davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
$4,000 RODE.
The United Railways Operated 100
Cars Yesterday.

San Francisco, May 15.-The United
Railways operated 109 cars yesterday
and everything passed OF quietly out
side Of the district south of Market
street. There the ehoodlum element
which predominates. kept up a riotous
demonstration all through the day and
with heavy odds on their side beat and
abused passengers and carmen on the
cars to their hearts content The po-
lice from all accounts lost control of
the situation and a number of acts of
brutal violence have been reported.
Fifty thousand people rode on the
cars yesterday according to returns of
the company officials and the number in
operation Will be increased today The
car men are now directing their ener-
gies toward formulating a plan for the
municipal ownership of certain car
lines. and w. D. Mahon, president of
the Association of Street Railway En-
ployes of America, expresses the belief
that this will follow the present strike.
The carmen's union Will meet on
Thursday next to discuss the local stu
alton.
The temporary sufferance under
which the Geary street. Park and Ocean
railway has operated its lines since its
franchise expired in 1903. comes to an
end this morning by the resolution
adopted at the supervisors meeting
Monday, the company having refused to
run its cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
RAILROAD NEWS.
Tie Treating Plant to Be Built
Near Kansas City.
Will Do Work for Rock Island
and Frisco Systems.
PLANT SITE AT LEEDS.
American CreOsOting Company
Is Behind Project.
Other Items of Interest to
Railway People.
PLANT SITE AT LEEDS.

Kansas City. Mo, May 15.-Kansas
CITY is to have a plant for treating
IalIroad ties The Whipple-McMillan
realty company has closed deal for
the purchase of a 30-acre tract along
side the St Louis line of the Rock Is
land system, between Centropolis and
LEEDS, i've miles from Kansas City.
The tract has been bought for the
American Creosoting company of Rich
mond, Ind.
1t is proposed to build a plant here
for treating ties for the entire 5000
miles included in the Rock Island
material and equipment for the new
plant is now in Kansas City and it is
expected that operation will begin not
later than September l. Seventy-f1ve
men Will be employed.
1T was a difficult task to find the
kind of a tract desired" said A a.
Whipple this morning. 1T was neces-
sary to have a long strip of ground
Rock Island lines We explored the
Rosedale valley first with view of
getting a site alongside the Frisco
tracks. But We couldn't find anything
from NJ. S. c. Donnen a tract 1000 feet
long between Centropolis and Leeds.
The tract has a maximum width OF
$50 feet and a minimum width of so
feet. The company that has bought
the tract has q plants for treating ties
in this country The ties will be brought
to Kansas City on the Rock Island and
Frisco lines from Missouri and Arkan-
sas. Soft wood ties treated with creo-
sote will last from Is to 20 years. I'm
treated soft wood ties last about three
years and untreated hardwood ties
about eight years.
A dispatch from St Louis today
says: Orders for S125. 600 worth of ties,
about $50 car loads, for immediate con-
struction work, have been placed by
the Rock Island with the American
Creosoting company. They will be
used on one stretch of new road south
from Little Rock to Ell Dorado, and an
other from Alexandria to Eunice.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
BUYING UP EGGS.
A Salina Cold Storage Company
Laying in Supply.
Have Twelve Carloads Now and
Buying More Daily.
MEANS $4,000 OUTLAY
Think by the Close OF Summer
Amount Will Be Doubled.
Now in the Building 1,72S,OOO
Supposedly Fresh Eggs.
MEANS $4,000 OUTLAY

salina. Kan. May 15.-While TINS
ts -practically the first season OF the
Kansas Ice & Storage company nv
storage house, there is al this Tune al
ready twelve carloads of eggs on
storage there ,.-z
The storage house began usii. - =
spring lay Of eggs. the building no.
being completed until July:
The storage house can hoIo doo I4t
twelve carloads more eggs and eXpects
70 Pe- them before the summer i
over There are. in a carload, 4VV
cases Of eggs IN each case there are
40 dozen. making 10000 dozen eggs 70
tho car or $4,000 eggs. At this rate
there is in storage in the storage
house above mentioned, at the PTes SEN
5ozan or 72S.OOO eggs At $500 a
car. the number Of eggs there repre-
sents an outlay of $4,000 When the
viii be 3.456.oOO eggs valued al $685.
AOl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
HIS MIND UNBALANCED.
s. d. Cox of Humboldt, a Nervous
Wreck From Writing Novels.

