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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
RAILROAD NEWS
Schedule for Santa Fe Good
Roads Train.
First Trip Out of Topeka Mon
day, March IS.
WELL KNOWN STATE ORATORS
Nearly 100 Towns to Be Visited
in Kansas.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.

The schedule for the Good Roads
special of the Santa F'e, which will
start out of Topeka Monday morning,
March Is, has been announced from
the Office of E. S. Savage, advertising
agent of the road in this city. The
special will cover all parts of Kansas
and will preach the gospel of good
roads to residents along the lines of
the Santa F'e.
Special equipment demonstrating
the value and the secret of good roads
will be used. The train will make
stops at nearly 100 stations all along
the road.
Cities and towns all over Kansas
have been awaiting with interest the
announcement of the Good Roads spe-
cial schedule. 1t is estimated that
thousands of persons will turn out at
the stations and listen to the lectures
and take note of the demonstrations.
The schedule reads:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

automobiles, are being put upon troll
ley cars so that the motorman can see
passengers getting on or off the back
platform, thus helping him to avoid
accidents due to premature starting.
Says a signal man: 'As far back as
1903, on the Lehigh Valley, We went
through some severe sieges of frost.
Great bonfires were built alongside
of signal masts to try to fry out the
frost Alcohol was burned and other
chemicals used to keep frost away.
You can do nothing to beat frost I'M
less you get on the right side of ma
ture Every piece of apparatus that
we have on a railway, I am convinced,
the more We try to seal it, close it up
and stop it from breathing, as I call
it, in other words, keep it alright and
thereby, as we believe, moisture proof,
the more clearly does it appear that
our efforts are of no avail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
KEEP OFF RAILROAD PROPERTY.
An Effort Being Made to Stop Practice
Letters to Governor Stubbs.

The movement to do away with pub
lie trespassing on railroad property is
spreading to all parts of the United
States. In Kansas the railroads have
made every effort to discourage this
practice. On the Rock Island, Gen
eral Manager Sweet of Topeka has
built fences around many of the i'm
portant yards for the purpose of keep
ing out trespassers.
Governor Stubbs received a letter
the other day from Darius Miller,
president of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad, who has addressed
communications to governors of t11fr-
teen states, asking them to use their
influence to stop trespassing on rail-
road property. The governors adj
dressed are: Charles S. Deneen, I'LL
nois; B. F. Carroll. Iowa; Francis E.
McGovern, Wisconsin; Adolph O..
Eberhart, Minnesota; Herbert S. Had
ley, Missouri; Walter R. Stubs, Kan
sas; Chester H. Aldrich, Nebraska;
Robert S. Vesey, South Dakota; j. S.
Shafroth, Colorado; Joseph M. Carey,
Wyoming; Edward l. Norris, Mon
tana, and William c. Mcdonnell New
Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
WAR RECORD GOOD
+. }. Wendell Led Company at
Missionary Ridge.
All Officers and Brother Killed
in Battle.
11NEN HpM. WINS EpRIII ETC
USES ARM: WINS EPAULETS
Editor of AtchisOn Champion
After War Closed.
Disappears After Marriage to
Employers Daughter.

