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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02
Teachers Association Program.

Program of Trego County Teach
ers' ASSOCIATION TO be held Saturday,
February %, 1907, at 200 p. M.
Music.
Observation-Disclosures Sayings
Lesson in Literature. Pages 253 3-2S2
Miss Rose A. Biebler.
Paper, Subject selected by writer
Miss Mamie Glenn.
Topic From Practical Teaching
chapter VI-Mrs. c. d. Smith.
Recitation-Mrs. Sara Courts
Address.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

All ladies trimmed and
street hats at one-half price
at the Trego Mercantile.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

Mrs Geo. Verbeck met with accident
the first OF the week She slipped on the icy
pavement and fell breaking the ligament:
in her arm
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

Miss Matte McMorris will leave this even
ing for Topeka and Kansas City where she
will spend a month
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

The Wa-Keeney State bank sells
drafts on foreign countries, also sells
steamship tickets to and from all.
foreign points. They receive reports
of arrivals of passengers at New York,
and can let you know when your
friends can be expected here See
them when you want to go TO Europe
or send for your friends from there.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

C. L, Hardman represented Wa-Keeney at
the Lumberman's convention at Kansas
City this week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

Wanted-5a head OF cattle to win
ter j. L. W. Cloud
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

Miss Julia Blair is able to be out after be-
ing confined at home for the past two weeks
by sickness
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

Miss Georgie Edna Moore was detained at
home the first of the week by sicknes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

Found-A pocketbool1. Owner can ge
same by calling at postoffice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

Mrs. A. b. Jones left Thursday ever
for an extended visit to Iowa.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

debts in good times like these is worse than a
thief and will bear watching all the time,
and it will be well for our merchants and
other business institutions to go slow on
him, if he'll beat one man he'll beat another.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Elihu NeT's baby died Fri
day morning
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-02-02

o. A. Cortright was on the sick list
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
OttaWa's Commercial Club Will
Put Up a Fight.
Strenuous Opposition to Re-
mOval Of Santa Fe Shops.
APPEAL TO MIR. RIPLEY
He will Be Asked to Stick to
Promises.
Other Items of Interest to
Railway People.

Ottawa, Kan. April 16.-Ottawa
will make one more effort at least to
save the shops for Ottawa Secretary
Hanson of the Commercial club was
instructed by the executive committee
the other night to send a letter to
President Ripley, calling his attention
to the promises made some months
ago in regard to the Ottawa shops. At
that time 1t will be remembered Mr..
tention on the part of the road to move
the shops away. He said that there
would be more additions to the equip
ment and a big car repair business
would be carried on here.
Ottawa business men who kept
strict watch of the comDany's actions,
have noticed that the road has located
some large repair shops at Topeka.
were the ones intended for Ottawa,
and that either Mr.. Ripley has chang
ed his mind. or he knows nothing
about the switching of the plans.
same thing about sending the repair
shops here with orders for the en-
ployment of a large number of men.
Mr.. Hanson will. in his letter. set
forth the old argument about the
bonds on which Ottawa is now paying
interest at the rate of about ten dol
lars per day and call attention to the
promises made last summer.
IhaC Master MECHANIC MITCHELL -
slowly taking what desirable machines
in the shops here that he wants to the
Chanute shops is easily to be seen,
said a prominent member of the Com
mercial club last night. HE has been
doing this for some time. They intend
to move everything away from here
save the car repair department and
what little machine work is done in
the round house What we want to do
is to let the company know that if the
promises are broken. the town intends
to resent it. The removal of Mr.. Sic
mantle makes it necessary to move the
machinery out at once or send a new
general foreman here. They evidently
do rot intend to send new foreman
here
Some more detail plans of Mr..
Mitchell are out. Lou Scott, it is said,
will be in charge of the remnants of
the machine shop, Fred Hess Will have
the timing department and Ben Ander-
son will, as stated. be in charge of the
car department as he has been for sew
eral years. The change in the main
line seemingly makes no difference in
the car shop location.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
YOUNG FISH GETS A JOB.
Son of Railway NIagnate to Work for
$50 = Month.

