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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-12
WESTERN MAIL SCHEDULE.
Plans Being Discussed for the Length
ening of Them.

Chicago, Sept. 1Z-Several conferences
have been held between operating Off
Gals Of the Burlington and the North
eastern railroads the result of which
makes it almost certain that there viii
soon be another frightening of the
time of the fast mail trains between
Chicago. Omaha and the west. The
rumor that material increase in the
running time between the two cities IS
in contemplation is strengthened by the
fact that the officials of one of these
roads asked the officials of the Rock
Island if the latter company would put
of existing mail trains was lengthener.
1t is understood that the Rock Island
officials stated that they had had
enough of trying to give them they
did not purpose spending another $4,000
in trying to wrest mail contracts from
the grasp of the Burlington. In fact,
the Rock Island officials do not care
whether Omaha ever gets any mail, 50
far as the government side of the con-
troversy is concerned.
The people of Omaha. in the mean
time are up in arms over the present
service and the newspapers of that
city are bewailing the fact that the
government did not accept the Rock
Islands new train recently put on and
recently taken off, when the Burlington
agreed to, in all respects meet the
proposals of the Rock Island both as
to service and cost If the Burlington
and the Northwestern reach an agree
the people of Omaha will lose an entir.
business day as compared with the Ser
vice furnished formerly by the Rock
Island
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a WAIL FRoM MExICo.
Railroads There Are Threatened With
Great Car Shortage.

Railroads There Are Threatened With
Great Car Shortage.
Monterey, Mex, Sept. 12-According
to Mexican railway officials the rail-
roads in Mexico have the prospect Of
very serious car shortage to contend
with in the course of the next 80 to 60
days. and even now railroads in the re-
public find it very difficult to secure
freight cars sufficient to handle the
tonnage which the respective lines are
receiving. This shortage is due party
to the fact that many railroads in the
United States that are handling loaded
freight cars out OF mexico, after IN
loading the Mexican cars. send them
out on their own lines to relieve the
shortage there; but the prime cause of
the threatened shortage is the fact that
the Industrial interests of Mexico are
developing faster than the railroads can
have cars built and sent here to haul
the increased tonnage.
At the present time the Mexican Cen
trail is using every car it can possibly
spare to haul zinc ore TO the United
States smelters, and it is stated that
these shipments will have to be cur
tailed If not stopped altogether in about
80 days in order to provide for the or
ange crops of the states of JaIisco,
Guanajuta, Colima. Michoacan a.1d
other parts of that territory, which will
be ready for marketing by that time.
The National will also be compelled
to divert many of its cars from other
channels to that section to move crops
along its line. Orders are now being
issued by both systems to have all
available cars started for the fruit dis
tricts in time to handle the crop.
The Mexican Central now has orders
placed in the United States for 500
freight cars, in add1uon to those re-
ceived, and the National has an equal
number ordered, but owing to the rush
orders in the car manufacturing plants
in the United States it is very doubtful
that the Mexican railroads will receive
their cars in time to relieve this situa-
ton
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ARE READY FOR STUDENTS.
Thousands of Dollars Have Been
Spent on the Manhattan College


Manhattan. Kan. Sept. 12-Thou-
sands OF dollars are being spent here
TO prepare the state agricultural col
lege for the years work. Several
hundred men are repairing and build
ing about the college. More than
$4,000 has been spent in cement
walks. Much repairing has been done
in the buildings The creamery has
put in a cement floor. cement parti-
ton walls and cement washing tanks
and a cement receiving platform.
Early in June the contract was let for
the domestic science building to cost
$4,000 and workmen now have it up
to the second story. 1t is 92x1T6 feet.
the largest building on the grounds.
The contract has been let for the new
$4,000 veterinary building and work
will begin at once The new engineer
ing building to cost 100000, will not
be started until next July.
October 1 the domestic science
short course will open and $50 young
women will enter
The Y NJ. C a and Y W. C. A.
committees are already at work locat-
ing dents and by Saturday will
have their forces ready for the biggest
lob they have ever had. A great many
new houses have been built this sum-
mer and every room will be needed.
Indfca tons are that students will
come earlier this year than usual and
the Y. NJ c A. and Y. w c. A COM
mittees will begin to meet trains Sat
urdav,
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LEADS SIMPLE LIFE.
Grover Cleveland in His Home a
Plain Country Gentleman.

