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TELE TOFEKA UAlAiY H-JSll-AJLl): SifcLTUlilXA-lf, IN 1904. 8 TOLD HIS STORY 10 COURT HOUSE lrn ton's RAILROAD NEWS OWTH HAIR PERFECT Mead's Version of the Found Scene of Exciting Episodes in Topeka Men Speak Before the Railway Surgeons' Meeting. ing of Manhattan Shawnee County. Cleanses and beautifies the teetn ana purifies the breath. Used by people of refinement EARLY DAY REMINISCENCE ORIGINAL COST S60.000.CO OCCUPY PROMINENT PLACE iui- quarter oi a century.

Very convenient for tourists. probability that he would lose his position should the deal go through. His death was said to have been due to apoplexy, but the coroner has found no evidence of it, and may order a post mortem. A singular fact is that Mr. Parker had removed everything of value from his clothing evidently just before his death and locked it up in his private box.

"When the pockets were turned out it was found that he had but thirty-five cents and a pocket knife in them, besides which there was only one other article of value upon his person, a gold ring on his finger. A search of Mr. Parker's desk disclosed all his valuables in a private box. His private papers, memoranda, watch, pocket, ook, keys and money were all found neatly placed in thfs box, where they had been carefully laid. Two physicians vho were called to attend him and who arrived just before he breathed his last, declare they made no examination which would tend to show them the cause of death, while Coroner Weaver is also at a loss to know the cause of his death.

Dr. Joseph Eichberg stated there was no evidence that would point to suicide, and that Mr. Parker's death probably was due to a heart attack. PREPARED BY Had to Contend With Lack of Basement Jail Held Notable Promoted by Shampoos of Cuticura Soap And Light Dressings of Cuticura This treatment at once stops falling hair, removes crusts, scales, and dandruff soothes irritated, itching Claims Attorney Hamilton and Chief Surgeon Kaster. Prisoners.

Capital and "With Fire. 7 of the Big Blue and there waited for Interesting Tale of Hardships Under Was Finest Building in State When another rise. Our- passengers became impatient of delays and, while consid Rock Island in Danger in Texas Kansas Men Interested in New Colorado RoadOther News. gone by Kansai Pioneers Navigation of the Eaw River. Erected in 1868 New Valued at About $8,500.

ering a plan to convey them and their effects fifteen miles overland by wag ons to the site selected, a delegation The recent death of Andrew J. Mead from Pawnee, headed by Major Klotz, waited upon me with a liberal proposition from the Pawnee settlement to join forces with them, especially as The old court house, now used as an armory, at the southwest corner of surfaces, des troys hair parasites, stimulates the hair in New York makes Mr. Mead's own story of the founding of Manhattan in Fourth street and Kansas avenue, to they were expecting government fa vors. About the same time came an be sold on December 9 by the county commissioners, has been the scene of teresting at this time. Mr.

Mead's own story of the project and how it other proposition from the BJston Town association, who claimed pre was carried out, as printed In the emption rights at the junction of the seventh volume of the Kansas Histori Kansas and the Blue, where our steam boat was then stranded. Rumors were cal society's collection, is as follows: in circulation that the Pawnee com In 1854 our government sent, supplies to Fort Riley by steamboat; hence the pany was in trouble, and that two army officers had been -sent from Washington to investigate charges conclusion that the Kansas was that had been made to the effect that a navigable stream. Boatmen and the Pawnee settlement was trespass others on the Ohio and elsewhere be WHEN THE MILLENIUM COMES. There'll Be No More Railroad Wrecks Then. In the good time coming, says the Washington Post, there will not be any single track nor any trains going in opposite directions on the, same track; grade crossings will have been abolished, the road beds, tracks and rolling stock of all roads will be as sound and safe as science, skill and money can make them, and no effort to insure safety will be spared.

