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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

John Hay says he's going to work
just as soon as he reaches home. AL
though cured, Hay will remain in the
field. No NOV for him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

An Indiana man of 80 shot two
men who yelled odd Whiskers" at
him. Indiana is no place for a man
like that.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

On the first indication of kidney
trouble. stop it by taking Feley's
Kidney Cure. Sold by Chas. McNab,
4O2 Riverside ave.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

The Shakespearen revival in Lon
don has just ended. My, but those
London folk are slow. 1t ended in
this country in 1860.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

No good health unless the kidneys
are sound. Foleys Kidney Cure
makes the kidneys right. Sold by
Chas. McNab. 402 Riverside ave.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17
ILLINOIS TOWN
Is BURNED OUT
(Scripps News Association.)

TOMBSTONE CITY, H., June IL
Forty buildings of the business Sec
ton were destroyed by fire early this
morning. Loss, $4,000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

Have you ever had appendicitis? ''
mo. but I've got a new diamond
ring?"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

Why should l carry a bank account
With the Spokane & Eastern Trust
company?
Because ii is one of the best
D cencies toward saving money.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

ana avenue. Tuesday evening, June
20, at 1880 o'clock.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17
TAFT MAKES DENIAL
(Scrinps News Association. }

TSCTTNps NEWS NHsOcIatIOn.1
WASHINGTON, June 17.-Secre-
tsry Of War Taft today denied he
vas to succeed Chief Justice Fuller,
who becomes a member of The Hague
tribunal. Fuller recently told friend
he has 10 intention of resigning.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

BY A. s. Neale.
The above illustration shows what
a hustling root system the corn plant
has 1t is hardly possible to disturb
the first four feet of soil in field Of
e0-day old corn without injuring
these important organs.
Plant roots have two important
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

All around you. all the time. Press
want ads are causing things to
happen.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

rs so DAYS AFTER PLANTING.
reached any size. Every time a root
is torn out or broken the water and
food ga thering power of the plant is
weakened, and the chances for a full
crop lessened. The ideal system is
that which keeps the surface soil
loose and free from weeds, and gives
the roots undisturbed possession of
the sub surface.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-17

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
AN EASTERN MANS VIEWS.
Some Difference Between Roads in
West and East

Some Difference Between Roads in
West and East.
Stillman Parker. assistant foreman in
the Boston terminal freight department
of the Boston and Maine line, is on a
visit to Kansas and in Wichita the other
days he compared the railroad systems
in the west to those in the east in these
words:
The system of the western railroads
IS entirely different from that of the
eastern lines. The first thing that at
tracted my attention after leaving Chi
cago was the mixed trains. On the
Boston and Maine lines a mixed train
would be a curiosity, and in fact it is
the same on all other lines. Another
thing which attracted my attention
was the number OF buns They also
are. almost a curiosity on the eastern
lines. many of the lines employing spe-
cial policemen to see that no tramps
board the trains.
on our line we do not handle much
wheat, most of the seaboard exports
going via New York: but the cotton
traffic easily makes UP for that. Our
leather shipment is surprisingly heavy
for all the leather for the big Lynn
shoe factories and for many others must
come through Boston.
Most OF the freight trains run at
night so as to give the passenger trains
the right of way, as fully thirty pas
senger trains make daily runs from
RSSt14h anu AASc4A ~ HEAtAA2 SUN d NAtACS
thirty and forty miles distant In Mas
sachusetts the through trains only run
about $50 miles. sEsses
In my state the express business is
done largely by the little local express
companies. Each town has it's own ex-
press company and each company has
its own car running into Boston.
lone thing that the eastern companies
don't have is the red ball system. all
though we do have systems inferior to
that. On the vegetable cars and cars
carrying other perishable goods we put
a tag bearing the inscription of perish
able goods and it is given preference
to other freight"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
BOUGHT ROAD TO GET PASSES.
only Woman Railroad President Tires
of Her Job.