The barber under the First Nation
al building. who shaved me upon my
arrival here. fell to talking in a free
and easy manner about his fellow
townsman. Grover Cleveland.
I'VE don't see much of Grover
around here" said the tonsorial artist.
He has a law office up in Boston
and he is there practicing law nearly
all the time. Looks like pretty much
Of come-down for an ex-president of
the United States to be drummin' up
law business. but Grover knows all
the law there is in the United States
and then some. and if he wants to
swell his corDulent fortune that way
I reckon it's nobody's business but
his own"
This veracious tale about what Mr..
Cleveland is doing is about on a par
with hundreds of other stories that
one hears from the town gossips of
Princeton. Aside from a few of the ex-
Presidents intimate friends. who are
chiefly dignitaries of the University
circle, the people here know as little
concerning his personal affairs as do
the people of Indianapolis. They get
most of their information about Mr.
Cleveland and his doings from metro
polftan newspapers. and then guess the
rest.
The ex-President is a rich man
how rich nobody knows. 1t is stated
by everybody to whom 1 talked here
that he is millionaire at least, and by
some his wealth was estimated as
high as $300O,000 He has no hold
ings here except his residence property
but he has extensive real estate in
vestments in New York and Buffalo.
The principal part of his fortune, how
ever, is in stocks. He is supposed to
have friends in New York who are
in a position to pick judicious in
vestments and who look after his in
terests The ex-President is not in
the business of shearing lambs, and he
will have nothing to do with specula-
tive transactions that are the least bit
shady but whenever there is money
to be made by legitimate investments
in stocks he is not averse to taking a
hand.
Mr.. Cleveland was a farmer. just
for a little while. but he soon found |
that farming was not his long suit. !
few years ago he bought a farm !
of 100 acres east of Princeton, thinking |
that he would keep some COWS and |
get his family supply of dairy pro- |
ducts at first hand. 1t was losing |
proposition from the start. As was |
to be expected. everybody imposed on |
him In the first place, not being a /,
good Judge of soil. he bought farm |
that was cold and wet and of small |
value although he paid a round price |
for it.
Mr.. Cleveland soon discovered that |
he could not afford to be a farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-12
He Was = TOR.

81 had been sent up the river to
Two-Sings for year for a bit of con
work" said the man in the tweed
suit land I had made the acquafnt-
ance CT some good fellows We called
ourselves the Exclusives. but one day
the turnkey brought in new chap
and set him to work alongside of me-
AS soon as 1 got a chance I whispers:
Hello 20 you. Gully.
'fT'rl no Gully he answers back.
'ssWas it pocket-picking or embez-
zlemcnt?' says l.
He looks at me with cold glare
F" .Mebbe it's bank business or burg
lary?'
HE shifts at me.
" 'Mebbe YOU didn't do anything, but
are up here by ACCIDENT?
d" That's just it,, says he, and 1
don't want any of your company
Then you must be the biggest tom
in tho jug2'
~ am. I'm a life insurance man
who missed getting away to Europe
with the rest of the crowd because
stayed to sell my country place Don't
speak to me again until we have been
introduced and 1 have become salts
fed of your honestyI'''-M- Quad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-12
UnenviabIe Fame.

Lincoln Steffens, in an address on
municipal politics, said in Chicago of
a certain city:
THAT city is as notorious for its rot
tenness as the town of PEBBLES is no
torious for another characteristic.
"Here is an incident that will give
you an idea of the reputation of Pee
bles
"On a train one day a man rushed
into a car, held up his hand for atten-
ton. and shouted. excitedly:
"'Anybody here who belongs to
Peebles2
"'Aye, I do said small, dry old
fellow. calmly
:" Then said the other. lend US yer
cockscrew.'
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Work Starts on Topeka &
Northwestern Extension.
Big Force of Men Have Been
Placed in Field.
ON TO FRANKFORT.
Grading Force of 200 Teams to
Be Busy Soon.
Other Items of Interest to
Railway People.

