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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-17
THANKSGIVING PSALM.
A Rhythnnicai and Grateful chant.

A teacher in a Terre Haute public
school joins in the chorus:
Teaching is a business which re-
quires a great deal of brain and nerve
force. Unless this force is renewed as
fast as expended the teacher is ex-
hausted before the close of the year
Many resort to stimulating tones for
relief.
For three years struggled against
this almost complete exhaustion get
ting what relief I could from doctors
tonics. Then in the spring of 1903 I
had an attack Of IA grippe and ma
laria which left me too weak TO con-
tinue my work Medicine failed to
mate failed. I thought I should never
be able 10 go back in school again.
st ate enough food (the ordinary
meals. white bread and vegetables)
but was hungry after meals.
II happened at this time to read an
article giving the experience of an
other teacher who had been helped by
1 Crape-Nuts food. I decided to try
Grape-Nuts and cream. as an expert
ment. It was a delightful experience,
and continues so after year and a
half of constant use
First, I noticed that was not
hungry after meals.
ain a few days that tired feeling
/ left me and I felt fresh and bright
instead Of dull and sleepy.
I'm three months more than my
usual strength returned. and had
gained Is pounds in weight.
81 finished the years work without
any kind OF tonics-was not absent
from duty even half a day
Am still in tie best of health. with
all who know me- wondering at the
/ Improvement
II tell them all. Try Grape-Nuts!' .
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek. Mich.
/ There's q reason
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-17
a MIRACULOUS EscAPE.
Not a Person Injured in a Tent Where
Five Bullets Were Fired.

Coffeyville, Kan, April 17.-Just how
the Gamble family, who reside in tent
near North Walnut street, escaped from
being riddIed with bullets is rather
difficult to explain. but it is proba bly,
due to the fact that in the heat of the
argument steady aim was overlooked.
A man by the name of May. who
is carpenter, owns six canine crea-
lures of a variegated variety, and ac-
cording to the accounts received from
the neighbors, the bow-wows started
the trouble by indulging in a rOmp on
a young garden owned by Gamble.
The latter evidently did not appre-
ciate the frolc. as he appeared on the
scene with a flrsarm which was twice
discharged, the second explosion result
ing in the sudden demise of one of the
luckless ours.
exceptions to such an intrusion and,
securing a pistol. took deliberate aim
at Gamble and fired, but. fortunately,
Providence interviewed and the bullet
went wild. Gamble went the same way
and proceeded to beat a hasty retreat
within the canvas walls of his tent. +.
Mr.. May was not "dismayed, but
continued to shoot, sending five Ieaden
messengers through and about the tent,
wherein were huddled a woman and
three children, besides Mr.. Gamble, all
of whom escaped injury through the
kind decree Of Fate.
As soon as the cannonading ceased,
Mr.. Gamble assumed the offensive and,
armed with a shotgun. appeared from
under ambush ready to continue the
war, but the flag of truce had been
waved, and after a few words of par
ley, everything was serene and lovely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-17

the summer season. The several
buildings will be connected by means
of underground pipe tunnels and cleo
trio conduits, so that connections be-
tween the power house and the various
shops can be made and repaired with
facility.
The mezzanine floor is supported by
Orders. columns and I-beams, and the
floor itself consists of reinforced con
crete. covered with a double wooden
flooring, and between the concrete and
the wooden floors there is to be inter-
posed a bed of sand, which is expected
to deaden any unusual vibration
caused by the operation of the cranes
and which might interfere with the
action of machinery on the second
floor. The windows in the sawtooth
will be fixed, but those in the monitor
will operate horizontally and be con-
trolled by compressed air cylinders,
operated from the ground floor. All
the glass in the windows and doors will
be of one size, so as to reduce the
amount of stock which it would be
necessary to carry for repairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-17
ROAD FOR A SINGLE PURPOSE.
PheIps-Dodge People, VIII Build One
to Tap Timbew Lands.

