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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1898
Page
4
Disjointed excerpts touch on leadership succession, manufacturing activity, labor strikes, taxation and rail policy. References span Patts Inst en, Cleveland, California land deals, Philippines, Admiral Lampeon, and U.S. politics including Jerry Simpson and Pingree.
A Baltimore News sample lauds Booker T. Washington as a distinguished educator who broadens respect for African Americans. It notes his refusal to comment on riots and his steady, principled stance on rights and franchise, urging a measured path to progress. White and Black readers are urged to value his temperate, constructive approach.
A fragmentary Atchison Globe page reflects on social norms and gender roles, with satirical scraps about women, courtship, and personal habits. It hints at cultural pressures and modern anxieties as readers tease out humor and hypocrisy from daily life.
Column explores perceptions of love and marriage with satirical tropes. It jokes that a wife may move, cry standing up, and that men profess beliefs about women based on desires rather than true feelings. It uses playful comparisons like love’s suit and a man’s flirtations.
Dr Swallow remains active in public life saying no American citizen may abandon politics. Wealth figures like Arbuckle and Sage are linked to reforms and lunches. Frederick MacMonnies works on a Prospect Park sculpture while discussing war, economy, and public amusements. Roosevelt and Huntington attend civic rituals. Zangwill is linked to a tale of moral oversight and a thief in a fable.
In Toledo a medical class examining a deceased woman from a charitable institution found the stomach filled with needles pins brass pins slate pieces and bullpins plus a ring with a stone. The alimentary canal was packed with metal and it is noted the woman was said to be insane.
In a southern scene from summer 1598 reminiscences recount General JK Hudson's south tour. The piece recalls Florida's white sands and orange groves, Tampa's heat and rain, and pineapples as a profitable crop. It notes northern capital entering towns, cotton markets, and labor debates amid race questions and postwar reconciliation.
An aging veteran recalls General J. J. Coppinger and General Wheeler, praising their service and discipline. He laments postwar life, notes the longing Kansans feel to return home, and reflects on the strength and character of the people and places that shaped his era.
County Attorney Jetmore, after a Hutchinson conference with Johnson Jordan, plans to have him present for the Collins murder trial set for November 28. Topeka officers fear Jordan may flee the state as they try to keep track of him and prevent him from suspecting their surveillance. Detective Dell Harbaugh assigns Jetmore and Safford to prepare necessary evidence while Jordan remains non communicative.
The Texas Jaw company is incorporated today by Parsons Kansas residents and Port Arthur Texas investors with a $100,000 capital to engage in land and investment business across western Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas. Directors include Clarence J. Searwick W J Coupland J R Bowen and others from Parsons Port Arthur and Kansas City. The Crown Point dining company receives a charter with Galena as headquarters and capital noted as significant. A Kansas City gas company chartered to lay a pipe from Tola to Raisins City to supply natural gas locally and beyond with directors from Iola Galena and St Louis and a projected cost of 25000. Initial plans focused on piping gas to nearby towns but aim to extend to Kansas City and intermediate points.
A country town writer notes Beggs' German Salve is in use by every house and across the entire neighborhood for piles cuts burns bruises and skin ailments. Word of its cures spreads town to town as friends tell friends about its healing powers and effectiveness, with druggists selling it widely.
Wetherell bought Fulton farm two miles east and a half mile south of Iola, 160 acres in the gas belt for 375 an acre. He leads Empire Zinc of Philadelphia, capital 10 600, already running zinc smelters at Chicago, Waukegan, Joplin and in Belgium. He notes other mills must close first, but expects a plant to come to Iola soon.
Fort Scott reports a jewelry dealer W H Powell living under a false Martinsville identity. A Martinsville obituary traced his life as a possibly rival person, with confusion over names. William Walker of Devils Turret found Powell’s death on a ship and alerted Martinsville kin. The Martinsville brother learned of another Powell in Colorado.
In Chapman on November 22 the county high school principal suspended six top boys for going to Manhattan to watch a football game. The action, affecting several in the center class, may hinder graduation. Parents and citizens protest as a special board meeting is likely to be held to address the issue.
William Sargent of Leavenworth is awarded the Jewel of Honor for 50 years continuous Odd Fellows membership. The Kansas lodge last session voted the jewel, sent to Leavenworth by Secretary D W Kent, and now with the lodge treasurer awaiting formal presentation. The jewel features a 50 with two encrusted diamonds and bears the inscription Kansar Is Presented by the extend lodge of Kankar to William Sargent October 11, 2898. Union lodges will be called for an early presentation.
A poor hardworking woman borrowed four dollars from J. Le Suppe using carpet as security and agreed to pay one dollar for two weeks. She paid eight dollars in interest over three months, then offered to pay principal plus one month’s interest to recover the carpet. Le Suppe claims she owes seven dollars, one more than the loan balance, and she has taken the dispute to court. A separate note mentions a man seeking 3 percent for a four dollar loan over three months to a dangerous duck to leave at eight.
Emporia boys report from Forty Mile Creek camp near Dawson that they are well and planning to winter at Fort Cudahy. They will build cabins then cross the creek to the American side if frozen to start prospecting, hoping for a favorable summer.
Leavenworth November petition files claim against the city for five thousand four hundred fifty dollars for injuries from a fall on a decayed sidewalk in Clark and Reese addition. Plaintiff Annie Lightner alleges the boards gave way, plunging her into a ten foot excavation, with serious injuries and medical costs. city allegedly refused settlement.
Wichita dispatch notes the Southwrat Kansas Teachers association will gather in Anthony November 25 and 26 with an unusually interesting program. Wienita is honored, J N Allen of the third school presides, and Dyer, Stanley, Morrison, and J S Carson have key roles. The College Presidents Symposium with Chancellor Bnow of the state university is new and attractive.
Burlingame reports show miners cutting 1.10 per ton earning about 1.25 daily and demanding a 0.16 raise for work on the W6 inch vein. When not granted, workers quit and the mines close. Five cars a day shipped from Burlingame before shutdown. Scranton operators say 200 men short to work, with one needing 40 more. Farmers store coal for the season.
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