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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22

TNOR SALE-One two.seated wagon. called
E THE Beverly" brand new and has never
been run two miles one cut-under runabout,
will cary three easily ard is most stylish and
up-to-date vehicle. These vehicles are practi-
cally brand new, never having been run two
miles viii sell SO that any dealer can make
money. or private parties save a good sum.
Articles can be seen at my home any daytime
dale. N. II. 2l-tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22
Household Goods for Sale

Including kitchen range. bedroom set, carpets.
old-fashioned mahogany bureau, ice chest, hat
tree. chairs. tables couch in good condition,
writing desk. feather bed. etc. AT ONCE.
MRS. HEkBERT +. BRUCE, 8 Forest st. 25
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BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, JUNE %, 1905.
ddlanted.

WANTED-Girl for general bouseworl, /
w Harris place.
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"ANTED-Me TO peel 25 cords of bark.
w WALTER f. WALKER, Dummers-
ton. Vt. A-tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22

WANTED-Man to cut hay and put L IN
LAIN, Townshend. VT 1928
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22
New House for Sale.

have just completed a new 7.room house
and now offer IL for sale. IL is nicely finished,
has large lot, pleasant location near car line
Come and see II. You can own your own
home and let rent money pay for it,
l5tt II. +. WEATHERHEAD, Western Ave.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22
gur Sale.

ENOR SALE-Good driving horse, weight
I 1910. Would exchange for cows GRO.
N. BOND. Guilford, VT. 25
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Special 9otirss.

WILL the person who borrowed Geo. e.
w CroWell's lawn roller several weeks ago
indy return the same at once2 A-tt
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22

ENOR SALE-Building lots or factory site on
IL Frost St., $50 feet frontage. l two-horse
truck. one-horse wagons. We buy all kinds
of native lumber. 5. A. SMITH CO. 2l-tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22

ElOR SALE-Nice top carriage, Rockwell &
"a Sherwin make. In fine condition. GEO.
NJ. THOMAS, % WashingtonSt. 2l-tf.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22

T OST.-Monday evening, between Chaplin
i and Green Streets, through. Oak, solid
gold button belonging TO q shirt waist set.
Reward. MRS. L. X. MASON. IS Green st. IL
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22

TTNO RENT.-Two new s-room cottages at
i Spofford Lake, Chesterfield. N. H., by
week or season. Special rates June and Sep
tember. A. ]. HORTON, BrattlebOro, 23tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-22

T OST-On Wednesday evening, lady's gold
watch between Houghton Simonds and
Greene's Drug Store. Finder will be suitably
rewarded IL returned TO Barber's Music Store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
Santa Fe Has 1000 Men in Kan
sas Mechanical Department.
Pays Them a Quarter Million
Dollars a Month in Wages.
NEARLY SPENT HERE.
Topeka, Of Course, Leads All
Other Places in State.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

More than four thousand men are
employed by the Atchison. Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway company in its me-
chanical department in Kansas. This
includes shops, roundhouses and store
houses. AS many more, probably, are
employed in the company's general Of
fees at Topeka and in its local stations
within the confines of the state. Added
TO all this is the vast array of en-
gineers, firemen, trainmen, trackmen
and construction men which the COM
pany employs within the state. 1t is
the largest employer of labor and the
largest taxpayer in Kansas. No other
industrial institution has kept up with
the growth of the state SO closely as
this great Kansas corporation.
But it is of the mechanical depart
ment of the Santa Fe that this article
proposes to tell. The whole institution
and all its ramifications of usefulness,
even in a single state, are too big a sub
ject for brief story.
In exact numbers. the Santa F'e had
on the payroll of the mechanical de-
partment in the month of May, in
Kansas. 4.108 men, whose wages We're
1925, OF the total, $500 were
employed in the shops and round
houses, and they made light and heavy
repairs to 1888 freight cars, 2,19O
passenger cars and 80 locomotives In
addition, the Topeka shops make many
new cars and locomotives and other
equipment and supplies outright. For
the Topeka shops are perfect in them
selves. They can make everything
needful in railroad service or construc-
ton, although some locomotives of the
larger type are bought Of eastern
works.
The Topeka shops, including store
house, lead, of course. The payroll in
May was exactly 1000 men, who were
paid $116,913.74. This was about So
per capita for the entire population of
the city. and it is fair to say that every
dollar of it was spent in the local
stores, or deposited in the local banks
Railroad shopmen are loyal to the
community in which they get their liv-
ing, and what they spend or save IS
done at home.
The Topeka shops in May made ex-
tensive or heavy repairs to 1.722
freight cars, A passenger cars. and 80
locomotives: while Argentine made
light repairs principally on $500
freight cars and 1853 passenger cars
as those requiring heavy repairs are
usually sent to Topeka. Argentine
payroll was 612 men and $32.360.1 {
wages. The wages were about $4-50
per capita of the towns population
The men employed. wages paid ana
work done at the other shops and
roundhouses of the company in the
state were as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12

