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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
Fight Is on for Control of Kansas
City Southern.
Is the Short Line to the Gulf of
Mexico.
VOTING TRUSTEXPIRES
Future Developments Awaited
With Interest.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railway Circles.
rOTING TRUSTEXPIRES

Kansas City, March There
seems to be no diminution in the fight
for possession of the Kansas City
Southern railway. Who will control
after April 1 is still a matter of con-
lecture. But there has not been a
railroad proposition in recent years of
such vital concern to Kansas City as
the disposition of this property The
property is in demand. There is not
a grain carrying line, not already pro-
vided with an outlet to the gulf. that
would not like to own the Kansas City
Southern. The Chicago, Milwaukee &.
St. Paul railroad has a close connec-
ton with the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, but it would not be averse to
controlling an interest an independent
line. If the Hartman interests can
manage to retain control, the Kansas
City Southern will be merged with the
Chicago & Alton and the Union Pa
cific lines The Chicago Great West
ern, the Burlington or any one of the
several other lines also would be glad
to secure the Kansas City Southern for
an outlet to the gulf
When A. Z. Stilwell projected the
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf he
based his hope for the future of the
road upon the growing Importance of
Kansas City as a grain center. How
the Hartman and Gould interests Sc
cured control in order to strangle the
usefulness of the line and changed the
name to the Kansas City Southern is
familiar history The voting trust,
which the Harrimans and the Goulds
created in 1900 expires April l. The
annual meeting is scheduled for
March IA in the Thayer building,
Ninth street and Broadway. Out of
courtesy to the new control, which will
develop after the expiration OF the
voting trust and the subsequent trans
fer of stock, the annual meeting will
be adjourned for sixty days.
Mr.. StilwelIs Early Predictions.
That Mr.. StiIwel was justified in
his views as to the future of Kansas
City when he built the Pittsburg &
Gulf is no longer matter of doubt.
Since his early predictions Kansas
City has become the chief primary
winter wheat market of the world and
is second in the milling of flour only
to Minneapolis. The great volume of
grain has been diverted from the At
lantic sea coast ports to the gulf. The
proportion of gulf shipments to the
total of ports recorded rose from a
minimum of per cent December 7,
1904, to a maximum of 81 per cent
the last week in January, while the
from New Orleans alone
for the week ending February 1 were
greater than the total of the Atlantic
ports for the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
TOURISTS IN FLIGHT.
Visitors in California Are Returning
Eastward.

San Bernardino, Cal, March T.
The approach of spring in the eastern
states has started the flight of the
tourists who had sought refuge in Cali
fornia from the rigors OF the eastern
winter. Many are the special cars
being switched around the roads, the
wealthiest of the visitors wishing to
see every point of interest in southern
California before taking their depar-
ture Their cars are attached to the
regular trains and taken to Redlands,
Riverside and other tourist points.
after which it is over the hill with
them. The others take their leave on
the regular trains without making so
many stops. Naturally, this offers
fair field to the travelling passenger
agents, and they are about the busiest
in the railroad circles today, f1uttering
here and there, each intent upon con-
vincine- the travellers of the great
superiority of the particular road he
happens to represent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
HARTMAN LOSES.
Supreme Court Decides Northern Sc
curities Case in Favor of Hill.

cur1tleS Case in Favor OF HILL
Washington March THE supreme
court of the United States affirmed the
decision of the circuit court of appeals
for the third circuit in the case of Har-
riman vs. the Northern Securities COM
pany, involving the distribution of the
shares in Northern securities company.
The decision is favorable to the com
pany.
The decision of the court was an
nounced by Chief Justice Fuller. He
delivered no written opinion, but said
that one would be filed later. There
was no dissenting opinion.
The decree of the circuit court of ap-
peals, which was affirmed yesterday
merely reversed the decree of the cir
cult court for the district of New Jer-
sey. The latter court issued an in
junction restraining the securities COM
pany- from transferring or distributing
III, 300 shares of the common stock of
the Northern Pacific Railroad company
acquired by the securities company in
the merger of the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern roads. This decree
was overruled by the circuit court OF
appeals sitting in Pennsylvania and 90
days verdict sustains the reversing de-
ciSiOn.
The court of appeals held in effect
that the securities company had become
the absolute legal and equitable owner
of the stock of the railroad company
and that the question of ownership had
not been involved or even incidentally
passed upon by the supreme court OF
the United States in the government
case for the dissolution of the merger
The suit was brought by E. H. Harri-
man, Winslow S. Pierce and other own
ers of the Northern Pacific stock held
by the securities company to obtain
possession of the shares of stock origi-
nally deposited by them and to restrain
the company from pursuing its plan OF
distribution, which was to give to each
stockholder a propOrtionate amount Of
the stock of the two railroad companies.
The par value of the stock involved
is SS2 491, 81. The case was argued only
a week ago and the decision came with
a promptness that was quite unexpect-
ed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
PUTTING LIFE INTO STATISTICS.
Details of the Organization of the
Santa Fe Statistical Department.


