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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-01
Avoid Grade CROSSINGS

The Pennsylvania is 10 be compli-
mented for its great success in elimi-
mating grade crossings. The new line
is elevated above the streets in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
BRAKEMAN INvENTs ENGINE.
Toles Will Use Steam Four Times i'll
His Rotary.

Pittsburg, Kan. July IA rotary
steam engine, said to be the only one
of its kind in the country, rests quietly
in a corner of the baggage room of the
Santa Fe depot. 1t is awaiting the ar
rival of a hywheel that has been order
ed and as soon as the wheel arrives
the engine will be shown off in some
local plant where steam can be attach
ed. The engine is the invention of c..
B. Toles, who, in the ordinary walks
of life, is a brakeman on the Santa Fe.
Mr.. Toles has been working on the
engine for three years.
THE feature of our engine" Mr..
Toles said, "is the using of steam four
times. That may seem like working it
overtime, but neverth eless we do it,
Mr. TOles says that the invention
will prove a great success as a station
airy engine or a traction engine for
power for threshing and similar work
The model which he has is eight
horsepower. It has been so thoroughly
covered by patents. Mr.. Toles says.
that it is not believed another rotary
engine can be made.
This is not the first invention of Mr..
TOles. He has secured eleven patents
during his railroad service. most Of
them pertaining to railroading. One
of them was a water tank which was
filled by a pump operated by the pass
ing trains. A train passing over poT-
ton of track would lift a weight which
would pump water for eight hours
after the train had passed on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
STOPS BAD SONG
TenderlOin Dirty Offends La
Crosse Man on Train.
COWpuncher Punched When He
Persists in Singing.
WOMEN ARE GRATEFUL
Men Shake Hand of Kansan Who
Proves Fighter.
Three Times Singer of Tainted
Melody Hits Floor.

Salina, Kan, July 1.-THE age of
chivalry is not past in Kansas, and
every once in a V hiie a man gets what
is coming to him in a way that gives
the people who see it cause for rejoic-
ing for many moons. Such an event
happened on the eastbound Missouri
Pacific passenger train just this side of
Herington.
For some time a rough looking man.
wearing clothes that indicated that he
was cowboy, had been passing
through the train singing snatches Of
tenderloin song that has been pop
ular sometime. But on the third trip
August Schultz. of Lacrosse, who was
accompanied by his wife, decided that
the time had arrived for him to take
hand in the game. Turning to q man
sitting close to him he remarked:
IF that fellow makes another trip
through the car singing that song I'm
going to knock him down"
Within a few minutes the singer
started down the aisle once more.
Schultz got up slowly, took off his coat
and met the stranger half way.
Don't you know that a car filed
with women is no place for a song
like that?" he asked.
No one reard the answer for it was
hardly out of the speakers mouth be-
fore Schultz struck him. The cowboy
went to the floor, and when he picked
himself up again, he met Schutte's
fist a second time and mixed with the
peanut shells on the car floor. Once
more he picked himself up, only to hit
the floor harder then ever. This time
he decided that he might as well stay
where he was put and made no at
tempt to get up
Then, satisfied that his job was fin
ished, Schultz returned to his seat, put
on his coat and sat down with his wife.
But the rest Of the time he was busy
shaking hands with men on the car
who wanted to compliment him on his
nerve, and accepting the thanks OF 20
or more women who were almost ready
to "Hobsonize" him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
COSTLY SCALE IS INSTALLED.
Famers' Elevator Company Spends
$500 to Get Correct Weight.

Greensburg, Kan. July 17.-As an
evidence of their faith in Greensburg
and Kiowa counties. the Farmers
Elevator company has just finished
the installation of one of the finest
track scales in the southwest. at cost
of $1,50O.
It's total length is fifty feet and two
inches. composed entirely of iron and
steel, save the deck alone. and is sup
ported on five massive pillars of rein
forced concrete. 1t will correctly
weigh 100 tons. and the test, which
varied from a common building brick
to the heaviest weight available, re-
suited in a perfect break under every
test.
With three other elevators doing a
large business. this one enterprising
firm paid out for grain handled during
the year closing June 80. 1911, $685.
013.25, shipping out 367,8S5 bushels of
wheat and 10000 bushels of corn. New
wheat is coming in quite freely and is
testing from Sc to y pounds It is TOO
early to get definite figures on average
yield. The late rains have put new life
into the corn and forage crops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
George Putnam, Kansan, Is Nat
ural Breaker of Records.
Puts Money in Bank While Go.
ing to College.
HE LEADS IN STUDIES
Meanwhile Saves Enough to 60
to English School.
Father Keeps Allowance" on
His Kansas Farm.

