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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-09-08

1t is quite evident that the press
agent for the Forepaugh-Sells cir
Gus did not establish friendly rela-
tons with Jay Pluvius, because Jay
slipped one over on the show today.
The rain fell heavily before the pa
rade was over but the ardor of the
circus people was not dampened
They gave performances just the
same.
The great Forepaugh and Sells
Brothers. circus is here today, and
without a doubt it is the largest
and best appointed "big show that
has ever stopped here. For fifty
years there has been not the slight
est change in the features of a cir
Gus parade until this year. The Fore
paugh and Sells Brothers have de-
parted from the path-beaten lines of
the past. Circus day now takes on
an entirely new significance. 1t cost
the management $1,000,000 to devise
and build new attractions for the
street display. This is one instance
of the enterprise and the up-to-date
policy of this firm.
Crowds Saw the Parade.
The great crowds today viewed
the superb free street parade and
voted it the best they had ever
seen. The parade was unlike the
conventional displays of heretofore.
1t was an entirely new form of en-
tertainment 1t was a veritable
worlds fair on wheels. The won
ders and the people of every civil
lied nation and many savage lands
contribute to it's variety of attrac-
ton.
1t is only natural to expect this
show, above all others, to have a
| great parade, yet all who saw il
were pleased far beyond their fond
est hopes. It's wealth and it's splen
! dor are the direct results of years
| of travel through five continents
where it is as we'll known as in its
native land.
New Program Given.
| In keeping with the parade three
is an entirely new program under
the main tent. The talent has been
selected from many countries, it is
abundant and novel, displaying few
things to recall the past. OF thrill
ers there are at least dozen, all
sure fire sensations of the first de
gree. 1t requires company Of SOC
performers to give the many acts
There were many clowns to provide
the sauce of comedy.
All in all, the Forepaugh and Sells
Brothers shows offer the biggest
and best circus exhibition ever seer
here.
The performance will start al
eight tonight.
Army Men Getting Pointers.
Several United States Army Off
GERS are travelling with the circus
for the purpose of getting pointers
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-09-08

on how to move paraphernalia with
a view to putting the same tactics
in operation when detachment of
the army must make a move.
"All the army needs is boss
canvasman," remarked Press Agent
Sheehy today.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-09-08

Monday where he has taken up a
homestead. His wife will remain
here for few days with her parents
after which she will join her hus-
band. May good luck follow them
both, is the wish Of their many
friends.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-09-08

Miss Trowbridge departed yester'
day for Bernard, N. c,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
RAILWAY NOTES.

The legislature of Indiana has decreed
that old freight cars shall not be used
Tor passenger station purposes.
Hotels and Boarding Houses Located
on the Line of the Rio Grande Sys-
tenn is the title of an attractive little
booklet Just issued by the passenger
department of that line
reports made to the engineering de-
partment of the state railroad commits
sion Of Texas show that there is a large
amount of railway construction in pro-
gress in Texas at this time, and the
prospects are favorable for starting
work on a number of new lines within
the next few months. 1t is said that
the failure of the legislature at its
recent session to enact any law hostile
TO railway and other corporation inter-
ests has created a favorable impress
sion in financial circles, and that this
improved condition is reflected in the
increased activity in railway construc-
ton.
The gravel used for ballast On the
Illinois and Missouri division of the
Santa Fe is taken from a bed at Ca
hcothe-one of the most extenI e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
PHONES ON KANSAS DIVISION.
Rock Island Working Gangs ON New
Dispatching System.

Telephones will be used in receiving
and transmitting train orders on the
Kansas division of the Rock Island
railway after September 1. Dispatch
ers now handle movements of trains
between Harrington and Topeka, and
Topeka to Horton. Workmen have
begun to string telephone wires from
Belleville to Caldwell, a distance of
275 miles, and when this stretch is
completed the entire Kansas division
will be covered by telephone lines. 1t
is thought that the telephone line from
BeIleville to Caldwell will be COM
pIeted in three months.
Leading railways arc substituting
telephones for telegraph wires in the
movement of trains. Train orders
may be transmitted more quickly by
telephone than by telegraph. Railway
officials estimate that dispatchers will
be able to save 80 per cent of their
time by the use of the telephone. A
dispatcher in order to call an opera
tor or agent by telephone, presses a
button, which rings a bell in the office
which the dispatcher wishes to call.
After getting the operators ear, the
dispatcher can talk to him, quickly
communicate train orders to him,
whereas if the messages are transmit
ted by telegraph tedious delays are
apt to ensue.
The Rock Island railway will con-
tinue to use it's telegraph lines for the
transmission of ordinary messages and
company business. ~4~-H
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20