Rockford, Ill, March ferdinand J.
Wendell, who after the war edited the
Atchison. Kansas, Champion. of which
Governor Martin was publisher, is
dead at his home here
The life of F. ]. Wendell was flied
with unusual events. Its close marked
the end of peculiar man, whose life
story was connected in a large degree
with early Kansas history.
When only a boy he came here from
Perrine county, Mo-, with his parents.
They erected the first house in To-
peka' it is claimed. between what is
now Third and Fourth streets, on Jack
son street. He remained here until
he was IS years old, when the civil
war began.
Enlisting in the Eighth Kansas I'M
der Governor John A. Martin he served
through the war, always at the front
until disabled by d wound received at
Missionary Ridge. In this battle he
was in the thickest of the fighting. Ev-
cry commissioned officer in Wendells
company was shot down. His brother
William was shot dead beside him.
Wendell put himself at the head of the
little company of survivors and they
fought as long as there was anything
to fight. His arm was struck by bull
act anu the DOne shattered. 1n1S Qluu =
stop him. He led the company until
the battle was over. Then he had the
wounded arm attended to by army
physicians. So much of the bone was
removed that it hung helplessly by his
side afterward. He was not in active
service during the remainder of the
war. For his bravery he was made
second lieutenant.
OF the regiment which went into
the battle with Wendell fewer than 500
men were alive when the fight was
over.
After the close of the war he return
ed to Kansas, being employed by the
colonel of his regiment in the pub
fishing of the Atchison Champion. For
some time he was editor of the paper
and Martin publisher. He married
the daughter of his employer and his
future seemed assured.
One morning he failed to appear at
his desk at the Champion Office He
disappeared completely. For years
no trace of him could be found. His
wife secured a divorce and married
again. Then it was learned that he
had been working in the east as the
representative of an advertising con-
Germ. He later published two papers
in Illinois. Several years ago he Sc
cured a patent on a steel lathing ma
chine He sold this for $4,000 and
with the money started a stationery
store at Rockford, where he remained
until his death.
Wendell has two brothers living
near Topeka. They are John Wen
dell, who lives north of North To
peka. and Geo. Wendell. living at Ell
mont. He was a brother-in-law of
IT. NJ James of North Topeka. They
that none could recall when he had
received the last news from the wan
dering relative.
No funeral arrangements have been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
BIG CAR SHORTAGE IN EAST.
Roads Refuse to Send Box Cars West
of Buffalo.


Chicago, March 1.-Eastern roads
are in a peculiar position, says the
New York Evening Post correspond
ence. There is a shortage of box cars
in this section, as they refuse to send
them west of Buffalo. The condition
of the roads east of Buffalo shows
more or less congestion, while in the
west there is a mixed situation. The
tonnage handled last week equa1led
last years, some classes of freight
showing a substantial increase.
One of the eastern roads is SO block
ed west of Buffalo that it recently sent
twenty-five of it's empty box cars to
another road to haul to Chicago to
load with grain. The cars were brought
here and loaded, and returned to Buff
falo by the connecting line, and there
given to the Erie. Shipments of live
stock had to be abandoned for several
days on account of the storm. South
eastern and southern business was of
fair volume. The yards, of eastern
roads here are blocked with cars, one
road having 1000 cars awaiting ship
ment, and the grain trade is complain
ing of the sloWnesS and inability of
railroads to furnish cars.
Passenger trains between Chicago
and the east have been behind time for
over month, and it has been impos-
sible for the fastest trains to make
their schedules. In trying to make
time the Pennsylvania has used up
nine of its best passenger locomotives
since. January 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
WHITE sLAVERS IN PRISON.
Laundry Man and Others Sold Girls
Into Lives of Shame.

Leavenworth, Kan, March 1.-Af-
ter a rather disagreeable trip United
States officers arrived at the federal
prison ard turned over five prisoners,
four of whom were convicted of vio-
lations of the Mann white slavery
act, the aggregate of their sentences
reaching twelve years The white
slavers'' are: Joseph H. McCarty,
Frank Mack, John c. Parker and Hen
ry Vardeman.
McCarty was a 1aundryman. but
found a profit in pandering to the
baser passions of his customers and
brought in girls from other points,
whom he sold into a life Of shame
For this he was convicted and given
a term of four years. Frank Mack
was a ship filter, but the court did
not look upon him as being as guilty
as McCarty and gave him three
years to ponder over his misdeeds.
Vardenan, a waiter. were given two
wears and six months each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
DANDRUFF AND
ITCHING SCALP
POSITIVELY YIELD TO
ZEMO AND ZEMO SOAP

A Csc trial size is a special offer for
you to test this treatment and see for
yourself how quickly they relieve an
drritrated skin or scalp as we'll as cure
aandruf and prevent falling hair.
One shampoo with ZEMO SOAP
and an application of zENO stops the
itching instantly, cleanSes the scalp
and rfds it of all dandruff and Scurf.
We know that ZEMO and ZEMO
SOAP have no rivals for the prompt
relief and permanent cure Of all skin
and scalp affections.
Frequently the trial package will
entirely eradicate a minor case of Itch
ing scalp or dandruf and is always
suff1cient to demonstrate the curative
powers of ZEMO and ZEMO SOAP
Tor every form of skin or scalp erup-
lions. A twenty-five cent package will
convince you. Brunt's drug store,
Fifth and Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
mo sABE' WHEN FIRED.
Mexicans to Be Replaced by Whites
and Negroes.

