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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-09
ELOPES AT is.
Gas City School Girl Weary of
Reading and Writing.
She Quits Her Studies for an
Hour to Get Married.
HER AGE GIVEN AS %.
Parents Threaten to Sue Hus-
band for Perjury.
Man a Stranger in Town
Claims to Be a Detective.

lola. Kan, Feb Edith Vots a
15-year-old student of the Gas city
high school eloped and was nlarriad
TO Harry Munger, IS years OH. Tues
day. The girls parents are investigat
ing the matter to see if the marriage
caunol be set aside. The license was
secued Saturday from Probate Judge
Smith i'm lola.
In securing the license the man is
sold TO have given Mss Vots age as p.
The ceremony was performed by a
minister i'm Gas City. Munger has
been boarding at the VOts home The
girls parents knew nothing about the
matter until questioned by City Mar
shall Engle of Gas City yesterday. Mrs.
VOts called her daughter into the
room, talked to her and after return
ing to Mr.. Engle said she thought that
her daughter was married, hut that
she had not known so before. Mr.. and
Mrs Nots threaten 10 prosecute Mum
ger for perjury.
S1unger came to the school Tuesday
and called for the girl They were
gone about an hour. after which the
girl returned and took up her studies
Munger was arrested about two weeks
ago for disturbing the peace and was
fined $3.50 and costs. He cut the army
buttons off of some coats belonging Il
some Spaniards in Gas City and the
disturbance grew out of this. The
man lis a stranger here and says he is
a detective. He is still boarding al
the NOts home
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OLD DAMAGE SUIT REVIVED.
James Conrin Endeavoring to Secure
50, 1872 From Santa FFe

James Conrin of Wichita, through his
attorney, C. v. Ferguson, has filed an in
IerVenlng plea in the case of the Union
Trust company of New York city against
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
way company and others in the local cir
cut court of the United States
The suit revives an old case that was
tried IN the district court in Wichita in
1893 and a judgment was given Mr. Conrin
Tor the loss OF his son, who was killed in
a wreck on the Santa Fe in 1892
MI COnrln was the section foreman for
the Santa Fe IN Wichita at the time the
cause of action TRANSFERRED His son was a
of entering the employ of the railway
company. The next day after being en-
ployed he was killed and Mr. Conrin filed
a suit for damages He received a YER
dict and the case was appealed to the SUI
preme court. In the meantime the Santa
Fe went into the hands of a receiver, and
as the case was not definitely decided I'M
til about three years ago, Mr.. Conrin sup
posed that he could not recover the judg-
ment.
AL the time the receiver was appointed
the judge made the ruling that all claims
+ against the company should have a prior
right over the mortgage. But as the case
had been tied up for so long Mr.. COnrin
had given up all hope of receiving the
amount of the Judgment. which now
amounts, with costs to S2.792.
Mr. Ferguson said in connection with
filing the suit that it was not a case of
legal right, but one in which party has
been kept from receiving the amount
justly granted him by the jury and con-
firmed by the highest court of the state.
THE case will also cause the revival of
| several similar cases. said Mr.. Ferguson,
should nothing unforeseen occur to block
the Just demands of Mr.. COnrin'
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Northwestern Puts in System Which
WIN Save Time and Money.


WIN Save Time and Money.
A new system of handling car rec
ordS for which E. 2. Belts, car SerV-
ice agent, recently received a patent,
has just been put IN operation by the
Chicago & Northwestern road The
special claim for the system is that
1t will practically eliminate errors in
the records and that it will effect a
tremendous saving in expense.
The old method Of handling car
records was one of the slowest and
most expensive parts of railroad book
keeping. Originally the reports from
conductors and agents came into the
general Offices in an almost unintel-
ligible list of figures representing the
car numbers. These reports were
passed from clerk to clerk, each en-
tering upon his book the numbers
which belonged to his assignment.
This was a laborious task.
An improvement to this system was
made by the use OF etypewriters and
the employment Of girls who tran
scribed the car numbers on long slips
of paper, which were cut UP, sorted
out, and distributed to the entry
clerks. This lessened the labor of the
entry clerks, but there was still the
extra cost of the labor of the girls
who did the transcribing and the
errors they made. Each error had
eventually to be corrected, and there
was seldom a day in which at least
Z 5 errors were not made. while fire.
quently the number was much higher.
Mr.. Belts system, which is ex-
tremely simple, consists of report
blanks so arranged that each car
number is entered in a space by itself
and perforatiOn for fling is made
at the left side of each space. When
these reports are received in the office
they are placed in order and so cut
with an ordinary printers paper cut
/ ter that each number appears on a
slip by itself. These slips are then
/ sorted and distributed to the entry
/ clerks in the same manner as are the
Transcribed slips under the old
method.
THE system is extremely simple
and practical" said Mr.. Belts in de-
scribing it. cit is also a great labor
and money saver. 1t enables US tc
finish up a days record "a hours
earlier than we could under the Ole
method In addition, the only pos.
sibility of error rests with the con-
/ ductor or agent who sends in the re-
port, or with the entry clerk
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BUTTERMILK
A surer Va Out.

