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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1897
Page
3
Railroad news notes a development at Kansas City along its own line with a focus on progress, rail movements, and regional impact. The item highlights strategic importance for the network and future service implications.
Kansas City reports indicate landowners near the West Bottoms confront a proposed railroad plan involving 240 feet of property needed for a depot access route. The Rock Island line seeks value well over estimates, with talks of costly adjustments and potential condemnations affecting Church of the Annunciation and surrounding parcels. The issue centers on pricing, risk, and whether owners will accept compensation to allow the line to proceed toward a new depot pathway.
A local Agrosalie event hosted by the Fire Men's Brotherhood with members including Mrs Themibe Verdin Mrs Sher min and others. The gathering featured invitations from fine guests and a program of singing and dancing that drew a well attended crowd led by Mr Laure Verlit and Mr and Mrs Mark Miller among others.
An old promotional piece extols prevention over cure and credits AYER S Cherry Pectoral with preventing and curing pneumonia. It includes patient testimonials, mentions of sobriety and sleep, and notes from St Joseph La and Teveton Moss regarding successful use of the product.
A reading of readable names lists numerous individuals including Duff Albert Curry Ches Leal Stierman Galletly Montgomery Tulley Wanef Melgin Callahain McKinney Riordan Hinpigan Galletly Keily Galletly Trown Patterson Sawyer McGinnis Murphy McAndrews Sherry O'Brien Boyston Wadell Metzker Dessford Hannigan Devtin among others indicating a social or church attendance roster from a historical newspaper page.
Win Hodson recalls the Rock Island pay car era in Kansas with a rough encounter behind a pine plank counter. He describes how monthly payments by check replaced frequent pay car runs and recounts a confrontation with a violent laborer during a dangerous shift on the line.
An article reports that Patents from F Cafferty and associates will be tested this week for a new cattle guard system. Three patterns named Positive Perfect and Walhapten will be evaluated under Cafferty supervision to determine which best prevents cattle crossing. The trial involves driving cattle toward a fence and observing performance, with cost savings estimated at about 34 dollars per guard, via a cheaper design noted to replace the previous costly model.
A Leavenworth paper cites Santa Fe officials warning the first of January the Santa Fe track would be dismantled north of Lawr encworth if operations cease it notes track and section men have been informed and county might face damages even if the company surrenders funds The story suggests a broader system conflict between Leavenworth and Tepeka Topeka and Atchison through Hawthorn and St Joseph with implications for the region and railroad service.
Former Missouri Pacific employee engineer Wim Harsley was killed near Leavenworth when he stepped onto a second track to avoid an approaching passenger train. A freight engine struck him, severing his hip and crushing his right leg, as he walked home with groceries.
A joint order by Southern Pacific Santa Fe Pacific and Southern California railways bans the use of special monthly free fare across routes west of Ogden and into New Mexico and El Paso. The directive targets carriers acting against policy, with enforcement to ensure fare integrity amid cross‑state travel.
The article covers a Santa Fe mileage fraud case in which three brokers altered mileage books and sold falsified leaves. It details how covers were modified, the difficulty in proving guilt, and mentions a drug in Kansas City and a forger nicknamed Overtime Parker. Additional items include railway updates from St Joe to Galveston, a Tampico to Mexico City extension, and crew changes at Ellinwood and Florence with local station notes.
J J Kinney chief of Santa Fe secret service returned from Chicago after investigating fraudulent mileage not counterfeit but used as editorial mileage in 1890. He traced entry through printing records and selling through Chicago broker networks to Kanes City and Union Avenue brokers before it moved to commercial traveler circles.
Prof Bleke of the University and Prof Lucien Bike at Kansas State University near Lawrence claim to have telegraphed messages through space without wires using Hertzian rays. Messages were transmitted through brick walls to a receiver in another room and even across a campus distance of about 2000 yards. The experiment reportedly sent and received Morse signals without any physical connection between key and sounder.
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