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Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1907-11-30
MATRIMONIAL
Recent and BaCk-Number We'd
dingS-- Cupid Gets Funny
SIMMONs-EDGEwoRTH

Mr.. F.. A. Simmons and Miss Iva
Myrtle Edgcworth, both OF Johnnie, New
were united in holy wedlock, at 9
o clock, on the evening Of the 2}d inst =,
at the home Of the groom's parents on
4th street, Las Vegas. The occasion was
very happy one. The parlor was
beautifully decorated with evergreens,
roses and carnations. Mr.. Warren
Woodworth, Of Johnnie and Miss Ruth
Simmons, sister of the groom were the
attendants. The PARTIES took their
place beneath a large bell Of flowers,
while Rev. DIR. Balm utiiciated, pro-
nouncing them husband and wife, and
invoked the Heavenly Fathers bene-
diction on the happy pair. After the
things too great of variety to enumerate
was served.
Mr. and Mrs. Simmons returned to
Johnnie on Monday where they expect
to make their future home. They are
! both young, active, in good health, in
dustrious-fully equipped for success
ful future.
STALEY-PINE
This discreet couple took months
trial Of the alleged advantages of double
bessedness before presuming to cele-
brate the situation or make it public.
Upon invitation of Mr.. and Mrs C. T.
Pine to wedding reception in honor
OF their daughter, Zella, and Nj. Ernest
VI. Staley," the public pricked up its
ears in anticipation of a public wedding
and gathered in force Monday night at
Aplin's auditorium. The place was APP
propriately decorated. Upon the can
opie,Istage were piano and pianist and
/ sweet-voiced singers ro5ed in white, and
hind a flower bedecked stand and cloth
ed in his robe of judicial dignity IN adj
dition to regulation apparel sat- II. N.
Lills, Justice of the Peace and First
High Chief Executor Of the mandates of
Sir Cupid. Then came a brief musical
program: Violin solo, Mr. Beckley
piano solo, Mrs. Dillon violin solo, Miss
Dolan; vocal solo, Mrs. Sharpe. Then
came the wedding march, played by
Miss Rossell and the bridal party enter
ed, the bride and groom preceded by
Miss Julia Westlake and Mr.. Walter
Manuel and little Irene Sears ~ flower
girl, traversing the length of the hall in
slow and halting cadence. Then arose
the Judge, accompanied by the stretch
ing of some POO necks, who stated that
he had been requested TO make few re-
marks upon this important and solemn
occasion, and then with clever speech,
conceaing well his purpose, proceeded
to lead his hearers up to point where
they suddenly became aware Of the fact
the couple before them had been mar
ried more than a month before in the
Judges office, with two other humorists,
Sam Gay and q. A. Case, as witnesses.
The situation was a complete surprise to
the audience and it gasped audibly.
The whole performance was cleverly
planned and successfully carried out and
is generally conceded to be good joke,
but we are not able to state at this writ
ing just who it is on.
After formalities the large company
was entertained with dancing and re-
galed with excellent refreshments.
Mr.. and Mrs. S,aley received many
fine presents. They are now residing
on Second street, between Fremont and
Carson.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1907-11-30

Mining Blanks for sale cheap at The
Age office. Call or order by mail.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1907-11-30

Mining Deeds, Location Notices and
Certificates at The Age office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
SHORTHORNS TO MEXICO.
colonel w. A Harris Plan to Improve
the Southern Breeds.

