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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1898
Page
8
Captains H M Phillips Cam W M Peterson J E Towers H Hamill and others report strong enlistment in Kansas recruiting offices across Topeka and state towns. Names collected exceed 100 with volunteers seeking infantry cavalry and other units. some doubt about mustering as a full company and notes on potential brigade attachments.
War Department replies that Lieut Harry Smith of the Kansas National Guard will not be relieved to join his regiment. He is told that five company officers are already detached and no reassignment is intended at present. Assistant Adjutant General Theo Schwan signs the response.
In a may mobilize call Kansas leaders push Topeka as ideal camp and drill ground for volunteer regiments bound for Forts Riley and Leavenworth. They cite Douthitt tract fairgrounds and strong railroad access as superior to Leavenworth or Kirksville, with General Sieckrum endorsing Topeka as the mobilization hub.
A cavalry unit from Fort Win- MM led by Coh CG rode through Topeka in the morning, petted by onlookers as they moved through the town. Local residents reported the unexpected morning procession drew attention from bystanders and disrupted usual traffic.
Hunt passed through Topeka on the Santa Fe at 3 30 pm with two troops in two sections. Plans shifted from Emporia to Topeka routing, few saw the convoy. Governor Leedy praised Kansans for enlisting and projected 20000 volunteers ready to serve, while Captain Peterson reports ongoing officer elections and prior guard service among recruits.
Topeka's Jackson's Miltary band, led by Prof George W Jackson, pledges readiness to serve in the war. He urges colored people to join and fight for the United States, asserting white support will follow if they show proper spirit.
Herman Glischer treasurer says band will not offer services as a unit while members may enlist. Jaries Nelson says enough members willing to form a regimental band with two Kansas regiments already having bands. Wichita Soldiers and Veterans officers in town discuss volunteer service with Governor Leedy, who will consider the offer. Santa Fe troops moving toward front with cavalry on standby and Nebraska relays en route. arrival times unsettled.
War department regulations ban ships from passing Sandy Hook and the Narrows near New York during specified hours. No vessel may approach within three miles of Coney Island Gedney Channel Sandy Hook or The Narrows, with the policy effective at night from sunset to sunrise.
Steamers St Louis and Harvard are being coal loaded in New York under sealed orders and may sail to support naval efforts with coal. A second report links Blackfeet fears to troop removals near the reservation, noting few whites guard the area and frontier protection is questioned amid Spanish troubles.
Washington reports Capt Sir Bryan Leighton Bart, a British noble now in America, offering his cavalry services to the United States. The 30 year old officer declines to name his regiment, while Burke’s Peerage provides detailed lineage.
Anna Held the celebrated music hall artist comes to Crawford Theater Monday night with her company after traveling east. The program opens with The Cat and the Cherub by the original New York cast, followed by A Gay Deceiver, and finishes with Miss Held singing in French and English. Seats go on sale Friday morning.
W L Brown resigns as president of the state board of charities to become adjutant of a Kansas regiment raised for the Spanish American War. Governor Leedy has offered the post and Brown has accepted, paying about 125 per month. Dr T C Biddle of Emporia seeks regimental surgeon post, with decision expected today. both men wish to travel to the front together.
Honolulu April 17 via San Francisco April 25 Taxpayers were stunned as President Dole submitted an itemized bill for travel expenses. The total reportedly neared six thousand dollars with a $100 Maine fund donation drawing surprise. Legislators vow to compel repayment, while anti administrationists plan to probe incidental costs tomorrow.
In New York on April 25 the county clerk in Jamaica records a historic mortgage of 20 million dollars by the New Amsterdam Gas Light company of Manhattan in favor of Central Trust company of New York. The bond issue funds 30 year 6 percent gold bonds of 1000 each, possibly rising to 200,900 bonds of 20,000 each, to back a consolidation plan. Proceeds retire two East River Gas bonds and fund other obligations of the New Amsterdam company in Manhattan and Queens.
In Toledo the Lozier Manufacturing company and the Bicycle Workers union reached a pact. After this season, which ends in about 60 days, men will be the exclusive employees at Lozier plants in Toledo Toronto Westfield Mass and Thompsonville Conn. The agreement ends a dispute over metal polishers that had troubled the shops.
Washington April 2 Postmaster General awarded a $100000 four year contract to Lou Payn New York state insurance commissioner for stamped envelopes. Platt influence pressured the decision against Purcell Envelope Co Holyoke Mass despite lower bids. Payn and Platt’s forceful lobbying effectively shaped the award, seen as a notable political victory and criticized for benefits to Payn’s firm despite doubts about fulfillment.
The Madison Square Garden crowd enjoyed the Buffalo Bill exhibition on its closing performance Saturday night. Since its March 30 opening the show has drawn large crowds, featuring Buffalo Bill's Rough Riders from across the world, American cavalryman horsemanship and German Uhlans with broadswords, Royal Irish Lancers and American infantry demonstration of guns, all presented with skill and bravado.
A New York fishing party hauled in a large porpoise in the Raritan River near New Brunswick yesterday morning. Eight men paraded the massive catch to Catherine Street for display. The fish weighed over 300 pounds and stretched six feet from snout to tail, with a dramatic struggle as the male escaped when net leads entangled.
Seventy five men labored through the night on the monitor Nantucket at Wilmington with repairs to be completed in ten days. Contractors added fifty carpenters today and more cable for mining the Cape Pear river entrance arrived at Fort Caswell. Thirty miles remain to complete the system as bar channel cables are installed. A complaint was sent to Washington about slow work on Fort Macon at Lesufort. Workmen on the latter fort killed sixty rattlesnakes this week.
Governor Russell complained that passenger rates on the North Carolina Wilmington and Weldon and Raleigh and Guston lines were unreasonably high and urged a 2 cent second class and 21 percent first class fare. The railway commission scheduled a hearing for May 18 to show cause why reduced rates should not take effect, amid reports of an understanding between the governor and Chairman Caldwell.
El Paso reports J. Newton Fowler and Morris Singleton discovered the long lost Tiofa gold mine in a canyon on April 6 in the Sierra Madre. They found a shaft with rich gold specimens and anticipate a $15,000 Mexican government reward. The mine’s records were kept by priests. many pursuing it have died.
From Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota and extending toward Nebraska, a huge prairie fire swept most of the Row aud Reservation destroying hundreds of cattle and ponies owned by Indians. No Indians were killed, though the blaze darkened 80 miles by 60 and stretched toward Nebraska. authorities suspect a white traveler starting near Valentine as the cause, the worst since Mount Vernon nine years ago.
The $29,000,000 knit goods trust formed after a Gilsey house meeting in New York appears disrupted by the death of William H. Rowe, president of Waysite Knitting Mill in Troy. Associates say Rowe's death ends the contemplated trust as he was its backbone, with Cohoes mills also noting impact on the industry center.
At a board meeting of the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works Roach's yard elected William C. Sproul as vice president. The company announced a contract to build two large steamships for Dominion Steamship Company, a nearly three quarter million dollar project. The new ships will mirror the Princess Anne, last launched in July.
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