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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-07
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives Timely Warnings That
No Topeka Citizen Can At
ford to Ignore.

DANGER SIGNAL NO. 1 comes from
the kidney secretions. They will warn you
when the kidneys are sick. Well kid
neys excrete clear, amber fluid. Sick
kidneys send out thin, pale and foamy,
or a thick, red, i1l-smelling urine, full
of sediment and irregular of passage.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. comes from
the back. Back pains. dull and heavy,
or sharp and acute, tell you of sick kid
neys and warn you of the coming of
dropsy, diabetes and Bright's disease.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys
and cure them permanently. Here's
Topeka proof:
J. r. Black, painter and paper hanger,
of zoos z. Sixth avenue, Topeka, Kan,
SAYS: Doans Kidney Pills brought
me such great relief that did not hest
tate to give them my endorsement for
publication. In my statement / said
had suffered for three years from kid
new complaint. There was dull grum-
bling aching across the small of my
back which inconvenienced me when
doing paper hanging. A distressing and
annoying weakness of the kidneys ex-
listed that was particularly noticeable
at night and disturbed my rest. The
and thoroughly removed all these diff
ficuIties. During the years which have
uassed since then there has been no. re-
turn of the symptoms, which is, think,
sufficient reason for renewing my rec
concentration of this valuable prepara-
ton
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents.
Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo. New
York. sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
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senger traffic would be a large item
also. The Santa Fe is the only big road
in the territory which does not touch
this field. With their system, which
girds Kansas and Oklahoma, they would
receive a large passenger traffic from
this section. At present the majority OF
Colorado and California traffic goes by
the way of the Frisco to Burton, Kan,
and then on the Santa Fee. This road
would receive the most of the traffic to
these points, undoubtedly, If it entered
the city.
AS to what the Santa Fe would mean
to Joplin there can be no doubt. The
road is the third largest system in the
country and covers Kansas, Oklahoma
and the west more completely than any
other line. A line into Joplin would give
this city direct service with the Pan
handle and Pecos valley country of
Texas, by the way of Chanute, FIRE.
donia and Winfield, and the road would
undoubtedly put on through service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-07
CHANGES IN MAIL SERVICE.
Railway Bulletin Announces Several
Along Santa Fe.

The Railway Bulletin of September
has the following notice, which will
affect the mail service on this division
of the railway mail service on the
Santa Fe. A half line of forty foot
cars will be discontinued from Holli-
day Junction to North Ottawa and on
the route from Kansas City, Mo-, to
La Junta, the service will be cur
tailed between Holiday and EN-
poria, over the CUTOFF and from EN-
poria to Newton by discontinuance of
a half line of 40-foot cars. This will be
on trains 115 and 116. South from
this place the full cars, the new sixty
foot steel frame cars will be taken on
between here and Purcell and possibly
between here and Fit. Worth. on trains
405 and 406. The railroad company
has carried the cars through-to Fort
Worth, though they are not bound by
contract to do so. The service will
possibly be curtailed on trains Nos
II and Is. By the "halfline" car is
meant the combination, baggage and
mail cars which will be used instead
of the sixty foot mail cars. The cause
for the change has been the result of
the recent inspection of the routes by
inspectors and the postoffice depart
ment. The proposed change will at
feet the mail clerks out OF this place
by reducing ranks and the one hun
dred raise, which they received on the
first of July, will amount to nothing
as with the exception of three OLDEST
clerks, the salary will be reduced from
one to three hundred dollars year
per man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-07

