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Cañon City record., 1905-04-27

asks you to give up that thing which
he knows will do you harm. A young
man presented his sweetheart with
genuine diamond and a pearl necklace
on condition that she would throw
away her fake jewelry. She would
have been fool not to have given it
up for the real jewels she received. Is
it then hard TO give up the pleasures OF
this world when God offers you the
jewels of heaven?
Many man has nerve enough to en-
list in the army front fight for his
country but he hasn't nerve enough to
get out and fight for the Lord. have
yet to find the honest unbeli eyed that
l could not convice il he would do
what the Lord told him to do. II you
don't find what others did when they
accepted then they must all be wrong
and you right. But il you do find
what others have found then they
must have been right and you
wrong. The great detective. when
given clue, will follow it to the end
to see whether or not it was right. To
night give the unbeliever clue and
see II it be right II he is honest,
70 be convinced you have to move out
and do what God tells you to do.
The devil in showing the unbeliever
Christianity will pick out the smallest
nubbin of corn in the bin. the one that
may not be leading just the life that
he should and will say to you that
there is specimen OF Christianity.
While on the other hand, he will take
you to the biggest ear OF corn in the
bin, the moral man and say there is
my product. He don't show you the
blear-eyed drunkard or other sinners
in their yileness. II you are looking
for hypocrite in the church, you must
I've one outside the church. You must
be mighty small II you can hide behind
the hypocrite.
A bugologist could render the human
race an inestimable service by taking
some of the hypocrites in Canon City
and picking them in alcohol as speci-
mems of little things.
Some will say. oh, am waiting for
someone else to come. Come and take
your stand and show your influence.
Take others to heaven with you instead
of going with them TO hell. At the
Iroquois theatre fire in Chicago the
people didn't stop to see what others
we're going to do. They made n mad
rush for freedom.
To believe is the requirement while
feeling is the result. II you are work
ing for man and he tells you to do
something ne expects you to do 1t
whether yop like il or not. Jesus
Christ tells you to do this for his sake
and he expects you to do it whether
you feel like it or not. II is obedience
that he expects.
Cañon City record., 1905-04-27
EXCUSES DON'T co
IN SUNDAYS GOSPEL

Nearly three thousand people crowd
ed into the Tabernacle Friday night to
hear Rev. Sundays discourse on 'Ex-
cuses" and when the invitation was
given at the close of the preaching SER
vice forty-four people went forward to
give their hand to the evangelist and
confess their Savior, making the total
number of converts 74s. Rev. Sundays
voice was in better condition than it
had been for some time and 1t was ap-
parent that speaking was less OF ply
steal effort than usual.
Before the sermon @. F. Pressey ask
ed permission to briefly address the
audience. He announced that the
Tabernacle meetings would close next
Sunday and he hoped the people would
come to the morning service prepared
TO show in substantial way their ap-
probation of the great work done in
Canon City by Rev. Sunday and assis-
tants The only financial remunera-
tion the evangelist will get for his
months preaching here will be derived
next Sunday and Mr.. Pressey said they
could not be too liberal in view of the
great good that had been accomplished.
There can be no adequate compensa
tion for the great spiritual and moral
uplift which the community has exper-
fenced as a result of the preaching OF
Rev. Sunday, but some substantial
testimony should be given him as an
evidence Of public gratitude. People
gladly pay large sums of money to
specialists in the medical and surgical
professions for their services in time OF
need How much more ought they to
pay specialists who treat their spirit
ual necessities.
Mr.. Pressey did not state how much
the people of Canon City ought to pay
Rev. Sunday for what he had done for
them, but he expressed the hope that
they would do themselves honor by
donating him a handsome sum OF
money. Fifteen hundred or Thousand
dollars would not represent ten per
cent of the benefit the community has
derived from his strong, forceful, elo-
the last four weeks and our citizens
can not afford to give him less than
that and maintain their reputation
for liberality. IT n circus were tocome
to town it would receive the patronage
of nearly everybody and would carry
away with it several Thousand dollars
yet Rev. Sundays preaching has been
worth more to Canon City than all the
circuses in Christendom, and, we
should not treat him less generously,
said MIR. Pressey, than we would a
passing show that caters only to our
entertainment.
The Sermon.
The discourse Friday night was on
Excuses" and was based upon the 9Th
chapter of John, And ye will not come
unto me that ye might have life"
That was one of the saddest mes
sages that ever fell from the lips Of the
Savior. have often wished had the
power to reproduce them in all their
sadness. Christ saw men and women
rejecting and repudiating him and he
was grieved by their ingratitude and
perversity. Men are lost because they
will not come to Christ. No man goes
to hell because he is a sinner. He
goes there because he will not accept
the mercy of the Redeemer. The
atonement Of Jesus Christ covered the
sins of all people. God knows every
man and woman that will be ssved.
He knows every man and woman that
will be lost. He knows the end from
Cañon City record., 1905-04-27

