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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1903
Page
4
Fragments describe a mail delay incident with references to a trial or legal action, a payee and investigations. Mentions of postal procedures, penalties, and potential charges for obstruction or delay of mail. Names and locations are unclear due to OCR corruption, but indicate a civil or political context and enforcement discussion.
In London discussions cited by a British premier's advisor, George Perkins of Morgan & Co faces scrutiny over a proposed corporate restructuring. Carnegie voices cautious praise and hints at a tentative plan, aiming to protect workers and refine the scheme while urging caution on its details.
A fragmented OCR item details a Grand Lodge Degree of Honor meeting. It lists several officers and representatives including Agnes Michaele of Hickerson Mrs Jomaphitle Weatt eri of Esnporia and Mra Kaith At Woke of Pittsburg with other names and places. It notes a death by suicide of May 5 in Independence and mentions two obituary notices from Salina and a Carmine hotel worker.
Official talks report a Rock Island and St Louis San Francisco merger moving toward consolidation. Youkam elected director of Chicago Rock Island and Pacific as negotiations unfold amid market speculation. Officials stress ongoing cooperation, with potential impact on competition, routes, and control of western rail corridors.
The advertisement extols a Lady's Soap promising improved complexion, cured pimples and sores, and benefits for babies and adults. It asserts hair health and a youthful glow, likening itself to superior cold cream and lotions and touting soothing, beautifying effects.
A fragment reports the Eyisay company annual figures with total stock issued about 50 million pounds and preferred stock details. It notes large treasury holdings and rumored private movements by investors in Wall Street. The text mentions control over 6000 miles and new ties opened, with figures in millions.
Promoters and surveyors clash over the Halstead to Sedgwick corridor as plans for a Nebraska Kansas Gulf railway spur unfold. Meetings in Concordia push $20 000 in bonds while Saline County considers 350 000 bonds to back the route south toward Newton and Roxbury with a four percent yield.
James G Blaine champions a Pan American railroad linking New York and Buenos Aires. Plans call for a 5000 mile route via Managua and Honduras with a capital stock of 3200001000. Backers include Andrew Carnegie and J G Blaine, facing vast terrain and years of construction before completion.
Details emerge on the Rock Island Frisco deal as terms reportedly adjust from 30 cent cash 43 percent in voluntary trust 6 percent bonds to a softer arrangement. James Campbell, Frisco holdings, and executives discuss revised ownership while President Yoakum remains silent.
Kansas City May twelve Santa Fe Poundhouse workers at Argentine joined boilermaker strikers over a bid to take duties they deemed boiler room duties. Nine were engine wipers and three others. They refused to bore fuel or clear boiler lines when engines entered the roundhouse. Shops planned not to replace strikers, directing work elsewhere. Some men kept working in boiler shops yesterday.
San Bernardino California May plans for thirty new bridges on the Southern California division of the Santa Fe railway have been completed by R B Burres chief engineer of the coast division. Fifteen bridges will be on the Los Angeles to San Diego route and the rest on Los Angeles to Barstow. The work forms part of a broader rebuilding of Southern California lines.
The Southern Pacific boilermakers plan a sympathy stoppage tonight in San Francisco and across western routes from El Paso to Portland. They back members of their international union facing six months of trouble with Union Pacific, totaling about 420 workers. The Southern Pacific machinists have not yet acted.
Clarence H. Venner of Boston has a case removed from state court to the United States circuit court. He seeks a declaration that the railroad company Chicago Rock Island and Pacific’s scheme of reorganizing its stock and assets is illegal. The action targets the railroad’s plan and its implications for stakeholders.
Official notice from the Missouri Pacific general superintendent states that division superintendent, chief dispatchers, and dispatchers at St Louis and Sedalia will be relocated to Jefferson City. The order takes effect May 5 and the office will be abolished. The general attorney position for Choctaw will be abolished at J W McLoud’s retirement, with attorneys in jurisdictions retained and reporting to Chicago. Also notes a Rio Grande official denying any Gould Herriman control struggle over the Coin Midland.
San Francisco reports President Harriman of the Southern Pacific company said he would depart for New York within days and undertake a broader European trip. A separate Protherhood of Fairway report shows a year ending December 31, 1903 with a rise in membership.
The sixth biennial convention will be held in Denver on May 18. Railroad personnel are active with new hires and transfers, including a shift of the accounting department from St. Joseph to Chicago. Locomotive S87 underwent a trial run, and Santa Fe officials announced service shifts and upcoming delegations to the I C T convention.
A plan for a new brick depot is described as needed due to town growth and inadequate current structures. The article notes a $12,000 estimate and outlines anticipated modern equipment. It also reports the death of J T Morrison of Pittsburg Kansas from Bright's disease, his New York origins, a wife and daughter, and that his remains will go to St Louis for burial.
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