Kansas Notes reveal city shifts and local antics
Captain H. Churchill of Dodge City touts alfalfa and new town status as New Dodge while Arkansas Valley farmers push a suit in Denver to curb Colorado ditch diversions. Edgy tidbits cover jail sentences, a bride reforming her husband, town mayors, odd weights, telephone bids, and veterans seeking voting rights alongside scattered Kansas anecdotes.
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Churchill
Dodge City
Dodge
Sedgwick County
Arkansas Valley Protective Association
Wielka
United States
Denver
Colorado
Reno
Sedgwick
Sumner
Cowley
Emporia
Senk
Anil
Milt Franklin
Hutchinson
State Reformatory
Osborne
Sloom
Township
Dimtown
Kansas
J. O. Strain
Jans
Hartwell
Mary McCall
Columbus
Hak
Galena
Veterans of the National Soldiers' Home
Leavenworth
Congress
John A. Martin
Henry Booth
B. Ross
Wichita
Frisgle Road
Robert Semple
State Bank
Colonias Londes
Slalas
Thias
University Hall
Lawrence
Kid McCoy
Maine disaster dominates new dispatches in Havana
Reports from Havanna recite the Maine explosion at 9:15 p.m. and the loss of crew with Captain Sigsbee seeking divers. Naval inquiry begins, Spain defends its position, and American unrest grows as officers and sailors await official findings amid conflicting theories of accident or attack.
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Paris
Emile Zola
Es_terhazy
Francis &. Willard
Chicago
New York ‘Central Railroad
Dunlap Bros
Moody's
New Orleans
Federal Court of Appeals
United States
Boies
Iowa
Henderson
Lidies
Maine
Havana Harbor
Havana
Sigsbee
Alfonso Xit
General Blanco
Spain
Navy Department
Naval
Vizcaya
New York
Paria
Zola
Palace of Justice
Naval Court of Inquiry
Sigsbve
Fox
New York Harbor
Mainé
War Department
Bigshee
Robert B. Porter
Key West
Hey
Naval Board of Inquiry
Lee
Sugasta
Howard Gould
New York Herald
Forward
Nipsic
Vandalia
Runeburg
Minn
Olaf Kariant
San Salvador
Central
America
Republic
Centre
Ser
Nicaragua
Press excerpts on gold value taxes and labor debate
A compilation of opinion snippets from various papers critiquing gold standards, taxation, and political corruption. Highlights include appeals to labor prosperity, distrust of bondholders and gold gamblers, and critiques of Hannas influence.
Money And Wheat Trial Of 1873 To 1895 Experiment
Ex-Senator Peffer describes a 1873 1874 experiment by farmers Doe and Roe comparing holding money versus wheat. Doe's money gained value while Roe's wheat lost value. Hypothetical interest scenarios show larger gains from investing money rather than storing wheat over twenty-one years.
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John Doe
Richard/Roe
Doe
Roa
Roe
Teguss Roe
Yalue
Peffer
Rise of Gold Standard Doom for Farmers, Says Pepoon
In a critique of monetary policy, Percy Pepoon warns that the gold standard and railroad monopolies depress crop prices. He cites cotton and wheat sinking under currency constraints, urging silver coinage at the constitutional ratio to revive prices and curb plutocratic control. He argues farmers must unite with producers to restore normal prices and resist monopolies.
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Har
Davis
J. Pierpont Morgan
The
New York Sun
Percy Pepoon
The Census Question and Political Manipulation
The Washington Times argues the 12th census in 1900 or 3900 would repeat past abuses, accusing the governing party of organizing censuses to favor the Dinglay trust and monopoly, manipulating agricultural, industrial, and commercial returns and leveraging currency policy for political gain.
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Civi Nation
New York
Dinglay Trust
Washington Times
The BAM Operations and New England Mill Strikes
Activists in New England wage a tariff driven wage fight as Congress convenes to address tariff relief. Mill workers unite and vow lasting resistance, declaring they will endure hardship to oppose capital pressures and fight for better pay amid ongoing economic strain. Pages cry out with prophetic alarm at the rising industrial struggle.