Chicago, April 16.--Stuyvesant Fish,
jr. son of the former president of the
Illinois Central hurriedly finished
breakfast at the Annex yesterday and
rushed forth in pursuit of a job. He
had it securely nailed down before the
noon hour. Then he returned to his
room in the Auditorium to consider
whether anyone without a reputation
for frenzied finance could perform the
feat of drawing a salary of $50 a
month and living at a lakefront
hospice.
Mr.. Fish, jr.. didn't have any letters
of recommendation from his father.
He did not need any Introduction,
however, when he raped at the door
of w. B. Biddle. vice president of the
traffic of the Rock Island-Frisco and
the Eastern Illinois.
what can 1 do for you?' asked Mr..
Biddle.
It want job said the young man,
whose mother is one of the acknowl-
whose father has acquired some mill
lions and built up a great railroad
system, and is now an active director
of the Gould lines. II don't know
what salary Mr.. Fish will receive" de-
cIared Mr. Bidd1e. "but he will be
treated just like any other young man.
Better ask him about it. as those mat
tiers are personal.
Stuyvesant Fish. jr., is determined
to make a thorough railroad man of
himself, one who knows every branch
of the business from the ground up,
and knows it by actual experience.
And he is not asking any assistance
from his father.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
DEATH OF COL. RoHRBAUGH.
Brings Into Issue Controversy Over
the Settlement of Estate

Ottawa. Kan. April 16.-Word has
reached here of the death of Colonel
S. B. RohrbaUgh of Ottawa at Excel
sior Springs, Mo-. where he had gone
for his health.
The death brings into issue in the
settlement of his estate the question
now pending in the form of guardians
ship proceedings in probate court as
to whether or not Colonel Rohrbaugh
had been of sound mind for the last
few years.
By the will. Baker university at
Baldwin, Kan, Bethany hospital and
the First NJ. E. church of Ottawa re-
ceive large requests. BY deeds record
ed short time ago, practically all the
property is transferred to members of
the family of Mrs. E. P. Hubbard, Mr..
Rohrbaugh's sister-in-law, with whom
Mr.. Rohrbaugh has made his home for
some years. Several persons all
Methodists, began proceedings recently
to have a guardian appointed. A hung
jury resulted from the first hearing
and the matter is now pending. Colo
mel ROhrbaugh built the Rohrbaugh
opera house in Ottawa. He gave $780,
600 to the new NJ. E. church here a
short time ago. He owns several bust
ness blocks and other property. He
came here thirty years ago and estab-
Hshed a lumber yard. The funeral
will be held here Wednesday,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
EXPERTS ON BLOCK SIGNALS.
Commerce Commission Will Appoint a
Special Board.

Washington, April 16.-The interstate
commerce commission will, in the near
future, appoint board of experts in
safety appliance devises, whose COM
mission will be to investigate and ex-
pertinent with all the block signal and
related systems for preventing train
accidents, and 20 make complete and
detailed report thereon, with a view to
action that will establish the best pos
sible protection against wrecks.
Mr.. Cockrell of the commission has
been making an investigation into the
safety appliances of the different rail-
roads and asking the roads to volun-
teer information.
AS soon as the committee is named it
will invite railroads to volunteer oppor-
tunity for making tests on their lines
of the various devices. 1t is expected
there will be plenty of candidates for
this distinction, because it would be
excellent advertising for the roads thus
placing their facilities at the service
of the investigators.
Chairman James r. Mann, of Chi
cago, author OF the resolution directing
the commission to investigate fully the
working of the block signal systems of
the country, has been in Chicago this
week in conference with officials of the
commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

