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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
USE HEADLIGHTS.
Border Citizens Benefit by
Straight Track ON R. /.
Can See Headlight A Miles
Away.

Kingman, Aug. Down at Tyrone.
Okla, just across the Kansas line, the
town boys are still smoking on a Kan
saS City travelling man, just because
Tyrone is on the longest stretch of
straight level track on the Rock Island
system and the trains on the road have
powerful electric headlights.
The travelling man in relating the
story said:
Il had been on the road for a Kan
sas City house six years through Kan
sas before they finally extended my
territory to take in Oklahoma PAN
handle. 1 thought 1 was a seasoned
traveller until / took my first trip down
there.
The first town 1 made across the
line from Liberal was Tyrone I had
spent the afternoon there and intend
ed to take a night train back to Lib
eral. A bunch of us were sitting on the
front porch of the Commercial hotel
playing cards, when I saw a headlight
looming up down the track. I made a
rush for my grips and yelled at the
boy to get his cart and take 'em over
to the depot quick. 1 didn't wait for
his answer, but ran over to the depot
and, rushing up to the window, de-
manded q ticket for Liberal
'How's this L said to the agent, I
thought this train wasn't due for an
hour. and here she is not a mile
away?
Mister he replied, you had bet
ter go back to the hotel and buy cigars
for that bunch. This is your first trip
down here amt it? Well thought so.
That headlight is just forty-nine miles
away; you've got pretty near an hour
to finish that game of pinochle. This is
the longest stretch of straight track
in the country--seventy-six miles--clear
across the Panhandle without
a curve. You see that house
over there? That's where live
don't have to light up until
after o'clock winter nights. About
shutdown the Golden State Limited
looms up down about Texhoma and she
shines right into my kitchen window
for an hour, finally getting so bright
that my wife has to pull the curtain,
and ten minutes behind her comes
thirty-four and it takes her seventy
minutes to get by with her light. It's
a great saving for me, and my wife
now won't wash dishes by anything
but electric light 1 never have to
call the dispatcher to get the time on
trains. I climb to the roof of the sta
ton. get line on the headlight and
mark up my board accordingly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
ADVOCATES GAS STRIKE.
PittsbuPg's Mayor Recommends Rash
Methods as Possible Settlement.

Sl1ourup, who was a member of the
resolutions committee at the meeting
of mayors and city attorneys to dis
cuss the gas situation in Topeka
Wednesday, believes a gas strike as
last resort would force the Kansas
Natural Gas company to use some OF
it's earnings to extend the pipe lines
and obtain more gas.
"Of course, this should be only as
a last resort" the mayor said. I'VE
expect the courts to give us justice,
but if we are disappointed, then it is
UP to us to do something else. II
wouldn't be an easy matter to get the
consumers to go on strike and cut out
the use of gas, but it could be done
and it would bring these gentlemen to
a point where they would be willing
to furnish gas in a hurry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
NEW ROCK ISLAND DINERS.
With Addition OF Fourteen, Fifty
Eight Operated Daily.

The Rock Island Lines have recent
ly placed in service fourteen all-new
steel dining cars. These cars were
built by the Pullman company and
are of the very latest design, seating
thirty guests each Six of the cars
are equipped with direct lighting and
eight of the cars with indirect light
ing. The ranges, broilers, steam ia
bles, refrigerators, storage lockers and
wardrobes are arranged to give the
very best possible result. The equip
ment cost approximately $4,000 per
car the steel cars themselves cost
ing approximately $4,000 each. These
new dining cars have been placed in
service in the Golden State Limited
and Rocky Mountain Limited" trains
AS to the comprehensiveness of the
Rock Island Lines dining car SER
vice, it is interesting to note that the
Rock Island operates in regular ser
vice every day forty-five dining cars,
and this number, with those in oper-
alton in special trains, brings the total
number in operation up to fifty-eight
cars,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
new ZEALAND SEA SERPENT
MOnstrous Reptile Seen Swimming
With Snakelike Movement.