the plug to Kansas City, was on duty
yesterday and Brakeman Hovatter went
on in his place.
Edward Sanderson has been appointed
chief clerk in the office of D. E. Barton
in the place Of Chester Watts who is
now with B. T. Payne
Engineer ". P. Beeler has been tenn
porarily assigned to passenger service
and in the meanwhile H. P. French IS
taking his place in the pool
James Larkin who has been visiting
in Newton for several days is now back
at work in the shop engine. Norton
was on in his place during his abb
sence.
Engineer seahilI. after short visit
to Chicago, has returned and is in the
local pool. He has been assigned tenn
porarily to runs 121 and 122 on the St.
Joseph division.
Engineer William Rains. who has
/ been Off for several days owing to a.
sick SPELL has returned to work and IS
now on his old run which Is the fast
mail run going west
There are now /, 438 members Of the
r. r. Y. NJ. c. A. as reported at the
meeting Of the membership committee
at their meeting Tuesday evening IN
the rooms at the Y. NJ c. A.
Chester Watts who has been clerk in
the Office of D. E Barton for some time
has been promoted and is now clerk in
! the office of B. 7. Payne, accountant
for the motive power department.
NJ. A. Wolf. who is secretary OF the
r. R. Y. NJ. c. A. at Argentine, was
in the city yesterday in attendance at
the meeting of the state committee OF
the Y. NJ. c. A While here he visited
the railroad association and called upon
Secretary Trout.
George McDill, national secretary of
the railroad department Of the Y. N.
c. A. passed through Topeka yesterday
on his way to Las Vegas, N NJ. where
he is to attend the opening of new
association at that place. While the
train was waiting here Secretary Prout
of the local association interviewed him
at the depot.
Some misguided individual stole a
watch from the clothes of Brakeman
Ogden while he was in the swimming
pool yesterday. The theft. was reported
10 the police who are now engaged in a
vigilant search for the offender. It has
been some time since such an affair has
occurred and the officers are very anx-
ious to bring the culprit to justice and
put a stop on such actions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12

hydraulic wheel jacks. and it is but lit
tie labor to handle an engine when it
is brought in for repairs. The wheels
are dropped into the pit and make a
trip to the point opposite the wheel
track, there rising until they engage
the track and are rolled across to the
place where the workmen take them
in charge. Weight counts but little.
The investment of the Orient in the
Fairview shops at this time is $4,000
and the monthly pay roll amounts to
$1,000. There are at present sixIy men
at work. but within three months 1t is
expected that there will be $50 en-
ployes.
There is now on the tracks Mt the
shops, ready for unloading and install
lation. a Gardiner governor air com
pressor, which will furnish air for
moving engines, driving jacks and
drills and for cleaning cars. Also a
wheel boring mill. a 100-ton wheel
press, a large band saw and a Uni
versal Woodworking machine. Work
will commence soon on complete
water system for fire protection for the
shops.
There are fourteen cars now in the
shops for rebuilding and repairs. This
includes President Stillwell's private
car and the buffet and baggage car
carried with his special train
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

one size smaller after using Aliens
Foot-Ease. 3 powder to be shaken into
the shoes. It makes tight or new shoes
feel easy; gives instant relief to coEns
and bunions. It's the greatest comfort
discovery Of the age. Aliens Foot-Ease
i a certain cure for tired. sweating.
hot, aching feet. At all druggists and
shoe stores, Csc. Don't accept Gs.T
substitute. For FREE trial package,
also Free Sample of the F0OT-EASE
Sanitary CORN PAD. a new inventions
address, Allen S. Olmsted. Leroy. N. K
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12

