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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09
THINKS HE'S BURNING TO DEATH

Bloomington, III. Nov. 9.-Imagin-
ing that he IS burning to death. John
NJ Roosinger an old soldier. who has
been an inmate Of the home in Adams
county for several years. has been ad-
judged insane. He persists IN dreneh-
ing him clothes with water or sitting
in pools to extinguish the flames which
he imagines are consuming him.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09

Carlinville, Ill, Nov. "a work train
drawn by an electric engine on the
Illinois Traction system ran into a
flock Of forty five Angora goats south
Of this city. The long goat hairs wound
around the trucks and WHEELS in way
that derailed the engine and six cars
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09

NhrINtinn church, AIU Indiana AVE.
rue, c. J. Sharp. minister. $50 SUM
mers street; phone 845i.
Bible study. 10 a. IN
Communion service. II a m
Sermon, HAS a. IN. subject. s'val-
leys"
Junior Endeavor, 3 p. IN.
Christian Endeavor. ESQ p. IN.
Evening song and service. 7:30.
Sermon subject. Fog. Mists and Dust
Clouds"
Prayer meeting Wednesday at $50.
All are cordially invited to attend
any and all Of these services.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09
PAY IN CHECKS.

The BY Product Coke company paid
their employees yesterday in checks Of
small denomination on the South Chi
cago Savings Bank and Chicago Clear
ing house. The wisconsin Steel COM
pany will pay Monday. It is reported
that they will pay one-half cash and
the balance In small checks.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09
Days Grist in
South Chicago
DEAD BODY PLUNGES
INTO VESSELS HOLD.
Victim of Heart Failure Drops Dead
and Corpse Rolls Into Deep cavity
BODY Badly Bruised

sabian saratbesh. married and with
a family living at 1888 Escanaba ave
npe dropped dead this morning on
hoard tie ore boat Jupiter. saratbeski
was in charge Of a crane which con
veved ore from the boat to the ILL
nojs steel company's plant He had
loaded the carrier and was just start
ing 1t on its way when he was seen
to stagger. Before help could reaen
him. Saratbeski had fallen into the h"ld
OF the boat. a distance OF about twenty
FIVE feet. His body was badly bruised
in the fall The man was dead when
picked up. and it Is believed heart
failure caused death. The body was
removed to Murphys morgue.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09

First Baptist church. Rev. w. III.
Jones, pastor. lis Russell street.
The farewell sermon will be preached
IN the morning. The theme OF the
address will be; The Claims OF Dis
cipleship."
In the evening the sermon theme
Will be- The Marks OF the Nails"
The public is cordially invited.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09
Sd. rnurs EpIscopnI chnrch. aa 4

ST. Pnurs Episcopal church. ~ Rim
bach avenue. Rev. Charles Albert
Smith. rector. telephone 1864.
Twenty fourth Sunday after Trim
ity. Holy communion at S a m.
Morning prayer and sermon at 1885.
Evening prayer and sermon at 7:So.
sunday school at $50.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09
Hammond MinIsterIal association

viii meet Monday at Il o'clock with
Rev. W. T.. Shirley at IS Clinton street.
Special business awaits attention. Let
al the ministers be present. W. F.
Shirley. president; Rev. C. II. Smith.
secretary.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09

ton street. Theo. Claus, pastor.
German service at 10 a. m.
English Sunday school at 1880 p. m.
Congregational meeting at $3.50 p. m.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-09

What your store viii be this time
next year depends good deal upon
what your advertising plans are NOW.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19

