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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
SANTA FE GETS RIGHT OF WAY
Work to Be Commenced at Once on
Fullerton Richfield Line =


San Bernardino, Cal, Feb. 16.-The
last piece of right of way of the long
projected Fullerton-R ichfield cutoff
has been acquired, and at the Santa Fe
offices in Los Angeles it is announced
that work will be started at once in
building the four and oi1e-half miles
of track that is to connect those two
stations reducing the mileage from
San Bernardino, via Riverside, from
70 to 20 miles.
For many years there has been talk
of this cutoff, and frequent rumors
that it would be built, but it has not
been until now that it is assured.
The building of the cutoff means
much to the towns along this route, as
nearly half an hour can be cut
from the time of passenger trains. At
present it requires 35 minutes to cover
the distance from Fullerton to Rich
field. via Orange. With the cutoff
it will be made in 10.
1t is reliably stated that the Santa
Fe is contemplating readjustment of
the train service when the cutoff is
completed, running more through
trains by way of this route. There is
at present one overland routed via
Riverside and Orange. The reducing
of the mileage and doing away with
the necessity of running into Orange
will make it possible for freight trains
to make much better time, a thing
which has been sought for years on
through business
The people of Placentia, through
which town the cutoff will run. have
contributed to the cost of building the
new line. 1t is stated that an appro-
priation of 100000 has been made for
this piece of track, which is to be com
pleted within three months.
For several months one rancher is
hsaid to have held out for an exorbitant
price, preventing the securing of the
entire right of way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
DEMONSTRATION FARMS.
New York Central Teaches Remedies
for ssRun Down" Places.

The New York Central has bought
the first of a series of three demon
stration farms. 1t is run down
farm. situated within a few rods OF
the station at West Bergen, Monroe
county, says the Railroad Age Ga
zette. The road does not seek to equip
ANYTHING even remotely resembling an
agricultural school or a scientific ex-
pertinent station. 1t is the purpose
Simply to show by Inexpensive methods
how the greatest yield at the greatest
profit to the farm owner can be OBJ,
tanned. When the farm is developed
to it's highest degree of efficiency the
road intends to sell it and start to
build I'D some other run down" farm
in western New Y DIRK.
The company's farm superintendent
is t. E Martin of West Rush, N. Y,
a practical farmer. He took his Cen
esee valley farm several years ago,
when it was yielding so bushels of po-
tatoes to the acre and by common
sense methods brought its yield up to
an average of more than 800 bushels
to the acre. Opportunity will be given
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16

to the graduates of the agricultural
schools to serve as managers. OF the
two other farms, one will be located
in the Mohawk valley and another on
the western slope of the Adirondacks.
The West Bergen farm is a "cold
farm" so called, and will require the
best efforts of the agriculturists. Their
efforts will be concentrated to develop
it's four present crops-potatoes, cab
bage, alfalfa and wheat. Experiments
will be conducted with and without
fertilizers and spraying, so as to show
the greatest possible cash yield in pro-
portion to actual expenditure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
A Severe Coueb.

Mr.. E. M Stabler, Payne, Ohio,
writes: Il thank you thousand times
Tor Peruna and 1 think every family
ought to keep it in the house, and 1T
would save doctor bills. I will do all I
can for you.
L had a cough this winter for six
weeks and I took three bottles of Pc
runa and it stopped the cough and I am
WE'LL
Chronic Nasal Catarrh.
Mr.. Charles H. Stevens, 122 18th St.,
Detroit, Mich, writes: TT affords me
great pleasure to testify to the merits
of Peruna as remedy for catarrh
Il suffered for some time with chronic
nasal catarrh, but after five months
treatment during which time 1 used
seven bottles of Peruna, am pleased
to say that 1 am entirely well, there
not being the slightest trace of catarrh
left"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
PROFESSOR sHIRK TO LEAVE.
superintendent of Great Bend Schools
Announces His Retirement.