Richmond Kan, July 1I.-All his
life George Putnam, who won the
hammer throw for England recently.
has been breaking records, and 1t was
inevitable that he should run out of
things to break, by ana Dy, and nave
to drive fist through the siding OF
the old home place, so to speak, Tor
the sake of exercise.
Putnam grew upon a farm in kan
sas, and at Is years he had grown to
be six feet tall and as broad as the
west side of a barn. His father had
money, and Putnam might have gone
fancy and select routes. Or else Put
nam might have blossOmed into that
particularly ornate class of dub that
q rich mans son becomes who gives
his time and attention to rich man
SOnning.
But that wasn't Putnam's way-nor
the fathers way. Putnam went 70
college in winter, and made hand
in his fathers expansive hay Fields IN
the summer. and made careful ac-
counting of his expenses At his state
university Putnam and his father had
a discussion as to what legitimate coli
lege expenses embrace. Both argued
forcefully.
Makes Money at School,
"All right" said Putnam, "cut out
the allowance altogether L feel pref
ty strong" As boarding house pro-
!
university, took most of the athletic
records in sight, led his classes, Won
the scholarship to Yale by his class
room records-and paid his own way.
The father offered expense money to
Yale.
Il guess you'd better keep it." Put
nam wrote home, L still feel pretty
strong" The father grew uneasy, and
went down east TO see how the
strength was being applied. The bus
| landed him at three-Story hotel,
where his son gave orders to the clerk
to register the gentleman from Kansas
for a front room and BATH Young
Putnam was running another college
| beanery" on wholesale dimensions,
and putting money in the bank
At Yale Putnam won special honor
| in several lines of study. He broke
athletic records until nobody would
compete with him. He took the post
graduate course in full, won the
Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, sold
out the boarding house and went
abroad Two or three of his papers
on subjects related to political econ
omy have been adopted for text book
use. He has completed three years
work in two and is devoting the extra
time to more work, and about once ev-
cry three months he throws the ham
mer farther than ne or anybody else
ever threw it before.
So that is why Oxford, England
| happened to make international news
| by cleaning up America on hammer
throwing. It was because George
Putnam, who might have gone to the
devil so many different ways it is
hard to count them, decided to go to
school, instead, and keep on feeling
strong in mind and body. He felt 50
strong that he had to lick his own
country for paStime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17

Vegetable Compound has done for me
during this trying period. Complete
restoration to health means so much
to me that for the sake of other suffer-
ing women I am willing to make my
trouble public so you may publish
this letter. - Mrs. CHAs. BARCLAY,
RID, Graniteville, Vt.
No other medicine for woman's ills
has received such widespread and IN
qualified endorsement. No other med
ieine we know of has such a record
of cures as has Lydia E. Pinkham'S
Vegetable Compound.
For more than 80 years it has been
curing woman S ills such as inflamma>
ton. liberation. fibroid tumors, irreg-
ularities, periodic pains and nervous
prostration, and it is unequalled for
carrying women safely through the
period of change of life.
Mrs. Pinkbam. at Lynn. Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice is free,
and always helpful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
Up. MOTOR HITS WOMAN.
Mrs. Karrigar Badly Hurt When She
Fails to Hear Car.

F. Karrigar, who resides in Riverview
addition, was run down by Union Pa
cific motor car at the Rock Island
depot. Mrs. Karrigar had been visiting
her daughter in the south part of
town and was returning home when
the accident occurred. It seems thac
the motor car belonged to the Union
Pacific roadmaster but two other men
were using it. It is alleged that the
two gentlemen were speeding and Mrs.
Karrfgar did not hear the motor car
for the noise of the Rock Island train,
as the tracks are quite close together
at this point. She was very badly in
jured about the body but no bones
were broken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
MANY CHANGES AT NORMAL.
Minor Positions Left Unflled in Great
est Shakeup.

