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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1895
Page
4
The Topeka daily edition offers carrier delivery of 19 fonts weekly to Topeka and suburbs or Barns towns with carrier service. Subscriptions by mail three months cost 2.8 80 ips cash 278 per year 50.
A Kansas City area digest discusses presidential prospects, silver coinage parity, prison reform ideas, and church-state tensions. It cites editorials praising Topeka Star Journal, comments on Kentucky politics, and attacks on temperance and vice. It notes Seventh Day Adventists and Salvation Army actions in Texas and Colorado, with fines and jail for Sabbath activity.
Kansas segments report on local caps, oddities, and humorous notes. Reflected are meetings restricted to quarters, a new oil mill plan, a Lawrence dynamite club, calico horse fad, corn ladder orders revival, cattle hides prices, Leavenworth katzenjammer, a Wichita saloonist’s vacation, hair color misread, a robbery without naming suspect, telephone quirks, a Parsons woman story contest limit, a Pratt rain sign, Pratt quality hill anecdote, party dress prep at Emporia, and Wichita visitors amid saloon closures.
Secretary Lamont reportedly sounding out others on a third term while in San Francisco. The piece says he is measuring support among northern leaders for a possible Cleveland candidacy and notes HL Vansenden, Carlisle’s secretary, is on a similar mission to gauge Democratic backing.
Dome Geza, famed for a life of dramatic turns, resurfaces in Enterprise Kansas with violin lessons after a wandering career that included monastery rumors in Kentucky, plans for Rome studies, and a publication titled A Modern Don Juan. He previously fled to Colorado, endured hardship, and returned to Kansas.
In Shawnee County farmers report successful irrigation across sizable tracts. They move water efficiently to fields despite prior shortages, applying new methods to boost yields and stabilize crops this season, with local cooperatives coordinating equipment and timing.
A Journal reporter witnesses J S Austin near Silver Lake road three miles northwest of town demonstrating irrigation on twenty acres of vegetables. Water stored in a pond fed by a windmill delivers controlled flow to cabbage and cauliflower beds, with a second pipe planned to cover more plots. Both Austin and rival Rood show promising systems likely to spark nearby adoption as farmers monitor the results.
A man from Atchison in a linen duster and straw hat attends an Athletic Park baseball game. He asks the manager where the beer counter is and learns none exists. after a pass-out at the third inning he returns for his money. The scene highlights local temperance norms and crowd habits as he jokes with staff about drinks.
Atlanta July 12 The first settlers arrive for the federal soldiers colony in southwest Georgia organized by ex Governor Northen. P H Fitzgerald of Ohio comes to pay the first installment on the purchase price. The town site Northen City will rise within months as 15,000 colonists travel by wagon after harvest.
Public administrator in San Francisco renders final account for actress May Brooklyn who died by her own hand four years ago. Assets include 0.50, a gold watch and chain, miniature breast pin, metal containing a breast pin and paper cutter, a banjo, five shares of Thompson Hydraulic Co stock, and a $400 draft held by Crocker Woolworth bank. Heirs are her brother W. Crocker and niece May Crocker, both in Rosseau, Ireland.
W T Watson, a former Alma resident back from Cuba, disputes telegram reports from Santiago De Cuba. He notes 12,000 Spanish troops with many in hospitals, Cuban forces at 16,000 with 2,000 cavalry, and growing arms supply. He says Cubans drill in the mountains while awaiting fever months to ease their campaign and predicts eventual Cuban success. Watson mentions annexation sentiment and notes 700 acres of standing canned goods left unsold.
A patient at the Topeka insane asylum killed another during bath time in ward C3. Gus Mower from Hays City was with Sam Hughes when Hughes attacked him, causing Mower to strike his head on a tub and die instantly. Relatives were notified and the body shipped for burial. travel costs by Great Rock Island and Great Boston routes are listed.
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