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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING- MARCH 21, 1913-
RAILROAD NEWS
The Store of Dependable
Merchandise.
I
The Store of Dependable
Merchandise
Another Side of the Anti-Corporation
Question.
Commissioner 01 instead of Xew
York Gives Views.
LACK OF MONEY IN EAST
Onlj 27 Out of 78 Roads Paid
Dividends.
Other Items of Interest In lbs
Traffic World.
When John B. Olmstead, of Buffalo,
was proposed for public service com
missioner of the state of New York,
some of his friends said he was too
much of an anarchist for that position,
or any in which he would have to deal
with large franchised corporations. Mr. j
inmstead sara. mmseir. in his address
upon retiring from office, "I came into
office with decided leanings toward the
p tl-corporation view of public utility
questions."
But Mr. Olmstead's views changed
with Increasing knowledge of the facts
relating to these corporations.
"Want of knowledge as to the precise
point involved," said he, "I have found
In many cases to be the principal cause
of the prejudices I then entertained.
Experience has taught me that there
is another side to these questions, and
or.e not lightly to be dismissed."
"For instance. I held the view, as
I imagine many other person holds that
view, that the New York Central rail
road is greatly over-capitalized, and is
paying dividends on a large amount of
what is popularly known as water.
Wjen it came to my knowledge as a
Tart of the evidence of a long investiga
tion in the Buffalo, Rochester & East
em that the estimated cost of that
company's 300 miles of railroad from
Troy to Buffalo, planned without ade
quate allowances for terminal yards
and facilities at either end, and touch
ing but one or two large centers of
population, was approximately $100,000,
ooo. I came to the view that the New
York Central, with its four tracks
running through the heart of so many
jcreat cities of the state, with all the
attendant advantages to freight and
passenger business, and with approxi
mately 500 miles more trackage, includ
ing the vast and valuable terminal
facilities of New York City, might pos
sibly on a valuation measure up to five
times that of the B. R. & K."
Mr. Olmsted's experience taught him
that a great change had transpired in
the attitude of the men at the head
of the great corporations toward the
public and the public's right of cen
sorship. In his own relations with
them he had found them uniformly fair
and ready to co-operate with reasonable
measures.
On the matter of dividends, about
i ich there is so much misapprehen
sion, Mr. Olmsted said:
"One great difficulty with certain
corporations is the lack of means to
carry out ihe improvements to the serv
ice which their operating men admit
would be advisable and desirable."
Then he recites some figures from
"nar last annual report.'' which are not
only illuminating, but amazing to
many. He says:
"Out of seventy-eight steam railroads
reporting to the commission in New
Tork. only twenty-seven paid any divi
dends for the current year. Out of 364
electric railroads, light, heat and power,
and gas corporations, only 127 paid divi
r
XEW SAXTA FE EXTEXSIOX.
Oldest Town in Oklahoma Offers
Bonus for Branch IXne.
Offering a substantial bonus and
the free right of way, citizens of Beav
er, the oldest town" in Oklahoma, are
asking the Santa Fe to extend the line
Rheumatism
Affects
Lungs
- .
Easter Shoes f or the Easter Costume
See Our Window Display
and Visit Our Shoe Depart
ment (Annex) Saturday
tt
Nine O'clock" Low Shoes
are the shoes that give satisfac
tory wear and service for children,
misses and boys. They are here
now in Strap Pumps and Lace and
Button Oxfords in neat styles and
all leathers. Per pair
Ft" f? $3.00 to $4.25 .
Special Easter Exhibit
The new spring models in Pumps, Straps and
Oxfords are here and we have no hesitancy in
saying they are more beautiful and attractive than
ever. In workmanship, design and quality of materials
"Dorothy Dodd" Shoes outrank
any other made.
Wherever fashionably dressed
women congregate, you will find
"Dorothy Dodd" Shoes the favor
ites. They have endeared them
selves to women of taste because
of their serviceableness, high qual
ity, faultless style and flexibility.
$1.50 to $3.00
Gold Medal and W. M. C."
