Rock Island. Recently the Rock Is
land officials who were accompanying
President B. L. Winchell on tour of
inspection Of the western lines were en-
tertained at one Of the social clubs at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
Chicaeo 10 PIar 81. Nfarns.

ST. AIarys, Kan. April THE Chicago
Cubs viii stop off here today and engage
in a few fOllies at the expense of Quig-
ley's Invincible Irish. The leagues will
play their strongest team and Weimer
will probably do the twirling, considering
which the colIegians viii do well to score.
The home team is in splendid condition,
and though cOnceding the game, Coach
Quigley is confident Of again landing the
college championship of Kansas At an
election held here Tom Walsh was elected
to captain this years team. Walsh is also
captain of next years football team and
one of the most promising athletics of the
middle west. George Miller was appoint
ed manager. Under the new management
the schedule was revised and st. Marys
now boasts of sixteen games
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
Katy Directors Elect Omcers.

The annual meeting of the Missouri
Kansas & Texas directors was held
yesterday at Parsons, Kas. The di-
rectors and officials of the system
present were: H. c. Rouse. chairman
NJ. <. & T, New York; r. N. F'inney,
president, st. Louis; Colgate Hoyt,
vice president, New York; c. G.
Hedge, vice president and treasurer
New York; James Hagerman, general
counsel, St. Louis; Governor Herrick
of Ohio, director, Cleveland O.; c.
Halle, traffic manager, St. Louis; E.
N. Alvord, general superintendent, St.
Louis; ". e. Hammond, secretary to
chairman, New York; c. n. White
head secretary to general counsel, St
Louis. After the stockholders meet
ing the board of directors convened
and appointed Henry c. Rouse Col
gate Hoyt, Henry W. Poor, Charles 6.
Hedge, James Brown Potter and f
W. Finney an executive committee, and
elected the following officers:
Chairman of the board. Henry c.
Rouse; president, T. n. Finney; vice
president, Colgate Hoyt; vice president
and general manager, A. A. Allen;
vice president and treasurer, c. G.
Hedge; secretary. S. Hallines; general
counsel, James Hagerman; controller,
r. w. Mcguire; local treasurer in St.
Louis, F. Johnson; treasurer in Kan
sas, r. p. Roach; secretary in Mis-
souri,. r. w Mcguire; secretary in
Kansas. w. r. Snedaker: assistant
secretaries in New York, Deverux To-
Ter and H. NJ Flint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
MILLIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
Details Of Big Betternents Planned by
Rock Island system.

Chicago. April "Details were given
pOrtant improvements to be made this
year on the Rock Island system. New
steel rails viii be laid on 400 miles of
track IN Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas,
at a cost of about 100000 New steel
bridge work in Missouri, Iowa, Nebras-
ka, and Kansas win be done at a cost
of $500, 600.
For ballasting the roadbed to a
depth of ten inches below the ties about
S675 600 viii be spent on $50 miles of
track in Kansas, Missouri Iowa, Ne
braska, Colorado, and Oklahoma. The
most available material VIII be used in
various sections for reballaSting. In
Colorado most Of the new ballast will
be disintegrated granite. In other
places crushed stone, gravel, or brown
clay will be used.
Large sums viii be expended for
terminal improvements at division
points and the larger cities along the
system. To carry out plans which have
been approved by the company viii cost
many millions of dollars. The amount
which viii be spent this year for ter
milal Improvements will be about ST.
500 000
The Rock Island has just given an
order for so locomotives, making a total
of is to be delivered to the company
before July 81 Thirty engines win be
for the various classes Of passenger
trains. 65 engines for freight service,
and 20 engines viii be used in switch
ing service.
The dispatch from Chicago confirms
the announcements made in the State
Journal in regard to improvements con-
templated on the Rock Island this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07

excessive Hazen grade. Articles of in
corporation have been filed BY the law
department of the company of the
Nevada & California Railroad com
pany with a capital stock of $4,000
600. The articles of incorporation say
that the company proposes building a
line from Hazen. Churchill county,
Nevada, southwark "to a point on the
Moiave desert" and a. branch line u
miles long from Churchill. station
on the Carson & Colorado road. to
Mound House station. on the Virginia
& Truckee railroad. The intention IS
to effect connection between Los An
geles and Iazen with the aid of the
Carson & Colorado road, by laying a
trifle over 200 miles of track me
new road viii practically isolate the
Virginia & Truckee road except for
local traffic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
Lively Blaze at LeavenwortIl.