the trains were slow. Now we pay
two cents mile; the service is per-
feet, or nearly so, and the trains are
fast. While journeying to Lawrence to
attend the encampment, riding over
smooth, rock ballasted track, on one
of the Santa FEES -excellently equipped
passenger trains, with all the comforts
Of home. my mind went back to the
Fourth of July trip to Wakarusa over
dirt road on the same line, with a
slow train and no conveniences, nearly
Al years ago. 1t is difficult to compre-
bend the wonderful development of
railroading in a generation. The Santa
Fe sure has kept pace with the mar
velous growth of Kansas and the west"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
ABSENT TREATMENT Is HIGH.
Court Decides Christian Scientists Are
Entitled to Pay.

Kansas City, May 2O.-Christian Sci
ence healers are entitled to pay for
giving absent treatment, decided Judge
John T. Sims in the Wyandotte county,
Kan, probate court here.
when person employs a Chris
tian Science healer he knows absent
treatment may be part of the services
rendered" said the court. Therefore,
he should pay for it."
where Mrs. M E. Ray sued for $40
for eight weeks absent treatment given
Mrs. Sarah Jane Bridges, of RosedaIe.
The woman died and attorneys for the
estate objected to paying Mrs. Rays
hi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
Kansas Bootlegger Tells of Elk.
perience on Convict Farm.
Punishment for Liquor Selling
Worse Than Here.
NEGROES USE WHIPS
Offenders Wear an Oregon Boot
as They Work.
Now Claude Baltimore Will Sell
Only in Kansas.

Hutchinson. Kan, May 20.-The next
time Claude Baltimore, of Great BEND,
wants to engage in business as boot
lager, he'll do it in Kansas. AT any
rate he'll stay away from ARKANSAS.
Baltimore, who is now out at the state
reformatory, serving an old sentence
for selling liquor at Great Bend, recent
w had an experience in an Arkansas
convict gang that he will never forget
He had been sentenced to the reform
atory here some time ago from Barton
county, but appealed and was out on
81, 500 bond He jumped the bond and
escaped to Memphis, Tenn.
A short time ago Sheriff Daley, OF
Barton county, learned where the fug1-
tive was, and finally, after going TO
Memphis, discovered that he had be-
gun bootlegging just across the river In
1916 and costs and was then working
out his fine in a convict gang.
Baltimore was brought back to
Hutchinson, as a fugitive, and he was
mighty glad to come back and get away
from the Arkansas convict gang. He
was left at the reformatory here by the
Great Bend sheriff.
Have Hard Times.
According to the story told by CALI
more, the bootlegger has hard time
if caught in Arkansas. In that state
the prisoners are leased out by the state
to contractors.
Baltimore, and about $50 other con-
victs, were leased out to a planter near
Wilson, Ark, who was putting in go
900 acres of cotton.
TT would have taken me a year and
five months to work out my fine" said
Baltimore, in telling his experience.
1.-THE contractor paid the state Is cents
a day for our work, and had to board
US. The treatment we received was
worse than slavery. 1 don't believe I
and stood 1t.
EVERY one of us had to wear a sort
of Oregon boot on the leg to keep US
away. The heavy iron boot inflamed
tie leg and made it raw and sore where
it rubbed.
ct stood it for three weeks working
in the cotton and then tried to get
away Big negroes are overseerS over
tie prisoners and carry big whips with
which they lash and force the convictS
to work harder.
ST escaped from the overseers, made
my way to a small river, but found it
too deep to wade, and was captured by
another convict who got a reward of $50
for it. / was given a whipping OF 100
lashes at the whipping post
Gallimore's back is a mass of scars
and bruises from the flashing he re-
ceived, and his leg is still sore and raw
from the effects of wearing the cruel
iron boot.
He was mighty glad to see the Kan
saS sheriff come for him and was very
willing to come back to the Sunflower
state and take his medicine here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
On S5,O53 Miles Of Lines MOI
One Is Killed.
NO DEATHS z YEARS.
Eleven Roads Have This Mar
velOus Record.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.
SUNDAY.

