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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
DEPLOREs LOAN FAILURE.
Hartman Says Hostile Legislation
Defeated It.

New York June 5.-That negotiations
for the placing of a S50,0O0.000 loan in
Europe by the Union Pacific Railroad
company failed because of the attacks
on railroad corporations in this coun-
try early in the year was the statement
made by E. II. Hartman today.
Mr.. Hartman said that had the ne
gotiations been successful, the proceeds
would have been brought to this coun-
try at a time when the American money
markets were urgently in need of funds,
but as the arrangements could not be
successfully completed, a different plan
of financing was followed by the Union
Pacific. as recently announced.
Mr.. Hartman said that the present
financial plans of the company will pro-
vide all the funds required by the Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific companies.
Mr. Hartman said also that the Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific lines are
taking all steps necessary to keep their
plants and equipment in a foremost po-
sition among western roads and in con-
dition to properly cope with the growth
of business. No policy of retrenchment
had been inaugurated, according to Mr..
Hartman, and no extensions into new
fields are being planned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
BLEW DOWN a CHURCHES
Heavy Windstorrn Visits Texas Towns
Doing Much Damage.

Rome, Tex. June 5.-Four churches
and one schoolhouse were blown down
by a heavy windstorm here. The pub
lie school building was first lifted COM
pletely clear of its foundations. Much
lumber was scattered all over the town
and several box cars were blown of
their track.
Dallas, Tex. June 5.-A tornado
struck three miles west of Decatur.
The district covered by the storm was
narrow. but much damage was done to
property
No lives were lost Two residences
were destroyed and several barns were
blown down. Hail destroyed the crops
west and south of Decatur.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
FELL DEAD WHILE DRIVING.
German Wife of Alexander Reinhardt
Couldn't Explain.

Garden. City, kan, June 5.-German
interpreter, Afexander iReinhardt, who
has been employed by the Sugar com
pany since December last. died sud
denly Monday afternoon. while driving
with his wife. west of the factory.
Mr.. Reinhardt had been apparently
in good health up until the time of
his death. and it was upon his own
suggestion that they (himself and
wife) go driving. They had gone sew
eral miles west of the factory and
were chatting pleasantly when all at
once his muscles relaxed and he top
pied over in the buggy dead.
Mrs. Reinhardt, who does not speak
English, was in a terrible predicament
a sit was impossible for her to impart
the knowledge of her husbands death
to those who passed. Vainly she called
to a number of auto drivers for assist
ance but they, not being able to under
stand what she said, passed on think
ing the man was intoxicated. AT
length she succeeded in hating some
passersby long enough for them to
make an examination of the man and
it was discovered that he was dead.
The remains will be shipped to Rus
sell Springs where interment will be
made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
IT'S WIRES UNDER GROUND.
Bell Company to Take Immediate
Action at Wichita.

Wichita, June ST am going to
put all telephone wires underground.
Within sixty days the Missouri and
Kansas Telephone company will not
have a pole standing in the business
part of Wichita
The above declaration was made by
G. w. McDanielS of Kansas City, the
assistant general manager of the Mis-
souri, and Kansas Telephone company.
Mr.. McDaniels has arrived from
Kansas City to authorize the i'm
provements, and all appearances in
dictate that the company has decided
to proceed with the work, notwith-
standing the fact that the council has
twice refused to accept the bond of
the company guaranteeing to the city
proper repair of the streets, etc.
Mayor Graham declared today that
it was not his intention to interfere
with the work any further than to use
his authority to insure that the streets
be left in first class condition after the
work is done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
.REvENUE" FOR ..EARNINGs.r
Commerce Commission Fixes Term for
Railway Accounts.

