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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-22

surgeons in this section of the state
and surgeon for the Missouri Pacific is
confined to his home on account of
serious sickness, in which DR.. +. NJ
Daily, the noted Beloit physician was
called. DR.. Armstrong is also at the
head of the Greenleaf telephone ex-
change.
Miss Blanche Shippee. the accom-
plished daughter of l. NJ. Shippee, who
for nearly a quarter OF a century was
agent for the Missouri Pacific at Green
leaf, was married to Richard Warner,
the Concordia agent for the Missouri
Pacific, Tuesday Miss Shippee was
obrn in Greenleaf and many of her
born in Greenleaf and many Of her
George Collins, conductor on the
plug between Greenleaf and Atchi~
son, has become SO accustomed to this
run that he can get along without
sleep. The train leaves Greenleaf at
4:30 d. m. and arrives al 11:15 p. NJ.
W A Priest, who has been in the
employ OF the Missouri Pacific as en-
gineer since the road was built, is run
ming the train on the Prosser branch.
Since the Missouri Pacific took OF one
of their freight trains between Stock
ton and I<enora- Engineer Jake Well
man has been assigned to the plug run
between Greenleaf and Atchison, he
and Eugene Clark running alternately
on this train.
Mrs. jackson, wife Of P. w. Jackson,
helper in the Greenleaf railroad shops.
has taken charge OF the Greenleaf
House, and has proved that she is the
right person in the right place.
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THE PERKINS FAMILY.
why Mrs. Perkins Didn't Get Flower
Beds.

Mr. Perkins had been conscious for a
day or two that Mrs. Perkins had a
grievance of some sort. but ne had
asked for no explanation He knew
that it would be stated in time. and SO
It was. They were sitting on the veran-
da after dinner when Mrs Perkins
cleared her voice and put all the sar-
casm she could into it and said:
Perhaps you are admiring the
scenery in our front yard?'
''I can't say that I was, my dear, :"
he replied: but now that you call my
attention to it, don't seem to see any
scenery to admire"
mo, Of course you don't and whose
fault is It that the place is full OF grass
and weeds?"
And Nature produced you. Last
January you promised me that this
summer I might have flower-beds in
the front yard. l was to have pinks
and all the d-fashioned flowers. Do
YOU see floweT-bed out there? Do
you see even one hollyhock? p
II can't say that I do replied Mr..
Perkins, after long look. mo, 1 can't
really say that I do,
Another of your broken promises.
That makes about hundred thousand
since we were married"
..ITn1t Let me see. It is recorded
here in my diary that on the# 18th of
last January, at o'clock at night with
two feet of snow on the ground and
more falling. you observed that YOU
would like some fiower-beds in the
front yard when summer came again. I
promised that I'd see about it,"
-'Oh, you admit that you promised,
do you?'
Certainly. my dear. The husband
who won't promise flowers for July in
January is very short-sighted man
and has no tact about him..
We'll, where are the iower-beds -
IT promised that I'd see about them
and it wasn't two weeks later when I
ran. across an article in a medical mag
azine bearing on the subject. Do you
know. Mrs Perkins, that the hollyhock
is a germ-breeding plant7 Do you
know that in the Russian prisons,
when they want to get rid of q politi-
cal prisoner, they place a pot of holly
hooks in his cell Do you know that
a handful of this plant. thrown into a
hogpen. will prevent hog from tax
ing on flesh? Do you know that hens
which go scratching around among
hoIlyhocks cease to lay eggs"
II don't believe one word of it," she
bluntIy replied
1.-The pink Mrs. Perkins is generally
looked upon as a harmless plant. It
has been discovered that it IS harmless
or harmful. according to the nature of
the soil it grows in. In yard like ours,
where the soil is composed OF clothes
pins, old rubbers, broken glass, rusty
nails, brickbats. tomato cans, and so
forth. your modest and innocent look
ing pink becomes hend incarnate. It
throws off a deadly poison at night
That poison is waited into the open
windows and inhaled by sleepers.
They begin to sulk and pine and pout
and the first thing known the poison
has got firm hold and they are
doomed.
The man who wrote any such bosh
IS that Is q fool. Mr.. Perkins"
II VIII admit that the old-fashionas
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yer. Two Of them took effect in her
back. After she fell he stopped over
her and, raising her head kissed her.
Then he reloa ded his revolver and
escaped to the country west of the
city
Before leaving he went to the home
of his steDdaughter, Mrs. B. J. McCul-
lough- He looked through the house
to find her and her husband. He did
not find them and went on.
Mrs Moore died an hour after the
shooting. She fOrgave her husband
Moore is her second husband. A week
and went to Oklahoma. Moore said
that his wife persuaded him to leave.
This angered him.
Twenty persons on their way home
from church saw the killing. A posse
was organized and a hunt comm enced
for the murderer. Many citizens join
ed the posse with the avowed purpose
of lynching Moore.
Late in the afternoon Moore was
trailed into a barn northwest of town
by two boys, but before the officers
arrived he escaped through a window
on the opposite side from the watchers
and got away. He was tracked a mile
northeast from the barn through the
woods when night came on and the
tracking had to be given up.
It is the opinion of the officers that
Moore may return here either to burn
his house. which he has sworn would
never fall into the hands of his two
stepdaughters, or to kill B. J. McCul-
Tough and his wife. whom he has often
threatened. Mrs. Mccullough is a step
daughter Of Moore. Armed guards
have been placed around both houses.
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J. w. DORON, National Hotel.

