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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1897
Page
2
A distressed warning warns mothers to protect infants from disease through careful care and hygiene. The text references bad heat, weakness, and illness seeded by neglect, urging safety for babies and mentioning Dr Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser as a purported aid.
A jagged dispatch from New York describes the failed open trail to Dyea Skaguay. Miners, horses, and supplies crowd the landing as surveyors lag and townsfolk vend town lots and whisky. Half the miners turn back amid dangerous rapids and rocky walls while brave prospectors push toward uncertain paths through Alaska’s frontier.
The writer reflects on a lone journey to the goldfields, noting the heavy burden of building, chopping, cooking, and tending to duties alone. He asserts the Klondike proves challenging but possible for a single person, while expressing doubt about its suitability for a poor man and hinting at future updates from the mining frontier.
An impression of a pristine high country marked by white snow, blue skies, and stark granite, contrasted with the fatigue of travel. The narrator describes a grand, almost transcendent landscape while detailing a river voyage and readiness to continue, noting delays, provisions, and the caution needed to navigate cliffs and waters as they press onward toward the mountains.
New Orleans August 17. The Louisiana state board of health will disinfect all sleeping cars entering New Orleans. Cars arriving will be cleaned and disinfected under sanitary inspectors. Towels and bed clothes must be sterilized in a steam oven and the car itself, upholstery, carpets, and mattresses cleansed. The disinfection system extends to steamships and steamboats visiting the city.
New York Aug 1 Rend Dalton who swam the English channel in 1890 returned to Coney Island at 10 AM after a failed bid to reach Sandy Hook. He swam 17 miles but was carried off course by a current and stopped near a light. Dalton said he was not tired when the boat crew urged him to quit after yesterday afternoon. He had been in the water from 8:30 AM to 3:40 PM.
London august 17 mark twains english publishers say twains new book more tramps abroad will be out in november or december the edition will be large and the volume has more than pages the book is fully up to the authors former writings it develops a new vein of seriousness which we expect will attract a new class of readers a large part of the work is devoted to the present conditions of india and twain gives terrible expression to his opinions of religious life there
Denver August 16 8 It is probable the great silver mines at Creede Col will be closed due to low silver price unless railroad and smelting rates are reduced. Mine owners smelter and railroad officials have conferred and the latter show willingness to concede to keep mines in operation. Miners may accept wage cuts from three dollars per day to four seventy in wet work and two fifty in dry to avoid closure.
Prince Henri of Orleans was wounded in a duel with the Count of Turin and Turin’s ally Albertone reports that Henri’s condition is satisfactory. Albertone notes France’s Prince Frenrl had issued a challenge but withdrew after Turin’s side pressed.
A so called remedy claims to relieve distress in six hours for bladder and kidney pain with prompt reduction of urinary passage pain. It targets both men and women, claiming to relieve water retention and back pain rapidly. The advertisement urges swift use for quick relief and cure.
In Pittsburg Pa yesterday a miners strike triggered a tense federal injunction hearing before Judges Stowe and Collier. The case signals potential changes to the injunction amid civil suits against De Armitt and criminal charges against his brother Samuel De Armitt. Deputies Kerr and Anderson clashed, leaving Kerr fatally wounded and Anderson under pursuit by authorities.
Army engineers report the civil service extension for workers on public projects will operate satisfactorily. Selection rights broadened allowing officials to vet clerks from any classified branch, with bonds up to 15000 dollars for paymasters. Chicago platform shifts target anti monopoly and anti injunction planks.
Ogden Goelet has returned to the Mayflower at Cowes in poor health after Cowes Week, family alarmed by prostration from overexposure to visitors. Bayard returns to Dover Street from Sir John Mowbray's country seat, with Mowbray a Tory MP at Oxford University. Duke of Marlborough ill and at Ems waters. flag presentation for Queen on Bienheim anniversary dispensed with due to his absence abroad.
George Crate of Toledo sold the steamer Valley City to E D Cumming for John Cudahy of Chicago. Rechristened Captain John Barr, the 220 ton, 143 by 34 foot vessel will be disassembled and rail shipped to Seattle then by steamer to St Michael Alaska for Yukon river service. The ship formerly operated on Grand River then Maumee and Mississippi routes before sale.
Official G A BR line offers a solid train through service to Buffalo with chair cars and sleepers. Leaves Topeka Saturday August 21 at 3 40 p m arriving Buffalo Monday morning at 8 00 am. Reserve space early by calling phone 344.
A veteran recounts chronic diarrhea since 1862 and credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with a full recovery after using a bottle. Testimonial includes Henry Steinberger of Allentown Pa and mentions other advertised products like De Witt's Early Risers, Bromo Carban head relief and Ayers HairVig.
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