St. Louis, oct. 3.=Mrs. Mary S
Holiday. who made herself president
of the Wilhamsvil1e, Greenville & st
Lc..ss railroad, because, although she
was a director, the manager of the
railroad refused to give her a pass
sold the road last week fer $1,000,000,
received the money and returned to
society.
Until she sold the road the other
day, Mrs Holiday was the only wO-
man railroad president in the United
Statess probably in the world.
Though only sixty miles long the
road is one of the best feeders in
southern Missouri. A purchasing syn
dictate headed by John S. Long, Kan
sas City, succeeded Mrs. Holiday at
the helm The million dollars was
paid to Mrs. Holiday at the National
Bank of Commerce in this city Satur-
day.
At the Planters after the sale was
made Mrs. Holiday was in high
spirits.
81 guess I have made more money
in the last ten months than any wo-
man in America" she said. Il liked
being at the head of a big enterprise
all right, but it hardens a woman, and
she drops out of society. I will move
to St Louis now and return to so
ciety.
''What made me go after the presi-
dency was 1 couldn't have pass While
was a director. So I bought the
road and made myself president Then
had all the passes I wanted"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
HERE'S A bird.
La Crosse Hired Man in Jail on
Murder Charge.
Protests His Innocence in an
Unlikely Confession.
HE ABUSES MRS. CINK.
Dead Woman Loved Him and
Showed Tt Plainly.
Threw Her Arms Around His
Neck So Bullet Hit Her.
HE ABUSES MRS. CINK.

La Crosse. kan, Oct. 3.-In an at
tempt to justify himself, Phillip Schyn-
ard the hired man IN Jail here charged
with the murder of Mrs. Cink, blaekans
the woman's character, protests his in
nocence. and now states that she was
shot by her husband, while trying to
shield him from danger. He claims
that the dead woman was enamored Of
him, and that her husband was ieal-
Gus. Twice. ne says, when he had talk
ed of quitting work at the Cink place
she had attempted suicide, once by
shooting and the second time with car
bolic acid and said if he went she
would go also. Schynard's story of the
tragedy, in effect, follows.
When CInk and his wife went to the
dance on the night of the tragedy he
made up his mind to leave, drank some
whisky, loaded a wagon with wheat
intending to take it and the team as
well as clothes and trinkets, as he had
no money. He then went back in the
house and drank the rest of the whisky,
about a quart in ALL turned the horses
out in the pasture and lay down on a
lounge Later he buckled on a belt
with a 32-caltber revolver and went to
the buggy shed to stay until the Cinka
came home. When they drove I'D he
stepped out and Cink asked what he
was doing there at that time of night.
Schynard says Mrs. Cink saw the re-
volver and ran to him and kissed him,
begging him not to shoot. as it would
be worse for him. Then, he says, Cink
fred at him with a rife kept in the
buggy to shoot rabbits for the dog, and
struck Mrs. Cink. Schyhard claims to
have fred at Cink. but missed him.
Then, he says, Cfnk ran away and he
placed the revolver in Mrs. Cink's hand,
got some more clothes from the house
and left. He did not know whether the
woman was dead when he left her.
The hired man says the woman was
not to go with him that night, but was
to follow later. Schynard wore Mrs
Ciuks watch when captured, and claims
he nicked ii uD from the ground.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
COIOnist Travel to the South
west Is at It's Height.
Great Rush of Persons Going
Through Topeka Daily,
NEVER WAS HEAVIER.
Three Thousand Pieces of Bag
gage at Los Angeles One Day.
Gossip and Matters OF Interest
in Railroad Circles.

