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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
R. |. HAS A RICH TERRITORY
Is Mostly Agricultural, But Raw
Material Is Also Produced.

The Rock Island is particularly
fortunate in reaching a great territory
producing a big percentage of the real
actual necessities of life. usually
grouped under twenty heads. In addi-
ton there are many commercial neces-
stiles, or raw material, originating in
that company's territory. such as lum-
Der, coal, oil, gas, clays and many use
full and valuable minerals. Generally
speaking, however, the Rock Island s
territory is one of agriculture which
is the real backbone of all prosperity.
Figures furnished by the United
States agricultural authorities show
that in the Rock Island states there
are produced:
One hundred per cent of all cane
sugar raised in America.
Ninety-six per cent of all grain
sorghums
Eighty-one per cent Of all rice
SiXty-three per cent of all corn.
Sixty per cent of all oats.
Fifty-nine per cent of all WHEAT.
Fifty-seven per cent of all cotton.
Fifty-seven per cent of all mules.
F'ifty-five per cent of all beef cattle.
Fifty-three per cent of all hogs.
Fifty-three per cent of all horses.
Fifty-one per cent of all poultry.
Fifty-one per cent of all barley.
Forty-two per cent of all dairy
cattle.
Thirty-five per cent of all beet
sugar.
Thirty-five per cent of all rye.
Thirty-one per cent of all sheep.
Twenty-four per cent of all Irish
Dotatoes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
ov. 2+Baker university at Ottawa
BETHANY TEAM HARD HIT
June Ordinations Took Pep Out of
Grid Squad at Lindsborg.

Iindsborg, Kan, Sept. 25.-Graduat-
ing exercises last June took most of
the pep" out of the prospects of the
current football season for Bethany
college. The boys are back chasing
the pigskin, but there are only four
former team men in the squad.
This years season will open on the
home field with a game with Friends
university of Wichita. The Quakers
have much the odds in the prospects,
taking into consideration last years
score of 80 to 0 in their favor. by a
wide margin the worst defeat for the
home boys of the season.
A fair sized squad is on the field
every afternoon, but there is not a
great deal of new material. Appar-
entity Director Deere. Coach G. C.
Omar and Capt. Vern Olson are up
against the proposition of building up
a brand new machine largely out of
material that was in course of develop
ment in last years squad and second
team. The schedule of this season
practically duplicates that of last year,
the only new team to be played being
the Chilocco Indians. The schedule:
Oct @1-Friends university at Lindsborg.
Oct. 7-Fairmount at Wichita.
Oct. 14-Sterling college at Sterling.
Oct. 29-Chilocco Indians at Lindsborg.
Nov. Hays State Normal at Hays.
Nov. 11-McPherson college at Lindsborg.
Nov. T-Southwestern college at Lins-
borg.
Nov. 24-Kansas Wesleyan at sanna.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
double in wheat
Santa Fe Handled 1897 Cars
From July I to Sept. IS.
Eeight Traffic in General
Slowly on Increase.