Kansas City, May 14-Wru the
longhorned steer of Mexico give way
to the shorthorn? Will the shorthorn
thrive in that southern country? Ex-
Senator w. A. Harris of Kansas be-
lieves it will. and has taken the mat
ter up with General Don Luis Teraz-
zas. governor of Chihuahua. That
Mexican official is eager for the blood
ed cattle to be taken to his state.
Colonel Harris was in Kansas City
yesterday on his way home from Mex
leo. He had been there studying cat
tie conditions in the interest of the
American Snorthorn Breeders asso-
citation. He believes that the short
horn will do well down there, and in
government officials. expects to send
five or six shorthorns to the Mexican
Agricultural college in suburb of the
City of Mexico. These cattle are to
be selected in Missouri or Kansas from
the purest bred herds.
Mexican cattle are smaller than
the cattle of Texas said Colonel
Harris said. ''They have no loin and
The meat is poor. In many of the
best restaurants and hotels imported
steaks are listed on the menus. These
steaks are shipped to Mexico from the
United states, Cattle are only worth
from $12 to SIS a head. United States
money, in Mexico. And there are
millions in the country. In the state
of Jalisco. near Guadalajara, there are
IL mlllOn 1n1nk OF II, 10 HlllIloi
runty cattlei In Chihuahua there are
6 million. Coming through that state
on my way home 1 saw fully $4,000
head in herds of 500 or more. 1t
would take years and years to raise
the general standard of cattle down
there"
Only Texas Cattle Barred.
Colonel Harris said that because
Texas cattle were barred from Chi
huahua. the general belief was that
all northern cattle were barred. This,
he saws, is a mistake. Chihuahua is
above the fever tick line. but northern
cattle, from other than Texas points,
may go there.
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Kansas Farmers All Organizing
for Mutual Protection.
New Grange Movement Under
Supervision of I'LL. w. Gaines.
AREMANYNEW LODGES
Now 1S4 in the State With the
Order Growing Rapidly.
Lyon, Usage and Reno Counties
Are Pushing the Movement.

Emporia, May 14.-Kansas is now
in the midst of a new grange move
ment. a lodge of the new order. the
Farmers Educational and CoOpera-
tive Union of America, has been or
ganized at Lakeside with perhaps
twenty members, and a promise given
the organizer, H. y. Gaines, ex-state
superintendent of public instruction,
of four additional lodges after his re-
turn from Hutchinson. two weeks
from now. At Hutchinson, May 81,
state lodge will be esta blished
In the state there are now 1S4
lodges. eighteen being in Usage coun-
ty- OF course the order is non-politi-
cal in a partisan sense. It proposes,
however. to sell at wholesale, operate
cold storage plants. warehouses. eIe-
vators and perhaps mills as it is now
doing in the south. and to a certain
extent already in Usage county. The
union is less than a year old in Kan
sas. and less than five years old in
America, and it already has a mem
bership of over a million 1t proposes
to stop paying four freight charges On
cattle before the finished product
reaches the consumer
A large and enthusiastic meeting of
the farmers at Lakeside. coming to-
gether with less than twenty-four
hours notice and that by the wireless
grapevine telegra phi. resulted as stated
Onicers elected are: Blewford Roth
president; Charles Mayes, secretary
and treasurer: o. K. Miller. sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
1t Does Not Seem to Work Well in
TtaIy

Dissatisfaction with the Italian rail-
roads is becoming more serious than
ever It has received a further impe-
tus from an incident by which the king
of Italy himself was made to suffer. 1t
is said that on a recent occasion, when
his majesty was about TO make jour
ney from Rome, it was impossible to
find a spare engineman on the spur of
the moment, and the intended trip had
to be abandoned. Whether this be true
or not there is no doubt that the gen.
eral public, and especially the COM
mercfal community, has been suffering
seriously The mayors of three import
ant cities, Genoa, Milan and Turin, re-
Gently met for the special purpose of
sis of the railroad service. The diff
Guilty of making good the deficiencies
in rolling STOCK which existed when
the roads were taken over by the state
have been recently emphasized, while
one of the most authoritative deputies,
formerly a cabinet minister, has just
published a strong article on the sub
ject So important does he consider the
Industrial aspect of the matter that he
of expense, to provide at once 1000
more engines, $500 passenger cars, 400
baggage cars and 10000 freight cars,
and to appoint a minister of railroads,
who will be directly responsible to
parliament, with a technical director
under him. Even the employees seem
to have derived little or no advantage
from naturalization. which, as in Bel
GUM, has benefited only the deputies
and their friends. For. according to
the well known review, the Nuova An
tologia, the rate of wages paid is mis-
era Bile, and is in itself sufficient to ex-
plain the Incompetence of the staff
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road as Harvest as Colby, because it
is a shorter route than they now have.
AS the Salina & Oakley line is the best
feeder the Union Pacific has in this
state, it hardly looks reasonable
that they will sell or even lease this
stub to the Rock Island or any 9TH
er road in opposition to the Union Pa
cific.
Another railroad which has consid-
cradle paper weight is the road pro-
jected from Garden City to run north
west. At a meeting Of the directors
of this line held at Ness City a few
days since ex-Heutenant governor D. ].
Hanna of Hill City and E. H. Lupton
of Hoxie. were elected on the board of
directors. The capital stock of the
company was increased, and other
business matters transacted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
SOME PROJECTS IN KANSAS.
Gulf, PlainviIIe & Northern VIII Be
Built.

