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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30

Lake Street elevated railway and the
Northwestern elevated and the ele-
waited downtown loop for another
SIS, 100000
1t had taken Yerkes 13 years to
work out his well-defined plan. all
based on the problematical value Of an
act of the Illinois legislature which
was construed publicly by Yerkes to
be a 99-year franchise, but which he
probably knew-for he sold all his
holdings!-to be the mere extension
of the charter of the company. to which
was granted the franchise.
Carefully he had inflated the bal
loon marked North Chicago Street
Railway" until he sold his stock at
1856 per share. 1t was quoted on the
stock exchange the other day at s32 a
share.
He filled the balloon labeled "West
Chicago Street Railway Co." until he
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30
Facts About santo Domingo.

Such is the present day situation at
Santo Domingo. 1t is a magnificent
island, one of the beauty spots of the
world, and has the finest climate ever
seen. 1t is inhabited and misruled by
a mongrel population, which, in spite
of many virtues and abilities, is not,
and fear never will be, of type
strong enough and vigorous enough to
control it's own destinies and advance
in the paths of civilization of its own
initiative. For it's own good, and for
the good of the world in general, II
should be controlled by stronger ma
ton. 1t knows this, and wants that
nation to be the United States. But IL
is superstitious and sees ghosts-and
they always wear the German helmet
New England Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30
%Y CLYDE ALISON MANN.

Chicago.-Like a house of cards
flaming with fictitious money values,
the towering structure of Chicago trac-
tion securities came tumbling about
the ears of the financial generals of
Chicago, Philadelphia and New York
at the word of the United States su-
preme court.
1t has cost Morgan, Armour, the
Marshall Field estate, and the Elkins-
Widener street car syndicate and 9TH
-ers over S75,000,000 to realize what
Charles T. Yerkes probably knew
years before he sold his Chicago street
car securities, that certain legisla-
tive act of the state of Illinois way
back in 1865, did not, as supposed, ex-
tend the franchises for use of Chi
-cago streets for period of SO years.
At the supreme courts decision
values of Union Traction stocks fell in
a heap, and Chicago City railway
stocks dropped 25 per cent. The ac-
-companying table shows the losses.
The holders of Union Traction COM
pany stocks looked, after it was all
.over, like boys holding the sticks OF
balloons with only shriveled bit OF
rubber at the end of each stick as re-
minders of the buoyant beauty they
had bought from the circus day bal
loon man.
In this case, the shriveled bit of rub.
Der had cost millions, and the boys
were multi-millionaires. Those who
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30
PEOPLE IN PASSING.

Miss Caroline Marcial of Seville.
women in that country, is in America
in the interest of the International In
stitute League.
Mrs. Nansen, the wife of the explor-
er, is singer of note. Her father was
zoologist, her mother . sister of the
Norwegian poet Welhaven, and her
brother, Ernest Save, is a professor OF
history in the University of Christi
ania.
William Weldman Lands, A. NJ,
professor of mathematics in DinckiL
son college, Carlisle, Pa has been ad
mitted to membership in the mathe-
matical circle of Palermo, Italy, in rec
ognition of his attainments in the sci
ence of mathematics. 1t Is the most
exclusive society of its kind in the
world, and it's membership numbers
400.
The smallest and among the most
efficient constable in Indiana is James
H. Vincent of Boonville, who on a
pinch can stretch himself to four fee-
six inches, his weight being SO pounds
and his age Al years. On more than
one occasion he has shown himself to
be possessed of iron nerve. During his
career as constable he has made over
300 arrests and has only been knocked
down once.
Ray Dart, student at the Universi-
ty of Minnesota, has been blind To-.
years. but pursues his studies by proxy
doing his writing on a typewriter
whose keyboard he has mastered. HIS
father is State Senator Dart of Litch-
field. The Young man does not carry a
cane, yet ne walks about alone with
freedom. He is clever pianist, an
expert oarsman and takes much de-
| light in fishing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30
FOOD HELPS