Onaga. Kan, Sept. IA force of
engineers are cross sectioning the
grade of the extension of the T. & n.
between here and Frankfort. They
will be followed with grading outfits
of 200 teams and men to operate them,
and also one or two 60-ton steam
shovels. The graders and their equip
ment are expected here about the fif-
teenth of this month. The engineering
offices of the work will be here.
The graders will work under sub
contractors employed by Fitzpatrick
Brothers of Beatrice. Neb., to whom
the contract for the grading was let
at Omaha week ago.
h1lpatr1ck's offices will be here in
the old depot. The engineers head
quarters Will also be in the same
building.
This will constitute a branch office
in charge of F. w. Neuhardt assistant
engineer- He will work under w. s.
Woodwork, resident engineer of the
kansas division of the Union Pacific,
who will direct operations from his
Kansas City offices.
The graders expect to finish their
work within three months. They will
work Independently of the operating
department of the railroad, contrary to
expectations. and intend to complete
the grade without laying a rail. The
rails will be laid by the operating de-
partment
The civil engineers arrived Monday
and started to cross-section Tuesday.
They will have charge of about IL
miles of the proposed grade. Two
other crews of surveyors are also
working from the Frankfort end of
the line and each has charge of about
the same distance of the road.
The entire route of the road will
be covered with the graders and work
of grading will start all along the line
in about two weeks The outfits are
now being loaded and are on their
way here. They are being taken most
ly from the nearly completed cutoff
between Omaha and Lane. Neb.
ARRANGEMENTS were made for their
camps by ]. r. Fitzpatrick and about
ten sub-contractors last week. Kill
of way last week. At this time, be-
sides arranging for grading camps.
they made estimates of the work upon
which sub-contractors will make their
bids.
w. D. Richardson. in charge of the
work with headquarters at Marysville,
last year, is not likely to be here again
He is locating new railroad in
Wyoming and it is not thought that he
will be recalled from there. J. B.
Burnham will be in charge of the -ac-
counts of the work and will be station
ed in Onaga. All indications are that
the contract to have trains running by
January IS can easily be filled.
The members of the surveyors par
tv who are stationed here include
Warren Thomas. j. {. Boyle, :. A
of Kansas City and F. W.
%euhardt of Omaha.
An outfit of thirty graders for the t |
& y. arrived yesterday and will go to |
work as soon as their camp is located. |
At the CITY hotel are forty-f1ve men !
who came in last night from Nebraska. !
they will have camp on the Hetzler !
place. With them are 80 horses and |
LOO scra pers-
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Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the. ear
There is only one way to cure deafness.
and that is by constitutional remedies.
pea fness is caused by an inflamed condi-
tion of the mucous lining of the Eustach-
ian Tube When this tube is inf1amed you
have rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing and when it is entirely closed, deaf
ness is the result, and unless the inflam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever; nine cases out
If ten are caused by Catarrh. which is
nothing but an fnf1aIned condition of the
mucous surfaces
we will give One Hundred Dollars for
anv case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that can not be cured by Hairs Catarrh
Ci1re Send for circulars. free
F J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton
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get such documentary evidence and 9TH
81 Lacts as he thought would be neces-
49, n oroer TO secure a conviction.
After hearing the arguments of counsel
on Doth sides Judge Altman set the
case Tor Wednesday. At the converting
OF court Mertz made another effort 70
set continuance, but when it was re-
fused he asked that the case against
Mrs Barclay be dismissed.
The case against McAnany was con-
unueo until the next term Shortly af-
ter TINS the two defendants and their
attorney. accompanied by Mr. Mertz.
left for Elgin. where there is a charge
pending against them for disturbing the
peace. This case Will be tried before
justice there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-12
CUT OUT SECRET SOCIETIES.
students for EmDOria College Must
Sign Such a Pledge.