The most notable hospital is al
Topeka, where the chief surgeon has
his STAFF OF five surgeons, about thirty
nurses, and many other employees, Al
this point from fifty to one-hundred
patients are in the various wards all
the time, not only for injuries re
ceiyed, but also for sickness. Many
serious operations are, Of course per
formed. There are many private
rooms for severe or special cases. The
other hospitals render service similar
to that at Topeka, there being about
dozen at various points along the
road.
The pension system is one OF the
latest institutions established by the
company, and while modelled on pre-
existing examples 1t has been intro
duced in the belief that its terms are
more liberal than those Of any pension
plan previously enforced. 1t is car
rled out wholly at the expense of the
company, but under the conviction
that the employees will show apprecia-
ton of 1t by increased zeal and 10y
atty. Nearly every employe has 1t in
his power to benefit his employing
company by the character of his work
and his influence or to injure 1t by
carelessness or indifference.
The establishment Of the pension
system is based upon confidence that
those whose future is thus made
safer will In return render the best
service of which they are capable.
Another feature of what the road
is doing for its employees, distinctively
Santa Fe in spirit, is the school for
apprentices, which has just been
started and is already in good work
ing order in the local shops. Young
men of good habits are taken from
the farms and other walks of life and
are given life positions with the Santa
Fe with all the privileges and
benefits which are bestowed by no
other system.
The road is growing, very fast and
good positions for all young men of
integrity are opening up in all the diff
ferent departments of railroad work.
The Santa Fe shares with other cor
porations the difficulty of securing
enough men to man their different de-
partments but 1t is certain that they
are getting employees on account OF
the advantages they offer where the
other big corporations are losing out.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19
Dickinson,s Nineteenth Bank.

The nineteenth bank for this county
is to be started at Industry OA the
line between this county and Clay.
1t will be financed by Kansas City and
local parties. The county has its de-
posits divided between the banks in
the proportion Of about ono half in
the Abilene institutions and the other
half in the small banks Of the county.
The total is $4,000 This makes
a bank for less than 250 families and
still more are being organized. 1t is
claimed that it takes $4,000 deposits
to pay the expenses of small coun
try bank but most Of the banks Of the
county have more than twice this
amount.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19
Dickinson a Fertile County.

Last week we were out in the coun-
ty OF Dickinson. Dickinson county is
about an average county in size as
far as Kansas is concerned, but per-
haps it is little more than an aver
age in point of fertility of its soil.
Within a generation Dickinson county
was made up of raw prairie and subject
to homestead, that is, SO much Of it
as had not been donated by q gener-
GUS government to the railroad cor
poratioD.
Today if you want real good Dick
iDson county farm you will have to
dig up from $50 to $75 per acre and
it is good property to hold at that
In the various banks Of that county
there is on deposit more than 2 mil
lions Of dollars and the deposits of
one bank are not duplicated in any OF
the others. The population Of the
county is in round numbers, $4,000.
The bank deposits average over $SS
for each man, woman and child in the
county. OF course there are some OF
the inhabitants who haven't the $8S
on deposit or anywhere else, but the
distribution is general. We doubt II
there is anywhere a community of
$4,000 people where wealth is more
evenly divided than in Dickinson
county where there are so few Of the
very rich and so few Of the very poor.
We have learned something by
shopping around the banks Of this
prosperous county little. We have
been wondering what the banks in
this bully state did with all the
money that they have on deposit;
how the managed to keep 1t invested.
We have found out that Kansas
money is helping out all sorts Of
effete East. Lists Of good Eastern
paper are sent out regularly to Kan.
sas banks and when the Kansas bank
er becomes satisfied that the paper is
all right he discounts it. We were
surprised to learn that Just now some
Of the strongest concerns in the East
are glad to borrow Kansas money and
pay as high as 81 per cent for it.
Gilt edged paper at 81 per cent looks
pretty good to the banker when his
vaults arepiled full Of money that he
cannot loan at home.
1t is hard to believe that a county
as rich as Dickinson county can be
built up in a single generation and by
people, most Of whom didn't have a
cent in their pockets when they locat-
ed there. IT. A. McNeal in Mail and
Breeze,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19
COmmends Mr. Brewer.