Speaking of food a railroad man
says:
my work puts me out in all kinds
for meals and compelled to eat all
kinds of food.
For years I was constantly trou-
bled with indigestion, caused by eat
ing heavy, fatty, starchy, greasy, poor
ly cooked food, "'lT as are most ac-
cessible to men in my business. Gen
orally each meal or lunch was fol-
lowed by distressing pains and burn
ing sensations in my stomach. which
destroyed my sleep and almost unfit
ted me for work. My brain was so
muddy and foggy that it was hard for
me to discharge my duties properly.
This lasted till about year ago,
when my attention was called to Grape
Nuts food by newspaper ad. and l
concluded to try It, Since then have
used Grape-Nuts at nearly every meal
and sometimes between meals. We
railroad men have little chance to pre-
pare our food in our cabooses and
find Grape-Nuts mighty handy, for 1t
is ready cooked.
ITO make a long story short, Grape
Nuts has made new man OF me.
have no more burning distress in my
stomach, nor any other symptom or
Indigestion. can digest anything so
long as I eat Grape-Nuts, and my
brain works as clearly and accurately
as an engineers watch, and my old
nervous troubles have disappeared en-
tirely." Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, "The Road to Wellville" in pkgs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30

to be for the betterment of the street
car service, and the advent of the FL
kins-Widener syndicate into the street
car operation in Chicago was well
coined from every hand. Even the
newspapers, who had been fighting
Yerkes, served to aid him by their
publicity in the fiotation of the trac-
ton stocks. No conditions could be
more auspicious.
Early in the day 1t was learned that
the entire issue of preferred and COM
that Chicago and New York had been
allotted $7,OOO,OOO Of the preferred and
Philadelphia S3,000,000. On the stock
exchange North Chicago and West
Chicago both moved up on the strength
of the general enthusiasm over the
Union Traction deal. No one seemed
disposed to delve very far into the in
nerworkings and inner secrets of the
traction situation. For several days
this continued, and Yerkes' brokers
had little difficulty in supporting the
market for the short period necessary
to get Yerkes we'll out of cover.
1t was but a month or two after the
flotation that prices of the traction
stocks on the stock exchange began tC
sag. To the public this was unaccount-
able; the insiders evidently had be
gun to realize the untenable founda
Ion for the big issue of securities.
! The 99-year statute was already in
litigation, and had been for 35 years
and the possibility that the court.
might rule adversely to the contention
of Yerkes and his attorneys served II
drive the stocks downward day after
day. Six months after the fiotation
the prices were not much more than 5,
per cent. of those at which Yerkes haC
sold his North Chicago and West Chi
cago street railways.
Everyone who crosses Chicago from
one depot to another in Frank Parm
alec bus, or who sends his baggage
across in Parmalee transfer wagon
would be interested to know tina
Parmalee was the man who secured
enactment of the 99-year statute whicI
has been so important. He was thu
original street car man in Chicag
back in the days when Lincoln AM
Douglas were debating slavery ques
tions and mutterings of war wer,
heard. The guns of the civil war wer
not yet silent when the measure wa
framed which served Yerkes so wei
and other multi-millionaires so III
"Uncle Dick" Oglesby was governo
OF Illinois, and he evidently saw tn
evils in it. for he vetoed the bill, bu
1t was passed over his veto.
Yerkes loved to fight, but thing
were getting too hot for him in Chi
cago in 1898, when he began the fina
balloon blowing process. There wa
open talk of lynching the aldermen
they made concessions to Yerkes. an
more than once Yerkes himself wa
threatened. He blacked the eye of on
prominent business man and called tn
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30

newspapers blackmail sheets. When
the banks called loan to him Of
s3,0O0,O00, he told them to loan him
as much more. When the banks
scornfully demanded security for the
extra 100000. he produced $S000,-
900 OF registered government bonds,
and got the money.
He then called a loan he had made
to Moore Brothers, the promoters OF
Diamond Match and Rock Island con.
solidation fame, and their suspension
caused a panic which closed the Chi
cago stock exchange.
Necessarily, the story Of the smash
of the values of Chicago Traction se-
curities is the story of Charles T.
Yerkes, who died December 20, last,
in New York, deserted by his second
wife, as he had been many years be-
fore in Philadelphia, by his first wife
when he was sent to the penitentiary
on a charge of which he later was ac-
quilted. He was a broker at 21 and
banker, as his father before him,
before he was 80. He spent a few
years in Fargo, N. D., and St Paul,
Mimi, before going to Chicago as a
broker in 1888.
But when Yerkes has sold his "bal-
loons," the interest shifts to "the boys
who bought and held them and who
played with them contentedly at first
Soon troubles began, and troubles
thickened with each month. The
North Chicago and West Chicago com.
panies were not paid the respective II
and six per cent. rental moneys re.
! quired by the leases, the $10,000,00C
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30

