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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1901
Page
6
Gen Grosvenor divides trusts into good and bad and endorses McKinley while urging liberty and equal rights. The article, set in Winfield, Kun, discusses constitutional protections, federal authority, and states’ power over voting rights for Black citizens, warning against slavery and stressing Union principles.
The text argues against corporate combinations harming labor and markets, claiming they depress wages and disenfranchise workers. It contrasts protection of the laborer with threats to citizenship rights, urging vigilance against predatory monopolies and urging unity to defend the republic and ballot access. It invokes historic national struggles and stresses the need for educated, virtuous citizens to sustain the nation.
County assessors consider forcing the ice company to reveal books to justify taxation. A plan to tax ice by weighing annual tons at wholesale rate, minus 10 percent, is proposed. County officials and local figures advocate fair assessment. municipal ice plant talks surface amid ongoing council friction.
Dr Eva Harding and Dr Sue Harding faced a raid at Jas Curtis wholesale house in Ni Chi. Authorities debated if the beer should be seized while Home Detention members reported to police. The case remained unsettled with no action to date.
Comrade Coll Minen and Spalding were shot and killed by Albert Johnson who then killed himself with a Krag rifle at the United States barracks in the city. The ten sergeants at the general recruiting review were in quarters. Johnson had served about ten years in the army and Spalding eight as a solicitor. In the Pan-American Exposition period, travelers learn of round trip Santa Fe depot fares with ten and fifteen day options and October 31 expiry.
Fragmented OCR text discusses American production, cotton mills, and textile interests across states. Mentions North Carolina Georgia South Carolina Alabama Michigan Kentucky California Utah and other regions in a broad industrial context with references to manufacturing figures and labor. The passage is garbled but centers on domestic goods and textile production.
On July 4 in St Louis, holiday disruptions hinder attempts by transfer companies to move freight. Sides await tomorrow with trepidation as the strike potential paralyses east side freight traffic. Rail unions, terminal workers and officials clash over who can move perishables and nonperishables as federal supervision and carrier actions loom.
Former U S consul James M Eder who returned from Palmyra Colombia says American merchants and plantation owners suffer from frequent revolutions and government neglect. He advocates stronger U S pressure to enforce treaties and protect investments as Colombian government teeters on instability.
Curtain rose at Crawford Summer Theater on Fourth and Quincy Street with delays tied to last minute completion work. The bill featured A Burnten Slave, Russian Slave proposals, Bernice Howard Nadine, Madge Burk in a notable ren character sketch, and Amory the specialty artist Thomas DePul. Thompson impressed on first appearance with song and dance. Epworth League announces Union Pacific Special Tourist Sleepers from July 6 to August 2 to San Francisco with rates from 36 and 45 dollars, stopovers allowed at Denver and Santa Fe depot.
Fragmentary notice lists Christian Endeavor in Cincinnati Ohio on July 4 5 and 6 with travel offer and renewal privilege. Mentions Santa Fe observation car and a slogan Take the Santa Fe. Includes stray phrases about an agent copy of folder and Cole raco Springs.
Edward Wilder’s European tour yields a generous gift for the Topeka Free Public Library. The donated hardware, glassware, chinaware, and a modern paintings collection will be housed and loaned to the library, with Wilder’s son Walter helping select pieces during a two month journey through France, Germany, Italy, and Holland.
Washington July 1 The post office warns rural free delivery carriers not to mix business with mail duties. Complaints say carriers profit by delivering or selling goods along routes for liquor and grain merchants, neglecting standard duties. The department clarifies carriers may deliver parcels for residents on route only if limited and not diverted to sales.
Severe drought across Mexico has slashed water supplies and damaged crops. Wheat yields are only about half of last year’s, corn prospects are worse, and irrigation failures threaten home food supplies. Railways dispatch estimates as water scarcity endangers cultivation nationwide.
San Francisco July Chronicle reports a public release about Harriman’s plan to accelerate the Oregon Short Line extension from Utah to southern California. The project will be surveyed and located from Utah to Beaumont with Union Pacific and Southern Pacific teams building toward each other in the desert, meeting within a year.
A warrant sworn at Yura Arte charges O A Pease a Denver mining promoter with embazzlement of 15000 dollars. Complainants include F Bradshaw Quartsite Arte F W Detdersteim Denver and Fichar Daciths of the Almond Tidit Mining company. Pease, tied to the Serpene property, allegedly disposed of it and diverted funds. he is said to be in Chicago with extradition papers sought by Governor Murphy.
L D Eversole of Topeka awarded contract for erection of Garden City High School building. Architect M L Wood of Topeka. Steam heating plant let to Stone Carter of Garden City for 2.86 dollars. Will Prince pleads not guilty in murder case. trial set for September. Lulu Prince Kennedy to testify, as she remains in county jail after ten year sentence. Henry and May Lowry charged with child murder bound over to September term on $5,000 bond.
Learned July 4 at Larned the volunteers of the forty fourth regiment returned from Luzon and were welcomed home with a depot reception by their friends.
In a world spanning transportation act, Belts the Earth acquires the Northern Pacific Steamship Company. The move creates a linked global system with ships and railways connecting New York, London, Tacoma, and Europe. The purchase signals a major step in consolidating coastal and transcontinental routes under one carrier.
Heskey July 4 reports a second day at Henley where the University of Pennsylvania crew defeated Thames Rowing Club and Saint John’s, while Leander Club fell to the Belgians. The Americans led the Grand Challenge Cup contenders, with Penn facing Leanders in the final.
A July 4 report from Great Bend details a California wheat harvester noted as the first of its kind in Martin county. The machine cuts swaths 16 feet wide, threshes and sacks wheat, runs on 26 horses, and covers over 49 acres per day. The piece praises the device as a marvel of agricultural machinery and cites its cost as £2.
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