The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-19
NORTH SIDE NEWS
New L. II. & w. Time Caro-
flinders Onaga People.
Can't Shop Here and Return
Same Day.
TOPEKA TO LINCOLN.
Special Train Between Cities
Over New Cutoff.
Other Items of Interest About
North Side Affairs.

The new time card for the L. X &
W.. running between Miltonvale and
Ieavenworth. and connecting with the
Santa Fe at Valley Falls. will probably
prevent Onaga shoppers from spending
the day in Topeka and returning the
same evening as heretofore II IS
thought that the change was maze 10
force the public to go between Onaga
and Topeka via the cutoff.
In this connection is a report tnat
q train between here and Lincoln NeD.,
will be run both ways over the new I'o
through trains between Kansas CITY
and the coast. 1t is not improbable
that these coast trains will be 10S, west
bound. due here now at 1885 p M ana
its mate, 10 eaStbound, due mere at
6:2O D. m. 1t is believed that the time
for these trains will remain about the
same The schedule for the Lincoln
trains is said to be under consloera-
ton.
As to the L. K. w. new time
card, the only. passenger train from
Onaga now arrives at Valley Fails al
AIS p. m, and the westbouno tram
from Leavenworth arrives there at 9:45
a. m Thus the morning train from
Onaga misses the Santa Fe train which
arrives in Valley Falls at a. M ana
gets into Topeka at 10 a. m. The same
train returning, leaves Topeka at p.
M, getting into Valley Falls at p m
This schedule of the Santa Fe used
to make connections with L. K. &. w.
trains According to the old time card
of the L. K. & W., the passenger from
Onaga arrived at Valley Falls at S:3I
a m, and returned from LeaVenworth'
arrived at Valley Falls at 7:31 p. m.
Thus Onaga people could go to Topeka
in the morning and return the same
day. Between 20 and 80 passengers
daily are said to have availed them
selves of this opportunity.
Now, the only practicable means of
getting to and from Onaga by rail is
via the cutoff. On this road at present
a mixed train leaves Onaga about p.
H., arriving here at 10:40 p. m. 1t leaves
Topeka at 1880 p. m. the next day, ar
irving at Onaga at $3.50 p. m.
A conductor on North side car tells
the following story:
AT Fifth street and Kansas avenue
the other day, an Enthusiastically
dressed woman, evidently an easterner,
boarded my car. When 1 went to take
up her fare she asked me How much?'
greatly to my surprise. She also added
To the Union Pacific depot, as if di-
recting a 'cabby.' However, 1 thought
she merely wished to know if the car
would take her there, so l replied yes
But the end was not yet. When 1 Of
fered her transfer, she gave me all
astonished look and said in naughty
voice:
I do not presume that my cash
payment of SO small an amount to a
street car corporation would necessitate
my taking a receipt for the same"
Notes and Personals.
Word has been received here of the
death of S. V. LindeIl of Lindsborg an
uncle of A. V. Lindeil, assistant CASH
Ter of the Shawnee State bank, and Ed
Lindell of 400 South Fillmore street.
which occurred at Iindsborg Sunday. |
The uncle was IA years old. He worked
as a stone mason in Topeka in 1869, ard
located on a farm near Lindsborg a |
short time later. Both of the nephews
have gone to Lindsborg to attend the |
funeral which will be held tomorrow
The contract for a new $4,000 frame |
church at Granville has been let to +. |
S. Emert. The building will take the |
place of the one which was destroyed !
by fire few months ago.
John Sheetz and Miss Elizabeth |
Smith of Topeka were married at the |