The "buttermilk fad which it's fol-
lowers insisted was the cure for all the
Ills that human flesh is heir to- has pref
ty well had its day.
Buttermilk is a pleasant and healthy
drink. but there are a whole lot of &c
sirable things that it cannot do. A
Nebr. woman found something much
more worth while. She says:
Three years ago my stomach was in
such a frightful condition that I could
scarcely bear to take any food at all.
Indeed there was once that / Wax Tor
IA days without a ilrosel cf nourish-
ment. preferring starvation IL the acute
agony that I suffered when ate Nv
thing. And all this entailed upon me
almost constant headaches and nervous
ness Ny condition was truly pitiabIe
The doctor warned me that the coffee
] drank was chiefly responsible for this
condition, and ordered me to drink but
termilk instead. But despised butter
milk and could not bring myself to use
st.
Then j was advised to try Postum
Food Coffee. 1t has completely renovat-
ed and made over my whole system. The
salutary effect on my poor stomach was
simply marvellous, and that str.ighten-
ed out, the headaches. nervous. 9.ss and
other troubles soon vanished. For more
than year ] have not felt any distress
or pain, such as once thought would
kill me
"I can truthfuIy say that Postum
has brought me the blessing of the
perfect health I enjoy for I gave Cd
medicines when I began its use" Name
given by Postum Co, Battle Geek,
Men
There's a reason. Read the little book,
''Ehe Road TO Weuville.' in pkgs.
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SIA-PROOF.
How Any Meal Can Be Thoroughly En-
Joyed By ANY Stomach.

jOyed by ANY Stomach.
Men, as a rule, are first discovered by
their enemies. Their antagonists turn
on the searchlight, and the proof of
merit viii lie in being able to stand
the fash.
It was only in this way that Mr.
White ever knew that dyspepsia was one
of Mr.. Blacks worst enemies. Sitting
face to face at a tWo-by-four table, he
handed his afflicted friend the bill Of
fare;
oyster Cocktail Stuffed Olives.
Boston Clam Chowder.
Strained Gumbo.
Sirloin Steak with Mushrooms
Roast Beef Hash.
Boiled OK Tongue with Sauerlkraut.
Lobster a la NeWburg.
Baked Pork and Beans.
Combination Crab Salad.
Hot Mince Pie.
Pineapple Fritters.
Mr.. White ordered little of each-"
Mr. Dyspepsia Black ordered crackers
and a glass Of milk. Il had such a
big breakfast this morning, he SAID,
that I'll Just take a bite to keen you
company" But Mr.. White could not be
deceived; IT am afraid you can't stand
the CLEAN, Mr.. Black. Why don't you
say YOU have DYSPEPSIA and be done with
it2 You'll always have that hungry look
ANYHOW as long as you have dyspepsia.
Now listen. My stomach was in Just as
had condition as yours at one time. But
/ now I can eat anything, at any Tune.
For instance, this clam ehOwder or
/ sirloin steak or even the lobster would
/ he lust as wecome to my stomach as
/ vo1lr crackers and milk. You don't re-
/ alize how this dyspepsia business is rob-
/ hing YOU of your spirit, of your energy
4 and ability to think quickly. can't
/ help notice it. You haven't the cheer
and sociabnity you had three months
ago. Now III tell you what to do,
/ and thereat the cheerful Mr.. White took
/ a vial from his pocket and extracted a
/ wee tablet. There, there is tablet
/ that contains an ingredient, one grain
/ of which digests 5000 grains of food
/ For even the worst of dyspeptic it's the
/ only thing that really gives relief. The
reason is it relieves the stomach of near
/ " an the work it has to do, digests ev-
erything in the stomach and stimulates
the gastric juice. can't get along
without them. They are Stuart's Dys-
pepsia Tablets. You can get them any
/ where on earth for SOC 8. package"
yes. it is true, Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets absolutely stop heartburn
nausea. indigestion, dyspepsia Of tbs
worst type, sour stomach bIoatv feel
ing and all quotations and irritation
and freshen and invigorate the sto..l-44s
i They cheer you up, and make you &c
all the good there is in your food. You
win forget you ever had a stomach t.
. worry you.
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VanderbiIts to Connect Boston and
New York With Chicago.

