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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
THE SITUATION IN OMAHA.
1t Is Like That in the Large Centers
Generally-IIoty Omaha Hurts
Iowa

The stand of the business men of
Omaha upon the proposed regulation
OF interstate railway rates is very
much the same as found it elsewhere,
namely, the largest shippers controll-
ing the competitive tonnage of the
city are opposed to it while the smaller
shippers are strong in its support.
This division at Omaha made the sit
uauon at Kansas City seem to me so
strange Here were two cities, almost
in the same boat" traf1icalIy speaking
with the same problems and yet one
was entirely satisfied to allow things
TO remain as they were and in the
other there was the same movement I
found sewhere=favoring regulation
of rates In Omaha, I found many of
the larger shippers justifying their
stand in opposition on the ground
that it would result in a distance
tariff which they said they had seen
enough Of in Iowa. Now to be sure,
the great state of Iowa has no great
large cities, but, If q distance tariff has
had anything to do with the general
that state personally L believe there
exist many reasons for its adoption.
10 be sure, the railroads have made
the interstate rates into and from
Iowa from Kansas City and Omaha
most lsDrOpOTgiOnate when COMPARED
with the intra-state rates. which
amounts to this, that for her audacity
IN regulating rates within the state,
Iowa has been made to suffer in her
interstate rates. Let is illustrate.
When Dubuque wants to put its man
ufactured products in towns of south
ern Wisconsin, fifty to 100 miles dis
lant, lt finds Chicago, about 200 miles
away, IN before them at the same, or a
better rate. Again a farmer of Ne
brasSa buys cattle in Wyoming, or in
Colorado and ships them to his farm in
eastern Nebraska. fattens them and
then sends them on to the Chicago
market at the old through" rate from
original shipping point The farmer
OF Iowa, however, buying cattle in the
same country and shipping them to his
farm in Iowa to be fattened gets no
one mile from the western boundary
Of the state. he must nevertheless pay
the rate to the Mississippi river and
when he gets ready to send them on to
+ Chicago he must pay the rate from his
farm to Chicag o-the two rates com
bined amounting to far more than the
one through rate accorded his Ne
braska rival
Live Stock and Packing Industries.
Thus we are brought to a consid-
GRAFTON of one of the chief industries
/ of this section-live stock and packing
house products. AS centres for cattle
and dressed products. both of these
4 cities occupy the highest positions
/ The gross freight income upon the
/ one comm Oditv of cattle and all other
I live stock amounts to the railroads
traVeFsing this country to over twelve
million dollars annually. Then again
there is no other commodity which in
{ directly brings SO many other items OF
! income as does this one of live stock
In the nrat place there Is the double
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
IT'S so HARD

TO refuse certain articles of food at
meal time. You want them, but
there's the distress that always fol
lows Heartburn, BlOatfng, Headache,
Cramps, or Vomiting make you feel
v15aeralo3e. In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
SMOKE

Upon the Chicago, Milwaukee s. St.
Paul, the Missouri Pacific, the Chicago.
Great Western, as well as other roads,
there are elevators owned by the rail-
roads, but leased to the large grain
eral allowance. Another method
which the roads have used to build up
these large basing cities a. the expense
of the small towns is the refusal to ap-
ply the rates they make to and from
New Orleans and Galveston to the in
termediate points, such as Hutchinson
and Wichita in Kansas and other small
points in Nebraska. I have already
noted this in the case of other rates.
The discrimination which the roads
make against these cities in sugar and
cattle they also make in every other
important commodity.
I have now outlined some phases of
the larger traffic problems which both
centre in and ramify from those cities
of Kansas and Omaha 1t was most
interesting study there-and through
out that entire territory. The prob
lens are stupendous, but. in true in
domitabIe, energetic and confident
western fashion, the people are work
ing out a solution of them which when
it comes will be both fair and perma-
nent. All through this region one
meets true American spirit-the spirit
that surmounts every obstacle. how
ever high, and reaches its goal some
how and in some way. It is the spirit
that wins because it deserves to win.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18