Altho shipments are showing some
ecrease from what they were during
uly and August, the Santa Fe re-
orts that the wheat movement con-
lnues heavy and that all kinds of
astbound freight traffic is heavier
han it was at this time last year.
Business in many commodities is pick
ing up but as yet there is not a nor
NAL freight movement to the west and
as a result many cars are being haul
ed back empty.
Figures in the office of J. r.
Koontz, assistant freight traffic man
ager, show that the Santa Fe handled
total of 43,977 cars of wheat dur
ing the period from July to Septem-
Der IS, inclusive, as compared with
2,411 cars during the corresponding
period in 1920, or an increase OF a.
566 cars. Practically all of the wheat
went to gulf points for export.
Other figures released by KoontZ
show that from November 1, 1920 up
20 and include September IS, the
Santa Fe system handled a total of
1886 carloads of refrigerator freight
as against 71,62S carloads from Mo-
vember 1, 1919 to September IS, 1920.
This is the refrigerator stuff that was
from connections.
With the approach of winter the
coal movement is becoming more
heavy and the shipment of sugar beets
is on in western Kansas and eastern
Colorado. 1t is a short haul, how
ever, that the railroads get out of the
sugar beets as refineries are located
within the district. Besides sugar
beets will not stand too much hauling
which IS the reason that many laterals
have been constructed by the rail-
reads in the beet territory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
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At Aurora-Pal Moore, of Chicago, won a
1O-round battle with Midget Smith, New
York bantamweight. Moore led in every
round of the ten.
At Pawhuska, OkIa.-Texas Tate, of
Ralston, Okla knocked out Bill Lang, of
Minneapolis in the third round of a sched-
uIed 12-round bout here last night.
New York-Johnny Buff, 80 and the
daddy of a family Of three children. is a
two-ply fistic champion today. Buff en-
tered the ring with Pete Herman in the
opening show of the season at Madison
Square Garden and came out of it with
the bantamweight championship, thanks to
judges decision at the end of 15-rounds.
Buff had previously captured the Amer
lean flyweight title and holds the Rick
ard belt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
RAmRoADING IN AN EARLY DAY
At Ono Time Horses and Engines
Were Used on Same Track

were OSeO on Same Track.
Certain of the regulations in force
on the earlier railways built in Penn
sylvania read very queerly in these
opened the Philadelphia and Column
bus railway, the theory was that the
state furnish the roadway and that
one who pleased could furnish his
own vehicle and motive power, and
use the railway whenever he wished
by paying the state tolls for its use,
just as the turnpikes of the day were
used.
1t was soon discovered, however,
that a certain character Of vehicle
was needed, and that rules and regu-
lations as to times and manners of
using the railways were absolutely ne
cessary to effect their successful OPP
Grafton. Here are some adopted by
the canal commission for the regula-
ton of the railway, which may be
of interest:
Section go. No car shall carry a
greater load than three tons on the
Columbia and Philadelphia railway,
nor more than three and one-half
tons on the Portage railway. nor shall
any burden car travel at a greater
| speed than five miles per hour. unless
| the car body and load shall be sup
ported on good steel springs.
| Section 10S. 1t shall be the duty
of the conductors of cars moving with
less speed than the railways, upon
| notice by ringing a bell, blowing a
horn or otherwise, of the approach OF
a locomotive or other cars moving
| in the same direction at q greater
1 speed, to proceed with all possible
dispatch to the first switch in the
course of their passage. and pass of
said track until said locomotive en-
CINE or other cars moving at a greater
speed can pass by. The conductors O.
| the slower cars are directed to oper
and close the switches so as to leave
them in proper order. Any person
who shall refuse or neglect to compl!
with the provisions of this regulation
shall, for every offense, forfeit anC
pay the sum of ten dollars
It must have been a very interest
ing sight, indeed, when the horse an(
the 'lomotive engine" were used in
discriminatory on the same track. ant
were struggling for supremacy as tn
future motive power of our railway
and the approach of a locomotive wa
heralded by the footing Of a horn
Even at that time the right of wa,
was given to the fast horse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
MARYSVILLE VS.. SANTA FE
Special Train Chartered to Bring Fans
Her2 Sunday.

Marysville fans think so much of
their baseball team that they have
chartered a special train to bring them
to Topeka Sunday for the game with
the Santa Fe team at Western League
park. The train will leave Marysville
at o'clock in the morning and will
arrive at Topeka at HAS o'clock, re-
turning after the game, leaving here
at Z o'clock in the evening.
The game Sunday should be one of
the hardest games Cap Wells and his
bunch have encountered this season.
The Marysville team is managed by
Tom Blodgett,- a former big league
hurler, who in a game earlier in the
season gave the railroaders the only
taste of whitewash they have had this
season.
Seitz probably will be the pitching
choice of Manager Wells. The game
will be called at 3:15 o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
q. p. HAS NEW DINING CARS.
Sockets for Electrical Cooking De-
vices Convenient to Each Table.

