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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1903
Page
7
Market overview shows continued stock downturn with sharp losses on Wall Street while Santa Fe suffered substantial declines. Wheat opens easier with slight advance noted in corn and provisions. hog markets show improvement yet overall produce trade remains unsettled amid volatile prices and renewed selling pressure.
A large force will start work on Look 10 sewers on Thursday with crews assigned to excavate and install new drainage lines. City engineers expect improved wastewater flow and reduced surface flooding in nearby streets once completed, though timelines may adjust with weather.
Street Commissioner Frank Snyder will clean the big North Topeka sewer choke with sand from recent floods. The plan tests flushing and hydrants, then digging if needed, to restore the main to working order. If both methods fail, Snyder will proceed to dig out the sand with city engineers’ help along the Kansas avenue crossing and downstream sections.
Ten Sunday schools participated in the Ottawa Chautauqua parade with Centrepolis Methodist winning best attendance. A Dr A. McArthur lecture and a Boys and Girls Club entertainment followed. Stockholders elected directors H J Croker and others, with three new names introduced. officers to be elected today.
A Washington dispatch discusses Payne possibly leaving his post after the investigation and considers Bristow, Wrane, and Heiston as potential replacements. It also notes Kansan newspapers being read by Heiston and mentions a potential Lange candidacy for vice president, with implications of regional political strategy.
Directors of Emporta Chautauqua meet to assess finances of the Peon venture find expenses exceed receipts by about Bh. Lecturers and staff paid. rent paid. minor town bills remain. About 250 stock worth not levied last year. after collection, remaining balance near 0. Stockholders face fall assessment on a portion of $10 shares.
A Kansas City Kansas man asks to ship his son out of town after a drunken charge and a pardon oath. Jam Winn, 18, faced Tremptytiest judge for drinking and destroying property on Orville Avenue. Father paid $20 and sent him to the rock pile for 2 days to sober up. Tornado near Griffith kills one, injures three, wrecks farmsteads. Samuel Heney the farm hand dies. two Griffith children and Mrs Griffith among the injured. Tornado travels ten miles wide strip, northwest to southeast, leveling homes and barns.
Under a new tax foreclosure law, Concordia Kansas held sessions this week to auction town property. About thirty properties were placed under the hammer with bids opening, while remaining parcels continued under court orders and titles to be resolved by proxy agreements.
Prof W J Mc Gee of the ethnological bureau in Washington has been named chief of anthropology and ethnology at the World’s Fair. The appropriation of 40090 dollars by the general government will be increased by seven eateries sealing inn part to be expended on Indian exhibits Shino.
Esrito July 1 report states a 1G. interchange communion arrived from Tie Magus and was received by the foreign affairs secretary De wn Maat berg. German news shows vigorous interest in the commission and indicates belief in America propositions at Impesericalde. Frankfort Elevator Burned at Frankfort Kan details follow. Fire destroyed the elevator coal sheds of the Ei Lint Grain company. Eleven hundred bushels of grain and 30 tons of coal burned.
Two attendants at the Topeka asylum assaulted Superintendent Biddle after he refused to advance their pay. Holywood pleaded guilty to misdemena or and paid costs. Keeney was not prosecuted. The incident prompted police action and a city court complaint.
Miners and operators in the southwestern district, led by President Mitchell, met in joint conference to seek wage increases. They urge raises per ton in Cherokee Crawford and surrounding counties, Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, plus daily and overtime pay adjustments, powder pricing, and engineer wages tied to mine capacity.
Lieutenant General Nelson Miles completed a 90 mile horseback ride from Fort Sill to Fort Reno in nine hours ten minutes. The first 35 miles were covered in two hours twenty five minutes. He was cheered at the start, reviewed troops on arrival, and said he enjoyed the trip and felt fine.
The president approved the court martial action in the case of Second Lieutenant Tom F. McCarthy of the Ninetieth Infantry stationed at Fort Leavenworth. He was convicted of duplicating pay accounts and sentenced to dismissal from the army. Secretary Root warned officers not yet fully governed by regulations on pay transfers and emphasized the need for probity and debt avoidance in military service.
St. Petersburg July 16 a new law grants factory workers the right to appoint delegates to represent their interests in conferences with inspectors. A plan to form a new police force to ensure order and fare security in rural districts of forty six provinces will start immediately in fifteen provinces, with heavy expenditure and a six year phase for full completion. Over 320000 men have been called to the colors to strengthen the Burman army and navy for the year. Missing Since the Flood Kansas City July 15 a probate judge received a letter from J T Notes of Eagleton Kansas asking if his daughter Hattie Notes has married in Kansas City recently. records show no such license.
Dispatches received at the foreign office from St Peters bore and Tokle indicate relations between Russia and Japan have greatly improved over the past forty nights. Officials believe a full understanding may soon be reached as talks advance toward settlement.
The season opens in July with a lecture by Senator Iver at Cobooel Bull and Pret E. O. Hixcell. The event marks the commencement of a series of talks headlined by notable speakers amid summer programming.
In Concordia Kansas a July flood from southern Nebraska cloudburst causes the Republican river to rise above banks. Rail traffic notes 406 feet of track out on the Prosser branch and crop damage from strong winds follows heavy rainfall. Scandia reports near bank full river and wheat crop progress improving with rain aiding corn growth.
A figure named M. Loraul Tabet proposes a Helinska-Kiverik railway linking New York to San Francisco and then across to Fort Cudahy. He imagines a transcontinental rail corridor across the United States into Canada, extending into the Pacific and a tunnel to connect the Americas. The plan envisions a western route through Oregon and Washington toward Alaska, then a sea tunnel to reach St. Petersburg and Berlin via Europe.
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