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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
4
The State Journal details subscription options including daily carrier 30 cents a week and mail rates for three months or one year. It lists the Permanent Home at Topeka State Journal Building and the New York address for publisher relations and advertising inquiries.
Weather outlook for Washington forecasts generally fair conditions with warming on Friday. South to southwest winds will be fresh, with warmer temperatures spreading tonight and into Friday especially in the southwest portion.
The piece notes rising stock and commodity prices with Santa Fe shares and wheat at yearly highs, while Europe buys American grain and silver exports surge. It warns booming property prices may peak and urges cautious, timely investment to avoid a later crash.
A jumble of 19th century clippings from Chicago Detroit and Kansas City papers discusses Alaska mining dangers graves at Forty Mile and urging caution before sending troops. It quotes critics on harsh conditions the fragility of lives and the need for humane treatment of those headed for the Klondike gold fields.
excerpts blend humorous chatter and weathered dispatches from 1900s papers. notes on mosquitoes in Alaska and New Jersey, plus quips about luck work, marriage, lawyers, and daily folly. brief scenes and jokes from Atchison, Detroit, Brooklyn, and Boston papers.
A Georgia farm near Thomacville draws hundreds as a visible volcano rumor grows. A 25 foot square crater emits thick smoke from small vents while ground around sinks two feet. Excavations reveal a five dial bed beneath the surface, suggesting subterranean fire despite repeated rain. Agey Diarrhea Balsam is advertised at druggists.
August report from the department of agriculture shows corn at 64.2, spring wheat 867, oats 58.0, barley 84.2, and other crops with varied declines. Corn remains 3 points below the August ten year average, with widespread reports of poor peach and apple crops across Ohio Michigan New York Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Ottawa announces Yukon changes including a district administrator as chief executive, Major Walsh named for the post, mounted police deployment increasing from 20 to 35 with two Maxim guns. Mining claims reduced from 900 to 100 feet and a new criminal justice court led by Justice Hee McGuire of Prince Albert will oversee the gold district.
Denver August 12 James Wilson Secretary of the agriculture department arrives to study western conditions and necessities. He focuses on sugar beet cultivation and cavalry horse breeding. The department plans seed distribution of rare plant varieties suitable to western soil and climate and has an agent in Siberia to source seeds for testing in arid regions. Secretary Wilson then moves on to Cheyenne.
The August dispatches recount the June quake that gripped northern Bengal Assam and Cachar with many shacks gone and Cherra hills mortality estimated at 4000 to 6000. Goal Para tidal wave wrecked the bazaar and 60 lives were lost. The land is fissured and mud covers the region as telegraph offices and Pucca buildings are destroyed forcing natives to flee. Poultry flooded and Brahmaputra banks subsiding caused crop damage. Similar reports come from other areas.
Omaha police arrest E. J. Davis in a suspected swindle linked to the Washington and Alaska Gold Mining Company. Davis allegedly offered laborers $160 monthly work in Alaska mines. applicants paid $5 for transport insurance. He owns several homes and has operated in Iowa and Missouri, with hundreds of victims shown in his receipt book.
London August 12 The Social Democratic federation executive council adopts a resolution declaring the assassination of Senor Canovas de Castillo, the Spanish premier, as a righteous retribution for his brutal persecution of Spaniards with advanced opinions. The report notes the event as a response by dissident groups. The item ends with an unrelated laundry advertisement about Peerless Steam Laundry offering services for broken collars.
The Topeka Commercial Club debated offering bonuses or stock subscriptions to attract new enterprises. Members questioned the value and risk of aiding ventures like the McAfee woolen mill and a proposed Ottawa shoe factory, weighing loans and incentives over direct bonuses while planning further study and future actions.
The injunction blocking sale to the American Glucose Company of Peoria was dissolved yesterday afternoon and a certified check over 2 000 000 was exchanged to prevent similar consolidation. All options on other glucose plants remain pending and void unless all plants join the combination. The dissolution was granted after a day of argument. Merc Harding, who secured the injunction, vows to continue the fight.
Aug. 12 Polianelpha reports a new national Chinese cemetery will be established on 10 acres of the old St. Marys farm near Wynnewood, about 19 miles from Philadelphia. Lee Toy, mayor of Chinatown, says papers closing the purchase have been signed and body removals will begin soon. The land cost $2,250 per acre and the site will serve Chinamen across the eastern United States as the first such cemetery in the east, allowing native rites denied elsewhere.
The state central committee of the National Democrats met to finish organization and announce a campaign plan. Headquarters will open on August 20 in Des Moines. Henry Watterson Carlisle Senator Lindsay Patrick Collins of Boston and Senator Vilas are named to speak. National Chairman Bynum will give two weeks to Iowa.
Pittsburg Pa Aug 12 At yesterday's session of the National Hay association the committee on proposed changes in hay and straw grades reported that it was inexpedient to modify national grades now. Officers elected include President E L Rodger Philadelphia first vice president Henry V Burns Buffalo second vice president A E Chatter Lima secretary treasurer Frank Fieldin Cincinnati.
Hong Kong August 12 A prominent firm moves to establish cotton factories extensively in South China as a response to the fall in silver and the resulting depression in import trade.
Veteran Henry Steinberger of Allentown Pennsylvania recounts chronic diarrhoea since 1862 while serving with Company A of the 187th Pennsylvania Volunteers. After trying many medicines he used Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy a 50 cent bottle and was cured. He thanks the remedy and recommends it to other veterans. sold by all druggists.
Adirondack state lands are opened for camping by the state Fish and Game Commission. Hundreds of camping sites are available in the Adirondacks, and the commission says no permanent structures may be built on state lands.
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