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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
BURLINGTON TRAIN AUDITING.
| Conductors Will Not Take Tickets
Hereafter Is Rule.

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 2.-The Bur
lington has installed new system OF
train auditing on the entire system,
doing away with auditors who take
the place of the conductor in collecting
tickets and running the revenue de-
partment of passenger trains. me
company will put on auditors VINO VIII
get on trains wherever they may be,
make a check of the number of pas
sengers, count the cash the conductor
has collected, inspect tickets and make
a report to the general auditor while
on the train. copy of this report
must be handed to the conductor be-
fore the auditor leaves the train. He
may leave the train at the next station
and board the next train that comes
along.
The conductor may ask a recount of
his passengers, and he and the auditor
will then make a count OF the paSSen-
gers together.
This is practically the system en-
ployed in auditing the accounts of sta
ton agents. An auditor drops off a
train at a station. asks the agent for
his cash drawer keys and at once be-
gins auditing his accounts. The agent
has no notice of his coming and the
conductor will have none.
To make this effective some changes
in ticket forms will be made. Circu-
lars dealing at length with the new
plan of auditing have been issued and
conductors are now familiarizing
themselves with the contents.
One result of this new plan will be
amount of ground, sometimes working
two or three trains in less time than
was possible to work one train under
the old plan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
RATE ORDER HELPS TOPEKA.
Advance on Butter and Eggs Suspend.
ed Until May 4, 1918.

Word has been received in this city
that the interstate commerce commits
sion has suspended until May 1, 1913,
proposed advances in rates for butter
and eggs in carloads and less than
carloads from Topeka to Mississippi
river crossings and stations in Illinois,
Indiana and Kentucky. The ad-
vances suspended amounted to IL
cents per 100 pounds in carloads, and
Is cents in less than carloads. Sew
eral railroads operating in this terri
tory are affected by the suspension.
The commission also suspended
from January 1 to March 10 proposed
advances in rates by the Minneapolis
& st. Louis railroad on flax tow, flax
moss and flax fiber from st. Paul,
Mimi, and other points in the north
west to st. Louis, East ST. Louis and
other destinations.
Another order by the commission
suspends from January 1 to May 1
proposed advances in rates for the
transportation of fresh meats and
packing house products from Okla
homa City to points in New Mexico.
Proposed increases in transportation
rates of certain commodities between
Missouri river points-Kansas City
and Omaha being typical-were sus-
pended by the interstate commerce
commission until May 1. The proposed
increases range from Is to As per
cent and would apply to canned goods,
furniture, malt and many other COM
modities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
BUSH TO HEAD BIG GROUP.
Trunk Lines of 1854 Miles Included
in Plans.

st. Louis. Jan. 2.-If plans of Gould lines
are contaminated President B. F. Bush,
of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain
who has his headquarters here, will be-
come the head of the largest railroad sys-
tenn the American continent, embrace
ing tranScontinental, Gulf and Appalachian
trunk lines, with Is, S4412 miles of rails
This system, if arranged, will take first
honors from the New York Central lines,
which have 1851 miles of track.
Effective January ], 1T is reported, Mr.
Bush will become president, in addition
to the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain of
the Denver and Rio Grande, Western Pa
ciffc, Texas and Pacific and the Inter-
national and Great Northern roads. Finley
J. Shepard, who is to marry Helen NJ.
Gould, and is assistant to President
Bush. will be the active representative of
the Gould interests in this new system.
1t is expected that Frank J. Gould and
E. T. Jeffrey will retire from active par
ticipation in the Gould lines!
Each subsidiary line will have its own
traffic manager, who will report to Vice
President johnson. George Gould is slat
ed for chairman of the board, while Vice
President Johnson will have two assist
ants, NJ. c. Markham, in st. Louis, and
E. H. Boyd, now assistant to the vice
president, with headquarters in Chicago.
All freight and passenger traffic man.
ayers will continue in their respective
positions.
It is also reported that President T. J.
Freeman, of the International and Great
Northern, who is also vice president of
the Texas and Pacific, will be vice preSi-
dent of the other roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
Hosr to Make
Better Cough Syrup than
You Can Buy
A Family Supply, Saving % and
Fully Guaranteed.

