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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1903
Page
10
A promotional claim extols Ivory Soap for consistent quality and purity, insisting every cake offers the same satisfaction as the last. The advertisement emphasizes reliability and uniform experience with each use, noting the price as 99 14 per gent.
Ottawa banquet gathered local Republicans as Franklin County Republican group reviewed a campaign year. Officers elected for next year include President Fred Baldwin, Vice President J A Howland Lane, and Secretary E P Arm etring. Discussions urged organized outreach in 20 voting precincts and emphasized unity and political fighting spirit, with speakers addressing civic duty and party goals.
Abraham Kam, son of Henry A. Kola, a Chicago banker and merchant, dies in San Francisco amid unclear circumstances. Coroner’s inquiry underway. Kam arrived from the East with a gunwoman companion and wife present. reports suggest morphine use and possible suicide or homicide, with family seeking concealment and embalming prior to departure.
Michigan with a green team led by coach Yost ran up a 76 point score against Aldor. Hess scored early in the second half, hampering the visitors. The home squad showed strong form and tempo throughout the contest.
A Santa Fe inspired cooperative general store for railroad shops in Albuquerque is being discussed to cut living costs. Workers would subscribe to stock, hire a manager, and buy goods at cost plus a small margin, with profits funding store expenses. Subscriptions run into thousands, aiming to reduce rents and tariffs by purchasing through the cooperative, similar to parish stores in Kansas and Colorado. The idea, still informal, has broad support among shop employees across all lines, though no single union leads the movement. The Pacific Express offices are in Albuquerque, with no current grievances reported by staff.
A note claiming 122 dollars in his possession was found at Galena station. James M Connors, night telegraph operator, is missing. authorities describe him as about 40, smooth shaven, 5 feet 8 inches, 150 pounds, with relatives once in Wichita. The note and missing money suggest foul play or voluntary departure. Local telegraph offices issued alerts to watch for him.
Austin lawyer Warren Moore filed a state anti trust suit against major railroads and express firms for alleged contracts creating monopolies. Defendants include Rock Island, United States Express, Texas Pacific, Texas Express, Missouri Pacific Texas, American Express, San Antonio Aransas Pass, and Wells Fargo Express. Attorney Bloke aims to extend similar enforcement to other railroads.
Scriptores at the Pacific Express company discuss concerted action for shorter hours and higher pay. The union effort, aided by a water hero of SO express lines, gains momentum across the western and southwestern network including Chicago and nearby routes. Local branches and officials weigh next steps as solidarity grows.
President A J Cassatt of the Pennsylvania railroad visited Chicago and officials indicated plans for a new depots and terminals at a cost near 10 million dollars. The project would reuse the present site for passenger and freight facilities with new yards near Eighteenth Street.
A San Bernardino report says a flood event in Arizona near Kingman breached a mountain dyke protecting a railroad line, sending a 10 foot wall of water downstream. The cloudburst damaged tracks and washed away five miles of railway, halting overland service in the region.
A. P. Maginnis resumed duties today as land tax and claim agent for the Santa Fe in Los Angeles after a three year absence. He had led the Mexico petroleum venture for E. L. Doheny, returning for renewed railroad service with about two decades at the company prior to his resignation. His prior role involved securing concessions at city and state levels that were later questioned, prompting appeals to the California Board of Equalization and similar actions in Arizona and New Mexico.
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's remedies for nervous conditions and female weakness. It touts a tonic and nervine claimed to build up the system, restore appetite, and improve sleep, urging readers to mail for a booklet and postage stamps.
Claims Peruna aids diseases peculiar to women with many testimonials. Notes Zelma Bewiston of New York and others, including Mrs Mary Herweck of St. Louis, praising relief from pelvic catarrh and general strengthening after long doctor visits. Addresses Dr Hartman for guidance.
Maginnis was sent for by E. D. Kenna head of Santa Fe law department in Chicago. He was placed on the payroll at reduced salary to retain employment with KE L. Doheny and help keep the Santa Fe out of official clafters. The arrangement lasted until October 1 when T. J. Norton became Santa Fe Coast Hines solicitor and named Maginnis tax agent for California, Arizona and New Mexico. The circular issued yesterday bears First View President G. De Kenna signature.
Omahd Oct 10 Robert W Baxter general superintendent Nebresict division resigns to President Hart effective October 15. He has served forty years with the road and held various posts over thirty years. Former construction foreman in Wyoming during UP's build. He will leave for unknown plans, possibly with the Kansas City Mexican Orient railways.
In Barstow Deputy Sheriff Hansen faces a telegram from San Francisco signed Chief of Police ordering the arrest of J.B. Duty aboard an eastbound train for alleged abduction of a young girl. The scheme unfolds as Duffy, intent on revenge, seizes the telegraph and fires at the dispatcher, prompting a dramatic chase and accusations of misused authority.
A fragmented report ties San Francisco figures to Bristow in a telegram scheme claiming to absorb responsibility. Duffy, a city agent for Santa Fe, is noted in the garbled text among references to telegram costs and city duties.
The Rock Island line advances toward Topeka with steel rails from St. John to Topeka, replacing sixty and eighty pound rails and rock ballast. A rock crusher operates near Wa and a new St. Joseph bridge strengthening is planned for next spring to allow heavy engines and freight to pass previously prohibited routes.
A plan to link Kansas City and St Louis by river barges on the Missouri would start on the river to relieve freight congestion. The project aims to pressure railways to grant lower freight rates and create a waterborne transport option.
A plan proposes an electric line between Kansas City and St Louis with river connections to New Orleans Pittsburg and other ports and potential extension to St Joseph. The freight system in the region is said to have outgrown current railway facilities. The backers of the project are unnamed.
J T Stephens general chairman of the Telegraphers union reports Rock 27 em men win a raise. After two months with the grievance committee he notes negotiations with Bradon in Wilgen and Tapers employed by the liner west of Jemcourt river. The new schedule, about November 2, provides roughly a 25 percent over former salaries.
A fragmentary note from Otte Dodd of Ponder Missouri writes about a salve claimed to cure sores burns and giles. The text references Emtered with an only sore ether and cites Seer Arinid Drug Co at 3 North Kansas as the source.
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