Wichita, Kan, March 1.-Some time
ago Superintendent Webb of the Mis-
souri, Pacific here decided to rid the
payroll of all Mexican laborers and
employ white or negro laborers. The
move involved some six hundred Mexi-
cans and was made because the days
when they could not work or the
monthly appropriation ran out many
freight cars were broken into and
robbed of merchandise. The robberies
We're traced to Mexicans.
This was the day on which the mott
fication was to be given the laborers
that they would no longer be connected
with the road, but the foremen here
had a difficult time making them I'M
derstand. mo sabe'' was all they would
say and go off shaking their heads.
There are three hundred employed here
and they hated to give up their warm
hunks and go out to look for other jobs.
They will not be allowed to work longer
for the Gould system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
WAS CONVICTED IN 1910.
LIQUOR Salesman Finds Punishment
Slow But Apparently Sure.


Wichita, Kan, March ALMOST two
years after being found guilty of SELL
ing intoxicating liquors and sentenced
to a term in the county Jail, Ben Faw-
cett has started in to serve his SEN
tence. The verdict under which he
was sentenced was returned in the dis
trict court on April 10, 1910.
When Fawcett was sentenced he was
granted a 60-day stay of execution to
appeal to the supreme court. At the
end of this time another extension was
granted. Afterwards Fawcett disap-
peared.
A few days ago it was learned by
Sheriff John MilIhaubt that Mr.. Faw-
cett had returned to wichita The
case was looked up and it was found
that the man is still under sentence
and due to spend some six months
time in the county Jail. Deputy Sher-
iff Fred Suellentrop accordingly ar
rested Fawcett and he started, some
what tardily, but nonetheless effec-
lively, to serve out his sentence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
STRIKERS DEMANDS ARE JUST
White says Workers Should Win
Their Contention.

White says Workers Should Win
Their Contention.
New York, March AFTER making
a personal investigation of the strike
conditions in Lawrence, Mass, William
Allen White, the Kansas author and
editor, said today the cause of the
strikers was just one. He was con-
WINGED their wage demands were rea-
sonabIe and that there has been no ex-
cuse for violence shown towards them
by the police and militia.
Probably the strikers and the mill
owners both were rash and haSty,' -
White said here today, but the enor-
nous profits of the mill owners makes
it obvious that the wage fund in Law
renee has been diverted from the
workers to the surplus of the CAPT
talists.
For the men sent by state and the
city to keep the peace to club WON en-,
to drive women through the common
like sheep, to treat the strikers inhu-
manly as they are treated in Lawr ence,
only breeds anarchy and disrespect for
the law The strikers are foreigners.
but many of them reflected to me at
least a better Americanisn, a clearer
vision of what America stands for
than did many of those who sneered
at them.
THE brutality of the guardians of
the peace reflects the spirit of hard
Injustice of public officials toward the
poor, the public servants find their
masters. All inhuman and miserable"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
oDRER 100 MILES GOOD ROAD.
Dickinson County to Spend Money In
Making Highways Better.

Abilene, Kan, March lone hum
dred miles of country roads, serving
all parts of Dickinson county, were
ordered by the county commissioners
and township trustees at a largely at
tended good roads meeting here.
The state highway engineer, w. s.
Gearhart made an address. Plans for
Improvement of the roads will be pre-
pared by engineers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
PHILLIPsBURG FOR WILSON.
six Instructed Delegates Named for
Hutchinson Convention.

Democratic county convention met
here and elected six delegates to the
state convention to be held at Hutch
inson March IA. The delegates were
instructed for Wilson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

| (a) Pick up speaker and lecture in hail
4:3O p. m.
| (b) Night meeting in court house
(f) Pick up speaker, lecture 900 g. in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

made. Today it could not be learned
whether the body would be brought
here for burial, or inferred in the Rock
ford cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01
Judge True Is Dead.