Mrs. Katherin Russell OF Garden
City. Kansas, arrived this week for a
visit with U. S. Pittman at 1907 Harri-
son avenue
Cañon City record., 1905-04-27

THE Fremont County Bank have
made arrangements whereby they now
issue their own letters Of credit paya-
BILE in all the principal cities of in the
world. These letters are without,
exception the best means OF arranging
for money abroad. II you are going TO
Old Mexico, South America. Japan,
Europe or anywhere else. see the OH
GERS Of the bank.
Cañon City record., 1905-04-27
AID the Sassapariiia by Keeping the
bowels regular with Ayers Pills

You should accept Jesus Christ be-
cause he is a glorious master and will
save you from the power Of the devil.
Behold in the sun the footprints of
God. Behold in the wretchedness Of
this world the footprints OF the devil.
Your influence Is great. Now is the
time 10 make your stand.
With this appeal the invitation was
given with the usual good results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
SENATOR IN CONTEMPT.
Patterson Of Colorado Fined 81 900 by
Supreme Court.

Denver. Nov. 30.-The supreme court
has held United States Senator Thomas
NJ. Patterson to be in contempt of court
for printing certain cartoons and edi-
torials in his two newspapers and fined
him 81. 600, directing that he be commit
ted to Jail until the fine should be paid.
Subsequently the court ordered a stay
of execution for sixty days, pending an
appeal by Senator Patterson to the su-
preme court of the United States. The
court announced that the Patterson case
would be called and directed that an
attachment be issued for the senator
when he failed to appear. Later the
senator came into court in company
with the court bailiff. He protested
against the service of an attachment,
claiming that he was not attempting to
avoid making an appearance, but the
court reminded Senator Patterson that
he had agreed to appear at a certain
time. Considerable discussion and con-
troVersy followed as to just what had
been agreed to between Patterson's at
torneys and the court and Senator Pat
terson declared emphatically that he
would go to jail rather than pay the
fine imposed. His attorneys also in
formed the court that Senator Patterson
would exercise his constitutional right
as a United States senator to claim ex-
emption from arrest while congress was
! in session and thereby have set aside the
| judgment of the court so that he might
! be enabled to be present when congress
convened next week Further dis
cussion followed and the senator told
the court that if a stay of execution was
issued he would hasten an appeal to
the supreme court and if that body re-
fused to take cognizance of his case or
| decided the case against him he will pay
the fine Immediately. The court agreed
to that and issued the order accordingly.
Chief Justice GaIlbeTt announced at the
conclusion of the Patterson case that
the court would hand down a formal
opinion in the case within a few days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
SOME BIG IMPROVEMENTS.
Missouri Pacific to spend $780, 600 in
Kansas City Freight Yards.

