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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1904
Page
4
A garbled dispatch highlights World War I developments and rumors from Japan, Russia, and the United States. It notes Japanese victories on the Dewey plan, Russian naval affairs, and American funding for wartime effort, with speculation about the Isthmian Canal and politics at home.
Local Republican candidates face ward and precinct races for council and school board seats. Central committee meets at 7:20 PM to set campaign fund assessments, with totals peaking around 55 to 60 dollars per race. Prominence surrounds Col J W F Hughes and W A Myers as sewer dispute and party dynamics unfold across Auburndale Lowman Hill and nearby areas.
In Holliday's bid, Ty Sherman Williams appears with support as a leading propertied figure. Vying for council seats, candidates include Holliday, Wolf, Gillette, Sheard, and Stattinger. care for public enterprises and law and order shapes the campaign amid expectations of fierce contest in the Fourth Ward.
Kans City dispatch reports the Dewey ranchman, Clyde Wilson, and W J McBride face trial for the Burchard Merry murder. On resumption Berry testified, admitting earlier statements differed from his preliminary hearing as cross examination continued. A Colorado horse theft arrest was raised but the jury was excused during the argument.
William Hear, a colored teen, was fined 325 and costs for stealing about 40 dollars in shoes from Matthews v Dreschel, with a near miss on another theft. Reams Hearm shows a prior record including a probationary conviction for robbing a donation box at Lewman Hill Methodist church.
Sheriff Luras reports George Gordon, convicted in Shawnee county district court for attempting to sell a 2000 dollar gold brick, died recently in California. Gordon had fleeced a Mayette area farmer in a Topeka delivery scheme and was arrested after bankers uncovered the ruse. He was sentenced to six years, appealed, and bonded out, never serving the term.
A fragmented specials page lists breakfast items and canned goods including Watt's Hams Misercery 2 cans, evaporated peaches, Malte Vite cereal, Royal Pancake Flour, Naval Oranges and other items. Readable fragments show typical grocery sale items and prices though details are incomplete.
Travel deals list fares to California for 25.00, Oregon and Washington 22.50, Montana and Utah 20.00. Tickets available March 1 to April 3. Sleeper and reclining cars good. Liberal stopover permits. For details see nearest station. Phones listed.
Local notice items report City Attorney Spencer facing a serious threat of pneumonia amid a string of civic events. The Ohio club plans a 2s meeting, political rallies are set, and Republican speakers are invited to Jordan’s Hall. James Stavin of Lexington writes a joke to city authorities about his missing brother and family after the flood.
Miss Blanche Boise complains through friends that Sheriff Lucas will not permit her to be photographed in her county jail cell. Friends have tried to smuggle cameras into the jail with no success. Lucas says he has ordered officers not to allow cameras in the building and notes she could visit a photographer's gallery, which she declined. He adds it is not proper to take pictures in the jail as everyone reads the State Journal.
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