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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30

of the old timers had ranged the
country and fought the Indians in
the country thru which the stage
coach had formerly operated.
A delegation of the veterans ap-
pealed to Colonel Hudnall for per-
mission to go for another ride in the
old coach, and the permission was
readily accorded. A four-horse team
had been provided to haul the coach
about the fair grounds and the city,
and the veterans were accommodated
with seats inside it and on the box
for a triumphal procession around the
race track and thru the streets.
The veterans of the Indian wars
are Colonel misunderstanding at the
rear and sticking up" the coach and
veterans with a flintlock pistol which
belonged to Kit Carson-'Uncle jack
Lockwood, of Wichita, one of the
last surviving members of General
Clusters old command; James Tucker,
of Perry, Okla; ]. w. Marsh, of Route
81, Topeka: c. J. Phenis, of Okemo,
Okla: S. o. Miller. of Eureka, Kan;
James Grove, Quincy, Kan; and John
Kelley, adjutant of the G. A. R. post
of Wilmington. Del.
1.-The last time I came down from
the box of a stage COACH" Uncle Jack
Lockwood declared, II came down
at the command of a real bandit who
had two guns on me. 1 came down
and stayed down, and haven't been
on a stage coach since"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
7rainr1en on u. p. Had
Hard Times in Old DAYS
In 1867 Indians Derailed and Burned Train in Nebraska
-Lneran Already Scalped, Sat in Darkness and
Watched the Performance.

ging with it the tender and five cars.
including two flat cars loaded with
brick. The two flat cars were
catapulted clear over the locomotive.
and scattered their bricks forty feet
in advance; the box cars piled on top
of the locomotive and the mass caught
fire.
Fireman Roasted Alive.
Fireman Henshaw had been stuff
ing the fire box with wood. He was
thrown against the rudy furnace and
roasted alive. Engineer Bowers was
hurled thru the cab window: the
throttle handle cut his abdomen open,
and he sat amidst the debris holding
his entrails in with his fingers. The
delighted Indians pranced around the
funeral pyre, yelling and laughing and
now and then shooting into the ca
boose still on the rail. The saturnalia
was scarcely abated when. toward day.
light, the wretched Thompson had
crawled and staggered away to Willow
Island, fifteen miles west, arriving
with his rag of scalp in his hand. 1t
was presented some years later to the
Omaha Public Library Museum, where
it long was on exhibition in jar of
alcohol.
''Viewing it, people might try to
conJure up that scene, now fifty years
ago, witnessed by the scalp's original
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
He STARTS IN EARLY
Thirteen-Yea Boy Ran q
75-Horsepower Engine Thru
Harvest Season-Thinks He'll
Take Up Machinery.

Salina engineers think that over in
the neighboring county of Lincoln,
more specifically at Vesper. where
Union Pacific trains whistle before
they stop because Vesper only regis
tered 162 in the 1920 census count.
there lives the youngest engineer in
Kansas.
He doesn't sit behind the throttle
of a locomotive with an ever watch
full eye on the two parallel rails ahead,
not that kind of an engineer, but he
ran a 75-horse power engine which
pulled a tractor on his fathers farm.
His name is Henry 1. Flaherty and
he says he is thirteen years old.
When Henry asked for work this
last summer, and was permitted to
try his skill at running the powerful
engine. the Flaherty family predicted
that Henry wouldn't last a week. But
at the end of the first week Henry was
as strong on his job as he was when he
began.
He worked the entire twenty-five
days of the season and during the
more than three weeks nobody
touched the engine to make repairs
but the 1S-year-old engineer. The
engine was in operation every day of
the harvest season, Henry's father,
J. 1. Flaherty, says.
Managing repairs and upkeep on a
75-horse power steam engine is a
mans sized job. the father declares.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30

