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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
NEW RAILROAD FOR KANSAS.
Edward l.. PecI<ham Plans One to Go
Through the Wheat Belt.

Edward L. Peckham OF Denver. Col.
president of the Denver, Kansas & Gulf
Railroad company, has written letter
to the state board of railroad commits
sioners in which he announces his plans
for the construction of q new railroad
in this state to be known as the Great
Bend & Gulf. He Says that construc-
ton on this new road will be pushed as
rapidly as possible and will be com
menced a bout July 1.
With the letter Is a map showing the
route of the proposed railroad. It's
northern terminal is Hays. in Ellis
county. From there it runs southeast
to Arkansas City. IT crosses the Mis-
souri, Pacific at Matherville. the Santa
Fe at Great Bend, the Larned branch
of the Missouri Pacific at Seward. the
Kinsley cutoff of the Santa Fe at St.
John. the Rock Island at Pratt, the
santa Fe and Orient at HaRper, the
Kiowa branch of the Missouri Pacific
at Freeport, the Santa Fse at Rome. The
construction of track will begin at
Great Bend
If this road is ever completed it will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
TO HAVE MORE BUILDINGS.
Construction at Fort Riley Ordered to
Begin Before July l.

Junction City. Kas., May 26.-An
order for the construction of a full set
of buildings that will be required by
the officers. men. horses and equip
ment of a battery of field artillery has
been received by the constructing
quartermaster at Fort Riley Captain
Leon Roudiez.
The construction work is to be COM
menced before the first OF July for
the reason that the cost, more than
$4,000. comes out of this fiscal
years appropriation for the army.
The buildings in this order are one set
of field officers quarters, one double
set of captains quarters. one double
set of heutenants' quarters one bar
rack for 40 men, one stable for 100
horses, one gun shed and one artillery
workshop. At present Fort Riley has
five batteries Of artillery, and when
the other batteries arrive the artillery
post here viii be by two times the
largest artillery post in the United
States. The garrison of the post with
its regiment of cavalry will number
more 2 900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
TUNNELED UNDER A BANK.
Cashier at Hartford Makes a Timely
Discovery.

Emporia, Kan, May 26-E. E. Full
Ter of Hartford was arrested and
brought to Emporia yesterday and is
now in the county jail on a charge of
grand larceny. The charge was made
by John Jackson, a Hartford hardware
dealer. whose cash drawer was robbed.
Several houses in Hartfol ave been
entered in the last few months and
small sums of money and other ar
ticles taken. Other arrests may follow.
c. A. Johnson. cashier of the Hart
ford State bank, recently discovered
tunnel running from a vacant building
in the rear to a. point directly under the
bank vault. The tunnel was not COM
plete. but it is believed that if anyone
had attempted to enter the bank
through it the burglar alarm in the
vault would have given the alarm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
&c o. "a PREDICAAIENT.
Bought Engines Too Large for Tun-
neIs on Line.

Having bought a lot of extra heavy
passenger and freight locomotives the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad officials do
not know what to do with them. They
cannot be used until the tunnels on the
road are enlarged and the bridges
strengthened. This work will cost So
600. 600 and will take a long time to
complete.
number, were delivered to the COM
pany a week ago. 1t was planned to
distribute them over the system They
were to haul freight and passenger
trains and to effect a considerable
economy in the movement of traffic
But when the locomotives were start
ed out on their work Chief Engineer
D. D. Carothers began an investiga-
ton.
All along the eastern lines he
found tunnels that the engines could
not go through. On the Wheeling
branch the giants stood a good chance
to get stuck every few miles. Then,
on other divisions, the bridges were
not strong enough
II some divisions can be found
where the monsters can travel safely
they will spend their lives there until
the remainder of the system Is pre-
pared for them.
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be an important factor in the COM
merciaI life of southwestern Kansas 1t
will go directly through some of the
best of the wheat belt, and will give q
comparat lively direct route from the
Kansas wheat fields to the Gulf ship
ping ports. Incidentally this fact will
not be likely to be advantageous TO
Wichita At present a large proportion
o. the Kansas wheat that reaches for
eign markets by way of the Gulf ports
is handled by Wichita grainmen- The
new road will not go to Wichita, ana II
# IS successful in getting the business
from the Kansas wheat fields a large
amount of grain shipping business Is
likely to be transferred from Wichita to
Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
PAYS EXPENSES.
The AtchisOn Coal Mine a Pro-
ftable Venture.
Will Sell Three Thousand Tons
of Fuel in May.
THE AYROLL is So, 400
It Now Costs 1918 Per Ton to
Put Coal on the Cars.
By Winter Will Be Reduced to
SI.75 Per Ton.
THE PAY ROLL IS $1,000