Ell Paso, Tex. April 17.-As a con
venfent means of transporting SO, OOO.-
600 feet of mining timber the Phelps
Dodge company is said to be contem-
plating the construction of branch
line from Rodeo, n. NJ. into the hea IF
Of the Chirieahua mountains in Art
iona.
Surveyors are expected to block out
the forests and run a rough survey
for the line, beginning their work
within thirty days. If their reports
are favorable, the construction of the
line will probably be decided upon.
While the transportation of 10000
600 feet of lumber would not give
traffic to their road for a great length
of time=iti is estimated that three
years would exhaust that amount-ft
is said that the saving in transport
ton, in comparison with the wagon
hauling method, would be sufficient to
justify the construction of the line.
The district which the line would
tap is not yet much developed, but
property owners in that district be-
lieve that if he line were constructed
it would do much to encourage mining
operations.
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Will Be Run for Thousand
Miles Along the Vest Coast.
AN IMPORTANT ROAD.
May Ultimately Connect With
Frisco on Rock Island.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

FL Paso, Tex, April IA syndi-
cate in which B. F. Yoakum. chair
man of the executive boards of the
Rock Island and Frisco systems, and
other prominent railroad men and
capitalists are interested. is planning
to build a new line from Salina Cruz,
the western terminus Of the Tehaunte-
pee National, one thousand miles along
the west coast OF the republic to Man
zanillo, the western terminus Of the
Mexican Central.
While the plans Of the syndicate
have just leaked out, it is believed that
they have been under way for a long
time and that the visits of the various
railroad and financial men to Mexico
this winter has been in the interest of
the concession which it is hoped will
soon be secured.
As the new line win run through a
territory that is practically undevelop-
ed and will make connection with the
Central and the Tehuantepec at the
two greatest ports on the west coast as
we'll as with the Southern Pacific it is
believed that a concession that Will
carry with it nearly $I0,00O,000 will
be granted by the Mexican govern
ment. The new line will be practically
a seaboard air line and will be easy OF
construction. It viii touch all of the
principal ports between Manzanillo
and Salina Cruz, and will give an i'm
petus to that part Of the country, such
as it has never before had. It is also
believed in railroad circles that the
syndicate will construct q number OF
branch lines to principal cities some
what removed from the line Of the
coast.
There is also a firm belief that the
line will finally be extended through
the Sonora country to FL Paso or some
other convenient point along the bord-
TT to connect with the Rock Island and
Frisco systems
The new line will probably work ir
harmony with the Mexican Contra
and the National with which the in
/ terests behind the scheme are mos
friendly, but it is believed that it viii
antagonize the Hartman Southern. Pa.
cific line, with which the members ot
the syndicate are now fighting in the
south western part of the United States
1t is thought that the work ha:
progressed so far that the matter rest:
| entirely with the government and +
the government gives its consent tn,
work will be commenced in Iocatins
the line within the next six months.
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SUGAR BEETs PAY.
A Kearny County Farmer Says It
Raises Land Prices.

Henry Block. prominent farmer of
Kearny county, living near Syracuse,
in recent interview said:
Don't say that you can't raise sugar
beets. that you are not fixed to tend the
crop. that the grasshoppers will TIE
them, and so forth, for Kearney county
farmers have had all these things to
contend with, and have succeeded in
spite of all.
"A sugar beet CROP continued Mr.
Block, can be made to pay from $40
to $50 per acre profit over and above
the actual cost of the work, and a crop
of sugar beets on your land will en-
nance the value Of every acre of your
farm IS to SO an acre above what ~
would be worth If you do not actually
demonstrate that they can be grown
on your land If you throw up your
hands because Of the difficulties which
you apprehend are in your way in
growing sugar beets. is it not unlikely
that others who might buy your land
will conclude that your land owing to
these drawbacks which deter you. can
not be made to produce sugar beets?
We think that this is sure to have
weight with prospective land buyers in
the future as it has in the past. For
what other reason than such as this
has land in the beet district of Kearny
county risen to $40 and S75 per acre
when lust as good land in Hamilton
county can be bought at from $50 to
s35 an acre2 No man who has land for
sale in Hamilton county can afford to
neglect to plant sugar beets this year
and sit up nights with them if neces-
sarv to insure a crop, for an actual
demonstration that his land can be
made to yield a crop of beets will sure
" enhance It's selling value"
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THREE WEEKS, NO DELAYS.
Engineer Causing Them Thinks He Is
Entitled TO Credit

