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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
STATES RIGHTS AGAIN.
Old Question Bobs Up in Connection
With Corporation Tax.

Washington, March 9.-From the
several briefs just fled in the supreme
court of the United States in opposi-
ton to the corporation tax lawyers
who have examined them have drawn
the conclusion that one of the prin-
cipal fights on the constitutionality
of that measure is to. be Waged over
the question of whether it is an i'm
proper tax on the power of the states
10 grant franchises. The cases involv-
ing the constitutionality of the tax
come up for oral argument before
court next week.
Frederick r. Coudert. counsel in
two of the cases in which the tax is
opposed, features this attack on the
law. He argues at length against the
so-called infringement by the federal
government on rights of states.
1.-THE power to grant charters" says
he in his brief. sis one of the Oldest
state powers It antedates the revolu-
ton. Taxation with its logically con-
ccmitant potential destruction of this
power by the general government
would thus be an attack upon. and
possibly humiliation of. one of the
greatest and oldest of state functions
In the brief of John G. Johnson and
Frederick J. Stimson. in opposition to
the tax in another case, they conclude
their argument by this quotation from
former Chief Justice Marshall:
mo political dreamer was ever wild
enough to think of breaking down the
lines which separate the states and of
compounding the American people into
one common mass"
Jed L. Washburn, in brief in favor
of holding the tax unconstitutional re-
fers to the same point as follows:
eff whatever the United States had
a right to do. the individual states
have no right to undo, as has been
stated it is equally true that what
ever the individual states. in the ex-
ercise of the reserved power under
the tenth amendment have a right to
do. the congress of the United States
has NOT the right to undo"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
Don't Blame
Your Stomach
When Without Exertion or Cost
You Can Enjoy Meals and
Cure Dyspepsia.
A Trial Package of Stuart's Dyspepsia
TABLETS Sent Free.

A Trial Package of Stuart's Dyspepsia
TABLETS Sent Free.
Don't blame your stomach or your
luck when your meals declare war on
your system.
When the stomach won't do it's work
it is because it cannot.
When foul smelling doors come from
your stomach, when the head aches and
the sourness of mouth every morning
makes you hate your breakfast. when
dreams and nightmare assail you, don't
give up the fight.
This is the appeal of nature, and it
should be heard.
Over-eating. late suppers, poorly
chewed food, too rich pastries and I'M
Ger-done cooking are some of the causes
of the stomach's i'll health.
When the stomach is busy, 1t presses
and churns all the liquid matter from
food and with It's juices dissolves into
LIQUID form or pulp everything which
comes icto it.
If such food be poisonous it effects
the juices, attacks the stomach, goes
into the blood and weakens the entire
system.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will d.
geSt a full meal easily without mater
ial assistance from the stomach. They
will restock the gastric fluid with all
the elements needed. They build up the
blood. destroy sour taste, bad breath,
beIching, stomach and bowel trouble
and quickly restore natural conditions.
One grain of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
let's will digest 1900 grains of food in
the stomach or in a glass vial without
aid of the human digestive apparatus.
The method of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets are the methods of Nature.
They contain every requisite for the
stomach and digestion After meal
one of these little tablets when it en-
tiers the stomach mingles with the
juices. attacks the food and digests 1t.
IT removes the feru1anfed and deca we'd
mass, lying stagnant there and cases
the stomach at once
1t is wholly a question for you to
solve. Your druggist will furnish Stu
arts Dyspepsia Tablets soc the box.
or send us your name and address and
we will send you a trial package free.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09

