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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
INCREASE SPEED ON FREIGHT.
VIII Be Object of Chicago Meeting
Fer This Week.

Chicago, March 2O.-The primary
objects of the meetings which will be
held this week by representatives of
western lines, to lengthen the sched-
ules of passenger trains, are the re-
lieving of congestion on the tracks
and the safeguarding against acct
dents. The 2-cent-fare laws enacted
in many states may, as has been stated
be an influence in this action, but, If
so, only in minor way.
On several western, southern and
southeastern systems the schedules of
passenger trains have already been
heightened. Operating officials found
that freight could not be hauled ex-
peditiously if freight trains had to be
sidetracked frequently between points
in order to let fast passenger trains
have the way. Numerous conces-
sions to the passenger service neces-
sarily caused delay in the freight
movement.
Experiments which have been made
in the past few months bear out the
idea that the frightening of passen-
ger-train schedules augment the ia
though the speed of the passenger
trains is diminished, the freight
speed is increased, resulting in
higher average mileage traversed
daily by freight trains.
Another question held by some OPP
Grating officials IS that the travelling
public is not so secure against acct
dent as it should be with heavy move
ment on the tracks. A train moving
at high, or relatively high. speed over
takes slower trains. With record
breaking traffic, a slackening of
speed is indicated as being desirable
as an additional precaution against
accident.
Freight trains will probably make
greater progress if they are not
obliged to sidetrack, sometimes for
hours, in order to let a fast passenger
train pass in the opposite direction or
go ahead in the same direction.
1t is believed that the lengthening
of passenger schedules will be an i'm
portant factor in relieving the freight
congestion. The roads in this terri
tory need more double track and pass
ing track and additional terminal ia
cilities. They are each confronted
with the difficulty of operating hun
dreds of trains daily over one track.
The western, southwestern and
southeastern lines are making great
efforts to improve conditions. They
are Fastening the completion of new
cars and locomotives, they are grad
ually catching up with belated traffic
and they are regulating their operat-
ing methods to the peculiar needs of
the situation.
Congestion still prevails in the
southwest and the southeast, and
losses, both to shippers and the rail-
roads, appear to be great. Operating
and traffic officials realize that freight
still unmoved must be hauled before
the traffic is again accelerated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
AN INCREASE IN SALARIES.
List of the Glass to Be Promoted in
Kansas Is Given Out.

Washington. March 20-The list of
cities and towns in Kansas whose letter
carriers will be granted increases in sal
airy has been made public at the post
office department in Washington. These
increases, according to the class to
which the carrier belongs, are 5000 to
$500, $3.50 to 5000, $500 to $1,000 and 81 900
to $1,1O0. Included in the list are the
following towns with the number of
carriers promoted: Abilene, 8; Arkan-
sas City, 5: Atchison, 10; Beloit. 2; Cha
mute. s; Cherryvale, 8; Clay Center. q;
Coffeyville. Z; Concordia, 8; Emporia,
I; Fort Scott, Z; Galena, 8; Girard 2;
Great Bend. 2; Hiawatha. 8; Hutchin-
son, s; Independence, Z; lola, I; juno
ton City, 8; Kansas City, A; Lawrence,
10; Leavenworth, II: Mcpherson, 2;
Manhattan, 4; Newton, 4; Olathe, 2;
Ottawa, 6; Parsons. Z; Pittsburg, Z;
Salina, 6; Topeka. 80; Wellington. 3;
Wichita, Is; Winfield, s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
JOINT RATES NECESSARY.
Commerce Commission Decides Case
Against Texas 6 Pacific.