A full pint of cough syrup-as much
as you could buy for $2:50Ecan easily
be made at home. You will find nothing
that takes hold of an obstinate cough
more quickly, usually ending it inside OF
"a hours. Excellent, too. for Group,
whooping cough, sore lungs, asthma,
hoarseness and other throat troubles.
Mix one pint of granulated sugar with
IA pint of warm water, and stir Tor
minutes. Put 21a ounces of Pinex fifty
cents worthy in pint bottle, then add
the Sugar Syrup. 1t keeps perfectly.
Take a teaspoonful every one, two or
three hours.
This is just laxative enough to help
cure q cough. Also stimulates the appe-
tite, which is usually upset by cough.
The taste is pleasant.
The effect of pine and sugar syrup on
the inf1amed membranes is well known:
Pinex is the most valuable concentrated
compound of Norway white pine extract,
rich in guaiaco1 and all the natural
healing pine elements. Other prepara-
lions will not work in this formula.
The Pinex and Sugar Syrup recipe IS
now used by thousands of housewives
throughout the United States and Can
ada. The plan has been initiated, but
the old successful formula has never
been equaled.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, or
money promptly refunded, goes with this
recipe. Your druggist has Pinex, or Will
Pinex Co, Fl. Wayne. Ind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
SANTA FEE DENVER TERMINALS.
Purchases Land at Cost of $500, 900 for
improvements,

Denver, Jan. 2.-The Atchison, To-
peka & Santa F'e railroad has COM
pleted the purchase of land in Denver
at an estimated cost of 100000 for
the purpose of building into the heart
of the city and establishing its own
terminals.
1t proposes to spend an additional
$2,000,0O0 during 1913 IN constructing
tracks and freight houses in the bust
ness section of the city and in South
Denver and Englewood, and in i'm
proving its tracks between this city
and PUEBLO.
A corps of engineers has been at
work in the city for several months
preparing the plans and getting ready
for construction work.
The Santa Fee proposes to increase
its facilities in Denver in anticipation
of the completion of the Panama
canal and a changed condition which
promises to make Denver a big dis
tributing center for all the intermoun-
tain territory.
The company has been at work on
the plans for two years. In 1910 some
interests, identity unknown at the time
began purchasing land along Walnut
street west of the city hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
MANY ATK. S. A. C.
Greatest Crowd Ever Is Attend
ing Meeting This Week.
Will Be Over 1000
This Year.

Manhattan, Kan, Jan. 2-NearIy
eight hundred Kansas farm foIk-nen.
boys, women and girls-are learning TO
De better farmers and better farmers
wives at the Agricultural college this
week. That many delegates and visit
ors to the farmers state institute heard
the various programs arranged for
them Tuesday, the second day of the
five-day meeting. More are arriving on
every train. The total registration for
the week very likely will go above OoO
more than that of any previous wear
The first two sessions of the institute
were programs arranged for bows mar
ticularly. G. d. Steiner, in charge Of
boys clubs work al the college. and 7
Adams Puffer, boy worker of Ros-
ton, discussed ways of making life more
cheerful for the younger folk on the
farm. In addition to these special nroS
grams there will be stock judging. corn
judging and other features for bows
every day of the meeting
More than the usual interest is mani
Tested in the women and girls section
of the institute. At the first meeting
between 200 and 300 saw the demon
STATIONS and listened to the lectures
An interesting talk on millinery by Mrs
Bessie Birdsall, professor of domestic
art, and an address, 1.-THE Blue Rib
bon Home" by Miss Neale Knowles.
professor of home economics in the
Iowa State college, were of chief i'm
portance at this meeting.
In the gas engine section nearly two
hundred men and boys heard E. b.
Mccormick, dean of the engineering di-
vision, explain in simple terms the con-
struction of gas engines. This discus
sion, which opened the four-day insti-
tute in this branch of the big meeting,
prepared the hearers for the demon
STATIONS of motor cars and stationary
engines that are to follow.
An expert then explained the opera
ton of various types of engines and
told how to detect the cause when an
engine failed to run. Four days spent
in study and actual handling of the
many types of engines in the college
laboratory are sufficient to teach a
farmer how to operate any ordinary
gas engine, and how to do it most
economically.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02

Millions Can Be Saved by Fires
in Fields.
Farmers Ask Stubs to Name
sChinch Bug" Week.