Pumps, Straps and Oxfords
in many new tZfi CQ
models, a pair U lO PJ
Toilet Goods Specials
for Saturday
Locust Blossom Perfume,
sells regularly at 50c an
ounce, Saturday, per oz 25c
Jickee Perfume, sells reg
ularly at 75c an ounce,
Saturday, per oz 50c
Riker's Face Powder in
white,, flesh and bru
nette, regular 25c boxes
Saturday for 19c
Sanitol Tooth Powder and
Tooth Paste, regular 25c
sizes Saturday for 19c
19c and 25c Tooth Brushes
with bone handles and
French bristles, Satur
day, your choice for. . . . 10c
Arabian Toilet Goods
Let Miss Smith demon
strate them to you Saturday.
As a special inducement to
try the Arabian Face Bleach,
a preparation to remove the
color stains, we offer it in
combination with the other
Arabian Goods Satur
day a 11.50 combina
tion for
$1
The Newest Things in
Neck Fixings and
Handkerchiefs
In the newest things in Neck
wear the little novelties and pret
ty creations in fixings which wo
men love to buy this store is am
ply prepared to fill the require
ments of the f most varied taste3.
Trimmed .in the gay Bulgarian
colors, dainty little combinations
of laces and ribbons hundreds of
different pretty things to choose
from, and all popularly priced at
25c and up. As an Easter special
we are showing some dainty linen
handkerchiefs in white embroidery
and lace trimming and new deli
cately colored borders at 25 and
15 each. See them tomorrow.
Get Easter Cards Here
Tomorrow
Easter Post .Cards, many
designs 2 for 5e
Tinted Easter Post Cards
with gold design and
printed with appropriate
verses tinted edges!
each . 5c
Easter Booklets with en
graved and embossed
designs in colors and
gold lettering, tied with
silk cord, and fitted with
envelopes, choice each.. 5c
Easter Greeting Folders,
hand tinted designs,
some with engraved
verses, with tinted edge
envelopes, your choice,
each . 10c
Easter Greeting Folded
Cards, pretty designs,
with siik cord and tas
sels, each 10c
Printed Greeting Cards,
each 15c
Beautiful Hand Painted
Motto Cards, each 25c
X"p to 25c Barrel tes 10c.
Plain Barrettes in all sizes,
of shell and amber, 10c, 15c
and 25c values Saturday,
each 10c
down to Beaver from Englewood. Kan.
The line would be built through Odee,
Kan., and Forgan, Okla., to Beaver
Officials of the road in Topeka have
been informed of this offer.
MOKE SAXTA PE DOCBLE TRACK,
To Spend Sl.OOO.000 in Improvements
Through Western Mountains.
San Bernardino. Cal., March 21.-
Plans for double tracking its line from
Victorville to Summit, connecting at
the latter station with the double
track now being pushed northward
from Keenbrook at a cost of approxi
mately Jl, 000, 000, are being made by
the Santa Fe.
The new double tracking job will
call for the laying of nineteen miles
of track through a mountain country,
and the cost will be around 11,000,000.
With the completion of this double
track work the Santa Fe will have a
double track line from San Bernardino
to Barstow. This stretch of track is
probably the busiest on the system
and the advantage of double track is
readily apparent.
Chief Engineer Morse has been for
the past week looking at the Keen-brook-Summit
work and has given his
approval to the plans for the Victor-ville-Summit
job.
According to W. H. Brewer, assist
ant to Acting General Manager Hib-
: I bard of the coast lines the double
, t , t... ' track work now under way will not
rneumonia, lirOncnitiS, Fntni- be completed for three or four months.
so it is improbable that the new
double tracking project will be gotten
under way until late in the year, prob
ably not before next year. He stated
positively that the work would be
done, however.
sis. Asthma and Anemia
Often Directly the
Result of Rheu
matic Blood.
RECORD IX FRISCO EARNINGS.
March Reports Exceed All High
leisures of Former Years.
Xew York. March 21. A. S. Greig,
vice president of the St. Louis & San
Francisco railroad, who left here to
day for St. Louis said: "In the first
week of March the Frisco had the
largest business and the largest gross
earnings for that week in the com
pany's history. February business
also was good, the only sore spot in
the entire situation being coal traffic.
Unexampled prosperity exists in the
southwest. St. Louis is filled with
buvers from the entire southwest re-
If you have a persistent, nagging bron- gion. A great deal of grain has been
chial cough beware of cough remedies, moved, but much grain traffic re
TThey are merely local in action, and if mains. Lumber, agricultural products
they do relieve it is the narcotics that and merchandise are all producing
do it. What you require is a blood purl- large traffic. More home seekers than
tier, a searching antidota that removes sver oeiore are going inio xexas anu
from the circulation the acid poisons that f1
Island management has made an ap
propriation of $200,000 for improve
ments at Fairbury, $100,000 of -which
will be spent in the current year and
another $100,000 in 1914.