One Of the proudest municipal pos
sessions of the city of Las Animas,
Colo, is an ancient stage coach which
was once a means of Iocomotion for
the pioneers, operating on a western
Kansas division of the Santa Fe trail,
more than fifty years ago.
Recently the city bought the coach,
as relic of the days when Las Ami
mas was division point on the only
tranScontinental paSSenger-carrying
line in the United States.
The Santa Fe railroad, which had a
two-thirds-life-size model of the
Ginery Twitchell, one of the earliest
locomotives on the road, on exhibition
at the Hutchinson fair this fall, made
arrangements with the city to have
the old coach placed on exhibition at
the same fair. in company with its
immediate successor
Las Animas finally agreed to let
the precious coach be removed from
the city and taken to the Kansas
event But the city dads insisted that
a guardian be sent along with the
vehicle. for its safekeeping.
So Colonel E. D. Hudnall, OF Las
Animas, was appointed custodian of
the coach, and travelled with it into
Kansas. For several days the coach
attracted great attention at the fair.
and no one was more deeply inter
eSted than several veterans of Indian
wars of the United States. who were
encamped on the fair grounds Many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30

The following account of the first
attack by Indians resulting in the de-
railing of a railway train is taken
from Edwin L. Sabins' Building the
Pacific Railway" It describes a raid
| by Cheyenne Indians upon a Union
Pacific train at Plum Creek, about
| 230 miles west of Omaha, nearly two
years before the completion of the line.
''At dusk Tuesday. August 6, 1857,
a party of Chief Turkey Legs Chey-
ennes accomplished the first real rail-
road wreck ever achieved by Indians.
The only wonder is that there were
not more of them
"Porcupine, the Cheyenne who re-
lated the event to George Bird Grin
nell, say that this was the first time
any of them had seen a railroad track.
From a distance they watched the
white mans curious wagons passing
back and forth; then they went down
to inspect the trail and found the rails.
Therefore
How 1t Was Done.
1--WE got a big stick, and just be-
fore shutdown one day tied it to the
rails and sat down to watch and see
what would happen"
This was at a dry ravine four
miles west of Plum Creek. The In
dams had fastened the tie to the rails
with telegraph wire, and at o'clock
and five of his repair crew were sent
out of Plum Creek on the hand car
to investigate the break.
1.-The Cheyennes had built a fire for
comfort, and were complacently wait
ing to "see what would happen" 1t
did. They heard a rumbling in the
darkness, and caught sight of small
thing coming with something on 1t
that moved up and down" The hand
car men saw the fire when too late
to stop, saw the forms of Indians
rising on either side, and at full speed
jumped.
"a mounted Cheyenne chased
Thompson and called upon him to
halt; then shot him thru the right
arm and, still pursuing knocked him
down with the butt of the rifle;
stabbed him thru the neck and began
to scalp him. Thompson bore the
operation without the anaesthesia of
Inconsistencies. He desired to yell,
but dared not utter a sound. ut felt
as if the whole top of my head was
taken right off," he deplored to the
newspaper correspondent Henry M.
Stanley, in Omaha later. Having OBJ
tanned the prize, the Indian galloped
away, but the scalp slipped from his
belt. Thompson scuttled after and got
it, in the hope that it might be made
to grow in place again. He heard
nothing but groans from his COM
rades.
1.-THE success of their experiment
emboldened the Cheyennes to try
farther. They had discovered that the
iron trail was not invulnerable. Now
they busted themselves by freight;
with poles they pried the end of a.
pair of rails from the chairs. bent
them upward, and piling more ties
again waited. Two westbound freights
were coming; the first in charge of
Engineer Brookes Bowers (popularly
known as Bully Brookes"), Fireman
Gregory Henshaw (who wore the title
Drummer Boy Of the Rappahannock"
in mistaken tribute to the Civil Wars
youthful Hendershot), Conductor Will
liam Kinney, Brakeman Fred Lewis
and extra" Charles Radcliffe.
1.-The Kinney train endeavored to
run by at twenty-five miles an hour.
1t was derailed in a twinkling. The
engine leaped from the tracks, drag
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
Railroad NelUs of Week
VERNON E. BUNDY
THEY STAYED ON THE JOB
Tyrone Division Lost No Men During
Shopmen's Strike.