Plainville, May 14.-C. G. Cochran,
one of the head pushers of the Gulf,
Plainville & Northern railroad, has
returned from the east where he has
been for some weeks in the interests
of the new Plainville line. He will re-
turn again in a few days to continue
the negotiations. He has great con-
fdence that the road will be built, and
that work will be resumed at an early
day This is the road that township
bonds have been voted for as far as
Logan, and the grade has been COM
pleted almost to the Solomon river.
There are rumors floating around
to the effect that the Union Pacific
will relay the Salina & Oakley branch
with S0-lb. steel rails. Some of the
papers along this line continue to
print the story which originally ap-
peared in the Hill City Republican, to
the effect that the Rock Island will
run their through trains over this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
ERIEs NEW ORE YARDS.
Are Finest of Their Kind on the Great
Lakes.

Cleveland, O., May 14.-with the OPP
ening of navigation this year, the Erie
railroads new ore yards will be placed
in operation. Several hundred thou
sands of dollars have been expended in
undermining the ore unloading plant
and the capacity has been doubled. The
Is old-fashioned Brown rigs for unload
ing ore have been torn down and sent
to the scrap heap. This plant when
erected many years ago was considered
at the time the finest on the lake front.
In it's place has been erected a new
Brown Fast plant, consisting of four
machines, with a capacity for unload
ing 10000 ton boat in four hours and
loading 600 cars IN IL hours from its
fiVe-ton buckets. 1t is also provided
with four automatic suspended weigh
ing buckets of 200 tons capacity each.
These add to the rapidity of work by
automatically weighing and dumping
the ore into each car as 1t runs under
the feeder. Gondolas of so tons capac-
ity each are ordinarily used in hauling
ore, though the Erie has provided
number of 75-ton cars for use in haul
ing to the Randall yards for storage.
This new plant, experimenting the
one installed two years ago, gives to
the Erie on the old river dock the fast
est and finest plant anywhere on the
Great Lakes. The new plant has been
erected alongside the recently straight
ened docks The machines are opera
ted over tracks of 100-pound rails laid
on groups of 50-foot pixies driven as
closely IOR6LnoTf as II WAS pOSSlOlc W
put them and topped with heavy oak
stringers. This runway is 500 feet long
and so can operate on a 600-foot boat,
unloading from all the matches at once.
Power to operate the plant is convey
ed by a third rail laid alongside the
runaway tracks. To facilitate rapid
weighing of cars loaded at the Fast
plant erected two years ago, two new
15O-ton scales, each AZ feet long and
equipped with the Streeter-Amet re-
cording device, have been installed
midway between the two plants and on
tracks leading directly to the yards.
This yard which covers an area of
nearly 10 acres, has been completely
remodeled during the winter, leveled
by an average fill of four feet, with
new S0-pound rail substituted on all
the switch tracks.
Power for the operation Of the plant
is furnished from a new power house
at the lower end of the yard.
The acme of economic handling has
been achieved in these yards. Care from
the coal regions are drawn into the
yards loaded, carried down the river to
the unloader, where they are automati-
cally tipped over into chutes feeding
directly into the boats, then switched
and run back to the ore unloader,
where they are loaded.
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er, but this will be so arranged that
1t will not weaken the end walls of the
car.
use of round instead of square win
dows. They will be somewhat smaller
than the square lights, but less liable
to destruction by accident. new pat
ent ventilator, which is being used by
the Union Pacific on it's motor cars,
will be placed on the new coaches, and
the car will present an appearance so
little in common with the ordinary
coach that it will, at first, hardly be
recognized as a passenger vehicle.
The new coach is being constructed
at the shops of the company in this
city and will be placed in service in
about so days. It will resemble the
coaches in use on the English lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
r. L. SHOPS FOR wAURIKA.
Intends to Build Repair
Plant There.

Guthrie, Okla, May 14.-As a re-
suit of the new law limiting the num-
Der of hours which trainmen may be
kept on duty, the Rock Island rail-
road has found it necessary to rear
range and shorten some of it's di-
visions in the southwest.
Waurika has been named as a d.
vision point, and land has been pur-
chased there for a new round house
and machine shops. Surveys are now
being made for the new building.
The establishing of this new d.
vision point is also taken as an addf-
tional indication that the Rock Island
intends to build the line west from
Ardmore through Cornish and Glen
wood to Waurika, on which construc-
ton work was commenced some years
nounced reason.
1t is stated that material is now be-
ing unloaded at Byers for a bridge
across the Red river on this extension.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
SIDE DOORS FOR CARS.
Union Pacific Adopts English Plan for
Coaches.