Manhattan, Kan. Jan. 2.-If Cover
nor Stubs will issue the necessary
proclamation Kansas will have a "bug
killing week. some time next month.
Chinch bugs caused ten million dollars
worth of damage to crops in Kansas
this year. That's the estimate of bug
experts at the Kansas Agricultural
college. To avoid repetition of this
loss in 1913 the agricultural college
has asked Governor Stubs to issue
proclamation urging farmers to set
aside week next month to burn all
dead grass and weeds-the winter
hiding places of chinch bugs Here is
the letter sent to the governor TODAY
by j. w. McColloch, an assistant in
charge of chinch bug determination
at the college:
Governor w. r. Stubbs, Topeka:
1 enclose copy of proclamation
issued by Governor Cruce of Okla
homa, setting aside a week for the de-
Struction of chinch bugs in that state
Last summer chinch bugs injured
Kansas crops to the amount of ten
million dollars, and under favorable
conditions will do even more damage
during the next year. Considering this
fact 1 would like to suggest that you
issue such proclamation in Kansas.
Many farmers already are burning
their grass but the work is not general
and lacks cooperation. Fall and win
ter burning has been thoroughly test
ed by the Kansas Agricultural college
and it has been found that, on an av-
erage, SO per cent. of all bugs are de-
stroyed and the crops are uninjured
the following year. The only requisite
to make burning successful is thorough
and cooperative work. and it is for
this reason that I make this sugges-
ton. j. w. McCOLLOCH.
That chinch bugs could be combat
ted successfully by burning them in
their winter nIIarfGrg WAC first discnu-
cred by the Kansas Agricultural col
lege. Since this was learned, two
years ago, other states have taken up
this method of eradication and used
it with success. 1t is the only satisfac-
tory way to fight this pest. Governor
Cruce of Oklahoma has designated, by
proclamation, the week beginning De-
cember 80 as bug killing week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
BIG GOLD OUTPUT.
An Increase of $4,000 Over the
Previous Year.

Washington, Jan. 2.-The worlds
production of gold during 1912 was
s5,5OO,0O0 greater than in 1911, the
total having been $465,O00,000, ac-
cording to a preliminary estimate an
nounced by George E. Roberts, di-
rector of the mint. Gold production
in the United States amounted to $751;
6S5,160, compared with s96,S90,0 600
in 1911. California led with s19, 1885,
1856; Colorado was second with S1S,-
1910 Alaska third with S17,39S,-
$40; Nevada fourth with s13,331. $50,
and South Dakota fifth with
S7,795,6SO.
OF the worlds production, the
Transvaal and Rhodesia made a gain
of about s2O.00O,000 and Canada
gained nearly 100000. The United
States, Mexico and Austria lasia lost
about S16,000,000 and in the rest of
the world the production was about
what it was last year.
The production of silver in the
United States during 1912 amounted
to 62,369,974 fine ounces, compared
with 60,399,40O fine ounces in 1911.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
RAILROAD NEWS
Ed Howe Gives His Ideas on
American RaiIrOading.
Believes Government Should
Encourage Institutions.
ANNOY BIG BUSINESS HERE
Kansas Writer Says Treatment
of Lines Is Wrong.
Other Items of Interest in the
Traffic World.