Santa F'e Statistical Department
The Santa Fe is a pioneer among
American railways in its method of
handling statistics of traffic and opera
ton.
Instead of that work being divided
among dozen different departments
and done in several widely separated
places, it is consolidated in Chicago
and put in charge of an expert who
has under him the requisite force of
assistants.
This statistician has evolved a plan
whereby freight transactions are re-
duced to monthly commodity units.
which represent in a single item the
movement of every separate commO-
dity between any two stations on the
line, showing origin, destination.
weight, ton-miles and earnings. This
information is kept on indexed cards
instead of in bulky volumes. From
these and by reference, if necessary
to daily and weekly abstracts of way
bills furnished regularly from each
station, he can promptly furnish any
data wanted by the traffic officials.
The use made of this material is
fling. Instead of supplying lot of
perfun Glory reports along cut and
dried lines, showing facts that are
interesting but not of present import
ance, he is a purveyor of quick re-
plies to particular questions that di-
rectly affect affairs of the moment.
Does the general freight agent wish
to know if it will pay to lower the
rate on a certain class of goods be
tween certain points in order to get
all the other business of the shipper
benefited by the reduction In a
short time the statistician submits all
the facts bearing on the problem as
disclosed by agents reports
Little attempt is made to keep track
of the intricacies of passenger traffic,
because the results of the past in that
branch of the service furnish no
prophecy of future business.
Operating statistics are differently
treated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
WILL USE JOINT TRACKS.
Burlington, Wabash and Rock Island
to Avoid Train Delays.

Kansas City, March IA deal whereby
the Burlington, Wabash and Rock Island
roads Will operate trains from The north
end of the Hannibal bridge to Birming-
double track has been closed and as soon
as an interlocking plant can be installed
at Birmin CHAM the change. will be made.
The plan is to use the Wabash tra cl5s for
all outgoing trains from Kansas City and
the Burlington tracks for incoming trains
The Rock Island operates its trains from
Kansas City as far as Cameron. Mo, on
the Burlington line and the deal entered
into by the Burlington Will include It. II
will be about two months before the
change will be completed
The plan as outlined by the roads is ex-
pected to do away with a congestion that
has delayed trains daily
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
New Santa Fe Lines in Southwest.


The Santa Fe system is building sew
eraI new lines this year in the south
west.
The branch from Kirbyville, Texas,
east As miles to DeRidders La. point
on the Kansas City Southern, is being
rapidly completed. 1t will penetrate
the Louisiana pine belt. Contract is
now being let for the big bridge across
the Sabine river.
Grading has been done on an ex-
tension of the Phoenix & Eastern
from Winkelman to DudleyviI1e. in the
Salt River Valley, Ariz. Near Dudley
vile is the noted mountain pass for
which the Santa Fe and a competing
railway have been contending in the
courts.
The Indian Territory branch from
Owasso to Tulsa will be opened this
spring. Although only 13 miles long,
it will give the Santa Fe access to a
very rich territory.
The Arizona & California railway is
now building west from Wickenburg,
Ariz, station on the Santa Fe south
of Prescott. The track has been
finished for a distance of II miles.
Grading has progressed % miles fur
Their. This branch will open up a, val
liable mining district VIII ose develop
ment has been retarded by poor trans
portation facilities.
Other lines have been surveyed in
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, but
the above are the only ones where dirt
is actually flying or rails have been
laid Part of the recent $5O,000,000
bond issue of the Santa Fe may
eventually be used to build some of
the new links which are needed for
more economical handling of overland
freight, such as the Abo Pass cutoff
near Albuquerque. The problem is to
get lower grades without increasing
the distance too much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
HAIR NATURALLY ABUNDANT.
When It Is Free of DandrUfF 1t Grows
Luxuriantly.

Hair preparations and dandruf cures,
as a rule, are sticky or irritating affairs
that do no earthly good. Hair, when not
diseased, grows naturally, luxuriantiy.
Dandruff is the cause of nine-tenths Of
all hair trouble, and dandrum is caused
by a germ The only way to cure dand-
ruff is to kill the germ; and, so far, the
only hair preparation that will positively
destroy the germ is Newbro'' 5 Herpicide-
absolutely harmless, free from grease,
1t aIlays itching instantly: makes hair
glossy and soft as silk Destroy the
cause you remove the effect" Sold by
leading druggists. Send 1Oc in stamps for
sample to The Herpicide Co, Detroit,
Mich. RowIey & Snow special agents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
BUILDING KAw BRIDGE.
Rock Island Has Force of Men at
Work at ArmOurdaIe.

