Two New Trains Added to Eastern Division Rail Service
Rail changes announced for Ottawa to Emporia through connections, with discontinua tions between Chanute and Madison. New trains Bonouin and 118 added between Chanute and Emporia daily except Sundays, effective Nov 27 and 17. Schedule adjustments affect Guthrie Western line and Howard Branch with altered connections and timing.
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Banta My
Kansas
Chanute
Badiayn
Emporia Didty
North Ottawa
Pomona
Quenenia
Taos
Selvern
Lebo
Newsha Rapids
Arcive Copurza
Emporia
Dally Ax
Bonday Selboda
Meorho Rapids
Mewurn
Queneme
North Olra
Ortawe
Ruport Sbe
Guthrie & Western Railway
Attalgtt
Basseneer
Kingfisher
Dnilp
Weil
Little Iver
Chiletral River
Lorraine
Irood Tietviotore Sa
San Bernardino Inventor Applies to Railroad Turntable
A report from San Bernardino details an inventor applying for a new improved railroad turntable at the Santa Fe line. The device, tested in the roundhouse, features a pivoting table and requires coordinated operation by engineers without extra helpers. Officials discuss approvals and potential impact on machinery workflow.
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San Bernardino
Berngling
Cal
Usuabty
R Opesiing & Uvalue
Palltor
Biter
Sendrick
Chicago toads discuss rail fare withdrawal proposal
Rock Island bales Chicago reports that all Chicago St Paul toads except Folk Weta favor withdrawing the eight dollar passenger rate between Chicago and BL and restoring the eleven dollar rate. The Hock Istinal has not shown any position. Peritoneal note indicates mixed reactions to the withdrawal while some adhere to a proposal to accept an incommunicable condition.
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Chicago
Chicago-St. Paul
Wisconsin Rate Battle Hangs on Restoration Plan
The article outlines a debated restoration plan for an $8 rate tied to a transit project. It notes opposition and implied conditions, suggesting the rate could be withdrawn under certain terms, with railroads like the Chicago Western potentially seeking special concessions.
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Wisconsin Centra
Rail route mixup delays Kansas City journey
A traveler recalls an unusual rail trip from the West to Kansas City hindered by a Union Pacific washout near Topeka. With UP out, the Rock Island rerouted via the Santa Fe line, pulling a special engine and engineers from three lines to reach Kansas City.
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Karsne City
Kansas City Journal
Kansas City
Rock Ftland
Topeka
Union Pacific
Kansain City
Kansan City
Sansan City
Santa Fe
Denair Named as Possible Santa Fe Division Superintendent
Report says Denair of the Arizona division of the Santa Fe may succeed Division Superintendent Beamer in San Bernardino. If the regular succession holds, Jamah may take the next rank. Rail men consider Denair a strong candidate, admired in San Bernardino and connected to local property interests.
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Beamer
San Bernardino
Gal
Denair
Arizona
Santa Fe
Jamah
Nempley al
Chicago and Northwestern Railway 1903 Annual Report Summary
The Chicago and Northwestern Railway reports for the year ending May 11 1903 show higher earnings across passenger freight express and miscellaneous items totaling a gain of 10 58 8 but operating expenses rose by 2 855 457 including tax and revenue charges pushing total expenditures up 325 410 and causing a net earnings decline of 55 811 despite increased revenue.
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Ite
Chicago and Northwestern Hn Company
Morgan Should Beware Endurance of Any Man
Morgan should beware the limit to endurance as a section chief is struck by a projectile. The incident left him badly stunned but alive, with a section house and box car involved in the event noted in the Bernardino Sun report.
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Morgan
W. O. Morgan
Ban Bernardino
Annual conference of taster mechanics on the Satta Fe coast
In Los Angeles the annual conference of tas ter mechanics of the Satta Fe coast conducted the new formation. Reporters include J pee of the Winslow division LR m of needne ue, Hi Schaetter of TNeudiens FB, Todd of Sen Bernardine and E s Harlow of Point Richmond.
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Satta Fe Coast
Los Angeles
Get J Pee
Winslow Diviater LR m
Needne Ue
Schaetter
Tneudiens
Todd
Sen Bernardine
E. S Harlow
Point
Santa Fe Branes High Travel Pay Across Rail Lines
A garbled table shows earnings per train run across several railroads including Pennsylvania $1.98 and New Haven Hartford $142, with Jersey Central and Wabash among the lower earners. An engine accident description mentions a fatality and a disastrous fire prompting a legal probe.