lola. Kan. May 15.-S. D. Cox OF
Humbo has been adjudged OF IN
sound mind by 2 lunacy commission III
the probate court here
Cox was returned TO his home IN
Humboldt under guard and VIII De
kent under close surveillance until ar
ranzements can be made for his entry
to some sanitariuU- For number OF
years Mr.. Cox has been writing short
stories for eastern publications His
stories were Of the melodrama sort
and found a ready sale Owing 10 the
style and material which characterizes
his stories Mr. Cox was frequently
spoken of as the Nick Carter of
Humboldt.
The financial returns from the
stories were such as to be q great in
centive TO MI Cox TO devote all OF his
energies to writing and as a result he
has overworked himself. For the past
only recently did his nervous system
give away. For days at a time he has
been going without food. and his men
tai and physical collapse was certain.
OF late Mr.. Cox has been under a de-
fusion that he had many enemies who
sought 10 take his life. He has been
insisting on going armed The thought
preyed upon him that yesterday he at
tempted to take his own life
Sunday he made some remark
which indicated that he contemplated
shooting himself. Members Of the
family hunted up gun which Mr.. Cox
kept in the house and removed the
cartridges from it Later on IN the
day MI Cox seized the gun and plac-
ing II at his temple pulled the trigger.
The though tfulnesS of the family in
removing the cartridges prevented a
successful attempt at self destruction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15

Mrs Lenora Bodenhamer R. F. D.
1, Box 80, Kernersville. n. c., writes:
Il suffered with stomach trouble and
indigestion for some time. and nothing
that ate agreed with me. I was very
nervous and experienced a continual
feeling of uneasiness and fear. I took
medicine from the doctor, but it did
me no good.
II found in one of your Peruna
books a description of my symptoms
then wrote to DR.. Hartman for ad-
vice. He said I had catarrh of the
stomach I took Peruna and Manalin
and followed his directions and can
now say that I feel as well as 1 ever
did.
81 hope that all who are afflicted
with the same symptoms will take Pc
runa. as IL has certainly cured me-"
The above is only one of hundreds
who have written similar letters to Dr.
Hartman Just one such case as this
entities Peruna TO the candid consider
alton Of every one similarly afflicted
If this be true of the testimony of one
person what ought to be the testimony
OF hundreds. yes thousands. of honest,
sincere people. We have in our files a
great many other testimonials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
GAME WARDEN FINED.
Great Bend Case Where the Law Gus
tOdian Was Worsted.

Great Bend. Kan. May 15.-The case
Of the state VS.. Hume. charged with
hunting without a license. was tried
and a decision rendered in favor of
Hume before Justice Clayton of this
city,
Hume and several others have a tract
of ground leased on the Cheyenne bot
toms for hunting purposes. State Game
Warden Costello and Deputy Warden
Lemon were making the rounds, found
Hume on this tract hunting without
license and arrested him.
Later Hume and others swore out
warrants for the arrest of the two game
wardens for trespassing. Game Warden
Lemon appeared before Justice Clayton
and pleaded guilty to the charge and
was fined s17.25 and costs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
CERTIFICATE PLAN LEGAL.
So Commissioner Knapp Tells Western
Officials.

Chicago, May 15-Martin A. Knapp,
chairman of the interstate commerce
commission. was in Chicago Monday
long enough to tell some of the railroad
passenger officials that the certificate
plan of making rates for conventions
was legal, in the opinion of the COM
mission He was asked If the arrange
ment which the western roads had made
for the valuation of National Educa-
tional association return tickets upon
presentation of membership card in
that orga MIA ton was legal and he sta
ted that il was.
This statement regarding the Ma
tional Educa tional association rates
clear up that situation so far as the
legality or illegality is concerned. The
eastern roads. however. have refused to
Join in making the rates on the certifi-
cate plan and il remains to be seen
whether they Will withdraw from their
position.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
THE ELKS AT ESIPORIA.
Elect Officers and Select Parsons 70
Next Meeting Place.

