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TOPESA STATE JOTTTENAIj, MONDAY iTKiSTCTGr. DECEMBER 9, 1901.
RAILROADNEWS.
Santa Fe Is Collecting News
paper Clippings.
Ererjthing About Sugar
Culture Is Sated.
Beet
WILL BE PUBLISHED.
Road to Issue a Book of News
paper Comment.
What F. F. Mehring Reports to
the State Journal.
Chas. I Seagraves, traveling passenger
agent for the eianta Fe, is making a col
lection of newspaper clippings about the
sugar beet situation in. -western Kansas.
Alter the clippings are- compiled they will
be printed In book form, for the purpose
of advertising western Kansas and east
ern Colorado as a sugar beet country.
The faith which the Santa Fe railroad
has In the sugar beet business is un
bounded. It is spending thousands of dol
lars to induce eastern people to emigrate
to the beet fields, and help add to the
Immense volume of beets which is already
being raised.
In western Kansas the Santa Fe be
lieves it can afford emigrants as good
an opportunity to raise beets as in Colo
rado. The recent excursion of CuO west-
era Kansans to the Rocky Ford beet
sugar mill was a part of the programme
of education. The beet sugar company
has had several representatives in west
ern Kansas during the past season teach
ing the farmers how to raise sugar beets.
One of these agents. Mr. F. F. Mehring,
has -written for the State Journal a state
ment in regard to the results of the sea
Eon's work. He says:
-During the past season 3.53S.421 pounds
of sugar beets were raised on 2H7 acrs of
laid under cultivation in western Kan
sas. 1 am very well pleased witn my
beet growers. We had to contend with
many disadvantages. We did not get our
crop in soon enough. We were planting
when we should have been thinning. The
ground was in bad condition, and we had
no tools with which to work it properly.
Next year we will raise double the
amount of beets that we did this year.
I can not see why western Kansas soil
Is not as good for beets as that of Colo
rado. This soil does- not eru3t like that,
nor take as much horseflesh to tend it.
The weeds are not so bad. Within a
ehort time I believe that sugar beet
growers will tap the extensive underflow
of water in this section of the country,
and have as well watered farms as they
have under the irrigation system in Colo
rado. "In Colorado a man would pay $2,000 for
a 25-acre farm. Here, land can be bought
for $25 an acre. He would have plenty
of money saved over a Colorado invest
ment to tap this underflow of water, and
have water for all time.
F. F. MEHRING,
"Agriculturist for the American Sugar
Bt company, of Rocky Ford, Colo."
Mr. Mehring also gives these statistics
concerning the beet shipments of western
Kansas localities this year: Garden City,
24 cars. l,50f,,t20 pounds; Sherlock. Kas.,
4 cars, 25:1. tiTO pounds: Lakin, cars,
ks2,970 pounds; Dtreriield, 14 cars, 71j,135
pounds; Syracuse, 4 cars, 177.026 pounds.
Some of the newspaper clippings con
cerning the sugar beet culture are of
great interest, and the forthcoming book
will be of great interest- A few of the
hundreds of clippings on file are here
given :
The Bloomington. 111., Pantagraph of
November 2 contains a communication
from Edward Coale. the head of the com
mittee of Quakers which investigated the
sugar oeet Business in Colorado. .Mr.
Coale savs: "In a recent issue of the
Pantagraph the statement was made that
myself and some other members of the
Society of Friends had purchased 4.000
acres of Colorado land for a Friends col
ony. 'i nis is a mistake. e have not
purchased any land yet, but have selected
6,000 acres that we would recommend for
colony purposes, and not to Friends only,
but to any good temperance people. I
am not agent for any land or firm and
have no financial interest whatever in
what I have done. Our efforts are solely
for the puroosej of encouraeine- our neo-
ple to settle near each other if they go
to a new country. I will gladly give
eucu uiiormauou a a can upon applica
tion." The Dodge City Globe-Republican savs:
"It has been demonstrated this season
that sugar beets can be grown here, and
that they contain a high percentaere of
sugar. The fact has also been established
that sugar beets are one of the best
orouth-reslstlng crops that can be
grown."
The Kearny County Advocate says:
"The beets raised In this eountv are turn
ing out fully ten tons to the acre. Next
year the acreage of beets will be more
than douliled."
The Ixikin Investigator savs: "Twenty
one cars of sugar beets were shipped
from Lakin this week."
The Garden City Imprint savs: "Rocky
Ford is situated in the second bottom of
the Arkansas valley, and the soil is
much like that of Garden Citv. only not
quite so sandy. We believe that our soil
Is best for the production of beets, and
requires less labor."
