Tax Sale Plan Stirs Topeka Debate On County Lands
County commissioners vote to have the county treasurer bid in delinquent tax lands at auction in Topeka. Frank Thomas and others criticize the plan, warning it raises mortgage costs and delays tax deeds. Supporters say the change aids taxpayers, despite risks to mortgage holders.
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Wgalet
Shawnee County
Kansas
Topeka
I. M. Philips
Camry
Laod
Jane
Hla
Frank Thomas
England Will Consent Says British Minister to Japan
New York Sept 1 Sir Ernest Sato British minister to Japan aboard Campania docked today on return from vacation. He plans to travel across the continent to Tokio from San Francisco. On the Chinese situation he notes a shift from military to diplomatic handling and comments on a reported Russia United States agreement to withdraw from China.
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New York
Sir Ernest Sato
Japan
Campania
San Francisco
Ernest
Atlantic
An Ses
Rusia
United States
China
England
Forty Four Cotton Mills Close in Fall Hiver
Forty four cotton mills in Fall Hiver Mass shut down today until September 30. The mills, run by twenty four corporations, employ 17,000 workers. About three quarters of the corporations will have completed a month of curtailment on that date under the general agreement.
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Fall Hiver
Mass
Fortyfour
Excursion Sale Tickets From Santa Fe Route
On September 4 and 18 tickets will be sold to points in Arkansas Arizona Indian Territory Lotshana New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas at one fare plus $2 for the round trip. Final limit 21 days. See nearest agent.
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Pointa
Arkansas
Arizona
Indian Territory
Lotshana
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Agen
Rock Island Route Round Trip Tickets For Denver Corridor
Rock Island Route offers 19.00 round trip tickets to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo with sales on September 4 and 24 and final return limited to October. Marty Rieres is noted. Garfield Park hosts a Marshall band concert tomorrow at 3 p m.
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Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Marshall
Garfield Park
Local Snap Shots Highlight Weather Sharp Changes
A wild mix of notes from Topeka stories records coal and fruit prices drought effects and civic events. The weather bureau predicts rain while soft coal prices rise and farmers rush corn to market at 34 cents per bushel. Local officials visitors and church gatherings fill the day with parades excursions and meetings across Topeka including Labor Day plans Garfield park and performances by church groups and a minstrel show at the auditorium.
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Bard
Allen
Emporia
Smith
Orce Weather Bureau
Pottawatomie Indian School
Nadeka
Wakarusa
Sons of the Exe
Grace Cayl
Parkdale Methodist Church
First Congregational Church
Turners
Leavenworth
W. 5. Storey
Acre
Ieee
R. B. Kepley
Stanley
Northwest
Morton Albaugh
Professor Jackson
J. A. Grubbs
Erery
Swendson
St. Joe
Atchison
New Quarters
Kansas Avenue
Frank Scott
Free Methodiat Conference
Third Presbyterian Church
Dean Hayden
Church of the Assumption
France
Sepeka
Topeka
Ed Little
Rev
D. M. Fisk
Garfield Park
J.D. M. Hamilton
Atorney
Santa Fe
New York
Long Island
Pick” Smith
Snow Island
Europe
Tom Keily
Republican State Committee
Denver
Kelly
Quinton Heights
Tyler Street
Topeka Avenus
Fourteenth
W. C. Miller
Medicine Lodge
Kansas
Bigs
Morgia Warde Lytton
Dodge
Midland Beach
L. L
Wichita and Return $4.62 via the Santa Fe Route
Travel deal for state fair excursion to Wichita with round trip fare four dollars sixty two cents. Tickets available from September to September 7 with final limit September 8.
Big Strike Predicted by Mine Workers in Anthracite Region
United Mine Workers of America leader warns a 140,000 miners strike across the anthracite region over wage increases and coal weight standards. He says 75,000 may quit the first day of action, with a broader wave likely as workers rally.