The Union Pacific recently installed
fourteen new dining cars to conform
with the high standard of service on
that road. Each car seats thirty-six
people, six more than the older dining
cars. The cars are all steel, and each
is eighty-three feet long, weighing
eighty tons. The interior is finished
in natural mahongany. a golden
brown with a slight trace OF cherry
predominating. Chairs and tables
match the woodwork, the former be-
ing upholstered in genuine leather.
gray-green in color. Curtains, hang
ings and carpets are in a pleasing
shade of green. The deck is finished
in ivory.
Electric current is supplied by stor-
age battery charged by the axle de-
vice. In emergency it IS possible to
switch to the train line or to the stor-
age system of an adjoining car. Sock
cts for electric cooking devices are
convenient to each table. The man
agement of the Union Pacific has
done its best to give their patrons the
highest class service that money can
procure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
OTTWA HAS VET TEAM
Seven Letter Men on 1921 Squad
-Four OF Them ''Backs."

Ottawa Kan. Sept 24.-With seven
letter men four of them backs again
on the football practice field Compel
ing for positions on the 1921 eleven,
and forty other youths eager to make
the team, many OF them having
proven their metal on high school
teams, Ottawa University is starting
off with the best prospects for sue
cessful football season it has had in
several years. This is the belief of
r. Z. Brannan, athletic director, and
Capt. Clyde Moffett.
The Ottawans may have a game this
month, but the first regular game on
their schedule now is with the En-
poria State Normals on October on
the home field. The contest promises
to be an interesting one in view of
the results of last years contest be-
tween the two teams was almost an
even break, the Ottawa team winning
by one goal kick-14 to 10.
Letter men back this year, each of
whom has been on the team two
years, are: Swinehart, tackle; O..
D. Wolgast, H. Brannaman, Captain
Moffett and ". Cramer, back field
men.
The Baptists will play four games
on the home field and four away from
home. The schedule follows:
oct. 7-Kansas State Normal at Ottawa.
Oct. 21-St. Marys college at St. Marys.
Oct. 2S-College of Emporia at Emporia
Nov.-4Pittsburg Normal at Pittsburg.
Nov. 11-Frtends university at Ottawa.
(tentative)
Nov. 24-Baker university at Ottawa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
RUSSIAN ROADS IN BAD WAY.
Unless Large Repairs Are Made Soon
Many Lines Will Be Closed.


Tie United States commerce reports
stat that out of total of 1906 To-
com,tives in good condition in Russia
befOe the war, there are at present
from $500 to 1850 reported in work
ing rider by different authorities, or
a derease of motive power by so to
rs pr cent. OF that number approx
Tnatty 1000 are idle owing to lack of
fuel Serviceable cars are reported at
fror 10000 to $4,000, or a decrease
of 4bm As to 10 per cent of the pre-
warnumber. The roadbeds are re
pond in very bad condition, and if
lart repairs are not made in the next
fevmonths considerable sections viii
hat to be closed to traffic. Accord
infto the latest estimate at least
100000 ties must be replaced and
tn present program calls for only
$4,000 requirements. A consider
ae mileage of branch lines has been
rhoved and used for repair material.
Fhe fuel situation is very serious in
pssia. Cessation in production OF
al by so per cent and the deteriora-
bn of the mines has forced the rail-
avs to depend much more upon
FOOD Such wood must come from
he forests of northern Russia, and the
maui is too long for supply to southern
Russia railways. An effort has been
made to change the locomotives on
the southern railways into oil burners,
but the gradual decline of oil produc-
ton has limited this transformation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
KEEP DAILY TAB ON CARS
Telegraph Keeps the Santa Fe Sup
Piled With This Information.