The Rock Island railroad began
work early this morning on the con-
struction of the temporary pile bridge
across the Kaw river at Armourdale,
near Kansas City, which work has
been delayed on account of suits
brought against the company to force
the railroad to raise the bridge at that
point.
An arrangement has been agreed to
whereby the city has withdrawn the
injunction suit and the temporary
pile bridge will be constructed at
once. The piling will be used for the
false work when the permanent steel
bridge is built. The permanent bridge
will not be erected until the legal
tangle is finally Strengthened out, and
it is decided whether or not all the
steel bridges at the mouth of the Kaw
shall be raised. The plan for the pro-
posed permanent bridge of the Rock
island is in the hands of the United
States war department awaiting ap-
prevail.
1t is said the temporary bridge will
in no wise endanger Kansas City prop
erty even if another flood should come
before the steel bridge is erected be-
cause the flood would carry out the
temporary pile bridge as easily as the
ice carried out the last one. The de-
mands of traffic made the construc-
ton of the temporary bridge neces-
sary.
Ask Increase in Pay.
Committees representing the Order
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
FLESH BUILDER

The liver of the cod fish
produces oil that is a won
derful flesh builder. No fat
or oil can compare with it
in that respect. To get the
best out Of it, it must be
emulsihed and made like
cream. In SCOTS Emul-
sion it is prepared in the
best possible form to pro-
duce the best possible re-
suits. Thirty years have
proven this.
SCOTT a BOVINE, 4os Peasi Street. New Yo1k.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
Worn Out !?
Run Down :?
I Viii Gladly Give You Foil Dol
lars Worth of My Remedy to Test.
Nothing to deposit. Nothing to promise
The dollar bottle is free. Your druggist,
on my order. Will hand you full dol
lars worth and send me the bill.

Why do work and worry and excess and
strain and over-indulgence break down
constitutions and make men and women
worn out and run down and restless and
sleepless and discouraged and morose
Because they weaken the tiny, tender
nerves on which life itself depends.
Not the nerves you ordinarily think
about-not the nerves that govern your
But the automatic nerves that, unguid-
ed and unknown, night and day, keep
your heart in mOtlOn-cOntrol the dlSeS-
tive ratus-reguIate your lver-cper-
ate your kidneys.
These are the nerves that worry wears
out and work breaks down
1t does no good to treat the ailing organ
the irregular heart-the disoredered liver
the rebellious stomach-the deranged
kidneys They are not to blame. But go
back to the nerves that control them.
There you will find the seat of the trou-
It does no good to take stimulants and
narcotics. for theirs at best Is put a tenn
final day of reckoning.
There is nothing new about th1s-notn-
ing any physician would dispute But 1t
remained for DR.. Shoop to apply this
knowledge-to put 1t to practical use Dr.
Shops Restorative is the result of a
quarter century Of endeavor along this
very line. 1t does not dose the organ to
Geaden the pain-but it does go at once to
the nerVe-the inside nerve-the power
nerve-and builds it up, and strengthens
it and makes it we'll That is the end of
less nights and restless days. That is the
end of nervousness, the end of brain
rag and fatigue.
If you are worn out, run down and have
never tried my remedy, merely write and
ask. 1 will send you an order on your
druggist which he will accept as gladly
as he would accept d dollar. He will hand
you from his shelves d standard sized
bottle of my prescription, and he will send
the bill to me. This offer is made only to
strangers to my remedy. Those W no have
once used the Restorative do not need this
evidence. There are no conditions-no re-
quirements- 1t is open and frank and fair
It is the supreme test of my linitless be-
lief. All that 1 ask you to do is to write
write today.
For a free order Rock 1 on Dyspepsia.
for a full dollar Book 2 on the Heart.
bottle you must Book 3 on the Kidneys
address DR.. Shoop, Book for Women.
Box G. 729. Racine, Book for Men.
Wis. State which Book on Rheuma-
book you want. tism
Mild cases are often cured by a single
bottle. For sale at forty thousand drug
stores.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
Denies Prosperity Item.

st. Paul March president Eli
lott of the Northern Pacific railroad
today said to the Associated Press
that there was no foundation for the
report sent from Seattle last week
that the Northern Pacific proposed to
spend 100000 in the erection OF
eight six-story buildings on the COM
pany's property in that city He said
that while the company held a large
amount of property there and expect
ed to make many improvements. they
would not be so extensive as stated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen of
the Burlington system have been in
Chicago this week comforting with
General Manager Gruber relative to
some changes in the schedule. The
tonnage question is the principal griev-
ance. The men insist that the tonnage
be reduced or an increase in pay
given. The advance in wages asked
if no tonnage is reduced is said to be
10 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
Viii Distrihnte Stock.