in 1908 equaled one man riding 629, 49,
600 miles. which at two cents per mile
would have added SIP. $4,000 to rail-
roads passenger earnings. In addition
passes for about 20 900 mail clerks Re
sides, office facilities at railroad juno
lions and terminals and rree delivery
of mail to many poStoffices.
The government received 1888 cents
per pound for carrying the mail, and
paid the roads about three cents per
round; yet it spent for rural free de-
livery, e cents for every dollar paid
the railroads.
Express Profits.
Now, in contrast. the express COM
panies on the slower passenger trains
pay the railroads so to SIS per cent of
their gross receipts. assume all re-
sponsibility to their patrons. contrib
ute toward manv salaries and handle
free railway remittanceS and express
packages. Yet they make money.
The dead weight of cars carrying
mail is 21.7 tons to one ton of mail,
against IL tons of lightweight to one
to one of freight hauled.
The average number of cars in pas
senger trains being 3.95, the proper
ton of mail cars is about IL per cent.
The average earnings of passenger
trains is $1.26 per train mile; this in
cludes all the mail and express earn
ings. Mail does not pay IL per cent of
the average earnings. but only rs per
cent Inc average cost running pas
senger trains is $1.47 per train mile.
Eleven per cent of this is 1917 cents.
Therefore mail costs the railroads
more than they get for it.
Nothing Without People.
Without people there would be no
need for transporting freight, and
even with people who did not travel
there would be but little of it. China
plugged along for centuries apparently
satisfied with food and things locally.
The horizon of her people was very
near and was the abode of the same
kind of people who raised, made and
ate the same kind of things. There
fore, there was no need to take things
from one place to another to dispose
of the surplus, hence no opportunity.
The importance of passenger bust
ness to the railroads is an indirect
one. You will recall Lord Macaulay:
''Of all inventions-the alphabet and
the printing press alone excepted
those inventions which abridge dis
lance have done the most for civiliza-
ton" Passenger travel is the emery
wheel in the process of higher civil
cation. People who get together teach
prosperity and intelligence develop
taste and these stimulate trade and
From the premises presented, the
logical deduction is that the import
apce of passenger business to the rail-
roads is in its educational. refining
and broadening Of people; in the build
ing up of homogeneous nations, the
radiation and assimilation of higher
deals. 1t is not money maker all
by ITSELF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
SHE HAD A "HUNCH. !"
Woman Believed She Would Be Killed
and She Was.

Joplin, March 9.-Going walking
with a man of whom she stood in
mortal terror. Mrs Dora Nelson, 80
years old, could not avoid the fate she
feared before she started and her life
less body was found beside railroad
track in the southwestern part of the
city. The police of Jasper county are
searching for Will Youngberg, the man
with whom the woman was last seen
alive. She and Youngberg were seen
walking together several blocks from
the scene of the murder at s o'clock
last night.
webb City, March 9-After he made
an Intellectual attempt to kill himself
by drinking laudanum William Young
berg, charged with the murder of Mrs.
Dora Nelson at Joplin was arrested
here at 1880 O'Clock last night. He
gave the officers battle, although he
was unarmed. He admits being with
the woman but denies killing her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
TOSSED FROM TRACK.
Trolley Car Hit by a Freight and
Thirty-Six Injured.

Los Angeles, March 9.-Thirty-six
persons were injured, some OF them so
seriously that they may die, when an
Oak Knoll car of the Pacific Electric
system was tossed from the track by
the engine of a freight train on the
Salt Lake road. last night ii,
The Salt Lake car was crowded with
people returning from the coast. The
car had been brought to a stop at a
crossing of the Salt Lake tracks on
Alizo street and then was started up
again and was half way over the
crossing when the freight train crash
ed into the rear end of it, throwing it
on its side and hurting the occupants
through the windows and against the
sides and roof of the car. Some were
pinned underneath the car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
FRISCO BUYS UP NEW ROADS.
Continuous Gulf Coast Route From
New Orleans to Tampico.

St. Louis. March 9-The Republic says:
1.-The ST. Louis and San Francisco is
perfecting financial scheme to CONSOLE
date the Colorado Southern, New Orleans
and Pacific and allied lines and the St.
Louis Brownsville and Mexico, and the
warrant an official announcement from
the company's fiscal agents in a few days.
The transaction will approximate $4,000
600.
1.-THE ST. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico
and the Colorado Southern. New Orleans
and Pacific will become part of the Fris-
co system proper and they will constitute
the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico d.
vision.
Mexican government and the national
railways of Mexico for the construction
of a new line paralleling the coast of the
Gulf of Mexico, from Matamoras opposite
BrownsviIle to Tampico and Mexico City.
with the MatamoraS-Tampico line COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
Passenger Service Loses Money
Says Traffic Expert.
Tells of Good 1t Does to Welfare
of the People.
MONEY FROM FREIGHT
But 1t Takes Passenger Travel
to Make Industries.
Other Items of General Interest
in Railroad Circles.