Douglas, Ariz., April 17.-CharIes A.
Elliott a Southern Pacific engineer.
found all sorts of trouble near Benson
one day last week. About three miles
east of Benson and near Vischnaga. he
successfully manipulated a sideswipe
which overturned two carloads of or
anges which he was carrying. An hour
later another train sweeping by dis
covered that the ball Of the rails had
been trimmed. The second crew made
this interesting discovery when two Of
their cars of oranges toppled over on
top of the first two cars. Elliott's train
meanwhile proceeded west. When Just
mile west Of Benson E1liott's engine
performed a graceful yet embarrassing
somersault at an angle calculated to
discourage any further progress. 1t
had the good grace to roll out of the
way, just as the fruit cars had done,
and Elliott believes he is entitled to
great credit for causing three wrecks
in one day without seriously delaying
any other train than his own. No one
was injured
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-17
FoRENfEN's CONVENTION.
Annual Meeting of New Organization
at St. Louis, May g.

The next annual convention of the
International Railway General Fore
mems association will be held at St
Louis, beginning on Tuesday, May 8
This is one of the newest organiza-
lions in the railroad world and its
membership includes general foremen
perintendents of shops division
foremen, machine foremen, round
house foremen. and assistants of rail-
way locomotive repair shops. At the
coming convention there will be d
general exchange of views along lines
pertaining to railway locomotive shop
practices.
Ohlcers of the association are ". H.
Graves. of Alexandra. La. president;
C. A. Swan. jr., of St. Louis, first vice
president; Elton F. Fay, of Cheyenne,
Wyo.. second vice president; Lee r.
Laizure, of Hornellsville. n. Y. third
vice president; William E Farrell. of
Delaware, Ohio, fourth vice president:
E. c Cook. secretary and treasurer.
of St Louis: F. W Rhuark. R. C.
Hyde, d. E. Barton. G. ". Keller and
c. H. Voges, executive committee.
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UNREASONABLE RATES.
Commission So Declares Regarding
Charges of Missouri Pacific.

washington, April 1.-THE Interstate
commerce commission. in a decision hand
ed down by Commissioner Clements yes
terday, announced its determination in
the case Of J. W Morgan & Son Of La
mar, No. against the Missouri Pacific
Railway company and the ST. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railway company,
in favor of the complaipants. The COM
mission decided that the rate Of 42 cents
per hundred pounds on shipments Of flour
from Little Rock 70 Hope was grossly IN
reasonable; that the rate of 10 cents per
hundred from Memphis through Little
Rock to Hope, afterwards increased to %
cents was unreasonable and unjust and
that a reasonable and justihable rate
would be II cents per hundred pounds.
The complainants are awarded repara-
ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-17
CROWDED WITH HONEsEEKERs.
Syracuse Hotels Are Ffmed to Their
Capacity Daily

Syracuse, Kan. April 17-Homeseek-
ers are again crowding the town to the
extent Of its hotel capacity.
Frank Rees and Jas. Hammond. the
real estate men. have placed number
Of Russians on cheap lands near town.
Zimmerman & Co. are erecting a bust
ness house of 100 by 20 feet and will
put in a large stock of lumber Far
rington & Son have located with big
furniture supply, and the town is laying
several blocks of cement sidewalks.
Syracuse has a good trade from thirty
miles south
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-17
WAS A VETERAN CONDUCTOR.
Death of w. o. Miller. Who Had Been
With Santa re for 35 Years.

Kansas City. Mo, April 17.-Wil-
liam Oscar Miller. s. years old. fer
many years a passenger conductor on
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road company. died yesterday after
noon at his home, 3211 Garner ave
nue., of pneumonia. He took a slight
cold about a week ago. He had lived
in Kansas City twenty-eight years and
had been in the service Of the Santa
Fe thirty-five years He ran between
Kansas city and Dodge City. Kas- He
leaves a widow and one son. Charles
E. Miller. a salesman for the National
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-17
EDITORS GATHER.
In Fourteenth Annual Session
at Junction City.
Address of President Gretchen
Strong and Sensible.
ARE WELL TREATED.
Citizens Give Them Reception
and Show the Town.
Visitors Will Be Entertained at
Fort Riley Today.
ARE WELL TREATED.