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Pennsylvania
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Rock Inland
Wabash
Kan sas City Route Opens Milestone Line to Chicago
The Milwaukee and St. Paul road completes the Kansas City route from Muscatine to Hedrak Iowa and will open for traffic in September. The new auto reduces distance between Chicago and Kansas City from 190 to 485 miles.
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Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Kansas City
Muscatine
Hedrak
Railroad People Travel Notes From a Western Trip
A fragmented report lists railroad staff including WGatlen Bengraves of the Ganta Fa Leena department in California, Kime Whitmore a clerk for the Basta, and Walter Cain of the Santan Fe Saperee department. It mentions a short vacation to Colorado and New Mexico, a trip to La Junta, and business travel to Chicago.
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Wgatlen Bengraves
Ganta Fa Leena Ha
California
E Kime Whitmore
Basta
Gunany
Colorado
New Mexico
Walter Cain
Santan Fe Saperee
la Junta
Clarence Thhe Ai
Sauce Fe
Chicago
J. E Hurley
Santa Fe staff shuffle and travel notes from Topeka
Companied home by his family and friends, several Santa Fe officials are noted returning from trips and resuming duties. Thomas livevison of the department of tevin returns from a business trip to Chicago. E. Faulkner visits Vopeks after Europe and Canada. J. A. Zueas of Walia is said to resign for a newer Em popeta post. W. L. Walsh improves after illness. A YMCA committee meeting at Four Advis streets proceeds with program and papers. W. Kouns sails for a short western trip. Keung travels in special cargo toward the West. Santa Fe Auditors beat the Democratic Flambeas Hub in a ball game. Gite Trpresentative of Santa Fe at Philadelphia visits Topeka. Faas calls on friends at Santa Fe general offices. The G. A. R. train from Pennsylvania is well received en route.
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Whiliks Bee
Tasa
Thomas Luevison
Department of Tevin
Chicago
E. ©. Faulkner
Seneral Minager
Santa Im
Europe
Faulkner
Canada
J. A. Zueas
Focal Haliroad YM. C. A
Advis
W. Kouns
Mite Fe
Keung Je
Will UN
Hatherington
Mr. Kowns
Pueblo
Santa Fe
Democratic Flambeas
Lowman
Jatter
Criap
San Manico
Gite
Philadelphia
Topeka
Faas
Banta Pe Genera
Fans
Santa Yes G. A. R
Pennsylvania
An- Soret Des Hineeeseeen
Hale Denies Return to Republican Party on Kansas Text Book Board Meeting
Sam Hale, veteran fusion leader and state text book commissioner, attends an adjourned commission meeting. He denies rejoining the Republicans or planning to, says he won't vote for Roosevelt, criticizes tax hikes on Rush County, and predicts a large wheat harvest. He notes Rush County population around 6,500 with four million bushels expected.
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Sam Hale
State Text Book Commission
Lam
Kansas
Lst
Roosevelt
New York State
Grover Cleveland
Tams G. Blaine
Iss
State Board of Equalization
Rush County
Mr. Hale
Mel tests defense and scrimmage with self made tackling dummy
Week involves practice sessions and scrimmage work. Mel plans to use a self built tackling dummy and adopt Lost's defensive system featuring a shifting line guided by signals. Further intricate details will be decided after he sizes up the material.
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Mel
Army hospital plan eyed for Las Vegas springs hotel
A Rio Grande report from Albuquerque notes General duties and a railroad aide toured Fort Bayard Army Sanitarium. Jansen says the nearby big Zuma Hotel at Las Vegas Hot Springs, built by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, has been closed for lack of use and may be transferred to U S government for sanitarium purposes. The plan reportedly has General Oruilty’s approval and support from senior railroad and government figures.
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Colo
Sap. L
Sat Sepublican
Albuquerque
Dlarecon
Oruilty
Lees States Army
BR Jan
Ihipley
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Army
Fort Bayard
Jansen
Las Vegas Hot Springs
Sailroad Company
United States
Sanitarium Purones
Brock Nears Filing Of Topeka Gas Report
Special Master Robert Brock of Manhattan reports the Topeka case against Exxcelsior Coke & Gun Co. will file a fifteen page report in U S court later this week. Attys may file exceptions. defense says ready to substitute report in court. City seeks to force a $1 per thousand cubic feet gas price.