The comparative safety of travel on
American railways is illustrated py
table in the Bureau of Railway News
and Statistics which shows that in l9l0
no less than 253 roads, operating oo,ooo
miles of line, in every section OF lhe'
union. carried 9,273,441,OO0 passengers
one mile without a single fatahty 10 a
passenger in train accldent' Inns -
the more remarkable from the ract tnat
these roads carried more than one-thlrd
of thu enormous freight traffic or thS
country Thirteen other roads, operat-
ing 22,647 miles of line, had only one
passenger each killed in train accl-
dent during the year, although they
carried 2,492, sos, 900 passengers one mile.
The records of the bureau show that
eleven roads with a mileage, OF DILL
miles have been operated seven years
without a single fatality to a passenger
in a train accident, sixty-four ROADS
with a mileage of 1855 have like i'm
munity for six years and 100 roads OPP
Grating 2221S niles-almost equal to
that of the United Kingdom-have had
q like immunity for five years.
Railway Accidents In Europe.
Statistics of accidents on the railways
of Europe from the latest official re-
norris. representing a mileage of 1915,
give the following totals Of fatalities:
To passengers ...-............- OIL
To employees $1,000. =. - .z'o41
To other persons, including tres
passers =. ...-..... ................4,322
Total ...................7,sSs
Preceding year OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES d,oUl
The statistics of European roads
show that they handle two and one
half times the passenger traffic but less
than half the freight traffic of Ameri-
can railways.
British statistics prove that less than
2 per cent of all railway accidents hap
pen to men who have been working
over twelve hours, while the investiga-
ton of over 1000 cases in six years fails
to discover a single instance where
overwork was the primary cause of the
accident.
Block Signals.
There was an Increase during the
year of 1910 of 1878 miles operated I'M
der the protection of block signals, the
figures at the close of the year being
II, 1856 miles by automatic block signals
and 51.966 by nonautomatic block or
manual signals-a total of 69, 331 against
65,758 in 1903. The principal increase
during the year was in the installation
of the automatic system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
TICKET 1870 SERIES TURNS UP.
Old santa Fe Transportation Sent in
by a Winfield Man.

]. p. Short, Of Winfield. was in To-
peka yesterday on his way home from
the G. A r. encampment at lawrence
He spent several hours visiting his old
friend, w. c. N. Garvey, local agent of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
way company.
Mr.. Short carries as a souvenir a
Santa Fe railway ticket from Topeka
to Wakarusa and return, purchased
July 4. 1870. 1t is No. 5S, series s and
bears the name of T. ]. Peter SUPER
intendent. 1t is the same size of the
local card tickets used now. The head
ing reads "A. T. & S. Fee"
"I went to Wakarusa to attend q
Fourth of July celebration Mr.. short
said, at rode on the train going. but
returned with a neighbor in a wagon.
That's why the ticket was not taken
up. 1t was a great celebration. peonIe
attending from all over Shawnee and
adjoining counties. Andy Fuller was
marshal of the day, resplendent in a
red sash. Tom Anderson was master
of ceremonies and leader Of the sing
ing. dozen or more politicians made
speeches. 1 have forgotten who talk
ed, but think Archie Williams and Tohn
Guthrie were on the list.
'tAs I remember, the railroads chsre-
ed six cents mile for passenger traf-
&c in 1870; the service was poor, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
Sixty-SecOnd Pennsylvania Vol
unteers Fight Battles Over.
For First Time Since War They
Renew Acquaintance.
In THIRTY BATTLES
Five Comrades Call on General
Caldwell of Topeka.
Heaviest Loss at Gettysburg in
Wheat Field Fight.

