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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05

speed. A storage tank, also placed
underneath the car, carries supply
of gasoline sufficient to take the car
200 miles.
This car is the fourth that has been
turned out by the company, and dur
ing severe test runs on eastern rail-
roads is said to have shown its capa-
cities for fast running without acct
dent to the machinery. The first three
cars are now being used on an inter-
urban line out of Kansas City, where
they are used to haul two or more
trailers when required.
Gasoline cars have received consid-
cradle attention of late from railroad
officials who are anxious to develop
car which may be used on branch
lines to make several trips a day in
stead of making one or two trips with
locomotive and two or three cars.
This would add greatly to the conven-
fence of the public, but railroad Of
ficials say that the gasoline engine has
not yet shown sufficient reliability at
high power to warrant it's adoption, as
an accident to the engine may leave
the car in dangerous situation.
With the Strang car it is claimed
that the storage battery can run the
car from ten to fourteen miles, suffi-
cient to get it to a station or siding in
case of any failure of the engine.
The Union Pacific has over a dozen
experimental cars in service on its
branch lines and the Illinois Central
Freeport and Madison.
The Irene attracted curious
throng of on1ookers as it pulled out
of the station yesterday morning with
out trolley or locomotive 1t is built
with an all steel frame and presents
an attractive appearance.
The interior is divided into three
compartments, the first an engine
room, the second provided with ordin-
airy leather upholstered cross seats,
and the third equipped as an obser-
walton parlor car with armchairs and
couches. 1t is 60 feet long, weighs ST
tons. and runs, it is said, with an av-
erage consumption of six-tenths of a
gallon of gasoline per mile. The car
is in charge of ]. x. Duffy, vice pres
ident and L. G. Nilsson, chief engineer
of the Strang company
The monthly meeting and luncheon
of the Traffic club of Chicago will be
held today at the Grand Pacific hotel
]. c. Lincoln of St. Louis. president
of the National Industrial Traffic
league, will address the club regard
ing the leagues work on questions in
volving the relations of the railroads
and the shippers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05

Her example has now been followed
at great many other similar reading
rooms in this country.
1t is great opportunity for Presi-
dent Taft. He should choose as his
secretary of the treasury a strong
man who will offer the house of repre-
sentatives fully drawn tariff bill
He should ask the house to invite the
secretary of the treasury to come be-
fore it and explain his tariff bill
take up schedule after schedule, tell
ing what the law is now. telling what
he would make it, and why. All in
open house.
The reduction in tariff taxes thus
asked for by the secretary of the
treasury would be the reduction the
the people, asks for in the interest OF
all the people. The opponents of re-
duction would speak as representa-
tives of special interests. They would
be bound to show the condition OF
their special interest. 1t would be up
to them to show how strugglingly
infantile they are, and how absolutely
indispensable it is that all the people
represented by President Taft should
be still further heavily taxed to save
them from perishing.
Standing before the house of repre-
sentatives as the spokesman of the
president, the representative OF all
the people, demanding the release of
of forced bounty to protected interests,
offering a tax bill fully drawn that
would give that relief and enable the
millions of workers of America to en-
Joy the fruits of their labor, the secre-
tary of the treasury would have
greater cause than has been fought
for since the great battles over
slavery.
Under the captain of "a Hurry Call
From Kansas" the Washington Even
ing Star published the following
editorial:
The Leavenworth Times, a Re-
publican newspaper, is full of a fine
Impotence:
1.-THE Times believes and has there
tofore taken the position that there is
no sense in waiting for special ses-
sion of congress to do the work of re-
vising the tariff. The ways and means
committee which is now holding
hearings on the different schedules of
the present law, should be ready to
make a pretty complete report to
congress when the session opens in
December, and, making an allowance
of a month, which ought to be ample
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
SANTA FEE MEN IN ALBUQUERQUE
Are Holding a Rate Conference With
New Mexico shippers.