Oskaloosa, Kan, March is. E. True,
formerly judge of the probate court
and a pioneer of Jefferson county, is
dead here. Judge True was elected by
the largest majority ever given Dem
ocrat in Jefferson county. He retired
from office two years ago. Judge
Lewis True of Kansas City, Kan, and
Col. J. F. True of Topeka are brothers
Burial will be at Oskaloosa.
Time to SOW Kentucky blue ~rass and
white clover. We have Kew stock.
Zimmerman Seed Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-01

Rockford, ILL.,, March ferdinand j
wendell, who after the war edited the
Atch1son, Kansas, Champion. of which
governor Martin was publisher, is
dead at his home here
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-04

married in 1881 to the Princess Angus
Ia Victoria Of Schleswig-H and
succeeded to the throne in 1888. With
In two years of his accession he had
disagreed with Bismarck and dismissed
the iron chancellor" from office.
Seven children were born to the kai-
ser-Frederick William, the crown
prince, in 1882; Eitel Fritz In 1888
Adelbert in 1884, Auguste William in
1887, Oscar in 1883, Joachim in 1890
and Victoria Louise in 1892.
The emperor's boyhood and that of
his brother, Prince Henry, was once
thus described by writer in Temple
Bar:
"a happy, merry life the young
princes led before earnest studies be-
gan at Cassel. But it would be diff
cult to relate many anecdotes about
the emperor during his boyhood, and
that very absence of adventures gives
one, perhaps, the clearest insight into
his character. A clever, intelligent
boy, with an admirable memory. he
was trained from his earliest childhood
with a view to his future duties, but
his proud spirit made him shrink with
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-04

presented. The kaiser never procras-
tinates, He finishes all papers as soon
as possible, so that they can be at
once returned. He is in fact most
eXacting, asking the next day whether
the work Of the previous day has been
done. He labors in this manner from
day to day, but on Sundays devotes
himself to rest and religious observ-
ance.
After the kaiser has completed his
early work when in Berlin he goes on
his horseback ride or walk through
the Tiergarten, lasting from one to
two and half hours. He usually gal
lops at such rapid gait that his com.
pany can hardly follow. In the same
rapid pace he loves to go on foot, with
unusually long steps. This rapid gait,
however does not prevent him from
conyersing in a most animated man
ner with his encourage. i am also told
that even when mountain climbing he
walks In the same manner, being al
ways ahead of his followers. Before
the kaiser returns to his palace he goes
to the chancellor's palace.
'These morning visits are usually of
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-04
German Emperor the Most
laIked OF kuler In All Europe

almost morbid dread from the posi-
bility of being punished by interiors
future subjects" He might learn-lat.
er he did so-gladly all that professors
or artists could teach with a pleasant
conviction that he would make better
use of such learning than those who
impaired it, but the thought of being
punished by them was unbearable.
Prince Henry had no such duties in
the future nor such sensitiveness in
the present, so he learned as little as he
could as a small boy. had "a rare good
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-04

breakfast is in the English fashion and
consists of tea, bread and butter. meat
or fish. He greatly loves fish. When
his majesty reaches his study he finds
his mail ready on his desk While his
private mail has been placed in port
folios unopened. communications of an
official nature have been previously
siftad by the civil and military cabi-
nets. He usually reads all these doc
uments carefully, makes on them mar
ginal notes or asks for more de-
tailed account regarding the matter
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-04
WILLIAM H.. the