piney, in all its glory of redness, sets
out a front yard and gives 1T tone and
action, he continued, but you will be
somewhat surprised to hear that the
flower is responsible for several COM
plants that flesh is heir to. It casts
off an acrid odor that causes sore eyes;
to smell of it means a case of catarrh;
women with a weak heart has more
to fear from the piney than from
savage Indian. For years and years,
Mrs. Perkins, these things were not
understood. People went on growing
oId-fashioned flowers. and old-fashion-
ed flowers went on manning and kill
ing Now that we thoroughly under
chances2 We might as we'll dump
bushel of scorpions on the floor and
walk among them in our bare feet
That's simply your way of lodging
your PROMISE. said Mrs. Perkins, as
she maintained her severe expression.
Il can't look at it that way. my
dear. Do you remember that on the
18th of last December 1 promised that
you should have a whole bushel Of
huckleberries to do up this summer o.
Yes. come to think of it, you did.
You are now about to tell me. pre-
sumo. that huckleberries have been
found to contain arsenic in deadly
quantities. Go ahead, Mr.. Perkins
You must keep up your reputation as
the artful dodger, You know"
Il wish simply to cite a. few cases
from the leading medical journals:
case No. Carl Sprecht, a Ger
man, ate a quart of huckleberry jam
and went crazy and killed his mother.
7Enos Johnson of Vermont, picked
two bushels of huckleberries and was
found to have misappropriated over a
hundred dollars belonging to the town.
Miss Lulu Mcntieth. niece of a
United States senator, had huekleberry
sauce for supper. and two hours later
ran away with her fathers coachmans
although he had never squeezed her
hand before.
"A mule belonging TO Colonel Shot
we'll Of South Carolina, was turned into
a huckleberry swamp one morning and
at noon he bit two men, kicked a colt
to death and died screaming.
Judge Maxwell Of the supreme
court of Iowa was left alone in the
house for a week. He attempted to
live on huckleberries and milk for a
week. but after the second day il was
noticed that his eyes had a certain
wtldness. Half d Day later he began
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MISSOURI PACIFIC ITEMS.

Greenleaf. Kan. Oct. 22.-The Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad boys residing in
Greenleaf are always looking out for
rainy DAYS. Chas. -Hobson. engineer on
the long run between here and Downs,
has recently bought a farm near here
from his hard-earned wages His farm
is in Washington county.
Jack Crimmins. conductor on the
Jewell branch between jamestown and
Burr Oak Is also a Washington county
real estate owner, including a fine or
chard They say he was sanguine Of
raising not less than 1900 bushels at
one time but when he came to gather
them there was only about an even 21S
bushels.
John Long. conductor on the west
end. has been laying off on account of
painful bOils and carbuncles.
Charley Raymond, chairman OF the
grievance committee of the Missouri
Pacific engineers. has been in Green
leaf looking after the interests OF the
railroad boys.
Frank Quinn. the popular railroad
master with headquarters at Atchi-
son, has been here mingling with the
railroad people He has worked him
self Up from a section foreman, having
served in this capacity IN Greenleaf for
several years.
william Wade has been assigned to
the long run between Atchison and
Downs. Conductor Wade deserved this
handsome recognition
The Missouri Pacific is putting in the
automatic scales In the Greenleaf
yards
DR.. E. Armstrong. OF Greenleaf. one
Of the most prominent physicians and
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KISSES VICTIM.
Husband Murders Wife as She
Leaves Church.
Revolving Crime Committed in
Arkansas City.
SHE FORGIVES HIM.
Slayer Is Hunted by Men Who
May Lynch.
He Has Threatened His Step
daughter With Death.
SHE FORGIVEs HIM.