Very few of our enormous aggregate of deaths and injuries by rail wouldhave occurred had all of these conditions been present. It is the absence of most of them that piles up the appalling list. So long" as that absence exists the slaughtering will go on. It will decrease in proportion to the extent to which the obvious causes are removed. follicles, loosens the scalp skin, supplies the roots with energy and nourishment, and makes the hair grow upon a sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp when all else fails.

came greatly interested in the subject of the supposed navigable waters of the new territory. In the spring of 1855 emigration to Kansas had as: ing on the military reservation, and after my interview with those officers I gave no further consideration to the Pawnee proposition, but later accepted the one from the Boston Town association and transferred the name Manhattan from the supposed head of naviga New York, Nov. 19. Modern methods of surgery as applied on the great railroads of the country were considered and discussed at the annual meeting of the New York and New England association of railroad surgeons yesterday. The opening session was jde- voted to the discussion of the general subject of "Surgical and Relief Service on Railways." Several papers were read by the representatives of western and Southern roads on the operation of special relief and hospital departments in connection also with the claims department, which prevails to a much larger extent on the western railroads than it does on the roads of the East.

Among the papers read were the following: "Transportation of the Injured with a Modern Hospital Car," by Dr. D. S. Vairchild, surgeon of the Chicago Northwestern railroad; and "Company Hospital System, with a Chief Surgeon, Its Relations and Value to the Claim Department," by J. D.

M. Hamilton, chief claims attorney of the Santa Fe railroad, and a general discussion of the topic by Dr. J. P. Kaster, chief surgeon of the Santa Fe.

Mr. Hamilton credited the claims departments with having served to establish more friendly relations between the railroads and the public and noted the dependence of this branch of railroad management on the hospital and relief department. sumed such proportions as to attract the attention of capitalists and busi many an exciting episode. In the early '70s and before, all of the United States prisoners from the territory south and west of Topeka were confined within the jail in its basement. That was in the days when Judge Delahay sat on the United States district bench in Topeka and "Wild Bill" Hickok was deputy United States marshal under C.

C. Whiting. During the building of the Union Pacific railroad west from Topeka and the Santa Fe railroad south, when Abilene and Hutchinson were known throughout the east as the "hell holes of the country" and murders were of almost daily occurrence, "Wild Bill" brought to the jail in the old court house all of the murderers, highwaymen and cattle thieves whom he could capture before they were finally disposed of. The old jail has held notable prisoners, too. Sam Lappin, the defaulting State Treasurer, was confined in it.

One morning a bar in the west end was found sawed and Lappin was absent. Although he was a big framed man and fleshy, weighing over 225 pounds, and although the hole between the bars was not over eight inches across, the story got out and tion to the mouth of the Blue. Lack of navigable water on the Kansas be tween the Blue and Republican rivers changed the site of Manhattan and dissipated legitimate forces of well laid plans for profit. TROUBLE FOR ROCK ISLAND. After my return East a succession of disasters followed our Kansas en terprise notably the burning of the steamer "Hartford," near St.

Mary's Mission, while on her way to Kansas City. After this a small steamer made a few trips between Kansas City and Manhattan, when navigation on the Kansas river was abandoned. Later, ness men, and it was for the purpose of developing along these lines that a company was formed at Cincinnati to transport passengers and freight from the mouth of the Kansas river to the head of navigation, and there establish a town. The company was well under way in its organization when their plan was brought to my notice and I was solicited to purchase an interest. In doing so, I had no other thought than to wait for returns of profit or loss.

I had, in 1854, withdrawn from mercantile pursuits, which I had followed as a boy and man for more than a quarter of a century, and was passing my time somewhat leisurely at Cincinnati or in New York, while contemplating a tour of observation to the Mississippi valley. My purpose became known to a few. Among the number was one greatly interested in the success of the steamboat enterprise, and he brought to my attention a business matter in the interest of the Kansas: expedition: which caused me to changer my plans, In addition to the expenses in the purchase of a steamboat, this company had "concluded to purchase and ship ten houses, to be set up on the town while passing my time in New York, still holds until this day, that he in the winter of 1855-56 reports from HE WILL TRY, ANYWAY. Motion to Revoke Its Charter In Texas. Austin, Nov.

