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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1900
Page
10
The passage argues a judge must have experience and learning, comparing it to a housekeeper who must test soaps to distinguish Ivory Soap from lookalikes. It asserts Ivory Soap is 99 1 percent pure and superior due to genuine quality.
Secretary J W Towe of Onwentsia club issued the program for the Third Annual Woman's Golf tournament to begin next Wednesday in Chicago. The main event is the Governors Cup with defending champion Mrs W S Bicciavino not competing. A Queen Amont Handicap, putting contests, and mixed foursome events are listed with strong western entrants expected.
A 12 mile wind keeps temperatures from rising. rain chances linger with forecasters silent on precipitation. Tonight and Sunday are forecast fair and warmer, while a peaceful map hints at possible changes. The windy system from the west continues, with gusts lingering after two.
The funeral of Dennis Page was held at his home with Pythian lodge services. WHG Atchison, formerly a reporter for the Capital, died last night in Colorado Springs. The infant child of Mr and Mrs Reary Thompson died at their home three miles from town this morning and was buried this afternoon. Additional items mention tests and local store notices with partial details.
Philadelphia and other foreign posts report horror over a Russian minister and his wife killed in Pekin. Officials deny confirmation while diplomacy circles refrain from sharing details. In Evansville Indiana a separate note declares ex minister Denby’s son Charles Denby has escaped from Tianjin to Shanghai, China.
Mina Beulah Parker daughter of Hi H Parker a Topeka cigar jobber left for Kansas City on Wednesday to visit and apparently eloped. She wrote of parental opposition to Dr J A Turner once pharmacist at the Basie Fe hospital and a well known Topeka figure. Turner and Mrs Turner expected to return to Topeka amid local chatter.
Canton July 14 President McKinley left the Washington work behind for his daily Canton drive occupying the front seat with the driver. In the rear sat Mrs McKinley and Miss Ida Berber. Comptroller Tawee had just returned from a Cleveland conference and visited Judge and Mrs Day with Mrs Dawes.
The census office released its first bulletin listing the District of Columiba population as 275,718 an increase of 45,238 people or 20.93 percent since the previous census. Also notes a local ad for Hord Bros offering fine shoes at 1.00.
Mr Chas 8 Gived has returned to Teneice and will be here for several days. Henry W Toby will leave for vacation, spending time in Central New York and Canada. Oxkbni city attorney Winnie W A Daw writes to Mayor Drew about water rates in Topeka as other towns face water issues. Dr J Gilbert will leave Sunday for relatives in New York and Canada and Johns Hopkins studies. Infant shoes 55 cents at Herd Bros.
General office promotions open to all telegraph operators regardless of division under a new seniority based system. The Santa Fe increases total annual pay by about 3000 to 4000 dollars. A seniority list will guide promotions across divisions with a grievance committee monitoring moves. An independent concession grants meal hours for light operators matching day shifts.
The Interstate Commerce Commission report shows 7428 killed and 44520 injured from railway accidents. Employed workers totaled 2210 deaths and 34923 injuries, with detailed classes for trainmen switchmen and other staff. Passengers killed 238 and injured 3442, plus 4744 others killed or 6255 injured not including employees or passengers. Highway crossings and stations add further fatalities and injuries. Overall ratios indicate one death per 420 employees and one injury per 11 employees, with passenger fatality per 189,083 passengers carried and injury per 151,005 carried. mileage-based metrics show 1,851,590 passenger-miles per passenger killed.
A Liberal Kan dispatch reports Chicago Rock Island and Pacific surveyors began preliminary work to extend the Rock Island line westward toward New Mexico with a link to White Oaks or Cariz on a route near White Oaks. Engineer W D Worral leads 16 men and five wagons, claiming 100 miles of westward progress and a potential connection to Clayton New Mexico.
Independence Kan July 14 Col Samuel Porter Kan Caney originator promoter of the Kansas Oklahoma Central Southwestern road says the line will reach Guthrie before fall rails down are the best. Santa Fe mortgage holder intends to control and buy the road at sale. Road to Guthrie this year and extend south through Bartlesville to Owesco I. T. next year building from both ends continues.
The railway workforce on June 30 1899 totaled 923 924, up 64 566 from 1898, with 30 970 engineers 41 162 firemen 28 232 conductors and 69 497 other trainmen. Switchmen flagmen and watchmen numbered 48 456, allocated 6 3 2 per 100. Administration 34 170, maintenance of way 247 163, equipment 160 749, transportation 417 08. Wages and salaries paid 522 967 806, 77 458 830 more than 1895. Employer compensation stood at 60 percent of operating expenses and 40 percent of gross earnings.
Santa Fe officials, General Manager H A Mudge and General Superintendent F Ressegale, completed a southern division inspection trip aboard engine 270 and cars 212 215 216. They traveled to Oklahoma City, visited the Guthrie to Pawnee new line, and the Guthrie to Cashion line linking with the Hook Island to Kingfisher.
The Santa Fe fuel contract is expected to stay with G. W. Closson, though not final yet. Closson has served as ice and fuel contractor for four years and would begin immediately if awarded. The contract covers distribution to coal chutes stations cars and offices amid recent price increases.
In the Santa Fe monthly issued by Railroad M. A. a resignation is announced. John Coldwell under orders of the International M. A. Association remains in the field but his next assignment is undetermined. Members express deep regret at his departure and praise his satisfactory leadership.
General Superintendent A. J. Hitt and George F. Wilden, superintendent, will lead a tour of officials examining the extensions.
C P Drew car service agent HA Huber assistant car service rk passed through Topeka yesterday. They were joined by Assistant General Superintendent W H Stilwell and Ht Embry assistant general freight agent of the Rock Island. The party toured the new lines recently opened in Oklahoma and will inspect the Mountain View to Granite line opening Monday evening.
In Georgetown on July 14 the Powers murder trial drew a smaller crowd than any day since the case began. Witnesses described the scene as court exhibits a victim’s garments and a bullet block. Warden Eph Lillard testified he accompanied Goebel and Chinn to the state house the morning of shooting and saw Goebel fall after shots rang out.
Ottawa July 4 The Chau tauqua assembly attracted attendees with Miss Helen F Barnea delivering a strong lecture on women's opportunities and the W C A work. John L Brandt spoke on Uncle Sam Abroad amid criticism as partisan. Morning prayer by President Northrup opened a day of sports, classes, and a popular chorus concert.
T D Humphreys reports an attempt to flood the Columbian building Friday around five o clock. Water seeped from radiators on the first floor and upper floors as the city main feed pipe to the boiler was partially opened. The valve to the steam line had been opened, risking a burst and flooding during the vacant night.
Mrs H C Little sustained a head blow when eight club in the hands of a policeman during the Kansas City convention. She has endured a constant and serious headache since the crash, and doctors fear the impact may be the cause of her ongoing suffering.
Georgetown Kentucky July 34 Colonel Thomas C Campbell personal attorney for Arthur and Justus Goebel and leading Commonwealth lawyer against Caleb Powers reports he informed Governor Mount Indiana that a trial had been given one of the men charged in Governor Goebel murder. Campbell says he visited Indianapolis to discuss requisitions for W.
The governor stated that none of the prisoners would be given print while all clamored for more. Colonel Campbell and Governor Mount argued whether he would feel more like retaliation and how Kentucky should handle the dispersal. The text indicates tensions in the court system and public demand for trials for the imprisoned men.
Controversy grows as St Louis opera workers strike and hundreds of names are secured daily. Prominent citizens urge settlement while a July 14 manslaughter confession ties to the case. Barker of Ducktown and Jones Johnson in Jatt are named in the unfolding events.
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