Kansas city, No, Nov. 3O.-Within
the next seven months the Missouri
Pacific railroad is to expend in the
neigh borhood of $1,5O0,OOO in the
erection of two new freight houses for
outbound and inbound freight, ter
minal Yards and other facilities for
handling the vast amount of traffic
which comes in and goes out of kan
sas City over this line. A permit for a
100000 brick and iron structure was
issued yesterday by the superintendent
of buildings. This represents the esti-
mated cost of the outbound freight
house alone, and the work of putting
in the foundations is already com
menced.
The outbound freight house is to be
located on St Louis avenue, between
Liberty street and the State line 1t
will be 1900 feet long, thirty eight
feet wide and two stories high. The
building will have a concrete fOunda-
brick, with terra Gotta trimmings, and
& tile roof. The second story of this
building viii extend for zoe feet, thus
leaving freight shed of 1000 feet.
In this building viii be located the
superintendent Office, the yard and
telegraph Offices. It will be equipped
With cooling and oil rooms and be
heated by steam. Eighteen sets Of
automatic scales will be placed in the
urst floor of this building. and eyerv-
| thing possible will be done to make it
up-to-date and thoroughly modern.
The inbound freight depot will be To-
Gated just 1873 feet south of the enc
described. This building will be coo
feet long by forty-two feet wide. and
for over 100 feet it, too, will be two
stories in height. The construction of
this building will be practically the
same as for the outbound freight. In
the second story will be located the
local freight Office with lockers and
rest rooms The Missouri Pacific tele-
phone central will also be placed here.
Between these two freight houses
will be eight tracks and transfer plat
forms. These will be 1900 feet long.
running the entire distance of the out
/ bound freight house and shed. South
or the inbound depot there will be six
more tracks, together with two vitri-
/ ned brick driveways, each forty-two
/ rect wide. running from Hickory street
to St. Louis avenue. In connection
with this this there will also be placed
a travelling crane operated by eIectrici-
/ ty and running on a track 1000 feet
| long This crane win be one of the
most powerful constructed, and will be
capable of lifting anything from IL, 900
! to 10000 pounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
EAGLES TO BRING JOHN L.
veteran Pugilist win Be Star Attrac-
ton for Local Lodge.

The first time that John L. Sullivan
has ever of1ciated at a boxing en-
counter in Kansas-this is the attrac-
ton which the local lodge of Eagles
will have to offer lovers of the manly
game during the week of December
10th.
Two weeks from Wednesday the for
mer worlds champion heavyweight
pugilist will make his bow to a To-
peka audience as referee. The details
of the boxing bouts have not been
fully made, though the interest will
center about the "go' which is being
arranged for between Jesse James, a,
local boxer of some reputation in the
lightweight class, and an out of town
man. Another bout will probably be
pulled off, but the principals have not
been fixed upon. Other features will
be a broadsword contest, a fencing ex-
hibition and wrestling. The athletic
tournament will be given in the lodge
rooms of the Eagles.
Sullivan will be here during the
week of December 10, and the Eagles
with his troupe Of fourteen people in
comedy and farce at the Crawford
theater or the Auditorium. A corn
mittee of three has been appointed
from among the members of the lodge
to have the matter in charge.
The newly elected officers of the
lodge are: President, D. NJ. Lane; vice
president, George Herren; chaplain,
George N. Ray; secretary, Frank G.
CovelI: financial secretary, Bert Gill
bert; trustees, 2. A. CLANCY, Herman
Crow, George N. Ray, and Frank c.
Ccville.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
MISSOURI PACIFIC CHANGES.
General Manager Sullivan Announces
Encouragement of Divisions.