Shopmen's Strike.
The Tyrone division of the PennsyI-
vania railroad system has the unique
distinction of having passed thru the
shopmen's strike without the loss of
single man. This division, which
connects with the main line at Tyrone.
Pa. is 279 miles in length, employs
1870 men, and serves some of the
most important coal mining territory
In Central Pennsylvania.
General Manager c. S. Krick has
paid tribute to the loyalty and stead
fastness of the Tyrone division en-
ployes in the following letter to Super
intendent ]. K. Johnston:
II cannot permit the recent strike
of the shopmen in the eastern region
to become a matter of railroad his
tory without expressing to you. and
thru you to the employees of the
Tyrone division, my sincere congratu-
lations upon the wonderful loyalty by
them in remaining at work during
the trying days of the strike, par
ticularly when men on the adjacent
divisions left their work in consider
able numbers and eXerted every eff
fort to induce the employees of the
Tyrone division to join them.
THE fact that every man on the
Tyrone division remained at his work
shows beyond question high sense of
duty and loyalty to the company and
to the nation in the emergency, and
indicates clearly that you and your
subordinates have created and main
tanned among your employees shat old
time feeling of loyalty and affection
for the company anc its interests that
has done SO much to make the Penn
sylvania railroad what 1t is today"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
BIG EXPRESS BUSINESS
San Francisco office Handles Four
Million Shipments Yearly.


Two hundred million dollars is the
value of merchandise handled by the
American Railway Express. in San
Francisco in the course of twelve
months. according to the estimate
of H r. Hislop, superintendent.
This freight is in four million ship
ments. In the busy season following
the war. the San Francisco office
Cealt with four train loads of silver
each month; twelve cars to a train
ard 500 bars of silver in a car. Mil
lnery and other dry goods from east
frn cities constitute a considera BILE
portion of the regular business. Bread
to TIE amount of 500 cases is shipped
daily to surrounding cities and towns;
milk brought in averages 10000 gall
loTS daily and the daily receipts of
VI = average 500.
Motion picture films, handled
L. ;c'y between shutdown and mid
nitht. constitute a traffic which re-
qutFes a special room with a man in
attendance every hour of the twenty
four. During the rush hours follow
ing the close of evening entertain
ments, pickup service has to be
furnished to every exchange in the
city and over zoo of these shipments
have to be sent out within an hour
ard a half after they are received.
Films have to be receipted for the
same as money.
Express service is maintained on
seventy outward trains and seventy
inward each day, requiring the serv-
ices of 1872 messengers. In the city,
altogether. the company employs
], 900 persons 100 wagons, forty gaso-
line trucks five electric trucks and
fourteen electric towing tractors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
TO HONOR THEIR DEAD
Rock Island Employees Who Gave
Lives To Be Remembered.


Chicago, Sept. 30.-Memorial trees
will be planted by the Rock Island
railroad October 10 when it celebrates
its SEVENTEEN anniversary, in honor of
employees who were killed in placing
their loyalty to the road before their
own safety. Employees who died in
action in the World war and those
who spent most of their lives in the
services of the company, also will be
honored.
Bronze tablets bearing the names of
the unsung heroes of the rail. mounted
on concrete markers, will be planted
at the bases of the trees and will be
cared for by the railroad as long as
they stand to mark the spot.
One tree will be planted to honor
the memory of William N. Mcclellan.
Fairbury, Neb-, engineer who was
killed under his engine, July %, 1922,
when it plunged down an embank-
ment. He had closed his throttle and
thrown on the emergency brake, so
that no cars followed the engine down
the bank, and when the engine was
lifted one hand was still gripping the
throttle and the other closed over the
airbrake lever.
Another will honor David W. Hanks,
a bridge foreman, killed October 8,
1919. when trying to save a fellow
workman who had slipped from a
bridge at Stuttgart, Ark. which re-
suited in both plunging to their
deaths. William F. Warner, a car
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
ARE MORE STORAGE HOUSES
Santa Fe Survey Shows Increase on
Kansas Farms.

