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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-08
New Book of Rules on Santa Fe
just Published.
Governs a New Feature in Rail
Line Work.
ALL TO A STANDARD
New Ideas in Maintenance of
Ways Department.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.
L TO A STANDARD

The operating department of the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe at To-
peka has issued d new book of rules
and regula lions for the maintenance
Ct way and structures. This book is
one of the most valuab bic in railroading
and is model for track work regula-
tons in the railway world.
The new book is a sign of the efforts
Of the Santa Fe to standardize every
thing in railway work. In the last few
years the company has attempted to
work out every Improvement and main
tenance on a Standard basis. For in
stance-a certain type of concrete cul-
verts, steel bridges and ballast work
is planned out and adopted.
The new rules and regulations on the
maintenance of way and structures sets
down the pattern for this process. A
few of the subjects follow:
Distributing and handling;
grade stakes preparation of subSrade;
section drawings; tamping and raising
track; unloading. Blocking frog guard
rail and switches. Number of bolts per
mile Raising of track on bridges.
Joints and fastenings on bridges Con
dition of steel bridges.
Other items are Cattle guards, fences
and gates. Repair of crossings. Drain
age of culverts. Curving rail and ia
bieS- Care of lamps. Brush, grass ana
weeds Elevation of curves. How to
determine degrees of curves. Cut ditch
es- Disposition of old ties Distribut-
ing ballast Distributing ties. Duties
of engineers of division, roadmasters
and other officers in charge. Drainage
and bitches. Fires and fire guards.
Frogs. Gaging. Grade stakes for bal
last. Help on adjoining sections. Hand,
motor and push cars High water
marks Inspection by all officers
in charge. Use of jacks between rails
Joints and fastenings on bridges Cal e
of lamps. Materials and tools. Neat
ness on sections. Patroling sections
Methods of spiking rails.
The rules are accompanied by draw
ings showing the detail of all mainten-
ance of way and structure work. The
right and wrong way is depicted. The
general orders together with a number
Of personal employees rules are compil-
ed in the book for the use of the men
of this part of the operating depart
ment.
The new book is worked out in every
detail and will be a code on the Santa
F-e- Rock Island officials in Topeka
state that a similar book will be is
sued soon on their lines The Rock |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-08
For Beautiful Hair
and Lovely Skin
f Parisienne'' in Woman's JournaI.)

'Par1Slenne IN w oman j journal
Long, abundant and glossy hair is
often the result of dry shappooing.
Soap and water take the life out and
leave it brittle and colorless. For a
dry shampoon mix four ounces of
therox with four ounces of corn meal
or with four ounces of powdered orris
root. Sprinkle a tablespoonful on the
head and brush it out and the scalp
and hair will be clean, wavy and lus-
trous-
ITO have a clear, velvety COM
plexion. massage the face, neck and
arms daily with a solution made by
dissolving an original package of may
atone in eight ounces of witch-hazel-
1t makes the skin lovely and soft.
For chaps, cold sores, pimples and
skin diseases there is nothing better
than Mothers Salve- 1t heals cuts,
burns, scalds and sores and is a. won
derful cure for coughs, colds and ca
tarrh."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-08
SPEND MILLION IN OKLAHOMA.
Santa Fe Contemplates 40 Miles of
Steel and ballast Work.

All told the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe brought to a termination
this winter in Oklahoma 40 miles of
heavy steel replacement and ballast
work. OF this the 154 miles from
Purcell to Arkansas City are laid with
ninety-pound steel, the 1873 miles COM
prising the Shawnee branch with sew
enty-five pound steel and the 122
miles of the Enid branch with sixty
FIVE pound steel. This yields a total
of one million dollars expended in
Oklahoma by the Santa Fe upon the
construction operation now being
brought to a close.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-08
NEW MISSOURI PACIFIC TRAIN.
Time VIII Be Cut to 81 Hours Be
tween X. c. and Omaha.