New York. March e.-At the last
meeting of the Traffic club of this city
the principal feature of the program
was a paper read by E. o. Mccormick.
assistant traffic director of the Harri-
man lines, his subject being 1.-The I'm
ortance of Passenger Traffic to the
Railways" In opening his subject, Mr..
Mccormick said that originally rail-
roads were for hauling freight. When
they began carrying passengers. in
stead of charging more for the COM
fort. saving of time, and other fea-
lures Of value to passengers. the rates
on the new invention were made low
CT. 'And they have been growing
gradually lower ever SINCE the speak
err said.
During the years of the decline of
passenger fares, originally borrowed
from stage lines on which there was
practically no lightweight in ballast
or track and an estimated proportion
of two-thirdS of a ton of passenger to
one cross ton of lightweight of vehi-
Gle, the average lightweight of pas
senger cars mas grown to 217 tons to
one ton on paying passengers In
strong contrast with the passenger
in which in 1907 the ratio of paying
load to lightweight of train was one
ton to IL tons.
A Losing Business.
Compare this historical fact with the
divergence of the relative dead-weights
in freight and passenger operation of
1907, and present day conditions gen.
orally, and we must be convinced that
my proposition that the passenger
business is a losing one is sound.
Another factor in the cost is in run
ming trains as nearly as possible at
hours solely for the convenience of the
public, not only on a single line, but
in the arrangement of train connec-
tions with several lines. This produces
another losing factor. especially on sin
gle track trains and that is interior
ence with and sidetracking of freight
trains to let the flyer or mail train
go by. And now we come to one of
the most expensive features of the pas
senger service. the mail.
As to Mail Service.
For the year ending June 30. 1909,
592960. 900 ton miles of mail service was
enderad by the railroads for which
the government paid the railroads 49,
$4,000. TIE government furnishes only
clerks on the cars. but does not pay
any fare for these clerks. whose travel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
LOCOMOTIVE THROWS MUD.
Scatters Frozen Earth and Seriously
Injuries One Man.

Decatur, ILL.,, March 9.-Homer H.
Hoover. 1905 North Main street, mar
rowly escaped serious injury in pc
culiar accident that occurred near the
railroad tracks of the Peoria division of
the Illinois Central at Harrison avenue
in Walnut Grove addition Sunday
afternoon about o'clock, when he was
struck by a piece of frozen earth
thrown from the engine of passing
freight train. In company with H. S.
Hill, Mr.. Hoover was standing about
ten feet from the railroad track near
where the interurban subway is being
built. when a freight train passed. A
pile of frozen earth had been left in
the middle of the railroad track. When
the pilot of the engine struck the OBJ
struction the frozen dirt was thrown
with considerable force in every direc
ton. Mr.. Hoover was struck in the
head with a large piece of the earth
and was unconscious for nearly an
hour. Mr.. Hill was also struck but
fortunately with not such a large piece
of the frozen dirt He was the first 10
reach Mr.. Hoover and at first thought
he had been killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
SANTA FEES FINEST HOTEL.
Will Erect Depot and Eating House to
Cost S25O.OOO.

Barstow, Cal, March 9.-Barstow will
soon have one of the finest depots and
Harvey hotels and eating houses on the
Santa Fe system. The building will
cost somewhere in the neighborhood of
$3.50, 900. The contract for the structure
is let to C. A. Fellows, who has just
completed the depot at Redlands, and
the plans were drawn by Francis Will
son of Santa Barbara
Besides the depot and hotel the main
floor of the building will contain dining
room, lobby, lunch room, kitchen, ma
chine rooms, cooling rooms, etc.
On the second floor will be 80 guest
rooms and seven baths.
There will also be recreation build
ing, with baths. shower baths, library.
billiard room, bowling alley, office and
emergency hospital on the first floor,
while on the second floor will be about
II sleeping rooms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09