19. Allison May-field, member of the Texas railroad commission, yesterday submitted a motion to the otr members of that body that steps be taken in the courts on behalf of the state of Texas to forfeit the charter of the Texas corporation of the Rock Island and to place it in the hands of a receiver. The reason for the- proposed motion Is an alleged manipulation of rates on grain and flour to Texas points by the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific, whereby a general demoralization of the interstate rates is threatened. No action was taken on the motjon owing to the absence of one of the Manhattan were so discduraging that word came to me 1 from parties resid Markham to Be Joint Agent of Mallory ing in Cincinnati: the effect that crawled through that hole. When the old court house was erected in 1868, It was the finest building of the sort in the state.

In that year the late. Col. D. R. Anthony of Leavenworth was chairman of a political meeting held in the building.

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MW Send for All About the Skin, Scalp, and Hair." Potter Drug Chem. Boston. Manhattan would be a failure unless some one came to its rescue. My first thought was to charge to profit and loss my Kansas venture, but on reflec Anthony told the "boys" to be careful of the building when they celebrated as it was the "finest in the West." tion, remembering friends who were. interested, I wrote to my correspond-; ents in Cincinnati! that I would meet And it was the" finest: by right, for the cost "of its erection was close to them there in a few; days for consulta tion respecting oun interests in Kan $60,000.

Its present value, including the lots upon which its stands, as sas and there, the pros and cons, agreed to make another trip to Kansas and -personally learn of fixed by appraisers appointed by the present board of county commission ers, is $8,500. the with the- understanding In 1867 the erection of a court house that I could close out the company's interest In Kansas "or-Tde velop; Manhat for Shawnee county became imperative on account of the limited quarters RIPLEY AT SAN FRANCISCO. Is Inspecting the Santa Fe Properties in California. San Francisco, 19. E.

P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroad, has arrived here. He is making a tour of inspection of the entire system, wrhich he controls, and an examination of the company's properties in this state. Mr. Ripley will spend the winter at his winter home in Santa Barbara.

tan a with -the resources at" my of the county officers which wrere On my second visit to Kansas, I re then occupying the rooms over what alized that "the best laid o'. SEE is now the Burghart drug store on East Sixth avenue. Charles Gilchrist was judge of the district court and Connections. New York, Nov. 19.

The appointment of M. C. Markham as joint agent of the Mallory line connections at Galveston and the responsibilities placed upon him in the matter of routing and shipping are construed to mean that rate cutting is to be stopped and no further excuse for it allowed to exist, by a fair distribution of traffic to all the lines. The Mallory connections are the Santa Fe, Rock Island. Missouri, Kansas Texas and the Gould lines.

Mr. Markham's headquarters will be in this city. Mr. Markham was for twenty-seven years assistant traffic manager of the Illinois Central. His present duties are to clip the wings of the Mallory" line so far as Galveston, is concerned and put an end to the alleged secret manipulation which has caused much irregularity and friction at that port.

But he cannot altogether stop the: rate cutting evil, as the Mallory has one channel left through which its secret practices may be continued Mobile, with the Mobile Ohio, said to be dominated by the Southern, its faithful ally. The Mobile Ohio has served notice that it will apply differentials ranging from 1 to 5 cents on business from New York via the Mallory line less than the rate through Virginia and other South Atlantic ports. The other companies interested are not willing to allow the differential, and if it is put into effect there will be the hottest and most protracted row yet brought on by the Mallory mice and men gang aft agley," yet the beautiful site for a city at the mouth of the Blue seemed to justify an effort out of the eleven county officers hold site to be selected. The funds necessary to complete this plan were promised on condition that I would in person locate the Bite. Itfwas estimated that sixty days would be sufficient for that purpose.

Accordingly, early in May, 1855, I started from Cincinnati in advance of the steamer, with a surveyor equipped for the work. Nothing worthy of note transpired en route until we reached Kansas City. That city then claimed' a population of about 500. We here made the acquaintance of a few prospectors bound for the new territory, and arranged for a conveyance with the understanding that a majority of the passengers should have control of the team and return with it to Kansas City at their pleasure. On the conclusion of our first day's journey of about fourteen miles we stopped for the night at John to revive interest in Manhattan.

Ac ing at that but two A. L. Williams, county and P. I. Bone- cordingly, in the spring of 1856, work was commenced by repairing damaged brake, county clerk -are now alive.