Emporia, Kan, July 17.-At an
especially busy session of the board of
regents of the state Normal school,
the following appointments were con-
firmed. Frank A. White, NJ. D., Of
Lehigh university, physical director
for men in place of P B. Samson.
granted leave of absence for study;
Ernest Hesser of Goshen, Ind. to take
the place of Frank A. Beach, vocal
music. who will study abroad; Miss
Louise Adler of the University of Kan
sas. critic teacher, in place of Miss
Elsie Maddux, who will spend a year
at Columbia: Fiske Allen. A. NJ. In
diana State normal, head of mathe-
mates department, in place of Eli
Payne, resigned; Willis II. Kerr OF
Westminster college. Missouri, head OF
library; Harriet Barber of Illinois
State normal. dean of women; Mary
Maud Reed of Paterson. y. J.. critic
teacher for grammar grades; Miss Nell
Burlingame. resident nurse. and Miss
Charlotte Lewis, assistant in physical
training.
Leaves of absence for part of the
term were granted to H D. Guelich
and Miss Lillian Dudley. Several
minor vacancies remain to be filled.
This is the greatest shakeup the
faculty of the school has had in years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
MILITIA THIEF CONFEssEs.
Cook of Company sells Stolen Goods to
second Hand Dealers.

Fort Scott, Kan. July lice
Newbold is in the county jail. charged
with robbing the militia armory on
Scott avenue. The goods which are
alleged to have been located at a sec
ond hand store have most of them
been recovered. A count shows that
many blankets, ponchos two tents and
other property were taken. Newbold
had a key to the hall and gained
entrance in that manner. He has con-
fessed.
Captain A w. Snyder noticed a sec
ond hand dealer who walked into the
postoffice and the distinguishing fea-
ture was a militia hat. Immediately
Sheriff Cowan was put on the trail Of
the goods and he recovered most of
them.
pushed.
Newbold was cook of the company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
sHERIFFs JOB NO SNAP.
When luke Parsons Was Named Ter
ritOry Extended to Denver.

Salina. Kan, July 17.-Mayor Kirt-
land has received from Luke F. Par
sons his commission as first sheriff of
Saline county. It is dated 1865.
At that time there was no county
west of Saline and there was no Colo
RADIO line. Mr.. Parson was made sher-
iff of Saline county and the morgan
lied western territory. This included
all the land west to Denver. The COM
mission was signed by R. H. Bishop.
who was at that time county clerk of
Saline county.
This old commission will go into the
box which will fit into the city hail
cornerstone. 1t is a valuable relic.
Mr.. Parsons was Saline county's first
sheriff and this is his first commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
KANSAS PREACHER DIES.
Father Schmidt's Remains Will Be
Buried in Atchison.

Des Moines, Ia, July 27.-The Rev.
Father Winifred Schmidt. o. S. B.,
pastor of st. Mary's Catholic church
here for twenty eight years, died at
Mercy hospital. after an illness of sew
eral weeks. Death was due to heart
trouble, aggravated by the heat of the
past few weeks. The body will be sent
to Atchison, Kansas. for interment IN
the monastery of the St. Benedictine
brothers.
The Rev. Father Schmidt came here
from the Benedictine college at Atchi-
son, where he had held the professor
ship of philosophy for a number Ct
Years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
KANSAS GIRL WANTS CLAIM.
For Three Years She Braved Rigors of
Homestead Life.

Washington. July 17.-Members Of
the Kansas delegation in congress have
lately become interest in the contest
which Miss Emma M. Hanson of
Lindsborg, Kansas, is waging with the
general land office to secure patent
to some land in Colorado which she
has homesteaded.
Miss Hanson filed upon a quarter
section of land in Colorado, under the
homestead laws, three years ago. Since
that time she has lived continuously
on the land. Drawing hardships that
would have daunted a less determined
woman. At the proper time she sub
mitted the necessary papers to prove
UP on the claim and to secure a patent
to the land. For some reason, there
was long delay in the department in
giving her the patent and so she has
come on to Washington to press her
claim She soon interested Senator
Curtis in her case and he has been Civ
ing her assistance at the departing nt-
Finding that it would require consider
able time to complete the case at the
department. Miss Hanson decided to
remain in Washington where she could
stay on the job and. to enable her to
do this, Senator Curtis. with his usual
readiness to help, has given her work
in his office,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
WALKER OUT FOR CONGRESS.
Atchison Mayor May Tackle Job o
Trying to Beat Anthony.