RAILWAY LAWYERS TALK.
E. D. McKenna and Charles 8. Qleed
at Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 9. One of the
largest crowds that ever assembled at
a Bar Association meeting gathered in
the Commercial Club rooms Saturday
night, despite the wretched weather, to
hear a talk by E. D. McKenna. coun
sel of the Santa Fe railroad, on the rail
roads. Mr. McKenna is a forceful speaker,
and those who ventured out were weil
paid for their trouble, because they
heard one of the clearest, most interest
ing and instructive expressions of the
railroad problem yet presented. Besides
they heard an excellent talk from F. W
Lehmann. the eminent St. Louis lawyer,
and a brief expression of opinion from
Charles W. Gleed, of Topeka.
Lenmann-s talk was extempore.
He followed closely the lines laid down
, Mr- Kenna's address. To him, the
closer the railroads got to the people
the better it was for both. He told how
a railroad formerly fought all damage
suits, till laws had made it more ex
pensive for the railroad than for the In
jured; of how the fellow servant act was
opposed, and of the changed conditions
now were benefiting all concerned
Mr. Gleed spoke only a few minutes
He too. held that the railroad that kept
1 he IoPle was the one that
JZri He leferred to the railroad
fights of ,2 in Kansas, and of the dif
ference bet ween the course of one road,
n-nlch fought everything bitterlv, and of
another, which pursued the policy of
conciliation. The latter course, he de
clared, had been vastly the better.
SPYING OUT THE LAND.
Supt Barnes Visits Independence on
Mysterious Business.
The Independence Reporter says
IMvision Supt. Barnes of the Santa Fe
came down from Chanute -Tuesday
evening in his private car, attached to
train No. 201, and remained in the city
over night. At 7 o'clock this morning
the superintendent was seen emerging
from his car and making tracks for the
Buckeye house for breakfast. Being
asked why he did not breakfast in his
own car Mr. Barnes merely replied that
his cook wls on a strike. Itis understood
Uutt the Santa. Fe intends to make some
extensive Improvements here in the
near future; that a new passenger sta
tion is to be built, the freight accommo
dations enlarged and more sidetrack
room provided. For some time the
yards here have been so congested with
traffic that trains . have frequently
round it mrncult to pass at this point,
and many delays and belated trains
have been the result. As railroad offi
cials never "talk," It is only guessed
that Air. names visit here today is n
connection with the contemplated im
provements mentioned above.
OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED.
One-Fare Bate to Midwinter Expo
sition Is Published by Santa Fe.
A new rate circular is being sent out
by the passenger department of the
Santa Fe. Agents of the road are in
structed to Bell tickets at reduced rates
lor the following events:
American Federation of Catholic so
cieties, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 10-12,
Fare and a third.
Affiliated Scientific societies. Chicago.
111., Dec. 30. Fare and a third from
points in Illinois.
Territorial Teachers association, Guth
rie, Okla., December 25-23. One fare from
all points in Oklahoma.
Missouri State Teachers association.
Kansas City, Mo.. December 2t-2S. One
fare from all points in Missouri.
Bricklayers and Masons- International
L nion of America. Pittsburg. Pa.. Janu
ary 13-25. Fare and a third from Fort
Madison east.
National League of Commission Mer
chants, fnnaueipnia. Pa., January S-10.
Fare and a third trom Fort Madison east
American Federation of Labor, Scran-
ton. Pa.. December o-Ia. Fare and a third.
Kansas Midwinter exposition. January
20-o', Topeka, Kas. One fare from ail
points in Kansas, also St. Joseph and
Kansas city.
State Board of Agriculture. State Poul
try association, Kansas Improved Stock
.tsreeuers association, topeka, ivasr, Jan
uary b-ii. one ana a tmra tare Irom all
points in Kansas, also St. Joseph and
Kansas City.
State convention of Modern Tonties
Wichita, Kas., December 10, 11. Fare and
third trom Kansas oomts.
Delta Kappa Epsilon convention, Wash
ington, u. o.. .December li-u. Fare anu
tnira.
TO TOPOLOBAMPO.
Santa Fe Said to Be About to Inyade
Mexico.
Chicago, Dec. 9. The Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe is said to be schem
ing to ecure another line to the Gulf
of California. It formerly owned the
Sonora railway, running from Phoenix
to Guaymas, Mex., on the Gulf of Cali
fornia. This road it sold to the South
ern Pacific a year or two ago because
the line failed to earn expenses. The
Atchison took in exchange the South
ern Pacific's line from the Needles to
Mojave.
