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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1898
Page
3
Attend the Chaptau qua Assembly at Winfeld this season for a pleasant and potentially profitable outing. The Santa Fe will sell round trip tickets for $5.75 from June 13 to 19 with return limit June 24, 1995. W O. Garvey, agent, AT. & 5. P. Rs, can tell you more.
Advert reads inviting families to enjoy a swell supper at Warner and Potter corners 28 and 690 Quincy Street with contact Jones 430. It mentions Mrs Adame Hart of Groton and a doctor’s hopeful tale about a new consumption cure and trial bottles offered by Bore Porth.
The Pecos Valley railroad reorganization, aided by Santa Fe and friends, yields a line to Albuquerque and Amarillo connections with Atchison traffic share. The 140 miles of new line will feed a through route to Chicago and Los Angeles, reducing coast to Chicago travel and opening 73,000 square miles in New Mexico and Texas to markets and growing irrigated areas. The Atlantic & Pacific line expansion progresses, with Barstow to Mojave finishing this month and 100 miles to Auden due next fall.
A Chinese concession to the American China Drone Company is announced through the Chinese minister at Washington. The plan covers a line from Hankow to Canton via lower Yangtze, with 50 year gold bonds, imperial endorsement, and a $25.4 million project budget. Mr Hash departs for Chicago and New York to hire engineers and supervision for construction. Founding officials include Thurlow Wyed Barnes, Chas H. Coster, Munk J. Grant, A C Harrison, J W Poster, and Henry Wolcott.
Fort Worth Texas June 7 The Gulf Sheets and other engines arrived weighing thousands of pounds each with driving wheels six by three inches cylinders. The engines are of steel straight top design with 65 inch inside diameter pistons and 9 inch screws. Tenders hold 209 gallons of water and large coal capacity, largest engines west of the Mississippi. More engines delivered by Santa Fe expected soon as shipments from the south require powerful motive power.
Harry Snyder of the Santa Fe and his brother Frank Snyder experienced an unusual incident last week while a train rolled by. Marty, while the crew attempted a quick catch up, tripped over rails and later slept on a depot bench as the caboose passed Arkansas City.
Prominent railroad figures trace roots to Nortonville with early agents rising to senior roles. J. G. Roberts, formerly at Nortonville, newly offered traveling Bucster of the romt. H. K. Nickerson, later Mexican Central general manager, once sold tickets at Nortonville. Headache Quickly Cured Dr. Davie. Anti-headache never falls.
State Superintendent Stryker urges annexation and spread of Anglo American institutions in a July address to the National Educational Association. He argues for forceful world civilization by commerce, language, and religion, stating Spain’s colonies should be ours and civilization extended to nearby regions.
Judge Homer E. Galpin as conservator of Margaret Keegan’s estate searched ward Jane Chicago’s home at 612 West Fifteenth Street and found a barrel hidden in a cupboard containing nearly $4,000 in silver coins. The money was moved to the Chicago National Bank after discovery amid a prior missing 7.60 claim against son-in-law Patrick O'Brien. case unresolved in justice court.
On board the AP dispatch boat Dauntless off Santiago de Cuba June 5 7 report that a 13 inch shell from the Massachusetts appeared to sink a torpedo boat destroyer near shore but no wrecks or bodies found. The Terror Pluton or Furor speculations follow. Hobson and crew remain prisoners at El Morro. Cuban forces concentrate around Santiago.
Havana dispatch notes the autonomous government forbids sugar shipments to American ports but permits trade to neutral ports in blockade runners bringing provisions and coal. The council orders mining of coal near Guayanjay in Havana province for Admiral Palma’s disposal.
An advertisement touts a grand exposition in Omaha with easy rail access from the Missouri and Mississippi Valleys, promoting through tickets and reduced excursion rates via Burlington Route. It lists Wakeley and Elliott as general agents and hawks travel to Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Portland, with Union Pacific service highlighted.
A new Philippine bureau report outlines growing American trade with adjacent countries led by China Japan and British India. It details large US exports in cotton woolen goods machinery petroleum and agricultural products, with Hong Kong and Japan showing strong growth and potential for further expansion.
Washington June 7 The tale of Admiral Cervera as naval attache recalls a romance from years ago with a senator's daughter noted for her pride and aristocratic family. He sang a passionate love song at an evening reception, drawing eyes to his beloved before she left the room. Trap to Rent advertised near Seventh and Van Buren with horses and carriages by the hour or day.
In St Louis a boycott forms against the Adama Express after Private George Walker of the First Missouri regiment is held for a $23 charge before interment for his railroad wreck death near Chickamauga. Missouri soldiers urge kin to use another carrier. Adama Express denies the boycott and refusal to ship.
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