Atchison. Kan. July 17.-C. D. Wal
ker, mayor of this city, has implied
that he VIII become a Republican can
didate for congress.
I'm what you might call a recep-
tive candidate" Mr.. Walker said. "If
become convinced that I can defeat
D. r. Anthony, 7 will announce my
candidacy in a formal manner"
Mr.. Walker is a rich attorney, and
has lived here many years. He is now
serving his first term as mayor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
DRY WEATHER HELPS QUAuLs.
Farmers Pleased Because Birds Help
Kill Bugs.

Cottonwood Falls. Kan. July IL
The dry weather may have made con
ditions bad for crops. but it has been
a great season for quail Matching
Many farmers report their meadows
filled with little quail. Another thing
bad for the crops but fine for quail IS
the grasshoppers, which are unusually
thick The young birds thrive and
grow fat on grasshoppers. The farm
ers are glad to have focks of quail.
and nearly everyone is careful that the
birds are well protected on his farm.
Quail are great destroyers of insects
and save the farmers thousands of dol
lars every season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17

t r o N nervousness
and other annoying
symptoms, and /
can truly say that
Lydia E. Pinkham's
V g g 9 t a bic Com
pound has proved
worth mountains of
gold to me, as it
restored my health
and s tren g tn. I
never forget to tell
my friends what
r .v6ia F PinEhamsc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
SYRACUSE WATER BONDS CARRY
Electric Light VIII Also Be Installed
by Kansas Town.

Syracuse, Kan. July 17.-At the spe-
cial election held for that purpose, the
voters of Syracuse cast a strong vote
favoring the issuance OF $4,000 in city
bonds for the construction of a water
works and electric lighting system. The
city authorized the issuance of city
bonds amounting to $4,000 for the
water system by vote of 134 for and
II against and $4,000 for the lights
by a vote of 1928 for and II against.
The bonds have already been sold at
par and are to draw y per cent in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
RIVER POLLUTION CHARGED.
Kansas Butchers Threw Carcasses in
Water, Is Allegation.

Salina. Kan, July 17.-Michael
Quinn, James Quinn and Fred Henen-
kamp. local meat dealers, are under
arrest on complaint of A. G. Pike Of
Fort Scott. state inspector for the state
board of health. charged with throw
ing parts of animal carcasses in the
Smoky Hill river and polluting the
water. These are the first arrests ever
made in Saline county on this charge.
Their trial will be held today in JUS
tees court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
KANsAN browns DOWN SOUTH.
Vic Butler of Parsons Dies Trying to
Learn to Swim.

De Ridder. La, July LIVE But
Ter, % years old a stenographer for
the Central Coal & Coke company, was
drowned in the mill pond at Carson.
while in the pond with a number of
companions trying to learn to swim.
Butler got too far away from shore.
and before help reached him he had
drowned. He was a single man. and
his home was at Parsons. Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
WOMAN DIES IN EXPLOSION.
Potato Building Blown Up. Causing
French Woman-s Death.

Columbus. Kan, July IA build
ing belonging to man known as j Je
Potato" at Skidmore, four miles
north. was blown UP and the wife Of
Hipolyte Breuac. a French miner was
almost instantly killed. The building
was not badly Wrecked. and Potato
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17

was unhurt. 1t is said that Mrs
Breuqc and her husband separated
some months ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
Sew CenfraI Branch Depots.