was paid on basis of 1927 per share
The stock is now selling at about $50
share.
Then came the miscellaneous collec-
tion marked Consolidated Traction"
and the sale of the well-watered
stocks of score of underlying COM
panies, payment in bonds which he
sold at so cents on the dollar In
each case he sold no real value, and
tial.
When the balloons all we're sold,
Yerkes cared not at all how soon the
public discovered that the talk about
the 99.year franchise was but four
flush bluff which he had expected
would be called" some day.
The bluff got past Judge Grosscup on
the federal court circuit bench, but
the United States supreme court
called" it, and did it in plain terms,
The 99-year franchise was the wind
which had filled all the balloons; the
sand on which had been builded the
house of cards marked with Yerkes'
fanciful millions.
The day when Union Traction was
floated was a great day in Chicago
The event was much heralded from La
Sale street and from the financial in
stitutions Of the city, who had various
interests in the success of Yerkes
great scheme and combination. The
public accepted it as the dawning OF
a day when they would be released
from hated bondage of Charles T
Yerkes. The uniting of the North
and West traction interests promised
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30
Robbed Hotel Bar.

Cleveland. March 2S.-A lone rob.
ber, armed with a revolver, robbed the
Commercial hotel in w. Sixth street
within a block of Central police sta
tion, in broad daylight Tuesday. The
robber held revolver on the bar
keeper while he emptied the cash reg
lister Of S45. He made his escape.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30
On Trial AGAIN.

Akron, o., March 2S.-The trial of
Capt. Aaron Wagner. charged with
falsifying statements regarding the
condition of the Akron Savings bank
now defunct, was begun Tuesday.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30

"Why don't you ask her to marry
you? You can surely afford to marry
on your salary"
That's what | told her. but she said
that she couldn't. t."-Houston Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30
Very Polite.

He-What would you say II kissed
you?
She-You don't suppose I'd be I'm.
polite enough to interru2 you. do your
-Yonkers Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The ball games now commence at $3.50.
The Air Dome theater has been closed
for the season.
Nearly three thousand people at
tended the games yesterday at Associa-
ton park.
F. B. Croker brought a basket OF
fine EIberta peaches to the State Jour
aal Office Saturday.
one Topeka firm. the Seymour Com
mission company, has $4,000 cases Of
eggs in cold storage.
Coweu Bros & Rust are cleaning
the Copeland today with their com
pressed air cleaner
The Santa Fe excursion from Atchi-
son Sunday was well patrOn1zed- ABOUT
1000 strangers visited Topeka
This new method of spelling will do
one thing at any rate. Tt will work the
''ts'' in a font Of type overtime.
Miss Edith Capper has been engaged
as an instructor in elOcution at the
Sumner high school at $50 a month.
This change in the weather has meant
death to prickly heat and many word
Of tL~aksgiving is being raised there
TO-.
Last night was the occasion Of the
opening of several of Topeka's theaters.
The churches probably had falling of
IN attendance.
A Topeka man says: 1T is believed,
however, that Josh Billing was the first
one who made any advances in the
method of spelling"
A good sized crowd was at Vinewood
yesterday afternoon and last night and
the boys band was heard there for the
last time in the evening.
Jane Corcoran has been secured for
the Grand opera house on Labor day, a
week from today She will appear in
The Freedom Of Suzanne
new monograph has arrived in
Potwin and it is being operated night
and day much to the discomfort and
annoyance of the neighbors.
West Eleventh street between Jackson
and Van Buren, was blockaded all day
yesterday by the moving of the old
house from Ninth and Kansas avenue.
An unusual occurrence in the floral
world is in evidence just now at Central
park. Many of the lilac bushes there
ire blooming for the second time this
season.
The Leavenworth ball team opens here
tomorrovV The first game will be Iadies'
day and it will be the last chance for
the fair sex to see the Leavenworth
boys play without paying for the priv
slege.
A party OF twelve or fifteen golf and
tennis players will come to Topeka from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27