Washington, March 20-The interstate
commerce commission today decided
the case Of the American Live stock
association and the Texas Cattle Rails
ers' association against the Texas &
Pacific railroad and others.
The commission holds that the public
interest requires the establishment OF
the through routes and joint rates for
merly provided for in joint tariffs, but
grants leave to any party to apply for
modification of the order which may be
issued in this proceeding at any time,
and provides that such order shall be
withheld for thirty days.
Authority to establish such joint
tariffs upon ten days notice to the
public and to the commission is granted
the carriers.
The commission holds in the case of
the Blackwell Milling company against
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway
that the arbitrary charge of cents per
100 pounds on shipments of floor and
other grains, in addition to the regular
transportation charges, was unjust and
to refrain from applying the same dur
ing the next two years. The complain
ant is awarded nominal reparation.
The Ponce Milling company against
the same railroad was awarded nominal
PREPARATION.
The case of J. 3. Harrell against
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, on the
reasonabieness OF coal rates from St
Louis to Oklahoma City. Ok, has been
dismissed without prejudice to the right
of the complainant to call in question
the reasona bleness of the rate involved
in case it shall hereafter become of
actual consequence.
The commission also held that the
rate of the Illinois Central railroad of 81
cents per 100 pounds on brick machin
cry, in carloads. from Rockland, o., to
East St Louis, ILL.,, does not violate sec
lions or OF the statute. and that the
rate is not unreasonable. The complaint
was filed by D. w. Durham.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
NEW SAFETY PAPER.
Cannot Bo Manipulated Without
Change in Color.

Kansas City, March 20.-A special
committee appointed to consider the
question has decided to abandon the
present brand of safety paper used in
printing tickets and to adopt a new
kind.
The action of the committee, which
was appointed by the American Asso-
citation of General Passenger and
Ticket Agents, has raised storm of
protest. The question of a safety pa
per has been constant cause of trou-
BILE for nearly twenty years and has
become almost a standing joke.
Years ago the railroads began to
use safety paper which, it was said,
could not be altered after a ticket was
made out without the change being
apparent. Nevertheless the ticket
brokers continued to do things" to
the safety paper, and the subject was
kept alive from year to year.
Many of the general passenger
agents insisted that safety, SO far as
manipulation by acids and by ink was
concerned was out of the question,
uniform ticket paper which could be
bought only by authorized agents of
the association.
Largely with this end in view, the
present paper was adopted and it took
the railroads ten years to get rid of
their old stock and get all of their new
stock printed on the new paper. This
having been accomplished. the COM
new paper, which, its members claim,
cannot be altered without detection.
The only sample of the new paper
yet seen in Kansas City is in the pos
session of S. G.. Warner, general pas
senger and ticket agent of the Kansas
City Southern. The paper was sub
mitted for the approval of the associa-
ton at its annual meeting last fall.
Colonel Warner, who was in attend
ance, brought home with him several
dummy tickets made of the new pa
per. The paper is printed in two col
ors. so that acids will change one of
them and leave the other. 1t is a soft
paper. so that inks will run into it if
alterations are made. Some of the
passenger men claim, however that
chaos will reign for another decade as
sure as the railroads try to adopt this
or any other new paper.
What we want" declared a passen-
ger official yesterday, "is not so much
a safety paper as a uniform paper We
want our conductors to be placed in a
position to know when a paper is pre-
scented to them whether it is or is not
a ticket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
HEALTHY CHILDREN
Made So by the Right Kind of Food

Made So by the Right Kind of Food.
A family doctor was shocked when
he found a mother had fed a three
weeks old baby on Grape-Nuts. But
let her tell it her own way:
when my second baby was three
weeks old it became necessary to feed
used cows milk, but it did not agree
with the baby at all, although we tried
a number of different formulas
I'VE afterwards went from one food
to another without finding any that
would agree. The child was not only
weak and thin but would cry pitifully
almost the whole day.
"One day when giving my eldest
child a dish of Grape-Nuts 1 thought
would see if the baby would take
some.
II prepared it by pouring hot milk
over it and allowing it to cool. The
child ate all 1 had prepared and went
to sleep looking more satisfied than it
had ever done before.
II told one physician about it and he
was horrified-said a child so young
could digest only milk; that I must
not do it again.
80 back we went to the bottle.
Some weeks the child would gain an
ounce. other weeks there would be no
gain; twice she lost weight.
Finally, without letting anyone
know 1t, I began giving her a little
Grape-Nuts at bedtime. I noticed she
would sleep longer; then I added a
breakfast of Grape-Nuts to her diet.
lit was not long before everyone re-
marked how much better the baby
was getting. I knew the Grape-Nuts
was agreeing with her for she was
steadily increasing in weight and her
color became better.
Now she is IS months old, weighs
81 lbs, and still has two meals a day
of Grape-Nuts.- My oldest child, now
five years old, weighs 4S lbs. When a
baby she would not take any of the
soft cereals but took to Grape-Nuts at
once. ! encourage the use of 1t with
the children because it does them
good, and because 1t Is so convenient
always ready" Name given by Postum
Co. Battle Creek. Mich. Read the lit.
tie book. 1.-The Road to Wellville," in
pkgs. There's reason,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20