St Louis, No, Nov. 30.-A. w. Sullivan,
general manager of the Missouri Pacific,
has announced five new appointments and
Encouragement of the divisions in the
northern district. A circular notice was
issued of the appointment of Horace Ty-
Ter as general superintendent OF the south
division, succeeding W s. Taylor re-
signed. The other notices were of the
following appointments:
j. Russell as superintendent of the ON
aha division with jurisdiction over the
lines from Kansas City, Kan, to Virginia,
and from Menager Junction to Leaven-
worth, with office at Kansas City, Kan.
G. H. Stapp as superintendent of the JOp-
lin division, with offices at Nevada. No.
of the Northern Kansas division, with Of
flee at Atchison
The Western division is abolished, and
the Omaha and Kansas are re-arranged.
The Omaha. division is arranged as fol-
lows: Kansas City to Omaha, 204.16
miles; Nebraska City Junction to West
Side Junction. 71.5S miles; Atchison to St.
Joseph, p e miles; Union to Lincoln, A. So
miles; Talmage to Crete, 5S.16 miles; Kan
sas City to Virginia, 160.73 miles, and
Menager Junction to LeavenWorth, 1888
miles; total of 57I.0I miles, The division
office is at Omaha
The Northern Kansas division is ar
ranged as follows: Atchis0n to LenOra,
2927O miles; Downs to Stockton, 4160
miles: jamestown to Burr Oak, &c. 40 miles;
Yuma to Prosser. 1029 50 miles, and Green
477.68 miles. The division Office is at
Atchison-
Freight Traffic Manager Smith an
nounced the appointment of N Douthitt
as general live stock agent at Kansas
City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
Motive Power and Grades on
Santa Fe Being Tested.
Engineer Thomas Going Over
Line in DynamOmeter Car.
SOME VALUABLE DATA
Being Collected to Accelerate
Transportation Of Freight.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

r. w. Thomas. engineer of tests of
the Santa Fe system and whose head
quarters are here in Topeka, z. II.
Cooks of the tests department at the
shops at Fort Madison. Ia, and L
simpson. with the Westinghouse Air
Brake company at Wilmerding, Pa,
are on board Dynamometer car No. 8
of the Westinghouse company which is
attached to a fifteen hundred ton train
of steel rails that are being hauled
over the road from Chicago on new
steel fiat cars to Los Angeles where
they viii be delivered to a street rail-
way.
This train passed through Topeka
couple of days ago and the men are
with it I'm the dynamometer car for
the purpose of determining the pulling
capacity of engines, the tractive force
and the draw bar resistance of the
train Grades on the road are also
being tested and when the trip has
been completed the company will
know exactly in what locality it viii be
necessary to make changes in grades
Mr.. Thomas and his companions will
make the trip back to Chicago in the
dyuaT7ometer car. 1t will be on a
train Of refrigerators filed with fruit
and the same tests that are being made
on the outgoing trip viii be made on
The return This test viii be one of
the most thorough ever made by the
santa Fe or any other road and will
demonstrate to the company Just how
10 use every ounce of motive power to
the best advantage and What grades
need TO be changed so that more sDeed
may be obtained.
Car No. 5 is one of the most power
FULLY built cars of its kind thar mas
ever been made and has a draw bar
resistance of 700, 600 pounds.
we nave had a first class trip ont of
Ntllcaeq said Engineer Thomas the
olner Gay, and expect it to continue to
'ne enc We have found the motive
power on the road to be in the bcst nos
Nlpie condition and have made The trim
tHIough without incident or engine fail
ule- ne train which we have Is made
up or some new steel fiat cars. which
nave gust been built for the Santa F7o
company and of course a they are moi
worn enough to run well with a heavy
load Of steel they give US the most Sc
we're tests possible The PURPOSE of the
Jest is for the acceIeration Of sneed in
1he transportation of freight and we are
compiling very exhaustive report
"hlch shows the mile posts, the BRIDGES
lla other landmarks, and shows lust
W nat power it takes to move a train over
every mile of the road. We are also
making some calculations in regard to
the air brake system, and just what is
needed in this line. The test viii be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
BAD FLOOD IN ARIZONA.
Railroad Bridges Down and Roads
Out of Commission.


Phoenix. Ariz.. Nov. 3O-Phoenix
is very much depressed these days
over the food conditions, and in some
quarters there is an anxiety concern
ing damage to property and possible
loss of life. Salt river is higher now
than ever before but once, and Is al
most up to the limit of the flood of
1891, when the lower part of the city
was inundated.
Two railroad bridges at Tempe.
eight miles from here, are now out of
commission. The water is eleven feet
over the site OF the Arizona diversion
dam, which is undoubtedly all gone.
The present flood at Phoenix is
supposed to come mostly from the
Verde river, above the Arizona dam
1t has rained nearly two inches here
in the last thirty-six hours, and a total
of nearly twenty inches since January
I, more than three times the average
annual rainfall here.
It will be ten days before trains will
be run on regular schedule on the
Prescott & Eastern road The Santa
F'e, Prescott & Phoenix to the north is
intact. The telephone wire is down
between here and Roosevelt, and there
is no news from up Salt river except
ing that the Arizona dam is surely
gone. Lower Phoenix last night was
saved from inundation only by siren
uous efforts on the levee along Salt
river few miles east of town
Ranches on the lower valley are bad
" damaged by the river cutting out
as it recedes, and there is no news as
yet from the Buckeye settlement, forty
miles west, where it is believed much
damage has been done. as the Salt and
ella rivers unite on this side of the
settlement The flood was further
augmented by Hassayampa and Aqua
Friar rivers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
MORE HoSlE-ssEKERs' RATES.
Santa Fe and Rock Island Plan Low
Ones for January and February.

