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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAI TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBEB 22, 1908.
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Established in 1866 by
RAiLR0AD NEWS.
Acquisition of C. & S. a Step in
Long Struggle.
Hill and Harriman Tying for
Control of West. '
OUTLET TO THE GULF
The Florist
HIRAM HULSE
Grows his own
plants in his own
greenhouses
Elmwood and Greenwood
Aves., Potwin
Special attention
given to floral de
. signs.
PALMS TO RENT
Sales and display rooms
819 Kansas Avenue
Phone 458
Open Direct Line , From , the
Northwest.
Other Items of Interest in Bail-
way Circles.
Your (ar
Doubtless needs overhauling
after the hard summer run
and we want you keep us in
mind when you decide to have
the work done.
MODERN METHODS
COMPETENT MECHANICS
Can Produce the Most Satisfactory
RESULTS.
A Trial Will Convince You
and Please Us
Topeka Foundry & Machine Co.
Bet. 3d and 4th on Jackson.
Phones 499 R. L. BONE, Mgr
BICYCLE FREE!
BUY YOUR GAS LIGHTS
MANTLES & GLOBES OF US
Bicycle to Be Given
Away New Years
H. M. Cross Cycle Co.
810 Kansas Avenue
HAND
SAPOLIO
TOR TOILET AND BATH
Fingers roughened by needlework
catch every stain and look hopelessly
dirty. Hand Sapolio removes not
only the dirt, bat also the loosened, in
jured cuticle, and restores the fingers
to thtir natural beauty.
ALL GROCERS AND DRUGGISTS
HOME-GROWN
Christmas Plants
Azaleas, Cyclamens,
Poinsettias, Gloria de Lor a in e,
Begonia, Ferns and Hyacinths
A GIFT THAT WILL PLEASE HER
HUBBARD'S
Bell 10520 Kan. Ave. Ind. 42
J. L. EDDY
Contractor and Rnilcter
Repairing nnd Jobbing.
Store Fronts. Shelving Counters,
Hardwood Floors. Plain or Orna
mental. Shoy 110 K. Vlnth St
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Undertaker and Embalaer
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inieago, Dec. 22. The Tribune, In a
news article on the acquisition of the
Colorado & Southern by James J. Hill,
for the Burlington and the Northern
Pacific, declares it is simply another
step in the long protracted contest be
tween Harriman and Hill for suprem
acy in the traffic control of the west.
Continuing the article says:
"By securing the 2,250 miles of the
Colorado & Southern system. Mr. Hill
has not only swelled the total of the
lines controlled by him to nearly
twenty-four thousand miles but by se
curing the long desired outlet to the
gulf of Mexico and completing his
route from the far northwest to Gal
veston he has' invaded his rival's terri
tory just as Harriman has persistently
strengthen his own position by push
ing out new lines into the northwest,
west.
"The Colorado & Southern connects
with the Burlington at Cheyenne,
Wyo., and at Denver, Col., and in ordei
to secure a shorter and more direct
route from Denver to the northwest it
would onlv be necessary to build the
short connecting lines already surveyed
by the Burlington from Lyons to Chey
enne. Wyo., and from Orin Junction to
Gillette or Sheridan, Wyo., to a con
nection with the Burlington's line to
Billings, Mont., where it joins the
Northern Pacific.
"It has been generally understood
that one of Mr. Hill's ambitions has
been to secure a new route from Seat
tle, Portland, and other cities of the
northwest to the Gulf of Mexico, and it
has been repeatedly rumored that he
had been figuring on the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas which connects with
the Burlington at Hannibal, Mo. The
Colorado & Southern, however, woum
serve as a much more direct route to
the northwest and would prove a logi
cal outlet for the cotton of the south to
the Great Northern's ocean lines from
Pueet Sound as well as from the nortn-
w?st to the gulf ports.
The Tribune says it is expected that
further details will be arranged at tne
meeting of the Burlington directorate
in New York today and at the Colorado
& Southern board meeting on Tuesday.
The purchase price is said to be about
eighteen million dollars.
SANTA FE7S BRIDGE AT ALVA.
Salt Fork River Is Spanned by Per
manent Structure.