Iseavenworth. Kan, April THE Fisher
machine works. one Of LeavenWOrth' g
largest manufacturing concerns, was to-
tailv destroyed by fire Thursday. The fire
was discovered by people living near the
departments by phone but falling wires
seem to have put all the phones in the
neighborhood out of order and 1t was fully
half an hour before the firemen were notI-
fed When they reached the scene the
plant was a total wreck Mr.. Fisher, man
ager of the Fisher machine works, esti-
mates the loss at nearly S100 900, only part
" covered by insurance. Fifty men are
thrown out Of employment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
TO INCREASE CAPITAL STOCK
Union Pacific Proposes to Issue $780,
100000 of Preferred shares.

A special meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Union Pacific road will be
held at Salt Lake City May for the
purpose of voting on a proposed
amendment to the articles of incOr-
poration so as to increase the issue
of preferred stock by S10O,OO0,OOO.
This would give the road a total stock
issue of $396,17S,7OO, of which $780,
600, 600 would be preferred and $780,
178,700 common stock.
Officials of the company decline to
state what they propose to do with the
money to be derived from the sale of
this additional stock. They state it is
not customary to make such an an
nouncement until the issue has been
authorized and all details of the plan
in view fully developed Rumor has
it that the proposed issue has some
thing to do with the much talked of
merger of the Vanderbilt and Harri-
man systems.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
california $500 via Santa Fe.

During March and April tickets win
be sold to Los Angeles, San Francisco.
Portland Seattle. Tacoma, and other
points in California and the Northwest.
Through tourist car service at slight
additional cost. Free chair cars ali
the way and only three nights out to
the above points
Santa Re all the way.
Write for literature-free for the
asking. Address T. L. KING, c. p.
& T. A.. Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
strife Over Sleeping Cars.

BY widely advertising that its
sleeping cars have wider, longer and
higher berths than any other road.
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul has
aroused the ire of its competitors. a
number of them have held a confer
ence and agreed to request the St.
Paul to stop advertising this feature
of its passenger service. on the
ground that it is "unneighborlv''
toward other roads. The St Paul is
one Of the few railroad companies
that have their own sleeping cars and
maintain exclusive control of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
Interstate Commerce C Sd.

The interstate commerce commits
sion has set for hearing the following
cases: Mensha WOOdenWare company
against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe, and thirteen other roads, alleging
unreasonable rates on woodenware
from points in Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Illinois, and other Mississippi points
to northern Pacific terminal points,
for May s. in Chicago; Pittsburg Plate
Glass company against Chicago, Pitts
burg, Cincinnati & st. Louis railway.
and sixteen other lines, alleging un-
reasonable rates on plate glass shipped
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
Small Postofice robbery.

Newton, Kan, April THE postoffics
at Goessel, nine miles northeast of New
ton, was broken into and robbed We'd
nesday night. About IS in money and
stamps was taken and SIS in cash be-
longing to the postmaster. The post
office authorities have been notified, and
an inspector is expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07

ed at that time that none of the op-
Grating department officials took liquor
when it was served. The fact that they
all declined the liquor was noticed and
caused considerable comment at the
time.
It is almost impossible for drinking
men to find positions in the operating
department of any road and it is pretty
hard for a drinking man to last very
long in any of the other departments
of railway service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
A Cr;ppIe creek Electric Line.

Cripple Creek. Col, April Word
has been received in this city from a
reliable authority that an electric rail-
way, having one terminus in this city
and the other in Colorado Springs.
Will be started in the next few weeks,
connecting Pueblo. Florence and the
two cities above mentioned. Tt is I'M
derstood that Thomas Robinson, presi-
dent of the Florence Street Railroad
company. is the authority for this
statement. Passengers, express and
freight will be handled on the new
road
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07

The cOlored porter on one of the
Oklahoma division passenger trains
got off a good one, one day last week
A passenger approached the porter at
some point down the line and asked
whether or not the train stopped at
Red Rock. mo sab, answered the
porter brusquely. Not satisfied, tae
passenger fired some more questions
which brought from the wrathy porter
the reply: Il tell you, sab, that this
train don't stop at Red Rock. Why,
sab, it DON'T even hesitate there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
FUNSTON N COMMAND.
Is Now Head of the Department Of
California.

San Francisco, April 7.-Brigadier
General Frederick Funston has re-
Heved General Francis Moore of the
command of the department of Cali
fornia and the division of the Pacific.
All the staff officers of both the divi-
sion and the department called on
General Funston, and the officers from
the various posts in the department
will make their official calls within the
next few weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
BEER ROE CHRIsTENING.
Brewers Want 1t Used for the Cruiser
st. Louis Launching.