Arkansas City, kan. Oct 22.-John
Moore. a policeman. shot and killed
his wife on one of the principal resi-
denee streets here yesterday as she
was returning from church. Moore
fed and one hundred men are search
ing for him. It is believed that he will
be lynched if captured. His crime was
one Of the most cold brooded that has
been committed in this vicinity in
many years.
Moore and his wife have been living
apart in the last three years and Moore
has constantly harassed her He fire.
quentIy threatened to kill her
Mrs. Moore was walking with a
woman companion when Moore met
Them He asked to speak to her and
she stopped.
II am going to kill YOU" he said
When she screamed and started to
run he fired three shots from a revol-
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Roads Face Trouble in Car
Situation.
Officials Say There Is Little
Hope for Easier Conditions.
rs MUCH CONGES TION.
BIockades Are Threatened in
Principal Freight Centers.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.
Is MUCH CONGES TI0N.

Chicago, Oct. 2z-'The railroads of the
country are up against stone wall
proposition in the matter of meeting
the demand for cars" declared an exec
utive official of one of the eastern lines
yesterday, and there appears to be
nothing they can do to relieve the stu
alton. Every day conditions grow
worse and there seems to be no hope
of relief.
AS is natural in cases of this kind,
when the freight that cannot be ac-
commodated with cars collects, the diff
flculties to the railroads increase 1t is
well known fact that the railroads
cannot handle nearly so much freight
per day when a blockade actually ex-
lists as they can under ordinary condi-
tons. And that condition Is rapidly ap-
preaching Even now in our Chicago
warehouse we are away behind with
our work, and we cannot handle the
freight with ordinary facility"
This new rate law makes conditions
worse than they would otherwise be-
declared another traffic official who dis
cussed the case. He said this was due
to the fact that the railroads are no
longer permitted to discriminate in the
distribution of cars and the small ship
pers, who usually do not load and I'M
load their cars as rapidly as do the
larger ones. receive their due proper
ton of equipment and the railroads are
delayed just in the proportion that
these small shippers are slow in hand
ling their equipment.
Another effect of the new rate law is
that it makes the car shortage felt by
concerns that usually are not affected
until conditions become unusually Sc
we're. Under the old state of affairs the
big shippers were furnished with cars
when smaller ones were in want. Now
things are changed and the big ship
per Is made to bear his share of the
burden Occasioned by the shortage of
equipment.
Traffic men say that the present con
ditions are due in a large measure to
the diversified industries that have
grown up in all parts of the country.
Under old conditions there would be
heavy movement of traffic in one sec
ton Of the country early in the spring.
Then the congestion would appear in
another, shortly afterward to move to
still another, and so on, allowing the
railroads to transfer equipment so as
to meet all demands.
Now conditions are far different. IN
stead Of having heavy movement at
only one season of the year, nearly ev-
cry section Of the country is crowded
with business at all times Kansas has
big movement of freight after the
wheat crop is moved out. Minnesota is
not through shipping when the wheat
and lumber have moved. These things
make it impossible for the roads to
transfer equipment and meet the de-
mands.
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to chank his teeth and froth at the
mouth, and next day he decided a case
against a raflroad-almost the first
time in the history Of our country that
such a thing had been done.
THE above are a few OF the cases at
hand, Mrs. Perkins, and let me ask IL
I am to be blamed for not bringing a
bHshel of huckleberries into this
house2a
"No one expected you to keep your
promise. If you should promise me
right now to buy q bushe1 of green to-
matoes next October to make into
picked lilly I should not depend upon
your word You'd find that they were
loaded and ready to go on"
Mrs. Perkins. had a wife before
you. That is, you are my second wife"
Wei. don't twit me OF it,
MY first wife died OF eating too many
carrots I was left alone TO wash my
shirts, make my bed and cook my
meals. The year of mourning seemed
five years long. Then found you. You
were not too shy-not too coy. When
L preached the subject Of marriage a
smile came to your face"
sir. SIR
That is. we were married IN due time,
Mrs. Perkins. and having realized what
good thing it is to have two good
wives. I naturally don't want 10 lose
the second. You might fry the eggs
little harder for breakfast, and you
might put in a pinch more tea for sup
per. but I am not complaining. Far
from it. 7 want you to live on. / want
you to because you are a companion ana
because the price of funerals and head
stones has gone a-kiting. In brief, Mrs.
Perkins-''
In brief. shan't stop here to hear
another wordr' she interrupted as she
sailed away.
.Ho-hurn, but amt they curious lot.
taken altogether asked Mr.. Perkins OF
himself a moment later. Talk philos-
ophy to man and he sees the point at
once. Talk 1t to a woman and she sees
Just what she did before-her side of the
case only. - Copyright, 1905, by Homer
Sprague.)
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KANSAS WOMAN A SUICIDE.
Mrs. BerkIey of, HamIin, Shoots Her.
self at Iiawatha Hotel.