Aha. Okla.. Dec. 2 2.--The Pioneer
states that the last girder in the new
bridge across Salt Fork has been low
ered into place and connected up
one of "the 'very bear hridges-tali the,
southwest. The work of putting down j
ties preparatory to laying the track,
has begun, and In a very short time
the heavy steel on the new grade will
be in and trains running.
The Santa Fe company is to he con
gratulated on a great piece of work
in the construction of their new line,
which is almost on grade. Tou can
not imagine the vast amount of work
done, or the cost over it and figure
on the largo fill across the low-land
and the deep . cut through hills and
highland?.
mv. nr, ttio Salt Fork bridge
has been under headway for more
than a year, steam holsters were used,
and the cement piers over which the
track passes are resting on the solid
ground, which means that the com
pany went many feet through sand
and water in the river bed to find
such a foundation; this bridge is only
a sample of the excellent work all
along the entire line. t
Three car loads of bricks are now
on the side track for the fine new
passenger depot, which will be built
fronting Seventh street, Just northwest
of the present depot, which will be
used for freight purposes. The new
depot when completed will be, of
course, not the largest, but one of the
finest on their new line of road.
SAIjR IS RATIFIED.
Colorado & Southern Xow a Part of
the Burlington.
New York, Dec. 22. Directors of
the Colorado & Southern Railway
company today ratified the safe sale
of the road to "the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy Railroad company.
Edwin Hawley, principal stock
holder of the Colorado & Southern
stated that actual transfer of control
would take place today. President
Trumbull of the Colorado & South
ern says the transaction would be ad
vantageous for both roads. He de
clared that he looked forward with
satisfaction to an early temporary re
tirement from active business.
Mr. Hawley said that the Bur
lington purchased practically all
of the common stock of the
Colorado & Southern railroad
which he and his associates had held.
It was understood that Mr. Hawley
continues to hold Colorado & South
ern first and second preferred stock
and that President Trumbull retains
his interest in that property.
XEW ROAD FOR LEBANON.
ton & Quincy for violations of the
safety appliance law returned a ver
dict in favor of the . railroad. In
spectors charged that the . Burlington
hauled two cars from the Denver &
Rio Grande transfer tracks to the
yards of the Burlington at Nineteenth
street with defective couplers. The
road put up the defense that the cars
were not in interstate commerce in
the movement from one vnrrt to an
other, and the Jury took that view of
the case. The road claimed that the
inspectors ought to notify the rail
roads when they find defective equip
ment. Suits of a similar nature against the
Colorado & Southern will be taken up
Monday.
children. I am following the teach
Ings of Jesus Christ strictly. No
promises are exacted from persons
helped. They are free to accept or
reject as they see fit." Countess
Bethlen is the guest of Mrs. Leigh
Wilson Foster also a follower of the
cult at 3502 Lake avenue.
FINE SURGICAL OPERATION.
GIVES UP WEALTH.
Hungary Countess Decides to Devote
Her Life to Religious Work. ,
Chicago, Dec. 22. Countess Aurelia
Bethlen, B. native of Hungary, has
given up her wealth and social
position to minister unto the needy
according to Bahai religious teachings.
This foreign countess is one of the
first deciples of Bahai to come to
America.
The countess is 35 years old. and
speaks thirteen languages, and says
she once possessed great wealth.
Proudly she opened a big cloak and
displayed the plainest of garments.
There wasn't a sign of jewelry or
other adornment. She follows what
Relieves Paralyzed Man Citable, to
Speak for 18 Months.
Philadelphia, Dec, 22. Unable to
speak for 18 months, and his body al
most entirely paralyzed, Alexander
Goodner of Camden, N. J., sat up in
bed and spoke yesterday after a deli
cate operation had been . performed in
a local hospital by means of which
pressure on the brain was relieved.
Goodner was injured in a trolley car
accident and after a first operation
seemed to show no improvement.
Further examination, however, reveal
ed a peculiar fracture on the inside
of the base of the skull and treatment
of this was successful.
ADVICE TO PLAVRIGHTS.
Augustus Thomas Say Write: ' a 'Play
on Socialism.
CURRY WANTS STATEHOOD.
New Mexican Governor Vant9 "To Be
Treated Lilte Men."
Washington, Dec. 22. "We have a
wide awake, progressive industrious
and intelligent population and we
want to be treated like men."