Next Meeting Place.
Emporia, Kan. May 15-The first
convention of the Kansas State Associa-
ton of the Brotherhood of Protective
Order of Elks convened in this city
Tuesday with over $50 delegates present.
At an open meeting Mayor ]. H. Glot-
felter welcomed the visitors and was re-
piled to by c. NJ. Irwin, of Wichita.
president of the order. William Allen
White also delivered an address of wei
come. and speeches were made by a
number of the visitors, after which the
delegates went into executive session
Parsons was selected as the place at
which the next annual meeting woI-
be held
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows:
A c. Malloy, Hutchinson, president:
G. w. SchwartzeI, Parsons. vice presi-
dent; P B. Stone, Salina, secretary; E.
A Garlick, Emporia, treasurer; T. F.
Foncannon. Emporia, trustee; Charles
E Furguson, Chanute, esquire; John J.
Boehm, Hutchinson, tyler; Augustus
Sharpe, Cherryvale, inside guard ::
Charles Harris, Emporia, press CORE
spondent-
A resolution indorsing John A. wag-
ner. of Kansas City. Mo, for grand
treasurer was passed by unanimous
vote The sunfiower, with the word
Kansas" in the center. was adopted as
the badge of the association to be worn
at national gatherings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
WANTS MONEY FOR TURKEYS.
Garden City Man Charges Santa Fe
DELAYED Christmas SHIPMENT

Garden City. kan, May 15.-Suit has
been filed in the district court here by
S D. Pate. plaintiff. VS. the A. T. &
5. F. r. R. for the recovery of $700.11
which he alleges due him on a carload
of turkeys shipped over that road to
Denver and delayed in transportation too
long to receive the Christmas market
price.
Pate alleges that on the fourth day
of December, 1906. he was notified that
the car was ready and instructed to
load his turkeys. and that the car was
left standing on the track until the
18th of December. He alleges that he
then sent the company a written notice
asking them to transport the turkeys
and that they did not arrive in Denver
until the 22nd of December and were not
unloaded until the day after. which was
Sunday, December %.
Plaintiff claims damages in the sum
of s700-11. the actual market value Of
the turkeys at Denver on and before
the holidays and alleges that the time
required to transport said turkeys was
seven days. when the actual running
time between Garden City and Denver
is twenty-four hours
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
MAY HAVE A DAMAGE SUIT.
WaverIy ImprfsOns solicitor" Then
Finds City Ordinance Defective.

Waverly. Kan. May 15.-Waverly'
ordinance imposing a license fee of $40
a day on peddlers has received quite
q jolt There have been a number of
peddlers and solicitors in town and
most of them paid the license for one
day and hiked out but one man who
gave his name as John Doe" refused
TO pay and was arrested for violating
the ordinance by soliciting for orders
without a license. He was taken be-
fore the police judge who fixed his
bond at $25- Mr. Doe" refused to
give bond and was brought to Bur
lington and kept in the county Jail
awaiting his trial.
When the case came up for trial E.
\. Connal who was retained by the
city found that the man was arrested
for soliciting while the ordinance
makes no provision for solicitors but
does for peddlers so the man had vi
dated no law He also found that the
ordinance was defective ANYWAY so
that the city was up against it for sure
and Nj Doe was released It would
seem that there is a possibility that
Waverly is in for a damage suit for
false imprisonment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
FOR IDENTIFYING GOODS.
New York Merchants Suggests Plan to
Railroads.

New York, May 15.-The board of d.
rectors of the Merchants Associa ton
of New York has adopted and sent to
the traffic managers of all important
railways and steamship lines resolu-
tions relative TO the insufficient identi-
fcation of returned goods.
Many complaints to the following eff
feet have been received by the associa-
ton: Shipments have been made by
New York merchants Of goods which
the Consignee has refused to receive,
such goods being returned to the con-
signor after having been held possibly
for months On receipt of such goods
in New York the consignor is notified
by the transportation company, but the
notice contains no information as to the
nature Of origin of the goods. Conse-
Quently, returned goods are often &C
cepted without knowledge of their or
igin, the consignor thus being deprived
parties to whom the goods were ship
ped.
The association recognizes the fact
that this difficulty is largely due to the
failure of shippers to mark shipments,
consisting of less than carloads, with
the full name of the consignee. destina-
ton and point of origin, as required by
the classification of the various lines,
and that to cure the evil cooperation
between shippers and railway officials
is necessary.
The association, therefore. in the res
olutions which it has adopted. urges its
members to arrange that all shipments,
shall be marked with the consignee's
name and destination in full, and re-
quests traffic managers of railway and
steamship lines to issue imperative in
structions to all agents.
That all shipments rendered for for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
MRS HENRY LEE