Atchison May 26.-The Globe says:
The Atchison coal mine is not only
paying expenses now, but a few of the
old bills, the urgent ones, are being
paid from the profits. This month. the
mine will sell fully three thousand
tons of coal, and receive for it nearly
$4,000. The pay roll for the month
Will amount to $1,000. One hundred
IND ten men are employed.
You should remember that the mine
has been in operation only a few
months and that the company had a
hard struggle in reaching the coal,
owing to water. Under present con-
didOns, it costs S2.75 per ton to put
coal on cars. When the output is in
creased to three hundred tons a day.
the cost per ton viii be $1.75 to the
company. And three hundreds tons
a day viii be easily hoisted during the
coming winter; the output is gradu
ally increasing; yesterday it reached
one hundred and sixty-twO tons, or
four carloads, after deducting the
amount used under the boilers at the
mine. When the mine is able to hoist
eight hundred tons a day, the cost to
the company will be S1.25 per ton And
AtchisOn coal sells at SO a ton dur
ing the dull season.
Atchison coal is of superior quality;
no one uOuDtB lDlSs " ear 1lly coal is
the best mined in Kansas, or in the
west. 1t is universally admitted thay
AtchisOn coal is superior to Wear City.
When the Atchison mine is able to
hoist eight hundred tons of coal a day,
its pay roll viii amount to a thous-
and dollars a day. All the Atchison
mine needs to insure great profit is
development, larger coal face. ana
another shaft If the present plan if
financing the mine succeeds, there is
no sort of doubt that # will not only
greatly benefit Atchison, but pay
stockholders good returns The plan
now being considered is to raise an ad-
ditional 100000 which will pay all
debts, sink the additional shaft re-
quired by law, and leave a working
capital. This would mean a total in
debtedness of S40O. 600 on a coal mine
with seven thousand acres of coal
land complete equipment of machinery.
buildings tracks. etc. two shafts. and
extensive development under ground.
There can be no doubt that such a
mine would pay good interest on S4OO.-
600.
Those who have put in money here
tofore, can afford to put in more. ana
thus make their first investment a
good one. In ten years possibly i'm
five. the Atchison coal mine will be
worth million dollars. The men who
stood by the venture in the dark davs
should make the profit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
SUES THE wELLs-FARGo.
A Complicated Case Comes Up in the
EmDoria Court.


Emporia. Kan. May 26.-H. B. Lowe
has filed suit in the district court
against the Wells Fargo company to
recover money which his son was ac-
cused of taking, and which Lowe says
his son did not get Lowe says that his
son. W. H. Lowe, was an express mes
senger in the employ of the Wells-Far-
go company and that January 9 an
express package containing $4o6.84
was stolen from the company Lowe
was accused of the theft. as he was
the last messenger to sign for it Of
which there is any record, and in order
to keep the boy from being arrested
and tried his father paid the company
S406-84
This is the theft to which George E.
Davis, another messenger, pleaded
guilty and for which he is now serv-
ing a sentence in the reformatory.
Lowe claims that he paid the money
to the express company and that his
boy was not arrested He says that
after Davis was arrested and pleaded
guilty he tried to get the company to
return the $406.S4 that he had paiG
to save his son from arrest. and the
company refused. He now sues to re-
cover it with interest from January 8.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26

lowing to the strain and worry Of
business my nerves were in a bad
shape. tried many so-caIled nerve
tonics without result.
Hearing so much said in praise OF
Peruna, decided to give it a trial
could feel benefit from the first dose
six bottles made a marked i'm
provement in my condition. have
remained well ever since"
Revised Formula.
For a number OF years requests
have come to me from q multitude OF
grateful friends, urging that Peruna be
given a slight laxative quality. I have
been experimenting with a laxative adj
dition for quite q length OF time. and
now feel gratif1ed to announce to the
friends of Pe-ru-na that I have incor-
porated such a quality in the medicins
which, in my opinion. can only enhance
its well known beneficial character.
IS. B. HARTMAN. NJ. D.
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PASTOR HAS s0fALLPox.
The Rev. Mr.. Thompson. Rector of