Atchison. kan, Dec. S.@A new fast
passenger train between Kansas City
and Omaha via Atchison, will be in
stalled by the Missouri Pacific De-
cember Is. according to a report here
today. While the solid train will not
run further south than Kansas City or
further north than Omaha, it will
handle a through express car and a
leans and return it is reported
The train, it is said will cover the
Omaha division in about six hours and
thirty minutes. which is considera bly,
less than the time on any line be-
tween those two cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-08
NEW HOSPITAL on SANTA FE.
Topeka Official Promises $50. 900
STRUCTURE to Clovis n NJ

Structure to Clovis, n. Nj.
Clovis, n. M. Dec. S-James
Thomas, an engineer running out of
Topeka, Kansas. and one of five mem
bers of the A, T. & S. F. hospital
board, was in Clovis last week and
brought with him the good news that
Clovis Will get a Santa Fe hospital
this winter or next spring at the
latest.
I'VE realize that Clovis is the Off
cial location for hospital in this
part of the country said Mr.. Thomas,
but the hospital association has had
so many drains on its treasury that
we have not been able to build the
Clovis hospital heretofore. You may,
rest assured. however, that spring, at
the latest. will see work started on
the Clovis building. Plans will be
prepared and the contract for con-
structing the building will probably
be awarded this winter"
Mr.. Thomas also said that the hos
rital at Clovis would cost not less
than $4,000 and would be the most
up to date building on the line The
hospital board has recently made a
study of the hospitals in the large
cities of the east, and all the i'm
proved facilities contained therein will
be embodied in the Clovis building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-08

contracted for the other an absolute
human friendliness.
The loss in broken dishes. he figured
would have been fully as great in the
beginning if his wife had changed SER
wants every week or two; and those
earlier servants, unlike this abiding
one would never have been cured of
their breaking infirmity. More
over, he had enjoyed for the first time
a real easy-going, untroubled home life
"a SURPRISING treasure even for an
economical German-NeW York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-08
c. P. r. ABANDONs TELEPHONES
New Dispatching System Found I'm.
satisfactory in Canada.

St John, n. b, Dec. S.-The tele-
phone train dispatching system that
has been used on the Canadian Pa
cific railway since August last, has
been abandoned and beginning today
the former Morse telegraph system is
again in effect The change will be
permanent, as the telephone system
was found unsatisfactory.
The Prudential Bank
Checking and saving accounts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-08

Island is figuring on printing their
rules in a number of languages for the
use of foreigners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-08


Ger IRE ses
IS sacrifice
sae n hereader of
o pr Your
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and every will afforded OF careful exam
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
EIGHT KILLED IN
RAILROAD WRECK
ATLANTIC COAST LINE TRAIN GOES
THROUGH TRESTLE.
Over Dozen Are Injured-Five Cars
Went Into River With Human
Loads-Axle of Engine Broke.

- Triton, Cain one of the worst rail-
road disasters ever known in the South
Atlantic states, eight persons were
killed and more than a dozen injured
when train No. 95, known as the Dixiei
Flyer, on the Atlantic Coast Line, and
running between Chicago and Jackson
vile, Fla, went through a trestle over
the Alapaha river, eighteen miles east
of here.
But one body, that of John 7. Wat
son of Landa, Wyo, remained in the
river. Had it not been for the wreck,
Watson would nave been a bridegroom
Sunday. His sweetheart, Miss Elise
Shippey of Pasadena, Cal, who was on
the train with him, and to whom he
was to have been married in Jackson
vile, remained at the wreck throughout
the day and night, watching the efforts
of the rescuers to recover WatsOn's
body.
The cars plunged into the river with
out a moments warning to the sleeping
passengers when at axle on the engine
suddenly snapped when midway of the
trestle. The locomotive never left the
track. The trestle is about a half mile
long, but the river was low, n at
the point of the accident was not more
baggage cars, two day coaches and one
Pullman were piled in an Sndooor:L~Al@
mass in the center of the stream.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
WOMEN SHOULD NOT TALK
Bishop DOane Quotes Scripture in Re.
fusing One Permission.