Since then the situation has changed
and the Santa Fe management seems
to have been quietly moving to secure
another line to the Gulf of California,
and with it to invade territory in south
ern Arizona which it is rumored the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific is likely
to enter.
The Development Company of Amer
ica, in which Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe people are largely interested, is said
to be arranging to buy the Rio Grande,
Sierre Madre and Pacific railway and
extend it to Topolobampo Bay on the
Gulf of California. This line, in con
nection with the Santa Fe, Prescott &
Phoenix, lately purchased by the Santa
Fe railroad company will, with some
building, give a line into Mexico and
is expected to open up large mining dis
tricts in southern Arizona and Cali
fornia. SEMAPHORE SYSTEM
Will Be Used on Union Pacific Be
tween Denver and Cheyenne.
Machinery is being sent to Denver for
the installation of the semaphore block
system between Denver and Cheyenne
on the Union Pacific. Blocks will be two
miles in length, and no train will be
allowed to enter a block until the train
ahead has cleared. If this system had
been in vogue, the company would have
saved more than the entire cost of in
stallation on the property and life
losses in the Brighton wreck of a year
ago. Experience has shown also that
with the good block system a road can
carry safely almost twice as heavy traf
fic. The system will be pneumatic,
the semaphores being unaffected by
any severity of the weather and re
sponding instantly to the pneumatio
lever at the block station a mile away.
In the new system, the safety light
will not be white Dut green. The reason
for this is that accidents have hap
pened through the breaking of the red
glass in semaphore signals, by which
even when the signal was thrown, the
engineer saw a white light. It is ex
pected that the system will be in oper
ation within three months. It will also
be installed on the line from Omaha to
Ogden, across Wyoming.
EDITORS STAY AT HOME.
Men Who Have Passes Do Not Take
Long Trips.
The 5.664,811 passengers carried over
Santa Ke system lines the last fiscal
year traveled in the aggregate 514,037,-
04 1 miles, or a little more than 90 miles
per passenger. Considering the fact
that so many made long trips to Call
fornia, the percentage of the "short-
trippera" must bave been quite large
THE FEAR OF HUMBUG
Prevents flany People From Trying
a Good Medicine.
Stomach troubles are so common and
in most cases so obstinate to cure that
people are apt to look with suspicion
on any remedy claiming to be a radical.
permanent cure for dyspepsia and indi
gestion. Many such pride themselves
on their acuteness in never being hum
bugged, especially in medicines.
This fear of being humbugged can be
carried too far, so far, in fact, that
many people suffer for years with weak
digestion rather than risk a little time
and money in faithfully testing the
claims made of a preparation so relia
ble and universally used as Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets.
Now Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are
vastly different in one important re
spect from ordinary proprietary medi
cines for the reason that they are not a
secret patent medicine, no secret is
made of their ingredients, although
they are sold by all druggists under
protection of trademark, but analysis
shows them to contain the natural digestive-
ferments, pure aseptic pepsin,
the digestive acids. Golden Seal, bis
muth, hydrastis and nux. They are
not cathartic, neither do they act pow
erfully on any organ, but they cure in
digestion on the common sense plan of
digesting the food eaten thoroughly be
fore it has time to ferment, sour and
cause the mischief. This is the only
secret of their success.
Cathartic pills never have and never
can cure indigestion and stomach trou
bles because they act entirely on the
bowels, whereas the whole trouble is
really in the stomach.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets taken af
ter meals digest the food. That is all
there is to it. Food not digested or half
digested is poison, as it creates gas,
acidity, headaches, palpitation of the
heart, loss of flesh and many other
troubles which are often called by some
other name.
to bring the average down to lesa than
a hundred.
It has been found that editors' jour
neys average only 50 miles, which fact
effectually disposes of the musty joke
about newspaper men riding on passes
to save board bills. They apparently
stay at home more than other folks do.
TO PREVENT SMUGGLING.
No More "Through Pullmans" to Be
Admitted to Mexico.
Mexico City, Dec. 9. It is reported
that the government, on account of al
leged smuggling into the country, will
make a new regulation requiring Pull
man cars used on trunk lines here to
remain always within Mexico, thus do
ing away with through Pullman service.
GASOLINE MOTOR CAR.
Santa Fe Will Use One For Southern
Kansas Track Inspection.
"Wellington, Kan., Dec. 9. The bridge
and building and track departments of
tne banta Fe received today a gasolin
motor car for the -use of the heads of
the departments named. It is a new ca
and has a speed of forty-five miles an
nour. It was sent from Chicago an
will carry three persons. It is in the
shape of a tricycle hand car but has
four wheels. It will be used mostly in
track inspection.
