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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
3
An advertisement fragment urges business owners to report changes at their location or feed updates. It hints that advertising could bring trade and asks to inform about any moves or alterations to the business setup.
Railroad news notes a splendid showing in the past fiscal year and strong steps toward dividend payments. The Santa Fe road, now in its fifth year of reorganization, has not yet paid a common stock dividend, but the record of the last six months suggests the two percent minimum common dividend is likely, with preferred stock continuing at five percent.
Reports say Missouri Pacific may locate terminals and shops in Wichita with Conway Springs dispatch operations moved here. The paper notes increased crew concentration in Wichita, with four tunfiles and a chief dispatcher stationed locally, though officials deny knowledge of relocation.
Talon Pacific Watch Inspection will resemble Santa Fe Denver setup. J W Porsinger’s Illinois representative David son at Brown Palace in Denver explains inspectors won’t force specific makes. Any of six standard American jeweled watches recommended. prices range from 25 to 50 dollars earlier. Inspection is free, weekly. Inspectors keep records and send quarterly bulletins with ratings. high standards and fixed repair scales deter overcharging.
Denver August 2 Within a month the Sac of firemen on the Colorado and Southern railroad will be advanced by 3 percent. The advance will affect every fireman on the system. The management aims to restore wages to previous levels after the Union Pacific transition. Most wages on the line have been restored to roughly their peak, with some exceptions. The move signals a broader raise for Colorado and Southern employees. Since January 1 the road earned substantial increases over last year, and earnings are said to exceed those of the prior month. The plan is for employees to share in the railroad’s prosperity, with telegraphers having previously been granted higher wages.
A state law requiring the use of couplers on railroad equipment to reduce accidental injuries and deaths becomes effective after repeated delays. Officials say the measure aims to improve safety by ensuring compliant coupling systems across trains and freight cars.
The piece notes George Hetherington leaving Santa Fe to Newton for a similar chief clerk role, Dolan’s chief clerk moving to accompany him, and Wal fed Fiddler moving to Newton to fill the vacated post. It also covers a Texas Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen committee meeting denouncing the double header system and endorsing E P Curtis for railway commissioner with Wilson of Cleburne as chairman and Rea as secretary-treasurer.
Santa Fe notes Beaumont firm applied to the railroad commission for authority to issue six hundred thousand dollars. It plans to construct extensive terminals warehouses and depots at Beaumont. President Washburn, of Kansas City, is at Rye Beach troubled by illness and ordered to rest away from work indefinitely.
Increase in shipments of green deciduous fruits by the Southern Pacific reaches 3066 carloads this season, up from 2793 last year. Much of the fruit goes to Atlantic coast markets with the remainder to the Midwest. Train changes include layoff of Conductor Pollard and Conway reassigned to Caldwell-Newton run. Engineer Tucker's wife arrives from Fort Madison for a visit. Conductor Ed L. Taylor returns from Hutchinson after the H and S run. He is bumped by Conductor George Marriott. Conductor Henderson, the regular man, is ill with poison and hospitalized at Santa Fe.
The text notes visiting his parents for a month with his sick father improving. J B Burke named roundhouse foreman, taking a runout. D C Conway assigned to the 27 25 run on the Oklahoma division south of here. Trainmaster Saunders departs tonight for Colorado where he will rest his family at Sunita for a week or ten days.
A Victoria dispatch to the Times recounts Lieut. Von Kron describing Allied operations with Admiral Seymour’s column near the Yangtze. He portrays intense fighting, village burning, and chaotic retreat, with warnings of Chinese violence toward wounded, prisoners, and foreigners as ships and forts fall.
New details arrive aboard the steamer Glen le about the siege of Tien Tsin. Chinese troops at the railway held by 700 Russians. reports say 14450 Chinese troops were blocked with no relief. The defense of the military school ends with walls breached and many Chinese killed or bayoneted. Reports of the Platines crew fate and brutal executions accompany the day’s grim summaries.
Elnora M. Babcock replies to editorials critiquing John Cotton Dana’s piece on woman suffrage in Colorado. She cites Alice Stone Blackwell and various anonymous sources to argue Dana’s article is contradictory and relies on untrustworthy testimony. The letter launches into examples of politicians and lawyers offering contradictory views on suffrage and votes.
The article details the Dewey homestead birthhouse lineage from George Dewey to Captain Edward Dewey and current occupant T. Gordon. It notes a move in the 19th century and mentions T. R. Gordon sending a favorable Peruna testimonial about relief from chronic catarrh and sleep disruption, praising the remedy and inviting a free book from The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus, Ohio.
A Denver women's club of about a thousand influential residents publishes that arguments against suffrage harming women are unfounded. Opponents in Colorado have not produced seven men willing to state under their real names any negative outcomes from equal suffrage over seven years.
From the Fortnightly Review the piece notes a rise in steam powered team trawlers in ten years from 250 to 1000, with each steam vessel larger than sailing boats and independent of wind. It highlights improved nets, larger herring drift boats, and extended fishing grounds reaching Ireland and the Faroe Islands.
A detailed account of Legersfontein battlefield ruins and relics after a Boer camp engagement. The narrator notes empty ink bottles, torn Bibles and hymn books among litter, a bullet through a metal plate, sandbagged embrasures, and extensive exploration of rocks where the Boer army once lay. No marked graves found. burghers wear numbers on hats and in pockets for identification.
A fragmented dispatch hints at Meade and Bee Preece sailing toward China aboard a ship linked with 100 soldiers. The garbled text mentions cavalry, engineers from West Point, and a tentative aide, with California’s Anie Resatty noted in a census context, all pointing to a wartime or migratory scene tied to Manila.
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