Clay Center Republican: There
seems to be disposition among some
newspapers to belittle Senator Brewers
claim to credit for bringing about the
railroad boards order for two cent
railroad fares. There is nothing as
tonishing in that, however. 1t is the
Kansas way. Applause for meritor-
ious action on the part Of a politician
is always withheld for fear 1t might
make him arrogant. Senator Brewer
ought not to be grudged credit, at
any rate, for bis persistency In vindi'
eating his own good faith, which has
been viciously attacked. He intro
duced fat two cent fare bill In the
senate and worked for its passage in
all sincerity, as we verify believe.
At the time many Of his friends re-
garded him as over Jealous, and did
not believe such a drastic measure
was fair to the railroads, in the abb
sence OF exact information as to
whether such rate would not yield
reasonable returns. Since then most
Of those who felt that way about 1t
have changed their minds. As stated
in this paper shortly before Gov.
Hoch took the matter up with the
board, conditions had changed. The
part Senator Brewer took in bringing
the matter to a head was that OF an
industrious agitator. After he had
secured sufficient encouragement from
other senator's to insure a majority,
in the senate for new legislation. he
sprung the special session proposition,
secured the cooperation Of the gov
ernor, who has always been open to
on the two cent fare ques-
ton, and thus acquired cinch which
the railroad board was not slow TO
recognize. Let us at least thank the
senator for valuable service in bring
ing about the result.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19
WHY Those Fol-de-rOIs?


Bent Murdoch makes this entirely
warranted kick on existing conditions;
Uncle Sam paid six thousand, eight
hundred and forty dollars for mineral
water, lemons and sugar members OF
the United States senate, last year.
Mind you, this money did not come
out Of the senator's salaries, but out
Of the pockets Of the people. The
secretary OF the senate itemizes some
other things that the government
paid for as follows: One skirt trunk,
one old horseshoe, mouse traps, hair
vigor, cologne, hair tonic (sS2.S7),
sponges, brilliantine, brushes, gum
shoes, sewing sets, mustang liniment,
arnica, gloves, handkerchief sets,
opera bags, axle greese, rosin. tar
manicure sets, hay, oats, bran, meal
and rock salt. Over $500 was spent
for sponges. What senator bought a
"skirt trunk" at the expense Of Uncle
SamP Why should the people OF the
United States buy skirt trunk for
any Of our statesmen What senator
is perfuming himself at the expense
of taxpayersP Give the people his
name and the names Of the other gal
lants who annoint their mustaches
with brilliantine, who rub hair tonic
on their scalps and make an overtaxed
people pay the bill. What senatorial
Adonis had enough nerve to buy
"cosmetique" and charge it to Uncle
Samp Was he the same unabashed
Scion who invested in "sewing sets"
and "opera bags" and "skirt trunksP"
Is the money of taxpayers to be frit-
tered away on the adornment of sena-
tors who think their personal pulchri-
tude worth cultivating at the nations
expenseP When congress meets next
December senators who have not
made frivolous and questionable pur-
chases and charged them to Uncle
Sam will have an opportunity to fasten
the odium of "skirt trunks" "cos-
m tiques," "brilliantine," chair
tonics," hay, oats, bran, corn meal,
rock salt and the like upon the guilty
statesmen.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19
A Railroads Fine Action.


The Santa Fe railroad is not only
one of the great business concerns OF
the Nation and the biggest employer
in Kansas, but 1t has fine sense of
business Judgment In looking after
the interests of its employees. 1t goes
on the principle that the best thing a
corporation can do is to obtain COM
petent, trained assistants in its oper-
ating department.
There is probably no large railroad
system in the entire country which
Is doing as much and has done as
much in the past, and is planning to
do in the future for the benefit of its
employees as the Santa Fe. The policy
of the Santa Fe railroad towards
its employees is almost contradiction
of the time-honored phrase that great
corporations have no souls. The eco
nomic principle of maximum produc-
ton at minimum cost has been set
aside and instead the policy of mu-
tual interest and loyalty Of employer
and employe has been inaugurated.
The interest which has been given
to the Santa Fe by the economists
and industrialists has been remarka-
BILE and other systems are beginning
to realize the benefits to be derived
from a liberal system. However the
people living along the Santa Fe sys-
TEN are the most blind to their sur
roundlngs. The liberal policy of the
road has become SO familiar to its pa
irons and such an ordinary feature Of
railroad life that it is accepted along
with the other blessings Of the age
and little thought is given to 1t.
To combat the evils Of the saloon
and to encourage men Of the superior
class, with families, or without, one
western road, the Santa Fe, has gone
extensively and extensively into the
construction and maintenance Of read
ing rooms, reception halls, hospitals,
and company cottages, and Of parks
and pleasure grounds around the sta
tons, shops and offices.
In all the principal cities along
the railway, hospitals are maintained,
each employe, from laborer to higher
official. pays a small monthly sum
iron rs cents to 81 to the hospital
association. the aggregate amounting
to about $4,000 a month. Some of the
trustees Of the association are offi-
cials Of the company, while others are
employees. These trustees devote any
surplus receipts over expenditures to
permanent improvements, new build
ings, additional facilities. Although
In this respect self-supportng, this
association has received much sub
stsntial aid from the railroad in the
way Of donations to building funds,
company buildings rent free, and 9th
er services. All officials and employees
Of the association. including sur
Eeons, receive transportation free
while in the cOmpany's service, the
sane rule applying TO injured and
sick employees.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19