Advertising Kansas' Big Crops.
A new line of Kansas advertising for
use mostly in ;ne East has been issued
by the Santa Fe road. The advertising
matter is prepared for publication in
newspapers, and is headed. "How crops
grow m Kansai" The following is the
text or the ad:
In 20 years Kansas has raised 2.996.
000.000 bushels corn and 691.000,000
bushels of wheat. From 1896 to
1900 Kansas ranks first in value of
wheat and corn, $37S,00O,OOO. For 1900
Kansas is first in wheat. $45,000,000; firs
in corn and wheat, $88,000,000 (or $66.50
eacn person) fifth in corn. $53,000,000,
Above figures are given out officially by
Uncle Sam. There's nothing the matter
with Kansas. Other facts in pamphle
entitled "Kansas Resources," mailed
free. Get a home for yourself or son
in bountiful Kansas, and share in next
year s prosperity.
Departmental Notes.
"Washington. Dec. 9. Empire, Kas., is
made sub station No. 1 of Galena to
take effect January 1.
Ella G. Shield, of Wichita. Kas., has
been admitted to practice before the
treasury department.
The postmaster general has ordered
the consolidation of the postoffice a
Empire City with Galena office, Kan
sas.
Postofflces discontinued: Woodleaf,
Franklin county, Kas., mail to Ottawa.
Homeseeker Excursions Announced
The Southwestern lines have made the
same arrangements for home-seekers
rates for January and February of the
coming year as apply during the pres
ent month. The Western lines and the
Southeastern lines have no change in
the basis of theae rates for the present.
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.
John Walter, of the blacksmith shop,
was off Saturday.
Thomas McHush. of the storehouse, has
Deen orr a nay or two.
Engine 43$. the Player compound, is in
to receive new valves.
Locomotives 1020 and 1021. new Bald
wins, came in Saturday.
John Havens, of the car shops, has
been out for a day or two.
Jesse Smelser, truck worker in Neiswin-
ter's gang, has been laying off.
Bert Shields, a helper in the boiler shop,
has been off duty for a few days.
Joseph Maze, of the boiler shop, has
been losing some time on account of sick
ness.
A. F. Hilton, general storekeeper, has
gone to La. Junta on a short business
trip.
Conductor Coddintrton. who has been on
a work train on the cut-off, was here
Sunday.
John Neyman, of the water service, who
has been ill for ten days, has reported
lor duty.
Considerable new machinery has been
ordered for the tool room in the ma
chine shon.
Machinist Elmer Miller has been trans
ferred to his brother's cans in the east
erecting shop.
General Superintendent Resscguie left
Sunday in his special car for a business
trip to Chicago.
The horizontal drill press is off for
repairs. The air brake lathe is also get
ting some "fixings."
M O. Smith is firing on the plug, and
William Packard is on the coal train un
til that run is assigned.
James Collinson, general master me
chanic, has returned from an inspection
trip over on tha Chicago division.
Wilbur Potter, the bridge carpenter,
who has been off because of an attack of
tonsilitis, came on duty this morning.
Pat Morgan, of the blacksmith shop,
who has been sick for a time, is better,
and expects to be on duty again soon.
For several days the mill has been run
ning on short power, owing to the repairs
which were being made on the boilers.
Engine 2356 has been brought in from
yard service and is in the hands of
Jenks' garg in the east shop for a gen
eral overhauling.
Switchman Mark Withers has been ab--sent
from his place on the yard engine for
three or four days. A bad cold is figur
ing as the cause.
Max Thymian, transfer table engineer,
who has been out for nearly a month be
cause of the death of his wife, came in
again this morning.
John Bozarth. a car repairer in the
sheds, has been obliged to stay away
from work for a few days on account of
an attack of lumbago.
J. C. Seckler, a car repairer, left Sat
urday noon for Albuquerque, N. M., where
he will visit for two weeks. Mrs. Seck
ler accompanied him.
All the boys in the ash-pan room arc
congratulating Hugh McGivern ttver the
purchase of a No. 12 hammerless, auto
matic ejector shotgun.
George Risen, an ash-pan hanger, has
been obliged to lay off on account of his
eyes being poisoned while down east of
town a few days ago.
Peter Butler, of the sand house, has
had his pride advanced several notches
bv the arrival of a new stove for drying
sand in that department.
Conductor Reece has been up from Ar
gentine for several days, visiting his fam
ily and incidentally following a way car
on a main line local freight.
Machinist Edward Saunders, who be
lieves wet days are the kind for duck
hunting, could not resist the temptation
to put in Saturday that way.
