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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1894
Page
4
Daily edition delivered by carrier at ten cents a week to Topska and suburbs and at the same price in Kansas towns with a carrier system. By mail rates: three months four dollars. six months eight dollars. one year twelve dollars. Weekly politics subscription per year six dollars.
The State Journal proclaims its status as the only Kansas paper in full daily Associated Press service. It touts superior, complete web star quality and praises its management team headed by Perry Lukess Jr. with an Eastern office at 73 Tribune Building, Lew York.
Forecast for Kansas through Sunday calls for warmer southeast winds and clear to cloudy skies. The piece weaves weather notes with sharp political commentary on campaigns, party bias, sugar taxation, and reform, lampooning figures and exposing perceived corruption and media bias.
Colorful clippings report Sedan residents debating a bowling club, a well drill at half price in Jetmore, and Quenemo Republicans forming a new club. Local misprints and oddball quotes mingle with political jabs as towns like Hays and Athens loom in the broader scene.
A letter from the Histori cal Society in New York announces Governor Osburn Gagbuen Gown plans to appoint a young Kansan to the board of the American Post Graduate School of Political Beiches. The call invites eligible men from Kansas to apply for a patronage opportunity and public service. The note cites names like Cy Leland and Joseph Leonidas Reet as peers and ends with a product plug for Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder.
Two rival installment houses in the same block wage a verbal war visible in their azure window displays. Each posts pointed messages attacking the other over customers, services and ownership, as curious neighbors watch the escalating feud unfold.
The piece recalls the Westward cattle routes across Kansas the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line and the Texas cattle trail. It notes old frontier towns like Newton and Dodge City with faded saloon signs and the grand cattle drives that passed through Wichita to stockyards and a famous southern cattle course. The Oregon trail and eastern routes also fed emigrants and freight toward the Pacific while other trails branched to lesser courts and shipping stations.
Special Correspondence from Newrox Kansas October 11 notes rapid fading of the Santa Fe emigrant trail to the west and the Chisholm cattle trail from central Kansas toward Texas. It recalls wagon trains of up to 500 wagons, outriders, ox teams, and families braving Indian threats and prairie fires on the long overland journey to the Eldorado of new lands.
William E. Pugh assumes the internal revenue tax collection post with only 89,000 in funds to start. The Cincinnati lawyer and ally of Secretary Carlisle faces a need for 400,000 to enforce the tax, as Congress underfunds the new duties while Miller supervises. Pugh, 50s, former Hamilton County prosecutor, is a Democrat in the Duckworth club.
Colonel William L. Strong emerges as a leading anti tammany figure in the urban campaign. A long time dry goods executive and director in major firms, he built political ties in New York life, Erie railroad, and various mining firms while serving as president of the Central National Bank and treasurer of St John’s. Strong’s republican roots deepen as he leads anti tammany efforts and business aligned clubs.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of The Atchison City Elevator Company will be held at the general office of the A. T. & FRR Co. in Topeka on Thursday, October 25, 1614, at 8 o’clock p m, for the election of directors and the transaction of any other business that may legally come before it. ILDER, Secretary, Topeka, October 1, 1504. E, Witnen, Secretary orga, October 10, 14 way Com-
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