ROSSMAKES ANSWER
State Superintendent Defines Position
on Textbook Law.
southwestern states. Had we
severe winter, coal traffic on
" renex" "ac weaKness, of the volume of otner kjnds of
susceptible spots and thus create local lrt,ffiCt WOuld have caused extraordi
symptoms. The very best remedy known narv earnings. On account of the
Is Swift's Sure Specific. You will find tnild winter, coal business so far in
it on sale in any drug store at $1.00 per March has fallen rather flat. Xot
bottle. It goes straight into the blood, withstanding the slowness of coal traf
liecomes an internal blood bath, wonder- fic. however, and twenty-eight days
fully increases the red corpuscles, cures against twenty-nine, February car
all the local fever spots and irritations, loadings increased 4 per cent. I see
Increases appetite, you take on flesh and sign of any diminution of traffic
feel a wonderful sense of renewed for a ,on while to come,
strength. Hundreds of people worried pjpKOVEMEXTS ON ROCK ISLAND
beyond control at cough, pains in the
chest, sore throat and constant expectora- Xew Depots. Yard and Shops at Fair
tion of thick mucous have experienced bury Promised by Topekans.
the most wonderful change after using j. b. Smalley. assistant general
S3. S. S. All doubt and apprehension is manager of the Rock Island in To
gone, those peculiar pains and aches van- peka. has returned to his office after
Ish. there follows a period of most in- attending a meeting of the lairbury
tense rejoicing to find that worst fears
were based entirely upon a mistaken no
tion that cough and chest pains come
from the lungs. These are rheumatic
conditions, and you will quickly realize
it after using S. S. S. for a few days.
Get a bottle of S. S. S. to-day at the drug
store and then say good-by to all those
pains that have worried you..
Write to The Swift Specific Co., 187 ! viaduct. The entire Commercial club
Swift Bldg.. Atlanta, Ga.. for medical was present to hear the plans out
advice and wonderful facts concerning lined by the Rock Island officials.
th greatest blood, remedy ever known, ' iIr- Smalley stated that the Rock
Neb.. Commercial club and a number
of Rock Island officials when extensive
arrangements were made for the en
largement of the Rock Island loco
motive shops, the building of a $30,
000 depot, the purchase of grounds
for stock yards east of the city, the
building of a big freight depot, the
installation of eighteen additional
) switch tracks, and the building of a
To the State Journal.
Since I have been dragged into the
controversy over the state publication
of textbooks against my .will, and par
ticularly in view of certain statements
quoted from some anonymous "friend
of state publication" in your last night's
issue. I ask that you publish the fol
lowing statement over my- own signa
ture: Neither the state department of pub
lic instruction nor the legislative com
mittee of the State Teachers' associa
tion, nor. so far as I am informed,
the representative school men of the
state were consulted by the legislature
either as to the desirability of state
publication or in the drafting of the
several bills that were presented. And
when a statement to this effect was
made to one member he said. ' ..ell,
you know why that is; it's because
school people are not to be trusted, and
are all against 'state publication any
way." It is true that after the. Da vis bill
had passed the senate and the Bunger
bill had passed the house, one of the
conferees came to the state super
intendent's office and asked for sug
gestions for reconciling the two bills
and some were given; but the most
Important of these, i. e., one making j
a specific provision with reference to
high school books, and one permitting
the use of supplementary books by
authority and under direction of the
commission, were ignored.
There is, however, still better evi
dence that th" opinions and wishes of
the educators of the state wore not
considered and not wanted. The last
State Teachers association with an
attendance of more than 4.000 unani
mously adopted a resolution asking
that a thorough Investigation of the
whole textbook question be made dur
ing the next two years and a report
be presented to the legislature of 1915
before any definite action should be
taken. This resolution was written by
Superintendent Pearson of Kansas
City and was supported by Superin-
Had Serious Lung
Trouble -Now Well
Somehow there exists a vast amount of
scepticism as the possibility of curing
Consumption. We state none but facts,
and and are sincere in what we assert.
