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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1899
Page
5
Old vehicles and discarded wrecks were condemned as a nuisance in a City Council debate. Members sparred over street cleanliness, with cries of outrage at blocked sidewalks and complaints about a council member creating disturbances. The discussion touched on enforcement, reports, and a call for accountability.
Road widening on Tyler street from Tenen avenue to Twelfth street to connect with Tenth avenue water and sewer extensions approved. Greenwood Avenue paving crews reported favorable. Sprinkling contract awarded for Kansas river bridge. Dead animal removal contract disputed by city officials. Phoenix Telephone Company granted two day service extension. free school telephones debated. Clerk error delays sewer report from North Topeka department.
Fragmented report discusses Belmont in Bayside and a proposed remedy for liver troubles. Mentions Squires Pharmacy and a list of unclear names and places with references to a doctor or healer. The text is garbled but suggests a local notice about health claims and a product or treatment.
The New York World’s Sunday feature “The Military Hero of the Manila Campaign” is a first person account by General Fred Funston. It details Feb 4 5 actions near Caloocan during the Manila Dagupan railroad operations, river crossings, raft tactics, and the assault on insurgent trenches with volunteers swimming the river and heavy artillery support, noting modest casualties and notable acts of bravery.
Chunks of virgin gold two by four feet said to be taken from Dahl river in the Kayokuk district sparked a stampede from Dawson. Arrivals at Vancouver from Chafe City and Forty Mile mention a wonderfully rich strike and a large gold dust export. A list of shipping mishaps and boat troubles accompanies the sensational dispatch.
Lieutenant Commander Helmer provides account of actions aboard the Brooklyn during the July 3 engagement with Schley and Hodgeson. He describes discussions on distance, navigator claims, and warnings about Texas as orders to “look out for herself” while the board assesses accuracy of statements and stadimeter observations.
Manager A J DeLay plans to assemble a Washburn college baseball team in Topeka for the season. He expects many returning players and lists candidates to fill vacancies. Key names include Earl Campbell Lloyd Barnes Curtin Gephart Lene Stent Lee Gramley Mir Powell Rueher Harry Howell and Thiel, with hopes to attract local baseball enthusiasts to back the effort.
A complex dispute over a drug stock once owned by W F Lake at 132 Kanes Avenue bogged down in district court. J B Garvin partnered with Lake, they mortgaged the stock to Nicholas Edwards, and several judgments against Garvin and others were assigned to Dr Hamilton. The sheriff seized the store fixtures and Edwards later repossessed, while Lake contends the property is worth more than Edwards claims and that fixtures and soda fountain are excluded from Edwards mortgage. Four interests exist and after four lawyers and extensive testimony the jury was dismissed by Judge Fraser who took the matter under advisement.
Havana observers react to the Ereonotaria report showing January through May receipts of 3 765 104 and expenses of 178 228, leaving a cash balance. Officials previously avoided itemized figures, a practice unseen in Spanish era Havana. The English La Lacha notes Cubans and Americans watching the military shift and praises American insistence on honesty. Peerless Steam Laundry advertises shirt and waist whitening service.
Tomorrow's programme lists a free for all pace a trot and a series including Hest pair road horses hitched to bogey, ladies driving, tandem to cart, doctors race for Shawnee practitioners, and Corinthian middleweight hunters. Miss Rex the famous saddle horse will exhibit daily before the grand stand.
Hackensack residents recall Mrs. Lydit Lamson famed for accuracy in ridding homes of pests. When boys stole fruit, Mrs. Sarson fired buckshot from a shotgun at the marauders causing her to faint from the recoil. A dog in the adjacent yard is the only casualty reported so far in the chaotic cherry tree episode.
Judge Hazen sent Julius H Balke and Fred Markham to the penitentiary after guilty pleas. Balke, the German baker charged with bigamy, was arrested in Winfield and brought to Topeka. Markham faced charges for shooting at a man in North Topeka last winter and claimed a dispute over items in a house led to the incident.
In Steubenville Ohio on June 20 a six year old boy, son of Philip Vaughn, lay in critical condition from a nail wound in the foot. Neighbors convinced officials to intervene as the family refused medical help citing divine healing. A physician treated the wound and the father fought to keep the door barred before being arrested and jailed.
A reader in Winter sent a 2000 word plea to the Kansas governor urging the war in the Philippines end. The missive criticizes late war policy and asks the governor to privately press the president to halt hostilities. The governor began reading the letter and planned to finish on return to Topeka.
The New York press announces Rev. Charlie M. Sheldon’s In His Steps will begin serial publication in the June 21 issue. The World praises the novel for tackling the era’s social problems with masterful urgency and notes its wide, two-continent popularity.
The Chancel Chapter of Grace cathedral prepares for its annual lawn fete on Bethany campus. A long list of members and affiliates attends gatherings and visits, including Mrs. Ada Shoemaker of Los Angeles, Mrs. Klaat, and numerous Topeka residents. Activities cover surprise parties, house parties, visits to Kansas City, Lake View, and travels to Pennsylvania, Mackinac, Niagara Falls, and beyond.
At a June 20 meeting in San Francisco at Starr King AME Zion church a committee was appointed to map the plan of procedure for forming a national academy of music for the race. David Lubin a Sacramento and San Francisco business man will visit the East to propagate the idea.
Four transports bound for Manila will sail within a week. The steamship Zealandia is scheduled to sail on Thursday, while the Sherman and Pennsylvania depart together Saturday. The Valencia follows on Sunday, and the Wyefield freight ship leaves early next week. Zealandia will carry part of the Twenty fourth Infantry and Valencia the rest. Troops assigned to Sherman and Pennsylvania arrive late in the week.
An advertisment proclaims a bargain on a $250 shoe at $1.08 from Furman's Shoe House located at 28 Kansas Avenue Gossett Blakely with references to fire and insurance offerings. A customer testimonial from Erie Pa praises Chamberlain's Pain Balm for a hip strain, urging readers to buy through local druggists.
North Topeka notes list Mrs Dourtney and others in millinery bargains and visits by Meriden residents. Travel plans include Mrs Martha Van Cleave to Lawrence, Miss Minnie Doering visiting her sister, and Mrs Kinn plus Mrs Naminger visiting River Were. Mrs Frank Bey and child visited Admire friends, while Mrs Miner Jott heads to California. The Ter k el Sunday school in Menoken township hosts a social at Mrs B Robinvman. A Kansas Avenue church group meets for a business session, and Mre M G Holcomb of Burlingame returns home after weeks with Dr Miriam Swift. An item about a purse found after a fire precedes a report on a new Heretic chapter of the Order of the Basters Star, number 210, constituted at the Masonic hall with Buck and Potten Ter assisting, followed by a post ceremony collation.
New York authorities report the Peter Cooper statue outside Cooper Union was defaced with sixteen letters pried from its pedestal inscription and other decorations removed. The vandalism appears linked to relic hunters, with ongoing losses of letters roughly every few weeks.
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