Brakeman Thomas Turner, who has
been working out of Wichita, has been
given a transfer to Wellington and will
move his family to that place at once.
Brakeman C. R. Home, of the St. Jo
seph passenger run. hits been obliged to
lay off on account of sickness. Cary
jonnson nas oen ninng tne vacancy.
C. C. Holloway, of the mill, was oft
Saturday showing a brother around the
shops. The brother lately arrived from
lnuianapoiis ior a visit oi a week nere.
Frank Flaherty, who has been working
as a machinist helper, has been put on
as day oiler, we takes tne place of George
Chase, who goes to helping as formerly.
Water service men are still busv trans
ferring the patterns into the new build
ing erected for that purpose. They say
t will require anotner weeit to nmsn tne
job.
G. H. Helman. formerly a butcher here.
but for some months out of the city, has
returned bringing with him a wife se
cured at Cleveland, Ohio, during his ab
sence. Conductor Lonu. who for seven months
has been in charge of a cut-off work
train, has been relieved from duty there
and already has made several trips on
ww roaa.
Work on car trucks, which has been
dragging for a number of months, has
picked up considerably ot late, and the
men in that department have all they
aiienu to.
Machinist C. M. Kimplen, who has had
carpenters at work on a new residence
in Oakland, expects to.be able to occupy
me property witnin a tew weeks, per-
naps y tne nrst oi uie year.
Nicholas Grilev, who vorks In the atr
brake corner, but who for a few davs has
been absent, came in again Saturday,
bringing with him the news of an arrival
oi a 12-pound baby boy at ms house.
Elgie Brattan. document clerk in the
Eastern division offices, and Guilford Up
degraiT, stenographer to Supt. C. T. Mc
Lellan, went east for Sunday; Bratton
to Kansas City and Upuegran to Law
rence.
Train No. 2 was annulled Saturday af
ternoon on account of some trouble out
west. Engineer Neugebauer and Con
ductor took engine 1004 light to Kansas
City, where a plug section was made up
anu run on east.
Machinist Richard Ford, of the south
shop, who was taken to the hospital five
weeks ago for a difficult operation, is
slowly recovering and is now allowed to
walk around outside. It will be several
weeks yet before he can report for duty.
Next Friday evening the young people
of the First Methodist church will give
a match social at the railroad Y. M. C. A.
This event was to have taken place last
spring before the close of the season, but
owing to bad weatner naa to be post
pones.
Engineer Cappy Sharp came in on No,
1 Saturday with a bad order eve. Eseau-
ing steam from an imperfectly packed
throttle valve slightly burned the mem
ber and blew dirt in it, and Sharp was
uuugeu iu get an yruer on tne Hospital
ior treatment.
Osman Bates, who was burned by gas
from the "sea cow" about two months
ago. is still on the mend. His arm
which was broken has been, removed
from the cast, and one hand which was
badly swollen is better than it was some
time ago.
Ashford Thompson, a brother of George
Thompson, of the boiler shop, was mar
ried a week ago today to Miss Amanda
Stansbury, of Albuquerque, N. M. Thomp
son is firing out of there, but was form
erly an employe of the blacksmithing de-
parLiueni nere.
Al Chamberlain, receiving clerk at the
storenouse, leit Saturday lor san Tan-
cisco, where he will spend two weeks.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Chamber
lain. James Griffith, agents' packer, is
on his desk, and J. B. McCoy is doing
oriititn s wonc.
Jesse Dix. who was struck on the head
by a two-by-four Saturday morning and
had to go to the hospital, will Trobablv
not lose any more time as a result of the
injury. The blow, however, knocked him
down and a gash was cut In his head
which had to be sewed up.
Fireman Lewis Laws lost a trin or two
Decause or an injury to nis rigit eye.
Laws was changing a water elass at
Osage Citv the other day and lust as he
turned on tne steam it Durst, tne frag
ments flying in his face and one eye,
No permanent injury will result.
Word has been received from Thomas
Birmingham, who Quit the coach shop
here and went to San Bernardino, Cal.,
last summer. Birmingham seems to be
pleased with the country out there and
writes that he Is enjoying excellent health
has all the time since ne arrived.
Shop men who are members of the
Court of Honor will be interested in the
meeting of next Tuesday evening which
is to be attended Dy A. L. tieretord, su
preme chancellor of the order. He comei
from Springfield. 111., and has been at the
head of that organization for the last
five years.
Saturday afternoon one of the over
head steam nines in the east shoo burst.
and for a few moments there was a
stampede among the men in that part
to get out of the way of escaping steam.
