Kansas adopts cash basis state banking policy says official
Kansas Bank Commissioner Breidenthal declares the state operates on a strict cash basis. He argues farmers have reduced debts, real estate loans fueled by boomed values fade, and farmers will continue paying with cash. He predicts farm property will become the market benchmark and securities may reach par within two years.
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Breidenthal
Kansas
Bank Coromissioner
Breiddenthal
Nave Beer
Anneyhrive
Kanenn
Capudintors
Allegheny
Kamsas
McKinley
Necwavarins
Ife
Jase
Kacais
Karena Securities
A. M Preminn
Yellow Fever Spread Probable in Havana Harbor Navy
Washington Aug 4 General Pett warns the surgeon general that yellow fever could rapidly spread among Spanish sailors and navy yards near the military hospital and wharf. He notes several cases recently, with 7 to 8 war vessels in harbor and crews exposed to infected wharves. Dr Camierg of Bantives reports Spanish soldiers ill with various diseases.
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Havacs
Washington
Coneert General Pett
Ma Hint
Runner
San- Maran
Ha=vara
Navy Yard
Camierg
Bantives
Galveston Grain Market Exports Strewn With Arrivals
Galveston Texas grain market reports a steady stream of arrivals and exports with 165 cars in four hours and 440000 bushels to depart by Saturday night. Wheat prices rise prompting buyers to secure large export lots while daily shipments to come are not less than 200 carloads. A stray medical ad appears amid market lines.
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Galveston
TexAus
Geo
Fraternal Day Plans Spark Enthusiasm and Dispute
Enthusiastic but inconclusive fraternal group meeting in Topeka discussed Fraternal Day and potential arches across Kansas Avenue. Plans included a possible iron arch, wooden arch, or multiple arches, with committees formed and a parade bands issue debated amid strong lodge participation.
Arch Across Kansas Avenue Proposed for Fall Festival
After adjournment a leading A O U W member told a reporter the order plans an arch over Kansas Avenue for the Fall Festival. Lodges may fund the project if needed, to symbolize the brotherhood of man with the motto All Are Brothers. The effort aims to unite attendees and attract more members to the fraternal order.
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A. O. U. W. Ward
Kansas Avenue
Wea
Kansas
Brotherhood of Man
State Fire Tournament Programme Released by Wilmarth
The official programme for the State Fire Tournament led by Fire Chief Wilmarth outlines events on September 2 3 at the fair grounds. Activities include meetings of the State Firemen's Association, a parade, dry hose tests, and a series of races with prizes from 5 to 350 dollars and silk banners.
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Wilmarth
A. P. Elder
State Firemen’s Association
State Firemen's Association
Fellows
Fair Grounds
Hy Grant
Prine
State Association
No Prizes This Year for Fall Festival Bands
The Topeka Fall Festival will not offer prizes this year and there will be no contest. Bands will be hired outright with a $260 cash prize note. several top state bands may be engaged. Atchison's Youngs' band, with 39 men, may enter and one Santa Fe brass unit is expected to participate. GA R posts, fraternal society groups, and railroad delegations will receive special courtesies.
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Topeka
Marshall
Youngs
Atchison
Andy Manifold
Young
Santa Fe
GA. R
Plains Train Proposed for Pall Festival in El Dorado
El Dorado Times reports a suggestion to revive an early fifties plains train with period outfits and Santa Fe elements for Pall Festival. Topeka delegates plan to edit the feature and bring it, with free transportation to attract about 1,000 El Dorado residents to join the parade spectacle.
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EL Dorado
Topexa Snouim Nave & Regumir
Santa Fe
el Dorado Times
Topeka
State uniformity in Kansas schools praised by Morrill in inaugural message
Governor Morrill argues for state uniformity of school textbooks, noting lack of county consistency and costly shifts for moving families. He cites that current diversity burdens the poor and wastes money, urging adoption of uniform books as beneficial and justified. Public sale details and local business ads accompany the piece.
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Morrill
Kansas
Ines
Ubsidren
Topeka News Snapshots Of Local Happenings
A jumble of short items from Topeka covers dances, races, recoveries from illness, real estate ads, and local movements. Mentions include Mise Toulse Hopper convalescing from diphtheria, S. C Heyman at Lawrence bicycle races, John Richmond’s return from Michigan, and E Hungate planning a cottage on Eleventh and Quincy.