Chicago. Nov. 30.-Passeuger Off
cials Of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa
re and the Chicago. Rock Island &,
Pacific have submitted a proposition
to the Western Passenger association
requesting permission to issue one
way colonist rates, to be put in effect
on the first and third Tuesdays in
January and February. The rates
proposed are one-half of the one-way
fare plus 81. The points to which
these tickets will be sold are Missouri
Arkansas, oklahoma, Indian Terri
tory. Louisiana, Texas, Kansas. Ne
braska, eastern Colorado, wyoming.
and New Mexico, and also to Pueblo,
colorado Springs. Denver. and Trini-
dad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
THE GOVERNMENT RE1ENrs.
Returns Money to Man Fined for Try
ing TO Evade Tariff Duties.

San Francisco, Nov. 8O.--The case
Of Capt. w. w. Harris. u The United
States engineer corps, arising from his
failure to declare dutiable goods which
he brought from the Orient on a
transport, has been settled. At the
time Harris goods were eonfscated and
he was fined three times their value,
or nearly $4,000 This was done by
order of the circuit court. The case
was appealed to the United States su-
preme court, which upheld the deci-
sion. Collector of Customs Stratton
has now received an order from the
treasury department to return Harris
$3.50 of his fine ana the goods. Their
value. 1857, is to be retained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
COOKING SCHOOL AT FIT. RILEY.
Government VIII Establish One for
the Commissary Officers.

Washington, Nov. 30.-Under a new
policy decided by the war department
officers of the commissary department
are to be taught to bake bread and
will be given practical instructions in
cooking. officers of the commissary-
department will accordingly be sent to
the school of application for cavalry
for a course in the school for cooks
and bakers. 1t is the belief of the
army officers that with the acquire
ment of practical and technical knowl-
edge by the officers in the baking of
bread and cooking food a great re-
form will be brought about in the
preparation of food in the army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-30
FREIGHT RATES Low HERE.
Chicago Post Declares They Have
Fallen One-Half in 30 Years.

u
Fallen One-HaH in 80 Years.
In no country in the world are
freight rates so low as in the United
Post. In the last thirty years they
have fallen about one-half Taking
the Pennsylvania as representative
of all the roads, the average rate per
ton per mile has been reduced from
$3.50 in 1870 to 81 cents at present.
Had the old figures remained in force
last year. shippers over that road
would have been required to pay
S127.337, $50 more than they did. The
Pennsylvania carries about one-sixth
of all the freight moved in the United
States, so that on this basis the total
saving to shippers on last years move
ment of freight was more than $780,
100000.
The amount saved to shippers in
the last thirty-fiVe years would have
ed and floating debt of the roads and
to have paid stockholders much larger
dividends on their holdings than they
have ever received.
The reduction has been made pos
sible only by immense expen ditures of
money in the way of Improvements
through which unprecedented econ
omies in operation have been brought
about. But the figures show in every
case that shippers have received
much greater benefit from these re-
ductiOns in the cost of operation
than have the owners of the property.
There has been nothing like such an
increase in dividends as there has
been reduction in rates.
Of course, the gain in earnings has
come about from still greater in
crease in tonnage. In 1890 the ton
mage moved one mile by the Penn
sylvania amounted to 1.O14.6E2. 900,
while last year it had Increased to
23,451,O0O