The officers of a coasting steamer re-
port that sea serpent was seen between
Tolago Bay and Osborne. According to
the account given by them the sea ser
pent was swimming slowly with a sinu-
Gus, snake-like movement, and was ac-
companied by a school of porpoises.
Three large fins were observed on the
back, and the sides We're apparently COW
cred with white barnacles while the head
was large and square. The vessel passed
within 10 fathoms of the creature, which
was clearly seen.
The Australian papers contain circum-
stantial accounts of a sea monster said to
have been seen by the officers and pas
SengerS of the Interstate liner Dimboola
in the Great Australian Blight. One ac-
count telegraphed from Fremantle, West
Australia, to Sydney states that when
the vessel was in latitude So degrees %
minutes south and longitude 1874 east
shout from some of the passengers on
deck caused the third officer, who was on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
HERO LOSES MEMORY.
Guardian Appointed for John Burke
by Wyandotte County Court.

Kansas City, Aug. John Burke,
81 years old, one of the border heroes
in Civil war days, was adjudged ir-
competent in the Wyandotte county
district court yesterday because of
failing memory. A guardian will be
appointed to care for his property,
which is valued at between $4,000 and
$4,000. His home is in Kansas City,
Kan.
John Burke once guarded a chest
containing 100000 in gold being hur-
ried from the Indian Territory across
Kansas to escape capture by Confed-
crate soldiers. The government was
to pay several thousand Indians at the
reservation. Confederates learned OF
the gold shipment and plotted to
seize it. Burke was sergeant in
Troop I, Second Kansas Colonel
Cloud placed him in charge of the
gold and with Confederates in close
pursuit he made a dash for Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. Burke sat Gil
the gold for six days and nights on
the trip, never closing his eyes. He
narrowly escaped being shot dozen
times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
SUES CoNCORDIA BLADE.
III. j. Diers Makes Deputy Sheriff
Party to Suit.

Concordia, Kan, Aug. Green &
Bloom, publishers of the Daily Blade,
and Francis Swofford, deputy sheriff
of Cloud county, have been sued by H.
J. DierS of Russell, Kan. The Moore
bioodhounds were recently taken to
Russell by their trainer and Under
Sheriff Francis Swofford, to try and
trail the party that had set fire to a
barn containing some fifteen stations.
According to the under sheriff, the
hounds trailed to Dier'S home and
upon the deputy's return this state
ment was published by the Daily Blade
as made by Swofford.
Now Diers asks for $40, 900 damages
from Green & Bloom and Swofford
claiming that the report has done him
great damage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
LOSE MONEY ON MAILS.
Service Not Paid for Causes Estimated
Loss S15.OOO,OOO.

Washington, Aug. 2.-ConsiderabIe
emphasis has been laid by the rall-
roads of the United States during the
last ten years upon the small ren1un-
Grafton which they receive for nan
ding the government mails. Many
conferences have been held and now
the question has been boiled down 10
such a point as to allow the carriers
to put their protests into concise FORM
The railroads maintain that at pres
ent they are underpaid by at least
S15,O00,00O per year. Their complaint
if not against the standard of meas
uring such mail service as is PAID 1or'
but that a very large amount of SER
vice is demanded for which the ma
ton makes no payment Whatever.
Such is the purport of statement
by the railway mail pay committee OF
the 264 principal American railroads
with over 21S,O0O miles of line. This
committee was appointed by the rail-
WAYS to present their plea for in
creased compensation to the congress
sionaI committee of inquiry, of Whlcn
Senator Jonathan E. Bourne of ore
gon is chairman.
Several hearings have been held by
the committee. The postoffice depart
ment was represented by Second AS
sistant Postmaster General Stewart,
and the interstate commerce commit
tee by Professor Max o. LorenZ, asso-
ciate statistician. The railroads have
the public, and it is in accordance with
that plan that the statement is issued
by their committee. The statement
follows:
ITO carry the peoples mail quick
", safely and frequently is soclal
obligation which the railroads freely
concede. 1t is a service voluntarily
performed, for no law compels a rail-
road company to carry mails unless II
contracts to do go. The courts hold,
- he
tract, they must do so on terms named
by the government.
Though surrounded by these anom-
aIous conditions. the railroads have
without stint placed their resources at
the disposal of the nation to develop
the transportation of mails to the
highest state of efficiency. This SER
vice has been paid for at a price fixed
by the government, a price from
which the carriers have had no APP
peal.
THE United States government in
1912 paid the railways S51, 697, S14. 40
for carrying mail. This was about
20.95 per cent. of all postal revenues
In 1901 the railways had received "a
per cent. of the postal revenues. In
the same year (19O1) the Joint COM
mittee to investigate the postal SER
vice. of which Senator WolcOtt was
chairman. reported to congress its
opinion that the prices now paid to
In6 TdllTO9QS the VI
the mails are not excessive. Yet in
1907 the postmaster general, by ad-
ministrative order, reduced railway
mail pay by nearly 5,00O,0O0-about
10 per cent.-and congress cut off
about per cent. more by reductions
in rates of pay for carrying the mails
and for use Of postal cars. 1t is the
belief of the carriers that Il fair ad-
justment would require that the gov
eminent should pay the railroads for
all services which they render
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
Santa Fe Retires Many From
Service-Put ON Pension.
Roosevelt Argues for PrOtec-
ton Railroad StOckhOlder.
ROCK ISLAND DINING SERVICE
Fourteen Newest Model ALL
Steel Cars Added.
Railroads Claim Heavy Loss in
Government Mail Contracts.

