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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1895
Page
5
A compact KansAs City feature details repairs and adjustments on a local joint, highlighting the fix status, service iterations, and community reaction. The report centers on improvements, current condition, and ongoing maintenance plans.
Kansas City Kansas sees new saloons opening with police board plans, while ministers and Citizens League sit quiet. Governor Morrill states he cannot remove State Treasurer Atherton, and Rogers faces university board removal after a partisan report. State school fund probe prep begins as Beloit and Winfield appointments shuffle.
The Spooner company wrapped a big Topeka week and heads to Denver for a ten week stint at Curtis street theater starting yesterday. Mal e calm Williams stays a few days. Carlton Wells leaves in two to three weeks for New York. Miss Grove of Kansas City remains with the company. The troupe noted for popular price entertainment enjoyed a strong reception in Topeka while signals from Ohio and the East were discouraging.
About 350 Topeka travelers rode to Leavenworth for a base ball game and a drunken, disorderly trip home. Saloons were open on Sunday, fights broke out in the middle car, windows shattered near Topeka, and several men were injured or sleeping by journey’s end. The ball game ended with Leavenworth ahead after key pitching changes.
A large group of Topeka Russians boards a Santa Fe train at Santa Pa depot for Karatov Russia. Charles Gerteisen escorted them to Rowley Brothers for through tickets. An escort will accompany the party through Suratey. Also a Christian Church concert and social planned with Marshall's band and the Modoc club supporting the First Christian church. New World shooting record set by Eighth Regiment at Manusville California.
A cheap silver open face stem-wind watch was recovered from the Matson well at Fifteenth and Monroe after William Baldwin looked into the nearly eighteen footDepth. The piece, valued by a jeweler at around ten dollars when new, is Cheehite make and its ownership remains uncertain pending investigation into Mrs Mutson’s murder. Police, led by Chief Wilkerson, continue to drain the well in hopes of uncovering further clues.
May 20. The Times notes Botanicist Cavill warns that weed damage to crops machinery stock and land value runs into millions yearly. Landowners should watch for new plants and identify them early before establishment. Complete eradication hinges on public vigor. breaking land, sowing, or cutting stems can worsen spread. cutting roots later can kill them.
Local mentions show several Oklahoma school districts attempting to sell bonds to the Kansas school fund commissioners. Also noted are a county committee meeting, a porch addition described, a Topeka visitor, an appeal case from Valencia hog theft, church ordination plans, a drowning incident in Grant's Pass, and a Morgan concert featuring recitations by the Morgan family.
A Topeka roundup notes crowded parks, a council meeting tonight, eighteen police court cases, and a mixed bag of local items. Excursion trains to Ft Riley pass through Topeka yesterday while high school graduation totals reach thirty three.
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