Keeping tab of the cars on its sys-
tenn and the amount OF freight that is
being moved is no small Job for the
Santa Fe, yet figures are compiled
daily by the traffic department show
ing every detail of that branch OF the
company's business.
Whenever J. r. Koontz, assistant
freight traffic manger, wishes to
know anything on this subject, he
pushes a button and a second or two
later the information is laid before
him on a sheet of paper. Similar
reports are supplied daily to other
freight traffic managers as well as
the general managers.
The figures show the number OF
cars loaded, the number of empty,
and the number ordered on the COM
pany's lines each day, also the num-
Der unloaded and placed back into
service. The number of cars loaded
with the principal commodities such
as wheat, corn, livestock, coal, lum-
Der. oil, merchandise, and refrigerator
freight are also shown by the reports,
together with comparisons of other
days or weeks and corresponding
periods of the year before.
By glancing over the reports, the
officials know exactly the amount of
freight being hauled daily and know
each morning what the car situation
for that day or the near future is go
ing to be. The reports are a mass of
ordinary columns of figures and while
remarkable for their detail, are made
all the more unique by the fact that
they are made up from Geographic
reports coming from all over the sys-
tenn the night before and represent
the work of scores OF people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
BAKER GRID SEASON STARTS
Mcpherson Eleven at Baldwin Today
to Usher in 1921 Season.

Baldwin City, Kan, Sept. 24-When
the Mcpherson football aggregation
comes here today to open the gridiron
season with Baker, it will be the first
time the latter ever played the curtain
ra ser with~a conference opponent.
Heretofore Baker has played Haskell
or William Jewell, neither in the Kan
sas conference, as the seasons opener.
Coach Liston is not expecting an
easy game, altho his players are in the
pink of condition. OF the fifty men
who have been out daily for practice,
Coach Liston expects to put twenty
four in suits.
first athletic event to be held on
Bakers new field. The football field
was completed some weeks ago while
the cinder track will near completion
before a heavy frost arrives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
new CARD ON SANTA FE
Several Trains VIII Change Time Com
mencing October o.

AAChCIbS OCuODGT o.
The Santa Fe announces that it will
install a new time card, effective after
midnight October 9, which will change
Topeka, several others on the Ottawa
cutoff. and affecting westbound serv-
ice generally on the eastern lines No
eastbound trains are to be changed,
neither will the new card affect the
St. Joe branch out of this city.
California trains No. 1, known as
the Scout" and No. 9, known as the
Navajo" will leave Topeka ten min
utes later. and No. II, known as the
Ranger" and bound for Texas, will
depart fifteen minutes later under the
now schedule. No. l, now leaving at
1920 p. m, will leave at 1880 p. m.
No. 9, now leaving at 1850 p. M, Will
leave at 1910 a. m, and No. II, now
leaving at 1917 a. m, will leave al
1882 a. m.
Among the trains that will change
on the ottawa cutoff are No. IL, the
"Colorao Flyer" and No. 81, known
as the Missionary and which UP
train. No. II, now leaving Emporla
at 11:55 p. m, will leave there al
l11:5O D. m. under the new schedule
and No. 81, now leaving there at 2:15
p. m, will leave at 2:20 p m. Tnest
two trains ar often important connec'
lions from the north.
At the same time the Santa Fe viii
shorten the time and otherwise i'm.
prove its service between Tulsa anc
Kansas City. Train No. 210, now leav'
ing Tulsa at 1:45 p. m. and arriving
at Kansas City at 1910 p. M, will
under the new schedule, leave Tulsa
at 1 p. m. and arrive at Kansas City
at sos p. m, making connection there
with eastbound No. 2 for Chicago and
other eastern points.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
Big TEAMS ON GRID TODAY
Leading Football Squads of the East
Start the 1921 Season.

New York, Sept. 24.-Many of the
country's leading football teams
opened the season today.
Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Pennsyl-
vania, Penn State. Rutgers and West
Virginia, swung into action in the
east.
The outstanding games are: Car
negie Institute VS.. Thiel at Pittsburgh,
Centre VS.. Kentucky Wesleyan at DAN
Vile, Colgate VS.. st. Bonaventure at
Hamilton; Dartmouth vs.. Norwich at
Hanover; Harvard VS.. Middlebury and
Boston University at Cambridge.
Penn versus Delaware at Philadel-
phia; Penn State VS.. Lebanon Valley
at State college; Rutgers VS.. Ursinus
at New Brunswick; Syracuse VS.. Ho-
bart at Syracuse; West Virginia VS..
West Virginia Wesleyan at Fairmont.
Yale VS.. Bates at New Haven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
WATCHING The SCOREBOARD