AAAC ANCf~ WI AAACAAAkSSOA AACLAOA VI
Two I.eavenworth Churches
Ieavenworth, May 26.=Oh1cer Mon
ahan called at the residence of Rev.
Gordon B. Thompson, No. 1924 South
Broadway, and after a few prelimi-
nary fourishes with his inevitable for
maldehyde sprayer tackled a yellow
placard on the front door. All this
merely signifies that a new case of
smallpox has been discovered in the
city
The Rev. Mr.. Thompson is rector at
the Michigan avenue church and also
al Lansing Methodist church, so it is
highly probable that these two
churches vii have a new pastor Sun
day. The minister had been i'll for
over a week with a high fever, but it
was thought that it would develop into
typhoid fever. Yesterday morning
pustules broke out over his face and
body and a physicians verdict was
smallpox.
Since Rev. Thompson is pastor at
Lansing it is readily surmised that he
contracted the cOntagion there. He is
seriously sick just now and his is said
to be the worse by far than any case
seen in the city or county this year.
The secretary Of the board of health
has several suspicious cases under sur
veillance and 1t is likely that since this
case did not develop until now 9TH
ers will break out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26

Mrs. Maggie Durbin, 1917 Water St.,
Little Rock, Ark, writes:
IT was troubled for five years with
chronic disease. I tried everything 1
heard of, but nothing did me any good.
"Some doctors said my trouble was
catarrh of the bowels, and some said
consumption of the bowels.
lone doctor said he could cure me.
I took his medicine two months, but it
did me no good. A friend of mine
advised me to try Peruna, and did so.
ssAfter / had taken two bottles I
found that it was helping me, so con-
tinued its use and 1t has cured me
sound and well.
IT can recommend Peruna to any
one, and if anyone wants to know what
Peruna did for me, If they will write to
me. I will answer them gladly.
Mr. D. A Gebhardt, 573 Sixth Ave.
Brooklyn. n. Y, writes:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
THAT NJ. X. & r BOND ISSUE.
Refusal of Texas Commission to Sane
ton 1t Matters Not.

ton 1t Matters Not
New York. MAY 26-The refusal of
the Texas railroad commission to sane
ton an issue of S25.O0O.OOO bonds by
the Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway
company on its Texas lines viii in no
way interfere with the plans of that
company An official of the company
said today that the application of the
Missouri Kansas & Texas for permits
sion to issue such bonds was pretty
much of a formality and the company
had no intention of selling any part of
them for years to come
When the recent issue of $4,000 !
600 bonds was authorized. however, Oh
the company's lines outside of Texas, it
was thought to be a good plan to Sc
cure permission to issue general
blanket mortgage on the lines within
the state of Texas. The purpose of
this was to provide for refunding UNI
DERIVING issues at their maturity.
Inasmuch as the underlying bonds
which 1t was proposed to refund by the
new issue of $25. 600, GOO do not mature
for many years vet, the action of the
Texas railroad commission in the mat
ter makes no particular difference to
the company. Whether or not It will
decide to submit an amended appIica-
ton to the commission in the near
future has not been fully determined
upon. but the probabilities are that the
company will take no further action in
the matter right away, inasmuch as
the bonds. if authorized. would not be
issued for long time.
The directors of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas have as vet reached no de-
cision regarding successor to the late
Henry c. Rouse, chairman of the
board. The committee appointed to
select a candidate for the chairman
ship has been giving the matter care
full consideration. and it IS expected
that new chairman win be named
shortly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
NOTHING LEFT But ARCHER
Mexican CentraI's Inventory of FTfscS
Office Easily Taken.