Owing to modern methods of living
not one woman in a thousand ap-
proaches this perfectly natural change
without experiencing a train of very
annoying and sometimes painful
symptoms.
This is the most critical period of
who neglects the care of her health
at this time invites disease and pain.
When her system is in a deranged
condition or she is predisposed to
apoplexy or congestion of any organ.
the tendency is at this p e o d
likely to become active and with a
host of nervous irritations make life a
burden. At this time also cancers
and tumors are more liable to form
and begin their destructive work.
Such warning symptoms as sense
of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches,
backaches, melancholia, dread of i'm
pending evil, palpitation of the heart,
irregularities. constipation and dizzi-
ness are promptly needed by intel
Hgent women who are approaching
the period of life when this gr {
change may be expected
Mrs Fred Certia. 1o14 So. Lafayette
Street, So. Bend, Ind, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound Is the ideal medicine for women who
When a medicine has been
actually thousands of women, 20
it, 81 do not believe it will help
and family to try Lydia E. Pink
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
MRS. FRED cERTIA

are passing through Change Of Life For
several months / suh cred from hot flashes,
extreme nervousness, headache and sleep
lessness. l had no appetite and could not
sleep. had made up my mind there wac
no help for me until began to use Lydia
z Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, my
bad symptoms ceased, and it brought me
safely through the danger period. built
up my system and am in excellent health.
Compound unsurpassed for women during
this trying period Of life"
Mrs. Henry Lee, so Winter Street.
New Haven, Conn, writes:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:-
after suffering untold misery for three
years during Change of Life / heard OF
Lydia E. Pinkham,s Vegetable Compound
wrote you of my condition, and began TO
pound and followed your advice, and to-day
/ am well and happy. I can now walk any
where and work as well as anyone, and for
years previous had tried but could not get
around without help. / consider your medi-
cine sorereign balm for suffering women
Women passing through this critical
period should rely upon Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. II
you don't understand write TO Mrs.
Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. for advice. It
is free and has guided thousands &c
health.
uccessful in restoring to health.
cannot well say without trying
me-" 1t is your duty to yourself
ans VaOatable COmDOuDd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
MACHINIsTs DISSATISFIED.
Those on the Erie Kicking Over
Inequality of Wages.

New York, May 1.-THE machfn-
lists in the repair shops along the line
Of the Erie railroad. IL is learned, are
dissatisfied and will demand important
changes in a proposed new agreement
which will be submitted TO the off,
Gals President O'Conneu of the In
ternational Association Of Machinists
and a committee of seventeen from the
shops from Chicago TO Jersey City ar
rived here yesterday and arranged for
a conference taday with J. C. Stuart.
general manager of the Erie
The members Of the special commit
tee represent about one thousand ma
chinists- The principal repair shops
are at Cleveland. SusQuehanna, Buff
falo. Huntington, Gallon, MeadviIle,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
TO AID IN IRRIGATION.
Government Plant 1T DeerfieId Is Re-
ing Improved

Hutchinson, Kan. May 15.-Not
SATISFIED with the water on one side of
the stream only. the government. in
us big irrigation works at DeerheId.
hearny county, will pump water on
both sides of the Arkansas river force
II across from the south side to the
north through an inverted syphon
and carry IL TO the big ditch miles
away ms IS the works which will
irrigate a large scope of country
northwest of Garden City and which
IS being built by government en-
gineers.
II Is expected the plant will be COM
pleted by the first Of July. II viii he
one OF the best the government has
punt where pumps are depended upon
for the water
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
GASOLINE WEED BURNER.
One Used by Union Pacific to Clean
Right of Way.

