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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1895
Page
4
Daily edition delivered by carrier twenty cents a week to any part of Topeka or nearby towns where the paper has a carrier system. By mail three months eight dollars. By mail one year six dollars. Weekly edition per year two dollars fifty cents.
The issue covers the three months from January to March, listing sworn and required records. It notes tally totals and highlights inclusion of all tallows and related financial items for the period.
Chicago weather shows fair to stormy conditions with colder trends and strong southerly winds expected. In other items, reports touch on labor pay debates, income tax concerns, liquor law enforcement, and silver coinage discussions, featuring remarks attributed to Carlisle and others amid a May period in the era.
A collage of Kansas items from Sterling to Holton and Abilene notes. Jests about residents, small town events, local journalism quirks, a cheese venture, a mosquito forecast, potatos and garden city markets, a buggy marriage request, choir trouble, and regional faith in western Kansas future amid drought. Pauline Lewelling’s delegation choice and church fund totals appear amid light social sketches.
Ed Bocks services as fourth of July orator set. Ingalls to address El Dorado veterans in September and attend Cleveland Republican clubs assembly next month. Ex-director L Severy dismisses farm help until rain. Council Grove hires Jerry Samyace for July Fourth talk. General Hugh Cameron begins annual tour to Washington. Allen B Lamon publishes a daily in Santa Rosa. Miss Clakie's Shawhan runs Gate City Journal in Arkansas City. Ex-Adjutant General Davis farms in Douglas County and is seen in Lawrence in a new wagon. It is unclear if he has traded sword for plow share.
A Treasury Department employee reportedly loves funerals to the point of seeking leaves to attend them. A Washington Post note recalls a transfer and the chief’s confusion over authority. Keeley remedy claims follow, touting recovery of notable professionals from alcohol and opium habits.
On Thursday May 30 officers non-commissioned officers and privates of the old 2nd Kansas state militia are ordered to report at 10 am for parade and dedicatory service at St 627 Aelony et rest. G W Vere, late colonel commanding, B P Retiam, adjutant.
The Journal reports a chaotic Leavenworth night on Cherokee and Main where saloonkeepers defend Governor Morrill, alcohol flows past midnight, and crowds of intoxicated men fill establishments like the Globe and Warwick. Soldiers quarrel, a sling shot strikes, and police repeatedly fail to curb the open liquor trade as Prohibition-era tensions bite the town.
Drunken scenes and knife fights punctuate Leavenworth streets as saloons pay licenses and face weekly police pressure. Officials admit liquor selling thrives with 200 plus saloons and 272 licenses, despite public sentiment and a May 25 1895 order to patrolmen to enforce the Sunday law, which saloon keepers disregard.
A man recalls costly construction missteps from an architect’s error to missing specifications and defective plumbing. He lists lost time, ruined furniture, a flooded cellar, a leaky roof, and a warped piazza, ending with inability to sell the house. Harper's Try us Peerless Steam Laundry.
Gov Morrill quickly denies that Farmer A W Smith is a penitentiary warden candidate while supporters push for new appointee to succeed Dick Chese. Bruce Lynch’s backers resent Swires rumors, as Morrison weighs whether Lynch will still obtain the plum. Judge W B Sutton on the state irrigation board experiments at home with a portable centrifugal pump, 1250 gallons per minute, to irrigate up to about one hundred acres. J M Simpson, railroad commissioner member, is cited as a strong free silver advocate, noting Kansas Republicans backed silver in Congress and warning about potential price dynamics affecting coinage law.
Foreman Bristow of the state forestry station at Ogallah is increasing seedling production with twenty-five acres in rows three feet apart. He’s cultivating tree varieties such as black and honey beast yew box elder ash oxage ailenthus cast maple mulberry and willowberry. A 100 foot deep wall and a large irrigation reservoir are under construction. Webb McNall campaigns for congress while the Eye notes his district tour holds vocal significance. Henry Fisher recalls a wartime caution: better beggars than slaves.
A fifteen pound ling caught at Liverpool wholesale market yielded two smooth Tobblestones weighing over five pounds each. The stones had likely been used as a deep sea fishing line weight. The fish showed no apparent injury from the weight.
The Japanese Armor, described widely in recent months, is on view at the Topeka Cash Dry Goods Company store at 10a East Sixth. Valued in the thousands and over 300 years old, it was secured at great expense and can be seen in the store’s show window.
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