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Mise Toulse
S. C Heyman
Toal AL W
Lawrence
John Richmond
Topeka
Michigan
Topeka Sports
George Beck
General Freight Department
Santa Fe
Flness
Thomas Kirkpatrick
Kansas Avenue
Ninth
North Topeka
E. Hungate
Eleventh and
Quincy Streets
Judge Hazen
Hi. A. Utterman
F. E. Holligay
Massachusetts
L. Blackman
District 18
Fensky
Marshall
Land Rooms
Third and
Heasle van Amburgh
District Court
Karnital Knights
Elks’ Lodge
RG. Connell
General Passenger Department
Banta Fe
Chicago
New York
E.W. Tatman
Mel Nulls
St Louis
Kansas
Jackson
Hutt
Wr. de Cardy
E. E. Alderson
St. Louis
Saeser
Denver
Thomas Mahaney
Me R. Morrison
Corado
Joplin
New York City
Alswxs
Wim Foster
Jopiter
Smith
J. Hines
Nathan
Galena
Kan
Jones
Michael Cornell
Galveston
Tex
J. Sbaker
Twenty-third
Wisconsin Infantry
Cornell
Ih Company
Elentythird
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Creamery demand rising in Kansas says J B Nisstey
J B Nisstey of the Kansas Creamery company rejects reports of overproduction in the Kansas creamery sector. He argues demand for creamery goods remains strong, noting farmers can benefit from milk sales and noting milk income as a pension for families. He cautions against rapid expansion despite a recent butter surplus.
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V. EB. Nisstey
J. B. Nisstey
Kansas Creamery Company
Kansas
Kanene
Riot in Kobe Mariners Clash Over Whisky Theft
Beigie reports July 12 riot in Kobe after a sailor stole whisky and was chastised. Yorktown and Boston sailors faced a mob of Japanese coolies at a ball game, fights erupted, police failed to disperse, crowds hurled missiles, sailors returned to ships, more details expected.
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San Francisco
Car
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Kobe
Yorktown
Boston
Greatest Cattle Rush Sends Record Kansas City Receipts
Kansas City stockyards yesterday reported 18 393 head of cattle, the largest one day total on record, surpassing the 17 120 mark in 1893. The drought in southern and western Kansas forced cattlemen to drive herds to market, pushing prices 30 to 40 cents lower than a week ago as buyers took mostly unripe cattle. Rain in Kansas may end the rush.
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Kansas City
Kansas
McKinley Reviews Twenty-First Infantry in Plattsburg Parade
President McKinley reviewed the Twenty-first Infantry at Plattsburg. He dined with Mrs McKinley on the Champlain balcony amid bunting. A parade, band concert, and applause followed. Lt. Governor Fisk and John Shitcomb visited to discuss Isle La Motte events on August 6 and 8. The president will stay near Fisk’s home with a tent for about 100 people and is not slated to speak.
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Plattsburg
McKiniey
Twenty-first Infantry
McKinley
Hotel Champlain
Ieut
Bearce Merring
Fisk
Vermont
John Shitcomb
The
Fish and Game League
Isle la Motte
Grout
Proctor Willative
Mauuien
Troxel Hat Recovered From Kansas River Not a Drowning Case
Hat of Abilene attorney Cloyd R Troxel found floating near Tecumseh on the Kaw river sparking rumors of a drowning. Eyewitnesses recall Troxel crossed the Kaw bridge with friends, a gust whisked the hat into the river and it resurfaced later. Troxel had recently traveled from Topeka to confer with a law partner.
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Tecumish
Cloyd R. Troxel
Abilene
Kansas River
Tecumren
Troxet
Kaw
Troxel
Trofey Bridge
Topeka
Ed Little
Debate on Greece Turkey peace terms roils British House of Commons
London Aug 4 Conservative Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett pressed for information on Greece Turkey peace progress. Foreign Office Secretary Curzon cited Salisbury’s Lords statement. MPs protested being bound to press reports. speaker noted a prior parliamentary precedent for such references. Route to Alaska mail service expanded with Alaska Commercial Co authorized to carry mail from San Francisco to Upslaska St Michaels and Yukon points. new post office at St Michaels. sworn carrier to oversee trips.
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London
Neuse Cr
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett
Greece
Turkey
Foreign Office
Curzon
Elite
Marquis of Salisbury
House of Lords
Sir Ene
Innother Place
Sil
Alaska
Washington
Alaska Commercial Company of
San Francisco
Cal
Upslaska
St. Michaels
Yukon River
San Prancisco
State board fixes state tax valuations by county
State Board of Equalization completed tax computations and set state valuations for revenues. The list shows each county's payment to the state and the valuations used, with many figures indicating larger valuations than county assessments and a total statewide amount of 1,205,504.