junction City, Kan. April 1.-THE
Kansas Editorial association is in ses-
sion here for its fourteenth annual
meeting Two hundred editors are
here from different parts of the state.
The Junction City newspaper people
entertained the visitors by running
v-agonettes to all points of interest
They saw the city's schools and other
public buildings. and the city's prin-
cipal business enterprises.
The associations first session was
held Monday afternoon, when there
was a meeting Of the executive com
rnittee to receive and pass upon ap-
plications for membership.
President Mack P. Gretchen, of the
Sedgwick Paragraph, made the an
nual address. He said. in part
There are worse propositions than
being in the newspaper business, espe-
Cially if you cheer up and try to make
the best of it. The business really has
its bright as well as somber tints. and
he who looks with eyes that see may
find them. Enemies are made in the
newspaper business. They are made
in any other business. for that matter.
But this fact should not be permitted
to overshadow the joy of the warm
friendships that are yours and mine as
direct result of our calling.
The Commercial Side.
There is a purely commercial side
TO the newspaper business. AS such.
the business has no more relative inn
portance than the vocation of selling
prunes. bartering cotton cloth. or
measuring hard pine. And it is large
~ by this commercial side that success
or failure Is measured The editor
lie mol
head i'm the clouds of ideality is pretty
sure to find his feet dangling in the
thin air of reality. The business end
OF the newspaper is of primary i'm
portance IT forces the newspaper
calling into being a means to an end
the making of a living like all the
rest But, after all the newspa Der
business has another side different
from that of the butcher. the baker
and the candlesuck maker.
Inc editor who honestly tries to do
MS duty can accomplish much. In the
multiplicity of affairs that enter infr
the life of the community in which he
ives, 1T is the editors high privilege
MS duty. TO take prominent part
often TO sound the dominant note ~
should be in a position to sneak With
authority on matters of public interest
10 DO this II is necessary that he gel
IN touch with the world and know
soIflstIllhg OF what is going on outside
the four walls Of his own office
There is constant change in tn.
newspaper business. New ideas are he.
ing tried, new methods adopted. The
road to. success is more easily Travelled
by keeping step
The laundering editorial i'm double.
loaded plea has long since been sue
ceeded by the terse editorial paragranb
IT has simply passed on. along with III
4allacy Of the old-tme printer that :
certain amount Of booze was necessary
in his system to countertact the leaf
poisoning absorbed from the tvpe.
More independence.
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atty that enters into every country
newspaper that must be reckoned WITH
The metropolitan paper is as imperson-
al as it can well hope to be. The coun-
try papers hold on the community is
largely due to its home news features
and tn. personality of the editor who
handles them. Hundreds of men may
see some startling incident on the street.
No two see it alike. They talk it over
and are familiar with every detail. Yet
they read the account of it in the local
paer with interest They want the
editors version. and it can be said to
the credit of the craft that the news
papers version is given more credence
than the story of the man on the street.
The tasks imposed by the newspaper
business are many. There is no room
for procras situation. The ceaseless grind,
the care. the worry, cannot be over
looked, nor yet avoided. Still, the bus
mess has its pleasant side. The editor
has the satisfaction of knowing that ne
is q factor in the throbbing heart of
the busy world. That his audience is
larger than that reached by any other
means of expressing thought. That
warm friendships are made which en-
dure through a lifetime. That the bust
ness Yields a fair revenue for the
amount of labor expended That it is
work worth doing and worth doing well.
There is no more fitting conclusion than
the following from the pen of that vet
Captain Heny King:
over and above all considerations of
financial profit and of attractive en-
ployment there Is the opportunity,
which is also an obligation, to promote
truth and justice. to expose fraud and
crime to favor honest and decent gov
eminent, to stand for education. NOR
atty, patriotism and all the wholesome
influences of society. That is where the
profession of Journalism reaches the
e4,Y,7y,7f+ ~ q nhiloGOrhW and IFS dis
tinctfon..'
President Cretcher's address was fol-
lowed by these three good talks. The
Delinquent Subscriber E. L. Cline,
Star Conway Springs; AN Edi-
toriaI Responsibility, Mrs. Cora G.
Lewis, Graphic. Kinsley; Advertising,
From a Railroad Mans Standpoint" F.
S. Savage, A, T. & S. F. general office,
Topeka.
Another interesting number of the
afternoon programme was the paper
Ready Prints a Help or a Hindrance.
by J. ". A. Cooke, of the EllinwOod
Leader.
An Evening Reception
Last evening a reception was given for
the visiting editors at the Ladies Read
ing club at which there were about 400
visitors and townpeople present. Gov
ernor E W. Hoch was on the pro-
gramme for an address. 1t was i'm
possible for him to be present as he
was attending a business mems meet
ing in St. Louis. At the meeting the
address of welcome was delivered by
G. A. Rockwell president of the june
ton City Commercial club, and it was
responded to by President Mack P.
Gretchen. There were short talks by a
number of the visiting editors. Mrs. T.
". Dorm, of Junction City. sang So
pranO solo; Miss Serena Mead rendered
a piano solo: Miss ]. Abbie Clark Ho-
gan gave violin SOLO and there was
reading by Rev. Robert Nelson Spen-
Ger. The visitors were entertained at
Fort Riley this morning with reviews
and riding exhibitions.
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Tom intends to pull about Is plows E.
G. Williams new engine was unloaded
at this place. This is also a 30-horse
power engine and big one too, built
on the railroad engine style with cab
and all. Mr.. Williams intend to take
the engine from here to Kearny coun-
ty where he owns considerable land.
William Downey this week unhoused
his engine. Mr. Downey has plows or
dered and Will start his steam plows to
working as soon as the weather opens
up-IaeOta Standard.
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FOUGHT FOR HIS LIFE.
Explosion of Barrel of Blazing Oil
Gives Geo. Steele a Close Call.