also all the outside timbers used in
construction, where 1t il possible to
use the treated timber.
The facts that the treatment of
timber by this method lengthens its
life many years and in fact almost
makes it able to wholly defy the laws
of time and wear, is the great con-
sideration with the Santa Fe and
other systems.
The Increasing scarcity of avail
able timber for railroad purposes has
made it necessary to take steps TO
increase the life of what the roads
can secure, hence the tie treating in
dustry of the country.
A composition of creosote Il the
formula usually prescribed for treat
ment of ties and other timber, in
order to render 1t almost perpetual
and at the same time not to injure
its elasticity. The, fluid is pumped
by powerful machines itno the grain
and fiber of the wood and goes en-
tirely through 1t. Wood so treated.
once laid, does not have to be taken
from its position for many years.
thus making the cost OF relaying
track the minimum.
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Morton, county, which is the
lation. is remarkable for number of
things.
Most remarkable of all, perhaps, is
the fact that it has a $4,000 court
house, all paid for. and the county
itself is entirely out of debt.
This exceedingly happy condition is
all the more remarkable when it is re-
membered that some of the counties
in southwestern Kansas have been
having a hard struggle in years past
to meet the obligations imposed by
financial pirates who looted and
bonded the county treasures in the
early days.
The Morton county financial condi-
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ton is due to the foresight of the
ing the land of the county TO go for
taxes, bought up the tax titles itself,
and held onto them until the land in
creased ten fold in value. Then it
had big auction sale, and closed out
its holdings at fancy prices. The pro-
ceeds were, enough to put the county
on Easy street, and one of the first
things done was to- build splendid
court house. The building is of native
stone. 1t has big double doors at each
corner, and a wide hall extending
clear around all the offices on the
main floor. The offices have large
windows opening into this hall, SO
that 1t is UNNECESSARY to go inside of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-07
WORK OF BISHOP LILLfs.
To Build Chucrch, Parochal School
and High School.

Kansas City. Oct. THE Rt. Rev.
Thomas F. Lillis. bishop of Leaven-
worth, has bought from George w.
Touttellot and James Fennell, a block
of ground upon which he intends to build
Catholic church and parochial school,
and a Catholic high school.
The purchase includes the 20 lots of
the block lying between Sandusky and
Orville avenues extending from Four
teenth street west to Fifteenth street
The price was Sc. 900. Deeds to the pro-
perty were filed late Saturday in Wy
andotte county.
Bishop Lillis, it was said. had gone
to Omaha to attend a celebration While
his plans have not been made public,
it is known among his friends that 1t
is his purpose to form new parish
and provide fer it one of the. finest
churches and parochial schools in Kan
sas. He also is planning great Cath
Ollie high school to provide higher edu-
cation for the pupils of the ten Catho-
lie schools here, Argentine and Rose
dale
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HIGHWAYMEN WE'RE BOLD.
Beat Aged Grocer and Son and Took
Their Money Away.

Kansas City, Oct. Isaac Malotte, 70
years old, and his son. Thomas Malotte.
closed their grocery store at 400 South
Eighteenth street, at 10 o'clock Saturday
night after placing all the cash in the
store in their pockets. They were on their
way to their home at 303 South
Eighteenth street, when they were set up
on by three highwaymen-
The elder Malotte. who had $500 in his
pockets, was beaten into insensibflity. The
son, who carried $40 in his pockets, was
also beaten. The robbers took the money
and also a gold watch belonging to Thos.
Malotte. The father and son were found
lying in the street
The injury to the elder MaIotte. accord
ing to the belief of the police surgeons.
will prove mortal.
The money the father and son carried
when attacked was the receipts for the
week in their store Isaac Malotte carried
his money in a small sack. 1t was all in
gold. The watch taken from the father
was smashed by blow, presumably with
club. The $40 taken from the son was
in silver. He carried it loose in his pock-
cts. Thomas Malotte recovered soon after
the robbery. 2
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FOR LIGHT AND ICE.
Workmen Have Begun on the Conn
bined Plant at Liberal,