Mr.. John Mclaughlin, 1419 School
ST., Chicago, Ills, and his wife express
their appreciation of the merits of
Peruna in the following words:
I'VE are pleased to testify as to the
merits of Peruna in cases of catarrh.
We were both troubled with catarrh
of the head and lungs for several
years, and did not seem to find any
thing which would benefit US.
Finally, on the recommendation of
friend, we took Peruna, and in a
short time were on the road to re-
covery.
Now we keep Peruna in the house
all the time, and when either of us
contract a cold few doses will set
us right. 1t acts as a preventive of
catarrh, and is also very fine to build
up the strength.
1--WE believe it to be an honest med
icine, well worthy the confidence Of
the SICK
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09

The rule about not boiling coffee leads
many persons to prepare Postum IN the
same wav.
This is a mistake and. of course, is
unfair to Postum. Have it just right
end it has much the same favour as the
mild and high priced Java coffee but
never causes the troubles that coffee
does.
An Illinois man found out how to
make Postum so it tasted as good to
him as his old-time coffee. He writes:
For years 1 could noe breakfast with
cut my cup of coffee
During this time / was troubled with
palpitatlon of the heart, with smother
ing and nervous spells. The doctor told
me to quit coffee. but 1 did not.
"Finally. one time. while visiting,
was given Postum for breakfast. can't
say I enjoyed it at frst-they only
guessed how 10 make it. But when we
followed the directions on the package
We all agreed that Postum was fine
''Then 1 began to enjoy my meals
Could take plenty of substantial food
besides the Postum and felt good after
wards My headaches were gone, and
gradually 1 forgot 1 ever had heart
trouble.
II have told persons we used Postum
at our house and they remarked they
did not know how we could use the
stuff They did not get at its good
ness because it was not made right.
"a lady tried to give Postum to
lot of hired men but they would not
take it. 1 tasted it as she made 1t and
eidn't wonder-it didn't taste like ours.
Asked about it. she said she never had
paid much attention to directions on
the package.
"The next time saw her she had
learned how to make Postum right and
said the men folks asked for the Sec
ond cup Follow directions and you'll
have good Postum Have 1t right,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
Colds and Catarrh.

Mrs. George Parker, 419 Water
ST., Menasha, Wis, writes: I'VE
have used Peruna in our family
for a number of years, and have
found it perfectly reliable medi-
cine. It soon rids the system of
any traces of cold, and prevents
serious consequences.
II began using it for catarrh,
which 1 suffered with a good many
years, but had not been very Sc
rious until recently. Since 1 have
taken Peruna the dropping in my
throat has discontinued, and my
head and nose are not so stopped
in the morning. am pleased with
the results, and shall continue to
use it until I am entirely rid of
catarrh.
'I heartily recommend it as an
honest medicine"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
SHOPS AT NATIONAL CITY.
Santa F'e Will Spend Considerable
Money There.

National City, Cal, March 9.-The
Santa Fe is contemplating the early
erection of new round house and ma
chine shop at National City, to take the
place of the old building now serving
the mechanical department at that
point.
1t is stated that General Manager A
G. Wells made the announcement to
this effect to Secretary Rufus Choate,
of the Chamber of Commerce of San
Diego. who in an interview with Mr..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
NUMBERS ON TENDER AGAIN.
d. & r.. G. Changes Engine Numerals
to Prevent Mistakes.

Pueblo, Colo, March 9-All 1ocomo-
tives on the Denver & Rio Grande sys-
tenn are being reprinted for the purpose
of placing the numbers on the tender
in large figures instead of on thu cab
as they were originally received. 1t is
the Eelief Of the officials that the large
figures will save many wrecks, as
numerous mistakes in the numbers of
engines have been made by enginenlsn
in the past. Part of the work of re-
painting is being done in Pueblo, al
though a large force of men is at work
on the job in the Durham shops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09

Wells asked if something couldn't DE
done to improve the appearance of the
company buildings at National City.
He was informed that plans for the
new roundhouse and machine shop had
been completed and that the erection
of these buildings will be among the
next improvements taken up by the
cOnDanV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09

pleted, there will be a continuous gulf
coast route from New Orleans via Hous-
ton and Brownsville, to Tampico. By the
Brownsville route the distance from st.
Louis to Mexico City will be reduced
about 200 miles,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
Came Into World With SmaIIpox.