VanderbiIts to Connect Boston and
New York With Chicago.
Pittsburg. Pa, Feb. 9.-''The purchase
OF the street railway system Of Roches-
ter, n. Y, by the Vanderbilt Andrews
syndicate was but the first step in
gigantic project of the Vanderbilts to
create a continuous electric service from
Boston and New York to Chicago" said
w c. Gray, q civil engineer of
Rochester, who is visiting in this city
The second step will be taken when
body Of surveyors Will begin work next
week under the direction of myself and
T. S. Mulcahey, for the Rochester &
Southern to complete the survey for an
electric line to .11lmira and Bingham
ton where it will connect with lines to
Boston for which the right Of way IS
principally controlled by Boston CAPT
taIists, who viii lend their aid to the
project"
The taking over of the Rochester lines
by the Vanderbilt syndicate, Mr.. Gray
saws. indicates that city as the local
point in the gigantic trolley enterprise.
| From Rochester to Buffalo the Roches-
ter & Southern company, which is IN
/ control of the Vanderbilts, expects to
/ obtain control of a franchise to operate
/ an electric line now held by Joseph
/ Tone of Rochester, along an ancient
! highway known as the Ridge road From
/ Buffalo to Chicago the plan of the syn
/ dicate is to obtain control Of connect
/ inc lines via Cleveland, Toledo and De-
Work on line from Buffalo to
! Rochester it is expected will be begun
early in the spring.
In taking up this gigantic electric
/ project. Mr. Gray says, the Vanderbilt
( syndicate has in view not only the elm
nation OF. serious competition with the
New York Central railroad but also the
| opening up to traffic and travel of rich
| ard populous sections Of New York
state which up to the present have beer
! l5utapped. The project viii also open VI
all Of New England and will virtually
connect the east with the west
When the line is constructed as far as
Binghamton it is expected the BostoI
CAPITALISTS. who largely hold rights Of
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Get PIenty 81 G. Now.

Chanute Kan, Feb. 9.-On men who
are shipping their product for fuel are
satisfied with the treatment which they
are receiving from the Santa Fe Rail
road company. They say that they
have no trouble now in securing cars.
and are seldom delayed by a failure of
the company to get the wheeled tanks
a the loading racks at the time they
are needed. There was considerable
complaint along this line last summer,
when the fuel oil business was first
started, but the oil men accepted as
bona. hde the company's statement that
it was new to the business then and
was not as well equipped to handle 1t
at first as the extent of the business
warranted.
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PENITENTIARY AWARDS.
Atchison. Ieavenworth and Kansas
City Firms Successful Bidders