Wichita. Kan. April 17-Covered with
blazing oil. George Steele. helper en-
ployed by the Missouri Pacific railway
fought for life here yesterday.
The accident occurred in the coal
sheds Of the Missouri Pacific. A barrel
Of paint exploded. Steele. nearby, was
immersed in the burning OIL Clothes
afiame. he fought to reach the open air.
Bystanders. realizing the fatality which
must result from such action, grasped
a hose attached to a nearby hydrant
and met him at the doorway. A heavy
stream of water quenched the blaze,
but not before Steele had been terribly
burned about the hips and legs.
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HAYS Normal Is Growing.

In the u months Just ending the
Western Branch State Normal school at
Hays, has enrolled a total of IT'S differ
ent students, representing Is counties.
To realize the import OF such an en-
rolment one has to keep in mind the
comparatively sparsely settled condi-
ton Of extreme western Kansas. at the
present time. Every other institution
Of higher learning in the state lies east
Of the center Of the state and all of
them in localities vel populated.-ElIs-
worth Reporter.
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USING new DOUBLE TRACK.

Z. r IIITle E5ttE7t717TI EAs1EIs7zEs OILy aTlu
Topeka Finished Except II Miles.
with the exception of but twelve
miles from Lawrence east to Iinwood,
the new double track line which the
Union Pacific railroad company has
been building from Topeka to Kansas
City has been completed and is now
in operation It is expected that the
track between Lawrence and Linwood
will be finished within six weeks. But
with the greater portion Of the new
double track in operation the running
Of the Union Pacific trains and those
OF the Rock Island, which use the
line also. between here and Kansas
City has been facilitated to such a de-
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SIZE IloGs 70 GERNfANY.
Nenlaha and Brown County Furnish
Walnut Trees for the Purpose.

Sabetha. kan, April 17.-Buyers of
walnut logs who have been operating in
Brown and Nemaha counties have dur
ing the past month shipped five carloads
Of logs from here direct to Germany
Logs are now bringing highest price
that they ever were here. All the branch
and roots of the trees are shipped.
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gree that it is quite unusual now for
a train Of either company TO lose any
time in making this run. When the
double tracking is completed it is
likely that both roads will run most
Of their passenger trains under faster
schedules than now maintained.
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JOHN j. HANRAHAN MARRIEs.
Grand Master Of locomotive Ffremen
Weds ST. Paul Girl.

St Paul April 17.-John J. Hanrahan,
grand master of the B. of l. F., was mar
ried here this morning to Miss Katherine
NJ. Sullivan daughter of former County
Auditor D. NJ. Sullivan President Hill Of
the Great Northern has rendered Mr..
F4anrahan his private car in which the
wedding journey viii be taken to the
coast