Keeping the right of way on branch
lines free from weeds during the sum-
mer months is a troublesome matter
to many railroads On many branch
lines, along sidings and commercial
tracks that are infrequently used the
roadbeds are ballasted with dirt, and
from early spring until late fall the
rank growth of weeds is a source OF
great annoyance and considerable
It is a common sight on such roads
in the western prairie country for the
weeds to be two or three feet nigh,
and on commercial tracks seldom used
sunfiowers and other rank growths
are seen as high as seven and eight
feet along both sides of the track This
condition obstructs seriously the move
rnent of trains causes slippery rails
with consequent annoyance in opera
ton and necessitates consfderabl bic re-
duction in tonnage and thereby de-
crease in revenue
about finding some means of doing
this work at minimum cost Many
suggestions were considered. such IS
cutting the weeds by machinery and
sprinkling the right of way with a
saturated solution of salt and water,
which would tend to kill off the weeds;
but after the numerous experiments
in the way of machines for the work.
A l. Mohler. vice president and gen
eraI manager, suggested gasoline
weed burner. One was accordingly De
veIoped in the Omaha shops under the
direction of W. r. Mexican, jr-, super
intendent of motive power. and has
been doing the work very successfully
and at greatly reduced cost
It is carried on a four-wheel all
steel car with regulation standard
wheels, axles, boxes. pedestals. etc Al
one end of the car is a gasoline engine
secured to the floor, which propels the
car and pumps the air for forcing the
gasoline to the burners and elevating
the side wings of the burner frame;
The propelling machine is designed
for two speeds. the slower speed being
used while burning weeds and the
higher one in going to and from work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
POLICE WE'RE TREsPAssING.
A Decision of the Arkanhas City Court
in Beer Wagon Seizure.

Arkansas City, Kan. May ia. a.
Webster, owner of the dray seized by
the police Monday while delivering beer
to the Eagles club rooms. was tried in
police court Tuesday. Webster was
charged with resisting an officer when
he climbed into the wagon, took the
reins from the policeman and drove his
team to his office The attorneys for
Webster set up the defense that the po-
lice had no right on the wagon and were
trespassers. The court took this view
of the case and discharged Webster.
The city attorney will take the case
into the district court and make a test
OF it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.
They Meet at Leavenworth and Select
Their Officers.

Leaverworth, Kan. May 15.-The
annual state convention of the
Knights of Columbus is in session
here with 100 delegates present
J. w. Gibbons. Topeka. state dep
uty: William D. O'Neil. Independence.
secretary; Rev. w. L. Rice. Florence.
chaplain; W. P. FEEDER, Great Bend,
treasurer; W. H. Ryan. Girard. advo-
cate; ]. ]. Hurley, Leavenworth. war
den
Wichita was selected as the next
meeting place
The state convention of the Fedora
ton of Catholic Societies also con-
vened here Tuesday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
= snIendid SALINE Monument

The Abilene Monument Co. has re-
ceived an order for the finest vault
ever built in central Kansas 1t will be
for the Schippel estate in the Catholic
cemetery, Salina. and Will be of Barre
granite throughout with polished
granite interior and capacity for nine
caskets- It will require carloads of
granite and is TO be set in October
Abflena RaHecrnr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
COMPLAINT ON HORSE RATES
1t Is Lodged Against Adams Express
Company.

Washington, May ia complaint
has been filed with the interstate COM
rnerce commission against the Adams
Express company by Mclaughlin
Brothers of Columbus. Ohio. engaged
in the importation. shipment and sale
of horses. 1t is alleged that the de-
PENDANT charges the firm $3.50 a car
for the shipment of horses from New
York to Kansas City, with stopover
privileges at Columbus. while the rate
for shipment of horses from New York
to Kansas City direct is only $3.50 a
car The allegation is that the stop
over rate is unjust and excessive, both
to Kansas City and to St Paul, Mimi,
where the complainant has a branch
esta bIishment The commission is
asked to fix a fair and equitable rate
with stopover privileges
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
Land for Hutchinson Reformatory.

Hutchinson. Kan, May 15.-The board
Of mana gers of the state reformatory
here bought a section of land on the
edge of the sand hills eight miles north
east of Hutchinson for use as a pasture
and meadow by that institution The
reforma tory herd. consisting of 1872 thor
oughbred shorthorn cattle of all ages
was taken to the new pasture. The
land, which is unimproved, cost the
state $4,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
Landed an s Pound Fish.

Vessel Young. son of Y. Y Young,
made the best catch Of the season Sat
urday while fishing at the lake at the
Country club. He caught blue chan
mel catfish that weighed about eight
pounds This is the largest catfish
that has been caught in the lake
Junction CITY Union