The Santa Fe railroad, in a survey
now in progress, finds that there are
a good many more farm storage
houses. or tanks, in Kansas this year
than there were in 1921. The returns
are not complete, but judging from
the figures already in, the increase is
10 per cent. Most of the new storage
plants are of galvanized iron construc-
ton, and have been quite satisfa Glory.
Farmers have found that when they
are able to store a part of their WHEAT.
they get better prices. and that is why
the number of individual store plants
is increasing.
It is the intention of the Santa Fe
to investigate the several kinds of
farm storage plants. and then issue a
bulletin on the subject. The more
storage plants there are, the more
orderly will be the moveI--ent of grain
to market. When most of the farm
ers want to ship wheat at the same
time, there is going to be congestion
and a car shortage. The Santa Fe,
therefore. will encourage the installa-
ton of individual plants.-The Earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30

penter, was drowned in an attempt
to repair partly washed out bridge
near Briggsport, Okla, after he had
been warned to seek safety.
William NJ. Cassidy, crossing flag
man at Washington Heights. Chicago,
met death when struck by an ap-
preaching train in trying to save u
party of motorists They had not
needed his warning Signals.
Other trees will honor officials who
contributed largely to the success of
the railroad. especially in its early
days in Illinois and Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
ENGINEERS BUILD BANK
brotherhood Buys Site in Heart of
Cleveland, o.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers has announced simultan-
eously the purchase of a sixteen-story
bank building in the heart of Cleve-
land. Ohio. and the completion of
plans to erect a twenty-one-story bank
building. The latter. according to the
announcement, will be the permanent
and the former will be the temporary,
quarters of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers Cooperative Ma
tional bank.
The bank, which started less than
two years ago with paid-in stock of
$653.00O. reported assets of '$17,532,-
AS7.13. The first three floors are fittef
for banking rooms, the upper floors
for offices. The sub-floors contain
vaults. and can be flooded in case OF
emergency. The reported price was
S2,550,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
IT'S MISSOURI PACIFIC NOW
But When Organized In 1867 1t Was
L. A. & N. w.

F'ifty-five years ago this month, ac-
cording to old settlers, tn Leaven-
worth, Atchison & Northwestern Rail-
way company was organized. The line
is now the Missouri Pacific between
Leavenworth ard Atchison. Construc-
worth in March, 1869. 1t reached
Atchison in September of that year
and the organization was perfected.
Leavenworth county bought a block
of 100000 Of the stock and donated
it to the company for making its
original extension to Atchison.
The first train into Atchison ar
rived late in 1859. 1t was not until
July, 1882, however, that the first
train was run thru to Omaha over the
line of the Missouri Pacific, which
subsequently absorbed the Leaven-
worth, Atchison & Northwestern.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
NO RAIL STRIKE ON IN OAHU
Whole System-Eighty-Tw Miles
Goes Peacefully On. We

Honolulu. Sept. 30.-The Oahu rail-
way is unaffected by the nation-wide
railway strike now in effect. Its eighty
two miles of narrow-gauge track
which form the complete railway sys-
tenn of the island of Oahu. Hawaii.
are clear to the normal traffic of s,r-
gar cane. pineapples and tourists. The
several hundred employees. and the
miniature moguls which daily labor
on island hauls, are blissfully content
and unaffected by strike conditions or
unsettlement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30

1 didn't think he'd last a weeks and
he couldn't have done it IL he hadn't
liked the work" the elder Flaherty
commented. IT never touched the
machine while the boy WIS running
it. He did the whole thing himself
and is the youngest engineer in the
state. they tell me"
Henry hasn't decided whas he'll do
when he gets to bec- man. --Sachinery,
probably" he guesses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30

