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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1895
Page
4
Duty otton delivered by carrier ten cents a week to any part of Topeka or Burge, or at the same price in any Kansas town where this paper operates. By mail three months nine dollars ninety cents. By mail one year three dollars sixty. Weekly subscription, per year.
Weather outlook for Kansas is fair and warmer tonight and Tuesday with southerly winds. The issue text surveys party politics, temperance, and fiscal policy, contrasting Republicans and Democrats, highlighting figures like Mitchell, Kredenthal, Morrill, and Breidenthal, and urging independence from party control amid debates on silver, trusts, and public spending.
A collection of short notes about Kansas figures. Laura M. Johns spoke on woman suffrage in Iowa, Jerry Lines to receive 50 dollars for a Fourth of July address in Council Grove, and Constance Ingalls addressed the Western Authors and Artists club in Kansas City. Ed Howe and Mathilda Howe went to Hot Springs and Yellowstone. Deiem the irrigator at Garden City ships goods to neighboring counties. Gaston Boyd contributes to Womankind or Womano’s Relation to Patriotism. Mary Plumb, daughter of the late senator, is seriously ill in Philadelphia. Col Tom Moonlight seeks to return to Kansas at half his 7500 dollar salary. Billy Belton traveled from Woodward to Greensburg, delaying a train. Col J W Moore of Marion challenged Col CA Lincoln of Cowley to a debate. Moore declined, citing Lincoln’s Populist ties. Mrs CH Lawrence and her son from Hiawatha are visiting Greensburg.
A historical critique tracing the Kansas Goldite Republicans from 1890 onward, highlighting internal divisions and failed policy shifts that hindered party progress, with focus on leadership struggles, factional aims, and the resulting political stagnation under evolving state politics.
Judge J W Beckman toured Topeka meeting Republican critics over free coinage of silver. He cited the 1890 Kansas Republican platform and party figures Major Hudson, ex Governor Anthony, Colonel Blue and others, urging Republicans to stay true to the party’s financial plank and oppose recent shifts. He warned party unity hinges on adherence to the old silver policy.
State Librarian James L King travels to Quincy. State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal attends Larned trial for habeas corpus on Samuel Edwards. A July Fourth convention crowd is expected with Governor Morvill unassigned. The LM Yost Milling Co offers flour for Ellis County destitute for many days. Stanley and Mrs Brasley attend Burnham college graduation in Indiana. Geo E Cole to read railroad assessment reports to county clerks. Hutchinson reform school inmates split into red black and cadet blue uniforms. Osage miners face widespread poverty with 1 200 families in need. Supreme court docket unfinished but to reconvene. Breidenthal graduates by Kansas Woodmen. telegram from Waukesha praises Kansas group for supreme court success. Two thousand deputy reporters to be appointed. candidates include Morse Campbell Dewey. Kansas School Laws note clerks expedite public instruction records.
The state contemplates revising the school laws with ten thousand copies to be printed. In Kansas politics, Republicans in the Eighth Judicial District gain a strong majority after adding Marion County, sparking questions about party control and support for Judge Humphrey amid a Palmer era debate.
Jonathan Randall filed a cross petition in district court alleging Polly Randall Tomlinson deceived him into marriage while middle aged and with $6,000 in notes. He claims she pursued him after he lived in Plainfield Indiana and that married life brought cruelty, neglect, and hardship. He seeks divorce and alimony, plus court costs.
A Kansas group plans to travel to the National Republican League meeting in Cleveland Ohio. Delegates depart Topeka June 17 at 5 25 p m by train Kansas City to Chicago and Lake Shore to Cleveland arriving June 18. Secretary Charles E Gault invites inquiries and notes possible vacancies and alternates with hotel plans at the Weddell House and the Hotel Imperial.
In police court all cases including Mansfield DeMoss and Jotntson Rosa Richie were continued after a warrant arrest related to a gasoline store dispute in Parkdale. Mansfield DeMoss, accused of animating rainwater, was arrested at 1521 Monroe street with a suspicious jug and whisky found. trial set for Wednesday. W. H. Jupiter jailed again for drunkenness. two suspects James MecCunn and Thomas Dorsey released and likely to leave the city. Also notes on apple exports from Washington and a whiskey-law case involving GO. 8. Williams of Oklahoma released on bond.
An advertisement declares ALL TREATMENT FREE for seven days with no charge for professional services and only medication costs, urging chronic disease sufferers to visit Zara and promising public exposure of rival medical institutes. It claims hundreds have worsened under others and asserts a campaign to prove medical advertising in Topeka.
Private Mattey of the First Artillery rides from Fort Smitten Long Island to Fort Sheridan Illinois with a dispatch from Major General Miles. He travels in full fatigue gear weighing about 200 pounds and aims to complete the trip in twelve days following the LAW guide, to test military bicycle use.
Railroads advertise June excursion tickets to Virginia including Harpers Ferry and Winchester for a round trip fare, plus low rates to western regions. Missouri Pacific sells Ottawa Kansas to Ottawa Ontario tickets at 1.59 with June return limits, Topeka to school children half-dollar round trip, plus other local detours. Addresses and agents listed. laundry ad ends page.
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