the possession of a hostile force. This
promises to be one of the most interest
ing events Of the entire encampment.
The army officers act very mysterious
about it, and refuse to say when or
where the shooting will, take place
The Twenty-ninth battery was IN
cluded in the list of those present. As
a matter of fact, the Twenty-ninth is
camped over on the Geary county side
of the river, and is not allowed to
come into camp. The horses are af-
hicted with glanders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27
N THE NATIONALS LEAGUE.
A Remarkable Decrease In the Batting
-DonIin stin Leads.

New York, Aug. 27.-Only ten Ma
uonal leaguers are batting 800 or over.
showing a remarkable decrease in
smuggling in the older league since last
season. Mike DOnlin IS the nominal
leader, the real laurels going to Harry
Steinfeldt who has done the most con-
sistent swatting of his career. Pitts
burg leads in team batting. Chicago in
extra bases, and New York in base
stealing. Lumley is the star sluEger Of
the whole show.
Ferguson and Richie have perfect
fielding records among the pitchers. tn g
real credit going to Jack Taylor. Pat
Moran leads. the catchers, and Dan
McGan the first baseman. Lobert
nominallv leads at both second and
third. the real honors going to Ritchey
and SteinfeIdt- w Marshall is the ap-
parent head of the outheIderss the best
real record being that of Roy Thomas
Chicago leads IN team fielding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27
MRs. afcHENRY Awe.
Appears at Arkansas City and Gives a
Street Talk.

Arkansas City, Kan. Aug. 2L-Mrs.
Myra McHenry, who has in the past
frequently stirred up things in Arlxan-
sas City has been here on her regular
visit. She at once took a position on
the streets and proceeded to deliver
temperance address.
She scored the liquor traffic first, and
when this was ended began on the tenn
perance- workers. She doesn't like some
of the things they do says some Of
them are Inconsistent and are not in the
work earnestly. She jumped onto John
Marshall assistant attorney general and
gave him q scoring that was hot one.
She said he was q gutter and rec1ted
his history in the eastern part Of the
state, with which she claims to be IA
nailiar She wanted H S. Hines ap-
pointed to that position and lauded him
by saying he is honest and that his
work was from a motive to kill the IL
duor traffic. She attributes Marshalls
appointment to a political pull and says
that no good will come of it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27
WAS ROBBED OF 1928.
An Austrien Youth FelIs Into Bad
COMPANY at kansas City.


Kansas City. Aug. 27.@The police
have made public a report suppressed
last Tuesday night of murderous as
sault on Michael Miller, an Austrian
boy who was slugged and robbed OF
s425 and then thrown off the Fourth
street viaduct to the railroad tracks,
twenty-five feet below. The police
also reported the arrest of two men
suspected of having knowledge of the
crime The arrests were made yester-
day in St Paul. Kan.
Miller fortunately fell beside the
tracks where he lay for several hours
in an unconscious condition. When he
came to he wandered around until
policeman found him and took him to
police HEADQUARTERS. He said he came
to Kansas City the night before from
Chicago. where he had been employed
by railroad. He got of the train at
the Grand avenue deDot and started
to walk to the union DEPOT On the
way he inquired for Hungarian sa-
loon and was directed to a place on
West Fifth street. There he fell in
with two men who volunteered to
show him to the depot and put him on
train. as he wanted to go to Globe,
Ariz-
It was after midnight when they left
the saloon At the Fourth street via
duct Miller's companions slugged him.
took his money and threw him of the
via duct.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27
ADDRESSED By FITZGERALD.
Chase County Republicans Pleased
With Candidates Remarks.