New York, March w. P Clough,
vice president and general counsel OF
the Northern Securities company, said
today concerning the decision of the
supreme court in the Northern Sc
curities case:
Until the decision has been read it
is impossible to comment on the full
meaning of the dispatch. 1t looks very
much. however. as if that ends the
matter. If the decision favors Mr.
Hin 1t means that the PRO rata distri-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

other nationaIities by the Little brown
man." and it is stated this is because of
their temperate habits and their willing
ness to remain with the company for
long time.
On the Wyoming division about 500 Jap
anese are employed. A japanese boarding
house and hospital for their use have been
established at Cheyenne, where there is
large japanese colony.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
Smith to the Could Lines.

George W. Smith, superintendent OF
motive power of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois, with headquarters in
Danville, has resigned defective March
81 to become chief of motive power
for the Iron Mountafn-M Missouri Paei-
6c systems, with headquarters in st.
Louis, succeeding J. w. Luttrell, re-
signed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
Q. p. Using Japanese.

japanese are being employed in large
numbers by the Union Pacific which is
now preparing to work them on the sec
tons Of the Nebraska division from Oma-
ha to North Platte and also between
Cheyenne and Denver.
At present practically all of the sections
of the Wyoming division from North
Platte to Green River have only Japa-
nese section men. For several years the
Union Pacific has been repla cling men of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
Grain Rate War Adjusted.

An agreement at last has been
reached by the roads engaged in the
grain rate war and rates are to be
restored to the normal basis April 1.
The basis of settlement is substan-
they obtain a differential of Il cents,
against cents, which was the limit
the east and west lines were originally
willing to allow them. The rates
agreed upon to go into effect April 1
will be as follows:
Omaha to gulf ports ..1S cents
Kansas City to gulf ports II cents
Omaha and Kansas City to
Baltimore Z z u Genus
Omaha and Kansas City to
New York. % Il cents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

button will take place. 1t cannot be
stated at this time when the actual
distribution will take place"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

San Francisco, Cal, March 7.-Favorites
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

An appropriation ordinance was
passed by the city council appropriat-
ing money out of the judgment fund
as rendered by the United States court
for back hydrant rentals TO pay the
Topeka Water company for the same
The amount due was $7.7S4O7.
The claim of Judge Razen for legal
services rendered in connection with
the title of the water works properly
was approved and passed. The bill
amounted to 5000. The fourth an
proximate estimate amounting to 50
1852 for the Fifth ward sewer
Brooks and Gilmore, was allowed.
The city council in a special ses-
sion met at z o'clock to pass 1non
the report of the appraisers who fixed
the appraisement of. the property Ii
able Tor the fourteen blocks Of pave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

BY resolution the city council ordered
the waterworkS company to remove its
mains from the wooden approach to the
temporary approach to be erected in its
place while constructive work on tn Me
Ian bridge is under Way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

The contract for the desiccating COM
pany to care for the city's garbage was
referred to the committee on streets and
walks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

A communication from J. c. Owen
offering to enter into a contract with
the city for the disposal of the gar
bage was referred to the committee
on health and sanitation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

The estimate of the city engineer for the
construction of a detention hospital was
placed on file.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

Ask Increase in Pay.
Committees representing the Order
of Railway Conductors and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

A request from the c. A. r. posts
in the city asking for the free use of
the Auditorium upon May % and 80
for the observation of Decoration day
was granted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

A resolution calling for an election to
submit a proposition to vote bonds in the
sum of $4,000 for the construction of a
crematory was referred to the judiciary
committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

soOTT a BOVINE, ~ Fs-si s,rss.. Nov YoiE-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

ment to be placed down this year. The
report was adopted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

The approximate estimate Of the city en-
gineer for the changing of the location of
Wards creek on Park avenue, was ap-
proved. The estimate:
Buying lot No. q, Park avenues 65. 90
1,105 cubic yards excavation at 20c.... 221 90
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

A communication from the city engineer
with regard to the need of number of
catch basins along several of the paved
streets and the deepening and widening
of Biddle creek waterway from Tenth
avenue to Fourth street, was referred to
the committee on streets and walks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

Several petitions for brick sidewalks
were filed. The petitions were referred to
the committee on streets and walks. The
sidewalks petitioned for are on the west
side OF Quincy street from Thirteenth to
Fifteenth, Wait and Walker streets, and
west side of Horn street between Will
low avenue and Sixth avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

The approximate estimate of the city
engineer for the kalsomining. papering
and painting the various offices of the
city building and the Auditorium.
ferred to the committee on public build
ings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

The usual monthly appropriation or
dinance was passed appropriating
S15,636 from the various funds of
the city for the payment of claims
and accounts The amounts follow:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

F. Barnes and H. McKeever, asking for
a franchise. to place waste boxes on the
streets of the city. were before the cOun-
ell. The franchise was deferred until the
next meeting of the council.