The Santa Fe has awarded a con-
tract for a machine shop to be erected
at Waynoka, Okla
The Missouri Pacific is receiving
bids for the erection of a new car shop
12O by $40 feet at Kansas City, Mo.
The Rock Island is going shopping
in the near future for fifty a1l-steel
interurban suburban passenger cars;
500 box cars, 500 coal cars, 500 auto
mobile cars, $50 flat cars. ESQ ballast
cars. ESQ refrigerator cars and ESQ
stock cars.
Subject to the approval of the in
terstate commerce commission, two
brokers acting for the Chicago. Rock
Island &c Pacific have sold an issue
of S5.000,000 first and refunding 4
per cent gold mortgage bonds, due
April 1, 1884.
The auction sale of the branch line
of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, ex-
tending from Mckinney, Tex, to
Shreveport, La. will be held at Green
Vile. La, Oct u er T. A. B. Flanary
special master for the sale of the
Katy properties under a federal court
order, announced. The sale originally
was set for September 20.
The first two cruising steamers on
the Great Lakes on which oil burn
ing apparatus is to be installed are
the North American and South
American, of the Chicago, Duluth &
Georgian Bay Transit company line.
These steamers, at the conclusion of
their seasons run, have been laid up
at Detroit to have the oil burners in
stalled.
The average price of twenty rep
resentative railway stocks on Septem-
Der 10 was $73.45. as against Stalls
on the week before. ana $56.24 on the
same date of last year. The average
price of twenty representative rail-
way stocks on the same date was
$3.50 as against s90.37 the previous
week, and $76.47 on the same date
last year.
The Union Pacific with the city of
Denver. Colo, has awarded the con-
tract for a viaduct on Broadway of
steel truss and girder spans, with a
total length of 2.257 feet. The Union
Pacific has also awarded contracts for
an addition to its passenger station
at Cheyenne, Wyo. The company re-
Gently placed an order for 2,735 tons
of structural steel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
Indian Fighters Ride
Again In Ancient Stage
C0ach-Relic of Desert

Old Vehicle Now Precious Possession of City of Las
Animas, Colo.-Indian War Veterans at Kansas Fair
Renew Memories by Riding in the Old Coach-It's
Guardian "Sticks Up" the Crowd With Kit Carson's
Flintlock Pistol.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30

owner, there just west of little Plum
Creek station, central Nebraska, when
the first transcontinental railway was
building onward."-From Union Pa
Cific system Bulletin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
ROADS FIGHT FIRE FIEND

Menace of Flames a Nightmare
to Railroads in Woods of North
crn Minnesota.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
Notice to Gas
Consumers

In order to avoid the usual congested condition in
our office and inconvenience to our consumers
the 10th of each month, it has been decided to
tablish two discount districts namey All territory
west of Kansas Avenue and south of the river will
receive their bills the 18th day of each month"; the
discount period ending the 18th of each month. All
territory east of Kansas Avenue, including Kansas
Avenue, North Topeka and Oakland will continue to
receive their bills the LIST of each month"; the discount
period ending the 10th of each month.
The above plan will become effective October 18TH
That u.s. all territory south of the river and west of
Kansas Avenue will receive their gas bills on OctO-
Der 18th, discount ending October 18th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30

The Missouri Pacific is receiving
bids for the erection of a new car shop
12O by $40 feet at Kansas City, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
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The Santa Fe has awarded a con-
tract for a machine shop to be erected
at Waynoka, Okla.
The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1922-06-23
Boy w anted

Somewhere in this town is one boy who
is a"go-getter" spirit, full of grit and
ambition, and absolutely honest, We
want that boy. He will be the only
boy agent in this town fo- the famous
MOVIE WEEKLY MAGAZINE. He
will work after school and other spare
time. His pay will be what he makes
it; besides fine pies and FREEMoVlE
TICKETS. When he man1s S.cco1 he
will be promoted. II you are betw.,,
Ia and 10 years old. ,,,termined to
mike good and truly think you are
the Joy tor this job, then apply by
letter to Mr.. L. l., Gilbert, Personal
3rd, floor, 1l9 West 4Oth Street, New
York City. Give full details of any
past selling experience; your age;
parents full name and business; your
scnool grade and at least two references.