Great Bend Kan, Feb. 16.-At the
regular meeting of the school board,
Professor Shirk at the conclusion of
his monthly report announced to the
school board that at the close of the
present year he would move to Topeka
with his family that his two children
might attend college and still enjoy
home influences. He stated that he
had been teacher for thirty-two
years and felt that he was entitled to
retire and made such announcement
that the board might have plenty of
time to select a successor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
RATE REDUCTION IN KANSAS.
Interstate Commerce Commission Cuts
| on Colorado Town.

Washington, Feb 16-Against the Wig
orous protest Of the Atchison, Topeka and
santa Fe system and several other rail-
way lines the interstate commerce COM
mission in an opinion handed down in
the case of the Cedar Hill Coal and Coke
company of southeastern Colorado esteb-
lished through routes and joint rates from
the Walsenburg coal district of Colorado
to points. in Kansas, Texas and New Mexi-
co. Heretofore the rate on coal from the
Walsenburg district to some points in 9th
er states have been prohibitive. AS was
testified to by a Santa Fe official:
The figures are prohibitive; they are
meant to be so'
Under the law satisfactory through
route is required, if demanded and the
commission established by this opinion
and its order, the routes and rates re-
quested by the complainant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16

finally becoming much less infiam-
mable than the untreated wood.
This is due, according to Mr.. Roll
Inns, to the vaporization of the lighter
residues in the surface of the wood.
Tests on treated and untreated poles
showed that the former were only
slightly charred, the fire going out of
it's own accord, after about 10 minutes,
while the latter under similar treat
ment, were completely burned
through, the fire continuing for two
and one-half hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
CREosoTE TIES WON'T BURN.
Tests Show That Treated Timber Is
Much Less InfIammable.

At the annual meeting of the Wood
Preservers' association in Chicago, H.
NJ. Rollins. superintendent of the
Texas & New Orleans wood preserving
works, read a paper on the "Inflam-
inability of Treated Timber" which
gave the experience Of that line with
the treated timber. Mr.. Rollins con-
fined his paper to wood treated by
creosoting and said that by tests it had
been shown that wood SO treated is at
first rendered more infiammable, but
that it gradually loses this property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
WITH ROCK ISLAND IN TOPEKA.
New Vice President of Burlington Was
General superintendent Here.

H E. Byram, who has been elected
vice president of the Chicago, Rurling-
ton & Quincy ana the Colorado &
Southern, was born November Is
1865, at Galesburg, I'LL He began rail-
way work in 1881 with the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy at Galesburg as
a call boy; he was later stenographer
in the general superintendent office
and chief clerk to the superintendent
of terminals at Chicago. For five years
from 1899 he was out of railway serv-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16

season will be completed, regardless Of
the cost. The Burlington's tracks are
in good condition through Nebraska,
and there are but few bad spots on
any of the divisions west of the river.
And these it is announced will be i'm
proved until they attain the Burling-
ton standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16

day with their son. Edward Gibbons, who
attends st. Benedict's college at Atchi-
son.
Mr. and Mrs. George Miller of Kansas
City spent Wednesday here the guests of
relatives and friends.
Mr. Harold Anderson is improving after
several days illness with an attack of the
grip.
Mrs. George Metzger is recovering from
serious illness of several weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
MANY RAILROAD PENSIONERS.
Twenty-Five Lines Grant Pensions TO
Over 500. 600 Men

Washington, Feb. 16-Twenty-one rail-
road systems in the United States pension
their employees and more than 00OO0 men
now working upon those lines are eligible
to the benefits, according to a statement
compiled by the bureau of statistics of the.
department of commerce and labor. -Four
of these systems have made the retiring
age s. years and the others hold it at
20 years.
Get our estimate on that LUMBER
hill IVhalau q Co EnIIrtl,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
Relieved of Throat Trouble by Pe-ru-na

