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...grown into large estate"?and he is. He began life by learning typesetting on a small Kansas newspaper; he graduated into editorial work, became a reporter, city editor, Washington correspondent, publisher. He owns nine farm papers, with a combined weekly circulation of 1,500,000. He owns the Topeka Daily Capital, on which he began as a typesetter, besides another daily in Kansas City, a political weekly with a circulation of 600,000, and a "home" monthly with 1,250,000 circulation. In fact, he stands in the front rank as a successful publisher. How comes it that...
Married. Miss Marian Bleakley, who attracted nation-wide interest in 1904 when exhibited as a two-pound "incubator baby" at the St. Louis World's Fair; to one Dewey W. Brown; at Topeka...
Atchison, Topeka & Santa...
...fortune of some 72,000,000. Two-fisted and far from scrupulous, he turned to speculation in railroad stocks, buying and selling roads on a great scale. At one time, he was credited with controlling every important through railway route west and southwest of St. Louis except the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Texas Pacific, the ron Mountain- together with...
...Pollman, a banker convicted of forgery and sentenced to prison had, with the knowledge of state attorneys, entered into negotiations with Russell Davis, the Governor's son; that he promised to pay $1,250 in exchange for a pardon; that Russell Davis visited a room in a Topeka hotel and received $1,000 from Pollman, while reporters and a stenographer listened to the conversation by a telephonic device in a room near by; that Russell Davis went away and returned with the pardon; that Pollman then delivered $250 more to Russell Davis and then confronted him with the reporters...