In those words . Governor George
New York, Dec. 22. Here is encour
agement for young and aspiring play
wrights. Augustus Thomas in .an ad
dress last night before the American
Dramatic club of which he has been
president since the death of Bronson
Howard, had this to say of plays and
playwrights:
"No old playwright can tell a young
one how to build a play. There are no
rules to the game and there is not a
single accepted maxim that you
can't break and make money. The
greatest of them all misled more peo
ple than anybody ever did when he said
that playwrighting " was holding the
mirror up to nature. Shakespeare nev
er did that in his life."
As to the future Mr. Thomas said:
. "Great plays remain to be written
about the American Jew and about so
cialism. I men the American Jew with
his fine qualities as we know them. I
don't mean the dull kind of socialism
that we hear from platforms and in
speeches, but a sort of celestial social
ism that we. sometimes read about."
Eugene Presby, William Gillette and
Victor Herbert were among the others
who sjpoke.
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Countess Aurelia S. Bethlen Who Has Given Up Wealth for Religion.
Rumored Extension of Union Pacific
Stwrts Tnk.
Lebanon, Kan.. Dec. 22. There are
plenty of railroad rumors floating
about over the proposed extension of
the Union Pacific stub from Beloit to
Kearney, Neb., which crosses the C.
R. I. & P. railway at this point. That
this new line would be a great feeder
to the TTnion Pacific main trunk lines
almost across the continent, a feeder
from the richest alfalfa and corn belt
of Kansas, is admitted by all.
she calls the "simple life." and as
serts that young women will keep on
going down to physical and moral
destruction so long as wealthy women
publicly display their riches.
Inmates of prisons will be the spec
ial objects of her peculiar kind of
charity, though she by no means in
tends to overlook the poverty stricken
or distressed. She says she still
possesses 15,000 worth of Jewelry,
and intends to dispose of it for art's
sake.
She visited the young women in
Harrison street police station annex
yesterday and gave them a talk which
she hopes will help toward convert
ing them in . the Bahai religion,
which she herself embraced three
years ago.
"The methods of the modern
church are wrong." she said last
night. "Why should the poor give up
their hard earned nickels to the
preachers and priests? Why should
not these shift for themselves like
other strong men? They should not
be recognized as head or leaders.
There is only one head, and that is
the manifestation of God.
"The proper thing for us to do is
to live upright lives. I am a servant
to the threshold of the merciful one.
Don't glory in your . country, but
glory in loving all humanity. There
is no division of creed or color, or
belief in my religion, and I believe
in the principles of uniting all man
hood into one great family under the
banner of one God.
"I love all women. Why shouldn't
I? We are all sisters. I was brought
up in luxury, was formerly maid of
honor to the empress of Austria, and
once believed that J could not get
along without my horses and car
riages and the rarest of -wines, but
I have sacrificed it all. l am down
in the gutter trying to uplift un
fortunate beings.
"I was born in Hungary of royal
lineage, and was married to Count
Sandor Bethlen, who owned vast es
tates. He died in 1892 and the fol
lowing year I came to Chicago to visit
the World s Columbian exposition
Inside of twelve months in America
I squandered. $36,000, but today I
value money only for the good it will
do. Who ever takes up my religion
is expected to do good according to
his capacity.
"Should I go out and find any per
sons suffering from illness or disease
I will nurse them, and if I find dirt
and filth about the house I will get
down on my knees ana scrub it away.
So will I wash the sick or unclean
Curry, of New Mexico, asks statehood
for his territory in his annual report
to the secretary of the interior made
public today. " -
Governor Curry says New Mexico's
credit is excellent that no strikes mar
the record of its industries; the laws
enacted by its legislature are good;
gambling is prohibited and the "Sun
day closing" enforced. So he con
cludes. New Mexico deserves state
hood. The governor states that the
population of the territory is over
450,000, and that there is over $300
000.000 worth of property in New
Mexico, in addition to its coal, timbeV
and fertile lands. He asks that the
Carey land act be extended to the ter
ritory and the bill now before con
gress providing for a seventh judicial
district for New Mexico be enacted in
to law.
Frivolous Women Do Too Much "Man
Catching," Says Rabbi Krauskopf.