Des Moines, Ia. March "a baby
girl born to Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Mill
ner yesterday started out in life with
g well developed case of the smallpox,
according to City Physician Loah, who
attended the mother Eight weeks ago
the mother recovered from a severe at
tack of the disease. The babe was
badly broken out when born and it is
feared she cannot survive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09

Hell think I've had the pleasure Of
meeting you before. Your name is Jones'
I think-Mrs. Jones? She-Oh, no! That
was two husbands ago.-Illustratei Bis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09
HAVE IT RIGHT

Have Your Beverages Made Good
Enough to Win You.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-09
LABORLR FALLS TO DEATH
Derrick Boom Strikes William Meek
Knocking Him Off His Balance.
DROPS FIFTY FEET TO GROUND
.stOnesetter Suffers Fall While mt
Work on Building of Deaf and
Dumb InstItute-NO Blame
Placed ON workmen.

William Meek, stonesetter, fell dis
tanee of fifty feet from the top of the new
assembly room now under construction at
the Deaf and Dumb institute at lo4o o'clock
Thursday morning and was instantly killed
Meek was leaning over heavy stone wiz
ing It into place, when the boom OF the
derrick struck him and knocked him off ms
balance. Meek fell fifty feet to the ground
and death was almost instantaneous The
injured man breathed but few seconds
The body was taken TO the coroner's par
Tors and an inquest will be held probably
today No blame is attached 10 the
contractors. nor to any OF Meek's fellow
workmen.
Meek was a ScotchmRn by birth and a
member OF large family, all OF whom
are living IN the old country. He had no
relatives in this country, His fellow en-
ployes give him good character ana say
he was a good workman. lie has been
staying at the ST. James hotel, ON Thir-
teenth street between HowsrD and Harvey
The bricklayers union. OF which he was q
member and I'm which he bad burial In
suranoe amounting TO $500. will take care
OF the body. "a
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-09
Expert Boosts
the State air
Says that Nebraska is Showing the
Finest Line Of Live Stock He
Ever Saw.


Nebraska has the greatest exhibit or
live stock In its state fair at Lincoln that
i ever saw. In my life l do not mean that
Il had the greatest number, but there were,
as a general average, the finest assortment
of cattle, hogs, sheep and horses In that
exhibition in the United states" This is
tho statement OF Dr. w, L. Taylor, repre-
senting the soil culture department OF the
Deere company in Moline, H.
DR.. Taylor remarked that he was espe-
cially taken by the number and size of the
home bred draft horses from the western
mart of the state. The corn-fed hogs also
took his eye" as he expressed 1t.
The soil culture Is a thing which tn.
Deere company Is just taking up In con
nection with its business, its plan being &c
work along the same lines as the railroads
do IN this, only the work OF DR.. Taylor will
have more personal connection with the
farmer. The object Is to teach the farmer
TO take hold OF land that is considered
worthless and at little cost so rotate the
crops that the land in five or six years VIII
Yield its average capacity.
81 am going back into New York Con-
necticut, Ohio and Virginia, where the
lands have been worn out, Nebraska lands
are in perfect shape now, and the only
thing the farmers In this state have TO do
Is 90 take care Of their farms"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-09
Wind Stoves
Freight Train
Into Collision
Five Freight Cars Speed Down Track
and Crash Into Passen-
ger Train.

Blown by the wind, five Burlington
freight cars crashed down grade into a
passenger train and caused the destruction
OF three coaches at Resale, Neb., Wednes-
day evening The damage grew out OF
fire which caught upon the passenger
coaches Immediately after the crash. No
one was hurt.
The freight cars had been standing on a
siding when the strong wind storm struck
them squarely from the rear and started the
string moving down upon the main track,
AS the cars struck the grade they gathered
momentum and moved at high speed to-
ward the passenger train.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-09
Fisherman is
Drowned in
Missouri River
Net Catches on Snag and Pulls Him
from the Boat to His
Death.

Vaclav Sindelar was drowned In the
river at the foot OF Davenport street ABOUT
o'clock Thursday afternoon. He leaves a
wife and six children, living at 1907 south
Third street.
Sindelar was fishing with trammel net
when the net caught on snag' In endeaN-
oring to free the net Sindelar fell out oil
his boat He had heavy boots on which
filled with water ard carried him down
The police emergency wagon was sent 70
the scene and Officers are now endeavorine
TO recover the body