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Topeka
Robert Brock
Manhattan
Cty
Exoctstor Coke & Gun Company
Brock
United States
Usb
Pr Cree
Charles Blood Smith
J. D. McFarland
Exxcelsior Coke & Is Company
Western Conference Appoints Pastors for South Districts
The Western Conference of the Methodist Episcopal South met in Atchison Kansas. President Salona Jackson Miss presided and announced appointm ents including Atchison district T Downs presiding elder Atchison station B R Waldraven Rule and Troy J A Kincals Kansas City station J W Payne Kickapoo and Holton circuit etc. W H Comer presiding council Grove district. officers elected include Bishop C P Galloway Jackson Miss president J H Cleaves Council Grove secretary R A W Wald raven assistant secretary A F Williams Rosdale Kas statistical secretary.
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Western Conference
Atchison
Kas
Sept. L
Methodist Episcopal Ams South
Salona
St Jackson
Miss
Atchiena
T. Downs
Presding
Atchison Station
G. Mt Blaine
Bronson
W. A. Brewer
Bucyrus and Stilwell
J. E Owen
Augusta
P St Clair
Arkansas City Staton
B. F. Coburn
Winfield
Hie
Governor waives state name use in land suit bid
Governor Bailey doubts the Kansas name should front a U S Supreme Court suit by M K & T Railroad and attorney T N Sedgwick to recover lands in the Indian Territory from government grant. He suggests a joint agreement by attorneys, or he will withhold consent to use the state name.
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Bailey
James Hagerman
M. KK. & . Railroad Company
T. N. Sedgwick
State of Kansas
United States Supreme Court
Indian Territory
Rebel Spy General Dies After Sentence
Rebel spy General Don Carl Hazzelteno dies in Denver at 76 after a career as a Confederate officer and scholar. Born 1825 in New Orleans to Spanish parents, he graduated from Miami Yale and Heidelberg. He rose to major then lieutenant colonel, was captured and sentenced to death, and survived after the Civil War to pursue engineering and serve on Commodore Poricta's staff.
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Hazzelteno
Denver
Cob
Don Carlox Hazeelteno
New Orleann
New World
Anerd Hageeliene
Miami
Yale
Heidelburg
Commodore Porict
Prisoner From Isil Hinted as Escaping Suffering
Fragment from a Toronto expo ad touts a supposed substitute for Golden Medical Discovery. It claims pills and powders relieve stomach and blood diseases and mentions dyspepsia and liver stimulation with Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets.
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Isil
Ave
Toronto
Ontana
New City Law Extends Wide Tire Rule to Brick Haulers
The September 1 enactment prohibits loads over 4000 pounds on topier streets using wagons with tires under four inches in width. Brick plant owners fear enforcement will hobble haulers, raise costs, and force workers from brick delivery, as weather has limited work and some cannot afford wider tires. Local officials anticipate possible court cases as the ordinance takes effect.
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Topéka
Brek
Wills Edson
Cy Brick Plant
Meade
International control urged after secret wireless congress
Delegates from most participating nations at a recent international wireless telegraphy congress in Berlin favored international control of wireless traffic and said no land station should refuse a message from a ship using a different system. In Danville UK the September trial began for charges tied to an attempted jail breach on July 3, with several defendants including Bessie Dod noted as key figures.
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Berlin
Sep
Danville
Sove
Mera
Bessie Dod
Mrore Hadeen
Boil the Water to Escape Typhoid Says Doctors
Doctors warn of rising typhoid in Fovek city with six cases at Christ hospital and eight at Stormont. They urge public honesty, widespread water boiling as a precaution, noting typhoid often spreads through drinking water and urging thorough precautions citywide.
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Fovek
Christ Hospital
Stormont
Tonekas
Nice
Fee bundles offered at State Journal office sale
Fragments note exchanges for sale at the State Journal office. Odd line suggests Terrible plagues those fee distanes of the skin and mentions Deans Ointment cures sold at any drug store.
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State Journal
Dean
Missouri Coach Arrives for Tigers First Practice
Columbia Missouri September 1 Coach John F McLean of the Tigers arrived this afternoon and expressed enthusiasm for the season ahead He plans the first practice tomorrow under light work including running kicking and basic ball handling noting opposition to the proposed convention and new rules from smaller colleges
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Columbia
John F Mclean
Tigers
McLean
Peruna Endorsements From Noted Figures Highlight Cure Claims
Commodore Nicholson Washington letter praises Peruna as a curative for catarrh. W G Hunter M D Virginia, and Hon G R Brown endorse the remedy, declaring its efficacy and urging recipients to seek Dr Hartman’s free advice. The article notes growing acceptance of proprietary medicines and invites readers to write for guidance.
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Somerville Nicholson
United States Navy
Washington, D.C
Nicholson
W. Godfrey Hunter
Guatermals
Eas
Kentucky
Washington, D. C
W. G. Hunter
G. R. Brown
Martinyilie
Vao
Congress
Sth
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