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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
6
A report details a massive fraud involving substantial money and valuable produce. Authorities are investigating schemes that drained funds and redirected goods, with inquiries focusing on the individuals and organizations implicated in the loss.
A Topeka based scheme, the Western Exporting and Importing company, lured farmers with promises of selling crops to Europe. Promoters including J. Dummer and Geo. Larkwood raised funds via stock shares, but shipments failed and loans remained unpaid. Legal action ensued as officers faced claims for money advanced and alleged misrepresentation.
Secretary Lockwood faces stockholder calls over costs as 18 men hold only one share and 250 dollars is paid by Mike Denin amid audits led by Hungate and Harvey. In Washington, President Dole and party await annexation clarity, planning to stay until next week and hope for Senate ratification before returning home.
A county attorney and sheriff clash in Pottawatomie County with possible intervention from the attorney general. C. W. Skene, a Populist, was twice jailed on malfeasance charges tied to Holm Brewing interests and illicit saloon activity. Contempt proceedings and warrants proceed in Westmoreland and Wamego as Val Blatz and Helm Brewterie tie the dispute to liquor control.
Pred Simmons, the folatist who urged fin in the accond story of the building at 10 Kansas avenue, has paid his L-1 const fine in the police department. The docket notes he was arrested Wednesday for Fell ing Aquor, deposited $100, price formerly run by Atlee Thompson. Dnnetne at Gabees hall after day Kindergarten Fagot party on Tuesday evening, February 1. G. W. Stansfield promotes De Wins Litterly Risers pills for headache, constipation, and biliousness.
Exaggerated cures flood the market while Chamberlain's Cough Remedy gains steady favor over twenty five years. Users praise it and insist on having it again. Drugists call Ayer's Pills the best family medicine, stated as safe and satisfactory. Ghost stories and social notices close the fragment.
State Bar Association opens its 15th annual meeting in the Supreme Court room Topeka with members listening to judges and lawyers. The program includes addresses on Popular Self Mastery The Duty of Lawyers Toward its Promotion and The Pardoning Power Its Use. Attorney General Boyle and Judge H L Thomson preside and speak at the Topeka gathering.
The street car company will demolish the old barn at Twelfth and Jackson to reuse timber and bricks in a new brick and stone building east of the current site. The existing structure measures 135 by 130 feet. the new shed will be 145 by 2 feet wide, with storage for care and vestibles. Several old horse cars will be moved to sites and glass removed from windows to reuse in trolley vestibules.
The city dog tax collector visits the chief of police over dog tax charges. Steele, Chief BL, is cited paying dog tax but claims potential court challenge. The tax collector files a fee and tax bill as the dispute unfolds with remarks about legal action.
A nineteenth century reform polemic denounces a system of partisan control over public offices. It cites threats, assessments, and patronage used to reward supporters, with quotes about bribery and a police chief discussing tax collection and dog taxes as satire of official corruption. The piece recalls Belknap impeachment rhetoric and condemnations of systemic abuse.
The crew of Santa Fe Train 113 arrived in Topeka in variagated costumes after a fire at the Kansas City Union depot burned most uniforms and damaged or spoiled nearly every train box. Pullman conductors and Wasner conductors escaped with only smoking damage.
Text presents fragmented quotes from the New York Journal and Chicago Record. It mentions arms broken, Mrs Newitch and Mrs Swellington, a servant, and a remark by Smart Clark about business and pricing under tariff changes. No coherent event or persons beyond those names are established.
Eureka Springs Arkansas is touted as a premier year round resort with round trip tickets available from major cities nationwide at reduced rates. The Winscee Line offers double daily trains. A detailed Eureka preview pamphlet is available free on request from Geo. C. Nicholson, General Passenger Agent, Fisk Ling, Louis, Mo.
Topeka society pages record January and February gatherings including the Daughters of the Revolution meeting at Mrs Judge A He Horton's home with a colonial themed program, piano selections by Chopin, and lectures. Louise and variety of clubs host meetings at homes, with Miss Ida Smith to wed Oscar D Wolf on February 2 at the bride’s parents’ home on Van Buren Street.
Miss Smith and Miss Lulu Thompson return from Kansas City and a ten day visit. Mrs J Todd departs for Menominee Ark with son Hurt for a new home. Sixty guests attend a surprise party for Miss Mamie Crawford near town. Suburban and Konseuls Krew enjoy dancing and games at Burt Todd’s home. Madame Beger advertises scientific baths and home treatment with corn and bunion removal.
Senator H G Jumper appeals for clemency for Frank Lewie, jailed for the daylight bank robbery at Waverly Kaw and the resulting killing of pedestrian A P Ingleman. He told the pardon board this morning that the jury now doubts Lewie’s guilt and cited a signed jury statement. Convicted February 1893, Lewie faces possible commutation before the quarterly session adjourns Saturday.
Market summary from yesterday to today shows wheat firming in places with May opening around 96 to 101 and decline to 96 on some reports while corn stays steady with May opening up slightly and selling near 23 to 25 across markets. Hog and cattle receipts, prices, and shifts noted with mixed activity. Kansas City and other markets report weaker cattle and steady to higher sheep sales amid varying demand and regional movements.
Kansas City Produce Market report shows wheat offerings with higher prices for hard and soft grades and active trading. Corn remains firm with mixed No 3 grades and slight price shifts. oats rise modestly with No 2 white steady. rye price notes limited activity.
Northwestern receipts and Kansas City, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Duluth show steady to mixed demand for wheat and corn. Prices for sugar and coffee move little as brokers in grain and provisions report quiet markets and narrow ranges.
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