buildings will cost from $500 to
$1,000 each.
There is being constructed and
others who have signized their inten-
ton of building this season with favor
able crops no less than 80 residences,
costing all the way from $1,000 TO
$4,000 each. Few towns in northwest
Kansas can make as good a showing.
Nor is this all: with plenty of mois-
ture these figures will be nearly
doubled.
Atwood is great horse market.
George Tillett is buying and shipping
one and two carloads week. In 1905
Mr.. Tillett ranked the second largest
private horse buyer and shipper In the
state.
So far only one automobile is owned
in Atwood, that of John Preder. Dr.
w c. McIrvin has the second one
Atwood has two banks, the Rawlins
County bank, the oldest in the county,
whose deposits now reach about $780,
900 and that of the State bank, close
to the 100000 mark. John NJ. Burton
president of the RawlinS County State
banks, says it was established IN the
spring of 1885. Through all the years
of drouth, hot winds and crop falIures
CT the nineties this bank stood solid
as the rock of Gibraltar. There never
was a moment Il could not meet all
demands upon it, and since It's orSahl-
cation as a state bank it has grown
stronger and more solid The banks
of Atwood are making money. and her
business men and farmers have I'M
limited confidence in them Tnls
speaks the best that can be said for
Atwood and Rawlins county
It does a constant visitor who mas
made Atwood on his rounds for
quarter of a century feel like going
home every time the town is visited
There are many of the old timers here
yet, and as the town has taken on new
life in the last few years these old
bows grow younger. seemingly There
is John NJ. Burton. J. H. Cham bers, j.
o. Iovejoy, S. H. Tfndall, NJ. A. wilson,
James Greason. B. D. Hotchkiss. Cy
Anderson, j. c. Elmore. Bob Hen
bricks. AK. Bone. Albert Hemming.
W. J. RatcIiff, DR.. E. ID. York Jonas
Nichols, Frank E. Robinson, DR.. j. N
Melugin, ]. P. Noble and many others
who have stayed here and prospered,
and are entitled to a rich reward for
having lived in Atwood through
drouth, grasshoppers and hot winds
for so many years.
Atwood has three newspapers liber-
ally supported in town and country
1t has two complete lumber yards as
can be found. and their sales are
which is a healthy indication
of prosperity; in hardware and lmpIe-
ments it stands in the head OF lne
list; her general stores are credlt 10
towns with larger populations; her
banks have never wavered in bad crop
years; her high school is so healthy
to necessitate more room; her homes
many of them are comfortable ana
modern and conditions exist at the
present time to do more for ATWOOD
this year than all the previous years
have done. In all business PROPOSE
lions Atwood people pull together;
they may be divided, politically. now
and then, which is soon forgotten Inc
churches are supported, the hotels are
full Of visitors. and the temperance
lid is on tighter than ever before And
Atwood will grow and prosper and get
better as she grows aged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
FAMILY ROW IN HIGH COURT
Edward Hamaker, Formerly of Abb
Iene, Is Suing His Sister.

Charges and counter charges have
been made in a suit which is being
heard in the United States circuit court
today in which Edward S. Hamaker of
Nampa, Idaho, formerly of Abilene, IS
suing his sister, Mrs. Ella S. Gleissner,
for an accounting of an estate said to be
worth s1914O
Charges are made by Hamaker that
his sister obtained an undue influence
over Mrs John G. Hamaker, the mother
who it is said habitually used morphine
to secure the control of the family
estate.
Charges are made that the defendant
gave morphine to her mother, Mrs. J.
G. Hamaker, to further the formers
plans for securing control and that the
son, Edward S. Hamaker, was miSrep-
resented to his mother and accused of
Incorporating moneys belonging to
the estate The whole case is charged
with bitterness of an unpleasant sort
J. G. Hamaker was a prominent dry
goods dealer of Abilene about eighteen
years ago. He became seriously ill in
1889 and died soon thereafter. His prop
erty at that time consisted of dry
goods store which it is estimated was
Wallace and Ellis counties together with
property in Dickinson county.
The dry goods store was managed for
a time by Edward S. Hamaker and it
is claimed that during the period of his
management the store was badly ham
died and Indebtedness occurred that
finally resulted in the dissolution.
Mrs. J. G. Hamaker at her death, it
is stated. willed all of the property to
her daughter, Ella S. Gleissner.
In 1904 it is claimed by the plaintiff,
that he discovered that an estate exist
ed and that Ella S. Gleissner was trying
to conceal the fact from the rightful
heirs Edward S. Hamaker asks for an
accounting of the property and his just
proportion since the deed of his father
to the mother provided that the proper
ty should go at the death of the mother
to the two sons.
The defendant claims that no prop
erty eists and that the membranes
which existed against it have taken the
nrincfDal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
HOME ROBBED OF $500.
Scammon Man Found 5000 in the
Back Yard Later On.

