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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
U. p. TO EXTEND LINE.
Authority Granted to Build Road Into
Nebraska and Wyoming.

Authority has been granted the
Union Pacific railroad by the inter-
state commerce commission to ex-
tend its line in SCOTS Bluff county,
Nebraska, and Goshen county, Wyom-
ing, with. the intention of ultimately
connecting with the main line of the
Union Pacific at Medicine Bow, Wyo-.
this forming a shorter and lower
grade line between Medicine Bow and
North Platte, than the present main
line This means an extension of
about thirty miles to the present
ira ckage of the branch line.
The reason for the authorization of
the line, it is stated in the decision OF
the commission. is not that the present
returns will justify it but that the
land thru which the new line will run.
is shortly to come under government
irrigation projects, and that with the
irrigation and the transportation fur
nished the future of the country justi-
fies the construction of the line.
The line is also regarded as desira-
BILE from the standpoint of the govern
ment in order to get material for the
irrigation construction work, to the
scene of the projects.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
NO CONTROL OVER ELECTRICS
Railway Labor Board Hands Down
Decision on Esch- Cummins Act.

Chicago. Dec. 1S.-The United
States railroad labor board handed
down decision today interpreting the
Esch- Cummins transportation act to
mean that the board does not have
jurisdiction over any interurban or
electric lines.
Appeals. from employees on various
electric lines, asking the board to hear
their grievances were denied
The decision affects every electric
interurban in the country and many
city transportation systems owned by
interurban companies.
Arguments in the case were heard
several months ago. Members of the
board stated at the time their belief
that. regardless of which side won
the matter would be appealed to the
United States supreme. court for inter-
pretation of the transportation act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
BIG WHEAT CROP IN ALBERTA.
Official Estimates Place Average at
IS Bushels to Acre.

25 Bushels to Acre.
Calgary, Alberta-Official estimates
from the provincial department of
agriculture place the wheat crop aver
age per acre in Alberta this year at
twenty-five bushels. The Edmonton
Journal, Analysing what this means,
declages that it represents total
wheat yield for the province of 10000
O00 bushels. This is 100000 bushels
in excess of the highest previous esti-
mate, and is 100000 bushels more
than the previous high year, 1915. The
oats yield, so the Journal figures, will
be 100000. 600 bushels. A considerable
proportion of these grains are being
held by the Alberta farmers for higher
prices. They believe that when the
ent stores, mostly grains bought dur
ing the war. prices will go up. This
condition is expected to develop next
February or March.
At the sessions of the United Farm
ers of Alberta, at Medicine Hat this
week, H. w. Wood, the president, an
nounced that central selling agency
for the disposal of wheat was being
established in western Canada. Every
farmer present went on record as
favoring this system, which means the
pooling of sales and of profits. The
one condition is that the farmer sign
an ironclad contract extending over a
term of years to remain in the pool.
This is tho system followed in Califor-
mia and Oregon.
1t is estimated by the department
Of agriculture that the potato yield
in Alberta this year will total 1900, 600
bushels. The area in crop was re-
ported at about $4,000 acres and the
average yield per acre 125 bushels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
NO HOUSING SHORTAGE.
California Has Plenty of Room for
Tourists, Reports Say.

CALIFORNIA t1S 9Aenty Oh nOOHl IUE
Tourists, Reports Say.
The housing situation in California
is not so severe as some of the reports
which have been circulated indicate,
according to a special investigation
which was carried out by the passenger
and advertising departments of the
Santa fe.
Reports had been current that on
account of the shortage of hotel and
housing facilities in California. the
tourists We're to be housed in army
tents erected in Exposition park at Los
Angeles =
This is vigorously denied by the
Chamber OF Commerce of Los Angeles.
The city commission of Los Angeles.
it was stated, had considered the cree
ton of the tents because there has eX-
listed shortage of small, cheap houses
which could be rented for the entire
w inter- by tourists at a low rate. But
the project, it is stated, has been
abandoned.
There are more than 500 furnished
rooms vacant and ready for occupancy
in the city at the present time, it is
stated, and the apartment, light house
keeping rooms and hotel situation is
practically the same.
Hotel men claim that the advance
reservations of hotel rooms which
have been made up to the present time
are SO per cent less than the reserva-
tions which had been made at the
same time last year
The business conditions in the east.
the Californians believe. are going to
cause a reduction in the number of
tourists who come to the Pacific coast
to spend the winter, and they are get
ting worried about it, because the
easterner and the middle westerner
are the source of income for the native
sons of the golden state. and they are
very welcome indeed out there.
For this reason the Californians
have been especially diligent to assist
the investigation carried out by the
Santa Fe. and to present the facts as
to the housing conditions in their state
in their true light.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
CHANGHIN RAILROAD SCHEDULE
Chicago & Great Western Changes
Time Out of Kansas City.