Albuquerque, n. M, Dec. 5-Re-
spending to an invitation from the
New Mexico Wholesale Grocery as
ISOLATION, seven of the head officials
of the Santa Fe are in Albuquerque
today to discuss New Mexico freight
rates.
In the party are George T. NichoI-
son, vice president, who is in charge
of the traffic department.; J. E. Cor
man, freight traffic manager; F. B.
Houghton, assistant freight traffic
manager; w. G. Barnweu, general
lines; Paul Hastings, general freight
agent on the Santa Fe, Prescott &
Phoenix, and W. r. Brown general
freight and passenger agent for New
Mexico The first four named came
from Chicago, the fifth from Los An
geles and Mr.. Hastings came from
Phoenix.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05

"I one day heard what a wonder
full medicine Peruna is and what is
has done for others, SO I bought a
bottle and tried it. 1 could hardly
realize my good fortune, when, before
I had taken a whole bottle of it 1 felt
like a new woman. ] took it for some
time longer and also gave some to the
baby and she improved as rapidly and
as permanently as 1 did.
IT cannot say too much for Pc
runa.'
Uses Pe-ru-na in His Family.
Mr.. Frank w. Harris, box %, Basic
City, Va, member A. F. & A. M,
writes:
ct have used Peruna I'm my family
with very satisfactory results for the
last two years
Besides, have recomm ended it to
all whom I think are in need of it.
81 urge all who are afflicted to buy a
bottle and begin it's use at once.
"I have never heard of any who
have used it to be dissatifed with the
results"
Hay Fever, Coughs and Colds.
Mrs. Lena O'Byrne, 626 Madison st.
Topeka, Kan, writes:
I'VE have used Peruna in our house
hold for a good many years.
II took it for a cough and a tonic.
My husband used it and thinks there
is nothing like it for hay fever from
which he suffered for years. I also
give it to my children for coughs and
colds, and my daughter, Mary, was
cured of catarrh of the head by Pc
T11Oa''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
NEW SHOPS FOR FRISCO.
Will Be Added to Present Plant at
Springfield

Springfield, Mo, Dec. st has
been announced from the New York
offices of the banking firm of Kuhn
Loeb & Co., that in addition to the
$50, 900, 600 advanced the Frisco last
week with which to take up the out
standing bonds, $15,O0O,0O0 more as
authorized by the executive committee
in June of 1907, has been secured
with the assurance of whatever addi-
tional funds will be needed to carry
on the work started with fifteen mil
lion dollars will be placed at their
disposal. This last loan is for the pur-
pose of carrying on improvements
planned by B. F. Yoakum, the chair
man of the executive committee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
IA. C. Hog Markets New Record.

Kansas City, Dec. 5-More than
four million hogs have been marketed
in Kansas City so far this wear, maxi
ing nearly 100000 more than were
ever marketed in Kansas City in anv
entire year period to 1908 About
One-fourth million hogs are expected
in the twenty-five market days vet re-
naming in this month The full
years receipts will be about one-half
million greater than in any previous
wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
Tom Johnson,s Daughter Divorced

Cleveland, Dec. 5.-Mrs. Eliza beth
Johnson Mariani, daughter of Mayor
Tom L. Johnson. has been granted
divorce from FREDERICK Mariani of
New York. She testified that her hus-
band had never supported her. Miss
Johnson and Mariani were married in
March, 1907, at the home of the mayor.
Shortly afterward the couple went to
New York to live. In a few months
they separated. Mariani is an italian
playwright
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
Two Bushels of Rifled Mail.

Warsaw, Ind, Dec. 5.-Two bushels of
first class mail, most of it opened, has
been uncovered by hunters in a seclud-
ed spot on a farm near here The
opened letters were all mailed at Mich
igan City Checks and money orders
were untouched and the thief only ex-
tracted cash.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05

have received letters patent on a
controlled air brake and are pre-
pairing to place it on the market. In
Iact, although the letters patent are
out rev days old, Messrs. Gray have
already declined an offer of $4,000
Tor control of the invention. A work
ing model has been examined and test
ed by the best railroad mechanical ex-
pertS IN the west and pronounced to
De OF great value and absolutely
unique in standing alone in it's field
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
An Enemy to the Home.