Emporia, Kan. Sept. 12.-An students
ma circulating for the school year, 1907
o. at Emporia college, which opened
Wednesday with the largest first day
enrolment in it's history, were required
to sign a pledge not to affiliate with
any secret society during the school
year
President Cuibertson says this was
not because of anything done by a ny
secret society during the past, but to in
sure the welfare of school and students
and to prevent the formation of frater-
rities. the faculty believing them detrl-
mental to both.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-12
GONE TRAVEL MAD
EmpOria Colorado "GadderS"
We're Plentiful This Season.
Spent Seven Thousand Dollars
in Railroad Fares.
JAMESTOWN PARTY.
JAMESTOWN
Thirty-One Excursionists Take
an Eastern Coast Jaunt.
Nearly $4,000 Devoted to
Sight Seeing by EmpOrians.

Emporia. Kan. Sept. 1.-THE Ga
zette says:
Seven thousand dollars seems a
large sum to be expended for railroad
fare by pleasure seekers during three
months by the people of a town Of
10000 inhabitants. but the people of
Emporia spent that amount in railroad
fares to Colorado alone during the
summer months. This is a sign that
Emporia and its neighborhood have
prospeFed during the past year. for 4
trip to Colorado is to most people a
luxury. and not a necessity.
J. NJ. Green. Emporia agent for the
santa Fe. saws that his companys
Colorado business from June to Sep
TENDER has been IS per cent better
than for several wears and that travel
over the western states is more extern
sive than ii has ever been. The number
of tickets to Colorado points soldd uring
the summer months has BEEN June,
So; July, 120; August. 100; September,
estimated at so. and will probably
exceed that number. The points to
which the larger number of tickets
were made out are Denver. Colorado
Springs and Pueblo. and the average
sum paid was ST.. Three hundred
and ninety-five. the total number Of
tickets sold. multiplied by ST. makes
a total of S6.912.5O spent for railroad
fare The buying of a ticket is usual
" the smallest consideration in max
ing pleasure trip. as a much larger
sum is expended in incidentals and
expense of hotels The average
length of time spent by Emporia peo-
pile in Colorado was three weeks so
that their expenses above railroad
fare. figured a about 50 per day were
S16.590, increasing the amount spent
by Emporians in Colorado trips to
$23.5O2.50.
Mrs. Corbett's jamestown excursion
which was made up of thirty-one En-
poria people. cost each person in thu
party SSS- This included every ex-
pense from the start at the station
here until the party arrived at home.
It was a well planned excursion and
was arranged for completely before the
excursion started. saving a consider
able sum of money for these who join
ed the party. The total cost of this
trip was $3,o1s. This, added to the
$22.502.5O expended by Emporians on
Colorado travel. makes s26,52O.50.
This is by no means all of the money
spent in travel for pleasure by the
people of this town. as numbers of
people went to the jamestown EXPOSE
rion besides those in Mrs. Corbett's |
party and numerous tickets were sold |
10 Salt Lake City. Seattle and points |
on the Pacific coast. A few Emporfa |
people took trips to Europe. A con-
ductOr on a westbound train was heard /
to say the other dav. Il believe all the |
people on the North American con-
tinent have gone travel mad"
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sIICKNEY NOT WORRIED.
Great Westerns President Says For
eigners Have Faith in Securities.

st. Paul, Sept. 12.-President A. B.
Stickrey of the Chicago Great Western
road has returned from Europe. Unlike
some other railroad men he is not wor-
ried because Wall street has had to sell
few of its automobiles
Il think the worst of the trouble is
over" Mr.. Stickney said yesterday.
Some things that have happened may
be announced later; that is, some con-
Germs that have got into difficulties may
have to suSpend-some eastern con-
Germs, I mean. But 1 do not expect the
trouble to spread to the west or grow
more serious in the east Most of the
foreigners have not lost any of their
faith in American investments. They
think it is simply Yankee antic to put
stocks up and knock them down again.
1t has often happened before and the
foreigners are used to it. 1t does not
shake their confidence in our securi-
ties a7ff=
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RAID AN EMPRESS OFFICE.
Officials Search for Liquor at Fredonia
and Arrest Employees.

