State Legislature Advances Bill Affecting Ninth Judicial District
A bill to dismember the Ninth Judicial District will be introduced in the regular session. A reception for Senator Harria-Oth er Legisistive Notes is planned, and proposals include a state treasurer dispensing 11400 from Kuknwits fire department funds under a 2 percent reciprocal fire law. A warrant notice is required for the discharge, with details pending in the state capital. The bill aligns with the biannual agenda of the Firemen’s Association.
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Statte Tregeurer
The Inebriate Bill and State Law Proposals Debate
A long discussion outlines the inebriate bill across states including Colorado Maryland Wisconsin and Kansas. It covers committee petitions county reviews cost limits and treatment institute funding with opinions from patrons like Patrick Munny Kitbourr City Wis and William Wisener Milwaukee. The plan proposes county payment up to 100 for treatment and requires probate judges to approve county commitments for indigent inebriates seeking care.
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Senate
Meiers
Ouedian
Einkead
Weobate
Jude
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Atlsetty
Cue
Colorado
Maryland
Minnesota
Lautan
Wisconsin
Dattota
Oldwhoma
Louisiana
Patrick Munny
Kitbourr City
Wis
Taye
Iaw
William Wisener
Milwauker
Pega
Sui Hetitian
Khalil
LMS
Wald
Wien Wall
Fiji
Shid
Kanne
House Appointments and Committee Assignments
Scale server appoints additional committees and clerks to draft governor’s message. M Kelson chairs counties funds and nexts. E B L Epperim leads with Wehrle, Dalton, Tapscott, and others. Samuel Ernst chairs supervision of journal with Conser and Ward divisions. Clerks and stenographer noted for various committees and state affairs.
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Wehrle
Law—son
Tosh
Pitugernid
Buell
Fineney
Epperim
Dalton
Tapscott
Muenzenmayer
Haywood
Bey
Hemineer
Heekwan
Samuel Ernst
Conser
Oubelt
Ward
Wittings
Seaton
Jackson
Harvey
Turn Judge Simpson Out and Ninth Judicial District Dismemberment
A heated narrative describes a proposed bill to abolish the Ninth district and redraw jurisdictions under Judges Clark McKay and others. It recounts Simpson’s appointment after Morrill’s resignation, the convention deal, and the plan to split a four year term, aiming to remove Judge Simpson amid a power struggle.
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Simpson
Ninth Judicial District
Dre
Matt Slimpach
Plurkie Harvey
McPharson
Clark
Rena County
McKay
Bien
Udu
Werner Soreill
Martinist
So Lembnr
Hay
Martinis Resination
Bimpvon
Martin Wall
Martin
Morrill
Aron
Simpaon
First retrenchment cuts university appropriation
Ways and Means Committee, led by the Populist majority, trims state university funding from 100 000 to 50 000 and blocks bills for 155 000 for new buildings. Chemistry building 60 000, museum 140 000, shops 140 000, and a 30 000 cut in the state format appropriation, with no salary changes.
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Ways and Means
State University
Dr Marks Bill Aims to Inspect Grain Markets
The House bill proposed by Dr. Marks would remove grain inspection powers from boards of trade and place authority with the state railroad commissioners. He condemned market manipulation and urged more justice for farmers, arguing centralized control would curb abuses.
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Marks Bill
Boards of Trade
Bill to extend police boards to second class cities debated
Representative C W Fairchild faces charge as House considers extending police commission control to all cities of the second class. The Populists pledge abolition of the law, making passage unlikely.
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C. W. Fairchild
Kingman County
House Members Demand All Committees Named
Several House members complain about delays at Speaker Street in announcing the insurance committee. The appointment was postponed to February last session, and the speaker says the insurance committee cannot be reached until next week. Judiciary panel to push Representative Jones bill to prevent and punish ties.
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Speaker Street
Judiciary Committee
Jones
Senate Anti Pass Bill and Rural Access Restrictions
A Kansas Senate committee advances a pass bill prohibiting state officials except railroad board members from accepting railroad passes. Provisions limit passes to designated officers, stockmen, and ministers, with others excluded. Labor Commissioner Bird urges mayors to enforce the Eight Hour Law for both state and municipal workers, noting firemen and all employee classes deserve its benefits.
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Bird
Kansas
Favors Home Investors in Tax Exemption Bill
Representative Graves of Leavenworth county introduces a bill benefiting Kansas residents with mortgages or real estate loans. It proposes that real estate bonds or mortgages securing loans to bona fide residents of Kansas be exempt from taxation, provided the funds are loaned on legitimate real security within the state.