Liberal, Kan, Oct. 7.-Workmen have
begun operations on the Liberal Elec-
trio Light, Ice & Power company's
building. which will be located on the
three acre plat of ground east of Bolin
Hall & Co.'S lumber yard. Melvin Gle
berson, of Pratt, is here and has a
force of men at work. Mr.. Gieberson
says that the building will be ready
for occupancy in about three weeks The
building is to be cement blocks and
brick and will be fire proof The in
side measure is 60x65 feet. The equip
ment and building will cost about $685.
COO. The electrical equipment consists
of one generator with a capacity to
furnish 1.500 sixteen candle power lights
and another generator with a Il. 600 light
capacity. one 115-horse power Corliss
and one 1OO-horse power high speed en-
CINE The boilers are 250-hcrse power
each. All the works. in the plant will
be driven by motor power. The ice
Plant will have a capacity of % tons
every "a hours and a storage tank will
be built in connection to hold 100 tons
of ice.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe Is Said to Be Planning
Extension Into Joplin.
Have Already Built Line From
Pittsburg to ChicOpee.
TAPS RICH COUNTRY.
Would Necessitate the COnstruc-
ti0n Of But Twenty-Six Miles.
Other Items of Interest to
Railway People.

The old and persistent rumor that
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe is
intending to build into Joplin from
Pittsburg has been given new life late
ly.
The Santa Fe has recently extended
a branch to Chicopee, Kan, in the
edge of Crawford county. This line is
supposed to be only switch to a coal
mining town. but the road was laid with
S0-pound steel, which is unusually
heavy for a branch line, even with
heavy traffic.
Surveying parties have been at work
repeatedly during the summer at diff
ferent points between Pittsburg and this
city. Early in the summer stakes were
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average for August. During August the
daily average of runs was 103. 662. 83 bar
rels and for September, 1G2, 9S7-6 so barrels.
The shipments for the two months broke
September. The total runs, however, in
September were considerably larger
than in August. The September report
shows a total of 3,0S9, 627.93 barrels and
the August report 3.213, 547.64 barrels.
This is accounted for by the fact of one
more day in August than in September.
In August 30.069.09 barrels a day was
placed in storage and 29, 653. 20 barrels
day in the previous month.
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THE BALCONY sAGGED.
Panic Among Attendants at a FL
Scott Church Dedication


Scott Church Dedication.
Fit. Scott, Kan, Oct Near the
close of the services defeating the
$4,000 edifice of the First Methodist
Episcopal church Sunday. the bal
cony. seating 800 people sagged two
or three inches. throwing its occu-
pants as well as those below into a
momentary panic. DIR. l.. H Murlin,
president of Baker university, had just
concluded his dedicatory sermon and
remarked, Now / have a surprise for
you," when the accident occurred.
People started to scramble from the
balcony but were. stopped. The pipe
organist commenced playing and the
services were proceeded with.
The cap of the pier directly under
the balcony pillars broke and the old
brick in the pier sheered The pier
was constructed out of brick from the
old church. The good fortunes which
had attended the church building
movement seemed to desert at the eve
of dedication Sunday. rk
At the service it was announced
that there is no debt on the church.
A substantial purse was raised to
give the pastor, Rev. E. NJ. Evans, a
vacation trip
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ELOPE FROM JOPLIN.
4 16-Year-Old Couple Start Life
Without Marriage License

Parsons. Kan, Oct. IA boy and
girl eloped from Joplin two weeks
ago and came to Parsons to take up
life together. He was j. and she was
1s. The boy secured position in the
M. K. & T. shops, and the girl be-
came his helpmate. although they for
got to get a marriage license.
When they came to Parsons they
went to a lodging house and passed
under the name of Mr.. and Mrs. W. E.
Jones.
After working at the shops for
week the boy suffered slight injury.
He was sent to the NJ. K & T. hos
pital at Sedalia.
The parents of the boy heard of
the condition, and the father came to
Parsons yesterday to take charge of
the matter. 1t was discovered that
the boy had gone to the hospital and
left the girl without a cent. and she
had gone to work in a restaurant.
Word was sent for the boy to come to
Parsons He failed to arrive this
morning. The girl was sent to rela-
tives at Humesville, Mo.
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Troubles of the station Agent.