Omaha, May 14.-Side doors are to
be a feature of a new style of coach
to he introduced on the Union Pacific.
This style of car will be the most radi-
cal departure from the end-door sys-
tenn. used universally ever since rail-
roads in America came into existence
The door will be wider than those now
in use, and. it is believed. will form
much quicker means of egress than a
door built at one end the car
w. r. McKeen, superintendent of
motive power of the Union Pacific, is
the originator of the idea to build pas
senger cars with side instead of end
doors. He believes that cars thus con-
structed will be much stronger and
more durable than the style now used,
and that in case of wreck there will
be little danger of the coaches tele-
scoping each other. The car will have
small passagewaya by which passen-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
PARASITES ARE HELPING.
Are Killing on the Green Bug Out in
Reno County Fields.

Hutchinson. Kan. May 14-Scarcity
OF green bug parasites and packing
cases OF any sort at Lawrence has COM
PEELED the county commissioners here r.
snip a quantity of empty boxes to Enid
o. T., where the State university secures
the bugs for distribution.
the station al Enid will ship large
nunhoer OF bug packages direct to
Hutchinson for distribution to the farm
ers mere. Fifty boxes were received
from Lawrence Monday and sent to the
neids. Farmers say the parasites ara.
klllnS the green bugs, evidences being
produced or wheat stems being covered
with the dead bugs The wheat il do
Ing we'll the past few days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
ANOTHER RATE COMPLAINT.
Kansas City Engineer Objects to Rail-
way Charges.

Washington. May IA. NJ Blod-
gett, contracting engineer of Kansas
City, has filed complaint with the in
tefstate commerce commission against
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
the Missouri Pacific and the Santa Fe
railroad companies. He complains
that he was charged a combination
Griffithville, Ark, to Biddle, Mo, via
Kansas City, of 80 cents per 100
pounds, when there was in operation
at the time another Combination rate
via st. Louis over these same roads
between the same points Of "a n cents
per 100 pounds. Mr.. Blodgett wants
reparation in the way of a payment OF
the $3.50 difference which he had to
pay in freight. and he wants the COM
further violation of the interstate
commerce law in this manner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
FIRE AT COUNCIL GROVE.
Cottage Grove Hotel, an Old Town
landmark, Goes Up in Flames.

Council Grove. Kan, May 1.-THE
Cottage house of this city. one of the
best appointed hotels in Central Kan
sas, was nearly ruined by the fire Mon
day. Quick work by the fire compan-
les prevented a spread of the flames in
the fierce wind to other buildings. The
blaze started in the linen closet on the
second floor of the new north wing.
The loss amounts to several thousand
dollars. Mrs. Mead, wife of Lewis
Mead. president of the National bank
of this city, has been the keeper of
this hotel for twenty-five years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
SHE BUILDS RAILROADS.
Mrs. Hooker Is Prominent i'm Texas as
Contractor.

Austin, Tex, May 14.-Mrs. S. c.,
Hooker is a prominent railroad con-
tractor in Texas. She took a large
grading contract on the Kansas City,
Mexico and Orient railroad between
Sweetwater, Tex, and Knox City,
more than a year ago. and she came
out so well with it that she has en-
larged her outfit and is now at work
on a large contract on the same road
between Sweetwater and San Angelo.
She not only finances the job, but
she superintends the grading work
personally. She lives in the grading
camp and spends most of her time on
the stretches of grade, directing the
work of the laborers and other en-
pIoyes. She started in with twenty
mule teams, but her outfit has been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
POLICE SEIZE A LOAD OF BEER.
The Eagle Club Room at Arkansas
City Short of Supplies.