Several changes in the train service
of the Chicago & Great Western rail-
road out of Kansas City have been an
nounced for the benefit of the travel
ing public going to Iowa and other
northern points. Train No. 81 has
been returned to the schedule, and will
now leave Kansas City at O'Clock in
the morning, arriving at ST. Joseph at
11:21 o'clock; Des Moines at 5:15
O'Clock the same evening; Marshall
town at 1850 O'Clock; Waterloo at 9:4S
and Oelwein at II o'clock that night.
No change in the time of other trains
going to the same territory has been
announced
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
F. B. A. entertainment

The meeting of Topeka council No.
2, of F. 3. A. Monday evening, will be
followed by a social session for mem
bers and friends. The well known
May sisters will put on one of their
best entertainments. Members, come
and bring your friends.
MRS. w. E. BACON.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
SHORTAGE OF FUEL OIL.
Engines Running West of Field. Brit
ish Columbia, Will Burn Coal.

Montreal, Can, Dec. IA short
suited in the transformation of the
oil burning engines of the Canadian
Pacific in the Rockies into coal burn
ers- 1t is expected that by 1921 all
the engines running west of Field,
British Columbia, will be burning coal
instead of OIL
The same factor has influenced tbe
conversion of the Canadian Pacific
steamers plying out of British Co
lumbia ports into coal burners. The
coastwise steamers formerly burned oil
exclusively
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
sowLE GETS PROMOTION.
He Is Appointed Assistant Auditor
for Coast Lines

He Is Appointed Assistant Auditor
for Coast Lines
c. w. Sowle, assistant auditor of dis
bursem ents for the Santa Fe at To-
peka, has been appointed assistant au-
ditor Of the Coast lines, with headquar-
tiers at Los Angeles. Sowle succeeds
A. J. Maxwell, formerly of Topeka.
who has entered the oil properties of
the company in California, and will be
succeeded in Topeka by Wilbur G.
Hunt, chief clerk in the disbursement
department.
Sowle has. been in the accounting
service of the road for twenty-six
years.
Hunt is the youngest official in the
disburs ng department, and has served
with the Santa Fe for the past seven
years. Glen o. Clark succeeds Hunt
as chief clerk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
FIRST XMAS CASUALTY REPORT.
Oklahoma University Coed Gets Taper
Too Near Hair-SeVcrcly Burned,

Norman, Okla, Dec. 1S.-Margaret
Bradbury Mountain View. is in the
University of Oklahoma infirmary to-
day nursing burns on the face, neck
and right hand sustained while acting
as Santa Claus at a Christmas party
Thursday night.
Physicians say her condition Is not
serious. A Christmas taper ignited her
hair while she was distributing pres
ents from a tree. arranged by a soror-
ity. Other cO-eds smothered her blaz-
ing clothes, and sustained minor in
iur.ies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
LABOR is SETTLING DOWN
Canadian Workmen Lose Less Time In
Labor Rows

Ottawa. Ontario.-The loss of time
in Canada thru industrial disputes was
greater during October than Septem-
Der, but much less than in October last
year, according to a Labor Department
return just issued. Last month 66, 556
working days were lost, in September
$500 days. and in October of 1919
the loss was 131, 1S7 DAYS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
MAINTAIN AUTO STAGE SERVICE.
Special Stop-Over Privileges for Tour
lists During Winter

Winter hotel and auto stage service
in the Yosemite National park will be
maintained turnout the year, it has
been announced thru the Union Pa.
cific bulletin. Special stop-over
privileges on transcontinental tickets
are being granted for the season, for
Yosemite park.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
BIG HOTEL BUSINESS.
California Rejoicing in Prospects of
Record Ycar

