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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1897
Page
7
A fragment notes W. J. Rickenbacker at 121 West Sixth Street offering pure min. cream and ice with a directive to ask grocers for Ralston Hearth Feast and to take no other brand.
The Santa Fe shops in this city shift hours for locomotive and car departments, increasing car department time and decreasing locomotive time. Total payroll rises over $5,000 monthly, with a 1 percent overall payroll rise. ten hours in locomotives, ten and a half in cars, and new start times of 7 am are introduced. About 1,200 men are employed at the Santa Fe shops locally.
The Santa Fe will outfit its first Cass coach, chair car and dining car with electric lighting within a month. Electric Car Lighting Co of New York will install storage batteries and fixtures, replacing gas and oil. Annual savings run to several thousand dollars. Equipment and maintenance payments will be per car per year. The project follows long consideration by railroad leaders led by C M Higgins, assistant to the president. Work will be done in Chicago.
June 30 Atchison paper reports Santa Fe surveyor M N Wells and assistants arrived to survey a rebuilt line between Atchison and Rushville. The plan includes old rights of way and a new eight mile corridor with river soundings near the bridge. Indications suggest Rock Island and Santa Fe may rebuild and share the right of way they formerly used.
A pot of boiling tar toppled by careless workmen on the new Folsom Street wharf caused a blaze that damaged the Oceanic Steamship company wharf and several ships. The Commodore and the Katie Mack suffered major damage as firefighters battled the flames despite a bay breeze. Estimated total damage reaches about 40,000 dollars with costs apportioned to the wharf, the Commodore, and the Katie Mack.
A San Francisco chamber of commerce meeting endorsed a memorial to Congress urging the annexation of the Hawaiian Republic. The memorial cites national policy prestige and commercial reasons and an address to Pacific coast residents was prepared for the same goal.
Special train departs Toreka at 12 40 p m for Hotton returning July 20 tickets on sale from June at to July inclusive price 98 for round trip no te rac for pitty ceate guaranteed tobacco habit cure and other drug advertising text included but unclear details
North Topeka items report travel from Bainbridge to Victor Col and Alma Kan. A Union Pacific westbound train arrived in six sections. Social events include Junior C. E. Society gathering at the Congregational church and a Kansas Avenue M. E. circle meeting. Lectures, visits, and funeral notices accompany brief notes on residents and local activities.
The Union Savings Bank Trust company in Tacoma Wisconsin closed its doors and placed in receivership after Supreme Court decisions deemed city warrants illegal. Judge Williamson appointed Charles Richardson to manage the estate. The bank, founded February 1889 with Gen. J. W. Sprague as president, held $190000 in capital and owned $155000 in Tacoma general fund warrants and $15000 in city hall warrants, now questioned. The bank plans a partial rehearing and aims to sue the city for funds paid, while cashier Nichols asserts depositors will be paid in full as warrants are realized. Keystone Bank Closes. Price Pennsylvania June 30. The Keystone National Bank, by directors’ vote, closed its doors. depositors to be paid in full.
San Francisco June 30 John Capron a wealthy resident died by his own hand while temporarily insane from physical suffering He leaves seven stepdaughters five of whom are married and an estate valued at 3790.00 He was 1 years old and a native of Virginia Gripple Creek Colo June 20 City Marshal Williams received from Evanston Wyo a telegram stating that Streit had died by his own hand near that place Former cashier of the Miners State Bank at Cripple Creek Streit disappeared about three weeks before the bank failure May 20 He owed the bank 4000 Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers colors hair brown or black that will not rub wash off or stain linen Shirts collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laundry 112 114 West 8th St
A June dispatch from Bapekok reports strained Siam relations with France. Siamese officials allegedly invaded Luang Phrabang provinces, sacked villages, seized prisoners, and extended into Cambodia. Mekong right bank Laotians barred from returning. French protections questioned. proteges pressed for service. Cambodian, Annamite, Laotian, and other minorities conscripted. International court reportedly not hearing French complaints. Local notices mix in garbled park events and ads.
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