CATARRH is the natural climatic
enemy of every home.
over every home hangs the inevitable
certainty of catarrhal invasion.
No home is entirely free from it.
Every person is subject to it.
1t would be no exaggeration to say
that two-thirds of the homes of Amer
lea have suffered more or less from this
invisible, almost omnipresent enemy,
catarrh.
Peruna is the natural protection of
the household.
1t is intended to relieve catarrh and
catarrhal diseases in any and all or
their phases.
Pe-ru-na the Household Remedy.
Mrs. Carrie King, 100 North Cas-
cade, Colorado Springs, Col, writes:
"Peruna has been my favorite and
only household remedy for nearly five
years. I have suffered for years with
biliousness and kidney and liver trou-
bles. If 1 caught little cold, the pains
were Increased, and backache and
headache were of frequent occur
renee.
However, Peruna cured me-
twelve bottles made me a new and
healthy woman. For three years L
have enjoyed the best of health. I
keep Peruna constantly in my home,
and if my husband or 1 catch cold or
feel indisposed, a few doses of Peru
ma never fail to restore us
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
A NEW PUMPING STATION
Has Been Started in Rock Island
Yards at Kansas CITY

Kansas City. Mo, Dec. 5-A new
$4,000 pumping station was put in
operation by the Chicago, Rock Island
e. Pacific Railway company yesterday
at the yards in Kansas City, Kan. The
pumping station and a wood preserv-
ing plant supply the railway shops.
The treating plant consists of two new
steel tanks with a capacity of 10000
gallons each and two wooden tanks
with a capacity of 100000 gallons
each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
C. & N. w. TAKES EATING HOUSES
Which Rome Miller Had Run for
TMenty-fixe Years.

Norfolk, Neb., Dec. 5.-Beginning
about January 1 the Northwestern
railroad will assume charge of all rail-
road eating houses on its lines west
of the Missouri river, including Nor
folk Long Pine, Chadron and Buffalo
Gap. These eating houses have been
operated by Rome Miller for a quarter
of a century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
BETTER THAN SPANKING

Spanking does not cure children of
bed-wetting. There is a constitutional
cause for this trouble. Mrs. NJ Sum-
mers, Box w. South Bend. Ind, will
send free to any mother her successful
home treatment, with full instructions.
Send no money, but write her today il
your children trouble you in this way
Don't blame the child. the chances are
it can't help it. This treatment also
cures adults and aged people troubled
with urine difficulties by day or night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
Happy Family Kept Well and Hearty By Taking Peru-ns

ANn Pamann uar Milwaukee w
lam abb % have drp h
huand dd rn rakon gun wea always keep reuna house,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
The Many Phases of Catarrh.

Catarrh may appear in the house.
hold in the form of a slight cold or
cough, an attack of la grippe, or even
hay fever
Peruna meets these invasions
squarely and repulses the enemy be-
fore it gains a foothold.
Therefore, Peruna is household
remedy. Used at the correct time it
often obViates the necessity of con-
tinued doctoring.
Perhaps in no other way can the
wisdom of economy and foresight be
so forcibly expressed as in keeping on
hand a bottle of Peruna to protect the
various members of the family against
the encroachments of catarrh.
We have on file thousands of teSti-
monials from heads of families, To-
Gated north and south, east and west.
These letters praise Peruna for it's
efficient protection of the family
against catarrh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
Mother and Children Depend on
Pe-ru-na.

Mrs. ]. F. O'Connor, $50 S. Cali
fornia Ave, Chicago, ILL.,, First So
prano, Area1 Singing Society, writes:
For a number of years 1 had suf-
fered from catarrh of the head, and
While some of the remedies helped me
a little while taking them, they did
not cure me permanently. My child
was also sensitive to the cold and
every little draught gave her a cold in
the head, and it used to worry me a
great deal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05
A BIG PATENT OFFER.
Ottawa Man Refused Thirty Thousand
for Invention.

ottawa, Kan. Dec. 5-Santa Fe
Yardmaster J. B. Gray. his father, s.
B. Gray, and brother, Jacob Gray,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-05