The district court was located in the houses and by building an addition to mm one to be used for the accomodation front room of the second floor of the PPltptiS RALPH RARLETTE HUMORIST AT THE AUDITORIUM Thanksgiving Night building: on East Sixth avenue. The of the traveling public. Two ferries were established, one on the Blue and another on the Kansas, and by the cm rtnoUiilALo clerk of the court had a desk in the court In the second room was former the travel from the Juniata the countv clerk and in the rooms in the rear were located the other of crossing, for miles north was changed fices. Ham's Indian cabin. En route we met to the Manhattan crossing, and the latter crossing to the south of the Kansas, with a stage line on that side of The first step taken toward building a court house was in February, 186 1, when the people at a special election the river to Topeka.

These facilities for travel brought emigrants In large numbers to and through Manhattan. voted to issue $50,000 in bonds. On April 5, the contract for the erection Riley county was then comparatively of the building was let to G. Mills Co. of Chicago for approximately free from the political disturbances that existed in other parts of the terri 000 to be paid in 10 per cent bonds.

Misses Mabel Jones and Mabel Will will spend Sunday in Kansas City. General Superintendent J. E. Hurley returned from Chicago Thursday night. C.

B. Hoover began work again yesterday in the freight auditing department, after taking a short vacation. Chief Engineer J. M. Meade of the east-tern grand division returned Thursday evening from a trip into Oklahoma.

Miss Chivers, stenographer in the chief engineer's office, returned to work yes-terda- after a visit to the World's fair. Tr.e striking machinists vhave completed a watch house at the corner of Fensky and Branner streets for their pickets to stay in during the winter. u. E. King, of La Junta, general superintendent of the western grand division, was in town yesterday to confer with the grievance committee of the engineers and firemen.

The carpenter work was sub-let by tory, and Manhattan rapidly became a KANSAS MEN IN IT. the Mills company to H. Kullah. The architect of the building was E. D.

busy and thriving settlement. These improved conditions, with the trend of emigration westward, greatly revived Baldwin. Colonel Joel Huntoon was interest in Manhattan. At the dawn of a promised era of chosen by the board of commissioners to superintend the construction. The board of commissioners was composed of R.

E. Kistler, S. Kosier and prosperity, the hotel building was Admission 25c. No Reserved Seats Doors open 7:30. Trouble begins at 8:15 Wit, humor, eloquence, optimism, originality, happiness, pathos, inspiration, enthusiasm, morality, laughter and contentment, all in one evening, and it only costs you a quarter.

Mr. E. H. Crosby, chairman of the Entertainment Committee of the Commercial Club, is determined to refund to the subscribers the money contributed for the Semi-Centennial Celebration last May, and Erastus generally gets there yhen he tries. The money received for this lecture will be used in reimbursing the subscribers to the fund.

burned, with all -its contents, guests Ruben Stees. In March, 18G8, it became apparent that the contracting company would not be able to finish the building for barely escaping with their lives. Another loss by fire was a heavy drain upon the company's resources, yet it did not seriously inpede progress, for before the smoke from the embers had disappeared plans were being formed for the construction of a stone hotel the specified amount. Another spe Interested in a Colorado Railroad Just Incorporated. Denver, Nov.

19. Articles of incorporation of the Colorado, Wyoming Idaho railroad were filed at the otiice of the Secretary of State yesterday by E. S. Chenoweth and John D. Milli-ken of Kansas, respectively secretary-treasurer and general counsel of the company.

The company is incorporated for $10,000,000, and proposes to build a railroad from Denver to Boise, a distance of about 800 miles. The enterprise is backed by Chicago and New England capitalists and is said to have a large per cent of its capital stock already subscribed. Much preliminary work has already been done and the promoters say that the road is on a sound financial basis and will be rushed to completion. They deny connection with any other railroad cial election was held and the county voted to issue $10,000 more in bonds to cover the cost of the structure. When the building was accepted by the new board of commissioners com NASHVILLE MEETING Fall Session of the Tennessee Breeders Association.

Nashville, Tenn. Nov. 19. The fall meeting of the Tennessee Breeders' association opened today under auspicious conditions. The stables at Cumberland Park are filled with fast horses representing many of the most prominent racing establishments and all indications point to six xiays of successful racing.

