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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1899
Page
3
An old advertisement touts a tonic for women claiming to restore vitality and cure various female issues. It promises health benefits and lists a special price available through the Topeka Cash Dry Goods Co. drug department.
Two California fishermen Guy Ames and W A Graham endured a perilous encounter off Dewport Beach as two great sharks trailed their small boat. They fought for hours with a heavy club and pole, finally driving the exhausted larger shark away and disabling the smaller one before escaping to shore.
A digester from Sarin Fe depot Ottawa aims for Forest Park and notes a first class paved sidewalk exists along the route. Mentions an Ottawa Chautauqua Assembly event and a July trip by Thy Sante Fe with a quoted fare of 158 dollars.
Major rail deal ties Santa Fe with Colorado & Southern, granting Denver Pueblo Galveston service. Beginning August 1, Santa Fe will operate all Colorado & Southern trains on joint tracks between Denver and Pueblo, with Denver gaining the lions share of repairs and traffic. The arrangement consolidates routes from Fort Worth to Denver, expanding Santa Fe access and strengthening Denver shops while limiting Puetdo work. Union Pacific remains a rail competitor, with the alliance promising lower costs and streamlined operations across the region.
Two new Baldwin built passenger engines received by Santa Fe are in final testing. They form the first shipment of a large order, with more than five engines expected in a few days and freight engines also planned. Designed by Mr Player, the 20 wheeled locomotives will likely operate on mountain divisions with fast time.
J B Butts, Baldwin representative in Topeka, discusses late improvements and safety features on hesey long engines. He notes rapid production capability, with 20 to 24 engines weekly, including 42 engines for the French government and orders from India, England, South Africa, China, Japan, Russia, Austria, New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden.
The Bath commerce commission prepares the preliminary part for a railway data summary. It shows miles of track operated and owned, increases in mileage, and classification of railways by operation. The total single track mileage and the number of locomotives and cars are reported with specific figures and notes on equipment and train service.
Bante Foe reports the city replacing wooden water tanks along Main Lins with new steel tanks. The Fanin Fe recently completed a tank at Eulitay, which the Isant says marks a great improvement over the old wooden tanks still in many places. The new steel tank is said to be entirely metal.
The company adopts standard 6 by 24 foot water tanks built on the ground rather than stilts. Water is pumped into the tank and flows underground to the track side, rising to connect with engines. Two work gangs are installing the tanks, expected to quickly replace old tanks on the Santa Fe line.
Three experts accompanied large Player tandem compound engine No. 987 on a test run to Emporia to measure steam pressure and distribution with the aim of confirming no defects in key points. Tests on engine No. 998 and its sideline engine will follow after the engines are net broke in. Engineers and experts nationwide await results as Player engines attract attention for hauling power.
A freight train is wrecked at Wyhberk on the Missouri Kansas & Texas line after vandals battered a switch lock and derailed the train. Engineer McCune of Parsons loses his life while investigators suspect an attempted robbery of the M E passenger train that preceded it. The transit committee meeting and Santa Fe calendar ad are also noted.
Railway brief from Atchison to Larned and beyond notes Big Bend reopening on Missouri Pacific due to, and other stations on Central branch. Appointments, resignations, layoffs, inspections, and rumors involve J E Blew, W Weller, F J Rick, Densmore station status, and passenger service shifts toward Philadelphia via Missouri Pacific. Also mentions Densmore, Larned, Belott, and standard crew changes as well as social event in Jeffers street and local deaths of John H Thomeer.
Joe Meyers of the Rock Island, hospitalized in Wichita, is seriously ill and recovery is doubtful. J. P. Hainer of Mankato visited the city, while D. B. Ketler and J. W. Good of the Fort Worth and Denver railroad traveled in a Rock Island special car to review crop prospects. J. H. Akers, new chief engineer of the coal shaft at the penitentiary, formerly held the post under Morrill. The shopmen celebrate Mr. Akers’s good fortune.
In a messy recap of games across the National and Western Leagues, Baltimore rallied to a 7 run showing while Philadelphia and Cincinnati split clashes. The report highlights pitchers Rubin Atari and other named players, noting mixed outcomes for teams in Philadelphia and Milwaukee as standings shift amid late innings.
Chicago reports the Continental hotel at Madison and Halsted streets shutters as owner Bloom’s health faded and lessee Levis M. Stumer failed to sustain rent. The once popular hostelry, long a vaudeville and visiting artist hub, ended after months of poor returns.
A Sylvan Valley News editorial questions if editors may publicly back proprietary medicines. The writer asserts twenty years of use in households, praising Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as reliable and capable of preventing suffering when administered at the onset of attacks.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad pitches its Scenic Line as the premier route for tourists in Colorado, Utah and neighboring states, offering through Pullman palace and tourist sleeping cars between Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and Denver and Portland. It highlights two distinct routes through dramatic mountain scenery toward Cripple Creek and Ogden Gateway, with pamphlets available from Hooper, GP. & T.A., Denver.
Fragmentary listing shows a shop offering salves and cures for cuts bruises and related ailments. Mentions Bantres Pharmacy and a range of unidentified products with rough pricing and unclear quantities. The text resembles an old timey advertisement with garbled branding and mislabeled items.
Eugene Ware discusses a proposed Sheldon owned daily paper run on Christ like principles. He outlines potential editorial stunts and satire while noting labor issues and the paper’s imagined Detroit meeting, with named figures such as Cyrus Leland Jr and William Higgins appearing in mock editorials.
In a tense confession, Miss Sin Chair confronts Vandeleur about a ruined love, uncovering a tale from a novel where a woman learns a love letter destroyed her happiness. Vandeleur explains the letter and the book’s author died in a prior tragedy, and asks for forgiveness. The moment convulses them with lingering emotion and unresolved guilt.
A correspondent from Coscomnut Grove Fa describes a severe diarrheal outbreak with several deaths. The writer endorses Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best medicine, noting it has helped others who used it. It is sold by all druggists.
Tadisnapolis announces annual convention Epworth Teague with tickets on sale July 18 19 and 20 at a cost of 20. TL King is agent for details. The notice promises restoration of life and beauty of hair with a product named Gey Hair lite newer.
Chautauqua assembly schedules meetings at Forest Park Ottawa from July 17 to 26. The Sante Te offers round trip tickets at a single fare for July 15 to 25, limited to July. The service is praised as the best route to and from Ottawa.
Pittsburg travelers can buy tickets on sale July 31 and August 1 valid until August, price 2540 dollars. Ty Kilag serves as agent for details.
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