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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1895
Page
4
The Daily edition advertises home delivery by carrier at 19 cents per week. It states the same price applies to Topeka or suburbs and to any Kansas town where the paper is carried by car service.
The item blends historical circulation figures for Shawnee County with brief weather forecasts for Kansas and a polemical column. It cites 1885 to 1938 averages, mentions Atchison saloons, and questions court powers over legislation, GOP and Populist tensions, plus a discussion on the gold standard and South Carolina politics.
An editorial denounces Governor Morrill for claiming prohibition cannot be enforced locally, arguing citizens and police boards can uphold liquor laws in cities like Leavenworth and Wichita. It likens local resistance to federal authority, cites lessons from South Carolina and Tennessee, and accuses Morrill of political cowardice while criticizing other national figures for tax views.
A mix of local items including Mutchinees humor, a Wichita Fair premium list for 16 000 shows, transport plans for the Seventh Cavalry, Florence Bulletin politics, European summer plans for President Fairchild and wife, and light local anecdotes. Also notes on weddings, partnerships, water usage at McPherson, immigration in Manhattan, new telephone poles, moles driven by bi sulfur, an amateur Leavenworth performance, Sabbath closures, a Decoration Day speaker, and farm sleeves worn by McPherson daughters.
Shawnee county bonds totaling 5900 dollars now belong to the state school fund and mature June 1. County commissioners plan refunding bonds to replace the issue. A suit was filed in the U S circuit court by Erasmus and Edwin Bennett to recover 10000 dollars on notes and mortgages. Peerless Steam Laundry advertisement follows.
The Alaska gold boom rivals California in romance and scale. Yukon River, 2000 miles long, carries vast silt into the Bering Sea. Alaska’s rich diggings lie near its headwaters. Since 1892, capitalists built Fort Yukon trading works and shipping to St Michael, launching a rush that now fills trails and creeks like Forty Mile and Birch Creek. Miners face harsh winters and high costs but prospects attract hundreds. hydraulic mining is limited by dryness, making placer work reliant on shovel and pan. Wages run high, provisions costly, yet diggings yield up to $300,000 in a season from a single claim.
Sheriff Naylor of Jackson County sparked a week of amusement by claiming a drowned man hid under a Topeka river bridge. Officers searched the Kawpee river area between the eighth and ninth piers, only to uncover a ragged cluster of debris that imagination mistook for a corpse.
In Haynes Conn May 22 Captain Thorne stated Yale will not meet Harvard this year after Harvard authorities declined further discussion. The fall schedule is set and the annual game is cancelled.
Ex Secretary of State Osborn spoke to the Populist league urging free coinage of silver but warned that a successful silver party would become a double headed monster. He pledged to oppose any party with a single issue and oppose a gold silver standard monopoly. Gracia Tart then reviewed the Morrill administration.
Charles W Keht of Topeka was taken to St Louis yesterday on a requisition to answer a serious charge with a young girl as prosecuting witness Sheriff James Tracey brought the papers for his return Kent was found working as a clerk at Holler a drug store 226 Kansas avenue He admitted guilt to Chief Wilkerson and said he would not have left St Louis if defending meant naming several medical students as accomplices and that if he must go down they will go with him
About nine thousand railroad telegraphers from across the United States attend the annual convention in St Louis. Vinton Town is now the headquarters of the order. A major dispute centers on securing permanent headquarters with rival claims from Council Bluffs Peoria and Gillesburg. Election scheduled late in the week. L A Nealey of the Burnts Fe dispatcher’s office attends.
On May 21 and June 11 round trip tickets to South Missouri Arkansas and the South and Southeast via the Mem phes Route Kansas City Fr heott Memphis AKR will be sold at one fare with a minimum rate of 7 dollars Tickets allow stop offs at intermediate stations For details on time schedules and stock-raising and fruit growing regions of Missouri and Arkansas write J B Lacewoon G P & TA Kansas City Mo We can keep you clean Peerfest Steam Laundry 12 and 114 W Eighth
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