The brewery receivers appointed by
the supreme court Of Kansas have re-
ceived q, 500 each, so far, and will re-
ceive $4,000 more, according to esti-
mates in the newspapers. No one
pretends that these receivers have
earned a twentieth part Of these
sums. Why should three men be
ms ie rich out Of cases like these in
steal Of the money going to the school
fund or to help build good roadsP
The Atchison Globes comment Is not
far wrong. 1t says: 1--WE do not de-
sire to find unreasonable fault with
any man. but it seems to us that the
action Of the supreme court in sllOw-
lng three brewery receivers $500
each for services not worth to exceed
. lev hundred dollars, Il a disgrace
io1bs supreme COURT
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19
The Question of Debt,

The Kansas City Times said the
other day: "A number of Kansas
towns are boasting that they are en-
tirely free from debt and don't owe
penny but they are not the best
Kansas towns Parks, fine streets,
and other improvements which make
town worth living in, call for IN
debtedness."
The Wichita Beacon makes this
the topic for little sermon on
Debt that is worth reading. 1t
says: Towns are like individuals
when the question of Indebtedness
arises. As the town out of debt, Is
often unattractive, so the man abso-
lutely free from liabilities is often a
drone or so conservative that he only
half exists
What is debt? That is the real
point at issue, and clear compre-
hension of this matter will benefit
both the municipality and the citizen
Suppose a man worth nothing but
his daily earnings, buys a lot and
erects small house, paying five or
ten dollars a week toward its devel-
opment. Is he in debt? 1t is true
that the property when completed is
worth say 5000, and the man owns
$50 in it. AS he never has had the
other $40 and the property secures
that $3.50, he is really only in debt
the $50 asked and that debt is due
himself and family. In order to pay
he must faithfully meet his ten dol
lars weekly payment and in go weeks
from the date of purchase Interest
and taxes met in the meantime) he
will own the house and be in debt to
a home of his own. Such debt is
not recognized as liability and this
man has never owed cent as a liza
bility.
Had he owned the house originally
and mortgaged it for $500 with which
to speculate and lost the $3.50, he
would be in debt in a certain sense,
but he would still have the house
with which to Aquidate the mortgage
and IL he failed, foreclosure would
follow, the house would be lost and
he would have no home but he would
be out Of debt. But II he borrowed
$500 on his personal credit lost 1t
and had no securities to sell, he
would then be in debt seriously, be-
cause his surplus earnings for. fifty
weeks would be absorbed and when
the time was up he would be out Of
debt, but have nothing to show for
his fifty weeks Of work but cancel
led note.
The man who buys groceries on
credit is in debt the minute those
groceries are eaten up. The man who
halls to pay his rent in advance is in
debt for It at the end Of the month
because the proceeds Of the money
has been enjoyed and the money buys
nothing substantial
So when q city through graft or ex.
travasance wastes the proceeds of>z
bond. Il Is IN debt for that bond. but
when the sewer is economically built
the street economically paved. the
PARIS and boulevard secured At a
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19
THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1907.
The Two.Cent Fare.