TMPEROR WILLIAM H.. the
- most talked of ruler in Europe,
H was born at Berlin Jan. 81, 1853.
His parents were the Emperor
Frederick III. and Princess Victoria
house he was grandson Of Emperor
William |. of Germany and on the 9TH
er of Queen Victoria of Great Britain
The kaiser was christened Friedrich
Wilhelm Victor Albert. He was edu.
Gated at the gymnasium Of Cassel and
the famous University of Bonn. was
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-04

great importance, for his majesty de-
sires to learn the opinion Of the chan
cellor regarding foreign and domestic
questions.
Usually at 1 o'clock a simple but
substantial dinner is served, which the
kaiser eats with his family. The kaiser
drinks a glass of wine with his meals,
although he is very moderate drink
er. He has a great liking for cham
pagne, but allows only the German bev-
erage. The story is told that at an off,
GERS banquet which the kaiser attend
ed French champagnes were served
on which German labels had been
placed. The kaiser, however, detected
the deception and expressed his dlsap-
proval in the most forcible Language.
The kaiser smokes, but not as much as
he did formerly, when he INDUCED In
very strong cigars. He occasionally
smokes cigarettes, but there are weeks
when he does not smoke at all.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-04

the deception and expressed his dsap.
proval In the most forcible language.
The kaiser smokes, but not as much ap
he did formerly, when he INDUCED in
very strong cigars. He occasionally
smokes cigarettes, but there are weeks
when he does not smoke at all.
A Hard Worker.
Even when travelling the kaiser ia
at work. In fact, he is always busy.
He is followed by representatives from
every department of the government.
The kaiser attends to all telegraphic
to awaken him at any time of the
night He displays the same activity
when at maneuvers. His energy is
wonderful. He is often in conference
with his generals until o'clock in the
morning and again in the saddle at 4.
"1n order fully to understand how
the kaiser governs some unpublished
anecdotes will aid. Bismarck was in
deed prophetic when he declared that
his royal master would be his own
chancellor. 1t is not generally known
that the Socialist question was one of
the causes which led to the disagree
ment between the two men. A Con-
servative favorite of the kaiser made
him believe that the Socialist law
would drive the Socialists to revolu-
ton; therefore the kaiser promptly
dropped the law, declaring to Bis
marck, Il will thereby appease the So
cialists.' a message for the establish
ment of a workmen's insurance law
was published against the wishes of
Bismarck, who was then supplanted,
by Caprivi.
although somewhat short tempered,
the emperor is more easily diverted
from anger to good humor by means of
a piece of wit than many of his fellow
sOvereigns.
Some years ago, when old Baron
BOetticher, who was secretary of state
for the interior, was discussing with
his majesty the most suitable nOmina-
tiOnS to be made in the case of num-
Der of vacant offices, the latter became
greatly irritated by the statesman's un-
ahSWeraDle objections to the candidate
for whom he himself desired to obtain
a certain post. His anger, in fact,
grew quite violent, and when the bar
on inquired if there We're no other per-
son upon whom his majesty would like
to confer the appointment the kaiser
replied curtly:
"'Oh, confer it on Satan himself if
you like"
Very WELL replied the old minis
ter. with twinkle in his eye, and then
in his most suave and court
" manner, And shall | allow the
patent signed by your majesty in that
case to go out in the usual form, "To
my trusted and well beloved cousin
and counselor?"'
"The kaiser saw the joke at once
md burst into loud peal of laughter"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-04
DIFFERENT AGES AND HIS ELDEST SON

time and accepted, sometimes fearful
ly, the punishment which inevitably
followed some delightful prank. AS
the brothers were always together,
thanks to Prince Henry's lovable,
cheerful disposition and his fortunate
absence Of pride, the emperor's boy
hood was cheered by keen enjoyment
or the pleasures natural to his age. In
fact there were many evidences Of
family likeness to that youthful Brit.
lsh uncle of theirs, King Edward VII,
who, In order to verify his suspicious
and satisfy his inquiring mind, sue
cessfully stuck in the improved
calves of an unsuspecting court official
some of the little flags then in use to
mark on map the movements of the
allied forces in the Crimea."
An Early Riser.
A court attache familiar with the
daily life of the kaiser has thus de-
scribed some phases of his many sided
activities:
1.-The kaiser is an early riser and new
er gets up later than O'clock. His
bath is followed by cold douche. His
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-04

This is good weather for flies.
They are around waiting to give your
little one typhoid fever. Kill him
and don't delay. Buy a swatter at
the hardware store and get busy at
once.