4hefe IS an unusual rush Of persons
travelling through Topeka these DAYS
Tor points in the extreme west and
southwest. Most Of them are coming
from Chicago and points in the middle
west and are bound for southern Cali
Iornla. The rush is on because OF the
eolonists rates in effect on all of the
western roads leaving Chicago, and
While these colonists rates have been
put on each fall for a number of years,
the travel is heavier this year than
ever before. These rates went into eff
feet on September Il and are to be in
existence for a couple of months The
travel now is right at its height and
the railroad men are beginning to ex-
perience little trouble in handling the
crowds.
Officials in the passenger depart
ments of the Santa Fe and Rock Island
say that the colonist travel this year
IS larger than at any time in the his
tory o. the roads, and t11ta while the
rates are in effect. thousands and thou
sands of persons will be carried into
the southwest.
AS evidence that these estimates are
all right, one of these officials said that
one day last week at the Arcade depot
IN Los Angeles there were three thou
sand pieces of baggage in the baggage
room and cars because of the rush and
| the inability of the baggagemen to han
die them.
as candidate for lieutentaoi- } .'aao
/ representatives, has announced himself
noticeable feature Of the incoming
travel is that it is not confined to those
who are taking advantage of the cheap
eolonfst rates. goodly proportion of
the tourists come on first class tickets
| from Chicago, for which they pay near
/ ~ double the rate paid by the colon
| lists.
| Stimulation of this travel is attribut-
ed to the publicity given to the railroads
/ by lower rates, many OF the travellers
/ thus attracted preferring to pay the
| difference in fare for the privilege of
travelling in standard sleepers and on
/ limited trains
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
HILL TALKS SOME MORE.
Man, Who Says Rates Have Not Been
Reduced, Tells an Untruth.

Portland, Ore Oct. 3.-Presfdent J.
j. Hill of the Great Northern railway
was the principal speaker at a BAN
quet rendered by the Lewis and Clark
exposition last night to Mr.. Hill and
President Howard Elliott of the
Northern Pacific railroad
Mr.. Hill said: Notwithstanding the
average rate paid by the people of the
United States is only 80 per. cent OF
that of Russia, we have a great many
people who are preaching a new doc
trine. and that IS the regulation of
railway rates by federal authority.
1T has been announced in an Off
cial manner that there has been no re-
duction of rates in the United States
for twenty-five years: that tariffs have
been reduced at times. but that when
ever a tariff was reduced the classical
ton was given another turn of the
wheel and advanced so at the east to
offset the reduction in the tariff.
'fThe man who made that statement
did not tell the truth. The reduction
in the average rate per ton per mile
in % years on the Great Northern rail
way aggregates 1857, 100000 That
has been the reduction that the people
have gotten on one railroad.
Il am not afraid that any federal
regulation would ever get down deep
enough to touch US where we live, be-
cause long before they do the country
will be strewn with railroad corpses.
They would bankrupt two-thirds of
the mileage in the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
TIE PROBLEM Is SERIOUS.
Contractor Says They VIII Have to Be
In1norfed in 1920.

1.-THE railroads of North America will
have serious proposition confronting
them about 1920 " is the statement of a
well known contractor. who has built
many miles of road in both Mexico and
the United States.
Ut viii be the difficulty of getting new
ties. The life of an oak tie is Is years,
and in 1920 all the ties in the country
must be replaced. There is not enough
material in North America to do it. An
authority has figured it out that the NUM-
Der of railroad ties employed IN the rail-
road service amounts up to Is figures. Iron
ties will not do. They are too rigid. It
will be either import from Africa or South
America. or invent some substitute for
wood. The need of demonstration will
strike the railroads when it is too late
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
Gihson Annoints Assistant.

Kansas City. kan, Oct 3.-James S.
Gibson. county attorney, has appointed
Judge NJ. H. DOuOho as d deputy to
assist in the prosecution of criminal
cases in the courts. The appointment
was ratified by the board OF county
commissioners. Judge Donoho is one
of the lawyers of the old school He
went to Texas from Illinois, his native
state, at the close of the civil war,
and for several years before there were
any railroads crossing the prairie he
worked as a cowboy driving cattle to
Abilene, Kan. to the then terminus of
the Missouri Pacific. He has been
practicing law here for fifteen years.
save for time when he served as
Judge of the north division of the city
court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
THAT NORTH TOPEKA CANAL.
L. c. Betz Tells Why He Is Opposed
to the Project.