In a recent article in the Railway
Record Ed Howe of Kansas and Atch-
ison fame gives his ideas on the re-
lationship between the American gov
eminent and the railroads. The Wen
known writer says that the federal
authorities should encourage its big
institutions-he cites foreign exam
pies.
The article in part reads:
q am not alone in the opinion that
the United States government should
not only encourage. but assist, its Dig
institutions. The German government
does this. and whatever you read, you
see a reference to the marvellous IN
dustrial development of Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm visited Essen on the
occasion of the centenary of the krupp
steel works, and in his speeches. lald
emphasis upon the fact that the mar
velous industrial development and COM
mercial expansion of Germany were
due to the cooperation of government
and industry to that end. The Krupp
Steel company is an excellent example
of Big Business: it employs 10000 men,
and pays one of it's owners pront VI
s million dollars q year.
I'm the United States, the govern
ment spends millions not in encourag-
ing useful big business, but in need
lesslV annoying it.
I'm Hearst's magazine for September,
the financial editor advised his readers
against buying railroad bonds, because
of legislation unfriendly to railroads
and increasing cost of railroad opera
ton, owing to government lnterfer-
ence The railroads are prosecuted not
only by the nation, but by every state
through which they pass; in every
town where they have a station they
find unnecessary ordinances which re-
suit in unnecessary expense and trou-
Tn,
suits against railroads which are pal
pable blackmail. and which would not
have been brought were public sentl-
ment as fair as it should be. This un-
necessary persecution of railroads does
not benefit the people; it actually IN
lures them, financially as we'll as NOR
ally Whatever is fair the people
might have from the railroads without
the enormous middleman's profit to
black leg politicians, black leg legisla-
tors, black leg lawyers and black leg
litigants What we call our public
policy toward corporations is really
an aid to crooks of one kind and an
other"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
MILO MAIZE THE CROP.
Following Coburn's Advice Helps
Western Kansas Farmers.

Syracuse, Kan, Jan. 2-Following
the advice of Secretary F. D. Coburn,
of the state board of agriculture, the
farmers of the western third of Kan
sas have taken to milo maize as the
bumper crop. Two years ago when hot
winds and drouth scorched this sec
ton the farmers who raised milo maize
were the only ones who could feed their
stock through the following severe win
ter. Last year ten of the extreme
western counties produced over 10000
of the states production of 254, 900 tons
of this crop. The effect of this large
production on the feed shortage during
last winters billiards. was pleasing
and the acreage is much larger this
season. The crop this year will break
all records and farmers plan to raise
more than ever next season. Some
stands this year were to 10 feet high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
ACCUSE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Sixteen Men Indicted on Charge OF
MaUSIaughteF.

Jndianapolis, JAN 2-Sixteen Off
Gals and directors of the CINCINNATI
Hamilton & Dayton railroad, and TWO
trainmen were indicted on charges OF
involuntary manslaughter by the Mar
ion county grand jury, in connectlon
with the investigation OF the wreck on
the road in a suburb on November 10
Sixteen persons were killed when a
passenger train ran into an open
switch and collided with a freight
train Those indicted were:
Daniel Willard, president.
George F. Randolph, vice president
George NJ Shriver, second vice
president, Baltimore.
w. C. Loree. Cincinnati, general
manager.
H. B. Voorhees,, Cincinnati. general
r. B. White, Indianapolis, division
superintendent.
o. G. Murray. George W.: Perkins.
L. F. Loree, H. p DAWSON FREDERICK
con, F. d. Underwood, Harry Bronner
and Norman B. Ream. officials of the
railroad.
Carl Gross. Indianapolis, brakeman
on the freight train.
Willis York, Indianapolis, engineer
on the freight train.
Division superintendent White was
out of the city last night on an in
there was no one to give out any state
ment from Mr.. White or any other
members of the board.
The Indictment of the roads Off
Gals, according to States Attorney
Baker, connects them with the death
of sixteen wreck victims by reason of
the fact that incompetent men were
employed. Local company officials
and the county coroner placed the
blame for the accident upon mem
berS of the train crew, charging open
violation of the roads rules and or
ders. Upon these facts the grand jury
based its charges that the officers and
directors of the DAD were responsible
directly for the employment of train
men and responsible indirectly for the
wreck and deaths
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
RAILROADS BLAMED FOR WRECK
Officials and Employees Charged With
ManSlaughter.