Again was told by a gentleman in
Omaha, whose authority is strong,
that the packers and their employees
never thought of paying railroad fares,
but in this particular were just like a
railroad employee. 1t was not able to
verify this statement, but I have no
reason to doubt it because I know that
many shippers less prominent than the
packers are receiving free transpor-
tat1On to a very cOnS1dera bic extent.
This practice has been, to a consider
able extent, eliminated as far as ship
pers are concerned, but not as regards
politicians. Now if free transportation
is to be given to any outsider submit
that the shipper who creates the pros
perity of the road is entitled to con-
sideratiOn over the ward boss or state
senator. But this is not now the order
of precede nee. In the face of laws
forbidding it 1 venture to say that
there is not chairman of the railway
committee in any legislature in the
west who has not only got an annual
pass upon every road in the state, but
an express frank" as well. I know
one who has such considerations and I
know in other states that the alder
men, postmasters and common legisla-
tors get them. My own reasoning tells
me therefore that the ones higher up
get them more abundantly.
Railroads in Politics.
And While I am on this subject, let
ject of the political influence which
railways exert. In the course of my
conversation with him, Mr.. E. NJ Rip
ley, the able and indomitable president
Of the Santa Fe, said to me, There is
no weaker organization on earth than
a great railroad And Mr.. Joseph
Ramsey, former president of the Wa
bash, before the recent senate COM
rnittee said, in substance, that railroads
we're in politics when it was to their
interests to be there. Now no one
wishes to deny to the railroads the
power which every citizen has of ask
ing leave to be heard when any meas
ure he thinks inimical to his interests
is likely to become a law. But as I
was forced to answer Mr.. Ripley, with
all due respect I say again that any
organization which can practically die
tate who shall be a little prosecuting
attorney" or a legislator, in and from
every county through which their road
passes, cannot be such a weak organ
ization after all. There is the example
of Nebraska. The people and even the
solid business men of Omaha told me
that the three railroads.&c. Burling-
ton, the Union Pacific, and the North
western, practically owned the state.
Usually the only fight is between the
Burlington and the Union Pacific, but
in extreme exigencies. when the "sac-
red rights of investors are jeopar-
died" it is all three against the peo-
pie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
KANSAS CITY UNANIMOUS.
One City Where All the Commercial
Organizations Are Against the
Presidents Policy.

This marvellous growth is tie oro-
duet OF only fly years during which
period it has Dasset throusl eysTa1
reverses snlv to issus through the in
domitable energy and local patriotism
of its people, stronger and more pro
gressive than ever. Feeling that the
city owes much to the railroads (and it
certainly doesl. and with an eve SIN
gle to the ultimate walfare of Kansas
City, the commercial organization
there. representing a membership Of
about 1000 of the leading commercial
and manufacturing interests of the
city. employing a capital Of about $50
600, 600 presented q situation I never
met in any other place visited. It is
practically unanimous against confer
ring upon the interstate commerce
commission any power to regulate
rates. Mr.. L. NJ. Miller, the presi-
dent of the club. and a prominent mill
Ter, said before the committee at Wash
ington. "Our club. after having given
the Townsend bill very care
fuI consideration, adopted q resolution
that this bill should not be passed in
cts present form. Mr. Fl. B. Topping.
q large implement jobber. upon the
same occasion. said: HA1l this growth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
CATTLE RATES HIGHER.
An Explanation of the Business as
Conducted in the Missouri Country.


