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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1895
Page
8
A new system to reform crop reporting will place a reporter in every township. The Agricultural Department will start with twenty states and cover about ninety percent of wheat areas. One chief reporter per county remains, but the shift expands coverage to townships. full operation not before next year.
Thousands of Americans witnessed Lord Rosebery's Horas win the English Derby at Epsom. Evsose Dawss, Sir Visto, and Carson followed in order as thirteen or fifteen starters. Notable American crowds and several prominent travelers arrived by coach from major U.S. cities, including Maine, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and New York figures, with many party names listed.
Gen Sibley of Pennsylvania and Gen A J Warner plan eastward travel after addressing meetings at Leadville Pueblo and Wight. Sibley aims to enter Kentucky in weeks to help Blackburn. Warner confirms bi metallic league will assist. Mineral Water advertisement by J W Pritties at 612 W Eighth Ave.
Methodist Bishop J H Vincent spoke at 9 AM in the high school assembly room, praising veterans and Memorial Day meaning. He urged reverence for old soldiers, patriotism, and a public school free of sectarian or political bias, with notes of General Grant.
News briefs from North Topeka list residents measles travel changes and new marriages. A Knights of the Masonic order initiates a member. Hen thefts, relocations, and business ads for local shops appear amid courtly notices. Community updates include carriages, medicines, photography, and laundry services.
John England Challinor, state accountant, fuses a sweeping audit of the Topeka asylum and penitentiary. He faults storekeeper practices, misrecorded stores, inflated beef and corn costs, and lax accounting under the Populist regime, while exonerating Dr Eastman and revealing possible irregularities by Steward James Butler. The dispatch notes widespread incompetence, with funds misused and records altered, prompting calls for remodeling and accountability.
The Topeka city council read reports on openings and widenings of Western avenue and Garffield street under ordinances 1762 and 1786, referring both to the judiciary committee. It confirmed appraisers for Western avenue, debated licenses for dump fees arrears, and discussed expenses for city dump and water works deposition travel.
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