Luckily no one was burned, and water
service workmen have since been repair
ing the break.
Amos Beeler Saturday took out the
1017. the new Baldwin compound equipped
witn jonn Players traction lncreaser.
By a mechanism the load may be shifted
from the drivers when the engine is tak
ing a heavy grade, and then after the
turn, the weight is again placed in its
normal position.
Conductor Charles - Stevenson, a Santa
Fe train oaDtain on the New Mexico di
vision, recently drew .a ring said to be
worth $150. for being the most popular
conductor in the town of Las Vegas.
Stevenson is known, to a number of train
men on this part of the system, having
at one time run out of Florence.
Georsre Cole, who has been working in
the blacksmithing department as a help
er for about five months, took his time
Saturday. He will handle the retail busi
ness of the Chappeil Coal company on
East Seventh street. Previous to enter
ing the shops he had a coal office at the
corner of Second and Klrtn streets.
Some additional instructions regarding
the handling of acet lene eas lamns have
been issued to engineers and firemen
lately. These cover cases in which the
apparatus refuses to work. So far the
experiments with this illuminant have
given satisfactory results, and it is
thought that the lamp has many advant
ages over the electric headlight.
Feed-water tests which have been con
ducted for the purpose of ascertaining
whether or not water could be heated by
team from the exhaust of the air pump
as it was being conducted to the boiler
from the tank, have been concluded. The
experiments show that but little saving
would result, as it requires too much time
for the required heat to be secured.
One of the new nassene-er engines is to
be equipped with a box on the side by
which the mechanical experts will be able
to taKe speed tests, ic nas Deen reported
that the engines were rated at a speed
of 70 miles an hour pulling ten coaches,
and the object of the experiments will be
to determine whether or not they will
come up to what is claimed for them.
One car of fire clay and one of fire
sand have been unloaded inside the new
blacksmith shop for use in the furnaces
there. Water service carpenters have
been busy for a day or two getting the
large doors at the south end ready to
swing. They were put in some time ago,
but through some mistake a car was
kicked back against them and damaged
them considerably.
Hialmer East, a brother of Fred East
f the blacksmith shop and known to a
umber of the shop men through his
isit here last summer, will sail from
New York on Wednesday for Rangoon,
Burmah. He expects to be gone for the
next seven years doing missionary work
among a tribe of mountaineers there. At
the end of that time he is at liberty to
return to civilization if he chooses.
Beginning with Jan. 1. what is known
s the "ledger system" is to go into ef
fect for handling the accounts of the
CURSE
OF
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White Ribbon Remedy.
Can be given in Glass of Water, Tea or
Coffee Without Patient's Knowledge.
White Ribbon Remedy will cure or de
stroy the diseased appetite for alcoholic
stimulants, wnetner tne patient is a con
iirmed inebriate, "a tippler." social drink
er or drunkard. Impossible for anyone to
have an appetite for alcoholic liquors af
ter using White Ribbon Remedy.
Mrs. Moore, superintendent of the TVo
man's Christian Temperance union,
writes: 'I have tested White Ribbon
Remedy on very obstinate drunkards and
the cures have been many. In many cases
tne remedy was given secretly, j. cneer
t'ully recommend nd endorse White Rib
bon Remedy. Members or our union are
delighted to find a practical and econom
ical treatment to aid us in our temper
ance work."
Mrs. West, president of the Women's
Christian Temperance union, writes: "I
know of so many people redeemed from
the curse of drink by the use of White
Ribbon Remedy that I earnestly request
you to give it a trial. iruggists or In
mail $1. Trial package free by writing
MRS. A. M. TOWNSEXD (for years sec
retary of the Women's Christian Temper
ance union), 2is uremont street, Bos
ton. Mass. Sold in Topeka bv M.
Weightman, druefiist. 833 Kansas avenue.
There
is no guesswork
about Primrose
Butter and never any
variation in the qual
ity. You can order it
anywhere with abso
lute confidence that it
is perfectly pure
and sweet.
To
the goodness of
Primrose Butter from
the creamery to the
table, every pound is
packed in an air-tight,
odor
age,
SS
store houses all over the Santa Fe. This
used to be in vogue before the reorganiza
tion of the road, but has not been since
then. It is claimed that this will eo into
detail a little more than has been done
lately and will of course furnish a better
understanding of what that deoartment
is dointf.
Construction of the npw Santa. Te "in"
freight depot at Kansas City is expected
to be started soon. The business of the
company has developed recently to such
an extent that it has been deemed neces
sary to have a freight house for handling
the 'out" and "in" traffic. Estimates
were drawn for this building about a
yenr ago. it will be situated in the west
bottoms, not far from the present struc
ture used for that purpose.