It cannot be doubted that the freight
rate upon cattle has advanced with
steady progress. It has been done
first by an "out and OUT increase in
the rates. which is a blanket rate"
from all points within 500-mile
radius of Kansas city. from % Il
cents per hundred pounds in 1888 to
Sc p cents today, and, secondly, by an
increase in minimum weights, but this
is not so serious. I was told by the
cattle men that it was just as injur-
ious to underload cattle as to overload
them. They must be loaded properly,
that is very closely huddled together,
or they will be damaged. But any
cattle man will tell you that he spays
for about 5000 pounds over the actual
weight in every car shipped.
Now it must be noted that the cattle
are bred in Texas and New Mexico,
but do not go direct to market from
these points. The cattle a a certain
period of the year being poor, but
strong. are shipped to the north to be
fattened. This movement is very ex-
tensive as shown by the fact that about
100000 head of cattle have annually
gone north to Nebraska, Wyoming,
Montana, not to speak of the tier of
corn states, within the last two or
| three years. When the cattle ralSers
had the "open trails" to the north, the
cattle were driven in great herds and
the railroads having great competition
thereby, thought it very profitable to
transport cattle as low as $55 a car.
But the settlement of the country
closed the trail" and thus this compe-
tition has been destroyed. AS result,
whereas up to 1900 the roads we're
paying rebates of from $40 to s12 a
ear to get business at a rate of $50,
then s65. and finally $40 a car, today
the rate for the same car, with rebates
done away with, stockcar mileage re-
duced to almost nothing and with SER
vice of about 10 to 2 miles an hour, is
about 500 a car from Texas points
to Kansas City and Omaha. My read
ers must bear in mind that the law
directs that livestock shall not be on
the road continuously for over %
hours without unloading, feeding and
resting them six hours. If cattle were
given anywhere near the service that
is given to the packing interests, or
even a rate of eighteen miles an hour,
they could make the distance from Fit.
Worth to Kansas City with one feed
ing. But for every twenty-four hours
cattle are delayed, there is a shrink
age on the average of about twenty
five pounds per head. When we COM
pute this shrinkage on the basis of
$3.50 per hundred, a fair price, we see
that the oattlemen lose on every head
of cattle shipped about one dollar per
head a day If they are on the road
beyond the twenty-eight hour limit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
THE GRAIN TRAFFIC.
It's Great Proportions-How It Is Be-
ing Diverted from the East to
the South.

now wish to dwell for a short time
upon the subject of the grain traffic
Of this section Two features of the
problem are worthy of note-the
great increase in the production Of
winter wheat and secondly the diver
sion Of grain for export away from the
Eastern seaboard to the great Gulf
ports of Mobile, New Orleans, Calves
ton and Port Arthur. The first has not
onlv provided a great traffic for the
railroads at a period of the year when
the shipments were comparatively
very small. but in many other ways
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
Head Ache
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18

RN that vast inland empire. extend
ing from northern Nebraska to
rFexas and from the Missouri
river to the Rocky mountains,
there have been built up by the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
THE MICROSCOPE
Proves That Parasites Cause Hair

LUsss
Efne-feuths of the diseases of the scalp
and hair are caused by parasitic germs
The Importance of this discovery by Prof
JInna of the Charity hospital, Hamburg
GERMANY can not be overestinated. 1t
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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-02-10
startling but True.

People the world over were hurriaed
on learning Of the burning of a Chlca-
90 theatre in which nearly six hun
bred people lost their lives, vet more
than five times this number or over
1900 people died from pneumonia in
Chicago during the same year, with
scarcely a passing notice. Every one
of the cases Of pneumonia resulted
from a cold and could have been pre-.
vented by the timely use Of Chamber
lain's cough remedy. A great many
who had every reason TO fear pneu-
mOnia have warded it of by the
prompt use Of this remedy. The fol-
lowing is an instance OF this sort:
TOO much cannot be said Ia favor OF
Chamberlain's cough remedy, and es-
pecially for colds and influenza. /
know that it cured my daughter,
Laura, of a severe cod, and / believe
saved her live when she was threat
ened with pneumonia" W. d. VIII
cox, Logan, New York. Sold by all
dealers Ia medicine.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-02-10

The westbound limited, which was
due to pass through here Monday
night did not get here until Wednes-
day afternoon. The SHOWS delayed it
up 10 Kansas. When near Carazozo,
about $50 miles from Ell Paso the rails
spread under the train, and it went
over Luckily IL went Cd a snCw bank,
and although the passengers were
tumbled abouG considerably no one
was killed, and no one seriously hurt
This is the first serious accident that
has happened to the Limited.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-02-10
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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-02-10

Bailey Herring, returned this week
from a visit down 10 Texas, where he
has many friends. Bailey informs the
Liberal that there are lots of girls
down there, and they are all pretty.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-02-10