To the Editor of the State Journal.
As I have been a reader of the Daily
State Journal for fifteen years and have
noticed your spirit of fairness, / ask to
be heard in the controversy in regard to
the flood matters of North Topeka and
the Kaw valley. I am one of the two
men who were opposed to the drain
age or spillway ditch.
The action of that meeting was cor
rectIy reported. There We're a hundred
men there in favor Of that ditch, was
alone and they simply run the automo-
bile over me. They would not consider
any proposition but a ditch from Sol
der creek to the river. Now with all
due respect for the men that were hired
secretly, to make the survey and report
that the most feasible relief was a
ditch or sDillway from Soldier creek to
the river, I want to say that it is wrong
in principle and in theory. I think that
God Almighty was a pretty good civil
engineer. He has mapped out the course
of Soldier creek. or the natural way to
carry off the water, If we stop selfish
men from choking up, obstructing and
irving to change the natural water
way, we have solved the flood problem
In short my idea is to cleans widen
and shorten Soldier creek. This done.
we will have no more oyerHoWs. am
not a civil engineer, but / have seen
this flood water fought from the road
overseer to the supreme court, yes, to
the legislature of the great state Of
Ohio, and from there to the congress
of the United States. and the only sys-
tenn that has been of any practical and
permanent benefit to all the people, has
been to widen, clean and dredge out the
natural waterway. Every other theory
of dil1ing, ditchfng. reservoirs and spill
ways has led to litigation and blood
shed. This may seem like a good deal
of nerve, to stand Up alone against the
opinion of hundred men, but when q
boy. in 1856 I saw q man get up in a
political meeting and heard him declare
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
A FranlzIin county Pioneer.

WeIIsville, Kan. Oct. 3.-Jameg
Shields. one of the earliest settlers in
this part of the country died at his
home north Of Wellington, in Franklin
county. He was born in ireland in
1924, came to America in 1849 and to
Kansas I'm 1858. He homesteaded a
where he has lived since He was Of
fered a quarter section of land in the
heart Of Chicago, in 1852, for $500. but
did not like the idea of owning land
covered with water and did not buy.
In a few years the land was reclaimed
and today is worth millions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
Division at Pawlauska.

Pawhuska. Okla. Oct at now
seems to be definitely settled that the
freight division of the Midland Valley
road will be located at Pawhuska. Very
extensive yards are being constructed
here and material is beginning to ar
rive for the construction Of a round
house. The grade is ready for the rails
almost all the way from here to Ar
kansas City, and track laying towards
the north viii begin at once. The
contrac tors in charge of the work
promise connection with Arkansas City
before January I.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03

Cures dizzy spells, tired
feeling. stomach. kidney
and liver troubles. Makes
you well and Keeps you
well. That's what E1ol-
listers Rocky Mountain
Tea will do. IS cents.
Tea or Tablets.
GATIIN DRUG CO.,
zO2 Kansas Avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
RAILWAY BOARDING CAMP.
New Institution to Provide Comforts
for Laborers.

A railway boarding camp for the laborers
on railroads is perhaps the latest illustra-
ton of the generally recognized principle
that the better surroundings. moral and
physical, the men have the more and bet
ter work they do, says the Chicago Tri-
bune.
The gangs of railway Iaborers usually
work out of reasonable distance of towns,
and are, therefore, practically homeless,
and must depend on the companies for
food, shelter, clothing, and incidental ne
cessities. The new plan, as it has been
carried out, furnishes complete boarding
camp, including a cold storage system, SO
that fresh provisions may be at hand at
any place and time. Sleeping accOmmoda-
tiOns consist of the common box cars pro-
vided by the company, to which are added
porttble iron framework On this frame
work are installed wire mattresses with
iron frames, which provide plenty of room,
clean, and sanitary surroundings, and
abundant ventilation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03

Atchison. Kan. Oct. 2.-The trial of
Professor Albert PeasIey, charged with
poisoning his wife. was commenced in
the Atchison district court Monday, but
the regular panel was exhausted be
fore jury was secured. A special
venire of thirty-five was called for and
the work OF examination was resumed
today. Professor Peasley is being de-
Tended by B. p. Waggener of Atchison
and Judge Z. Willard Of Atlantic. Ia.
Judge Willard is Peasley's half brother
and also his brother-in-law. as they
married sisters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
HARTMAN OWNS EXPRESS CO.
Railway Magnate Through Southern
PACIFIC Controls WelIs-F FARGO.

