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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
RAILROAD NEWS.
santa Re Preparing Plans for
New Elevator at Chicago.
VIII Have a Capacity Of ,4OO,-
600 Bushels Of Grain.
COST TO BE 5000, 900.
Storage Bins VIII BE Replicas
Of Those at Argentine.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.
COST TO BE $500, 900.

Elans and specifications are being pre-
pared by w. b. Storey, jr., chief engi-
neer Of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway company for a mammoth
and modern grain elevator with adioin-
ing storage bins to be erected in the
qompany's yards at Chicago to take the
place Of the old elevator there which
was. destroyed by fire some six weeks
ESQ.
This new elevator viii embrace the
novel details OF the one which has Just
been built by the company at Argen-
tine, kan. and which were original
with AIr. Storey, who developed the
plans for that structure While the
plans for the new buildings at Chicago
are not complete the details have been
worked out and the elevator proper will
have a working capacity of about four
hundred thousand bushels OF grain, and
the storage bins VIII be able to hold
about q million additional bushels. This
capacity is aoaut one-thiud larger than
Ehat Of the new structure at Argentine.
OF course there are several elevators
in Chicago which have a larger storage
capacity than the one the Santa Fe
proposes to build. In fact the elevator
which burned down had a capacity
about as large as the new one viii have
and while grain men figure GA an ele-
Wators usefulness according TO its stor-
age capacity railroads figure on the
utility Of an elevatOr according to it's
loading and more particularly unload
ing capacity, and the new one viii have
am unloading capacity that viii be fifty
per cent greater than the old enc had.
This increased unloading capacity is
made possible by the manner in which
the elevator win be constructed. Tt
basement ia which VIII be laid four
and The storage bins win be built over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
DON'T 60 There.
Inside Information About Work
at Panama.
S. s. StahI, Who Tried It, Gives
Experiences.
CONDITIONS ARE BAD.
Men We're Sent Down Without
CONDITIONS ARE BAD
Men We're Sent Down Without
Proper Accommodations.
Trouble Is During the
Wet Seasons.

There are quite a few Topeka
young men, especially those with the
blood of adventure in their veins,
who are hankering for jobs on the
Panama canal Some of these would
proceed to take another "think" about
the matter, if they would talk with S.
S. Stahl, clerk in the United States
pension bureau in this city, who lives
at 311 Tyler street.
ct wouldn't advise young fellow
to go down there now and work, >" he
said yesterday, after telling that he was
in the Panama service from January
1 to the middle of July, and that he
had to 'lay around from the latter
date to the first of this month to get
the fever out Of his system before he
was able to go back to work again in
the pension department, where he was
employed before he went to Panama.
Practically every ship" said Mr..
Stahl yesterday, brings back some of
the boys who have grown sick of the
thing. I knew several parties to go
down, look the situation over and re-
turn to the states without ever un-
packing their trunks. In one of
these parties alone were ten men,"
What is the difficulty" he was
asked.
''The general conditions. . was his
answer men W d4AaCG WIS the
chief engineer he just dumped the
men down there without having prop
er accommod ations and preparations
for them. Those who are located in
Panama are not so badly of, for
while the town is tropical and full of
Spanish and 1exicans. still there are
some hotels and some influence Of the
English speaking race. But the boys
who were out on the line were GER
tainly up against it. I was chief clerk
in the sanitary department for a Ger
tain district and that took me out I
slept in an old shack that was little
more than a mere protection from
the rain. Every night had to hang
Up my clothes to keep the rats and
animals from carrying them off. I
boarded with a native. It would be
Just about impossible to tell you what
I had to eat. recognized eggs when
ever I got them, but that was about
all. They have a potato down there
which looks something like ours, but
is not in the same class so far as the
taste is concerned. Then they have
.. banana-lixe fruit there which has to
be fried before it can be eaten. The
most of our food simply consisted of
whatever the natives might be able to
pick up round about But I could
have gotten along all right with such
sleeping accommodations and food
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
TRAIN CREW sTANIPEDED.
Remarkable Panfe Created by
Trihing Accident.