The following Santa Fe men were
this month retired from the service
on PENSIONS: Chas. E. Priest, Cha
mute, locomotive engineer; John g.
Weber, Albuquerque, material man; j.
L. Blair, San Jose, travelling repre-
sentative, passenger department;
ward c. Carney Topeka, construction
engineer: John Wuuder, Topeka,
wheel pressman: William H. Payne.
Topeka, case hardener; Daniel l.
Mast, Emporia, crossing flagman'
Daniel Lambert, Lockport, crossing
fIagman; Harvey johnson, Wichita,
crossing fIagman: Oliver P. Jenkins,
La Junta, turntable operator; Robert
Irwin, Richmond, stationary fireman;
Dennis Fields, Coal City, flagman;
Gustavus NJ. Drew, Chillicothe, pas
senger brakeman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
HAY CROP AWFUL SHORT.
Prairie Product in Chase County Suf-
feFS From DrOuth.

Cottonwood Fails, KAN, Aug. 2
One of the lightest prairie hay crops
in years will be secured by farmers
here this season who are already start
ing to put up the crop. The excellent
prospects early in the season have
been entirely reversed by the past few
weeks of dry weather until now the
farmers who have started to cut say
they will do we'll if they secure a quar-
ter-ton yield per acre. On some grass
land, the crop will not even be cut,
as it is believed to Fbe too light to pay
for the trouble and expense. Several
farmers who early in the year con-
tracted their hay crop at 50 ton,
which is generally a big price for new
hay, would now be glad if they could
cancel their agreements, as it is be-
lieved hay will reach much higher
prices before the season is over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
BOLSTER UP men
Women Don't Want Their Jobs,
but to Strengthen Character.
Chairman of Kansas Good Citi-
zenship League Interviewed.

Leavenworth Aug. 2-To bolster up
the men in promoting reforms, rather
than to step in their shoes and gobble
up the jobs will be the duty of he
Kansas women citizens, according to
Mrs. Effie Van Tuyl, chairman of the
Kansas Good Citizenship League
formerly the Kansas Equal Suffra Sc
association.)
TT is a very humble work that we
are doing" said Mrs. Van Tuyl. I'VE
do not want to be governors, or at
torney generals, or chief justices; we
merely want to help in the making of
the chief executives. We are studying
up the questions that are to be settled
by means of the ballot. We are trying
to be the power for good to play the
part that men from time immemoriai
have decreed for u.s.
With this object in view the league
is preparing programs on public qucs-
tions that are to be studied during the
winter.
Juvenile crime is taken up first.
The topics under this division are
good parentage (restriction on mar
riage laws. single standard of morals;)
good homes economic conditions pure
food, moral training;) good schools lex
pert teaching of hygiene. occasional
training;) good civic conditions pub
lie amusements, police women. child la
bor.)
Under adult crime, the league takes
up the amelioration of poverty (maXi-
mum hour and minimum wage, en-
ployer's liability, mothers pensions,
prisoners earnings;l moral forces
prohibition of saloons and gambling.
clean and uplifting (probation and
indeterminate sentence, reformatorics
and prisons.)
The program on Kansas schools will
outline a study of the new ideas
in education that are applicable more
especially to the common schools
Among the topics on the school pro-
gram are consolidation of school dis
tricts; free high schools for the boys
and girls of all the people; adaptation
of high schools to the needs of the 10
cal community; training for exception
al children medical inspection in
schools; health problems and training
in hygienics; reorganized school play
ground; training courses for rural
teachers; vocational training; contin-
uation schools, promotion of peace.
The working of the mill tax in other
states will also be studied with a view
to the best support of the state educa-
tional institutes of higher education.
Matters of detail, such as direct
nominations, ballot reform, popular
control of legislation, the recall, civic
service reform and current party plat
forms, will be studied in order to give
the new citizens an understanding of
the compleXity of the business of pol
itical participation in the United
States today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
lola BURGLAR BIDS GooDBY.
Writes Letter to Press-Finds Citizens
Short ON Money.