The Topeka shops make everything
used in railroad operation of construc-
ton. except steel rails. merchantable
bar iron and steel, and steel castings,
which require rollings mills and foun-
dries.
From the central storehouse in To-
peka these supplies are distributor over
the system from Chicago to the Gulf
and the Pacific ocean
The Topeka shops overhaul an aver
age of one locomotive daily, including
the heaviest and latest types, brought
from all parts of the system for re-
pairs.
The Topeka shops make passenger
ears mail cars. baggage cars and
freight cars, and in addition special
cars and dining cars equal In strength
and beauty to the best Pullman cars
The shops occupy about forty acres of
ground.
Besides giving employment to men
in its own shops, the Santa Fe buys
wheels. castings, locomotives and cars
elsewhere. thereby giving employment
to men who are not carried on its pay
roll For instance, last year 1t pur-
chased 5000 steel underframe freight
cars in the east, and a large number of
LOGON olives. It buys brass castings IN
Topeka wheels in Kansas city, drive
wheels in Pittsburg, and iron castings
and drive wheels ana cylinders IN
Atchison The majority Of the brass
castings used on the Santa Fe system
lines are cast at Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12

Organization Perfected to Build Kan
sas City Depot.

Jefferson City. Mo-, July 1.-THE
Kansas City Terminal Railroad COM
pany was Incorporated yesterday with
a capital stock of $4,000. GOO. This is the
corporation that proposes to put up a
new union station at Kansas City. The
object of the corporation is stated to be
to acquire or build a road ten miles
in length, beginning at Kansas City and
crossing the Missouri river into Clay
county Mo-, connecting With the Bur
lington road. It also proposes to ac-
quire a road in Wyandotte cSunty,
KAN and give it such a connection
with the Kansas City road proper as 50
make the same a continuous line.
The articles state that the company
is to build a new union station for all
railroads entering Kansas City the
same to be equipped with freight and
passenger Offices.
The stockholders are given as follows:
B. L. Winchell, J. W. Kendrfck, A. J.
Farling, S. N. FELTON,. W B. Scott. F.
A. Delano and D. Willard, all of Chi
cago: c. S. Clark and a J. Davidson
of St. Louis; A. A. Allen, of Dallas,
Texas, and T. NJ. EgaHs Of Kansas City.
All the stockholders, save Mr.. Egan of
Kansas City, have S99 shares Of stock
each. Mr.. Egan owns but ten.
The location of the new union station
is given as IN the vicinity Of Twentieth
street and Grand avenue.
The fee charged by the state for fi1-
ing these articles NJ INCORPORATION and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
SANTA FE NEWS AND NOTES

Engineer John Dyer has been assign
ed TO temporary service in the local
yards on switch engine
No 2 did not arrive in Topeka yester-
day afternoon until after train No. s
which made it about three hours late
Roy EweH has been given the position
of messenger boy in the office of Fore
man Bennett to succeed Edward San
derson.
Brakeman Jones went to Argentine
yesterday, being summoned home on
account of the serious illness of his
daughter.
Frank X. Thomas. chief engineer of
tests, returned yesterday from a trip
east on business connected with his de-
partment.
The board of directors of the r. R.
Y NJ. c. A. held their monthly bust
ness meeting at the association rooms
last night.
Engineer Jones is at work again on
the runs between Alma and Quenemo.
He has been of for some time on &C
count of Illness
! Brakeman A. McAdurtrie, who runs on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
ORIENT SHOPS WORRYING.
New Road Has a Fine Plant at Fair
view. Ok

Wichita. July IA practically new
engine was turned out of the Kansas
City. Mexico & Orient shops at Fair
view, Ok. last week and pulled
freight into Wichita the other day. 1t
will be taken to San Francisco and
thence by water to Topolobampo,
where it will be put into the passen-
ger service upon the coast division of
the Orient.
The shops of the Orient at Fairview
occupy a floor space Of 21,1S0 square
feet and there is material on the
ground for buildings which will add to
the above figures 5 900 feet. The shops
are thoroughly modern. and all the
equipment of the latest improved pat
tern All the lifting and shifting is
done by the aid of hydraulic jacks and
air pressure and the hammers and
drills by motors operated by air.
The water system of the shops is
complete, being supplied from a tank
at an elevation of eighty feet and hav-
ing a capa city of 10000 gallons, Civ
ms a pressure Of So pounds to the
square inch
In the shops are two full length
tracks. Beneath the tracks are con-
crete pits with wing tracks for shifting
wheels. The pits are equipped with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
Railroad Officials to See That Rivals
Do Not Trihe With Rates.