George Cairns, agent and poet
laureate OF the Santa Fe at Scranton.
Kan, has found time between ques-
tons to tell his grief as follows:
Talk about the questions
That are asked throughout the land
Does anybody answer
Like the railway ticket man?
1t Is how Is No. Five
And how is No. Eight
Did you say that No. Seven
Was forty minutes later
I want to go to Florence
And from there to Ellinwood:
Did you say 1 made connection?
/ would like to IL could.
What's the fare to Newton?
Is the train on second track?
If I go to Syracuse today
When can 1 get back?
And so they keep on asking
From morning until night.
They look up at the depot clock
And ask II 1t Is right.
But the ticket man must answer,
And have a smile for all,
For should he lose his temper
It means his own downfall.
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Distress After Eating
Do You Ever Feel As Though You
Had Swallowed a Brick
Instead of a Meal?

That heavy, bloated, stuffed-up.
lead-lfke feeling, which you often ex-
perience after eating a meal, is posi-
tive proof that something is wrong
with your digestive organs. They are
becoming weak and tagged out. There
is a lack of gastric and other digestive
junces. The food is no longer proper
ly digested and it forms heavy load
on your stomach, so that nearly every
meal causes you misery and distress
If you are in this condition, it means
that you have dyspepsia in some form
and may have had it for some time.
though you didn't realize it.
Now is the time to check it. for If
you don't it will surely develope into
worse forms of dyspepsia and other
stomach troubles, which may have Sc
rious results.
But that is not all. The stomach is
the hub of the body and an injury to
it is an injury to all. A weak stomach
causes the whole body to suffer. The
action of the heart, liver and kidneys
becomes sluggish. The brain becomes
inactive. The nerves becomes IN
strung. The blood loses its vitality
The only safe, sure, scientific meth
cd of restoring your stomach to its
healthy, normal state, is to use
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, which will
act as a substitute in digesting your
food, thus giving your stomach
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Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets have
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That's the surest way to learn the
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can go to your nearest druggist and
get a fifty-cent box All druggists sell
them.
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the office to transact business with the
county officials. ,-rT.s
Taxes are very low in Morton coun-
ty. running from IS cents to $3.50 per
quarter section of land a year.
At the last term of the district
court in Morton county, Judge w. H.
Thompson made a record for trying
cases rapidly which will probably
stand for some time. He tried 1888
cases in one hour and a half. They
were all default cases. in which the
county foreclosed tax liens on prop
erty bid in by it during boom days.
The party who buys the property now
can get a good title, and the county
will add to its fat money bag in the
county treasury.
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AFTER GOULD LINES.
Attorney General Hadley Seeking to
Dissolve Joint Ownership.

General Hadley announced today that
he would next Tuesday, when the su-
preme court meets. file a motion for
Judgment by default against the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad, the Wabash rail-
road, the Iron Mountain railroad, the
Pacific Express company and the Amer
lean Refrigerator Transit company, for
failure to answer the quo warranto
proceedings brought by him to dissolve
the merger and Joint ownership of the
properties. Last July the supreme
court made an order giving the Gould
lines and companies until September
to answer the attorney general
The time was later extended to Sep
TENDER % but up to date no answer
has been filed and Mr.. Hadley declares
now he is entitled to custer judgment
by default.
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All This in One Well.

Yesterday Henry Eiche, cleaned out
Dim Lynch's well. which is ia feet
deep. He took out seven well buckets.
three hats, shoe, butcher knife, gum
shoe. crock, cup. straps. chains. two
pounds of terribly stale butter. tied up
in n cloth. and a lot of other truck.
While at the bottom of the we'll, Eiche
could scarcely hear when the men at
the top tried to speak to him. and he
could not "holler'' loud enough for the
men at the top to hear him.-Atchison
Globe
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LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
Is the Tie Treating Plant of the SAINTS
Fe at Albuquerque.

Albuquerque, n. NJ, Oct. 7.-One of
the greatest institutions of its kind in
the United States, and possibly in the
world, is the new tie treating plant
which the Santa Fe is now complet-
ing Just south of the south yards in
this city. The new plant is a monster.
and its size is beginning to appear in
true proportions. Experts from other
railroads who have examined the big
Santa Fe plant and watched its con-
struction, state that it is beyond any
doubt the largest and best equipped
in the United States, and that its
capacity will be immense 1t Will be
ready for use within a short time. AL
ready a large number of ties have
been contra cted for and as soon as
the plant is in readiness, 1t will be
started in its work of making timber
impervious to dampness and rot
Not only are the ties and bridge
tinbers used on the To- of
Fe to be treated at this plant but
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Figs Grown i'm Concordia.