Cottonwood Falls. Aug 2T4The
Republicans of Chase county met In
convention Saturday to nominate a
candidate for county treasurer to fiji
a vacancy caused by the death OF ".
J. McNee. who was nominated by a
former convention. A P. Brickett of
Toledo was nominated Owing to the
intense heat the convention adjourned,
after the nomination, to the court
house grove where 1t was addressed
BY w. J. Fitzgerald, candidate for lieu
tenant governor His speech was well
received and he was frequently ap-
nlauded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27
WOMEN AT GOLF.
Many Of the Best in the West Gather
at the Chicago Tourney.

Chicago, Aug. 27.-Nearly three score
women, the best golfers in the west,
were present when the qualifying round
in the women's western golf champion
ship was started today. Eighteen holes
will be played today and the same num-
Der tomorrow. Sixty-eight players were
scheduled to start. but several OF them
did not appear
Miss Elizabeth Towner of Exmoor and
Mrs W T. Pillsbury OF OnWentsia, were
the first pair to get under way and they
were followed by the remainder OF the
entrants at five minute intervals.
The first match play will be on Wed
nesday and the tournament will close on
Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27

In addition to General Whit and
about 500 other commissioned officers,
the governm ent has very fine display
of big and little guns at the Fort Riley
camp. Nearly everybody is interested
in the cannon. and hunts up the big
siege guns the first thing.
Captain Pattison of Topeka, and his
combined Wichita and Topeka battery
of the Kansas National guard was not
camped with the rest OF the Kansas
soldiers. He was off at the other end
of the camp, only half mile from
Fort Riley and was working with the
Tenth artillery of the regulars. The
Kansas artillerymen did not bring their
four field pieces with them The Kan
sas cannon are obsolete.
Everything seems to get obsolete in
artillery about as soon as It is made.
Even the big siege guns of the E1ev-
enth and Sixteenth batteries. the same
kind Of guns that did the damage at
Port Arthur, are now said to be obso-
lete The government expects to
equip these batteries with new guns
There are ten batteries At Fort Riley
and each battery has four pieces. The
batteries are the. Second, Seventh.
Twenty-second. Twenty-hfth, Twenty
ninth and Thirtieth.
Each battery is supposed to do a GER
tain number of shots in target practice
during the summer. and almost every
dav the sound Of cannon shots out in
fbe hills back of the camp can be
Heard. Usually this shooting is five or
ter miles away. and the army isn't par
ticl1lar about arranging things Tor the
accommodation of spectators
The engineering corps Is building q
fort somewhere out in the hills. and
some time this summer the artillery
viii all be brought up. and the fort VIII
be shot to pieces as though II were n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27

New York, Aug. 27-The engagement
OF $3.50, 600, in gold in Australia by Brown
Brothers Of this city was announced to-
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27
Cheap Rates TO Canadian and New
England Points. Snnfa re

Concord, n. H. and return. sss.0s.
Montpelier, VT and return, S36.OS.
Portland. Ne, and return, S37.00.
And many other points at low rates
an sale August p, good 30 days from
date Of sale.
Afontreai. Canada, and return. S36.0g.
Toronto, Canada. and return, $1,000.
t.olleng1v God, CAM and return, S2230.
And many other Canadian points. -
sale daily to September S0th, limited
40 days from date of sale. Address
T. l. King. Agent. Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-27

Los Angeles. san Francisco and OtElsz
California Point SIS. O0-santa Re.
Tickets on sale daily commencins
August 9th to Oct. 31st Good in
tourist Sleeping cars and free Chair
cars.
For full particulars address
T. L. KING, c. P. & T. A.
Topeka
The oasis., 1906-02-10

lnq a total width oi more ihao ghifiy feet. Che sllieious ore eon. tained averaging about 15 per cent
 Globe Belt The Montezuma Copper Mining company have started development work on their property one-half mile west of the Live Oak group of mines,and at the depth of eighteen feet have struck suiphide ore. The ledge on which this shaft is started is from 50 to 75 feet wide, heavily impregnated with sulphur throughout on the surface, carrying copper and gold values. The company intends to continue sinking perpendicular shaft until water level is reached before cross-cutting the ledge. This shaft will, in all probability, be the first to demonstrate the values of sulphide ores in that particular To- cality. One hundred thousand shares of stock was sold to develop this property, all of which has been taken by local people.