Remarkable Panic Created by a
8'T'ifiiIlg Accident.
This is the tale Of how one glancfng
blow from a siedge hammer caused the
stampede of a brakeman, q section boss,
an engine, an engineer, a fireman and
a conductor out on the Santa Fe Pa
cihc, near Rio Puerco, the other day.
The brakeman was the first TO be
stricken by the panic resulting from
the mislick OF the sledge and his eX-
ample proved remarkably contagious.
A work train was standing. on the
track near the scene of operations,
where new steel was being laid and a
score or two or three Of natives were
labori0usly pounding away when the
episode occurred.
The section boss was doing a little
hammering on his own hook. He was
driving spike into a tie and beca use
his aim was poor an unusually heavy
lick hit the spike a CHANGING blow and
knocked it with almost the force of a.
bullet against the ankle of a native who
was tamping the track. It hit a crazy
bone or something. because the man
gave a piercing yen, jumped four feet
in the air and dropped On the track
bowling like a COmanche. Instantly the
rest of the workmen thinking their COM
rade had been assassinated set up a ter
rife c1amOr.
The brakeman. who has just recently
returned from Old Mexico, had some of
his southern railroad experience fresh
in mind and the minute the yelling be
gan he also yelled and made a sprint for
the woods. When last seen he was a
speck ON the horizon. The section boss
saw the bra KEENAN, hike and dropping
his sledge he made for the sand hills as
if he was shot out os a gun The en-
gineer and fireman believing their lives
hung by a thread, claInbered into the
cab in a second. uncouDled the engine
and opened the throttle to the last notch
as the conductor, breathless and pale,
grabbed the iron on the rear of the ten
der and climbed over into the cab.
In q few minutes the native got up,
rubbing his shin. and after an exam
nation found that he was not even
scratched. It is not known what became
Of the engine and the conductor and the
section boss and the fireman and the
engineer and the bra KEENAN,.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

during the dry season. Then the
climate is rare and fine and is accom-
panied by little sickness. But the
rainy season is simply awful
what about the yellow fever
danger?" was asked.
when we stepped off the ship, the
first thing that the officials down
there told us was to take lots of qui-
nine and sleep under mosquito net
ting. That was about the entire in
struction on that score. Lots OF the
boys got yellow fever. Some didn't
care for themselves as well as they
should have. If a man gets the fever
down there and RECEIVERS, it is almost
like pulling teeth to get him away
from there. He is then immune and
cannot have it eagain, Naturally he
loses fear Of the dread disease and he
is all right. Fear causes a good many
of them to come back. I got back to
the United States the middle of July,
and it took me until the first Of Oc-
tober to get rid of the feverishness.
What about the canal2"
'FWeI, Stevens, the present engi-
neer, expects to finish it in about
twelve years. I was located at Gull
ebra, which means big snake. There
some excavating is being done, but
for the most part the engineers are
drilling and prospecting to determine
how difficult the digging viii be. The
natives, however. think that the work
will never be finished. The French
came there and pecked away for about
thirty years and never accomplished
much. They feel that this will be a
similar affair. They are willing TO
work, however, a little bit once IN
a while and earn 3 little money
sHow many men are the engineers
planning to employ down there 20
was asked.
''About $1,000. I think, according to
Mr. Stevens. This of course includes
natives. too. I should think that
there are about 500 Americans down
there now. A good many more are
wanted-in fact, all that can be in
dueed to stay-engineers especially
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
KATY TO REMAIN SINGLE.
Finney Says His Road VIII Not Merge
With Burlington.

Kansas City. Mo, Oct 28.-F. n.
Finney. president. and A A Allen,
vice president of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas, arrived in Kansas City
yesterday from St Louis. They We're
here for a while and then started for
Parsons, Kan.
There is nothing in the report that
the Burlington system is to acquire the
katy said Mr.. Finney. ''The two
properties are in entirely different
control and I do not anticipate a
merger of the lines. We are here to
go over the plans for our new ter
minals in Kansas City. We are build
ing independent terminals at Rose
dale and in the West bottoms. As
soon as these are completed we Will
vacate the terminals we have used
jointly with the St. Louis & San Fran
cisco system"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

