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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
5
Full leased wire report from the Associated Press, with attribution to Topeha State Journal. Fuzzy fragments mention editors, offices in Chicago and other bureaus, and a summary of a news event continued in a later edition. The text is garbled but indicates a standard wire service dispatch format and byline references.
State Journal offers summer home delivery at low rates with flexible address changes. The column surveys currency, politics, canal routes, and papal matters, noting shifts in treasury gold balance, railroad arguments for the Panama route, and the late pope Leo XIII’s recollection as a global figure. The tone mixes editorial comment with geopolitical gossip and press summaries.
Henry Clewe & Co Finacial Review says crop yields stay above average with wheat corn cotton oats hay and livestock rising. Cotton likely to yield normal output with steady but cautious prices, while new enterprises face some checks amid Wall Street factors. Railroad earnings stay strong and currency reform remains a pending issue ahead of the next Congress and presidential election.
An excerpt notes ongoing political agitation and Wall Street’s urgent demand for remedial laws. The passage frames skepticism about forthcoming financial measures while street observers claim to understand the unfolding economic pressures. The source emphasizes uncertainty in government action amid market expectations.
Editorial comments discuss erecting a Washington statue in London and New York and the broader memory of founders in Britain and America. It contrasts historical remembrance with modern military pride in the National Guard and notes debates about papal power and public health notions of the era.
Fragmentary Kansas local items mention electric girds, new sidewalks, Port Scott ties, a coon hunt, Greenwood fishing rights, Fort Scott burial refusals, sauerkraut shortages, Bourbon County diamond farm deal, and Conway Springs discussions. The text is fragmented with many garbled words and incomplete names.
Odd local notes describe a Ottawa county farmer losing an eye to a flying splinter after his wife’s vacation, a Concordia man firing at his sister in law but stopping at a neighboring window, and a Centralia woman managing a family of girls while on her first vacation in ten years. A Wellington paper hints at three purses with money, while idle jests about jam, jobs, marriage, and traveling preachers fill the rest.
Fragmented column of satirical aphorisms about gender, ambition, education, and politics. It humorously critiques vanity, moral honesty, and self knowledge through quips on women, professors, and voter candidacy. The text reflects social observations with ironic tones and fragmented prose.
In Arkansas City, Angont Farris attacked his wife with a chair while intoxicated and was fatally shot through the heart by her. Farris was 5 years old. The 45 year old wife has not been arrested.
The Washburn Athletic association is mobilizing alumni to raise the remaining 200 dollars to clear its athletic debt. Earlier this year the Prudents and faculty raised 3600, and it is hoped 210 more will settle the loan tied to athletics. Clovis E. Dale, manager of the football team, circulated notices to Washburn alumni, aiming to secure the needed funds. In Porto Rico Dr. John Clayton Gifford of Cornell reports new gold streams and undetermined crude oil beneath the Luguiie reserve, along with aromatic gum trees of a rare species.
Services for the late W. W. Phillips will be at Masontic hall at midnight Thursday night, conducted by the United Society of Masons. Burial set for 5 a.m. Friday with Interment at Tootka cemetery. Also noted is the death of 3-year-old Anfia Rogiltz of 182 North Van Buren Street, malarial death. funeral from the house this morning.
Local item notes Mr William Macterran Mr Clarence Ow Gunn and Mr Scott Baldwin of Peoria Tit and Pittsburg Pa engaged in governmental geodetic work in Sas court this summer. They plan to go to Maryland Topeka in September to arrange for options or support related to the project.
Topexa Hallway company offers lots of flat close kin wood for sale at ten dollars per load. Interested parties may wait at the stated place with wagons for pickup.
City concerns rumors the North Topeka line from Gordon street to Gartlett park may not be rebuilt until spring. Mayor Bergundthal questions L. E Myers about promises, while Councilman Griley denounces the dirt street blockade on Pith Street and demands action on railroad paving and safety ordinances.
The state railroad commissioners ordered the Mixbour Pacific Railroad to build a depot and keep an agent at Estesville in Wilson County. Commissioner George Wheatley noted the town’s small size but farmers’ evidence of ample business to justify an agent in the haying region.
The text describes a yearly hay shipment of about 600 cars with freight at least 20 dollars per car and a hay business near ten thousand dollars annually. It mentions a large hay barn owned by a man named Keck and details about the barn’s size and capacity. Also noted is a Continental Creamery company petitioning Rock Island to add a passenger train between Goodland and Belleville to carry cream, with petitions from twenty three towns and a hearing date not yet set.
Osborne of the Topeka Dericcat ings company says difficulties are settled and work on the Topeka garbage reduction works will begin soon with a new contract taking effect October 1. A Sunday windstorm toppled a smokestack at the Oakland eating works and the stack was moved across the river to Oakland on a new foundation. Desiccating works claim odorless disposal and Oakland residents are said to be satisfied.
Governor Bailey and Governor Ferguson signed a Tuesday agreement in Lansing to house Oklahoma prisoners in the Kansas penitentiary. The price rises five cents daily per prisoner, with Oklahoma aiming to build its own facility soon. The move ends Oklahoma’s care of insane prisoners held there, a point of relief for Oklahoma officials.
Proceedings in bankruptcy have been commenced on petitions from Denison Prior & Co of Cleveland Broadway Savings & Trust trustees of Oberlin College Lake Shore Bank Dunkirk NY Home Riverside Coal of Leavenworth KS Each petitioner filed four bonds of 500 dollars and the Lake Bipre National Bank holds ten Riverside Coal has been in receivership for four months Petitioners seek to place the business into bankruptcy.
A $2 500 32 000 double seated motor car bought by D H Martin lands in town this morning. It is described as a handsome machine with more powerful engines and 20 horsepower. Two additional new machines worth $1 209 each are expected this week, to be owned by George Burghart and J M Padgett. Burghart traded tin for cigar boxes. Padgett plans to sell his old machine for tin.
Leavenworth Kan Aug 5 Major J G Rowland governor of the Nations Soldiers' Home here is in critical condition and expected to die within hours after two years of illness. A disturbance at Dick Johnson's restaurant near Fourth and Kansas avenue at 1 o clock drew a patrol wagon. arrests followed after a dispute over a bill of fare.
Homer Woodcock was found guilty by a city court jury of killing a jack of a man named John Miller and was sentenced by Judge to six months in county jail with a $100 fine plus $32 costs. Defense argued mental derangement. doctor testified Woodcock lacked moral sense but could distinguish right from wrong. The offense involved killing valuable animals on a railroad property at 8 Kansas Avenue.
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