Three doubles by Ruth and Hoyts fine
pitching landed the first game for the
Yahks against Cleveland.
Earl Hamilton, south paved the Phile
into submission at Pittsburgh, giving up
but four hits.
With a lineup filled with recruits, the
Cubs beat Boston
Judges single scored the wining run for
the Senators against Detroit in the night.
Heimack and Harris sounds like the
atrical team but these young men are mere
" two Athletic pitchers who humbled the
White Sox in doubleheader-
The Browns broke Joe Bushs winning
streak of nine straight games by taking the
first game of doubleheader. Boston won
the second game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
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NE[Z kGLAs.

National League.
New York at st. Louis.
Boston at Chicago.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh
American League.
st. Louis at Boston
Chicago at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at New York.
Detroit at Washington.
American Association.
Kansas City at Toledo.
Milwaukee at Columbus
Minneapolis at Indianapolis.
st. Paul at Louisville.
Western League.
Des Moines at Wichita
Omaha at Oklahoma City.
Sioux City at Joplin.
st. Joseph at Tulsa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24

American Association.
At Columbus, 4 Milwaukee, 5.
At Toledo, 6-3: Kansas City, SO.
At Louisville, 5; St. Paul, l..
At Indianapolis, 3; Minneapolis, 5.
Western League
At Wichits, Is; Des Moines, 4.
At Joplin o; Sioux City, 0. (Game called
in tenth account darkness.)
At Tulsa, II st. Joseph, 9.
At Oklahoma City, 8; Omaha, 3.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24

The Missouri Pacific has recently
added to it's equipment fifty locomo-
tives built by the American Locomo-
tive company. They include fifteen
six-wheel switches, twenty-five Mikado
type, five Pacific type and five Noun
tain type engines, none of which types
are new on that road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24

Two Union Pacific conductors. who
were well known on the Kansas di-
vision, died recently. They were w.
H. Armstrong and L. A. Decklmayer.
Each of these men had been in the
service of the company for many
years and were well known in Topeka.
Conductor Tom Cahill. another Union
Pacific conductor, also died recently
after thirty-eight years continuous
service on the Nebraska division.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24

The transcontinental railroad lines
have agreed on the advisability of
making important reductions in
freight rates on iron and steel prod
ucts from eastern points of manufac-
ture to the Pacific coast, and efforts
are being made to get the concurrence
of the lines east of Chicago to the
reductions so that they may be put
into operation on October 3, when the
new westbound transcontinental rates
necnrna effective
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24
Smith Center, II; Franklin, Neb., {

Smith Center, Kan, Sept. 24--The
local high school opened the football
season here Friday in hard game
with the heavy Franklin, Neb., Acad-
envy team, and won, II to 0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24

National League.
At Pittsburgh X. h Z;
Philadelphia 4
Batteries-Meadows and Heline; Hamil-
ton and Gooch.
At Chicago X, n. r.
Boston ............... ..'..'-'''', 3c
Chicago 80. 10 ~
Batteries - McQuillan, Coohey anu
O'Nein; Kaufman and Daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24

IN Holland all Christian names after
the first are taxed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24

F. z. Nipps, general agent for the
Missouri Pacific at Topeka, leaves to-
day on a vacation of two weeks. He
announces he will visit Chicago, De-
troit, st. Louis and a number Of other
points.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24

The Cincinnati Inquirer IN 1882 car
ried this item: THE Union Pacific
trains are making a little faster time
for fear the goats will come along
and eat the paper wheels
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-24

Tho an article has already appeared
in The State Journal this week, an
nouncing the arrival in Topeka of
Henry Salem HubbelPs fine gift to
Washburn college, his painting, THE
Orange Robe" nevertheless too much
attention cannot be called to the ac-
QUESTION of such a treasure by an in
stitution of our city. This is the sec
ond fine painting that Washburn COL
lege has obtained within a year. The
other was Chauncey F. RYDER
Deserted Farm" which was secured
by purchase.