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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1900
Page
3
Incomplete OCR description praises Santa Fe trains for fast service and comfortable equipment. Mentions track quality, signaling, dining rooms, and overall reliability, but text is garbled and lacks full details.
Six candidates from fusionists Populists and Democrats file plans for a congress seat against J. D. Haversock in the second district. Convention aims discuss one confluence, with two meetings noted. Names include Baskt of stats, Akers Waters East, and others, with travel plans and tourist rates to Colorado and Utah. Tickets available from Missouri plains to Denver and Topeka before mid August.
The fragmentary text mentions a Balt Gambier event with a Beaty Be ater on rear, unclear details. Authorities or local reporters provide partial names and directions, but the readable portion omits full context or outcomes.
A Kansas city fire event leaves two horses dead and one injured while a separate blaze at 49 East Beyond Street is extinguished with minor loss. Amid alarms, a charity auction for Santa Fe shops follows a club meeting, listing numerous prize allocations and bidders across North River, West Street, and nearby avenues.
A Saturday auction of bulk property near Santa Ye Shop site drew a large crowd and there were many bidders and observers as owners and the Commercial group sought to settle arrangements. The sale reportedly featured multiple groups forming around properties and parcels while buyers discussed terms and payments amid a busy, unsettled market atmosphere.
Chicago officials report the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and Chicago & Rock Island railroads plan a $1,000,000 to $1,600,000 depot taller than ten stories. Tracks will rise to meet the elevated loop, with ground level baggage and service areas. The new central offices will relocate to the Grand station site, while the Van Buren and Pacific avenue corner may host ticket operations for multiple lines. The existing Van Buren street depot is the oldest and partially burned.
Union Pacific train No. 4 assisted and carried the stranded Rock Island passengers after a derailment near Agate on the Denver route. The Rock Island engine failed, the tender snapped, yet no injuries occurred. Wrecking crews were delayed, but the two trains merged and reached Denver about two hours after the accident.
E J Ward is named division superintendent for the Missouri Pacific with duties across Wichita and multiple Kansas divisions including Hutchinson Salina Coffeyville Arkansas City and Larned plus assignments to memory divisions in Missouri and the Iron Mountain headquarters in St Louis. Ward previously served as chief slot in the general superintendent's office at St Louis.
Interstate Commerce Commission report states that railroad employment reached 93 554 workers, up 4 406 from the previous year. The data reflects gains in railroad service and workforce during the period analyzed.
The readable text appears to be a garbled quotation describing someone starting with an action and then improving from the start, ending with a questionable judgment of the result. No clear facts, dates, or named entities are determinable from the fragment.
The report details freight tonnage for the prior year, operating expenses, and dividends. It records railway casualties totaling 51 743 people, with 7 123 killed and 4 6M injured. Passenger fatalities reached 739 and injuries 3 43, with per passenger fatality and injury rates provided. Employee fatalities reached 2210 and injuries 34 $23 during the year.
Fred E Maier, a well known Kanass engineer, was killed in a head end collision on the Chesapeake Beach railroad near Pushaw Maryland. His body arrived in Wichita after leaving the city a month ago. He had long worked on the Lacrate and Midland railroads and was active in local railroad associations. The Washington Star notes the fatal wreck involved two engines and a freight car, with passengers shaken but mostly unhurt. The coroner blamed the conductor and a fellow engineer for ignoring orders. Maier was married and carried insurance. he belonged to the UC W lodge and the B of L in Wichita.
Major Charles Peck of Houston, head of the Texas Car Service association, says a wheat shortage is worsening as Galveston elevator space will be filled by wheat by Saturday night. Thousands of grain cars will line the tracks. first cargo due July 15 will involve about 256 to 265 car loads. Rail officials urge using any remaining North Texas elevator space to hold wheat until it can pass through the port.
Clare, a Missouri Pacific employee, was badly cut on the left knee by a window fracture when the car door buckled after a Central Branch train arrived. He required stitches and stayed home. Glass scattered, injuring colleague Wenes slightly. Prask Brewster is promoted to chief of tin and copper smiths at Sedalia shops, with long service dating to 1879.
Garden City hosts perfect weather for the Metropolitan Golf Championship final between champion W. J. Travis and ex-champion Findlay. Travis wins 3 up after a steady round as spectators packed the iika and early trains delivered a large crowd.
Senator William Vincent Allen of Nebraska, visiting his sister in the city after a Kansas City trip, rejects fusionist claims. He asserts Kansas and Nebraska will vote Democratic, with Bryan and Stevenson as expected ticket, and cautions that fusion talk aims to mislead the public. He stresses western politics favor Democrats and that Nebraska is not at risk of fusionist loss.
Paris exposition features Lord & Thomas errat map of United States detailing state areas population publishing activity wages and ad rates. Also reports organization of Philippine scout squadron under Lt Wilder, barracks at Culoscan named as rendezvous, and Santa Fe train promotions to Chicago with routes via Topeka. Burdock cited by speaker.
In a murky report from South oie, Wilhite walked home with confusion after a bar incident. The scene included a boy named Tonlened Raving and a watcher, with money missing from a drawer and unclear circumstances that only surfaced later with an eye on hire at the mace.
Douglas County Democrats and Populists instructed their delegates to back J. Caldwell of Lawrence for Congress at the Second District convention. Caldwell’s removal from the race followed county actions guiding support for Caldwell, signaling a shift in local party alignment.
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