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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1898
Page
3
City discussions reveal bids for the auditorium have not been finalized for weeks. City Engineer warns the bulkhead and construction costs may exceed initial estimates, with costs over 39 000 and a possible total near 55 400. Officials urge immediate summer preparations and a June meeting to advance plans and fund the midsummer fair.
Quarterly session of the state board results in clemency amid penitentiary sentences. Two others reduced or suspended as jurors report mental strain from convict verdicts. Mike Fran of Atchison and William Doyle of Topeka face five years for burglary and theft respectively. Doyle’s seizure of a horse saddle and harness noted. arson and related charges mentioned in fragmentary notes.
Reported are the capture of an outlaw band that robbed the Santa Fe train near Oro Grande on a Wednesday morning. Four men linked to the crime were seized at their homes by county and sheriff officials from San Bernardino Riverside and Santa Fe authorities. One passenger, Mott, was fatally wounded. investigators identify the gang as led by a man named Pittgon and associates Jones and Bépeington, with arrests followed by withheld evidence.
Weather notes record heavy rains over two hours with totals from multiple showers. Observer T. Jennings logs 3.36 inches, plus 0.31 inches yesterday and 0.16 inches this morning, totaling 2.26 inches. Partial cropland rainfall data for the period is reported.
Apii month records 7.46 inches of rainfall with 250 inches this month so far, an excess of 1.10 inches. The minimum temperature this morning was 58 degrees. Mr. Jennings forecasts unsettled weather tonight and Saturday with cooler air.
Princeton Dartmouth Wesleyan and Yale students staged loud patriotic displays on April 21 22 1920 across campus and town sites. Crowds cheered ex President Cleveland heard war era orations and banners proclaimed Weyler sunk the Maine while bonfires burned effigies of Werner and Spain amid Cuban American flags and songs.
Senor Polo Bernabe and staff travel with two US secret service men and a detective to Lafay ette hotel Niagara Falls Ontario to await Saturday then move to Toronto. Police protection arranged and dispatches sent to Madrid New York Havana and Washington. The minister refrains from discussing the war question while noting US war actions lack justification.
Fragmentary text indicates a show or event at the Grand Opera House tonight. Mentions Edward and J. B. Bellamy with possible plans to return to a Falls center location. Details are obscured by incomplete OCR.
Topeka and vicinity hostesses welcomed about two hundred guests at Mrs. Harry Seery’s Topeka avenue home with Mrs. Reckards of Great Falls Montana assisting. Terpsichorean party at Hudson’s hall drew a mixed group. First Presbyterian event featured character guessing, hat trimming and a lute program. Readers also note NLT club gathering on Clay street, and several Topeka visitors and residents listed with upcoming events and travel plans through Lawrence and Kansas City.
Social notes report Miss Lola McAfee entertaining guests in honor of Miss Edith Larned and Miss Ethel Larned who depart soon for California. Attendess included Misses Edith and Ethel Larned, Jessie Kelsey, Ola Millard, Anna Vanzant, Letta Osborn, Nettle Vanzant, Lucy Vanzant and various companions. Rob Roy arrested for keeping a vicious dog after a bite on a worker near his Lime Street barn. arraignment set with Police Judge Atchison. Auditorium benefit features Capital Council No 1 in uniform. Merideths Red Riding Hood presents at daughterium event.
Postmaster Guthrie reports a wartime rule allowing post office workers who enlist to keep their jobs for 12 months and be reinstated upon return. Temporary substitutes may be hired in the interim. No enlistment applications yet filed. Police seize liquor earnings. Charles Simmons fined 100 dollars for sales at a Kansas avenue room. A. L. Lewis of North Topeka faces liquor charges and is released until trial.
A fire alarm at 11 am from box 17 sent engines to W H Rossington of 14 Monro street. The chimney burned out. little water or chemical was needed. No major damage reported. Red Hiding Head: The governor and staff will stay at the Grand Opera House tonight.
E L Shelton former editor of the Minstrated Weekly In Topeka was fined 50 by U S District Judge Foster for using the mails to defraud railroads in transportation schemes stretching over years He applied for passes on paper he was not connected with and then sold them Shelton who now lives in Colorado sought leniency claiming to support a wife and children The judge later imposed the 50 fine after initial talk of 60 days jail and a brief note on Sheldon not resigning following church devotionals.
A decision ordered Mr. Sheldon to tighten his work as much as possible by July 1 and then take a vacation of two months or longer. The directive emphasizes reduced workload followed by extended leave.
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