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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1895
Page
4
Daily edition delivery by carrier at 19 cents per week to Topeka or nearby towns, same price in Kansas towns with carrier systems. By mail three months 30 cents, six months, or 3.80 per year. Weekly edition 500 per year.
July 25 dispatches fair, warmer tonight in Kansas with Priday fair and southeast winds. The column critiques border era crimes, reformatories at Hutchinson, silver dollar value, and silver coinage debates. It cites Governor Lewelling, Mississippi primaries, and civil service expansion under Cleveland, ending with Kansas and national political notes and a Ledger-like humor piece.
A Kansas brief notes that prominent bankers may shield the treasury from renewed distress, while a wary faction doubts such protection. The column cites Clews on syndicate power over US finances, contrasting with fears of distrustful crowds. Local items from St Joseph to Wichita follow, including a massive skull find, a monk, a fire company, and a university lecturer.
West End visitors praise Jim Corbett after he pulls a Brady hound from a grizzly’s clutches during an outdoor exhibition near Lock Arbor. The bear injures no one else as Corbett intervenes to drag the dog free and deflect a bite. Meanwhile reports from Contempra Neb recall drownings of three Klaus children in the Platte River. Also: eight hours on a Denver type setter yields 65,500 ems. several advertisements and a mortgagee sale of millinery goods at 727 Kanass avenue.
Edith Sessions Tepper relays a Colorado tale from La Junta about a western cattle rustler saga. A mining engineer recounts the Danites and the Achrey settlement, a fatal cattle plunge into a secluded gorge, and the perilous Bear river canyon famed for its 1000 head herd. The sheriff adds anecdotes about Mexican thieves, Archileta, and border crime as they discuss the wild frontier.
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