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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03

twenty miles have already been fin
ished. About $50 miles of road be-
tween Canton and Hankow are to be
built. The work will begin in June
and is expected to be completed in
three years.
It was recently reported from Brus-
sells that J. Pierpont Morgan had pur-
chased the king of Belgium's interest
in the Canton-Hanko road and that
it was contemplated to combine the
French, Belgian and American inter
ests so as to cover eventually the
Franco-Belgian concessions for a line
from Hankow to Pekin, thereby max
ing a trunk line of about $500 miles
from Pekin to Canton. Concerning
these recent reports Pinkston says:
There is probably truth in the
Brussels reports. The Canton-Han-
kow railroad is to be built under a
concession granted to the China
American company, of which J. Pier
pont Morgan is the fnancier."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
vANDERBILTs TO RETIRE.
The New York Central System to Be
Managed by Others.

-@~--~-E5~NA
New York, Feb. 3.-Friends of w.
K. Vanderbilt say that there is a good
foundation for current reports that
Mr.. Vanderbilt will soon retire from
all direct connection with the man
agement of the roads in the Wander
bilt group, and that the severing of
these connections will be so complete
that not one of these roads will be
regarded a Vanderbilt property
The Vanderbilts have now been in
control of the New York Central for
three generations, the absolute man
agement of the property being assum-
ed first by Commodore Vanderbilt
The Lake Shore, the Michigan Central
and the Canada Southern were ac-
CURED later, and when Commodore
Vanderbilt died the Vanderbilt con-
troll fell to William H. Vanderbilt 1t
was in the time of William H Wander
bilt that control of the Northwestern
was acquired, but it was not until the
death of w. H. Vanderbilt, who made
William K. Vanderbilt his residuary
legatee, that the Vanderbilt system as
sumed its present huge proportions.
The first step to Solidify the system
was the absorption of the Lake Shore
by the New York Central.
1t is generally understood that the
other roads controlled by the Wander
bilt interests will be absorbed in the
same way current gossip being that
300 in Il per cent bonds will be
given for Northwestern, 200 in 5 per
cent bonds for Omaha and 100 in 5
per cent bonds for Big Four stock
According to close friends of w K.
Vanderbilt, New York Central stock
will then be placed in a. collateral
trust and the Vanderbilt regime will
end 1t was said that w. K. Wander
bilt is not only tired of the RESPONSE
bility, but that w. K. Vanderbilt, jr.,
is not disposed to hamper himself with
business cares. and with no one on
whom the mantle of power can de-
scend, w. K. Vanderbilt has arranged
for a practical abdication and the
transfer of the responsibilities of man
agement to purely salaried officials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
Wise Provision.

1t concerns woman who entered a
London shop and. displaying a prosper
Gus looking pocketbook, said, Z want
a good pianny for me daughter"
what make Of instrument do you
PREFER" asked the salesman, leading
the way to an upright
"Niver happorth do I care about
shtyle. so long as it's a strong case.
Have you amy wit iron cases?"
mo, ma'am, but all our cases are
made extra strong"
How much IS this PLAINLY on the hire
system?"
The price of this piano is 40 pounds. -
answered the clerk. The instaIlment
would be d pound a month"
Insure the pianny, and III take it. -
We'll, really, ma'am, the purchaser
usually insures the instrument; but. to
close the bargain, Wen insure this pi-
ano and agree to take all risks"
''Ye see, betwane me and YOU" the
purchaser explained, as she deposited
the receipt for the first instaIlnent in
her pocket, I'm glad to be aisy about
the insurance. becoze I want to get the
betther of me Ould man. He said that
If brought PLAINLY into the house
he'd smash it wild an ax-and faith.
he's the by to do it''-Smith's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
-lNrr. Chester curry