Albany, n. Y.-Bishop Doane has re-
fused to permit Mrs. Elizabeth d. Gran
mis-, president of the National League for
the Promotion of Purity, to speak in All
SAINTS Cathedral at the convention of
the Purity League. In refusing Mrs.
GraT#s permission to speak, Bishop
Doano quoted from the Bible, First
Corinthians, 1874, Let your women
keep silence in the churches; for it is
not permitted unto them to speak"
Speaking of the affair, the bishop said
that when he gave the league the right
TO hold The convention in the cathedral,
he was under the impression that Rev
j. ATinwall AlcCuaig, the New York
refermer, was to speak.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
EDWARD HINES
PRAISES LORIMER
SOUTHERN LUMBERMEN INTER
BSTED IN TAFT'S HENCHMEN.
Worked to Further His Election-Be-
neVed There Was No Position Too
Great for Lorimer

Springfield, Ill-William Lorimer was
elected to the United States senate from
Illinois largely because of the influence
of Senators Penrose of Pennsylvania and
AldriSh Of Rhode Island exerted, avOwed-
~ In behalf of President Taft, through
Edward Hines, well-knowA lumberman,
who has extensive interests In Nissis-
sippi.
This, at least, was the sworn testi-
nony of Mr.. Hines before the Helm
committee of the state senate.
Mr.. Hines denied comprehensively and
categericaIly any knowledge of the use
of mSHey in connection with the Lorimer
eIcctisa, either before or after it took
place but he related freely and in de-
tail the part played by him at the in
stance of Senator Aldrich in bringing
about the election of his friend.
Te this apparent freedom of discus
SION, however, there was a slight exceP-
tor. Mr.. Hines could not recall that
the senate from Rhode Island had any
other reason for his selection of Mr..
LoriB0 as his candidate in Illinois,
Other than that he might harmonic
the V18ieus Republican factions.
Mr.. Hines stated that he had spent
much of his time for the last six
Years" seeking to have Mr.. Lorimer
electeG senator; that he had talked to
"al1Oss every member of the house and
senate IN his behalf during the dead
lock-" and that he had made special
trips 10 the homes of legislators in
various parts of the state on the same
lnissiOR, but he could not remember any
particular person to whom he had
talked, nor having talked to any of
them In other than general terms about
the Qualifications" of Mr.. Lorimer for
the JOB
That Mr.. Hines thought of these
qualifications may be gathered from
these excerpts from his testimony:
"Ts nay mind he is the greatest man
since the time of Christ"
Il believe that no question is too
great Fer him."
Ia is the greatest man that ever
lived, both morally and otherwise"
Mr.. Hines mind, however, was a
blank as to the names of the Iegisla-
tors with whom he had argued in Mr..
Lorimer's behalf and the arguments he
had used.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
FIGHT WOOL REVISION
Wool Growers Will Strike Gibraltar
in House.

IN mousse
Observation-Disclosures of the ways
and means committe of the house of
representatives are not much exercised
over the announcement that Western
wool-growing interests are preparing to
march upon Washington in force when
the tariff question is considered.
"While l have no authority to say
that wool growers will not be given a
hearing" said Chairman Underwood, ut
is my opinion that they might just as
we'll make an assault upon Gibraltar as
upon the house. We know now all the
arguments that will be advanced against
the revision of Schedule X, but there is
no question about what the house will
do. We will make our revision and
send it to the senate, and whether it
goes any further remain to be SEEM"
The comment made by Mr.. Under
wood reflects the attitude of the MAORI
ty of the ways and means committee,
and the leaders of the new Democratic
house. Acting as a committee on COM
mittees, the members of the ways and
means committe have practically com
pIeted their labors.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
Big Oil Transaction.

B~artlesville, Okia.-An oil deal in
"~clving $500, 900 and most of the pro-
duction in the vicinity OF, BartIesville,
Ocelata, Ramona, Supulpa ssld other
pools in the Cherokee and Creek ma
tions, not already owned by syndi-
Gates, is included in a deal which ha.
just been completed by T. D. Morton
of Bartlesville. This is the largest deal.
with one exception, that was ever con
suml"ated in the state, and will mean
the construction OF a pipe line to tide.
water.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
MORE INDICTMENTS COMING
Alleged Minutes Mutilated to Cover
False Report.