The hotel men of California are re-
Jolcing in the prospects of the biggest
year business in their history. An
nouncement is made in the current
issue of the Union Pacific Bulletin that
two Pasadena hotels. which are open
only during the winter season, have
set January l as their opening dates
The hotels Raymond and Huntington
as well as new Los Angeles hotel the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
Railroad Ne1us of Week
BY v. E. BUNDY.

given over to windows, and in addi-
ton to the natural daylight there is an
electric lighting system.
An auxiliary building 30x120 feet
contains office, locker, and lavatory
rooms and a fan heater room. There
are 158 white enameled wash basins
with hot and cold water and 400 lock-
ers. Fan heaters drive heated air thru
underground conduits to various parts
of the shops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
OPEN NEW REPAIR SHOPS.
Union Pacific Completes Building at
CHEYENNE. WyO

New locomotive repair shops have
recently been completed at Cheyenne,
Wyo.. by the Union Pacific. which
are among the best in the world The
new building is 195 feet by 40 feet,
and has runways for four twentyton
cranes and one 250-ton crane.
Fifty per cent of the wan space is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18

Ambassador. win open on January l.
The Hotel Green, at Pasadena, will not
open until January Is.
Reports of passenger officials that
there is a steady increase in the Cali
fornia passenger traffic seems to bear
out the optimism of the California
hotel men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
LAST SAILING OF YEAR.
Last Boat to Clear for Sea From
Montreal Was South African Cargo.

Montreal. Can, Dec. 1.-THE last
sailing for this year from Montreal &C.
Cured today. The river has now been
closed for navigation by ocean-going
steamers until next spring. The last
boat to clear for sea from Montreal
was a South African cargo boat. For
a week only daylight navigation of the
river has been permitted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
Masked Bandits Rob Trolley.

Morristown, N. j., Dec. 1S.-Two
masked bandits early today held up a
trolley car of the Morristown County
Traction company. operating between
this city and Elizabeth on Colonial
avenue near Summit, and obtained
about, $500 from the ten passengers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
Cards of Thanks

We wish to thank the lodges. friends
and their neighbors for kindness
shown during death and burial of our
lowing husband and father; also for
beautiful floral offerings
MRS. L. H. HEADLEE.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-14
CLEAN BASEBALL
TRIBUNAL WANTED
Men Above Question Desired
to Take Charge and Purge
Game of Evils.

Chicago.-Ropresentatives Of fouI
major league baseball clubs have start
ed movement designed to clean up
baseball forever" by taking control OF
the game out OF the hands Of men f.
nancially interested and placing it un.
der a civilian tribunal" to be com.
posed OF men "of unquestioned public
standing"
A letter was sent to every major
league club and dozens OF others in.
terested, asking their approval Of the
plan.
1t proposed that the national COM
mission be abolished because "in It's
present form 1t cannot be impartial"
and that In Its place there be a tri.
bunal whose members would receive
higher salaries than anyone now con.
nected with baseball. General Perish.
ing, Major.General Leonard Wood, for.
mer President William Howard Taft,
Senator Hiram Johnson, Judge X. NJ.
Lands and william G. McAdoo are
some Of the men proposed for the tri-
bunal, but the letter adds that none
has been approached,
The tribunal would be in absolute
charge Of all organized baseball
leagues, OF the players, the managers
and owners and league presidents and
It's decisions would be beyond appeal
or dispute.
The letter declared that such a plan
must be worked out Immediately II
baseball is to continue as the national
game and points out the gambling and
betting evils revealed in the past two
years.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-14
SPEEDY OVERTHROW
OF SOVIET FORECAST

London.-Complete overthrow of the
Russian soviet government as result
Of it's present perilous military and
economic situation, was forecast in
diplomatic circles here.
Under pressure from the Poles from
the west and General Wrangel on the
south, the Bolsheviki armies were re-
ported to be crumbling and In danger
Of utter collapse.
The morale Of the troops, according
to dispatches from Helsingfors, has
been shattered by repeated defeats and
mass meetings are being held on the
western front at which demands are
made for immediate peace.
The Poles since August Is have re-
gained about half the ground they
yielded before the Russian advance,
which began early in July and which
was only after soviet troops had hem
med Warsaw In on three sides.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-14
The PEOPLES FORUM
To The Editor of The
Vashon Island News Record :