Chicago, July illumination are
being sent out by some of the strong
lines here that from now on there
must be no trifiing on the part of com
mercial agents with fixed schedules of
rates. A different practice is to be
pursued from this time forward by
officials of one road who may dis
cover those of another cutting rates.
Heretofore all such transactions have
been covered up and kept in the dark,
so far as the administrators Of the law
are concerned. 1t has been a point
eff honor of officials of one road not to
inform on those of another who may
have been discovered breaking the law.
Now this is to be changed, and all IL
legal transactions discovered are to be
called to the attention of the interstate
commerce commission Immediately,
irrespective of whether an imprison-
ment penalty attaches the offense or
not
If this intimation actually is put into
practice, it is said that it will newt
ably result in a rigid maintenance of
rates. No official Will cut rates if a
moral certainty exists that he will have
to go to jail for so doing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
TEXAS RAILWAYS PLANS.
Judge Lyle Forecasts Great Things fol
Lone Star State.

OuuSS Lyle Forecasts treat innings Tor
Lone Star State.
In an address delivered few days
ago before the Business Mems club of
Waco, Texas, Judge John n. Lyle, re-
ferring to railway matters in Texas
said among other things:
THE Missouri. Kansas & Texas will
be extended from Trinity through Waco
on to Hamilton and the treeless west.
the pineries of East Texas to the plains
of the Panhandle and New Mexico
THE Santa Fe will be running a
trunk line from New Orleans and Cal
weston through Waco to San Francisco.
She will own the Texas Central, and at
first use the San Antonio & Arkansas
Pass from Waco to Crayson 1t fur
trackage into Fort Worth and Houston.
Yoakum controls the San Antonio &
Arkansas Pass and will readily grant its
use to the Santa Fe from Waco to
Cameron. Waco will have its main
Texas shops and hospital, and be one
of its important centers for its Texas
system.
''The road to Strawn will have been
built connecting the Rock Island sys-
tenn with the San Antonio and Aran-
sas Pass. which is dominated by Rock
island magnate. and the two systems
will be under one management, giving
Waco another trunk line from deep wa
ter to Chicago and st. Louis
While Waco viii gain greatly by
the near future, it win almost equally
benefit the other centers, and cannot
fail to improve the entire state. Gal
weston and Houston, after Waco will
be enriched by the consultations. The
entire plan is in the interest of Texas"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
MUST REPAIR ROADS.
Rural Routes to Be Cut Out Unless
improvements Are Made.


improvements Are Made.
lola. Kan. July 12.-Postmaster Hen
derson has received a communicate
from Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral DeGraw relative to the repair of
the roads on the rural routes out of
lola The repairs are based on the re-
port of Rural Route Inspector Brown
who was here several weeks ago. and
made a thorough examination Of the
roads. A portion of the communication
which has TO do with the roads to be re-
paired follows:
Route No. "A road in section 50, and
grading should be done at other points
Route No "A road for one mile be-
tween sections 3 and 4
Route No. 4zThe east and west road
north of sections p and -.
Route No. 5-The roads on the Allen
Woodson county line. also The road for
one mile through section 90
You Will advise the patrons and 9TH
ers interested that unless some action IS
taken by them within 80 days looking to
the Improvement of the roads above
enumerated, the department will SER
iously consider the permanent with
drawal of service therefrom, and report
results to this office at the expiration of
the time indicated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
RECOVERING IT'S PoIsE.
Missouri Pacific Is Getting on Divi-
dend Paying Basis.