A nervous, irritable mother, often on
the verge of Mysteries, is unfit to care
for children; it ruins a childs DISPOSE
ton and reacts upon herself. The
trouble between children and their
mothers too often is due to the fact
that the mother has some female weak
ness, and she is entirely nnfit to bear
the strain upon her nerves that govern
ing children involves; it is impossible
for her to do anything calmly.
The ills of women act like a firebrand
upon the nerves, consequently nine
tenths of the nervous prostration, Rer-
vous dependency. I" the blues" sleep
1essness, and nervous irrita bility of
women arise from some arrangement
of the female organism.
Do you experience fits of depression
with restlessness, alternating with
extreme irritability? Are your spirits
easily affected, so that one minute you
laugh, and the next minute you feel
like crying?
Do you feel something like a ball ris-
ing in your throat and threatening to
choke you; all the senses perverted,
morbidly sensitive to light and sound !:
pain in the ovaries, and especially
between the shoulders; bearing down
pains; nervous dyspepsia, and almost
continually cross and snappy?
If so, your nerves are in a shattered
condition, and you are threatened with
nervous prOstratiOn.
Proof is monumental that nothing IN
the world is better for nervous prostra-
ton than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound; thousands and thou
sands of women testify to this fact.
Ask Mrs. PInkham'S AdViCe-A Won
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
BoRROWING ENGINEs
Rock Island Short OF Motive Power
to Handle Increased Business.

10 Handle Increased Business.
Dalhart, Tex, Feb. 3.-Six Colorado
southern locomotives have been
turned over to the Rock Island com
Pany at Dalhart during the past few
Gays and 1t is understood there are
more to follow. The heavy business
over the FL PaSo division is unpreced-
ented, taxing the motive power to its
utmost. Superintendent Sebree and
IralnmasterS Stevenson and Smith
are IN the midst of the work of their
HE anticipating a greater activity in
engine business.
Conductor George Tew had a sew
enteen car derailment near Naravisa
the other day No casualties Train
master stevenson and force are pick
ing UP the wreck
C. T. Smith, the new trainmaster for
the Ell PasO division between Dalhart
and Herington, has established his
headquarters at Bucklin, Kan.
A light snow fell here. In this land
OF smiles and sunshine this innovation
is quite a novelty
J. B. Reed, locomotive engineer and
superintendent of the Dalhart Water
company. is very busy putting in new
mains and connections.
Attorney D. B. Hill, representing
the legal department of the Rock
Island and Fort Worth & Denver City
roads at Dalhart, is an able man in
the right place and is constantly busy
W. G. Denton, Rock Island water
accident Saturday. A broken swivel
from a derrick that Mr.. Denton was
working on fell and struck him on the
mead, producing severe conclusion.
Drs- Hedrick and Brokaw, company
surgeons, removed Mr.. Denton to his
sisters residence and trephined the
fracture. He is in a most critical
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
RAILWAY MAN SUES FOR LIBEL.
Former Rock Island EmpIOye Alleges
Damages Resulted From Letter.

II. B. Baucus VS.. A. B. Harding IS
the title of a $4,000 libel suit brought
by a former Rock Island employe.
Baucus alleges that until the summer
of 1904 he was warehouse clerk for
the Rock Island railroad at Goodland
and that Harding was agent there;
BaucuS then resigned and went to
work for the Rock Island at Santa
Rosa, N. M; that he was given a
clearance" signed by Harding and
others stating that he resigned volun-
tarily and that his work had been
satisfactory; that on October 10, 1904,
Harding wrote a letter to the super
intendent of the division on which
Baucus was working stating that he
had been guilty of offering from the
warehouse at Goodland in consequence
of which he was discharged and has
not since been able to secure employ
ment from any railroad. Harding is
now agent for the Rock Island at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
KEEP OUT POLITICS.
Plan to Manage Water Plants Free
From Partisan Influence.