lola, Kan, Aug. 2.-While it has
long been rule not to publish COM
munications unless signed by the
author, an exception is made in the
case of the lola burglar. To insist on
that rule in his case would keep him
out of print, and as his note is of gem
eral public interest and therefore de-
serves space, it is here published
though signed only 1.-The Burglar.
The note says:
ITO the Editor of the Register:
You cruel monster, the idea of you
suggesting to the lola public to shoot
me. You must be a depraved crea-
ture. / would hate to meet you on a
dark night. We only have two com
plants to make of the lola men; that
they have so little money and that
they do not hang their trousers outside
of the window. We think they are a
nice ladylike bunch and truly appre-
ciate that they do not use firearms
We think it is far nicer for them to
come to the window and say 'shew to
us. But we have decided to reform,
on account of the mayors and your
cruel suggestions. We fear this Is too
dangerous a business in a town with
two such brave leaders. So goodby,
cruel monster, we will move to Cha-
mute. THE BURGLAR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
Santa Fe Makes Least Smoke.

Chicago, Aug. "A report pre-
pared by Osborn MOnnett, city
smoke inspector, discloses that the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e railway
has outdistanced other rail lines in
Chicago in the observance of the pro-
visions of the smoke ordinance. Mi.
Monnetts conclusions are based on
11,151 observations of locomotive
smoke made on thirty-two railroads
throughout a period of forty-eight
days. The Santa Fe is credited with
a smoke density of 4.73 per cent, as
compared with AIS per cent last
year. The Illinois Northern ranks
second in Mr.. Monnett's table, it's
percentage being 6.31.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
Rid your Children of Worms

You can Change frettuI, 1II-tempered
children into healthy, happy youngsters,
by Kidding them of worms. Tossing, roll
ing, grinding of teeth, crying out while
asleep, accompanied with intense thirst,
pains in the stomach and bowels, fever
ishness ana bad breath, are symptoms that
indicate worms. Kickapoo Worm Killer,
a pleasant candy lozenge, eXpels the
worms regulates the bowels, restores your
children to health and happiness. Mrs.
j. A. Brisbin, of Elgin, Ill. says: Il have
used Kickapoo Worm Killer for years,
and entirely rid my children of worms.
would nor be without it, Guaranteed.
All druggists: or by mail. Price 25c.
Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. Philadel-
phila and st. Louis. Arnold Drug Co.
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
MAY NOT BE BROTHER.
Lloyd Sever Believed to Be Killed
Relatives Bury Body.

Dodge City, Kan, Aug. &C. NJ.
Sever returned from Clinton, Mo-,
where he helped bury what is thought
to be the remains of his brother, Lloyd
Sever. A man having doubtful identi-
fication on his person as Lloyd Sever
of Clinton, Mo, was recently killed by
train q, few miles north of New York
city. c. NJ. Sever was wired to that
effect by the authorities and had the
bo6y shipped to the family home at
Clinton, Mo. The body was too badly
disfigured for Identification and the
funeral was carried out without the
sorrowing family being positive the
dead man was their relative.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
RIGHT TO RAISE RATES.
Roosevelt Says just as Fair to Raise
as to Lower Rates.