Bridgeport, Conn, jan 2.-Vice President
Henry J. Horn, General Manager Ben
jamin r. Pollock and Division Superin-
tendent Charles N. Woodward of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
way were arrested on bench warrants
here charged with manslaughter in con-
nection with the wreck of the Springfield
express at Westport on october 8, in
which seven persons were killed. The
warrants sworn out by States Attorney
Stiles Judson, charge the men named in
them with having caused the death of
lone Jane Doe by 'wilfully and felon-
iously'' choking, suffocating and burning
her in railroad car at Westport on the
date mentioned. It is further charged
that the accident was due to the excessive
speed at which the train was being run.
Indianapolis, JAN Earl Gross, a
brakeman, and several others, including,
it was intimated some high officials of
the road were charged with manslaughter
in indictments found against them by the
Marion county grand jury which held
them responsible for the Cincinnati, Ham
tlton and Dayton wreck at Irvington No
vember Is, in which sixteen persons were
killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
MISLEADING REPORTS
Regarding Denver Gateway Tie-Up |
Affects the Northwest.

Affects the Northwest.
st. Louis, Jan. Am official of
the Union Pacific railroad says that an
incorrect Interpretation was placed
in western dispatches upon the inten-
ton of the company to close the Dem
Yer gateway on January to the Atch-
ison, Burlington, Missouri Pacific and
Rock Island with respect to traffic east
of Missouri river points for certain
destinations west of Denver. He ex-
plains that the ruling will apply only to
traffic east of the river and bound for
the northwest, and which will be
handled by the Oregon Short Line and
Oregon Railroad & Navigation COM
California points. Neither will it apply
to traffic originating at points between
the Missouri river and Denver. This
tariff will be handled by the respective
lines as heretofore.
Furthermore, the official says that
the order will not result in any higher
rates or in any changes in rates or
disadvantages to the shipper. The sole
purpose of closing the gateway, as al
ready outlined is to secure for the
Union Pacific the through haul between
the Missouri river and Denver on trafflc
originating east of the river but Wnlcn
has been delivered to the Union "a
cific at Denver by lines competing with
it between the Missouri river and that
point. Under the new arrangements
those lines will deliver traffic designed
for points on the Oregon Railroad q
Navigation and Oregon Short Line at
Missouri river points instead of at Den
yer.
The Union. Pacific official says FUR
thermore that there is no ground for
assuming, as indicated in western dls-
patches, that this action on the part OF
his company will result in a war pc
tween the Union Pacific and the four
lines that will be directly affected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
RUNS CAR OFF BRIDGE
One Woman Occupant Is Killed
Three Other Persons Hurt

Denver, Jan. I'm an effort to
avoid driving his automobile over what
he believed to be the body of a man
Charles K. Cook, wealthy merchant
OF Denver, steered his machine into
the railing of bridge over Dry creek,
seven miles south of Denver and the
car with it's passengers was hurled into
the stream, instantly killing Mrs.
Juanita Barrows and fatally injuring
Mrs. Charles E. Brown occupants of
the car. Cook and Edward c. Soetje,
a prominent politician of this state,
VINO was also in the car, were less
seriously injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
Drives ON A Terror.

The chief executioner of death in the
winter and spring months is pneumonia.
Its advance agents are colds and grip. In
any attack by one of these maIadies no
time should be lost in taking the best
medicine obtainable to drive IL of. Count
less thousands have found this to be DR..
Kings New Discovery. MY husband be-
lieves it has kept him from having pneu-
monia three or four times" writes Mrs.
George w. Place Rawsonville. VT. land
for coughs, colds and Group we hayo
never found it's equal" Guaranteed for
all bronchial affections. Price so cts and
S1.00. Trial bottle free at Campbell Drug
Co Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-02
TX. est. LOUIS ELECTRIC.
Contract Awarded for Grading and
Construction of Entire Line.

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. at was an
Kansas City Electric railway that a con-
tract had been awarded for the grading
and construction of the entire line from
Kansas City to St. Louis. National Co.
tracing Corporation of Norfolk, Va. re-
ceived the contract. J. E. Cole of Norfo 1,
Is president Of the construction company
and NJ. NJ. Parker of Washington vice
president.
The AMOUNT of the capital stock of tie
not made public. The St. Louis & kansas
City railway, according to the plans or
the company, is to be a double track road
across the state, with heavy railroad
equipment. The promoters expect 10
operate express. passenger and freight
trains by electricity between Kansas CIV
and st. Louis.
While the route has not been deter