AtchisOn, LeaVenWOrth and Kansas
City Firms Successful Bidders.
I.eavenworth, Kan, Feb. 9.+The
board of directors of the Kansas peni-
tertiary have opened bids and awarded
contracts for meat, groceries and -four
to supply the institution the next six
months All the Kansas City and
some of the st. Joseph packing houses
bid on meat supplies. Contracts were
awarded to the lowest bidders as fol-
lows:
The Sehwarzschild & Sulzberger
Packing company of Kansas City,
100, 600 pounds fresh beef at S4.72 per
hundred 10000 pounds mutton at
1897, 10000 pounds jOWls at $5.42,
Swift & Co, 5000 pounds bologna at
1857, 5000 pounds lard at $3.50, 4O,-
600 pounds liver at $2.49; Armour
Packing company, 5000 pounds but
terine at $7.48; LeavenWorth Packing
company, 5000 pounds bacon at $3.50.
Grocery contracts We're awarded as
follows: J. V. Sto1tz of Leavenworth,
5000 pounds coffee at 2 2 cents, 90
600 pounds of salt at $1.06 hundred;
Bittman-TOdd Grocery company, 5000
pounds dried peas at 2 = cents a
pound, $500 pounds Of prunes at 4
cents, 500 gallons of vinegar at 8 cents,
1000 gallons of syrup at 20 z cents;
ROhlhng & Co, 1000 pounds hOminy
at S1.20 a hundred, 10000 pounds
graduated sugar at $4-37 per hundred;
the Symns Grocery company of Atchi-
son, 8 500 pounds of dried peaches at
g q cents, 5000 pounds OF rice at 4 70 g,
and 700 pounds of tea at IA cents.
The Kelly & Lysle Milling company
Of Leavenworth received the contract
to furnish 240,0 pounds of -four at
$1.75 a hundred and $4,000 pounds of
bran at IS cents a hundred.
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hicted with creeping paralysis, losing
the entire use of the lower half of his
body, and for a year was a helpless
invalid confined to his bed with no
power or feeling in either leg, and ply
sicians had given him up as hopeless.
Mr.. Means was cured by DR.. Williams
Pink Pills and his testimonial was
printed i've years ago as follows;
Il had the grip for four winters and
as a result my nerves broke down.
lost the entire use of the lower half of
my body. Ny stomach, liver, kidneys,
heart or head were never affected but
the paralyzed condition of the lower
part of the body affected my bladder
and bowels. For whole year I lay
in bed perfectly helpless with no power
in either limb and the feeling gone so
that couldn't feel a pin run into my
legs at all. I couldn't turn over in
bed without help. To move me a. pull
ley was rugged up on the ceiling and a
windlass on the floor.
During two years Of my af1iction ]
had six different doctors, but none OF
them gave me any relief. A specialist
from Philadelphia treated me for three
months but he was of no benefit to me.
These doctors gave me up and said II
was only a question of few weeks with
me, as nothing more could be done.
After the physicians had given me UP
friend sent me a pamphlet contain
ing statements of two men who had
been afflicted something ike me and
who had been cured by the use OF Dr
Williams Pink Pills. I began taking
them at once and although my i'm
provement was slow it was certain
Now can walk most of the time with
out cane and everybody around here
thinks it is a miracle that I can gel
about as I do. Your pills have GER
tainly been a God-send to me. Within
the last three years I have answered
dozens of letters from invalids who
had heard of my case and who asked
me if it was true that had been cured
by Dr. Williams Pink Pills. I have
told them all that this remedy cured
me and I am glad of this opportunity
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TEXAS SOUTHERN SOLD.
Eastern Capitalists Paid One and
One-HaIf Millions for Property.

hutchinson Kas., Feb. 81. E.
walker, president of the Texas
Southern railroad and agent for the
sale of the property. which is in the
hands of a receiver, sold the road yes
terday to eastern capitalists. 1t is
said the price paid was one and one
half million dollars. The road runs
from Marshall to WinsbOro, Texas, a
distance of "A miles. with branches,
making a total of more than a hun
dred miles. It is understood the road
is to be a part of a proposed north
and south line which is to pass
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KATY OFFICIALS BUSY.
Work on Big Shops at Parsons to Be
gin in Two Weeks.

Parsons, Kan. Feb 9.-President Fin
ney, General Manager Allen, Chief Engi-
neer Fisher and other Katy officials left
yesterday for Texas on a special train. It
was announced by them that the work on
the big shops here viii be begun within
two weeks and that $50 men will be put to
ballastfng and laying 66-pound rails from
Parsons to Piqua March /
An afternoon train from Parsons
through Chanute and lola to Kansas City
will be started June I.
It is expected that the officials will soon
make important announcements Affecting
the road IN Teas.
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Farmers institute Begins.

Arkansas City, Kan. Feb. 9.-The
tri-cOunty farmers institute, compris-
ing Kay county, Oklahoma, and Cow
ley and Sumner counties in Kansas,
began its annual session here Thurs
day afternoon. The institute viii con-
tinue three days. There was a large
attendance of farmers at the opening
session. Several of the instructors
from the Kansas State Agricultural
college at Manhattan viii be in at
tendance today and SATURDAY..
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GOvERNOR HOCH SPOKE.
Attended the " NJ. G. A. Convention.
Making Two Addresses.

Chanute. Kan. Feb. s-This city. is fun
of Y. NJ G. A. delegates who are here to
attend the state Y NJ. c. A. convention
which convened Thursday afternoon IN
its tWenty-fourth annual session. Gov.
and Mrs. Hoch arrived from Topeka and
the governor spoke at the convention last
night In the afternoon Mr.. HOch ad-
dressed the city teachers at the hlgR
school building. He predicted that the
time would come when the school teacher
would receive adequate remuneration Tor
services rendered and credited the splen-
did record made by the Twentieth Kansas
boys in the Philippines to their training
in Kansas schools.
Kansas has many more Twentieth
Kansas regiments in her schools today, -
he said. The governor and his wife are
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. S. n. Allen.
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soldiers Win Connete.