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. in an
editorial in the Outlook, discusses the
petition of the eastern railroads for
an increase in freight rates. Colonel
Roosevelt does not express an opinion
regarding the merits of the case, but
says the interstate commerce commits
sion is called upon to perform a very
important function.
1t is just as much the duty of the
commission to permit rates to be
raised when the raise is justifiable as
to require them to be lowered if the
lowering is justifiable." he says. THE
commission is created precisely be-
cause this is the kind of work it can
and ought to do. and the kind of
work that no legislative body could
with wisdom perform.
The public can be well served and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
ON JOB IL YEARS.
Same Kansas Printer Gets Out Masonic
Annual Al Times

Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. al. c.
ketcheson has just completed printing
the forty-seventh annual report of the
proceedings of the grand lodge of
Kansas MasOns. The report makes a
volume about an inch and a quarter
thick and from an artistic and me-
chanical standpoint is perfect. The
job was so pleasing to the grand secre-
tary that he sent Mr.. Ketcheson a
com plimentary letter.
The interesting part of it is that Mr..
Ketcheson has printed this report each
year for Il years. He told Of the
methods used when he printed the
first report, as compared with the
present time when the monotype and
latest improved printing machinery is
used to produce the book.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02

watch, to look over the starboard quarter.
He was amazed to see within distance
of less than a quarter of a mile a school
of porpoises and a whale fleeing from a
tremendously large sinuous monster. Capt.
Miller master of the Dimboola, and the
Marconi operator had their attention
drawn to the sight, and they at once
turned their glasses on the remarkable
spectacle. Capt. Miller says the serpent
was at least 80 feet long, was of the color
of a brown seal, and had a head between
the size of a whale and a porpo!se, and
it's tail was of the exaggerated fish va
riety It alternately reared its head and
ducked it under the waves. Presently the
whole contingent of big fish was lost to
view.
Capt. Miller has made sketch of what
he remembered of the sight, and he ask
ed other passengers to do the same. 1t is
remarkable how the sketches coincide.
The serpent is revealed in much the
same Chinese dragon form as it has been
depicted in other parts of the world
Christchurch IN. ~ cable to New York
Sun.
Se.-complacency is optimism with the
I0rrolx
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02

the wage-workers can be well paid
only if the railway is successful, that
is, if there is such certainty of rea-
sonable dividends as to make invest
ors content, and therefore willing and
DESTROYS to invest in further develop
ments and enterprises. 1t must be q
cardinal principle in dealing with
honestly built and wisely managed
railways that the investor, the share
holder, is just as much entitled to
protection as is the wage-worker, the
shipper or the representatives of the
general public"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
MAY HOLD COMPANY c.
Garden City Company May Be Sent to
Mexican Border.

Garden City, Kan. Aug. 2.-Word
has been received here from Fort
Riley that it is problematical when
Company c, Second regiment *. n. G.,
will be allowed to return home. There
is a good chance it will be held in
camp there till the Mexican trouble
is settled, and possibly may be called
into service on the border. The local
company has good standing with the
regimental officers and relatives of the
members here are greatly worried for
fear it will be called into field service
in case of intervention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
Officials of New Management.

Appointments incident to placing
under one operative management the
Denver & Rio Grande and Western
Pacific railroads have been an
nounced in San Francisco as follows:
Frank A. WadTeigh, passenger trait
fic manager, with offices at Denver;
e l.. Lomax, assistant passenger traf-
tic manager, with offices at San Fran
cisco; J. NJ. Johnson, vice president
in charge of traffic, with offices at
St. Louis, Mo-: A. S. Hughes, general
traffic manager, with offices at Den
Yer, and H. NJ. Adams, freight tref-
fic manager, with offices in San
Francisco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
County superintendent to Meet.

Manhattan, Kan, Aug. "a meet
ing of the county school superintend-
ents is scheduled for August and Z
at Manhattan. The meetings will be
held at the college. There will be a
number of interesting lectures and
some of these will be of interest to
others besides the superintendent.
The meetings will be open to all. Miss
Hannah Wetzig said today that she
had not been fully informed as to ar
rangements. but programs will be
given out later
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-02
REPAINTING MOTOR CAR.
Allen County Sheriff Found Stolen
Property in Missouri.

lola, Kan, Aug. AFTER a chase
of nearly a morning, Sheriff Hoover
Kerr yesterday located the seven pas
senger Buick touring car stolen from
John Copening in this city July 6, and
arrested a man alleged to be one of
the thieves. The car was found in
the woods near Oregon. Mo-, last
evening, where it was being repainted.
The car was a new one.