self at TIiawatha Hotel
Hiawatha. Kan. Oct. 22-Mrs. Agnes
Berkeley. 80 years old. wife of Grant
Berkeley, q, merchant of Hamlin. this
county, was found dead with a bullet
wound in her head early Saturday af-
ternoon in a room at the Simmons hotel
Mrs. BerkIey had been i'll for some time
and recently returned from a Kansas
City sanitarium. She left her home in
Hamlin Wednesday. presumably to
come to Hiawatha for medical treat
ment, but instead went on to Severance
a small station farther down the line.
and came back to Hiawatha the next
night
The husband and other relatives
missed her and failed to find any trace
of her. While Mr. Berkeley went on to
Kansas City she took a night train to
Hiawatha and went to the Simmons
hotel, where she paid in advance for a
room and stated that she would leave
Friday noon for Falls City, Neb. She
was not seen afterward. and il was sup
posed she had left, until her room was
found locked Saturday afternoon. When
the door was broken open her body was
found on the bed. A revolver, was
clutched in her right hand. One bullet
in her temple had caused death. She
had two children nearly grown. Her
parents. MI and Mrs. Mahlon Beachy,
are wealthy and live near Fails City.
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Sebastian Pays Tribute to Santa Re.

John Sebastian, passenger and traf-
fic manager for the Rock Island and
Frisco systems. passed through the city
Saturday afternoon in his special car,
No. 100, attached to a northbound Santa
F'e train. Mr.. Sebastian remained in the
city just eight minutes. He came from
Fort Worth over the Santa Fe and was
on his way to Chicago.
Asked as to his trip from Texas the
genial Chicagoan said:
In all my experience as a railway
man in the west. have never Travelled
over more perfect roadbed than the
Santa Fe from Fort Worth to Wichita.
and must certainly take off my hat
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Nay MOVE SHOPS.
The Missouri Pacific shops at Osa-
Matomie Scheduled for 3 Transfer.

The Missouri Pacific Shops at Osa-
watomie Scheduled for Transfer.
Fort Scott, Oct. 22.-For several years
rumors have appeared at intervals Of q
few months telling of the intended
transfer from Osawa tonne of the Mis-
souri, Pacific shops. The company,
claim the parties in a position to know,
desires to get the shops at a point fur
Their from Kansas City. Yesterday it
was stated that the Missouri Pacific
had set its eyes upon Aliceville, a little
town twenty miles west OF Garrett and
that the shops would go there. It is
known that several railroad men have
bought up large tracts of land near
Aliceville and this is taken as a pretty
good indication that the shops will be
moved. Garnet is making a big howl
because the Missouri Pacific has not
sent the shops there and Osawatomie Is
liable to faint dead away If it finally is
settled to rob her of the principal bust
ness enterprise she now has.
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BIG FIRE IN KANSAS CITY. KAN.
Masonic Temple. Five Residences and
Carnival Booths Burned.