able of a promotion over the one he
now occupies and which may prove
to be a stepping stone to a place of
more prominence. His friends look
upon the promotion as fitting re-
ward for continued and faithful SER
vice and his co-workers in the treas
urer's Office have nothing but the
best wishes for his future success.
Mr. Mcbride was born in Wellesley,
Mass, and left home when he was
fourteen years old. He took Horace
Greeley's advice and set his journey
towards the west. A year or SO later
he arrived in Topeka and secured a
position as Office boy in the treas
urer's Office of the Santa Fe. This
was in 1885 and Mr.. Mcbride has
worked in that office ever since. His
first promotion was to the mailing
desk and he has filled various of the
clerkships in the Office until seven
years ago when he was made receiv-
ing teller, which position he has held
ever since
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
PRov1DENT ASSN. no MEET.
Annual Session WIN Be Held at Firss
Baptist Church Tuesday.

The annual meeting Of the Provi-
dent association Of Topeka will be
held Tuesday evening. October 81, in
the First Baptist church. Governor
Hoeh will address the meeting and E.
B. Jewett, ex-warden Of the state
penitentiary, will also speak.
DR.. c. B. Van Horn, general secre-
tary of the association. will make the
annual report. Mrs. Parkhurst viii
sing. and short speeches viii be made
by Mrs. Clement Smith, Mr.. H "
Charles, superintendent of the boys
industrial school, and r. F. Hayden,
Judge OF the juvenile and probate
courts.
The ministers of the city and lead
ing business men will be present and
respond to call. The Commercial club.
city federation of clubs, and all MEM
bers Of fraternal societies. and all per
sons who are interested in charity
work, are asked to be present and
unite with this effort of the Provident
association to federate all Charitable
and benevolent interests in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
ROCK ISLAND AFFsIRs.
General Manager Cain Reports Choc-
taV Division in Good Shape.

General Manager Cain Reports ChOc-
taw Division in Good Shape.
Dan Z. Cain, general manager of the
Rock Island. returned yesterday from
a tour Of inspection over the Choctaw
division of the road, which he made last
week in company with w. B. Biddle,
the third vice president of the company.
Mr.. Cain reports that the work of re-
balIasting on the Choctaw division is
getting along in good shape and that
the business on all lines Of the road
was never heavier than it is now.
Frank T. Dolan, superintendent of
the southwest district OF the road, who
has been out on the st. Louis division,
looking over the damage done by wash
outs during the recent storms in Mis-
souri,. returned to the city last night.
He and Mr.. Cain will leave for Chicago
early in the week to attend the semi
annual meeting on November 2 of the
officers Of the road for the purpose of
fixing up a winter time card. This card
will go into effect on November 26. It
is not thought that there win be many
changes in the existing schedules of
trains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

tracks ana twenty cars can be run IN
under the bins or elevator for loading
or unloading at one time. This win give
the structure an unloading capacity Of
about one hundred and twenty-five cars
a day and there viii be no elevator in
the country that will have such an I'M
loading capacity.
1t is in the construction of the storage
bins that Mr.. Storey has developed
original ideas. There viii be thirty-fve
of them in the new structure and they
will be built on the same plan and win
be about Of the same size as those at
Argentine, which We're the first of the
kind ever built in the country. They
are circular in form with a diameter
Of twenty-five feet and a height of
eighty-fve feet and are built of con
crete reinforced with steel. The walls
of the cylinders are six inches in thick
ness and are Joined together and the
spaces formed by the junction Of the
walls are also used for storage purposes
There are many grain storage bins in
the country constructed OF concrete and
reinforced with steel but they are built
separately and the spaces between them
are consequently wasted. It was for Mr..
Storey to evolve the plan of building the
circular bins so that the walls Joined
and thereby providing practically a lot
OF other bins.
Galleries connect the elevator proper
with the bins and through these gal
Ieries run buckets on endless chains to
carry the grain from the elevator to
the bins
Because the plans for the new struc-
ture at Chicago have not been COM
pleted as yet the cost of the work can
not be fixed exactly but Mr. Storey
said yesterday that including the tracks
in the basement he thought the cost of
the entire affair would approximate six
1,s7-, ,7,sa7 +1,or1e-,,7 7oFJa,e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
HATES TO PAY FOR SHEEP.
So Union Pacific Appeals From a
Judgment of $4,000.