A telegram from Portland, Ore. recently
said that in a suit fled for commission by
a real estate firm for the sale of a lot to
the Wells. Fargo & Co, for the erection Of
a skyscraper in Portland. it was inclden-
tally brought out that E. H Hartman
controls the express company W. ". Cot
ton and William D. Fenton, attorneys for
the Southern Pacific. admitted on the stand
that the railroad had an interest in the ex-
press corporation.
Evidence was also INTRODUCED in the form
of letters from Julius Kruttschnitt direct
ing the investment for a building site for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
After lay Violators.

Fort Scott, Kan, Oct. 3.-The saloon
men against whom intornations were
filed, have been arrested and required
to enter into $3.50 recoguizance for their
appearance in court at the next term.
Josie Hopkins and Fan Gathright were
arrested also and compelled to put up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
ST. JOSEPH TO BE TERMINAL.
Missouri Pacific Planning to Spend
S1,0OO,OOO There.

Land has been purchased by the
Missouri Pacific Railroad company in
st. Joseph for the location of a system
of terminals on which about 81 600, 900
will be expended. The line will be ex-
tended from Atchison to st. Joseph,
which viii be made the terminal Of
the Central Branch. A site has been
selected already for a new freight
house. To hold title to the ground and
terminals the Missouri Pacific has in
corporated the st. Joseph and Central
Branch Railway company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
CHANCE 10 SEE THE WEST.
Union Pacific to Inaugurate a Person
ally Conducted Tour.

Omaha, Oct. 3-On October IA the Union
Pacific railway will inaugurate a person
ally conducted tour of the west It will
not be an excursion, but the fare paid by
the passenger will include all expenses Of
the traveller. including meals, lodging, side
trips and railway fare which will be paid
for in a lump sum. This trip win cover q
days, and the train viii stop at all points
of interest along the line, including cities
in Colorado.ss Utah and California. The
price wifi be 1852 for the entire trip. The
road expects to run these trains period
icaIlv in the future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03

Kansas City. Kan. Oct. 3.-The re-
ceipts of this Dostoffce for the quar-
ter ending September 80 amounted to
S42,O1428, an increase of $4,178.29 over
the receipts for the same period in
1904. This is an increase Of 10 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03

bonds in the same sum. The county
attorney also fled fnforma tons against
six inmates in each house, charging
them with selling liquor. However, only
four were arrested at the HOPKINS re
sort, and but one at the Gathright
place. Two there we~a sick and could
not be arrested on that account. The
owners of the places gave bond for
those that were arrested
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
BUILDERS or THE ST. LOUIS.
Dodge a Petition in Bankruptcy Filed
by Creditors.

Philadelphia. Oct. 3.=An order has
been fled in the United States district
court dismissing the petition of cred
itors of the Neafie & Levy ship and
engine building company of PhiladeI-
phia, asking that the concern be de-
clared bankrupt. The order confirms
the decision of a master in the case
made on July 27. last. The company
which is in the hands of receivers is
constructing the United States steam
ship ST. Louis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
a Veferan . sllicide.

Leavenworth. Kan, Oct. 3.-Robert A.
Shepherd. a veteran committed suicide
in the Imperial hotel here about noon
yesterday. Shepherd took carbolic acid
occupied to make sure of death. He
had been i'll and was Respondent. Shop
herd served in company B. Tenth Ohio
infantry in the civil war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03
GARFIELD TO PROBE ROADS.
Corporation Commissioner to Person
ally Call on officials.

washington, Oct. 3-James r. Gar
field, commissioner of corporations,
who is about to begin an investigation
of the transportation companies en-
gagged in interstate commerce, viii visit
Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, St.
Louis, Kansas City and other large
cities, where he will interview the Off
Gals at the headquarters of the large
railroads.