Her example has now been followed
at a great many other similar reading
rooms in this country.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19

knives. The beagles sat on the snow, watch
ing US and whining uneasily.
=, we had been intent on our task for some
sudden barking of the dogs.
Looking up, we saw that eight or ten large
ANIMALS had emerged from the woods and were
running towards us.
They were wolves, and in an instant we
were surrounded. The hounds tried to es-
CAPT, INTO the bushes, but being seen by some
oil the wolves were overtaken and killed.
Numbers made the animals bold. They
Jumped against the log, swapping and snarl-
ing. Jim and threw our knives at the fore
most, but without result. The snow shoes lay
near, us. Cathing these up, we struck at our
assailants.
There was moments pause. The wolves
chased the dogs before making the grand
attack. Our guns were leaning against the
stump, some ten yards away.
jim spoke IN low, strained voice:
We must do something quick! Help me
pitch the dead wolf among them, then run
for your gun"
Picking up the dead wolf, we flung it on to
the snow on that side of the log farthest from
the guns: As the wolves threw themselves
upon their dead comrade, we sprang from the
rel OF each weapon was loaded.
We were barely an instant in reaching them,
yet, as my hand closed on the guns barrel,
the foremost wolf was almost at my side. /
turned and shot him.
The next breath Jim also fired; then, seizing
his gun by the muzzle, struck about him.
While he kept the pack at bay reloaded.
Two more charges of swan-shot worked such
havoc among them that the survivors turned
When they reached the edge of the clear
ing they stopped; each one raised its head
and poured forth a long howl of disappoint.
ment. Then they disappeared into the woods,
as silently as they came.
When the laaf vuolf cIunk o,,A r. ..-la
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19

A wood-road, along which we had often
stationed ourselves when hare-hunting lea
through the woods to the. open fields pc
yond.
We ran along this road as quickly as pos
sible, hoping to reach the clearing before tne
fox broke cover.
Jim thought Che would-be thief had not
gone far; he had discovered the poultry, ana
very likely was lurking near by, contemplating
another raid.
Jim was right We were not more than
halfway through the woods when the long
drawn baying. of the beagles changed TO
more short and eager notes, which told that
the game had been reused.
We ran forward, but only reached the
open in time to see the chase stretching of
toward another piece of woods. A quarter
of mile away, the dogs were scramblIng
spare in much barking, and It was only at
intervals that they gave vent to hoarse, ex.
cited howl. Thirty or forty rods ahead OF
them grayish animal was. .dashing along. e.,
"It must be a gray fox, gasped jim. =
larger than the common red fox
In few moments pursued and purslers had
disappeared among the evergreens we were
tired and out of breath. and plodded slowly
toward the place where the dogs had left the
open. =.
The new cover in which the fox had sought
refuge was part OF a low, swampy tract which,
oyerprown by bushes and scattered clumps
of frs, extended clear to the deep woods OF
the Maine wilderness :.
The chase did not lead of in any direct
line. The dogs circled about the bushes, some
| times coming quite close to the clearing. :,
The fox must be practicing some OF the
tricks known to his kind, perhaps following
the hare runways, In order to confuse the
| dogs.
Going into the bushes. Jim and took our
stations in some open places where we could
see about us, and hoped to get a glimpse of
| the fox during it's Greetings. The dogs came
so near US that we remained In a state Of ex-
cited expectation; but the fox was too wary
and kept out of sight
After nearly an hour of this lodging about,
during which the dogs, though often puzzled,
| never completely lost the track, the fox seemed
| to abandon the idea of throwing off the
hounds. By the sound of the barking, we
knew he was taking a direct course to the
deep woods
We did not hesitate 10 follow From its size
and color, we felt sure this was no ordinary
fox, and we meant to make every effort to
/ capture the prize.
tt was not q cold day, and the midday sur
Twas beginning to weaken the crust. We start
ed in the direction the dogs had taken, and
| soon came upon their trail along the snow.
i called Jim's attention to the fact thai
| one Of the beagles seemed to have broker
| through the softened crust at almost ever
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19