There is considerable uneasiness mani
fest among the members of the city coun-
ell over the probable failure of House Bill
committee of the cities of first and second
class and to become eaycrably reported
for passage.
This is the bill introduced by Represen-
tative Stone and providing for municipal
ownership of waterwOrks plants. Under
the plan proposed by this bill the mana ge-
ment of the plant $ vested IL Il board of
three trustees who appoint the employees,
rental and provide for extensions and re-
pairs. The boald of trustees under this
bill are granted considerable Ieeway aside
city council, though the latter body still
retain their rights as a governing body of
The fear expressed is that a second bill
introduced by Representative Bird of
ii y b ae fe9 - MSek ago thursday,
m1ttee as against the Stone bill. The for
mer OF these two bills finds more sym
pathy from among the members of the
legislature representing cities of the sec
The bill introduced by Bird is almost
entirely tne opposite in its scope and plat
form as that known as the Stone bill tt
vests Inc cfa-r9l and management of wa
terWorks to a board Of trustees composed
OF three members, but all action on the
part of the board has to be referred back
to the city council for final action and aI5-
thoflty- The board can recommend but
II can not put into execution except as
the city council may dictate
The Stone dill follows almost con1DIete
~ the plan of management drawn up
PIX COUNCILMAN Howe and which the
S Sogncl OF this city at a meeting of that
hoay recommended for passage pending
q few minor changes
W nea the matter WIS tEr@shed out in
the council the members, with but one
exception, favored this plan of manage
ment as outlined in the Stone bill CoiIn-
cllTnan RS der offered a dissenting opinion
ana expressed himself at the time in ia
Nor OF some sort of management as is
contained in the bill introduced by Bird
me opinion generally held among the
councllmen Is tha- by placing final au-
tlorlty IN evSrN instance with the cOun-
Gil. as Representative Birds bill plans
politics would enter SO largely as to in
terfere seriously with the economic man
aEeInent of the plant. The principal idea
contained in House Bill No. 9 is to sepa-
rate the management as far is possible
IRON any suggestive c9prices of a BODY
OF councilmen. BY the other plan II is
held that improvements and extensions IN
a Wholesale manner arc liable to result
since each c0uncI':naIl is liable to trade
on his opportunity to recommend extern
sIons, his constituents demanding such
extensions. 1t is held that the result viii
re that it IS possible that an experience
similar to that of the spasm of overpav-
ing. which struck Topeka, will result
when 1t is perceived that councilmen can
and have final authority to
grant extensions of n.ains regardless Of
the profitable revenue which NAV be rem
resented IN those extensions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
~Nzrs CboS EBros417

Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of the
Ladies' Symphony Orchestra, ~ Sara
toga Street, East Boston, Mass, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
For eight years was troubled with sx-
treme nervousness and hysteria, brought on by
irregularities could neither enjoy life nor
sleep nights; was very irritable, nervous
Lydia E Pinlsbam's Vegetable Compound
was recommended and proved to be The only
remedy that helped me. have daily
improved in health until I am now strong
and well, and all nervousness has disap~
peared."
Mrs. Charles f. Brown. vice-Presi-
dent of the Mothers Club, 81 Cedar
Terrace, Hot Springs. Ark, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 dragged through nine years Of miserable
existence, worn out with pain and nervou 3
ness, until it seemed as though / should n.y.
1 then noticed statement Of woman trou-
bled as I was, ard the wonderful results she
derived from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, decided to try it did 50, and
at the end of three months l was different
woman. Ny nervousness was all gone. was
no longer irritable, and my husband fell in
love with me all over again."
Women should remember that Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
the medicine that holds the record for
the greatest number of actual cures Of
female ills, and take no substitute.
Free Advice to Women.
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, invites
all sick women to write to her for advice.
Mrs. Pinkham's vast experience with
female troubles enables her to tell
YOU Just what is best for you, and
she will charge you nothing for her
advice.
IN Best Understands a WOman's Ills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
TEST NEW FIRE Box.
Santa Fe Will Experiment With In
vention of San Bernardino Man.

Engine 2215, equipped with Schu-
pert's novel design of a fire box, will
be taken out next month some time
by the Santa Fe and given a thorough
test, says the San Bernardino Times
Index. The innovation in this box is
that the fanges in the head sheets are
turned toward the water, completely
submerging the rivets, instead of
toward the fire, where one end of the
rivet was exposed. It has been ar
gued by enginemen that the turning
in of the fanges would make it i'm
possible to calk the seams when the
boiler got the least wrench in the box
and began leaking To this it is re-
piled that there will be no trouble in
calking the copper cushion between
the fianges, and that this will prove
sufficient to stop any small leak which
may declare itself. However, the box
will be put through a rigorous test,
and any possible defects will be quick
w ascertained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
NOVEL ADVERTISING SCHEME.
G. A. Dobbins, Santa Fe Man, Writes
Letters for Farmers.