in a zig-zag course, taking time and US
ing power that would be saved If a more
direct route and easier grade could
be secured 1t was here that Mr.. Burt
did most of his work. He had his head
quarters at Mena, Ark, and had two or
three engineering corps making expen-
sive surveys in the mountainous part of
the road to reduce the grade to one
half of l per cent for as long a stretch
as possible. The contemplated change
means a saving of Is per cent in the
cost of operation.
L. F. Loree, chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the road, left for his
home in New York last night after hav-
ing spent several weeks in consultation
with general officers of the company
here and in inspection trips over the
road. While both he and President Ed
son acknowledge that extensive changes
are being contemplated in the road,
they decline to give out any informa ton
as to what the definite plans include.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
CLARKE WILL RETURN.
Vice President Sets at Rest Rumors
of Change.

Vice President A. G. Cochran. of the
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain
System, has received letters from New
York refuting the reports which nave
bean circulated about Vice President
c. S. Clarke. Mr.. Cochran is vice prcsi-
dent in charge of the legal department.
Mr. Clarke is the chief executive Of the
system, being next in authority 20
President George ]. Gould
Mr.. Cochran says that Mr.. Clarke has
not had Bright's or any ether serious
disease. Mr.. Clarke desired to take
treatment in New York, where he woula
be removed from the headquarters in
st. Louis. and would not be under the
strain of constant work Mr.. Cochran
says that Mr.. Clarke is rapidly getting
well and expects to resume his official
duties at ST. Louis soon.
M. Cochran also says that there was
no truth in the report that Leroy Trice.
general manager Of the International 81
Great Nor hern would succeed Mr..
Clarke as vice president of the Mis-
souri, and Iron Mountain System. Mr..
Cochran confirms the statements made
in the Republic that Mr.. Clarke VIII
be reelected this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
TO REBUILD WIRE LINES.
Frisco Planning Big Changes in TeIe-
graph Circuit.

Springfield. Mo, March 2u.-The
Frisco railroad have started the work
Of rebuilding over 800 miles of tele-
graph lines along its system betvee n
g. Louis and the towns of the south
west which it touches. Two hundred
men are now employed in reconstruct
ing the telegraph system between ST.
Louis and Springfield. The telegraph
block system, which has been i'll opera
ton Letween st. Louis and Monet ever
ed from Fort Scott to Springfield. On
most Of the divisions. especially where
there is heavy freight traffic, the COM
pany will string five wires. The ssti-
mated cost of the improvement for the
entire system is $25O.00
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
DEATH OF LAMSDORFF.
Was Former Russian Minister of For
efgn Affairs.

London, March 2O.-A dispatch re-
ceived here from Rome by a news
agency says that Count Lamsdorff the
former Russian minister of foreign af-
fairs, died at midnight at San Reno.
Count Vladimir Nicolatevitsch
Lamsdorn entered the ministery in
1856 and in 1875 was made a first
secretary. Soon after this he was con-
nected with Chancellor Prince Gort-
schakon and came into association
with Car Alexander II whom he
thenceforward accompanied every
summer to Livadia. After Alexander
III assembled the throne Lamsdorff was
counsellor to the foreign office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
NEW ELECTRIC LINE.
Charter Granted Yesterday for Road
Between *. c. and LeMrence.

Charter Granted Yesterday Tor ROAD
Between X. G. and Lawrence.
The Wyardotte & Lawrence Railroad
company was granted a charter yes
terday by the Kansas state board. The
compa ~ is Incorporated with a capital
stock of $4,000. OF this amount st7o.-
0o0 is to be preferred stock, the balance
$340, 900 common. The first beard of d.
rectors is comprised of five residents OF
Kar. as City, Kan; BENJAMIN Schnierls,
]. E. Wherrell. F. K. Schuepbach. H.
c. Downs and E. Y. Blum. Mr..
Schnierele and Mr.. Wherrell are off,
GERS of the Wyandotte State bank. at
Kansas City, Kan.
The company proposes to construct
and operate standard gauge railroad
between Lawrence and Kansas City,
pessing through Douglas, johnson.
Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties.
1t is to be 3S miles in length, the mo-
tive power used to be electricity. steam
or gasoline. The life of the corporation
is to run SO years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
X. c. S. Survey Completed.