Kansas City. No. Oct. PA fire
which started shortly before I o'clock
Saturday afternoon in a booth con-
nected with a street fair in Kansas City.
Kan, on Ann street, between Sixth and
Seventh, caused a loss estimated at
over $3.50, 900 and for a time threatened
the business center of the city. A high
wind made it difficult to fight the
flames and it was necessary to call for
help from Kansas City, Mo.
The Masonic Temple at Seventh and
Ann streets. valued at $50 600. eighty
booths. containing valuable exhibits OF
various kinds and five residences were
destroyed and the Central Christian
church at Seventh and Armstrong
streets was damaged
There were 5000 spectators on the
streets at the time, but no one was
hurt. Dozens OF persons from the crowd
helped fight the flames before the fire
department arrived.
The FIRE started from the overturning
of a small stove in one of the booths.
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rs FIRsT INITERURBAN.
Work to Begin at Once on Southeast
Kansas Line.

Chanute. Kan, Oct. 22.-Work will
begin before the end of the month on
the construction of the first interurban
railway in southeastern Kansas. It
will be 125 miles In length, connecting
Fort Scott, Chanute and independence.
Today the Southwestern Traction com
pany will file in the five counties
through which its road viii run, Neo-
sho, Wilson, Montgomery, Allen and
Bourbon, m Ortgages covering a bond
issue of $4,OOO000 The mortgage is
in favor Of the Knickerbocker Trust
company, of New York. The bond
purchasers are Musgrave & Mather, of
London, England. The contract has
been let to the Eldenbel1 Construction
company, of ~ Broadway, New York.
who have taken the contract for con-
struction OF the entire road.
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ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
Two Hundred and Eighty-tnree Rode
in One Santa he Coach.

Wichita. Oct 22.@The Santa Fe
railway yesterday broke all previous
records as to the largest number OF
people ever hauled in a single coach,
when southbound passenger train No.
115 brought in 2S3 people In one car
This is an average of ten passengers to
each seat. Passengers on this train
were coming to Wichita and got on the
train at Newton, Sedgwick and Valley
Center.
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to the men who have put it in such
splendid condition. At different places
between stations. we made time that
really exceeded the famous stock spe-
cial which made the record run from
Los Angeles to Chicago last fall. 1
have never seen a better equipped train
than the one on which I am now travel
ing"
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1t has cured more cases of Female
Weakness than any other remedy the
world has ever known. tits almost in
fallible in such cases. It dissolves and
expels Tumors in an early stage of
development. That
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Z yaya e PEnEEAaRssSs
NaMaEaLaAa nanaanusaal

is a positive cure for all those painful
ailments of women. It will entirely
cure the worst forms Of Female Com
plants. Inflammation and liberation.
Failing and Displacements and conse-
quent Spinal Weakness, and is peculi-
arlv adapted to the Change Of life
e viii surely cure.
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nExzlnaas. EalL.fnaaa.

Extreme Lassitude. don't-care " and
8 vvant~to-be-left-alone feeling, excit-
ability, irritability, nervousness, sleep
iessness. hatulency, melancholy or the
ss blues" and backache. These are
sure indications of Female Weakness,
.orne Advancement Of the organs. For
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causing pain, weight and headache. is
Instantly relieved and permanently
cured by its use. Under all circun-
stances it acts in harmony with the
female system. It corrects
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WALKER BUYS MORE LAND.
Pays $4,000 for Alfalfa Farm in
Meade County.

Meade, kan, Oct. ga D. Walker,
railroad commissioner. of Holton, Kan.
has just closed a deal by which he
comes into possession Of the G. NJ. Ed
wards alfalfa farm Of the famous Ar
tesian valley of Meade county. This Is
one of the very best farms in the coun-
ty. There are 800 acres OF the farm. all
good alfalfa land. with twenty-five flow
ing wells on it. The price paid for It
was $4,000
This makes the fourth alfalfa farm
that Mr. Walker has purchased in the
county. his holdings representing more
than $4,000 and his land Is as good as
there is to be hald.
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h,reegWgaF

Suppressed or Painful Periods, Weak
mess Of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloat-
ing. Nervous Prostitution, Headache,
General Debility. Also
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EEIEIaeV OoggggLaLEa9s

and Backache Of either ser the Vegeta-
Sic Compound is unequalled.
Vou can write Mrs. Pinkham about
yourself in strictest confidence
aIBI6 3. PIEKHAN heb. CO., Lynns Hsss,
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Los Angeles. san Francisco and other
California Point SIS. 0O-Santa re.
Tickets on sale daily commencing
August 27th to Oct. s1st. Good III
Tourist Sleeping cars and free Chaie
caxa.
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DO you treat your cook as one OF the
fsmilyh
Good gracious no. She wouldn't per-
init such familiarity. Baltimore Ameri-