Lawrence, Kan, May 20.-One of the
most interesting little reunions at the
encampment here this week was that
OF hVe members of Company D, Sixty
teers, infantry. They were: Capt. Will
liam c. Beck, a coal and hay dealer of
P1ttsburg, KAN; Lieutenant r. S.
Townsend, a retired merchant of Kan
sas City, Mo-; Sergt. w. H. Smith of
Marysville. Kan; John Henderson, a
and ]. M. Watson, postmaster at
Frankfort, Kan.
They expected to have with them
Henry B. Saxman of Lawrence, Kan,
but found that he was dead and buried
in the country here.
These boys enlisted at Pittsburg. Pa,
July 4, 1861, and served in the Second
brigade, First division. Fifth army
corps from Manassas to Petersburg.
They called the roll of the 1872 mem
most of them. They called the roll of
battles, and figured up their losses in
each of the engagements.
Their heaviest loss was in the wheat
field at Gettysburg. Two were killed,
two were taken as prisoners and Is
were wounded. 1t was a hand-to-hand
fight with bayonets and dubbed mus
kets. In this fight they were under
the command of General Caldwell of
Topeka. The boys called upon the gen.
eral at MS hotel ana fought the battle
over again with him.
Then they returned to their own
quarters and related to each other
their experiences of so years and re-
called the incidents of 80 battles. They
again went through Fredericksburg.
Charlottesville, Antietam, South
Mountain, Wilderness, SpottSylvania,
North Ann, Cold Harbor and Peters
burg, and then back up the peninsula
and through the seven days under Nc
Cellan before Richmond.
1t was a great three days reunion
for these old boys, and to say that they
enjoyed it does not measure the pleas
ure that it gave them to be together.
1t was their first meeting since the
war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
RUSSIAN DANCERS ROW.
Pavlowa- Mordlxin Quarrel Now Is
Exciting London.

From London comes the news that
Anna Pavlowa and Mikail Mordkin,
the famous Russian dancers seen in
Topeka appearance in the present
theatrical season, have quarreled and
reached a condition of strained rela-
lions that threatens an early dissolu-
ton of their artistic partnership.
The fact of their being on bad terms
with one another became apparent
during a recent London engagement at
the Palace theater when, although
billed to present their beautiful "Bac-
chanale,' this number was cut from
their program, and, despite the audi
ence's expressed demand for its dane
ing, the two artists refused to appear
together. Pavlowa is said to have
been the more determined in this re-
fusal, showing her head and frowning
angrily when Mordkin, in the costume
worn for the bacchanale dance, held
out his hands to her as they stood at
opposite sides of the stage, the entire
Russian ballet company having been
called out in response to long con-
tinued applause. Each star had ap-
peared in a solo dance, but in the
assembling of the company on the
stage. it had been noticed that Mord-
kin never once touched Mile. Paw
lowa's hand or paid her any of the
pretty little courtesies that have hith-
erto been so gracefully offered and ac-
copied.
Professional jealousy is said to ac-
count for the quarrel.
At the time of the Topeka appear
ance, L. M Crawford, head of the
Crawford, Philley and Zehrung theat-
rical circuit. attached the box office
receipts at the Grand opera house be-
cause of the action Of the dancers
management in cancelling the contract
with the Crawford theater in Wichita
and appearing at the Forum there.
Seemingly a streak of ill-fate has
followed the dancers tour AT Hami1-
ton, Ontario, the sword used by Mord-
kin in one of his dances broke and
pierced the skull of a spectator sitting
nine rows back in the audience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
MUST PUT ON NEW TRAIN.
Rock Island Ordered to Place One in
Service in Brown County.

The state railroad board has or
dered the Rock Island railroad to put
on a new passenger train between
Horton, in Brown county, to Bern, in
Nemaha county The new train is to
leave Horton in the evening and reach
Bern in time to connect with the To-
peka and st. Joseph trains 1t must
get back to Horton the next morning
in time to connect with the same
trains.
The new train will pass through
Germantown, Powhattan, FairvieW,
Sabetha and Berwick.
The board, at the same meeting, or
dered the Union Pacific to install a
fiagman at the principal railroad cross
ing at Manhattan. The Riley county
college town enters the city class with
the advent of a fiagman. Surest indi-
cation in the world. Commercial club
manifestos can not make city, but a
flagman at a railroad crossing wipes
out country town in day and puts
/ a city in it's place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
TAKE COLLEGE TO THE FARM.
western Roads Interested in Agricul-
turaI Schools.