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Congress
New England
Abe
Injunction halts Wellington mill company on stock board
Judge John A Williams in Kansas City circuit court grants an injunction preventing Hunter Milliggs Company of Wellington from gambling on the board of trade or in any city. The court orders monthly statements and a property inventory, with no receiver appointed after a dividend showing. An unusual Kansas case awaits further court action.
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Lorna
Kan
John
AL Williams
Othe
United States
Hunter Milligg Com-Y
Wellington
Board of Trade
Kansaa City
Wichita
Chicago
C A. Boulewalter
Indianapolis
Running,& Bucket Shop
Harrison
A. H. Horton
Horton
Williams
Kansas
Kaneas
Western
Canaday
Ottawa
Canada
W. V. Bennett
Omaha
Néb
J. S. Cratvford
Board of Trade Building
Kansas City
Society Woman Letcher Waives Examination in Kansas Case
Mrs Letcher a society woman arrested in Fort Scott Kansas faces federal charges for sending defamatory email letters about Miss Anna Guilford a soprano at Grand Avenue Methodist Church Kansas City. She appeared before a U S commissioner and waived preliminary hearing. Bond set at $400 with two business men as sureties.
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Fort Scurt
Kan
P. Letcher
Anna Guilford
Grand Avenua Methodist Church
Kansas City
United States
Kansas National Guard Offer Sent to General Alger
A telegraph copy from General Charles McCrum of the Kansas National Guard dated February 21 offers to place the Kansas force at General Alger's disposal should negotiations with Spain allow. The message states the guard stands ready to march on short notice.
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McCrom Trendy
Topeka
Kan
Garnett
Alger
Spain
Kansas National Guard
Charles McCrum
Eastern Division Boia Sold for 4.59 Million in Kansas
The Eastern division of the Kansas Pacific railroad 140 miles west of Kansas City was sold at auction by Special Munster Cornish. Alvin W. Breck secretary of the Union Pacific reorganizations committees bought it for 4,590,000 with no other bidders. Governor Leedy said Kansas militia would be ready in 24 hours if President McKinley declares war on Spain.
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New Hampshire
Great Britain
Hammerly
Bercham
Crassia
Lys
Spain
de Lome
National Creamery and_ buttermakers' association
Topeka
Findlay
Lars
Oméet Holly
West Africa
Jamies
West
New York
St. Louis
Tampico
Mexico
Central Railroad
Loas
Sanborn
United States Court of Appeals
St. Sophthe
Sarah I. Smith Ainst
Western Commercial Travelers’ Association
Sven
Reyam P. Jones
Georgia
Iowa
Chnton
Ernestine Ber+oah
Charles Selheusen
Frances FE. Willard
Woman's Christian Temperance Uunion
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary
Paris
Northwesten University
Woman's College
National Organization
London
Willard
Boia
Topres
Kan
Eastern
Kansas Pacific Railroad
Kansas City
Munster Cornish
Alvin W. Breck
Union Pacific Reorganization Commaites
Beedy Fox
Tors
Fab
Leedy
McKintey
Kansas
Teady
Wee
Father Slain by Son in Kansas Saloon Shooting
Lravesworth Kansas February 19 H M Billings a saloonkeeper was shot and killed last evening by his eldest son Kid Billings. The shooting appears premeditated. Younger brother Bert Billings identifies his brother as the shooter amid family troubles.
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Aun Mardera
Lravesworth
Kan
H. M. Billings
Kid” Billings
Bert Billings
Kansas Student Dead in Unnamed Dorm Room
Lawrence Kansas February report states Albert Mead a Kansas University sophomore from Fort Scott was found dead in his dorm room from heart disease suspected to have caused a nocturnal attack. bed untouched and clothes on.
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Kansas
Lawrence
Ken
Albert &. Mead
Kansas University
Fort Scott
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Spate Medical Company
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