leap; Jim bent down, and examined the
tracks carefully.
IT'S not one. of the dogs that's. too heavy,
they're chasing. And ii that's a fox, it's the
biggest one ever seen in the Maine woods.
We were looking at each other in silence,
completely puzzled, when jim cried:
Listen to the. dogs"
ing. They were no longer running; either the
game had escaped into some den or it was
at bay.
We sprang forward with greater energy,
and in ten minutes had nearly reached the
spot where the dogs were bowling.
Stopping, we carefully examined our guns
and moved silently on. A clump of snow,
laden cedars was in front of us. We pushed
aside the branches and looked beyond.
acres in extent, were the two beagles, and
above them, on big log, crouched shaggy,
The dogs circled about the log. whining
and b Eking, but did not venture within reach
of th It savage head.
As we were watching it, the animal lifted
itself on its forefeet, and, with nose pointing
NAL howl.
brating through the woods we knew the fox
was nothing less than wolf.
At the spot where we stood the edge of
the cedars was fully a hundred yards distant
from the woH-too long range for our shot
guns--but farther on some bushes extended
into the clearing; and to this point we now
crept, keeping out of sight Of the game. At in
tervals of minute or two the same long
drawn howl was repeated.
When the last bit of cover was reached, we
were still eighty yards away from the great
log on which was standing the wolf, and we
were not sure our swan-shot would be eff
fective at that range.
In order to gain few yards, at a given
signal we both ran forward into the open
space holding our guns in readiness to fire.
The wolf saw US before we were well clear
Of the bushes, and. springing over the bea-
giles, plunged off through the snow. The
reports of two guns rang out simultaneously,
and in a moment more the dogs were worry
ing the animal which they had so long fol-
lowed.
The dead wolf was as unprepossessing an
object as we had ever seen-shaggy and gaunt
in body, while long, savage muzzle, cruel
eyes and grinning teeth added nothing to its
| beauty.
Leaning our guns against stump, we drag
| oed the wolf back to the great log. It's broad
tor had been cleared Of snow. by the wind,
and. as we wished to take off the animals
melt. we thought this would make convenient
| table for the purpose.
| Freeing ourselves from the snow Shoes we
I were soon hard at work with our hunting
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19

ITEM or twelve years ago l spent the
winter at my uncle's farm In North
western Maine. There were many
IGNNgN bits of woodland in the neighDor-
- hood, and my Cousin Jim and !
took all the delight in shooting and
trapping which is natural to boys of sixteen.
In the early winter we secured the swamps
and wooded hills in search OF grouse and
hare sometimes going nearly to the edge oil
the great Maine forest, which stretched away
toward the white peak OF Mount katahdln.
Many game dinner attested To tne success
of these expeditions.
About the middle of December there were
heavy snowstorms, followed by slight thaw.
When the weather again became cold crust
formed over the deep snow. sufficient to bear
a person walking on snowshoes
One evening, remember it was four or hve
DAYS before Christmas, we were bus! putting
in order some snowshoes we had found IN
the attic and intended to use in an expedition
ing.
While thus engaged, we heard a disturbance
at the barn; the beagles set up a baying from
their corner of the stables, and great cack-
ling came from the poultry house. As we ran
into the yard, we thought we saw dark ami
NAL scudding away over the snow. Jim sug-
cested it was fox, or possibly a lynx, that
had paid visit to the poultry and been
frightened away by the barking of dogs.
The next morning we found where some
animal had tried to scratch its way into the
poultry house, but in the beaten barnyard it
was impossible to distinguish any tracks, nor
could traces be found on the hard snow.
When we led the dogs to the place where
we got glimpse of the animal the night be-
fore. they tugged at their chains and howled
IN way that proved they would have no
difficulty in following the track.
We lost no time over breakfast, and having
charged some cartridges with heavy swan
Shot. we were ready to set out on our snow
shoes.
The hare-hunt was quite forgotten in the
excitement of this new chase. Our hounds
were two beagles that brought from Bos-
ton and which had been trained especially
for hare, but they now seemed to feel equally
AZ home on a fox trail. They were light,
as;,e dogs, and ran over the crust without
a1v danger of breaking through.
As long as the track led over the open
fields we kept the dogs chained, as we did
not wish them TO start the game when we
were too far in the rear. But where the
track entered a large piece of woods, we
were glad to let loose the tugging hounds.
Here, under some thick evergreens where
the crust had formed less firmly, we could
distinguish the animals footprints. The inn
preston in the dry snow was not clearly de
lined, but Jim pronounced it very big fox
track
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19

ZEN or twelve years ago l spent the
winter at my uncle's farm in North
western Maine. There were many
bits of woodland in the neighbor-
, hood, and my Cousin Jim and !
took all the delight in shooting and