knowing the aim Of your paper
is to work for the interest and
welfare Of Vashon- Maury as
whole, we solicit your aid in solv-
ing our transportation problem SO
as to bring the greatest good to
the greatest number. y
We may be mistaken in our I'M
derstanding Of the facts in the
case, and if we are, we shall be
glad to be set right in the matter.
AS we understand the situation,
Jour King County Commissioners
have subsidized boat with five
hundred dollars per month to run
Seattle to Harper III Kitsap coun-
| ty. This boat is to call at the
jnorth end ferry dock only, and
will accommodate foot passengers
ialOne as the approach to the dock
is impossible this winter by team
or autos.
We are also told that the ten
cent ferry tickets will be accepted
for fare as long as they last, and
that a large supply has been Sc
cured by prospective patrons Of
this boat.
We do not wish to seem to
criticise this arrangement except
that in this emergency it forces
1.-THE taxpayers to pay for a service
1 for limited number of private
individuals that ought to be more
Ievenly and widely distributed.
| The Virginia III which is now
serving the people Of the east side
jof NashOn-Maury, we are told,
H was offered a subsidy of one hun
| drcd and fifty dollars per month,
(which amounts to about five dol
lars per day-So small a sum that
the company was obliged to refuse
it and must remove the Virginia
from this important run.
We believe that both the Coun,
Ity Commissioners and the Super,
mtendent Of Water Transportat,
ton are doing their best to cut
down expenses, and we commend
them for this. We also believe
that if we, as island residents, car
agree as to the best policy they
| will gladly assist us to the best
If their ability.
We wish to ask if from the saw
ing of from two thousand five
hundred to three thousand dollars
per month made by Temporarily
laying off the Washington" il
would be a wider policy serving
the greater number of island tax
payers, to pay the five hundred
subsidy to the owners of the Vir
ginia III and make it possible fol
her to serve not only the Vashol
Heights residents, but also tn,
patrons Of the many other dock
Of the east side of Vashon ant
Marry as she is now doing.
These residents would gladl,
pay their thirty-fvc cents a tril
land thus do their share toward
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-14
BIG NAVY ADVOCATED
Chairman OF House Foreign Relations
Committee for Preparedness.

San Observation-Disclosures of the
American congressional party which
has been touring the Orient for the
last few months, arrived in San Fran
cisco aboard the United States army
transport Madawaska.
America must be prepared" was
the statement OF Congressman Porter
OF Pennsylvania, who is chairman of
the house foreign relations committee.
I'VE mus. build first line battleships;
we must recruit our navy to full
strength. Present conditions make it
imperative that we have a navy second
to none"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-14
Relief Money Squandered

Constantinople.-At the hearing Of
six Americans arrested on a charge
Of having defrauded the Near East
relief, Lieutenant Colonel Coombs,
director of the organization, admitted
that many expensive dinners to high
allied officers had been given with
money belonging to the Near East
relief He testified the arrangements
were made by Davis, one of the de-
PENDANTS, and that champagnes and
wines figured In the menus.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-14

paying for the accommodation af-
forded them.
1t is suggested that because
there is a ferry between Ellisport
and Portage, that ought to suffice
for the east side residents. What
the majority of us need is rea-
sonably moderate priced and ac-
cessible way to get to and from
Seattle.
The majority of us have no way
of reaching the docks but to walk.
We should have accessible docks.
Jitney hire is impossible except
for most urgent occasions, as the
prices are prohibitive.
| It does not seem to US economy
or good policy to abandon all the
county docks Of the east side Of
our two islands, and practically
maroon the hundreds of people
who have built their homes and
helped make the islands the gar
den spots they are.
If, as you suggested in your
excellent letter of last week, we
could get together and forget that
there is north or a south, an east
or a west, but that we are one big
family whose interests are identi-
cal, we could make perfect Eden
of our beautiful islands.
A few weeks ago a letter ap-
peared in your paper regarding
the safety of the boats named
Virginia.
The company owning these
boats we learn, has been operat-
ing them for the past ten years
and has never had an accident.
We have found the captains and
crew most accommodating and
courteous, and the boats as com
Portable as we can expect when
we consider the cost Of operating
and the income derived.
The following items secured
from the West Pass Transporta-
ton Company show the great ex-
pense of operating even so small
a boat as the Virginia III, and the
increase in expense since 1915:
Captains wages in 1915, $50
per month. now 5000.
Chief engineer wages in 1915,
800 per month, now $175.
Fireman's wages in 1915, $40
per month, now $75.
Cook s, $40 per month, now $75.
Deck hands, $40 per month";
now SIS.
Second deck hands, $40 per
month, now $75.
Total wages per month for six
men is $675.00. Board for six
men at average Of Acc per meal,
approximately $4,000. Crude oil
for fuel in 1915 was S5c per Dbl,
now $3.50. Rope cost in 1915 1912
cents per b., now 80 cents. Life
prcServers in 1915 were $1,000 per
do2., now $4,000. Paint in 1916
was $3.50 per gallon, now 1910
Other things have increased in
about the same proportion. III
1915 the fare was raised from 25c
to 35c.
One Of the many
II Anxious Islanders
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-14
Poles Capture $4,000 Reds.