If we were afflicted with Tuberculosis,
we should do precisely what we ask ethers
to do take Kokman'x Alterative prompt
ly and faithfully. The reason wo nhoul.1
no this and warrant we have for asking
all Consumptives to take it, is that e
have the reports of many recoveries, one
of which follows;
1619 Susquehanna Ave.. Phila.. Pa.
Gentlemen: For two years 1 was af
flicted with hemorrhages of the lungs, the
number totaled nearly one hundred. Our
family physician advised another climata,
as to remain would probably be fatai.
However. I remained, and in February of
1902. I was taken with a severe attack of
pneumonia When I recovered sufficiently
to walk about the house I was left wltn
a frightful hacking cough, which no me.l!.
cine I had taken could alleviate. It was
at this time. March. 1H02. that 1 learned of
ana started taxing EcKrran's Alterative.
In a short time my cough was gone ami I
was pronounced well. Since that time 1
have had two slight attacks of pneumonia
and I have resorted to no other medicine
to effect a recovery.
"I am at present in excellent health xnri
feel that as long as I can obtain Ect
man's Alterative. I have no fear of Con
sumption. I cannot speak too highly for
the good it has done."
(Signed HOWARD L. KLOTZ.
Eckman's Alterative is effective in Bron
chitis. Asthma. Hay Fever; Throat ar.d
Lung Troubles, and In upbuilding the sys
tem. Does not contain poisons, opiates or
hablt-forminc drugs. For sale by Ot-o.
W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas ave., and other
leading druggists. Ask for booklet telling
of recoveries, and write to Ecknian Labo
ratory. Philadelphia, Pa., for additional
evidence. Adv.
Railroad Fare Refunded to Out of Town Buyers According to Amount Purchased.
The Annual Box Sale of
Onyx" Quality Hosiery
Commences Tomorrow
Morning at This Store
For the past twenty-six years we have been
selling; "ONYX" Hosiery and in doing so have se
cured and kept hundreds of satisfied patrons of
,our Hosiery Department. For twenty-six years
we proved that ONYX" quality means REAL
quality in hose.
This annual sale has grown to be a sort of cele
bration with us. During; the sale we put special
prices on our entire line of "Onyx" Hosiery
prices that warrant the purchasing of a whole
year's supply for the family, and while it is a "Box
Sale," we have also made special price concessions
for those who only wish to purchase a few pairs.
Be here tomorrow.
tarn m ,iw H L, ' K BM5a
Parcel Post Prepaid
to any point in Kansas on
all Hosiery orders.
You make the assortment
to suit your needs
In order to benefit by the "box" prices, it
is not necessary for you to take all one size
Dr one kind. You have the utmost freedom'
in making up the boxes. Different colors of
the same size, different sizes of the
same color, intants hose with men's,
men's with ladies' in fact any sort of
combination you desire may be selected,
provided the original selling prices were
the same.
What "Onyx" Means to You
"Onyx" fast colors mean absolutely fadeless
dyes. "Onyx" full fashioned hose mean hose
that will hold shape in wear and laundering.
"Onyx" means thorough quality throughout.
Every style, color and kind
of hose included
This Box Sale includes hose for men, wo
men and children. It includes that popular
silk plated hose for men and women hose
that have all the beauty of the silk with the
strength of lisle, and this is the
only time of the year that silk
plaited hose are sold at less than
regular prices. It includes silk, em
broidered, lace, lisle and cotton
hose for women and the new dou
ble knee hose. It includes all colors,
all sizes, all styles, and you'll find
no more complete Hosiery stock
than that in the Warren M. Crosby
Co. Store.
Any of Our Women's or Men's Silk Hose in Stock
Worth $2.50 pair, for box three pairs $6.75
Worth $2.00 pair, for box three pairs $5.25
Worth $1.50 pair, for box three pairs $3.75
Worth $1.00 pair, for box three pairs $2.48
Worth 75c pair, for box three pairs $1.79
Any of Our Women's, Men's and Children's Silk, Cotton,
or Lisle Thread Hose in Stock.
Worth 50c pair, for box six pairs. $2.59
Worth 35c pair, for box six pairs $1.79
Worth 25c pair, for box six pairs $1.28
Worth 19c pair, for box six pairs 98c
Worth 15c pair, for box six pairs . , 75c
Special Prices by the Pair
Any of our Ladies' black embroidered lisle hose worth $1.50 and $1.25 pair, for pr. $1.00.