Neodesha. Sept 12.-Sheriff Timmons
and Undersheriff McGrath were here
from F'redonia and raided the Pacific
express office. They found no liquor
that did not rightfully belong there but
arrested C L. Johnson. the agent and
Roby White. owner of the building,
charging them with maintaining a nuis-
ance.
johnson and White were both releas-
ed on their promise to give bond and
the case will probably be continued I'M
til the January term of court.
Mr.. Johnson says his records are all
straight and he has no fear of being
convicted.
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Silver Statue
lOc Cigar
AT ALL GOOD DEALERS

He sold his farm and now he is buying
his eggs, butter and poultry in the open
market and saving money.
Although the ex-President is seen
very little in Princeton he IS very
democratic in his dress and demean-
or when he appears in public. He
relegated his silk hats to ever lasting
oblivion when he left the White House.
In the winter he wears a "slOuch" hat.
and in the summer he prefers straw
headgear. He dresses for comfort and
not for style.-Princeton Letter in
IndianapOIis Star.
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roads<a number of suggestions regard
ing these rates and have asked them
to express their views as to which of
these suggestions would be the best to
adopt at a second meeting of the COM
mittees. to be held here September 20.
One of the suggestions submitted is that
no hofneseekers' fares be authorized to
points in which 2-cent laws are in op-
Grafton, but to other territory a rate of
one fare plus 81 for the round trip be
made. It is further suggested that one
way colonist rates be abolished entire
~
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A Humane Appeal.

A humane citizen of Richmond Ind.
Mr. u D. Williams, 107 West Main street
says: Il appeal to all persons with weak
lungs to take DR. Kings New Discovery,
the only remedy that has helped me and
fully comes up to the proprietor's recon-
mendation.'' 1t saves more lives than all
gether Used as a cough and cold cure
the world over. Cures asthma. bronchitis
Group whooping cough. quinsy. hoarse-
ness and phthisic, stops hemOrrhages of the
lungs and builds them up Guaranteed a
ali drug stores. SOC and 500. Trial bot
tIeS
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W1LTDEsT-RoY THE BEER.
Salina Officials Have S3 Cases Besides
Whisky and Gin.

Salina, Kan, Sept 12.-When
Mayor Hills returns from Colorado
the city Will make another destruction
of the beer and whisky that has been
collected during the last few months
in the raiding of joints.
The police have been collecting con-
siderable wet goods within the past
few weeks and the quantity stored
away in the cellar of the city hall is
now almost as much as when the
former destruction was made June 4.
At that time there were eighty-three
cases of beer destroyed. together with
considera BILE whisky and gin.
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Porch Vine From Japan.

TheS vine in bloom on the porch of
the s. s Smith home on Walnut Hill
was originally from Japan and is
known as paniculata, or star clematis.
This variety of clematis is exceeding
y prolific, both in growth and in
blooming. is very fragrant and the
vines when not in bloom are very
beautiful. They often grow fifteen to
twenty feet in a year.-El Dorado Re
OubIicaU
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JURY CONVICTED BOOTH.
Found Him Guilty of Numbering L. C.
Prick of Galena

Galena. Kan, Sept. 12.-The iurv in
the murder case of ex-City Marshal
Charles Garner and R. D. Booth, return
ed verdict for acquittaI for the former
and found the latter guilty of murder
in the second degree.
The charge against Garner and Both
was robbery and murder of a second
hand dealer named L. c. F'rick in this
city on the night of May 6. Prick was
lured to an isolated section of the CITY
and robbed of $500. In resisting. he was
shot in the neck. and died a few DAYS
afterwards. In his dying declaration
Prick implicated Garner. Garner was
arrested on the charge about three
weeks after the expiration of his term
as marshal.
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grain rate reductions until the federal
court acts on the request of the rail-
roads for a temporary injunction The
the commission from regulating the
new grain schedules Senator AIdrich,
attorney for the commission, has asked
the governor to call special session of
the legislature providing the new rates
are tied I'D indefinitely in the courts
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Anple BLOSSOMS i'm September.

A twig broken from an apple tree
was brought into the Union office this
afternoon from the T. z. Mann home
in this city The twig bore five well
developed blossoms. This is a rare
thing for this time of the year
Junction City Union.
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Judge Benson at salina.

Salina, Kan. Sept. 12.-Judge W. A.
Benson. Governor Z. w Hoch's recent
appointee to the supreme court bench,
will deliver the opening address at the
opening exercises of the Kansas Wes-
leyan university today About so stud
ents have been enrolled and the en-
rollment in the morning is expected to
reach 700.