Railway Accounts.
In the circular defining the objects
and scope of railway operating accounts,
which has just been issued by the inter-
state commerce commission, says the
Railway Age, the phrase revenue from
transportation" is substituted for earn
ings from transportation" which had
been suggested in the classification of
Revenue Accounts compiled by the AS
ISOLATION of American Railway Account
ing Officers The phrase, total operat-
ing revenue suggested by the associ-
ation is retained.
The objection to earnings as applied
to revenue was that it conveys an i'm
preston of earning power on capital
that is unwarranted. 1t appears to have
been felt that the same distinction
which is emphasized in the employment
of the phrase gross sales by manu-
featuring industries was needed in order
to represent accurately the character of
the funds which have been generally
called heretofore gross earnings from
operation"
Stuyvesant Fish, as president of the
Illinois Central, tried for years to Sc
cure the general abandonment of the
word earnings as applied to gross reve-
nue., and the substitution of receipts.
On the Illinois Central the term used is
gross receipts from traffic. Receipts"
is used by English railways to denote
revenue. The use of the word receipts
in this connection is open to the objec-
ton that it does not exactly describe
what is meant, as the road originating
more traffic than it receives will have
receipts" in excess of its revenue
While the passing of the accustomed
gross earnings may seem to many
officials like the loss of a ia
miliar friend. the new language is so
plain in description that readers of an
nual reports can have no excuse under
the new system for failing to observe
that operating expenses and taxes must
be deducted before there can be earnings
available for interest or dividends upon
the capital invested. If that object is
attained, good will be done.
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TO KEEP Z. p. SHOPS THERE.
Kansas Cftv, Kan, Does Not Want
Them Moved Away.

Kansas City, Kan, June 5.-The Mer-
camille club of this city will make an
effort to prevent the removal of the
Union Pacific railway shops from Arm
strong, Kan, to junction City, Kan.
The matter was discussed at a meeting
last night and Willard Merriam and P.
w. Goebel were appointed a committee
to go to Omaha at once and present
the matter to the officials of the road.
The road has outgrown the old shops
at Armstrong which have been in use
ever since the sos. New shops are to
be built at once. A large tract of land
in Muncia, a small town a short dis
tance west of the city, is available. 1t
is in the hope that the road may be pre-
vailed upon to select this land Instead
of the land in Junction City that the
committee was appointed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
WIDE GAUGE RAILWAYS.
President DeIano of the Wabash Says
i They May Come

President DeIano of the Wabash, in
the course of an address before the
Traffic club of Chicago on "A. Glimpse
Into the Future, said: Realizing. as
I do, the immense development of the
past, I feel that 1 can only be poor
prophet of the future. In fact. it is too
true that man is not considered prac-
teal in these days if he looks too far
ahead. Brunell, the great engineer,
and contemporary of George Stephen
son, the builder of the Great East
ern,' of the tubular iron bridge over
the Menal straits, was also, as you re-
call. a strong advocate of the very wide
gauge. He built the Great Western
railroad of England with a 7-foot
gauge Stephenson, the more practical,
stuck to the old English wagon gauge
of feet SO inches. and finally every
railroad in England and in the United
States has come to it. Today, however.
a twentieth century railroad magnate
comes out and suggests that the feet
S1S inch gauge is too narrow for eco
nonical transportation, and that a
or foot gauge must be adopted. 1 am
not so sure that Mr.. Hartman is not
right, and that Brunen was not right
rs years ago. There is a fair chance
that the wide gauge will come, though
1T may not come in your time or mine
THE future seems to me to indicate
that there will be less bold pioneering
in railroad enterprises Chose days are
largely passed.; that railroads will not
be built so often where they are not
needed and where they simply dupli-
cate existing facilities; the accounts of
railroads will be kept in a uniform
manner and be as plain and as public
could be desired of our trust COM
panies. our insurance companies and
our savings banks.
I'm the matter of transportation the
steel car is rapidly coming in to take
the place of the wooden car There is
perhaps no very great opportunity for
modification of design unless the mat
ter of gauge be seriously taken up, and
the gauge of our important trunk lines
changed to a very wide gauge"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
LARGEST WELL.
Property Struck Near Inde-
pendence a Whopper.
Has Flow by Official Test of
Over 80, 4OO,0OO Feet.
NOT WILD-EYED STORY
County Gas Inspector Brown
Made Careful Measurement.
Thinks 1t the Banner Hole
in the United States.

independence, Kan. June 5.-The
we'll drilled on the Acorn lease north
west of Deering and tested by County
Gas Inspector Sealy L. Brown, shows
a flow of 29.4O4,440 feet of gas per
day and is the largest well by official
test in the western gas field and prob
ably in the whole country.
This well is located in the Deering
field on the Acorn lease northwest of
Deering on the Siggins interurban line.
1t is the property of President Cow
han of the Western States Cement
plant of Independence.
There have been wild-eyed stories
in the western gas field of wells
that flowed over 100000 cubic
feet per day, but these ghost stories
have none of them been verified by
actual and official test as has this one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
LOCATES LONG LOST BROTHER.
Through Efforts of Missionary a La
Harpe Woman Makes Discovery.