City of Mexico. May 26.-On the day
before the San Francisco disaster a
letter was sent by Harry Iawton
freight traffic manager of the Mexican
Central. to H c. Archer. Pacific coast
a-ent of the Central with headuuarters
tory of the Office property of the COM
pany for the purpose of having it in
sured- Some days after the fire, which
totally destroyed the Croker building
in which the Offices were located, Mr.
Archer received the letter
In reply he wrote: II have received
your request for an inventory of the
assets of the Mexican Central in this
city. Of all the many things the Cen
tar1 owned in San Francisco there is
only one left. That one Is yours truly.
and I don't believe that need any in
surance
Mr. Archer has opened up new
headquarters in Los Angeles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26

John H. Sproal of Grand Island,
Neb.. yesterday bought the $50 acre
W H. and P. G. Bandit farm. half a
mile south of Bloomington. paying
therefor S24.5O per acre, a total Of
$4,000. Mr.. Sproal Is the father Of
Mrs. Memo Seaman of Kill Creek. He
IS the gentleman who last week con-
tracted for the August HackrOtt place
In XIII Creek. but the deal fell through
F. A. GOrham has sold his 720 acres
in Covert to his nephew. Charles Cor
ham of Washington. Iowa, for $40
per acre. A total of $14.4 400. Mr.. Cor
ham offered this farm and all the
stock on it to Charles a few years ago
for $40, OOO-Osborne County Farm
err
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26

Mrs. z. P. Logan, of 502 South Cot
tonwood street today presented the
Register. with a bouquet of handsome
American Beauty and Meteor roses,
which she grew on her place at 502
South Cottonwood street. The roses
are probably as large as any ever seen
IN lola One of the American Beauties
measures IL inches in circumference,
and another is more than four inches
IN diameter. Mrs Logan is a contest
ant in the Registers Beautiful lola
plan, and her flowers are one Of of
the features of her lawn exhibit. The
roses are certainly prize winners, and
Mrs Logan is to be congratulated on
her success in securing such fine re-
sults.@Iola Register
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OKLAHOMA. TEXAS 8 GULF.
Charter Granted for New Line $50
Miles Long.

Guthrie, Ok. May 2.-Secretary Fill
son has granted q charter to the Ok
lahoma, Texas & Gulf railroad, with q
capital stock Of 100000, to build
line from Little, Rock Ark, east
through the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Nations and through Comanche, Kfowa
and Greer counties in Oklahoma to a
connection with the Fort Worth &
Denver between Childress and Claren-
don, Texas. A branch line is provided
from a point in the Chickasaw Nation
TO Sherman, Texas, and another north
west from a point in Greer county to
Erick or Texola, Ok The total distance
is $50 miles, at an estimated cost of
S25. 600 per mile The headquarters Of
the road viii be at Blair, Ok, Ardmore,
L T. and Fort Worth, Texas
The incorporators are c. A. Huber of
Weatherford, r. r. Wf1dman OF Blair,
E. A. Williams of Roosevelt. R. K.
Wooten of Chickasha, I T.; R. Nurge,
Felix P. Bath and L B. Conner Of Fort
worth and J. ". Buchanan Of Van
Buren,. Ark
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Not Long Now Before He Will Have
Line From Sea to Sea.

Not Long NOW Before He VIII have
Line From Sea to SEQ.
Pittsburg. Pa, May 26.-At a cost
of about $4,000. 600 George J. Gould
has secured the plans for the new
Uniontown & Wheeling Short Line, to-
gether with surveys and rights of way,
and about 5000 acres of coal lands.
The short line was financed by j.
Vance Thompson of UniontOWn, and
was turned over to J. Q. Barlow, chief
engineer of the Western Maryland
railroad, one of the Gould lines. The
real purchaser is a New York syndicate
representing Mr.. Gould. Official an
nouncement was made that the papers
had been transferred few days ago.
The line will be built under the d.
rectiOn of Mr. Barlow Local Wabash
officials claim to know nothing of the
transaction. but it is said plans are
being prepared for the construction of
a new line to connect the Wabash with
the Western Maryland road and Oper-
ted by the Wabash. AS soon as finish
ed. Mr. Gould will have a through line
from Chicago and ST. Louis to the At
lantic coast. In order to hold the char
ter of the short line, some work was
begun before March 1, and it is said
contracts for the entire road will be
let in a short time.
When the Western Pacific road has
been built and work on it is being
pushed as fast as money and men can
have control of series of roads which
will extend from the Pacific to the At
lantic- ocean, and this system will prob
ably be the first real transcontinental
one in the country which will be prac-
tically under the control of one man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
BERNHARDT TRAN WRECKED.
Special of Actress on the Track al
ATanIxatO-No One Injured.