Our woefully misguldeo coh'onP''
ary, the Chronicle, is still opposing
the two cent fare. We believe that
the Chronicle can be convinced In
time Of the error Of Its ways II it can
only get right on the facts in the case.
Its contention that Kansas snouiu
wait on other states is a position that
NO true Kansan ever takes Kansas
don't wait on other states; IL goes
along with them or a little ahead
The Chronicle seems to have its iacts
badly mixed. 1t says
missouri and Nebraska are now engaged
IN lawsuits endeavoring to enforce the two
cent laws which their legislatures nave
passed" M.
Missouri is In no lawsuit. The
railroads are trying out the two cent
fare for fixed period OF time' ana
then will decide whether or not to 60
to court. Nebraska has no suit on z
cent fare; it is in full force and the
matter appears in court only mol
dentally in a suit on freight rates.
And then:
"The apecial session process of securing
two cent fare means, according 10 Ill inulo"-
TONS loss of 100000.
Where did the Chronicle get those
figuresP 1t has repeated them several
times. The cost OF the special session
allied by Gov. Bailey according 10
the records was $10,9S2.95. The
regular session of 1917 days in 1905
cost $4,000. Figures for 1907 are
not available but are about the same
The Chronicle is nine-tenths wrong
on its special session figures which is
about as close as it ever comes to the
facts. II special session will save
one cent a mile 100000 miles OF
travel will pay for it, The u r. IN
Abilene last month sold 1900 miles
Of mileage outside of tickets Twen-
ty towns like Abilene in one month
would save the cost Of the session.
Let's see where the two cent move
ment has gone. Besides the greatly
increased control over rates given to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
the effect OF which is, as yet, prob
lematical, about 80 states have "taken
a shy" at the railroads. The follow
Ing states appear to have passed
straight 2 cent fare bills;
Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Minne-
sofa, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, West Virginia.
States with p cent fares; Alabama
North Dakota, South Dakota, Wis
cousin.
Iowa has fixed a maximum rate OF
8 cents with 2 cent rates for all roads
earning more than $4,000 per mile.
New York and Oregon have passed
sweeping legislation giving commits
sions full power over rates.
virginia's commission has ordered
rates on nearly all roads reduced to 2
cents.
: Oklahoma has a 2 cent fare limit in
its constitution, unless proof is fur
nished that this rate is uhreasonably
low.
Isn't Kansas entitled to try out the
2 cent fare along with these other
stetesp
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19

The Chronicle is losing its Oppor-
tunity. TwONhOle days have passed
since the railroads announced their
refusal to put in a two cent fare rate
as ordered BY the railroad commits
siOners, and the ChrOhicle has neglect
cd TO charge The failure up to Senator
Brewer. OF course there is time 70
do that yet, and We miss our gpess Il
Il does not happen.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19
HODGE BROS.

proper cost, the city is not in debt
really, because it has the proceeds of
its bonds to show for the money
spent.
The sort of debt to be avoided is
that known as paying for dead
horse" If superficial debts were
barred the human race would fall
asleep.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19

The high rate Of mortality among
drunken automobilists who ride 60
miles an hour at O'Clock in the
morning ought to teach the lesson
that gasoline and whisky don't mix
we'll.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19

Here's guess: The governor will
cali no extra session. The railroads
AMI the commissioners will fix up an
arrangement by which Kansas will
try out 2 cent iare-at least on the
main line-and everybody will be
happy except the Chronicle.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19

How the Old Style Body Looks After Being tut in Use
This is the most important improvement made in buggy
building in the past twenty years.
The ordinary buggy body contains about $50 screws,
plugs and nails every of which dispensed with in build
ing this new body Everyone knows how unsghty buggy
body becomes when each of its fifty plugs is outlined by
white rings and this usually happens while the buggy is
comparatively new in fact on new body the plugs
are visible on careful inspection
Don't forget the PLUGLESS BODY. Look at Moon
Bros before you buy buggy pays to buy the best
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19

This world is full of buffers. 1t
was solemnly stated that the Perkins
body could not be exhumed in less
than two days. Bill Mackey went
down and in two hours had the
autopsy over.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19

More Trans-Mississippi Delegates.
President E. H. Forney has appoint
ed G. G. Sterl, J. E. Brewer, A. W.
Rice and G. A. Case as commercial
club delegates to the Trans-MississipPi
congress at Muskogee.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-19

The Salina Union now appears with
Sd, r. Burton, editor at the head OF
thu head Of the editorial page.