An appeal from the decision of the
federal court of Wyoming, allowing
the Pioneer Sheep company s10,-
325.SS for damages alleged to have
been incurred through the failure of
the Union Pacific railroad to furnish
certain cars. has been filed in the
United States court of appeals at st.
Louis by the defendant.
In the petition the Pioneer Sheep
company of Wyoming alleges that on
November 4, 1902, the Union Pacific
railroad contracted to furnish thirty
FIVE cars for the shipment of 10,049
head OF sheep from RaWlins to Chey-
enne, Wyo. When the time came, the
sheep company alleges. for the sheep
to be shipped the railroad failed to
furnish the cars, and as a conse-
quence the sheep company hold it was
damaged to the extent of $10,32S.88.
The company says that it was com
PEELED to drive the sheep neaaly 260
miles over a trail, and before the
destination was reached a blizzard was
encountered, during which many of
the sheep were frozen to death, while
others suffered great loss of flesh and
value by not being properly fed.
The railroad denies that such a con-
tract as the sheep company mentions
was made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
NfeBRIDE 1EAvEs roPEKA.
Popular Receiving Teller of Santa Fe
Gets Promotion.

ward Mcbride, receiving teller in the
treasurer's office of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe, will leave Topeka
for Chicago, where he will take the
position Of assistant cashier in the
company's offices there, to which
place he was recently appointed.
It is with feelings of regret from a
personal standpoint that Mr.. Mcbride
sewers his relations with Topeka,
and this regret is shared by his many
friends for he is popular with all who
know him. But a railroad man is a
good deal like a soldier. He has to
place the business developments of
the hour above personal considera-
tons and go where he is sent. But
there is some pleasure connected
with Mr.. McBride's departure for
Chicago and that is that he is going
to take a position which is consider
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
HURLEY OFF FOR SOUTHWEST.
Starts From Kansas City in Company
With b. 2. Cheney.

J. e. Hurley, general manager of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e, who
ompanied z. P. Ripley the presi-
dent of the road, and a party OF the
officials to St. Joseph, Mo. the other
day, returned to Kansas City last night
and was met there by Benjamin P.
Cheney. of Boston, a director and one
of the largest individual stockholders
of the company. Mr.. Hurley and Mr..
Cheney left Kansas City for a trip
over the lines of the road in the south
west. Mr.. Cheney is accompanied by
his wife, who was Miss Julia Arthur,
the actress.
Mr.. Hurley will return to town in a
few days but it is understood that Mr..
Cheney and his wife are to make an
extensive trip through the southwest,
southern California and Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

ed. The foremen of the different de-
partments declare they viii have no
trouble in securing al the men needed,
Notwithstanding the fact that many Of
the workmen who were laid off have
left the city. One foreman stated last
evening that the men had not taken
their families away, and that while the
men themselves had gone to other
points they expected to be returned
here sooner or later. and were ready to
report upon moments notice.
If the orders continue to come from
st. Louis to enlarge the force it will
not be a great while anti there viii
be as large. a force at work as before
the reduction was made two weeks ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
RoNIfs sYsTE.Or ExTENDED.

San Bernardino, Cal, Oct 28.-The
premium system" which has been
in operation in the Santa Fe shops in
Topeka for a long time, and which
has been working to the satisfaction
of the management, is to be intro
duced in the San BernardinO shops of
the company.
Walter Powers, the man who
handled the Introduction of the sys-
tenn in the shops at the Kansas cap
itaI is in the city and will have charge
of the Introduction of the system here.
It is understood that it viii be intro
duced in all the iron working depart
ments in the shops in this city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

nate-spe attracts the atten-
ton to a statement of his remarkable
45<l3oHr run to Chicago and it is this
audacitys as Scotty terms it, that cuts
MIN every time he thinks of their un-
apologize refusal to give him
chance to break his own record and
possibly his neck.
To make his mad all the madden,
the Santa Fe has issued a 'Scotty
SpeciaP' booklet which it advertises
for free distribution, and all the high
balls Rol King could manufacture
yesterday had no cooling effect upon
Seotty,s unsettled state OF mind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
PROUD OF HIS FACE AND PUP.
Scotty Wants $4,000 From Santa Fe
for Using His Picture.

