Trale Service Summary From Kansas City to Salt Lake City
Daily service except Sunday with multiple car types including dining and chair cars. Connects via ag Gitec route to Salt Lake and Portland. City ticket office listed at 545 Kansas Avenue. Details include Meriden Topeka and Leavenworth routes with daily except Sunday accommodations and arrival at Topeka 4 59.
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Chisago
Ag Gitec
Salt Lake
Colonist Car
Portland
City
Kansas Avenue
Engineer Sues for 40000 Damages Against Union Pacific
J McGuire of the city files in Bear district court of Laramie County against the receivers of Union Pacific seeking 40000 damages. He describes a March 5, 1804 accident as a locomotive fireman when a drive wheel failed, wrecking the cab and injuring him, with multiple broken bones and serious wound. Stoneware makers west of the Alleghenies meet in Chicago to organize price regulation and distribution terms, with about a dozen firms represented.
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Anion Pacific
Cmicaco
Lng Pened Eees
West
E S& Hoyt
Red Wing
Topeka Society Notes Highlight Local Social Life
General notes of society recount Topeka personal items and events. Catholic ladies reading circle led by Miss Lion Wratt with Mrs. John Nower as president and other officers, readings from The Light of the World and Spaulding's History of the Reformation, charity funded by fees. Various visits, illnesses, travels, weddings, club activities, and birthdays noted, including Miss Lottie Bailey and Mr. Albert Cooper marriage near Burnett Mound and a surprise birthday for J. H. Wetherell with friends presenting a rocking chair.
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Topeka
Frances Moon
Lillian Frazier
Hiawatha
Dells Young
E I. Sim
Monticello
Abe Steinberg
Andrew Tanner
el Paso
Texas
Archie Williams
Myra
St. Louis
Paul Hudson
Belle Hutlinger
Kansac City
J. W. Donaldson
Las Cruces
Mexico
Martha McCoyas
Iowa City
Iowa Dental College
Thompson
Lottie Bailey
Judge Huron
W. C. Campbell
Viola Troutman
Mra Noble Prentisa
Elle Graham
H.W. Robs
Laura Scammon
Social Federation
J. H. Wetherell
Mra
W. F. Lake
Receiver Sought For Paper Railroad In Shawnee County
Soldier township of Shawnee county asked the district court to place the North Topeka Silver Lake and Rosaville Rapid Transit Company in receivership. The doomed boom era line was built to Menoken, but rails and ties were removed and stored near the Rock Island tracks. Township bonds worth 7500 dollars supported by the rails were pledged, yet the company faces sale of the rails to outside jurisdiction, prompting the petition.
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Soldier Township
Shawnee County
Vance & Campbell
North
Menoken
Rock Island
Shorey
N. T
L&r RR. Ca
Irrigation Stations Set For Six Kansas Counties
The state irrigation board has located experiment stations in Hamilton Grant Gray Sherman Logan and Wichita counties with one more planned for northwestern Kansas. Speakers sought stations in Lane and Greeley counties but did not obtain them. Secretary Tomblin to select the final site as the board continues its session. A second item notes a homicide report from Chickasaw Texas with Wilson Carter killed by Houston Indeon and McKnight on Winters creek.
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Coasti
State Irrigation Board
State Board of Public Works
E Lobdell
Lane County
Frank Grimes
Burton
Witchita County
Glen
Greeley County
Logan County
Hamilton
Grant, Gray
Sherman
Logan
Wichita
Kansas
Tomblin
Irrigation Board
Chickasaw
Paris
Tex
United Marshal’s Office
Confidence Man Acquitted Over Mustache Dispute
Henry Hamilton a Santa Fe con man was acquitted by a district court jury after witnesses clashed over his whiskers. Some testified he had both mustache and chin, others that he wore only a mustache. Craig, the victim, profited from the prosecution as per diem and mileage claims were settled, while Hamilton admitted nothing but claimed no jurisdiction. Other court notes include liquor case trials and Harris, a Topeka suspect, who fled after buying a $70 watch on installment.