characterization Pilsudski is at
the northern front personally com.
manding the drive which it is an
nounced has resulted in the complete
defeat OF lG Russian bolshevik divi-
slons. The staffs OF two bolshevik
armies, four divisions and several bri-
gades and regiments have been taken
prisoner Prisoners number $4,000.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-14

Washington. Pricecutting has
taken hold of the wholesale trade TO
an extent that soon must be felt sub
stantially in lower prices to consum
ers, according to the federal reserve
boards monthly business review.
Seven Killed In Attacks on Irish.
Belfast.-Officiul kilograms receiv.
ed at Dublin castle indicate that there
have been organized onsaughts
against the Irish constabulary and
that during the weekend seven have
been killed
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-03-25
RULES TO GOVERN CONTEST.

ALL ANSWERS MUST BE SENT N NO
LATER THAN FRIDAY EVENING. YOUR
ANSWER MUST BE ON a CARD OR
PIECE OF PAPER NOT LARGER THAN
AN ORDINARY POST CARD AND YOU
SHOULD WRITE ON THE CARD AS
FOLLOWS ONLY:
FIRST YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
SECOND, THE MISSPELLED WORD.
THIRD. THE NAME OF THE ADVER-
TISEMENT IN WHICH IT APPEARED.
THE MISSPELLED WORD CONTEST
APPLIES ONLY TO OUR CLASSIFIED
COLUMNS AT PRESENT ON PAGE :.
THE PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED EACH
WEEK To THREE SUCCESSFUL CON
TESTANTS
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-03-25

She was famous woman" be
cause she was a famous" inn that
served famous" men. That was
enough for the Mermaid. She was
named after an enchanting lady OF the
Vastly deep, who is woman to her
girdle and a fish to her feet. Her
figure was on the signbOard Of the
famous inn, in Friday street. London.
Pass with hasty glance the bar In
front-the parlOr behind of the black
ened roof and polished tableS-tap-
room on the left-lOw dOOrways, wind
ing passages-and you have come to
the inn parlor. This is the Mermaid
And the men sitting there? Ben JON
son, Fletcher, Beaumont, Carew,
Dome and-Shakespeare. Shake
speare is roaring over his dogs nose.
and Ben Jonson over his canary. Oh,
listen to the wit-combats between
Shakespeare and Ben Jonson! Mer'
maid, dear famous woman" why
we're you not a twin?
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-03-25
Help Wanted

WANTED-Board, room and bath in a
private family, by a refined gentleman.
Will eat most anything, and is very fond
Of children. Address B., care Herald. Al
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-03-25
CHARTER.

scribed, who declared that, ayailing them
selves of the provisions of the laws of
the State of Louisiana, relative to the or
ganization and formation of corporations.
and more particularly of Act No. 267 Of
the General Assembly Of the State OF
Louisiana, for the year 1914. they have
coyenanted and agreed and they do by
these presents covenant and agree, bind
and obligate themselves, as well as such
other persons as may hereafter become
associated with them, to form and consti-
tute a corporation and body polite in
law for the objects and purposes and I'M
der the agreements, conditions and stipu-
lations hereinafter set forth, to-wit:
ARTICLE The name, style and title
Of this corporation Is hereby declared to
be, "Weld-White Building, Inc.." and un-
der such name and title 1t shall have and