New York, July 12.-Interests identi-
fed with the Missouri Pacific system, in
discussing its earning powers, say that
atcual results are justifying those who
have maintained all along that the COM
pany possessed the ability to earn it's
dividends and a good safe margin. When
decreases il revenue were being shown
last year 1t was pointed out that they
were due to adverse natural conditions,
but the street paid no attention, and In
sisted that the losses were due to bad
management. As a matter of fact, the
continued succession of unfavorable
factors encountered by the Missouri Pa
cific will probably never again be seen
in any single year.
In January, February and part Of
March, 1906 there were unprecedented
snow blockades, which prevented the
road froSn earning even fixed charges.
In April and May floods and WashOuts
followed, carrying away bridges and OBJ
structing traffic. In June and July good
gains were made in earnings, but in
guarantees simply paralyzed traffic for
months. AS soon as these adverse con-
ditions passed away Missouri Pacific at
once began to regain lost ground.
Continuous large increases since Jan
uary I have completely wiped out the
decreases reported during the yellow
fever period, and a total increase of
81 450 900 in gross earnings is shown for
the fiscal year ended June go These re
suits are pointed to as dispelling any
lingering doubt about the excellent
earning power of the Missouri Pacific
under normal conditions. The company
is also on the eve of securing some re-
turn on its large holding of Wabash Sc
curities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
~swEARs OFF, LEGALLY.
Gas City Man Takes Unique Method to
Quit Drinking

Gas City Man Takes Unique Method TO
Quit Drinking
lola. Kan. July 12-'sWhen a mans
hands shake like that il is surely time
for him to do something, isn't it?'' ask
ed Thomas Polling this afternoon in the
office of Ralph ". Adair just after he
had. with fingers trembling from
whisky, wrecked nerves, affixed a
scarcely legible signature to a written
cath never again to partake Of intoxi-
cants. One copy of the oath Mr.. Polling
will send to his wife, who is not now liv-
ing with him, in an effort TO induce her
TO come back to him
The oath which Polling signed binds
him by all that he holds sacred never
to touch. taste or smell whisky, to re-
main away from men who use it and
never knowingly enter a building where
it is sold. Polling was shaken with emo
ton as he swore to this pledge. When
Ralph W. Adair, who drew up the pa
per. warmly clasped his hand and ex-
pressed the earnest hope that he would
never violate the oath the man was
moved to tears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
HERE.s a UNIQuE 1910.
A ForcefuI Though uHterate Claim fol
Damages

Damages.
Railroad officials receive all sorts of
ridiculous letters from people with
grievances or imagined grievances, but
the following. which is a verbatim
copy of a letter received at the head
quarters of a western road a few days
ago. making claim for cattle killed. is
ton and spelling, the mail has ever
brought in:
Dear Sir Did you're fnjineer tell
you he has killed too couse belongin 10
me he sad he would tel you and the
konduckter to thay killed them killed
them tonite as they cam acros the
rode at my piais WHARF I have got a
crosin and when I put my crosin in
you sed you was putin up a Tense
on eche side of the rode that Wud
keap critters from getin killed you put
up hel of a Tense too CATS broak
it to kindelin wood a our after yure
Tense went down the rode yure in
linear out to be fired he knos thare is
a graid thare and he comes down
thare hel bent every mite the couse
he killed was yerelin heffers brand bar
] bar swallow fork on the ear and
left ear underhacked want the money
for the couse and if yure injinear kills
anuthar one of my cOuSe I will see
that yure fnjinear is not hour getting
to hel after the couse you have killed
more stock for me that yure dam rode
IS Wurth and you wont pay for lit we
got along befour the rail rodes came
and a dam site betir than we do now
my critterz is al I have on urth to live
on and if yure miner can xii one every
time he gets drunk all 1 say is this
unided stats has @-- to the devveI the
couse will be IS dollers hoping you are
well"
The letter is written on fly leaves
torn from a book it appears, and is
in lead pencil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-12
DEBs HIRES A SPECIAL.
Paid 500 in Order to FIN a Chau-
tauaua Date at Pittsburg.

Pittsburg, Kan. July 12--Eugene v
Debs hired special train in order to
get to Pittsburg to fill his date here
Wednesday afternoon at the Cnautau-
qua assembly He was coming to Pitts
burg from Vinita, I. T. when his train
was wrecked. causing him to miss con-
nections with the Frisco at Parsons in
the morning On arriving at Parsons he
paid the Frisco 500 for a special train,
arriving here in time to make his i'd
dress in the afternoon.
MI Debs spoke here of socialism and
mfllionaires. who, he declared, were not
to be envied, as they were most unhap-
nv mon