Any of our Ladies' Black lace and embroidered or colore dlace and embroidered lisle hose
Worth $1.00 pair, for pair .65(4 I Worth 50c pair, for pair 35
WTorth 75c pair, for pair .48 j Worth 25c pair, for pair 19(
Odd Numbers to Close Out at Special Prices by the Pair
Children's black lisle stockings, values up
to $1.00, per pair 48
Men's Silks, fancy lisles, and laces in black
and colors, 50c values, pair ZSf
Children's black lisle stockings, sizes 6 to
8i2, 35c values, pair 25
Men's fancy lisle and cotton sox, all colors,
25c values, pair 15
Odd lot of children's black stockings, reg
ular 25c values, to close out, pair 19
Ladies' black silk boot hose, lisle tops and
foot, 50c values, pair 35 ; 25c values, pr. 19
Ladies' black lisle stockings, medium
weight, with deep hem top and double foot,
regular 35c value, special pair 295 ; 6 pairs
for .$1.50
DRUGS
Cut Rate
Baby Foods
All the good ones are here.
Which one is good for your
baby?
You can only tell by trying.
Mellins. large size 65c: Malted Milk,
small 45c, large 90c: Hospital $3.50;
Eskay's. small 45c. large 6 5c; Hospit
al. $2.35: Xestles small. 45c; Hospita
al $2.35; Fairchild's Peptogenic, small
45c, large 90c.
JXJO West Tenth.
Telephone 450 Free Iclivery.
Cut Rate
tendent Starr and Principal Stout, all
of whom are quoted by your anony
mous authority as having favored the
law that has just been enacted. The
legislative committee of the state as
sociation had the resolution introduced
in both houses but it was summarily
killed. W. D. ROSS,
State Superintendent Public Instruction.
The long-wearing, good fitting, eas g ing, fully
guaranteed hose for men, womei. a 1 children.
Sold in single pairs at 25c or a
by the box of pairs
WE ARE THE TOPEKA DEALERS FOR WUNDERHOSE
Commission Demands Data.
Washington. March 21. In its in
vestigation of the use of freight cars
owned by socalled private car lines,
the interstate commerce commission
today called on all railroads of the
country for information which will
form the basis of a practical census
of freight cars. An elaborate form
furnished to the railroads calls for
data concerning the cars owned or
leased by the railroads and cars owned
by private car lines, rates and mile
age charged and the cost of handling
refrigerator cars. Answers must be
filed before April 20.
Grants Stay of Sentence.
Springfield, 111., March 21. Judge
Cartwright of the supreme court has
granted a stay of sentence in the
case of Evelyn Arthur See until the
supreme court has passed on the peti
tion for a rehearing of the case at the
April term of court. See was con
victed in Cook county of the abduc
tion of Mildred Bridges and was sen
tenced to imprisonment to the peni
tentiary at Joilet. The supreme court
affirmed the sentence of the lower
court, but later See filed a motion for
a rehearing.
Great Future for City.
Kansas City, Mo.. March 21. Xo
other city in the t'nited States, outside
of New Tork and Chicago, has a
greater future before it than Kansas
City. Put into a few words, this is i
the opinion of Henry Jackson Waters, ,
president of the Kansas Agricultural
college, whom nearly every one ex
pected to be secretary of agriculture
in President Wilson's cabinet. This
opinion was expressed here in an ad
dress to the City club.
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GLASGOW 2H ia. BELMONT 2H
MEDORA 2H ia.
4 "BTk QL T
Kotch COLLARS
"Get the knack of the NOTCH"
15c each 2 for 25c
Claett. Peabody A Co., Maker
DR. GEO. PORT ASHT0N
DENTIST
Ball Pnrne 328
N. W. Carnar Elaath m4 Kansas A
sometimes start from mental strain
or indigestion, but more often from
general weakness, and lead to appal
ling conditions unless checked.
Treat the cause, not the effect.
SCOTT'S EMULSION overcomes nervous
ness in a wonderful, permanent way by making
life-sustaining blood corpuscles ; it nour
ishes the nerve centres and acts as a
bracing tonic to build you up.
w Scott's Emulsion does not stupefy
it feeds them in Nature's way.
Scott & Bo wick, Blootnncld. r. J. i?-96
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Yourself
Ask for
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The Food Drink for all Ages Others are Imitation