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16

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The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16
Denuer Plays Hoss on Freieht Tariffs

planning most active
campaigns undertaken
thing which will be by big
the Chamber
will be done
We is
Perhaps friends will
statement had know
ledge
o tie save Denver
We will modify if point to
ton.
They met Chat is the Denver committee
question
tee appointed right the a
Then another
could no be
Also several of the questions that have
submitted the interstate commission.
That brings
start right
can't Grand of
a
Let us drop all other take this
pnkydoodle around half hundred different things
psh
Some objections
Chamber of Commerce taking
ais being brought against the merchants of Denver.
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16
SUBSCRIPTION RATES +:
Thin Skinned Denocracu

Enterprise cannot discover
in the Colorado
ing session.
republican paper has
been egsng on the governor call extra session. but all of them
nearly.
republican papers have charged the demo-
cratic with having faith?
governor
should
they have.
republican press
ing the session than
me enterprise beVes that those papers that oppose the extra
on their backs
plead guilty part of
charge.
political
a business.
We of
of political
We plead guilty
everybody else but the
cheap peg Logging in the
name of reform than anything else under the
happy session. if believed
that proposed
convention of the democratic
But The Sentinel will be
introduced
originally
of their worth through the Vaccinations
republican bosses anything
democrat.
and sentine) that we op
and shall continue of ability
we ke democrats hat have stood by the faith all the through
the kind that
which they blows
We by
nnuendo
wheh they know VIII not accomplish anything but
chances of the party years
The present administration
nonical and
the Peabody keep
all its pledges made
Does the Montrose cke for
reform believe that
by republican
belief nightly mistaken opprobrium
line legislation" populc buncombe an
archistic pleadings' and such
When the republican press
it should not with
draw its original republican press
the largely gIs
ture
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16
ONE DEAD AND ONE MISSING ON
ACCOUNT OF A FIRE.
[By Assoelated Press. ]

Kansas City, Mo, March 16.-
Charles O'Donnell, formerly an actor
of Sedalia, Mo-, is dead and Bert
Sailers, car repairer. is missing as
the result of a fire that destroyed a
railroad workers boarding house here
early yesterday. A score of other
men in the house escaped death
through the heroism of James Hicks,
a bar tender, in a nearby saloon.
The building was two-story struc-
ture and was provided with two mar
row stairways. The bo irders were
all sleeping upstairs wien the fire
started. Hicks was tn, first to dis
cover the fire and he rushed into the
burning building and saved nearly
all of the occupants. O'Donnell's
body was found in the ruins. 1t is
supposed the fire was caused by the
explosion of kerosene lamp.
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

There are being held awaiting
Identification for ownership at the
police station seven bicycles in all,
which have been picked up at various
times by night policemen. Three
ladies wheels and four gentlemen's
wheels of various descriptions are
among the number. They may be
secuerd upon Identification and pay
ment of the required fee which is
authorized by the city ordinance
which prohibits the leaving of bicy-
cles on the streets after eleven o'clock
at night.
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16
Baseball on Business Basis

There high hope this
Last The Sentinel
porated
which
credits ball
present organization working in
good business men have promised accepting
We
with the
Last club compelled
suited
year as far possible In talk with few
the said
ular public
bty with the club
the playing team.
Another condition c,h
tain will not have big list of nitch
this which
the games weekend
all
charged with
for his general utility and made
The ball fans are getting their
and when comes it will be died ont
Grand Junction in the - -"
Kisses and greeting between the Roosev,
khartoum, This A,nora
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

Kisses and hugs were the greeting
kharoum Egypt This sounds most homey truly American
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

The firemen on the Colorado rail-
roads do not want to strike. but will
respond to any strike orders issued
by the chairmen OF their executive
committee, according to local railroad
officials who have closely watched
the negotiations in progress between
the companies and the unions. Ii is
estimated that between 900 and =
500 men will walk out If the strike
order is sent out and these in turn
viii affect about 5000 men belong
ing to other organizations who will
become idle through the failure of
trains to move. The situation in
Colorado is serious in the same pro-
portion as IL is in other sections of
the West. The Colorado & Southern,
Union Pacific. Rock Island, Santa Fe
and Colorado Midland roads will be
affected in this state.-Denver Times.
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