DR.. and Captain Tuthill, OF Morenci,
who is the Detroit copper company's
chief physician, and is captain of the
Morenci militia company, was in the
city Wednesday, en- route to Phoenix,
where he was called to attend the war
board and committee of strategy.
When in Lordsburg the Leonard
Wood OF the Arizona militia was told
that he probably could not get to
Phoenix, as the railroad bridge was
washed away. He said he was raised
at Santa Monica, California, and was
as good a swimmer as General Funs.
too, and if he got within swimming
distance Of Phoenix there would be
no trouble about his getting there.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-02-10

The people who Thought they were
stockholders 10 the American CONSOLE
dated copper company have been in
formed shat they have no standing.
President Peck has issued a letter ac-
companYing n from Francis Fitch,
who is the lawyer who recently Sc
cured the appointment Of a receiver.
At a meeting in New York all the
stock Of the company was issued to A.
r. Gibson in payment of eight mineral
claims. The meeting not being held
10 New Mexico this stock was void.
1t was divided between the various
promoters, who peddled it out. Mr..
Fitch estimated that $3.50, 900 vas re-
ceived from sales of stock, and that
from $40, 600 to $780, 900 was d~isbursed,
which leaves a nice little margin for
the promoters. Mr.. Fitch thinks that
the men who bought stock have an
equitable claim that can be enforced,
and that there are assets, including
suits against the promoters, that will
render a lnai dividend.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-02-10
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16

president OF II, and +, A. Mitchell
Esq, one OF the earliest merchants in
Utah, Is secretary.
The club has elegant quarters, and
much interest Is being taken In its
work, not only by its members. but by
many citizens, and It's efforts prom
Use to bear early fruit In the shape OF
several public improvements, and con-
cessions by the o. S. H. railroad.
The club Is considering an extension
Of the city water works over that part
OF the city known as the island, dis
trict In which the wells are very shall
low and hence liable to contamination
This would be costly improvement
and could not be accomplished without
authority granted by the Legislature
to Logan City. to increase its debt:
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16

way OF building. barring the college
buildings mentioned below. is the ad-
dition to the county court house. which
about doubles the capacity of the
building. AS a general thing additions
10 structures Of this character always
look like additions, and not like a part
of the original building. But this In
stance is an exception to the rule, An
observer might well suppose the part
being added TO have been part Of the
original structure, so perfect are tho
harmony and proportion OF the whole.
During this year about three miles
Of cement sidewalks have been laid.
This work added 70 that done previous
ly. gives the town excellent sidewalks
radlating In all directions from the
business center. and adds much to the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16

aminers, estimates Of the cost Of re-
building and equipping the department
were prepared. and through the prompt
and patriotic action OF the board OF
examiners in allowing a deficit. and
the interchangeable efforts of the college
authorities, within a few weeks, con-
tracts were awarded and arrangements
made for the immediate completion OF
the building. Bids were solicited and
orders placed for tools and machinery
and other equipment: and, while there
have been many disappolntments and
some exasperating delays, occasioned
by the impossibllty Of getting mate
rial, the forge shop, carriage shop, and
foundry are all under roof, the smoke
stack will be completed before this Is
In print. the brick work OF the north
and south wings of the front Is finished
and the carpenters are putting on the
roof. AS soon as additional brick and
lumber can be procured, during the
next few days, the central front will
be rushed to completion. Practically
all OF the tools and most OF the ma
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16

year with a splendid showing. With
the controversies extending throughout
the entire session of the last state
Legislature, endangering not only the
usefulness but the very life of the In
stitution, and tine attendant agitations
continuing late into the summer: the
passage of the law putting the engl-
neering work, temporarily at least, un-
der the ban; n most disastrous fire Just
one week before the opening OF the
school year, causing an almost COM
plete destruction Of the Mechanic Arts
building and equipment. with an APP
proximate value OF $4,000; 1t would
seem that the college had encountered
during single year difficulties sutfi-
cient to cause absolute encouragement.
But with each recurring obstacle this
magnificent institution only lifts its
head the higher, and with accelerated
speed marches on In the great work OF
educational and Industrial develop
ment.
The spirit which characterizes the
college policy Is indicated by the state