Fort LeavenWorth, Kan, Feb. g.
The Kansas City Athletic club has in
vited the soldiers of the post to send
down a team to compete in events in
the athletic carnival soon to be held in
Convention hall It is said that Fort
Riley soldiers will send a team. Lieu
tenants Watts and Cummins viii pick
an athletic team from the most active
and best trained soldiers here.
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Abilene, Kan. Feb. 9.-By large
majority in every ward it was voted
here Thursday to issue $4,000 binds for
a new high school building AND a new
ward school building for the west side.
The Increasing population has over
crowded the schools until present IA
cilities are Inadequate.
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TWO BADLY HURT IN WRECK.
-Four Santa Fe Coaches DeraiIed Near
KiOWa

Wichita, Kan, Feb. &C. V. Perry
and Nicholas Baxter, eastern home
seekers. were dangerously hurt and sew
eraI other persons were slightly injured
yesterday in a wreck on the Panhandle
division of the road near Kiowa, Kan.
Four passenger coaches were derailed,
by a broken rail and nearly every oc-
cupant was bruised or badly shaken
up. The train was loaded with home
seekers and only the fact that the
wreck occurred at a level spot prevent
ed a serious disaster.
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way for trolley lines westward from
New York city, will construct the con-
Meeting links to the metropolis and Bos-
ton
While these plans are in process Of
accomplishment the Buffalo-RochesteR
line will also be pushed, as well as the
work of securing control and right Of
way for the lines between Buffalo,
Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and Chicago.
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mined uGun Toter'' 500.

Teavenworth, Feb. 9.-Simon LOT
tus. the man who tried to draw revolt
yer on Deputy City Marshal Donohue at
Fourth and Marion streets Monday
night, was taken into the city court Tor
ga ionn9enf on the charge of carrying
concealed weapons He pleaded guilty
and Judge Flynn who has never shown
any sympathy for gun toters, assessed
a fine Of 500, which will keep Lotus IN
Jail for 200 days
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TWO CENTS A MILE THE LIMIT.
Ohio Legislature and Governor Create
Law to This Effect.

Columbus, O., Feb. 9.--Governor Pat
tison signed the Freiner . cent fare bill
late yesterday afternoon, which was &C
copied by the senate earlier in the day
ard it is now a law. i VIII not go into
erect, however. until go days have
elapsed. The law provides that two
cents shall be the maximum rate charg-
ed in Ohio for transporting passengers
on the railroads of Ohio for all dis
tances in excess of five miles.
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Holmes, acting as agent for the United
States and Mexican Trust company.
one and six-tenths acres of unimproved
land west of Eighteenth street on
Usage avenue. This ground will be
used by the company. The price paid
for the ground was $4,000, rate of
$4,000 an acre.
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Chanute, Kan, Feb 9.-Prosperity- is NOT
always a losing propositioIls sblit messing
fsrafion The farmers of this county are
SO SO Il prosperous that most of them have
been paying all their taxes to get the re-
over $4,000 on 1865 taxes, the rebates
amounting to "a. 1887, the largest amount
in the history of the county.
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BACK TO THE ROCK ISLAND.
United states Marshal Fossett to BE
Railroads Chief Special.

Guthrie. Ok, Feb. at is understood
here that as soon as his term expires
United States Marshal ". D. Fossett
win return to his old position as chief
special agent for the Rock Island lines
in Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The
Rock Island influence in the Territory
has always been very favorable to Eos
sett, and gave him all the assistance
possible in his fight for reappointment
as marshal.
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Wichita, Kan, Feb. 9.-Sunday
funerals in this city have been abolished
by an agreement entered into between
the ministers, undertakers and OFFICERS
Of the cemetery associations. Except IN
cases of epidemic or contagious as
eases no bodies will be buried on Sun
DAYS. The anti-Sunday funeral move
ment was urged by florists. liverymen
and grave diggers also. Twenty-Five
ministers signed the agreement.
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60 Meather GO Yinc Outnnf.

Galena, Kan, Feb. 9.-On account Of
the severe cold weather the first Of the
week, the output of zinc ore from the
Missouri Kansas district viii this week
be reduced at least 1000 tons In the
weekly. ore market Thursday the high
est price paid for zinc ore was $3.50 q