Kansas City, March 20.-Horace G..
Burt formerly president of the Union
Pacific, has completed a resurvey of the
Kansas City Southern, the work having
taken six months time. Its purpose is
to determine what can be accomplished
in lowering present grades. The work
required the services of 200 engineers,
surveyors and their assistants.
Perhaps the most formidable PROPOSE
ton in connection with the resurvey is
that part of the railroad through the
Arkansas mountains. After passing
Sloan Springs, the grade gets heavier
The winding Stair mountain is climbed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
New western Postmasters.

Washington. March 20.-These post
masters have been appointed: Kansas
Selma, Anderson county, John T. Nc
COLON, vice Rufus e. Camp, removed.
Miesouri-Sturges, Livingston county,
William ]. Eakin, vice William D.
Wright, resigned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20

NO 2, Howard H. VESSEL, carrier;
Enle M. Vessel, substitute. Cherry
vale, route 4, Elmer L. Mcknight, car
r1er; Harry L. Mcknight, substitute
Woodston. route 2, Royal Eastman, car
r1er; Frederick Walton, substitute
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20

last September when several coaches
were buried in the river quicksands.
President Winchell says it is almost
imp ossible, however, to secure labor for
any work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
RuraI Carriers Named.

Washington, March 20.-These rural
carriers have been appointed: Indian
Terrfty- route No. 2, John
B. Evans, carrier: Tandy Carson
substitute. Kansas-Benningto route
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20
WILL SPAN CIMARRON.
Rock Islend to Build Suspension
Bridge in IIl-fated Spot.

Lawton. Ok, March 2o-The Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific Railway COM
pany has let the contract for steel
suspension bridge over the Cimarron
river at Dover, Kingf1sher county. 10
replace the pile bridge which caused
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20

". A. Mitchell, dealer in general
merchandise, Martin, Ca, writes:
"My wife lost in weight from 40 to
|68 pounds. We saw she could not live
long. She was a skeleton, SO we con-
suited an old physician. He told her
to try Peruna.
"She gradually commenced i'm
proving and getting little strength.
She now weighs 1O6 pounds. She is
gaining every day, and does her own
lhousework and cooking"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-20

Doctor James Albert Berry.
Specfalty-Dissases of the nose. threat,
stomach and fntestines. 725 Kansas ave
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02
TABLES TURNED ON OFFICER.
Lun.tie |. Permitted to Go, While Pc

Lunatie l. Permitted to Go, While Pc.
liceman is Locked Up AZ Insane.
Council Bluffs, May Officer Steve
adaloney OF the Omaha police force
spent an hour In st. Berna1d's insane
asylum yesterday while an insane man
whom Maloney had taken to the asylum
walked away q free man, after con-
vincing the asylum authorities that
Maloney was the crazy man and that
he himself had brought him to the
place as a patient.
Maloney started from Omaha with
the patient and arrived at the asylum
safely. The patient was not violent and
no shackles were placed upon him. AS
Maloney and his man entered private
room the Mnatic showed the officer in
and locked the door from the outside.
Then he turned the key over to the au-
thorities, telling them to watch their
man closely, afterwards walking; out
and disappearing. Maloney insisted he
was the officer and became violently
angry because he was kept prisoner.
Finally he asked that the police capt Iii
of Omaha be telephoned. The captain
arrived and Maloney was released. The
lnnatic has not been captured.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02
FROM ALL OVER IOWA