Special of Actress on the Track at
AIankatO-No One Injured.
Mankato, Kan. May 2s.-For two
hours Friday afternoon Nine Sarah
Bernhard held up the traffic of the
great Rock Island route while she pour
ed telegram after telegram into the
offices of the road. A truck on the en-
CINE hauling her car to St. Joseph jump
ed the track two miles east of here and
for nearly half a mile she was joIted
over the ties before the train could be
brought to a standstiIl at the foot Of q
HILL
Following the Bernhardt train was a
special carrying an excursion of the
Omaha Commercial club, which was
tagged in time to avert a collision.
When the Omaha party stepped from
the cars they found not only broken
down car blocking their way, but de-
termined and hysterical woman who re-
fused to bulge. The divine Sarah was
completely upset Jolting over the ties
had made her nervous and angry. She
declared she must have a new engine
before she would ride another mile and
sent explicit Instructions to the Off
Gals of the company. Finally, however.
diplomacy prevailed, and madame re-
entered her car, bowling graciously to
the party posed for a special photograph
and the two trains We're backed into
Mankato where arrangement were rap
idly made for them to proceed.
When the accident occurred Nine.
Bernhard was going to St. Joseph
train reached St. Joseph about $3.50
O'Clock.
Nine. Bernhardt was on her way
from San Francisco. where she
went soon after the earthquake She
played in Kansas City February %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
Tce ID ed Cents - Hnnllred

At Holton there is a natural ice plant
and the big consumers there get ice
for 80 cents a hundred pounds ana
even less. some paying % cents. Hia-
watha people can't afford to nav S.
oents hundred for ice Ice should
De manufactured here and can be with
good profit for 25 cents a hundred
Ice sells in White Cloud and Fails
City for so cents a hundred. z r
Hughes has a monopoly on the ice
business in Highland. says the Videtfe
but he viii sell ice at the same old
price, 4O cents hundred this sum
mer.-Brown County World.
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FIRE AT ATCHIsON.
plant of the National Poultry and EGG
COMPANY DESTROYED

Atchison. Kas. May 26=Fire at 3
o'clock Friday afternoon completely
destroyed the plant of the National
Poultry and Egg company. one of the
largest in the west. The buildings
We're frame and were constructed a
year ago out OF material from the St
Louis exposition. Several cars of eggs
and dressed chickens We're burned, as
little was saved out of the cold storage
department. The fire started in the
poultry fattening house; cause I'M
known. The loss is $3S, 600; insur-
ance. $195O0.
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Convict Accidentally Killed.

Leavenworth, Kan, May 26.-R n.
Green, a convict who was serving a sem
tence of 81 years for attacking his
daughter, fell from a scaffolding While
whifewashing in a cell house at the
Kansas penitentiary and was killed at
5 O'Clock last evening Green and an
other convict were on boards supported
by a rope ladder, which broke Green
struck head first and crushed his skull
The other convict saved himself by
cIutching q steam pipe.
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TOOK HIS own LIFE.
Corey County Youth Kills Himself
While in q Delirium.

Burlington. Kas., May 26.@Guy
Elliott. aged 80 accidentally killed
himself at his home near Gridley. in
this county, Friday by shooting him
self in the head with a shotgun. the
load entering the head above the back
of the right ear end ranging forward
and upward. He had been in Gridley
Thursday afternoon and ate ice cream
and drank lemonade. which resulted
in an acute attack of indigestion. He
was feverish and out of his head, and
While his attendants slept he arose
from his bed and went to the closet
where the gun was standing and in
his delirium in sozne way discharged
the gun. He was unmarried.
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Washington. May 26.-The following
postmasters were appointed yesterday:
Kansas Carneiro, Jemima Stuart,
vice 7. BurreII, deceased.
Missouri-Ma pleton Philip b Hail.
vice T. B. Hodges. resigned.
klahoma-Dac coma. Leonidas NJ
Vance. vice George Weaber. resigned: :
Denton. Nevada Iiams. vice T. D
Dobbs. resigned; Estel1, Erwin c. Ny
ers, vice D. S. Powers. resigned.
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Kept Marriage a secret.

Arkansas City. Kas. May 26.-The
marriage of Miss Loa Learnard, of Ar
kansas City. and Harry Walker. of
Ponca City Okla, was made public
yesterday. The ceremony was per
formed at Newkirk. Okla, April q,
but had been kept secret.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-26
LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

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also Free Sample of the FOOT-EASE
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