Stock traffic has been exceotionallv
light recently. There has been but little
freight moving over the Kansas City
branch since the order of a few days ago
went into effect running most of that
class oJ: trains over the cut-off. What
ever passes through here is en route to
St. Joseph, but the amount of that is
very little of late. For two months or
more the St. Joseph packers have drawn
heavily from the ranges of the west and
southwest.
Somewhere near twentv cars of ballast
have been received for the foundation of
the machine shop. There are ten or
twelve carloads of sand, one or two of
cement and two of steel which have been
switched in on the shop track for un
loading as soon as needed. Jf the weather
holds arood one more week the contract
ors will be almost ready for the struc
tural material to be olaced. After that
begins the job will be pushed as rapidly
as possible until spring.
"Frisco" is the laconic notation which
has been adopted in donating the coal
cars of that system. The tirst of them so
labeled are now . appearing, and the de
sign is especially striking. The letters are
white on a black background and of such
size that they may be seen at a long dis
tance. The Memphis, before the first
named road absorbed it, adopted this
style of signs for its coal cars, and it
seems to have given entire satisfaction.
It is believed that other roads will take
it up in timeL
TO FORM A t MON.
AH Catholic Societies to Be Bound
Together.
Cincinnati, Dec. 9. Much interest was
taken here today among the officers and
such delegates as have arrived for the
convention tomorrow of the American
Federation of Catholic societies. The
permanent organization of a Central
commission of all the Catholic societies
is regarded as one of the most import
ant steps that has ever been taken for
the church in America. The leaders say
it is not proposed to interfere with the
autonomy of the Hibernians, the Knights
of St. John, the American Catholic Un
ion, the German Catholic Verein, the
Catholic Knights of America, or any
other Cathloc societies, but to form a
federation in which they all will be rep
resented for a common purpose. There
were important conferences today most
ly devoted to the preparation of re
ports that are to be submitted to the
convention Tuesday.
PRICE HAS DECLINED.
Islands Are Not Worth What They
Onee Were.
New York, Iec. 9. A dispatch from
Copenhagen to the London Times and
New York Times says the economic sit
uation in the ranish West Indies is bad,
owing to the fall in the price of sugar,
but St. Thomas has an excellent harbor,
which would be strategically and com
mercially valuable to the United States.
It is significant, says the correspond
ent, in 1MS7 the United States offered for
the two smallest islands nearly double
the sum now offered for all three.
The Eanish party which is opposing
the sale points out that it would be un
wise to sell the best harbor in the West
Indies just when the isthmian canal is
about to b built, but the majority of
Panes have only agrarian interests, and
have therefore no special interest in re
taining the islands.
Corean Cabinet Changes.
Tacoma. Wash., Iec. 9. Advices from
the Orient state that several pro-Chinese
members of the Corean ministry were re
cently removed. Chief among them was
Major General Pok. minister of foreign
affairs, who was absent in Japan attend
ing the mikado's army maneuvers. His
undoing ijaa brought about by Li Yungik,
leader of the Russian-French party, who
pointed out that Pok was espousing the
Japanese cause too warmly, as was shown
by his granting- Japan a large ground
concession at Masampo and his with
drawal of the veto on grain exportation
at Japan's behest. Minister of Agricul
ture Kwon was also dismissed as being
too pro-Japanese. Pok is to be succeeded
as foreign minister by Lo, now minister
to St. Petersburg.
Peaceful Ending: in Sight.
New York, Dec. 9. The Argentine min
ister, Senor Portello. has delivered his
government's answer to Chili's note pro
posing a basis of settling the pending
questions, cables the Valparaiso corre
spondent of the Herald. In an interview
Minister Portello said he believed the
controversy would be ended in three or
four days.
Vanderbilt Duchess Coming.
London. Dec. 9. The naners announce
that when the Duchess of Marlborough,
formerly Miss Consucla "Vanderbilt, visits
the United States with her children this
winter, she will spend Christmas with her
father. William K. Vanderbilt, at his
country home. Idle Hour, and return it
Great Britain in February.
Kansas City and Return $2.67 via the
Santa Fe.
Grand opera. Tickets on sale Decem
ber 9 and for day trains of December 10,
limited for return to December 11.
Creamery Butter
represents a new idea in butter
making and butter keeping. It
is most delicious in flavor, hign-
est in quality, richest in
nutriment. ,
Jt.
preserve
The Primrose package is the
only known method of preserving
the purity of butter under all
conditions. Its use for this
- proof pack
purpose being
controlled by
lined within
and sealed
THE CONTINENTAL
without.