Scammon. April 1.-THE home of
Charles Crowder of this city, was
burglarized some time during the
night and a large sum of money taken
from under the pillow of Mr.. Crowder.
Chloroform was used and neither Mr..
Crowder or his wife know exactly the
time the money was taken The win
dow of the bedroom was left open by
the burglars after taking the money.
Mr. Crowder is the foreman of the
Stone strip pits, and often carries large
sums of money This evening he had
about $500 in bills and took it home
with him and placed it under his pill
low.
In the morning Mr.. Crowder found
nearly 5000 of the money scattered in
the grass in his yard The money was
all in bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
CAR PARTY AFLOAT ON OHIO.
Novel Trip Arranged by a Railroad
Official.


One of the most novel river trips
ever arranged will be that of General
Manager Miller of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois road and a party of friends.
They will occupy two private cars
which are to be loaded upon two river
barges and then towed behind a steam
er to New Orleans. The party left
Chicago last night on a special train
bound for Joppa. the southern terminal
of the Eastern Illinois in Massac coun-
ty, on the Ohio river. A specially pre-
wharf, and on which the cars can be
moved to the barges, has been con-
structed. Steam and compressed air
will be conveyed from the towing
steamer to the private cars on the bar
ges, the steam for heating purposes
and the compressed air to pump hot
and cold water into the cars and also
to operate a small dyanmo which will
furnish electric light.
The party of officials and friends will
occupy two private cars, and there will
be baggage car for the storage of
supplies. The trip down the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers will be a leisurely
one. After reaching New Orleans
tour of the south will be made, and
the cars will be returned to the north
via the Louisville & Nashville. The
party will be absent several weeks. The
movement Of private cars down the
Mississippi will be the first case of the
kind on record, and will attract much
attention in transportation circles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
LINES IN THE TERRITORIES.
Work Proceeding on Extensions and
Now Roads.

Guthrie, Ok, April 16.-Actual work on
the Colorado. Texas and Mexico railroad
south from Mangum, Ok, toward the Red
river, is now in progress, and President
Locke states thai If lie can get the rails
he will put the track in between Mangum
and ChIIlicothe, Tex. between now and
autumn, and have that much of the road
in operation. Representatives of his road
are now negotiating for the rails.
Agents of the Colorado, Texas & Mexico
are now in London placing the remaining
bonds of the first series between Mangum
and Abilene, Tex. amounting to $500. 600,
including the branches. Wall street took
90 per cent of them and London 40 per
cent 1t is expected to begin active work
all along the line to Abilene by May 10,
and from the main line to Hollis. Ok.
A conference was held in Muskogee
during the past week for the purpose of
securing an extension of the Midland Val
dey road from Muskogee to jerks, now
under construction. to be continued from
jerks through Sapulpa, I. T.. to Cushing.
Ok, where direct connection will be made
with the Eastern Oklahoma division of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe to
Guthrie. In the conference were Joseph
". McNeaI Of Guthrie Jacob Pickett Of
E. c. Reynolds of Sapulpa, H, N. Chest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
FRISCO ENGINEERS CONFER
Working on a New Contract With the
Management.