Los Angeles. Oct. 28.-Scotty to the
nmelight again.
Record breaking railroad trains and
legitimate theatrical ventures are not
sufficient to satisfy the cravings of the
Death Valley mystery and now he
viii seek the center of the stage in
another role-that of plaintiff in
court of law.
Scotty proposes to sue the Santa Fe
for 500. 900 damages because the
railway company has used the picture
of himself and his ''yalIer pup to
adorn an advertisement of the road
When he was shown a copy of an
eastern magazine containing the latest
advertisement of the Santa Fe Scott
was very angry, so he said.
half page cut of Scotty holding
his cur dog which made the trip to
New York with the mysterious mag
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
TAKING BACK sHopMEN.
Missouri Pacific Issuing Orders IN
creasing Force 1t Fort Scott.

Fort Scott, kan. Oct. 28.=Word was
received here Friday at the offices of
the Missouri Pacific shops from G. W
Smith, superintendent of the locomo-
tive department and machinery at St
Louis, instructing Master Mechanic W
C. Smith to further increase the work
ing force of the shops The instruc-
tons were to re-employ forty men for
the car department. Just how many
men will be replaced in the machine
shops could not be learned last even
ing, but there was a rumOr among the
men IN the yards and at the shops that
the number would be from forty to
sixty. If this is correct it means that
100 men viii be employed as soon as
they can be secured Between forty.
and fifty men were employed the first
of the week and if 100 more are taken
back in the net few days more than
half the men laid off viii have return
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
A BUILDING ASSOCIATION

Is supposed BY many to be fer the use of
limited few with fines and strict rules
as to deposits and Bithdra walls. Consider
ing the rate Of interest paid the rules are
as liberal any other savings Institution,
with the very best Of investments for your
security. Call or send for literature.
The Capitol Building and Loan
Association. 58a Kansas Avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Don't buy a stove until you see our
last year. They are full nickle. screw
draft, warranted to hold fire twenty
four hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
Stoves md Raages

We have unloaded three
cars of these celebrated sui
tina Ranges and Substitute
Oak Stoves. We are jobbers
for these stoves for Kansas.
We get them for 25 per cent
less than they charge small
dealers. Look at these prices.
We sell stoves
Like cut No. 11.........S5 rs
Like cut No. 13......-.-S SIS. IS
Like cut No. Is. .....@ So. rs
Like cut No. 10. 1900. 814.25
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-15
New Years ON The Nile.

In all ages and all lands much inn
portance HAS attached to New Years
day. In Egypt the new year fell be
tween the 18th and the 2Oth Of June
and was called the might Of the drop"
The sacred Nile was thought to fow
down from heaven, and at its lowest
ebb-about the middle Of June-a tear
from Isis fen into the stream and caus-
ed IL TO rise. Consequently at this sea
son the priests and people kept a sleep
less vigil at the rivers shore, watching
for the miraculous rise which should
bring such riches TO the whole land.
When the might Of the drop" came the
priests cleared the affairs Of old ashes
and lighted the sacred fires for the new
year. Every one Of the faithful car
ried a coal from the altar 70 light the
Gre as his own hearth, and from end
to end the land was ablaze with light.
The people put OF their old garments
and arrayed themselves in white,
amounting their heads with sacred oil,
crowning themselves with flowers and
bearing palms in their hands, while
chants and songs and feasting and pro
cessl0ns filled the homes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-15
ALFRED Mooc PLACES
A BIG ADVERTISEMENT

III today's paper appears large ad-
vertisement for the firm Of Alfred
lIoog Of Pensacola. Mr.. Moog says
that he has been in the liquor business
for seven years and that during that
time he has continually made new
friends. and today he controls one Of
the largest wholesale liquor businesses
in West Florida.
Mr. M0og boldly and fearlessly
quotes a line of prices which belittles
AN composition In his business. This,
he says. IS the great secret which has
made him successful. All orders are
promptly filled. and the grade Of wines
and liquors which he sells are Of the
very best
Those inside the city and outside Of
the city. who VIII need liquors for the
HOLIDAYS. and afterwards too. for thai
matter. viii find g decidedly to their
advantage 10 look over the prices
quoted.