When Mr.. and Mrs. George Mohr
returned from California two or three
years ago they brought back fig
tree which they keep in the house in
the winter and in the open air in sum-
mer. This year it has borne fruit.
some eight or ten figs maturing. These
are probably the first figs ever grown
to maturity in Concordia and are
quite a curiosity to those who never
saw figs except the dried or preserved
Blade.
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EARNINGS LESS ON SANTA FE.
August Statement of Road Shows De-
crease in Net Receipts.

A number of roads issued statements
yesterday of earnings for August. That
of the Atchison is noteworthy for a
decrease in net of over $53S,000 ana
but a modest increase of $727,462 in
gross, while operating expenses in
creased TIA per cent more than the
amount of gain in gross.
The Pennsylvania statement for Au-
gust also made an unfavorable exhibit
in the matter of net, for the increase
was but S359,600, against an increase
in gross of $2,409,900. Figures follow:
ATCHISON RAILWAY
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WITH BLACK HAND VIOLENCE.
A Crawford County Man Receives a
Threatening Letter

Dunkirk. Kan. Oct. Billiard
Sperron, the butcher of this camp. has
received letter which he fears is the
work of the Black Hand.
The letter demands money and
threatens that if he does not leave
$500 in a pasture at place stated, his
entire family would be killed
1t gave them quite a scare for a lit
tie while, but it is now believed to be
merely a bluff. He stated last night
that he thought it merely joke and
that he would not waste any money
whatever on the bluff
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Ordered to Manila

Manhattan, Kan. Oct captain
Pearl NJ. Shaffer. of the Twenty-fifth
United States infantry who. for the
past four years, has been instructor of
military science at the State Agrfcul-
tural college, has been ordered to join
his regiment now stationed in the
Philippine islands. He will leave here
October Is. His regiment is located
at Parang island at Mindanao.
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Ellis, Kan. Oct. 7.-Forty-four cars
of wheat were shipped from Ellis dur
ing September. This with the 81 cars
In August makes ~ cars of wheat. at
an average price of 80 cents, estimat-
ing 1000 bushels to the car, makes
the nice little sum of $4,000 paid to
our farmers. Four cars of sheep and
Septemher
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True Flavors

With great care, by process en-
tirely his own, DIR. Price is enabled
to extract from each of the true,
select fruits, all of its character
istic flavor, and place in the mar
ket a class of favorings of rare
excellence. Every flavor is of
great strength and perfect purity.
For favoring ice-cream, jellies,
cake, custards, etc.,
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A Third Bank for sterling.

Sterling, Kan, Oct STERLING is
TO have a new bank about the first of
the year, to be known as the Farmers
State bank. and will have a capital of
$4,000. The directors are: F. w.
Ross. a. r. Clark, ]. w. Duff, Joseph
us Horton and Sol Simmerman. Ster-
ling already has two banks.
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Left Wealth to q Clerk.

Humboldt. Kan. Oct. DIR. Karl
Voegtle. a veteran of the German army
and of the civil war died at his home
in Humboldt Saturday. He was a resi-
dent here for Sc years and was widely
known in his profession. He was a
unique character, still dressing in the
German style of 80 years ago. He leaves
his property to Henry Kuhn, boy who
worked for him in his drug store for the
last ten years.
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OF MANsnAUGHTER

Hartfordl Conn, October 7-Engineer
Jerome Wilson and Conductor Davis C.
Maroney charged with manslaughter,
were today found guilty in the criminal
superior court and sentenced to nine
months each in jail. Wilson and Ma
roney were in charge of the passenger
train which on June %, .collided with
work train in this city. killing ten per-
sons and injuring 40