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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1899
Page
8
A report states a woman asserts her plan succeeded and crime prevention measures proved effective. Officials confirm results and credit community cooperation for the observed improvement. The piece notes dates and locations connected to the strategy and notes cautious optimism.
Police found a group at the station after a tip. A woman brought two boys and a girl described in white trousers and blue shirts. The smaller boy cried as the woman claimed he stole money and chews tobacco. The sergeant lectured and released him after a talk on folly. The woman said the older boy had prior offenses and fasting would cure him.
M View and his companion Mary Mordan visited Rough Readys Blase for two Betties of soda. After refusing to pay, View insulted the counterman and a fight followed. Police intervened as the couple fled toward Jackson street with the woman stealing a kiss as he was taken away.
A fragment reports Friday afternoon personnel including Sergeant Donovan and Officer Bundy leaving the station to a location on Jefferson Street at 2:30. They arrive 15 minutes later and encounter a man named William Woods, with a cryptic remark about finding the place.
Officers raided a disorderly Topeka bar finding beer stock moved and a lone beer bottle count. Woods jailed on $200 bond as proprietor fled with liquor. a boy delivered a bucket of beer during investigation. Woman Frances France seeks divorce amid jealous husband threats in district court. Local items note drug store changes and event oddities in Topeka society.
A crowded jumble of local notes, names, and happenings from Topeka and nearby areas. Mentions fire alarms, street work, legal business, soda fountains, cinema regalia, and various citizens and officials with scattered daily events and inquiries.
Dieut Willem Cavenauch of the Twentieth United States infantry, escort to Colonel Stotsenburg, travels through Topeka and Manhattan en route to San Francisco. He discusses the climate in the Philippines, notes the heat and rainy season, praises native adaptability, and weighs insurgent tactics and the fight's prospects as more troops arrive. He cites Aguinaldo and predicts subjugation will take time.
Tickets on sale August 31 to September 34 with inclusive limits and stopover privileges. For full information and rates call Rock Island depot or Fuller. Also note Beggs’ Diarrhoea Balsam advertised by Squires’ Pharmacy as a remedy.
The city council debated a new ordinance creating a superintendent of excavations to oversee pavement repairs after cuts and leaks. A $1 license plus a $1 excavation fee would fund the salary, with penalties for violations and deposits returned if work is properly done. The measure, supported by Nettels and Roundtree, faced opposition from Blossom and Morgan, and was recommended for passage 5 to 2. It may be up for final action at the next meeting.
Reported fraud claims target the Kansas City federal building project with substituted bricks shavings dirt and rubbish in place of cement. An investigation into the Leach Son of Chicago contract and the cement base for the floor tiles is underway following contractor and worker allegations and faulty material substitutions observed on site.
Santa Fe division offices will not move from La Junta to Colorado Springs. Denver and Colorado Springs papers claimed a move, but La Junta papers deny it, stating the headquarters remain in La Junta. The Santa Fe camp is expanding its depot at Colorado Springs and considering a dispatchers' office there, tied to an agreement with the Colorado Southern roads.
C E Faulkner of Minneapolis and former Kansas leader, in a letter, outlines aims for the National Conference of Charities and Corrections. He discusses charity work, reform goals, and the convention’s potential impact on social welfare.
The meeting in Topeka in May discusses shared charity work across creeds to ease partisan strife. It warns politics can harm governance when it disrupts hospitals and shelters, urging repair of breaches and neighborly cooperation. A farmer recounts a ram killing a bear, with the ram praised as a notable ancestor in a line expected to sire a proud lineage.
In Little Kettle Creek area, Peter Morley guards a sheep flock with a shotgun as a bear nears. The black ram leaps at the bear twice, striking it between the eyes in a rapid exchange that ends with the bear felled. The ram then stands watch as the bear lies still. Farmers Morley and son witness the dramatic defense of the flock.
An old engineer recalls a Chicago to Rock Island limited train collision with a herd of cattle on the tracks. A hobo rode the pilot uninjured, while the crew chased and eventually found the man still aboard the locomotive.
An elderly colored man entered the Secretary of State office for a sight-seeing tour of the capital. He wandered, stood on one foot briefly, then requested access to the state’s historical Indian figure. The event occurs amid odd remarks and unclear context.
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