The Santa Fe road is conducting a
novel scheme of advertising the Ar
kansas valley.
Garrett A Dobbins. representing the
advertising department of the railroad
company, has spent the past few
weeks in the valley writing up the ex-
periences of the farmers. Mr.. Dob
bins complies the farmers experiences
and writes them to their many friends
in the east, thus adding much interest
to the advertising matter on the val
lev which accompanies each letter. In
one town 1000 of these letters were
sent out to names of people furnished
by the farmers, and 200 replies re-
ceived there already show that the
scheme is going to work. Most of
these letters were from people IN
Iowa, Illinois and Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03

last session Of the legislature a law
was enacted providing for the exer-
else of the police power of the state
over electric railway corporations and
purporting to bring this class of com
panies under the jurisdiction of the
commissioner of railroads to about
the same extent that general railroad
companies are controlled. The COM
missioner, however, finds that this law
is incomplete and unsatisfactory for
the reason that it does not clearly
specify the manner and extent to which
the authority of the commissioner is
intended to be exercised. and he de-
sires that this law shall be clarified
and stiffened.
Among other suggestions for new
legislation is a strong appeal for q, fed
eraI act requiring block signaling as
an adjunct to the safe operation of
trains and a suggestion that the state
enact that no freight classification be
changed without further authority
than that of the railroad officials or
organizations and not until after a, full
hearing at which all interested persons
should be given an opportunity to be
heard. The commissioner says, how
ever, that few complaints have been
received from shippers either as re-
CARDS the rate or as regards claims
of discrimination between shippers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
YOUNG MOORE GETS 100000.
Chairman of Board of Rock Island
Gives Son q Birthday Gift.

Santa Barbara. Cal, Feb. 81.
Hobart Moore of Chicago, chairman.
of the board of directors of the Rock
Island railroad, has presented his son,
Nathaniel Moore, with a check for
100000 as gift upon his 21st birth
day. The young man found this for
tune in an envelope by the side of his
plate in the morning when he went
to breakfast. The Moores have lately
arrived in this city in their private car
from Chicago and have taken UP their
winter residence at the Shaw home in
Monte CitO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
RAILROAD news.
Block System for Train Opsr-
alton in General Use.
Fifteen Railroads Have Nearly
1000 Miles Protected.
THE SAFEST METHOD.
Santa Fe Has 1897 Miles ;Hock
Island l $3.50 Miles.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

The current number of the Railroad
Gazette contains comparative state
ment of the number of miles of track
operated under the automatic and man
ual block systems by the leading rail-
ways of the United States.
The table shows a gratifying increase
of about 10 or IA per cent during the
year 1904. On the first of January, 1904,
there were 39,263 miles of track under
operation by block signals, and on Jan
uary 1, 1905, there were 44,574 miles in
operation under the block signal sys-
tenn.
From the list of about so of the lead
ing railroads of the country, there are
only Is which have upwards of 1000
miles of track protected by the block
signals.
The Santa Fe railroad is numbered
among the list with total of 1 O97 miles
Of track protected by the block system.
The main line of the Santa Fe from
Chicago to Newton and from Pueblo to
Denver, and from Newton to Purcell, is
operated by this plan.
The Rock Island, another of the west
ern railroads, makes a good showing
with 1886 miles of track protected by
the manual block system.
The Union Pacific, another western
railroad which reaches Topeka, has but
IS miles protected in this manner and
the Missouri Pacific has but 81 miles
while the Wabash, another Gould line
has 1O31 miles under the block system.
OF the eastern roads. the Pennsylva-
MIA has 200 miles protected by the
block system. The Chicago Terminal
Transfer has $500 miles, and the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul has (for
passenger trains and part of the time
for freight trains) 4,301 miles protected.
The Santa Fe proposes to put 1856
miles of additional track under the
block signal protection during the early
months of this year.
The following is a summary of the to-
II, tho TTnifad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
New Passes Tlrough Mountains.

passes through the Rocky mountains
in northern British Columbia have
been discovered by a party of Grand
Trunk Pacific engineers, who have
just returned to Vancouver from a
years trip through the north Yellow
Head was formerly considered to be
the best of the northern passes
through the mountains, and only four
in all were known to exist. Now sew
eral others have been discovered, in
Guiding the following: Smoke river,
North Smoke river, Porcupine, two
Red Deer passes, Wapiti and Pine
river. On the eastern side of the
mountains the grades are easy. and in
several of these passes there is plenty
of room for double tracking. For IS
miles on the western side, the engi-
neers say, the country is very wild.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
Canton-Hankow Railway Afrairs.