The event of the opening day was the Southern Turf handicap. building on the same site. This was soon completed, and for many years the Manhattan hotel was the center of business, social and political life, and a citadel of defense in the darkest period of Kansas history. prising A. G.

Miller, C. Carriger and G. W. -Spencer on June 4, 1868, the total cost was found to have come barely inside the $60,000 appropriated. The county offices were moved into THE DECREASE IN SALT the building during the first three days of July, 1868.

'Phone 320 United States Produced 18,968,089 The cost of the building which, as During the Year 1903. The latest government statistics compared with the cost of the new court house erected in 1895, seems a number of wagons with returning emigrants, who reported no good land west of Lawrence. On the afternoon of the third day we reached Indian-ola, by fording the Kansas river at Topeka, where all but two of our company declared, with great disgust, they had seen enough, and returned with the team to Kansas City. During our short rest at Indianola we learned it was probable that we could secure a conveyance for our journey at St. Mary's Mission, but none was obtainable at Indianola.

It was, however, our good fortune to get ride of twenty-two miles to the mission with a typical breaker of the sod on his way to Rock creek. At St. Mary's we were made to feel that civilization had again dawned upon us, and the kindness of the late Dr. L. R.

Palmer we secured a conveyance to Fort Riley. Our route from the mission was by the old military road, crossing the Blue at Juniata, and the only building seen or now remembered between the Big Blue and Pawnee was the house of Jacob Thiere. After a short stop at Pawnee we paid our respects to Colonel Montgomery, then in command at Fort Our reception was in keeping with traditions of West Point culture, and tenders of hospitaity with facilities for the prosecution of our work beyond what we could have anticipated. Although Colonel Montgomery was greatly interested in the development of Pawnee, he furnished horses and joined us in our search for a site for the new city at the head of navigation. After the selection was made, surveyed, and christened Manhattan (now the site of Junction City), I felt that my part of the work was about completed, and only waited the arrival of the steamer "Hartford," which thereafter was to ply as a packet between Kansas City and Manhattan, to see that her passengers and freight were safely landed, and then return to Cincinnati.

The company based the promise of returns upon assurances that the Kansas river was a navigable stream to and beyond Fort Riley. After long waiting' for news of the progress of our steamer en route from Cincinnati, loaded with passengers and freight for the new city, a flatboat was built and launched at Pawnee with due ceremony, honored by the presence of Colonel Montgomery and a part of his staff, who witnessed our departure in search of the delayed steamer. Our trip was a success, as we safely reached Kansas City after scraping many sandbars, and there met the long expected steamer "Hartford" waiting for a rise in the Kansas river. Heavy rains soon followed and the steamer worked her way to the mouth state that the United States produced 18,968,089 barrels of salt during the year 1903. This is the smallest out enormous, was the result of the inadequate means for transporting material at that time.

The basement of the building is constructed of enormous put since 1898, and. shows that the use of salt is decreasing! This is proba- standstones and heavy iron work. 1 he foundation is good for a hundred blv due to the recent disclosures or For Moving, Storing, Crating Household Goods, Moving Pianos, and all kinds of Merchandise. The Topeka Transfer and Storage Co. eminent scientists that people eat too years.

A large pari ol iuis maicnai had to be brought to lopeua oy wag ons and teams from long distances. SANTA FE AUDITOR UP. Says that Live Stock Make Most Expensive Shipping. Chicago, Nov. 19.

Officials of the railroad companies which the cattle raisers of the southwest claim are charging exorbitant freight rates on live stock shipments were the principal witnesses before the interstate commerce commission yesterday. A. F. Bailey, chief auditor for the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad company, testified that live stock traffic is the most expensive of any handled by the road. R.

M. Calkins, assistant general freight agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railway company, corroborated this. much salt, that thereas sufficient natural salt in the waterrwe drink, in the air we breathe, and in the fruits ana vegetables we eatrto supply the human The old court house was found aae- nnntf. for the needs of the county busi system, without sprmKiing it plenti ness until 1890, when the register of 406-410 East Sixth Ave.

fully on every disn. r. Many diseases are now traced to the use of salt. deeds' office was moved to the umce block on East Fifth street. In 1892 Success.

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