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Henry Hamilton
Bauto
R. W. Craig
Hamilton
Craig
Cary
Santa Fe
George Montgomery
Speera
Kansas City
Safford
Missouri Penitentiary
Iaimilton
Hutchinson
Costa
Pete Callihan
Mike Etzel
Kline Street
Tillotson
City of
Harris
Shawnee County
Poor Mr Appleyard and the Topeka Woolen Mill Fiasco
William Appleyard, woolen mill proprietor, has moved his family from Oakland to Topeka and now lives on Harrison street. He laments the costly delays as $450 short of funding halted operations, with machinery idle and time wasted. He hopes future Topeka factories prove genuine business ventures rather than mere speculative booms.
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William Appleyard
Oakland
Topexs
Harrison Street
Woolen Mill Company
Prodigal's Return From South America Ends Futile Quest
The son of A C Sherman and his companion Grant Shaw left Rossville in January to seek fortune in South America. Their venture failed and they are returning to the United States with no more money than they started with. They reached New York and are making their way home. Representative Sherman opposed the trip and said his son would have to rely on his own resources.
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A. C. Sherman
South America
Adrian Sherman
A.C. Sherman
Rossville
United States
Sherman
Grant Shaw
New York
Mr. Sherman
Governor Appoints Three New Members to State Health Board
Governor Morrill announces three new members of the state board of health. Dr. C. D. Clark of Ottawa County replaces Dr. Wilson, Dr. E. Hoover of Harvey replaces Dr. Gifford, and Dr. J. P. H. Dykes of Stafford County joins the board. Dykes is brother to the late secretary Dr. H. A. Dykes and is a Republican.
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St Tony
Morrill
State Board of Health
C. D. Clark
Ottawa County
Dr. Wilson
E. Mr. Hoover
Harvey
J. P. H. Dykes
Stafford County
Gifford
H. A Dykes
Board of Health
Smith County
Perrys European Trip A Surprise To Topeka Friends
Washington reports United States District Attorney W Perry has passports from the state department and plans a Europe trip. Perry has been in Washington and will return to Topeka before leaving for Europe. Court sessions next week will see him handling government cases. Mrs Wilmarth's mother I T Starkey dies in Attleboro Massachusetts at nearly eighty.
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Deane
Washington Dispatch
United States
W. Perry
State Department
Europe
Topeka
Perry
Washington
England
Rankin Mason
Sir. Perry
Wilmarth
I. _T. Starkey
George O. Wilmarth
Attleboro
Mass
Preumonts
Zeigler party reported safe from wreck near Key West
Reports say the sloop Robinson Crasce with Zeigler and Weile aboard arrived at Bay Biscayne and is bound for Key West. A false wreck sighting by spongers led to the scare, but Captain Bradley confirmed the vessel was sighted six hours north of Key West and all on board well. The vessel’s course toward Key West remains.
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Hora
Rovat
Poinciana
Palm Beach
Fila
Zeigler and Weile
New York
Brooklyn
Bradley
Pearl
Bay Biscayne
Key West
Ate
Key Largo
Gulf Stream
A Martyr of Modern Fashion Heroism Told in Drolleries
A humorous dialogue from the New York World compares modern martyrs to the legendary Hawold Montmowenci. A witty young man and a horse doctor recount how one man, famed for frugal living, endures fashion trends by sacrificing milk, bread, and clothes, finally dying in poverty yet remaining the best dressed in memory.
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Percy Paddleford
Daniel Maginnis
Hawold Montmowenci
Montmowenci
Doncher
Hawold
Yaas
Donober
Dretor
Gonder
Honese
Howard Montmorwend
New York World
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Ace
Ae Sete
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ST. Josep
Alfie
St Joe
Atenty
Bowling Expo
Bay Rallioa
Ateamshi Heer
Cowley Bros
Santa Feronte
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W.C. Gang
North Topeka
Changs of
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Liss
Meare
Meriden Amtro
Leavenworth
Yaxvenworth
Vis Oskalom
Vinewood
Seeae
Quincy Street
Tie Thas
Sah
Davis
Quincy
Teawes
Denver & Pacific
Opeka
Chy
Beat 500 Baby's
Purman
General Notes OF Society
MR. Appleyard
Perrys
Zeigler
Eli
American Sugar Refining Company
New Bedford
Axiene
Kang
The
Golden Belt Medical Society
H. O'Donnell
Ellsworth
J.T. Curtis
Dwight
D. J. Mover
Junction City
H. Sutherland
Herington
W. B. Davees
E . Hazlett
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Hor Staines
Ark
Hot Springs
Camden
Wiggin, Harding
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