La Harpe, Kan, June 5.-Mrs. G..
w. Wagner received a letter yester-
day announcing the whereabouts of
her long lost brother. The letter says
that he is well and that he resides in
Colorado Springs, Col. She has been
searching for HIM for the past twenty
five years.
Twenty-Five years ago when Elmer
Goens was but three years old he was
taken from Warrensburg, Mo, the
home of all his relatives, by his adopt
ed parents. He was taken from War
rensburg, Mo, for fear that one of his
brothers or sisters would tell him
that the name he was masquerading
under was only an adopted one and
that he was not the son of the peo-
pie whom he called papa" and
mamma
1t was through the immediate eff
forts of Mrs. Morley, a missionary,
who is in the United States now on a
years visit that the young man was
located. Last fall when she was visit
she was told about the lost brother by
Mrs. Wagner. At that time she
promised to do what she could to help
locate the young man. She was visit
ing her son who is minister in Colo
RADIO Springs, Colorado, when she in
nocently asked who lived across the
street only to be told a man by the
name of Goens. She became inter
ested and after looking into the mat
ter found that his name was Elmer
Goens, the brother of Mrs. C. w.
Wagner of La Harpe. Kansas, who
has spent SO much time in searching
for him. Elmer Goens is a printer
employed by one of the large papers
of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
CAPITAL FOR THE NJ. O. & G.
Funds Have Been Secured to Complete
Its Construction.

There is official announcement that
sufficient capital has been secured to
complete the construction of the Mis-
souri, Oklahoma & Gulf road, and that
work will be resumed and pushed to
completion with the least possible de-
lay. The road has been built from
Wagner, l. T, to the Henrietta coal
fields. and across the Canadian river to
Dustin. 1t now is operating 75 miles
of road, besides some short lines and
branches, running out among the coal
mines at Karl and Mcdonald.
Capital has been procured to extend
the road to Denison, Texas. This ex-
tension will be 12S miles in length, to
the Red river between Texas and In
dian Territory The bridge and extern
sion to Denison must be built by a
Texas CORPORATION.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
RAILROAD NEWS.
Denver, Enid and Gulf Is Now a
Santa Fe Line.
Has Been Made Part of Eastern
Oklahoma System.
ABSORB OTHER LINES.
And New Projects Said to Have
A. T. & S. F. Backing.
Other Items of Interest to
Railway People.

Guthrie, Okla. June 5.-The Dem
yer, Enid & Gulf railroad. purchased
by the Santa Fe last fall. and operated
since its purchase as a semi-independ-
ent line. was formally made a part of
the Santa Fe system last week by the
hling of deeds transferring the line to
the, Eastern Oklahoma Railway COM
pany, which operates practically all
of the Santa Fe lines in Oklahoma ex-
cept the main line. The lines now
operated under the Eastern Oklahoma
name are: Newkirk to Pauls Valley.
Guthrie to Gushing. Seward to Cash
ion, Pauls Valley to Lindsay, Davis to
Scullen and the D. z. & c., running
from Guthrie to Medicine Lodge. Kan.
The total mileage of the Eastern
Oklahoma lines is now 464 miles. All
of them ire operated as integral parts
of the Santa F'e system.
The placing of the d. z. & G.. under
direct Santa Fe management is mere
l. another step toward the esta blish-
ment of a short line to Colorado and
the west. With the completion of the
twenty-eight miles of roadbed between
Buckiin and Belvidere, Kan, now I'M
der course of construction. the d. z.
& G.. will furnish line straight
through from Guthrie to connection
with the Santa Fe main line to Colo
era do. and will thus shorten the dis
lance from Texas and Oklahoma
points immensely
the proposed route of the new line
that the Bartlesville-Pond Creek road,
in regard to which there seems to be
a great deal of activity at the present
time, also has Santa Fee backing. 1t
will cross the Santa Fe main line at
Ponca City. which expects to secure
the shops of the new road. The talk
which its representatives are making
is that it is backed by French capital.
The city of Bartlesville has agreed to
give the road a $4,000 bonus. includ-
ing 900 in cash and the commits
sions valued at $4,000. The citizens
are to secure the right of way to the
Usage reservation line, about 25 miles.
for which they are given credit at the
rate of 500 per mile; to donate twenty
acres of land in a specified location
valued at $4,000. and to secure for
the company the use of certain streets
in Bartlesville. for which $1,000 credit
is given. The eastern terminus will
be at Webb City. Mo-. and the western
at Pond Greek, Okla.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
MORE PAY FOR TEACHERS.
The Kansas City, Kan, School Board
AdOnfS a New Wage Scale

