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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1897
Page
4
The State Journal official city paper by Frank P. MacLennan lists subscription terms and delivery options. It markets a weekly edition at ten cents per week with carrier delivery and annual and three month plans, plus a private home address for mail subscriptions and advertising access at the Potner Building.
Weather indications show generally felt and wet conditions tonight and Friday in Washington Nevada with southerly winds.
Fragmented remarks advocate national savings via a government postal system. Aimed at education and thrift, the proposal argues for state-backed banklike savings, beginning locally to instill business habits and eventual societal financial independence. The author contrasts this with private banks, urging universal support for public savings.
Fragmented item notes a soft mental Bleeding Force and a stilted discussion of nerve and will, mentioning a woman who knew how to make ceremonial wine and a lingering sense of old fashioned manners.
The fragment portrays a husband testing his wife's fidelity during twenty years of marriage. It notes a planned display and potential offsets to surprise his spouse, described as a friendly test case to be watched by several other wives in town.
Representative Curtis backs Baker while denying control by outsiders over patronage and interference. He discusses federal patronage, Sen Taker, and party unity amid upcoming elections in the district, urging cautious stance and support for local candidates. He notes the party’s strength and potential to win the state ticket next year.
Attorney General advises Secretary of Agriculture that few county and district fair associations have a right to draw the $200 annual state aid. Law limits county societies to $20 per member, prompting many groups to certify nonmembers to receive funds. Resulting overpayments harm state treasury. future allocations to weaker societies will be trimmed.
Raeineers who have been created in the construction of the Trans-Siberian railway arrived last night on the Empress of China. They say the trip can now be made from Viadivostock to St Peters burg in ten or twelve days. The road is completed with the exception of a short section along Amour river and around Lake Ratkan.
Details from Sina dated November 1 recount the heavy casualties among Sikh and Gurkha troops during an insurgent attack on the rear guard. Lt Haley and Lt Oreck led the defense as several officers were killed or wounded. A total of 68 troops engaged, with many killed or wounded, and the rest reached camp safely.
New York dispatch reports Richard Croker’s return from Philadelphia where he briefly spoke about Republican and Democratic alignment. He commented that General Tracy received more Republican support than Seth Low and suggested the Democratic base backed Judas Van Wyck, praising the party’s organization and the shift in Greater New York’s political control.
Henry Sherry Meyndenaire, a timberman and paper mixer, seeks an assignment to prevent creditor preference and salvage costs from attachments and executions. The filing names Tagerkoll and ald Lumber Co of Bian, Mineral Lake Land Co, Park Parle Paper and Pulp Co, Park Malls Wis., and other firms. Sherry Lumber Co remains unaffected. Major creditors include First National Bank Milwaukee and Neenah banks. trustee M. J. May of Oshkosh and ex Senator Sawyer are noted in the mortgage chain. The note cites a protracted business decline and past failures in timber and lumber ventures as causes behind the plight.
A series of real estate transfers are filed for record in Shawnee county with numerous parties and parcels listed. Names include George Stevens Edward Stevens Ambrose Rip, M B Sailes, Gilbert Munsey Lulu Munson John Swartz Mattie Mulvaney A W Knowles Matthew Langhand Peyton George Young, J J Tawls, Oscar Wethern RH Pearson, and others. The notices cover property lots, blocks, and street alignments in North Topeka Topeka and surrounding additions. The report ends with Cleveland thanking the public for birthday congratulations in Princeton New Jersey.
The Arizona Improvement Company, dominant in Salt River Valley irrigation, is named in three Salta suits seeking a receiver. Plaintiffs include local water users and Merchants Loan and Trust of Chicago for about 1.5 million dollars in bonds. Foreclosure targets the Maricopa and Salt River Valley canals and 25,000 acres, with W. J. Murphy proposed as receiver to manage cleaning and enlarging the canal system.
Chicago city council defeated Alderman Plotke's football ordinance by a large margin. Finial score read 6 to 6 at one point, with Brenner Bennett Kabler Kienha and Plotke tallying the only points for their side.
In a heated council clash Alderman O'Brien led opposition with support from Martin Powers Mulcahy and Meinerney representing the Sixth Nineteenth and Twenty-ninth wards. The attempt to pass a football related ordinance failed after a roll call ends in a 6 to 4 vote amid amid adebate over references to athletic associations and ridicule amendments.
A party led by F Herbert Haines of Salem sails November 20 on the steamer Thrasher seeking a second El Dorado in Alaska’s Copper River region. They arm for potential hostility with Indigenous tribes and aim to reach rich gold grounds near the river headwaters.
An enormous audience awaited the Chicago Orchestra concert at the Auditorium. Nordica wore a Parisian gown whose blue silk and silver embroidery were ruined by grime on the stage. She joked that next time she would wear a bicycle suit to avoid similar damage as dust and dirt from the aging theater covered the gown.
Noblewsllie Indiana November 18 A suit filed in the Wie circuit court seeks 0 million from Dr Alert R Tucker and his bondsman for alleged extortion of fees from 1885 to 1891 by the Hamilton county board of commissioners under a salary law later challenged as unconstitutional The case centers on Tucker then president of the County Officials association and a Republican congressional candidate who spearheaded protests against the 1895 fee and salary framework.
In Paris Illinois a five year old boy John Acklin badly injured by a cable car may receive a pioneering graft using opossum skin from the back of his hand. The surgeon plans daily application of the donor skin as bandages cover the wound, aiming to restore the missing cuticle.
Colorado Springs council met in regular session to consider selling bonds for water works and extensions. Sealed bids totaling 101000 faced 7 percent and 254 dollars, with W J Kayes & Sons of Cleveland bidding highest. The firm offered a premium of 4900 on the 101000 issue. bidders must post 5000 cash to secure bids at the next meeting.
Colorado Springs reports Delos Durfee, city representative, says Wie Stricker tunnel progress is more than half done. About 7,000 feet remain and eight months of work anticipated. Boring from both ends, with new machinery expected to increase output to 409 feet per month.
New York November 18 An election in Costa Rica centers on whether the government should continue a subsidy for the opera house. President Lebeias favors the subsidy while opponents oppose it. An American company is bringing grand and comic opera to the capital San Jose as the vote nears. Gabriel Mastin, a Costa Rican businessman, travels from Port Lina en route to Paris on opera house business.
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