George C. Wilstack, OF Cleveland,
Ohio, u nephew of ii. j. Franks of
this city, is visiting in Grand Junction
for few days en- route to Los An
geles, Cal, where he expects to make
his future home. Mr.. Wilstack is an
expert mechanist and has been en-
gagged by a large auto garage concern
of that city.
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

The board of directors of the Y. NJ.
C. A. has selected Mr.. ]. Freeman
Cox, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, for
the past three years engaged IN the
fruit growing business easi of the
city to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mr.. January and Mr..
Il. S. Galloway, of Fruita, as boys
physical director, to take the place
of George Scott,
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16
RACE SUICIDE

Is not nearly the menace to increase
In population that deaths among in
rants are. Eight out of ten of these,
deaths are directly or Indirectly dns
to bowel troubles. McGee's Pahy
Elixir cures diarrhoea. dysentery
sour stomach and all infant ailments
OF TINS nature, Just the thing for
teething babies. Price Csc and 60c
per bottle. Sold by the C. d. smith
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

A Spengle, manager of Ue,
Newspaper in Denver w Morev of the
Moey Mercantile knourS
business and W. A. Hoover the
These
And Just Chamber of Com
mece is the body
Just what waiting do
doing Denver can keen Grand
Junction lust that long she
Don't be deceived
by Denver civic bodies They We
- ~
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

When you want 10 move your
household goods, or goods of any
kind, call on Barton & Terrill, the
pioneer transfer and livery men.
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

Haze some of those freight
photos made. We are the originators
of this popular style in Grand June
tion.--Wolverton Studio.
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

Remember the quality of our
photos are the very best and our
prices are always little lower than
olverton Studio.
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

Greatest boost meeting ever held
in the valley, that is what the Cham
ber of Commerce banquet will be
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

Scissors and knives sharpened at
Lynch's, 236 Main street.
The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

We can save you money on group
photos. Studio
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-14

Most Appropriate Hat to Accompany
This Popular Material of the
Moment.

A hat os drawn net made over a
wire frame, which would go appro
priately with a foulard frock, could
have bias edges and a chou of i'm
mense size of the same silk. The ad.
dition of rose would give it the true
milliner look, for the modiste always
gives an extra little touch to these
home-made-looking hats. Some trim.
mings for the coarser straw hats are
of the rudest description-wide scarfs
of linen so rough that it seems like
canvas, and this patched over at the
ends with one or more bias bands of
flowered cotton. One black hat seen
recently had scarf of linen as coarse
as gunny sacking and figured cotton
bands in the most dazzling hue. AS
the trimming was all very stiff, it was
put primly about the crown, with an
immense tailored bow at the side.
More dressy styles may be made of
flowered chiffon and plain taffeta
these materials in bright or delicate
colors providing the smartest hat that
can be had for the midsummer frock
in airy materials. A superb hat worn
at recent affair was of chantecler
red chiffon figured with deeper red
mingled with smoky blue. 1t was In
the shape of huge sailor. The chif.
fon was shirred with cords over a wire
frame, taffeta in the lighter shade
binding edges and forming the crown
band and side bow-not taffeta put on
in the usual manner, but finely plated
and edged in turn with neat plain
bias. The very edge of the hat had
this double treatment of the silk and
1t showed up most artistically in the
wide band and bow. Although the
price paid for this hat was $40, it
could be made at home for 81.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-14
"0LD MAID OFFENSIVE TERM
Women Hate the Appellation, but
PhilosophicaIly Consider It is Dig
nified and Complimentary.