New York.-Liston L. Lewis, former
counsel for the Carnegie Trust Company,
before the grand jury testified to facts
so startling that additional indictments
against high officials of the defunct in
s%titution will be Forthcoming.
District Attorney Whitman, it is said,
possesses conclusive evidence that the
executive committee of the trust COM
pany, over which Joseph B. Reichmann
presided as president, knowing they
made a false report of the company's
assets on Aug. 81, 1910, mutilated the
minutes of a meeting held Aug. % in
order to conform to suggestions of the
state banking department.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
KILLS MOTHER IN FIGHT FATHER.
Boy Discharges Revolver During
Drunken Quarrel.
During

Meridian.-News was received in this
city of a fatal shooting affray in KEN
per county, in which a young man, it is
stated, shot at his father and killed his
mother.
According to the details of the affair,
e young man by the name of Will Mar
tbs, came to the home of his father, John
Martis, who lives at Preston, a small
town about As miles northwest of Me-
ridian, IN Kemper county, and father
and son became engaged in a quarrel.
It is alleged that the men were both
under the inA--n-r 1iJ-~~. and when
angry words arose the younger Martis
pulled a revolver and was holding it in
a threatening manner when Mrs. Martis,
the mother of the young man, inter
fered and attempted to take the re-
volver away from the son, and in some
way the weapon was discharged, the
bullet entering the abdomen of Mrs.
Martis, inficting a mortal wound.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
APPROVE THE ALDRICH PLAN
Monetary Reform Scheme Endorsed by
K

Washington.-The currency commit
tee of the American Bankers AssO-
citation, an organization representing
$4,000 of the $4,000 banks of this
try, unanimously approved the Aldrich
plan of monetary reform. Former Sena-
tor Aldrich had invited the currency
committee to confer with the national
monetary commission, but the bankers
held a preliminary meeting to deter
mine their course. They will offer some
slight notifications in the technical de-
tail of the Aldrieh plan, but they ap-
prove of the principal features and will
suggest the adoption of the Aldrich
scheme by the national monetary COM
mission.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
NO PARDON FOR
MORSE OR WALSH
PRESIDENT TAFT WILL NOT IN
TERFERE AS YET.
Will Follow Recommendations of At
torney-General, Who ADVISES No
Present Action.

Washington.-EXecutive clemency Will
not be extended at present to Charles w.
Morse, the New York banker, and John
r. Walsh, the Chicago banker, who are
serving fifteen and fve-year sentences,
respectively, in the federal peniten-
t~iaries, the former at Atlanta and the
latter at Leavenworth. The president
has had before him for several weeks
applications for demency in both cases,
and the department of justice has made
an exhaustive investigation into the evil
dence presented at the trials of the two
bankers and inquired into their physical
condition.
From sources close to President Taft,
it was learned that he will follow the
recommendations of Attorney-General
Wickersham. 1t is understood that Mr..
Wickersham recommended hat mas
much as Walsh will be parOled under
the new federal law neXt September,
Justice would better be served if execu-
tive clemency were not extended to him.
In the case of Morse, it is understood
that the Encouragement was aVerse to
any immediate relief, but recommended
that if there was to be a communication,
it should be such as to make the SEN
tence expire in five years. In that event
Morse would be released after serving
three years and eight months, which in
cludes the usual allowance for good be-
haviOr. Morse began serving his SEN
tence in January, 1910, and Walsh two
months later
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
GREENvILLE GETS CONVENTION.
Brookhaven Pushed Her Sister City
Closely for Honor.

Brookhaven Pushed Her Sister City
Closely for Honor.
Columbus.7Just after the last strains
of "God Be With You Till We Meet
Again" had echoed from the voices OF
1900 people, Rev. II. B. Watkins spoke
the benediction, and the thirty-second
annual gathering of Mississippi Sunday
school workers was ended.
G~feenville, the delta metropolis, the
home OF people who are noted for charm
ing hospitality, and who receive visitors
with geneuine warmth, secured the 1912
gathering of this association, defeating
the hopes of Brookhaven, which progress
sive city was viewed with much favor,
but on the final count did not secure
enough votes to have the workers with
them next year.
The sum of $500 has been pledged to
the association to be expended in con-
Quoting the Mississippi campaign next
year. Of course, more will follow,
but this amount was subscribed by
delegates from different county conven-
tions. Of this amount, So, 500 came from
private subscriptions.
In general assembly the Mississippi
association deems it best to appoint a
negro to travel throughout Mississippi
during the coming year. He will be APP
pointed later. 1t is thought he can get
in close touch with conditions as they
exist in the colored Sunday schools than
anyone else. At any rate, the expert
ment will be tried.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
Keep Watch on the rubercurous.