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State Board of Equalization
Enust
Largest East Coast Game Preserve Leased by Nittany Head and Gun Club
The Nittany Head and Gun Club leases a 50 square mile tract in the Alleghenies, possibly the largest game preserve in the eastern states. The club, limited to 200 members and including notable Pennsylvanian and New York figures, plans primeval forest, quail habitat, and trout streams. April 29 marked the club’s organization, with the season too far advanced for quail propagation.
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Pennsylvania
Attecns
Nittany Hed and Gun Club
Allegheny Mountains
Pennsylvani
New York
D Ef Hastings
Beaver
Thomas
Bellefonte
Qoali
Provisions For Fall Sports And Bird Propagation
A club receives an offer of 20 00 birds for this season while next spring western birds will be operated on the preserve for propagation. The house phone and four U S mails daily enable distant members to stay in touch with affairs at the club.
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United States
Power of County Boards to Increase Personal Property Tax
The Northern department appeals court reviews county tax power to raise personal property values as part of tax equalization. J. T. Gibbons contests the increased tax. Sheriff Andrews collects the assessed amount. The case, previously decided against Gibbons, goes to the Supreme Court for review. Grand steeplechase events feature Fair Groans with De Carty, Anderson and Sucker among fast riders on August 6 and 7.
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Supreme Court
An & Hour
Northern Department Court
Apesie
J. T. Gibbons
Helton
Board of Equalization
Githone
Andrews
Gibbons
District Court of
Jarknon
Flo
Missouri
Court of Appeals
de Carty
Anderson
Sucker
Great Rock Island Buffalo trip via chair cars and sleepers
The Great Rock Island schedule offers a round trip from Topeka to Buffalo for 22.90 plus tax, leaving Saturday Aug 3 90 and returning Monday Aug 6 90. Union Pacific provides reduced rates and tickets through A Lewis City Ticket Agent. Encampment of G A R at Buffalo aug 23 to 28. Rock Island seeks stock scale. Commissioners say no power to compel. Bicycle races at Fair Grounds Saturday Aug 7 with riders Caray Anderson and others.
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Buffalo
Sali
Topeke
Ess M. Fuller
Pass Ag
G. A. BR
Union Pacific
Union Pac
A. Lewis
Fair Grounds
Saterdes
Anderson
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Galveston Grain Market
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Royal Arcanum No. Uy
America
J. W. Gibebne
Ali Uw
Tyler
J. M. Miller
Squires
L. T. Yount
A. K. Todgere
JW. Gibbeons
John Cady
A. K. Rodsers
Clint Wetnon
Tam
Ek, Rodgers
J. W. Gibbons
L. T Yount
Warren
H. E. Studevant
Knights of Pythias
Samimsttee
W. Gibtons
Bof
Pr. Warner
National Resstve
J. A. Strause
le Roy Currie
A. John Marshall
Suipiantes
J. M. Pennell
Ballerd
Lunsfield
Kan Ave
Cor
6Th
Tépexa Avenue
N. Topeka
Afty
Augsthalipom
P. Updegraff
Troxel’s
Anawaward
Ells Bartlett
Pe Yi
Kemper & Paxtons
Shawree
Allen
Atch
Barton
Bourbon
Brown
Butler
Chase
Chautauqua
Cheroky
Cheyenne
Clark
Clay
Cloud
Coffey
Comanche
Cowley
Crawford
Decatur
Dockman
Doniphan
Dusius
Edwards
Elk
Bile
Eilsworth
Finney
Ford
Franklin
Geary
Gove
Ham
Grant
Grayley
Greenwood
Hamilton
Harper
Marvey
Haskell
J. Hadeeman
Jefferson
Mewell
Johnson
Kearny
Kineman
Kiowa
Labette
Lane
Leavenworth
Lincoln
Linn
Logas
Lyon
Eis
Marion
BicPherses
Meade
Mi- Mitenetl
Montgomery
Morris
Nemaha
Neon
Norton
Osage
Guoorne
Ottawa
Pawnee
Phillips
Thomas Trego
Wallace
Wichita
Woodson
Total
Wilson
Yyandotu
County Soards
Great Rock Island
Formars Jewell County
Stat Board of Rairoad
Campbell
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