1t seems strange that an unmarried
woman should object seriously to be-
ing called an old maid. But one of
that blessed status in life took offense
at the term in Long island and caused
the man who applied II to her to be
nailed into court, where he was stern
ly reprimanded by the magistrate and
directed to expunge the word from his
vocabulary. But it is not clear where
In lay his offense. The term Is dig
nified and complimentary. There may
hnger feminine objection of the ad.
jective "old," but that could be elm
mated by very slight application of
philosophy. AS for the noun, it is us.
ually supplemented by terms of praise
Unmarried men do not rush into
court when they arc called bachelors
or even old bachelors. The bachelor
uncle is normally a delight to nephews
and nieces. The maiden aunt is be-
loved and cherished in every household
blessed by her presence. She is not in.
frequently its most attractive mem
Der, even without the charms of youth.
For that she has substituted a golden
glow of placid bene6cence.
II there were in her early life a
love affair, 1t is preserved in the Law
ender leaves of her memory. She has
no occasion to brood, nor need melan.
choly cloud her brow. The geo
graphical distribution of old maids
IN the United States has happily
grown less uneaven. But it is prob
able that the number of old maids by
their own choice is greater even than
before the days of more money per
capita and of reader transportation
Women has advanced in both educa-
tion and independence. She can, when
she will, set higher standards for her
choice. The suitor has more difficulty
>" proving his case, provided the fair
ohe is endowed with discriminating
Judgment. There is less common need
of marriage for home.
Such emancipation of femininity
would have inevitably an effect upon
the census. 1t may have also its in
f1uence upon the development of char
acter. Within somewhat elastic socio-
logical limits there cannot be too
many old maids among the population.
They have their peculiar mission to
perform, and they usually meet its re-
quirements with sweetness and light
Doubtless it was the intent of the
Long island boor that constituted his
offense. He might better wish that
this maid may grow older and older.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-14
Men and Animals.

1t Is difficult to make out Just why
at this period of history there should
be a sudden multiplication of plays
in which the animal and vegetable
Kingdoms take the chief parts The
genre is, Of course, as old as Aesop,
but the new century has touched it
with a fresh tenderness, a new sense
of the kinship of all life. Some day
German doctor Of sociology will
make research studies and decide
what hidden influences are at work. In
the middle of the nineteenth century
the peasant and the plain man rose
suddenly to the pinnacle of romantic
attraction. Up to this time literature
had concerned itself chiefly with the
aristocracy. If the peasant was in.
troduced, it was as a jester, a money.
maker, a laughing interlude. But tse
tragedies, difficulties, the shining gifts
of life seemed to belong only to those
of distinguished social position.
Is it the influx of religious ideas
from the east; is it, perhaps, an eff
feet of the renewed interest in the
mystic consciousness, "the Call of the
Whole" the sense of the unbroken
links of life, that has sent the drama
itself to the life of the trees and in
animate objects, of barnyard fowls
and insects, for characters ?-Har-
per's. Weekly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-14
Cutting Up Battleships.

Formerly the cutting up Of huge
masses of steel like the armor belt on
old battleships was Herculean job,
costing much time, money and use of
powerful machinery. To tear up an old
battleship was the labor of months, re-
Quiring the careful cutting of no end
of rivets and laborious chiseling and
hammering. Such a job can now be
done in jiffy by big \blowpipe, In
which air and coal gas are burned
under pressure. Two fine nozzles
close together do the job. Or, II
coal gas is not handy, acetylene or
gasoline vapor can be used. OF course,
the blowpipe is connected to the gas
holder by a strong rubber hose. With
the gas lighted and the air turned on,
the hardest steel runs off like bar
Of melting wax. The cut is surpris-
ingly clean and smooth, the metal in
no way being injured. The same sure
way can be used in the cutting down
of big trees and big, thick timber. in
stead of the slower and more ex-
pensive ak and saw. 1t can be used
instead of drills and chisels in drilling
holes and planning off rough steel. 1t
greatest disadvantage is difficulty in
getting coal gas, but the gasoline
takes its place pretty we'll.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-09-14
Make New Girdles.

They are an attractive means of
freshening and changing frocks, the
newness of which has worn off.
Bargains are plentiful this time of
year in ends of brocade, short lengths
of soft ribbon and handsome trim.
mings in motif or medallion effect.
Small remnants of fringes may be
worked in, too, for trimming, and
fringed sash ends.
Most of the girdles are made quite
high In front.
There may be deep. long motif Of
some kind of fabric, caught with soft
ribbon which ties around the waist
and falls over the skirt in back.