St Louis. April THE announce
ment that Mayor Wells had selected
Miss Gladys Bryant Smith to christen
the United States cruiser st. Louis, to
be launched at Philadelphia May 6,
was followed by expressions generally
from st. Louis brewers that the cruis-
er be christened with beer, instead Of
the customary champagne. The brew
ers, in statements today, declare that
beer is typical of St. Louis, and that it
should therefore be used on the occa-
sion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07

washington. ADriI tine following
Kansas rural routes have been ordered
estab lished May Is. Burlingame, Usage
county. routes 4. 5 and s; population, ,455.
houses 2ql. Fruporia, Lyon county, route
10: population. go; houses, 100; Paola, Mia
mi county. routes. Z. and 8; population,
1,068: houses, 81 springnil, Johnson eotn-
u, route, 2; population, 408s houses. 1o2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
Are Yon Going Enst2

In making your arrangements for
your vacation this summer 1t would
be we'll to consider convenience and
saving of time. The Wabash with its
own rails to st. Louis, Detroit, To-
ledo, Pittsburg and Buffalo is the
shortest line, makes the best time, and
furnishes the best accOmmo dations.
Through service to New York and
Boston. Ask your local ticket agent
for tickets over the Wabash; they all
sell them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07

other concerns, etc. These documents
are either positive proof of the iniquit-
Gus methods of the Standard Oil com
pany or magnificent opportunities for
suit for libel against the publish ers
TT will Ike very much more than
a general denial on the part of a law
yer to answer the accumulated evil
dence given to the public by Henry D.
Lloyd in his Wealth VS.. Common
wealth and by other writer's"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
Ne,r Kansas Postmasters.

washington, April THE following
western postmasters have been appointed:
Kansas-Jeron1e, Cove county, Samuel "
Davis, vice J. AIcCoilfster. resigned; Mas
tin, Johnson county, William F.. Hurdle,
Ellis county, Charles Ho1f, vice E Sits
resignea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
Worry Goes
To The Stomach
Tears down the little Telegraph
Lines that Operate and control
the Digestive Processes.
How To Repair These Tele-
graph Lines.
will gladly give any Stomach Sufferer Full Dollars
Worth Of my Remedy Free 10 Try.

I ask no deposit-no reference-no secur-
ity. There is nothing to rislk-nothlng 70
pay, either now or later any stomach
sufferer who does not know my teineqy
may have a full dollars worth free, II ne
merely writes and asks. =.
cause DR.. Shops Restorative is not an
ordinary stomach remedy It does not, IN
deed, treat the stomach itself; It goss Pc
yOnd-it treats the nerves that control ana
operate the stomach. The nerves InaI
wear out and break down, and Gauss
stomach trouble For stomach trouble IS
really only a symptom that there IS serl-
Gus nerve trouble inside. That Is why or
binary remedies fail. That is why my
remedy succeeds. That is why L can al
ford to make this offer.
Yet do not Tnisunderstand me When l
say nerves. 90 not mean tne ol nel ttss
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space here to explain to YOU how the
nerves control the stomach, or how they
may be yitalized and restored. " hen you
write I will send you a book Whlch VIII
make these points clear. But tins much IS
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that. No other remedy than DIT Shoop
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What ais the stomach nerves? worry.
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in more than million hones-as Dr.
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| strangers to my remedy 1hoSe VINO nave
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/ uufrements. It is open ana frank ana
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
MOVE ROCK ISLAND SHOPS.
East Moline VIII Get the Shops Now
Located at CHICAGO.

The Rock Island system has decided
upon extensive changes and improve
ments in the new shops and yards ad-
jacent at East Moline this year New
car repair shops are to be added, TAX
ing work away from the company S
shops at Forty-seventh street, Chicago.
Extensive switching yards are also to
be laid out to relieve the congestion at
Natick which has been so annoying OF
late years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
RAILWAY MEMS PAPER.
j. H. Ffnney an Old Santa Fe Con-
ducter starts u Weekly.

]. E Finney, who used to be con-
Guctor running on the Santa Fe west
from Emporia, has started a railroad
mems paper at Wichita. The paper
contains news OF interest to railroad
men and has correspondents at most of
the Santa Fe division points from En-
Doria to Oklahoma City. The paper IS
a weekly The first issue was put out
two weeks ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
SANTA TE FREIGHT CHARGES.
Offices of the Coast Lines Undergo
COnDlete Reimbursement.

O1llces OF inc NOzlsL IlIIIta OlElIoIsO
Complete REIMBURSEMENT.
Los Angeles, Cal, April Some time
before May / Edward Chambers, gem
eral freight agent of the Santa Fe, will
remove his headquarters from Los An
geles to Albuquerque, where he viii act
as assistant freight traffic manager OF
the road with jurisdiction west of that
CITY. Mr. Chambers withdrawal from
southern California, with other changes
announced at Santa Fe headquarters, IN
this city, will result in an entire read
justment of the conpany's Pacific coast
freight department. AS previously re
ported Assistant General Agent Larn-
wen viii become the company's general
freight agent, with Los Angeles as his
headquarters.