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Graves
Pop
Leavenworth County
Kansas
Tax Express Firms Face New State Taxes Proposal
Representative Rothweiler of Bush seeks to compel express telegraph and telephone companies doing business in Kansas to pay taxes. He introduced a bill for definitions, assessment, collection, annual reports, and penalties for neglect. Western Counties Safe Newton Ury’s bid to abolish western counties stalls under committee control. Coburn Cabinet Room Grows meeting aims to back Coburn for agriculture secretary with McKinley. exchange may add influence. Must Collect Monthly a Shawnee bill would bar more than one month’s rent in advance, ending quarterly collection. Cubbison Seated election contest against J K Cubbison dismissed, he is legally elected from the Tenth district. To Vacate Prairie Dale Topeka moves to vacate Prairie Dale addition east of Lyman schoolhouse. LEGISLATIVE NOTES Ayres to become clerk of central division southern department court of appeals February 1. Harry Landis to assume penitentiary warden role February 1. Eynoch tells governor he may step out anytime. Dalton proposes banning card games in public buildings and offices. Leaver bill curbs court powers in receivership cases. Seaver bills prevent removal of improvements on real estate on which taxes are due. Rose of Wyandotte to be appointed state architect by Governor Leeds.
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Bush
Dalton
Stevens County
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Elsworth
Seaver
Ellaworth
W. W. Rose
Rosedale
Wyandotte County
Leeds
James G. Holland
Topeke
American cattle best and prices in 1896 Deptford circular
Bureau of Animal Industry reviews a London commission circular showing 1896 cattle and sheep receipts from United States South America and Canada with average prices per pound. Totals include US cattle 146 985 at 4 3 per lb South America 2 etc Canada 26 873 at 4 74 per lb. Sheep US 19 507 at 5 21 lb South America 224 025 at 38 Canada 36 256 at 5 20. Bradshaw harness price listed as $10 A.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
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Agricultural Department
London
Deptford
England
United States
South America
Canada
Resweclivert
South
Mosaic Snapshots From Topeka News
A jumble of local items records lectures at Cheteyile and Washburn College events, arrests, property matters, and political moves. Names include John MacDonald, Samuel A. Kingman, J. D. McKeever, N Handy, and Walter McBurne with events at Washburn and Topeka civic life amid unsettled election talk.
New Royal Yacht Planned to Replace Victoria and Albert
London Jan 2 A new royal yacht to replace the Victoria and Albert will be built for the queen. It will have modern engines, twin screws, and high speed. Construction starts soon to match contemporary standards and royal requirements, replacing patched repairs with a up to date vessel.
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Victoria and Albert
Mowensauern
Beeve Urather
Ata
Germany for Germans warns US exporters on German market access
The US Consul in Germany reports harmful obstacles in German markets. He says Germans favor protected, home products and prefer foreign goods only for dollars or gold, while restricting importers from the United States. He warns exporters of silent protectionism and favoritism toward German firms.
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Yan
United States
Bathelow
Mayence
Germany
State Department
Cubans Take a Fort in Havana Province Assault
A Special from Key West reports a Cuban victory near Pelacion in Havana province. Spanish forces of about 600 men retreated after fierce charges by Hiernandez’s troops. The insurgents burned the fort at Pelanon and seized 1400 stands of arms, a cannon, $1,000 in gold, $5,000 paper money, and various papers from the Spanish commissary, with authorities quiet on the palace evacuation.
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Commercial Tribune
Key West
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Pelation
Havana
Hiernandez
Cajalo
Pelanon
Ofiene Sierare
Apt. King Appointed Globe-Democrat Editor
A dispatch from this city announces Captain Henry King as editor of the St Leas Globe-Democrat. King, long an editorial writer here, has also been Topeka postmaster and Capital editor. He is brother of James T. King the state librarian and brother-in-law of W M Hynevoor. The notice ends with an unrelated remark on hair care and Hall Renewer.
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Henry King
St Leas
Luxurious $10,000 bathroom planned for Spreckels mansion
Jan 25 Trenton reports Kara Thos, heiress of Claus Spreckels, pursuing a dream bathroom as part of a $6,000,000 Pacific Coast home project. The New York designers view decorative tiles, paneled walls, and a gold trimmed porcelain tub. the 74 by 5 foot bath features paneled walls and bathing scene panels, with a gold bathroom suite and ornate ceiling.
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N. J
Kara Thos
Witer
Europe
Pacific Colls
Berlin Council Denounces Memorial Paper for William I
Berlin town council debate over spending 20 000 marks on a memorial paper for William I sparks socialist opposition. Dr Zedka denounces the plan as a waste and calls for funds to aid winter distress and oppose a hospital and school pamphlet distribution. The German Gazette editorializes that socialism and anarchism are linked and urges support for law and order against socialist actions.