dining room, kitchen and pantry,
while the upper floor will contain the
pastors study, three bedrooms and a
bathroom. The basement will extend
under all parts of the house and will
contain the coal bins, vegetable
rooms, etc. The house. will be fitted
with hot and cold water pipes, sani-
tary closets fand all the modern con-
veniences.
Manchester.
/ Fire Thursday evening ruined a rail-
road system. The engine house Of the
Oneida short line caught fire from an
unknown cause and the two engines
on the system, the two tenders and the
two combination cars. were destroyed
or rendered useless. This is the total
equipment Of the road, which was built
to connect the city with the Great
Western line at Oneida. The loss is
$4,000 and there is no insurance. The
pity of the fire is that for the first time
since the road was built five years ago
it has just begun to operate on pay
ing basis.
Montezun1a.
Last Friday John Lamond, Dave
Curry and James -CritchloW brought an
old wolf and seven pups to town and
secured the bounty. s19 Lamond had
found some of his sheep badly bitten
and torn, tho none were,1 killed. So he
hunted for the den and found it in
hollow log. The old wolf and young
ones were at home. He watched the
den while Curry went for gun Critch-
low brought it and shot the wolf
Then a controversy arose Lamond
claimed the bounty as finder of the
game, Curry because he went for help
and CritchloW because he killed the
wolf. Then j. B. Gorsuch filed his
claim. They were found on his land
This controversy continued all the way
to town. Eminent attorneys were con-
suited and a lawsuit seemed inevitable.
Experts on the laws Of the chase were
questioned and, as is some times true,
the experts disagreed. When the argu-
ment was loudest, some one stole the
wolves. Immediately search was made
Ind they were recovered A common
peril caused them to forget their diff
ferences. All contestants then pooled
issues and divided the money. They
then shook hands and wendell their
way to the town pump for liquid re-
freshments.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02
Many Northern Iowa Towns
Afflicted With the Undesir-
able Disease
pLyMourH HAS 81 CASES
Resident. Objected to Being ouaran-
tined and State Health Board Sends
y Representative to Investigate Rigid
Precautions Taken-Disease 10 Of
Mild Form-No Deaths Reported.
spec,al to r.mes-Repup1icarL

Special to Times
Mason City, May 2.-Northern Iowa
sis just now suffering from an epidemic
OF smallpox and reports a:rom rural
districts and smaller towns near this
city and to the east, indicate the coun-
try is fulk1fit. Near and in the town
Il az Plynis - northeast of here thirty
seven q 49, eported b., the ply
Asictan.. ooard OF nealth OF the
state sent a representative here this
week to investigate. as many OF the
residents objected to the decision OF
the local physicians, denying the cases
were not genuine smallpox. The health
I Gfficer pronounced the disease SMALL
pox and ordered certain rigid precau-
toms to be taken. North and west OF
here and in southern Minnesota reports
indicate the country full OF the dis
ease.
Mason City has had but two cases
and those some time ago ana are prac-
tically recovered.
So far as reports go no fatalities nave
resulted. The disease is of very
mild form, the only discomfort due IS
the confinement Of quarantine to the
patients. There is some talk OF quar-
antining neighboring towns because OF
the large number OF cases but 80 far
nothing has been done and public sem
tirnent Is not aroused to thai. end yet.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02

tice u. S. Sitter against Charles Kiff-
ner, Serfoss, Frank Ingersoll, Charles
Babe, Joe Riley and Tom Murphy. All
but Joe Riley were apprehended. :.
Upon being arraigned before Justice
Sitter, Kiffner, Serfoss, Ingersoll and
Babe pleaded guilty to four of the
eight counts of the information and
they were given the alternative of a
fine Of $40 and costs, amounting in all
to $24.75, or thirty days in Jail. All
went to the county bastile, being either
unwilling or unable to pay the fine and
costs.
Tom Murphy pleaded not guilty and
his trial was set for Monday, May 6. He
Is nearly 80 years of age and one of
the few surviving veterans of the Mex
lean war. He will be dealt with len
iently, in all probability the charges
against him being dismissed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02
LIQUOR PERMITS REFUSED
Hancock County District Court Denie
Petition From kanawha.

Hancock County District Court Denies
Petition From kanawha.
Special TO Times Republican.
Garner, May I'm the Hancock
county district court the applications
of L. r. Greiner and H. F. Brown, Of
Kanawha, for liquor permits, were both
refused by the court. A remonstrance
from a majority Of the business men
had been filed in each case and during
the trial testimony was produced show
ing violations of the laws. These We're
the first applications made by the par
ties in the county. Judgment was en-
tered against the druggists for the
costs. Two permits were granted to
Britt druggists, also one at Goodell
and one at Wooden. In the damage case
Of Simon Anderson VS.. Town Of Cor
with, the jury found in favor of the
plaintiff, and the judge fixed the
amount at $S5.25. The jury gave Hen
ry Clarken a Judgment for ss57eo in
his action against 7. r. Riehm, ex-
sheriff.
The town Of Kanawha has just voted
in favor of having waterworks and for
the issuance Of $4,000 bonds.