The Italian government, on account
or the number Of tuberculosis cases
among the Italian e~migrants sem back
from America. has appointed boards
OF examiners in the seaports, whose
duty 1t Is to report the arrival Of tu-
b~erculous persons. These are then
kept under observation in those
places where they settle, to prevent
further spread of the disease. The
erection Of new sanitoria and other
tuberculosis institutions is being
urged In Italy, and the number Of
beds for consumptives has been con-
Siderably increased In different
places.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
Sheriff Hides Them Out.

Monroe, lathe negro boys who in
suited two white girls of very promi-
nent families OF this city when the
girls were going home from school are
not to be found in the parish Jail.
Sheriff Parker, fearing mob violence, has
them secluded and no one knows where
except the sheriff's office. The s~eclusion
of the negroes shows wise judgment
on the part of the sheriff, as the ne
groes have their young age to their in
terost and the citizens are enrs Sed over
the affair.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
CONTESTS LARGE REQUEST
Relatives of the Late Isaac Wymau
Makes Claim.

Grand Junction, Colo.-The s12,OOo,-
900 bequest to Princeton University of
Isaac c Wyman, who died about n year
ago in Massachusetts, leaving his en-
tire estate to Princeton, has been tied ND
in Colorado courts by the filing of Il de-
mand by W. S. Phillips that an admins
traitor be appointed for the estate in
Colorado. Phillips, who is a distant
relative of Wyman, claims SOB 400 is
relative of Wyman, clnims sos, 400 IS
due him from the estate. He demands
that this claim be settled before the
estate is turned over to Princeton.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
CHARGE COAL COMBINE
Coal Companies and Railroads Probed
by Government.

Washington.-The department of JUS
hce ~ Investigating what is alleged to
be 4 giant coal companies combine and
coai-eaTTying railroads.
1t rs said that the Norfolk and West
ern aRd Baltimore and Ohio are promi-
nentf5 mentioned in reports which the
investigating agents have recently made.
Tho investigation has been going about
SIX months and the department is said
to be III possession of facts which prom
Use to lead to something tangible in the
way of action.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
TO TAKE AN INVENTORY
Everything From Bolts and Rails to
Cars Listed.

Denver, Col.-Plans for taking one of
the biggest inventories in history were
discussed by the engineers of all rail-
roads belonging to the Hartman sys-
TENS. a complete valuation of the en-
tire system, involving the listing of
everything from bolts and steel rails to
cars, buildings and franchises on more
than 10000 miles of track will be
taken. The task probably will require
two or three years.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
DlSTEMPER

In all it's forms among all ages of horses,
40 well as dogs, cured and others in same
stabls prevented from having the disease
with SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE.
Every bottle guaranteed. Over 600, 900
bottles sold last year $50 and 81 90. Any
good druggist, or send to manufacturers
Agents wanted. Spohn Medical Co., Spec.
Contagious Diseases. Goshen. Ind.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
Tate Must Hang.

James Tate must hang. He was con-
victed and sentenced to death several
months ago for murder, but his case
was appealed to the supreme court,
which has just handed down a decision
affirming the death penalty and fixing
April % as the date of his execution.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
"Get Together" Meeting.

Hazlehurst.-A large and enthusiastic
meeting of farmers and business men
was held here in the county courthouse.
It was a Get Together meeting of all
interests pertaining to the upbuilding of
this immediate territory and was called
by a number of progressive business men
of the community. The object of the
meeting was the reorganization of the
Progressive League, which did splendid
werk here some years ago.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-31
CHANGE ENGINEER DISTRICT.
Vicksburg Gets Headquarters Third
Capt. Smith in Charge.

Vieksburg.-Offcial transfer to Vicks-
burg of the office of the Third United
Stat>s engineers office is now being
mad,, and Capt. j. A. Woodruff, who has
been under supervision of Capt. Clarke
S. Smith, stationed in Memphis, is to
be gwen charge of the local office. Capt.
Smith remains in charge in Memphis
The transfer viii be concluded Yithir
the text few days.