1t is a well known fact that the man
who is past the age of % can rarely
be induced to go to school. Recogn1z-
ing this fact, the railroads of the west,
in connection with the agricultural
schools, are taking the college to the
farm"
For four years in succession. the
Denver & Rio Grande, cooperating
with the Colorado and Utah Agr1cul-
tural colleges, has operated special
trains through the agricultural dis
tricts of Colorado and Utah, and each
year with an increasing interest.
In February of this year the Rio
Grande, with a corps of professors from
the Utah Agricultural college conduct
ed a special train over its lines in Utah,
stopping at various points. In all 50
meetings were held, with total at
tendance of 1908 people.
In March, in connection with the Col
orado Agricultural college, the Rio
Grande operated special train
through it's fertile agricultural dis
tricts in Colorado, travelling 1877 miles
holding 80 meetings. with total attend
ance of 1854 people.
Already splendid results are shown
from the operation of previous trains,
and it is anticipated that still greater
results will be apparent as time pro-
crosses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
X. q. STUDENTS UNHEALTHY.
Most of Them Have Some Physical
Defect, Report Says.

condition in which many students
come to the University of Kansas is
deplorab1e, and a system of physical
examinations should be conducted in
the high schools and secondary schools
of the state.'
This is the declaration of DR.. James
Naismith, physical director at the
University of Kansas. Doctor Naismith
has just finished compiling a record Of
physical defects of students enrolling
at the university. covering a period of
ten years. If the plan of Doctor Mai
smith is followed out, the student ask
ing admission to K. U. will be required
to present a statement of his physical
condition at the same time he deposits
a record of his grades in the high
school with the registrar.
Following is the chart with the per
cent of students affected:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
CRUMBINE ovERLooKs THIS.
Drummer Kicks About Plush on Car


Kansas City, Mo-, May 20.-'fKansas
ought to pass one more law and abol-
ish the plush upholstering in Pullman
and chair cars" said Manuel Lopez at
the Baltimore hotel here. kansas
has abolished whisky and beer, which
is a very bad thing from my point of
view, for make a living selling it, and
Kansas has abolished the public drink
ing cup on trains and in hotels, which
is very good thing, too, as no man
with decent instincts wishes to drink
from a cup that everybody uses; and
Kansas has required hotels to put
clean sheets on the beds every night,
which is a good thing for us travelling
men, too. Now, if Kansas will only
make it a penitentiary offense for the
Pullman company to upholster its cars
with plush and velvet I will forgive
the state for its other mistakes.
"A berth lined with heavy plush into
which men and women must crawl to
sleep is more of a menace to health
than all the whisky that was ever sold
in the state, and hope to see the day
when such insanitary, germ catching
contrivances will be abolished by law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
HOLD RAILROAD RESPONSIBLE.
Tracks Said to Have Caused Flood
Which Damages Wheat.

Wellington, Kan, May 20.-In the trial
of the case of the Aetna Milling company
of this city against the Santa Fe Railroad
company in district court here, the jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
81, 100. The milling company had sued
the railroad for $500 damages, it claimed
to have sustained by water backing uD
into the basement Of the mill at the time
of the flood in Hargis Creek here in June
%, 1908, when the creek was swelled to
flood proportions by a water spout few
miles up the country. Two lines of the
defendants tracks crossed the stream
within the city, and the milling company
claimed the flood damage was caused by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
They Address Graduates.

Manhattan, Kan, May 20.-Com-
mencement addresses in high schools
were made this week by members of
the faculty at the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college in this order: ]. w.
Searson, associate professor of English,
at Coliy, Thursday night; and at Solo
mon, Friday night; z. L. Holton, pro-
fessor of rural education, at Dighton,
Thursday night; J. H. Miller, superin-
tendent of agricultural extension, at
Oberlin, Thursday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20

gravel beds in the world. The COM
pany is taking out for this purpose
from 80 to 100 carloads of ballast day.
An immense steam gravel digger es-
pecially constructed, is used on the
work.
The Santa Fe is putting down 90
pound rails from Kansas City to Chi
cago, and from Lexington Junction to
st. Joseph, and S5-pound rails from
Ancona to Pekin.
The Santa Fe reservoir at Toluca
will be enlarged by raising the spill
way a foot. The reservoir now covers
80 acres, draining a large territory.