City Short of Supplies.
Arkansas City, Kan, May 1.-THE
first seizure of beer in transit was
made here Monday by the police of
the new administration, who discover
ed dray belonging to the T. Webster
Transfer company unloading beer,
which was being carried to the Eagle
club rooms. The officers seized the
team and attempted to arrest the driv-
er. but he escaped by running
A A. Webster, owner of the team
climbed into the wagon and took the
re1nS from the officer driving. He
drove to his office and commanded the
OFFICERS to get out, whipped up his
team and started toward the Frisco
depot.
The officer drew his revolver and
forced Webster to drive to the city
building. where the beer was locked in
the city Jail and Webster was arraign-
ed in police court on the charge of re-
sisting an officer.
The police searched the Eagles club
rooms, but found no beer or whisky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
1T REDUCES THE REVENUE.
Junction City Saloon Closing Causes
Smaller Salary for Officers.

Junction City, Kan. May Injunction
City has abolished the office of commits
sioner, and the new appointive city Off
GERS took their several offices, some at
reduced salaries. This is the first act
of retrenchment by the new city ad-
ministration. Heretofore Junction City
received $1,000 to $1,400 a month by
licensing saloons. During the first
month of the prohibition administrat ton,
the revenue from the police court was
81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
THE UNDERTAKINGS TO MEET.
About $50 to Hold Annual State Con-
XentiOn in IeaYenNOrth

Leavenworth. May 1.-THE under
takers of Kansas will hold their an
nual state meeting in Leavenworth
next month. About $50 of them are
will be represented and in addition to
this a number of travelling statesmen
for undertakers' supply houses in this
part of the country will attend the
convention.
The convention will be in session
from June II to 20. The local under
takers are planning for the entertain
ment of the visitors.
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To Recover Theater Rent.

Kansas City. Kan. May 14-M. J.
Cunningham, who leases the Peoples
theater from the heirs of M. L. Stock
ton and subjects 1t to the Fulton Bros
Stock company. brought suit in the
common pleas court yesterday against
Fulton Bros. to recover $3.50 which he
says is due for rent. W. A. Simpson, a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14

One More Railway Is Projected IN
Oklahoma.

Guthrie, Ok, May 1.-THE Shaw
100000 capital stock, and with
headquarters at Shawnee, Ok, has
been chartered by Secretary Filson to
build 800 miles southwest from Mus
kogee, via Shawnee; to Childress. Tex,
and eighty miles northeast from
Shawnee to Tulsa. The route lies
through the Creek, Seminole and
ChickaSaw nations in Indian territory
and the counties in Oklahoma OF
Pottawatomie, Cleveland, Lincoln.
Caddo, Comanche and Greer. DR.. w.
S. Woods, president of the National
Bank of Commerce of Kansas City, Is
the principal incorporation, together
with James M. Aydelotte, James w.
Ruby, Charles ]. Benson, William p.
Dix, William NJ. Davis. George H.
Kerfoot Henry T. Douglas. r. ].
Burke, P. A. Norris and Sidney ].
Roy, all of Shawnee.
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a WeIIington Wedding.

Wellington. Kan. May 14-At the
residence of the brides parents, Mr. and
Mrs c. Barnard. c. w. King of New
ton. and Miss Myrtle Barnard were
united in marriage by Rev. Lee Boyce,
pastor of the Baptist church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
THE WHEAT LOOKS GOOD.
Kansas City Commercial Club Sees
Little Damage in Meade


Little Damage in Meade.
Meade. Kan, May 14-At the three
steps the Kansas City Commercial club
special has made thus far, Bucklin,
Mlneola ana Fowler, Kan, citizens re-
ported that the wheat prospects, were
excellent. At Fowler it was said that
the crop was never in better shape
tnat there was an increased acreage
ana the conditions We're encouraging
in all respects From Observa tion from
the car windows, grain men on the
Tram say that they have seen few in
dlcat1ons of the green bug evil or dam
age by frost
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WON IN THE WHEAT MARKET.
Wichita Spectator Cleans Up $780,
600 in the Past Thirty Days.

Wichita, Kan. May 14.-Twenty-f1 five
thousand dollars profit is the net result
of Monday for Arthur Pauline, of this
city Mr.. Pauline made his winning on
the sharp advance of wheat since Sat
urday. Within the last thirty days he
is said to have cleaned up 100000 in
wheat deals.
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Brings Home a Japanese Bride.

Seattle, Wash, May 14.-Horace H.
Lavine, son of a wealthy shoe merchant
Of Syracuse, N. Y, passed through here
yesterday with his Japanese bride on
his way home to break the news of his
marriage to his parents. Mrs. Lavine
is reported to be wealthy. She speaks
70 English Lavine enlisted in the First
Tennessee volunteers and was in the
boxer troubles with the Ninth infantry.