Kansas City, Kan, June 5.-The
board of educa ton at the annual cleo
ton of supervisors, principals and
teachers adopted a new wage scale for
the teachers in the grades. The new
scale makes the maximum wages of
grade teacher SIS a month, as against
SOS a month under the old scale. 1t
places more than fifty grade teachers
in the SIS class, and also increases the
wages of nearly all of the $50 teachers.
1t is based on the years of experience
of teachers, and is as follows:
Ten years experience, SIS a month.
Nine years experience, STA a month.
Eight years experience, $72
month. as
Seven years experience, $40 a
month.
Six years experience. s6s month.
Five years experience, $65 a month.
Four years experience, $50 a month.
Three years experience, $55 a
month 4
Two years experience. $50 a month.
One years experience, $45 a month.
No experience, $40 a month. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
REWARD FOR BURGESS BODY.
One Hundred Dollars for the Corpse of
the Missing CoffeyviIle Dentist.

Coffeyville, Kan, June Sine po-
lice authorities of this city have offer
ed a reward of 800 for the recovery
of the body of DR.. Vale Burgee, the
young dentist, who has been missing
since March 8, and is supposed to have
been killed in a cab in the residence
section of this city.
The reward is also offered for
knowledge of Burgess present loca-
ton, if alive. The woman because of
whom Burgee is supposed to have been
killed was arrested yesterday, but on
another charge. 1t is believed she was
placed in custody so she would be
here Thursday when the preliminary
hearing of the cab driver charged with
the killing will be held.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
A BAND TO JAMESTOWN.
Great Bend to Organize a Cowboy
Crowd to Send East.

Great Bend, June 5.-There is con-
siderable interest being manifested in
band circles in this city just at pres
ent over the proposition to organize
cowboy band to go to the jamestown
exposition with the Seventh district
wheat train. There are a good many
musicians in this part of the country
and it should not be much trouble to
organize a first class band. E. z.
Eppcrson is at the front of the move
ment, and will cheerfully hand out
any information to band men they ask
for 1t has been decided, however,
that no new men can be taken into
this organization as the time will be
too short in which to get them ready
for the trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
SUNDAY school 60 years Old.

Kansas City, Kan, June 5.-The
Sunday school of the Washington ave-
nue. Methodist Episcopal church will
celebrate its sixtieth anniversary next
Sunday. Two memorial tablets, one
to Lucy B. Armstrong, who founded
the Sunday school in 1S47, and the
other to the Rev. John Stewart, the
first Methodist missionary to the
WYandottes are to be unveiled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS.
Novel Device Being Tried Out by Chi
cagO e Alton.

Bloomington. Ill, June "a device
now being given test on the Chicago
& Alton, the invention of an eastern
operator, promises to revolutionize
train dispatching and effectually pre-
vent accidents due to the carelessness
of operators. or through the oversight
of the dispatchers themselves. With the
device in service at every station the
dispatcher can manipulate a key and a
switch which drops the semaphore sig
nal arm to a stop" position at any
station desired.
In case an operator at any station
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
YOUNG COUPLE ELOPE.
Married Man and Girl of 10 Years
Disappear From Deering.