Atchison. Kan, July 1.-THE Mis-
souri, Pacific has authorized the con-
struction of new depots at Bigelow and
Greenleaf, towns on the Central
Branch. The depot at Greenleaf viii
cost about $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
CHANGE
in WOMAN'S
LIFE
Made Safe by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Graniteville, VT was passing
through the Change of Life and suffered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17
Kansas Neorn KiIIed

Junction City, Kan, July 17.-Chas.
King, a Salina negro who had police
record there, was shot and killed while
he lay asleep in his home here. One
negro, Parker Chapman. is being held
in connection with the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-17

terest and to be due in 80 years with
payment optional with the city in 20
Years.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-07-28
United States and Canada.
When Grover Cleveland was

United States and Canada.
When Grover Cleveland was
running for president in 1884
conservative republicans realized
that it was an opportune time
to lay aside party prejudice and
vote for the candidate who
would bring about more salts
factory conditions in the contry.
Prominent men who had rocked
the cradle of the republican party
at it's birth We'd with the demo-
Gratis in electing the famous New
Yorker as chief executive. At
that time a comic print contain
ed a significant picture. 1t re-
presented the two political fac
lions of the country by a young
and an elderly man. The first
was the democratic party and
the latter the republican organi-
cation. Blood from the younger
was being transfused into the
arm of the elder. One line under
the picture told the story Lets
hope the operation will prove
successful" Similar scenes
have been in evidence in the
halls of Congress for several
months. The president of the
United States had been urging re-
ciprocity with Canada. There
were not enough sober-headed
republicans to carry out the pet
scheme of the president, and the
time had come for another trans
fusion. AS on the previous occa-
sion, it has proven a decided sue
cess. A pleasant phrase of the
entire procedure appears in the
last act when President Taft
publicly thanks the. democratic
majority in the House Of Repre-
sentatives and the democratic
minority in the Senate for vieing
with the practical republican ele-
ments in both bodies in bringing
about this desideratum. -Alexan-
dria Gazette.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-07-28
Friday, July q, 1911
BULL RUN.

The peace and prosperity to-
day enjoyed by the United States
is a pleasant contrast to the
horrors of civil war into which
fifty years ago, the country was
being plunged. 1t is difficult for
those of the younger generation
to appreciate the feeling when,
the news of the defeat
Of t he Fe deral forces
having been confirmed, it
became evident that the Con-
federacy was fighting in real
earnest and that the war was
not to be a matter of child's
play. Those were, indeed, dark
days.
The veterans of both armies,
claspiDg hands upon the field of
battle on Friday last have sig
nalized the passing of the last
trace of sectional bitterness.
Bravery loves bravery, and the
men who faced each other when
death lowered over their devoted
heads are ready and willing now
to accord each other the need
rightly due to courage. It was
an inspiration to celebrate the
semi-centenary of the battle as
reunion, It brought together
not only those to whom the
battle was a tragic reality, but
also to whom the story of the
struggle is a mere tradition, and
who have been enabled to see
the happy ending of fratricidal
strife.
1t is useless now to speculate
upon the effect of the battle of
Bull Run. We know that it
awakened the North to a serious
realization of the task which it
had undertaken to accomplish,
and that it inspired the South
with courage and hope. Far
more interesting and profitable
is it to record the splendid effect
which the reunion of Friday will
have upon the country-an eff
feet emphasized by the admirable
address delivered by President
Taft. Washington Heard.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-07-28
GOVERNOR CROTHERS' COMPRE.
HENSIVE PLATFORM.

The people of Maryland need no more
convincing proof that Governor Croth-
ers is devoted to the work of his office
than the formulation and announce
ment of his platform now in the dog
days. He is asking the voters of his
party to nominate him for election for
a second term, and he considers it only
fair and right that he should tell them
frankly and plainly what policy he will
pursue if they should nominate and re-
elect him. Indeed, the policies to
which the Governor is committed and
devoted are pretty well indicated by
the conduct of his Office during the
past three years and half. But he is
not satisfied with his past performance
alone. The future is full of promise
and of possibilities, and the Governor
proclaims himself as favoring the
policies of a progressive Democrat.
He favors the election of Federal Sena-
tors by the people direct; he is for a
new Charter and home rule for Balti-
more; for economy, the building up of
the oyster industry, revision of the
system Of justices of the peace, a just
er taxing system, a continuation of
road improvement with 81, 500, 900 from
the State to the city for its streets,
and neutrality-suspicious. for the south
ern countless.
These are some of the things the
Governor advocates, and if we may
Judge the future by the past, if he
should be reelected, he will do his best
to redeem the pledges he has made.
The administration of Governor Croth-
ers has been unique in that he has CIV
en- his entire time and apparently all
his thoughts to his ofice.-Baltimore
Sun.