WOMAN TRAMP ARRESTED.
She May Have Been Connected With
Murder in Philadelphia.
SANTA FE IS FINED. .
Convicted on Four Violations of
Safety Appliance Act.
Denver, Colo., Dec. 22. The gov
ernment won its case against the
Santa Fe railroad in the federal court
and the corporation will be fined $400
for four violations of , the safety
appliance act. The case was tried by
a jury. The inspectors reported to
the Interstate Commerce commission
that the road hauled four cars out of
La Junta with defective couplers or
faulty grabirons on them.
The Jury in the case of the gov
ernment against the Chicago, Burling-
Vanilla
Lemon
Orangre
Rose, etc
Pure Flavorings
M DELICIOUS
Flavoring
Extracts
have been given the
preference and are now
used and appreciated by
millions of housewives
who have used them for
half a century.
Cedar Rapids, ' la., Dec. 22. A
young woman, masquerading as a man
and telling a strange story of adven
tures, with which a murder commit
ted two years ago in Philadelphia may
be connected, has been arersted here
under the name of Earl Waters. The
girl doea not know her own name un
less it is Pearl Waters. She says she
was born In Europe and that her
earliest recollections are of life in New
York. A woman with whom she lived
was abusive and four years ago the
girl donned a boy's suit and left. At
Philadelphia she became the compan
ion of a young man, though she did
not reveal her sex. She says she be
came involved in a quarrel after
which a murder was committed. They
came to Cedar Rapids two years ago,
since which time both have been em
ployed as newsboys on trains. Her
companion probably will be taken into
custody and held pending investigation
of the Philadelphia murder story.
BAR STAGE DOOR JOHNNIES.-
New York Legislature May Take Ac
tion Against This Nnisance.
New York. Dec. 22. Suppression by
state legislation of the stage door
"Johnny," so familiar in this city, will
be urged again in the New York legis
lature this year by a local assembly
man, who is prepared to bring it up
before the state law makers for pass
age. All male patrons of a theater, ac
cording to the bill, must register if
they desire to communicate with an
actress In doing so they must give
their full name and address and state
whether married or single. False
registration is to be made punishable
by fine or imprisonment.
A RARE ARCTIC BIRD.
Drops Dead in Golden Gate Park on
Its Fliglit South.
San Francisco, Dec. 22. As a result
of the cold snap of last week Golden
Gate Park museum has come into pos
session of a Townsend warbler, one of
the rarest of Arctic birds. The bird
was found yesterday lying dead in one
of the paths of" the park by a gardener,
who took it to Curator W. G. Blunt of
the natural history section of the mus
eum. During the migratory season the
warbler is found between the Pacific
coast and the Rocy Mountains and no
where else.
Philadelphia. Dec. 22. "Mna catch
ing" by frivolous women was deplored
here greatly in a sermon . by Rabbi
Joseph Krauskopf at Keneseth Israel
temole. This, he declared. was re
sponsible for a good portion of Ameri
can divorces. The rabbi said:
"From the day the daughter enters
young womanhood the sole thought of
many homes is man catching, io arti
fice is shunned that shall enable the
gorgeously decked out huntress quick
est to entrap her victim.
"There is probably no thought
which occupies a young society woman
more than that of being married;
there Is probably no thought which
occupies her less than that of being
happy when married, or making a
husband happy."
CHICAGO'S IDEA OF A JOKE.
Autos Rush to Hotel to Convince New
Yorker Business Is Brisk.
Chicago. Dec. 22. A practical joke
played upon a young woman guest at
the Auditorium Annex nearly caused a
riot of chauffeurs at the hotel.
The trouble began when the young
woman was told by the clerk over the
house telephone: "Your car is ready."
She replied that she had ordered no
car. However, in quick succession.
five more calls were turned in. Hotel
detectives finally explained to the
waiting chauffeurs that they were not
wanted.
The young woman explained that re
cently she expressed the opinion that
there was less automo ninng in Chi
cago than in New York.
Portland. Oregon.
Every night at 7:35 a Pullman tour.
1st sleeping car leaves Topeka via the
Union Pacifis R. R. which goes
through to Portland, Oregon, without
change. There is no better way to
reach all of the great Pacific northwest.
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
" goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
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The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
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