CREAMERY
Topeka, Kas.
5-INCH PERFECTO AT
r!e!aKa!3j
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CURRY CIGAR CO., Makers.
GOES TO NEW MEXICO.
James Reeder's Court of Claims Will
Hold a Session.
James Reeder, of Hays City, who was
in Topeka last week attending the su
preme court, is clerk of the special
court created by the federal govern
ment several years ago to determine
the validity of a large number of claims
under Mexican land warrants in the
southwest.
Mr. Reeder left Saturday for New
Mexico to attend a sitting of the spec
ial court at Santa Fe. About 280 cases
have been disposed of by the court thus
far and there are still about 60 on the
docket. It will take about four years
for the court to complete its work. None
of the claims involves less than $50,000,
and the majority much more thaji that.
Many years ago when Spain owned
all the territory in the southwest. It
gave land grants to individuals in con
sideration of their protiing the coun
try against invasion. Then Mexico set
up in the governmental business for it
self, and when it ceded the southwest
to the United States by the treaty of
1S48, many of these land grants in what
is now New Mexico, Arizona and south
ern California were included. Some of
the claims overlapped and some seemed
' to be fictitious. In order to decide upon
them definitely and establish the titles
beyond a doubt, the special court "was
created to pass upon the various claims.
Some of the claims were for more than
two million acres.
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.
The comedy "Too Rich to Marry" will
be at the Crawford tonight. The prices
are 2d, 50 and 7a cents and the box seats
SI. The company presenting the piece
includes the following people: Arthur
Smith, R. B. Brown, Ed Redmond, Fred
Armstead, Jessie Brink, Estelle Red
mond and Jessie Emison.
The large company supporting Madam
Helen Modjeska and Louis James un
der the management of Vv'agenhals and
Kemper will be at the Crawford Tues
day. At the matinee performance the
company will present "The Merchant of
Venice" instead of "Mary Stuart" as
previously announced.. At the night per
formance the company will play "Hen
ry VIII." The prices for the matinee
will be 5, 50, 75 and $1 and box seats
$1.50. The night prices will be 50, 75, $1,
$1.50 and box seats 2.
"The Daughter of the Diamond King"
will be at the Crawford Wednesday
night.
Alice Archer will be at the Crawford
Thursday In the comedy drama of New
Mexico life, "Jess of the Bar Z Ranch."
Jangling Nerves.
Are you irritable? Do you sleep badly?
Is it hard to concentrata your thoughts?
Is your appetite poor? Do you feel tired,
restless and despondent? Try Lichty's
Celery Nerve Compound. It will do you
more good than anvthing you have ever
tried. Sold by George W. Stansneld. 632
Kansas ave. ; Marshall Bros., 115 Kansas
ave.
500 Postmasters to Be Made Happy.
Washington, Dec. 9. Postmaster Gen
eral Smith had a conference with the
President at which a batch of about 500
postoffice appointments were decided
upon. Practically all will be reappoint
ments. George H. Roberts, jr., will be
nominated to cucceed ex-Representative
Wilson at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Jangling Nerves.
Are you irritable? Do you sleep badly?
Is it hard to concentrate your thoughts?
Is your appetite poor? Do you feel tired,
restless and despondent? Try Lichty's
Celery Nerve Compound. It will do you
more good than anything you have ever
tried. Sold by George W. Stansneld, 632
Kansas ave.; Marshall Bros., 115 Kansas
ave.
Serum For Lockjaw.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 9. Dr. A. Let
eve, of the C. L. Magee pathological de
partment of Meicy hospital, has discov
ered what has every indication of being
a successful serum treatment or tet
anus or lockjaw.
City Ticket Office
Union Pacific R. R., 525 Kansas ave.
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KACZYNSKI & CO.
4th and Jackson.
mm
THE KILTIES
ARE COMIN'
Auditorium.
Saturday, Dec. 14,
Matinee and Night
40 Musicians 40
16 Vocal Choir 18
6 Highland Dancers 5
2 Bagpipers 2
4 Military Buglers 4
1 Giant Drum Major 1
CAADA'S CRACK MILITARY BAXD
Band of the famous 4th Hihlandors Kefi
rnjot. touring America by authority of His
Majesty's Ooverument in Canada, and by
special permission of CoL MacDnnald and
officers commandine this rrlebratpil rei
nient. Prlcea-25c for Matinee, asc and
BOO for Night Concert. KHserred seals at
Slansneld's Drug Slore. S32 Kansas At.
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