Springfield, Mo. April 16.-The
general board of adjustment of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
of the Frisco system will meet with
General Manager Nixon in st. Louis
next Thursday for the purpose of ar
ranging a schedule and drawing UP a
contract between their organization
and the railroad for the ensuing year.
At this meeting the engineers will
ask for a change in the present over
time system. They will demand that
they be paid for actual overtime,
whether It be ten minutes or an hour.
At this meeting the question of build
ing Railroad 7. NJ. C. a. at division
points on the Frisco system will also
be discussed. The citizens of Spring
field have offered to provide the site
for such an institution here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
A CoNvICTs ILL LUCK.
Disposes of Oil Land for 81 ,13O Which
Is Now Worth S25O.OOO

Leavenworth. Kan, April 16.-
What will prove one of the most in
interesting legal fights over a piece of
oil land situated in the Indian terri
tory, which is valued at about $780,
600, will be fought out in the courts
or the Indian territory within a short
time, as a result of Zeke Moore, a col
ored prisoner now confined in the fed
eral penitentiary here, signing a deed
TO this valuable tract of land to parties
interested in the United States Trust
& Oh company some months ago.
Attorney Barry Miller of Dallas,
Iexas, and E. L. Kistler, assistant ter
r1torial attorney of the Indian terri
tory, visited Zeke Moore at the federal
prison yesterday for the purpose of
conterring with him regarding the
company with a view to having the
deed set aside by the courts, claiming
.hat the deed was secured from the
prisoner under false pretenses.
Moore secured this piece of prop
erty, 100 acres in extent, by drawing
the claim when the land was opened
for settlement by the government 1t
IS situated near Bartlesville, Indian
territory. Shortly after securing the
right to ownership Moore stole
morse He was tried in the western
district of the Indian territory and
sent to the federal penitentiary to
serve sentence of five years. He was
received at the institution November
3, 1904, and with good time will be re-
leased June Z, 1908.
A short time after he was confined
in the penitentiary certain parties
learned that there was oil on the plot
OF land owned by Moore AS soon as
this was ascertained a large number
OF people began to become interested
in his case and during the next few
months as many as fifty persons came
to the federal prison for the purpose
OF seeing Moore with a view to secur-
ing deed to the land. He claims that
ne signed lease to the property to
the United States Trust and Oil com
pany for the remarkably small sum of
$1,13O.
Moore states that at that time he
signed duplicate leases. The attorneys
for Moore state that he evidently
signed two pieces of paper, one the
lease and the other the deed 1t is
alleged that the deed or the second
piece of paper was placed under the
first sheet and Moore was told that it
was a duplicate lease and without
looking at the second one signed it.
1t developed later that the deed was
filed, but the prisoner claims that he
did not sign this. The attorneys for
Moore will file charges in an endeavor
to again secure the land. alleging that
the oil company secured the lease I'M
der false REPRESENTATIONS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
TO OPEN BIG ZINC FIELDS.
Arkansas Men Plan to Build Needed
Road.

Yellville, Ark, April 16.-At a meet
ing of the Marion county commercial
ness men went into an agreement to
get a subscription of $4,000 in stock
and right of way for an electric line
from this city to the mouth of Cedar
creek on Buffalo river, about 20
miles south of here. The building of
this road will mean the immediate OPP
ening of the Rush mining camp, which
is rich in zinc ores. There are about
20 mines in this camp that would be
put into operation at once. As the
camp is in the midst of the Ozark
mountains, very little in the way of
eatab les is raised near by, so it will
necessitate the shipping in Of almost
everything, thus insuring a heavy in
coming freight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
Big Copper sale.

Los Angeles, April 16.-One of the
largest transfers in copper property
made lately was contaminated few
days ago in the sale of the Ray and
Cavanaugh properties in Pinal county,
Arizona, to Utah and Colorado capital
lists for 100000. Headquarters will
be in Los Angeles. Charles NJ. Mac
NeiIl, copper and smelter magnate of
Colorado and Utah; Sherwood Aldrich,
mine operator of Colorado Springs and
Rhyolfte, New, D. G. Jackin, manager
of the Utah Copper company, and sew
eraI other large interests in Utah and
Colorado form the syndicate that has
taken over the properties.