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Zedka
Willan
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Tragic Stampede Crushed 300 in Chinese Theater
From Hong Kong reports a December disaster in Kwang Fou where a theater crush killed about 300 people, mostly women and children, as a lamp overturned and doors failed. Only four of 40 actors survived, with two in native hospitals in critical condition.
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Gaelle
Fpoo-Chow
Hong-Kong
Lemple
Kwang-Fou
Cripple Creek Faces Water Shortage Amid Freezing Bet Beaver
Cripple Creek Colo Jan 25 The dry spell hits the city water system as Beaver Creek reservoir banks freeze and the superintendent’s neglect threatens the supply. The Church Hill reservoir may yield only four hours of water, forcing shutoff of drains to conserve for fire use. Residents rely on city pipes and a few artesian wells served by water wagons.
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Church Hill
Student Pease fined after Urbana riot eye incident
Frenny Pease, a Champaign student, was fined 19 dollars and costs in police court for throwing chemicals into Mise Hade bough's eyes during the riot at the University of Illinois gathering in Urbana. The injured woman remains confined and may take days to learn the severity of her injuries.
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Frenny Pease
Mise Hade
University of Linois
Urbana
North Topeka Socials And Notices In Brief
North Topeka society items list residents visiting friends in Staple Field and Kansas City, families planning moves to Maple Hill and Denver, church groups meeting at Kansas Avenue church, Knights of Pythias social, and baptist Sunday school services. Local ads urge Geo Mayers bread and quality bakers. Weekly club meetings note January 26 gathering and Vincent Reading Circle venue.
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Soldier Creek
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Thomas Wallace
Staple Flt
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Kansas City
Rufus Neiswinder
Maple HU
Cecil Boydson
Colorado Spring
Alice Rudy
Hor‘ton
W. T. K. Club
Mr. M. Hale
Park Street
Vincent Reading Circle
Knights of Pythiax
Erybods
Geo. Mayers
Young People's Club
A. J. Arnold
Jackson Street
George Currier
Colorado
Denver
Baptists
W. B. Hutchinson
Through the Suez Canal United States Cruiser Detroit Homeward
The Detroit cruiser on the China station will depart for home around February via the Suez canal and then to New York. The voyage involves coal stops at infected ports, raising official astonishment. Intended as part of the North Atlantic fleet, the detour is said to shorten the overall route to New York.
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Navy Department
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San Francisco
Governor Smith Employs Witness on His Payroll
Washington reports Colonel Blue says Governor Smith has placed John Eagan, an orderly who testified for him, on the payroll at 20 dollars a month since the investigation closed. Goodrich, also an orderly, remains on the rolls at 29 dollars monthly, though entitled to 10 dollars. Allegations of further favors and improper substantiation arise.
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Blue
Lawrence Boy Hall Riddle Dies After Street Car Collision
Lawrence reports Hall Tiddie, aged local resident and assistant professor in mathematics at the University of Minnesota, died in St Paul Minn from injuries two weeks after an electric street car collision with a railway train. The young man was widely known and regarded as bright and popular.
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St. Paul
Lawrence
Hall Tiddie
Minn
Widdle
Mathematica
University of Minnesota
Will This Ship Fly Aboard A Probable Flying Vessel
New York residents report a inventor named A P A Flosen working on a flying ship design. The craft resembles a ship with multiple masts and wings, described as aluminum framed and powered by a motor. Claims include frictionless mast rotation and steering via a front mast mechanism, with projected speed around one mile per hour in demonstrated tests.
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Jam Oh
A. P. A. Flosenattar
Court Square
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Miles
Feiner
Ray Bo
MAIL CLERKS DISCHARGED FOR VIOLATING ORDER
St Louis Republic reports that after an investigation by Postmaster General Joe Johnston two chief clerks on the C. de A. road between St Louis and Kanwaka City will be discharged. Four others on the line will be reduced to helpers, and six helpers, including two certified mail agents, will be promoted to chief clerks to replace those reduced. All are St Louis residents. The action enforces the general order restricting non duty clerks from riding in mail cars and prohibiting non duty clerks from entering cars.
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Man Swallows Tobacco on crowded Kansas City Car
An amusing incident aboard a Kansas City streetcar described a man from a rural district who swallowed part of his tobacco pouch after arguing with a fellow passenger. The conductor restrained him as the crowd laughed, and police were involved as the man grew pale and agitated.
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