William NJ. Pinkston, one Of the
officials of the -Hankow rail-
way company of China, has arrived in
San Francisco from the Orient on his
way east to purchase material for the
construction of the projected line be-
tween the two cities named, of which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
ottawa a Dlstributlng Polnt.

a string OF % cars loaded with steel
rails has been received in the Santa
Fe yards at Ottawa This steel is de-
signed for the track between Ottawa
and Chanute. Ottawa is to be made
a general distributing point for that
section of the division.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
To Dissolve C. & S. Voting Trust.

New York, Feb 3.-The voting
trustees of the Colorado & Southern
railroad have announced that the vot-
ing trust agreement under which the
affairs of the company have been con-
Quoted will be terminated on April I
next.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03

Only one remedy in the world that will
at once stop itchiness of the skin in any
part of the body: DOan's Ointment. At
any drug store, so cents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03

Caldwell. Baucus sets up a copy Of
the letter of which he complains in his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
The following is a summary of the to-
i mica pc in the limited States:

Total on which block sig
mails are used. - a. T4.7 8
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03

Mrs Pmkhams AdVA Woman Best Understands WOmans u.s.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-10-20
A DESERTER
Is Arthur Tinsley Who Enlist
ed in the Army in
June 1904.

Arthur Tinsley was arrested at
Evansville. Ind, Tuesday on charge
of deserving and turned over to
Capt. Price, says the Evansville
Courier:
Tinsley confessed to Chief of De
tectives Peck that he had deserted
the army. He enlisted at Owens
boro. KY, June 6, 1904, and was as
signed to the Thirteenth company
of the coast artillery at Fort Caswell
n. c. He deserted in the following
October and has been in Evansville
almost the entire time since. He
will be court-martialed and sentenc-
ed to Imprisonment for desertion by
the army authorities.
He was arrested on another charge
under the name of Kingsley and his
confession was brought about by
his trying to explain that his name
was not Kingsley but that he had
changed it to keep his parents and
relatives at Beda, KY, from know
ing his whereabouts. He let drop q
remark about having been IN the
army and when Chief of Detective
Peck asked him about his discharge
papers he acknowledged that he had
left the army without permission.
When taken before Captain Price he
gave his correct name and an inves-
tigation of the books showed where
he had been enlisted at Owensboro
by a detail from the local office.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-10-20
RENDER.

Oct. &c. C. Baize' and Win
Laffoon were in Hartford Wednes-
day.
David Watkins. Central City, was
here last Wednesday.
Jno. Barrass, Taylor Mines, was
here last Thursday.
C. w. Stewart, Horse Branch,
was here last Thursday.
r. E. Willard returned to Linton,
Ind, last Friday after a visit to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. Willard
for the past week.
|. P. Barnard, Louisville, was here
last Saturday.
Several from here attended the
Ohio County Fair last Saturday.
Miss Myrtle Allen spent the day
in Horton last Sunday.
Gus Rock and Ed Mossbarger, of
Louisville. were here yesterday.
Ed Barrass. Sr., Taylor Mines, was
here yesterday.
Miss Lillye Mae Fillmore left yes
terday for few weeks visit in Cen
trail City.
VIM. Moore was in Hartford yes
terday.
Isaac Oser has returned from Lou
isville after an absence of three
weeks.
Miss Ada Smell returned to her
home in Horton to-day after visiting
her sister, Mrs. Jno. Hinton for the
past ten days.
Fred Willard, Taylor Mines. was
here to-day.
Harry Bridges, Louisville, was here
to-day.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-10-20
MAGAN.

Oct. 17.-Rev. j. A. Bennett fill
ed his first appointment at Beech
Valley Saturday night.
H. E. Morgan has sold his residence
to DR.. ]. L. Denton and grocery to
F. d. Baughn.
T. F. Midkiff has sold his farm to
Henry A. Midkiff.
Sylvester Greer and family spent
last week with relatives in Hartford
and attended the fair.
James Coppage and Miss Eva Mar
tin, H. C. Wright and daughter,
Miss Verta. attended the fair at
Hartford Saturday.
Miss Emma Wright and Will Tau
spent the latter part of last week