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United States
Ident Midhall
United Mine Workers of America
Mine Workers’ Organization
Bank Circulation Figures From Comptroller Report
Washington September 1 monthly circulation statement from the comptroller shows at August 31 total circulation of National Banks at $324 225 210. Yearly increase $382 162 018 and monthly rise $4 208 400. Circulation based on United States bonds $200 641 356 with yearly increase $584 488 007 and monthly rise $4 198 022. Circulation secured by lawful tapes smapbunted $393 682 450 with yearly decrease $2 315 988 and monthly gain $14 52. United States bonds on deposit to secure circulating notes $205 790 48 and to secure public deposits $33 840 280.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
Agust
Nations Bank Boles
Iicrease
United States
Woolley Opens Campaign in Utah in Gospel Tent
John G. Woolley, Prohibition candidate for president, opened his campaign in Utah delivering a speech to about 1,900 people in the gospel tent used by Evangelist Oliver. He assailed the Republican party and President McKinley over the army canteen issue and liquor traffic policies in Cuba and the Philippines.
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Chicago
Tribune
Salt Lake City
John G. Woolley
Utah
Evangelist Oliver
Republican Party
McKinley
Cuba
Philippines
Senor Cisneros Sails Back to Cuba Politics
Former Cuban president Senor Salvador Cisneros y Betancourt received a cablegram from Puerto Principe naming him a delegate to Cuba's constitutional convention. Districts across the island offered representation, but he preferred Puerto Principe. He had fulfilled a petition to President McKinley seeking immediate independence and will sail home today.
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Cuba
New York
Salvador Cisneros Y Betancourt
Puerto Principe
McKinley
Senor Cisneros
Boston Marriage Plans Involving Actor William H Sampson
Miss Mary G Webster daughter of Frank G Webster of Kidder Peabody Co to wed actor William H Sampson in Boston on Wednesday after a summer at Cohasset with William H Crane. Sampson famed on both sides of the Atlantic and starred in Daly's Neo Comedy works. Webster a leading Boston society figure with a large fortune. Twelve arrests in Akron riot as police guard jail and National Guard company kept ready.
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Misa Webster
Boston
W. H. Sampson
William H. Sampson
Mary G. Webster
Frank G. Webster
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Cohasset
William H. Crane
William H. Lampoon
Atlantic
London
Annie Russell
Daly's Theater
Peter Stuyvesant
William
Miss Webster
Akron
August Coinage and Bank Changes Reported
The August coinage totals 37 774 160 at the U S mints with 35 950 000 in gold 2 536 000 in silver and 188 160 in minor coins The New York weekly bank statement shows surplus reserves up 4 189 3 273 200 legal tenders up 34 000 deposits up 2 120 6 TM circulation up 316 200 Banks hold 27 078 475 in excess of the require. Editor s Awful Pught Bucklen s Arnica Salve anecdote closes the item as a local testimonial.
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Washington
United States
New York
Sept. L
Rail Sale to Colorado Springs Denve Pueblo on Santa Fe Route
Tickets go on sale September 4 at $19.00 for travel September 3 to 7 with final limit September 8. Service covers Colorado Springs Denver and Pueblo with return via the Santa Fe Route. Free chair to and through Pullman observation jeepers.
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Colorado Springs
Denver
Pueblo
Pullman Observation Jeeper
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a Great Favorite
A fragmentary ad praises Chamberlain's cough remedy for soothing, quick relief from colds and coughs. It notes pleasant taste and lack of opium, claiming wide favor and suitability for adults, with mention it is available for sale locally.
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Chamberlain
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Royal Baking Powder
William BT
Haynes
General Revenue Fund
General Revenue
Treasrer
Gave & Goord Mercantile CO
OmTaiauTces, Esoph
America
Rock Island
Pewrrie
Marty Rieres
Wichita
Topeka Laundry
Jackson St
Woolley
Uta
M. Hiexins
Bucklen
Landlord Kelley
Waterloo
Ind
Dr. Caldwell
Alfred Kelley
Locke's Hotel
R. W. Squires
A. O. Rosser
10Th and
Topeka Avenue
Swift & Holliday Drug Co
A. S. Kane & Co
Family Drug
A. C Kilingaman
E. Sixth Street
Pesop.es Ice Co
Second St
Kansas Ave
W. A
Smoki
H.L. Tromp
Itone
Fifth Avenue Hotel
A. T. Pigg
Postoffice
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