Coffeyville, June 5.=An eIopement
case of a married man of 81 years and
a girl of 16 has developed at Deering
Arthur McKibben is a railroad man,
the girl is Miss Pearl Vaughan. McKib-
ben has been living with his wife in
Conway Springs for the past several
months. AS he had a run between Cof-
feyVille and Conway Springs a part of
his time was spent in Deering, where,
it is said, he kept company with a
dining room girl great deal of his
spare time. 1t was not known that he
was keeping company with the
Vaughan girl, although he and Miss
Vaughan had known each other for
the past twelve years, having lived
neighbors in Conway Springs. McKib-
ben's wife learned of her husbands ac-
lions and came to Deering to make an
investigation, but later learned that he
which she arrived at Deering. 1t was
not known positively, however, that
he had left with another woman and
it was Saturday morning before it was
discovered that McKibben and Miss
Vaughan had eloped. The young girl
had told her parents that she was
coming to Coffeyville to visit Friday
and sister who live in this city, but
instead she and McKibben passed
through the city and went to Joplin,
Mo-, and from there to Monet.
In the message which the girls
brother received from his father at
Fort Smith it was stated that the elop-
ers had purchased a ticket at Monet
for Fort Smith but after arriving there
all trace of them was lost. The father
thought however, that they went on to
Hugo, Tex. and he will go there in
search of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
SALIVA LIQUOR DESTROYED.
Mayor and Police Smash Whisky, Beer
and Bottles.

Salina, Kan, June By order of
Mayor D. w. Hills two large dray
loads of beer and whisky and empty
bottles were destroyed last evening at
the city dump west of the city. The
goods had been gathered up by the po-
lice in the joint raids of the last few
months. Ex-Mayor Shields. Mayor
Hills and the police did the smashing
There were seventy-five full cases of
beer, about ten empty cases, fifteen
jugs of whisky, six kegs of beer and
at least a thousand empty bottles, be-
sides the corkscrews and other para
phernalia found in a joint.
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sum of $500 was furnished by him.
The goods were removed to the JUS
tice court room and consisted of six
or eight cases of bottled stuff which
were labeled ''AlI Hail. Though
numerous kinds of labeled goods have
been seized by the officials since the
crusade first began this is the first in
stance where this particular name has
appeared upon the bottles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05

can not be reached or is prevented
through some happening from attend
ing to his duties, the dispatcher can
act for him, as far as stopping the
train is concerned. 1t must remain there
until orders are transmitted to the op-
orator, as the dispatcher is powerless
to lower the arm to proceed In adj
dition to controlling the soma phore
blade, the dispa tcf1er can work Though
any instrument. even if the operator
carelessly leaves the key open or a
ground" occurs
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FERRY co. VIOLATED THE LAW.
Used Defective Coupling Pins on
Freight Cars.

Springfield, ILL.,, June 5.-The Virgins
Ferry company and East st. Louis con-
Meeting railroad and the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern Railroad company,
each pleaded guilt yesterday in the
United States circuit court to two
charges of violating the interstate COM
rle7ce law by having defective couplings
on cars and were each fined 800 and
costs on each count
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Dragged Nearly a Mile

Abilene, June 5.-Harry George, jr..
was severely hurt at the VIM. Price
farm south of town, by being dragged
by a runaway pony. He was attempt
ing to adjust the bride, when his foot
caught in the throw-over of the bride,
was miraculous that he was not killed
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Two Hundred Chickens Perish.

About 4 o'clock this morning the
citizens were awakened from their
peaceful sIum bers by the fire whistle.
1t was found that a chicken house be-
longing to John Bellman was on fire.
The firemen were promptly on the
spot. but the chicken house and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05

chickens were burned up. The build
ing was put up by Mr.. Bellman and
cost about $125. His chickens were
pure bred Plymouth Rocks. Two
hundred were burned.-Clay Center
RenuhIican
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POLICE RAID GALENA.
The Goods Seized Bore the Suspicious
Label, "AH Hail.

Galena, Kan. June 5.-Another
raid was made at Galena by Con-
stables Powell and Leggett, the result
being that r. J. Bland, Familiarity
known as Cedar Red was arrested
upon the charge keeping and main
tanning a nuisance. He was taken be-
fore Justice of the Peace w. r.
Elliott and the date of his hearing set
for Wednesday, June II. Bond in the