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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1902
Page
3
W A S Bird has completed the first draft of a proposed city charter revision for several cities including Kansas. Mayor McLean of Wichita issued notices calling mayors and city attorneys to a conference in Wichita on September 26 at 104.1 to discuss the proposal.
City officials seek to combine business with pleasure at the conference as Wichita readies for the G A R encampment and fall festival. City Attorney Spencer says the revision must be provided to attendees in advance for study. He has written to Mayor McLean, while Mr Bird offers copies of his work and relies on the Munich league secretary to supply members.
The Kansas Association of Photographers wrapped its seventh annual convention in Emporia on September 1 after a three day session. Winners included A Locomia of Sporik for top honors with Maud Muller selected for interstate exhibit, and Loomis taking a gold medal in Class A.
Stilwell reports progress on the Kansas City to Port Stilwell railroad project. Plans detail a circular engine house with twenty-five stalls, a comprehensive machine shop, power and wheel shops, boiler and electric rooms, car shops, paint and wood mills, and a large lumber storage building. Funds are secured, construction speeds ahead, with 30 miles in operation toward Harper, Kansas, and a terminal plan costing about 2 million dollars at Kansas City. Stilwell tours Kansas City, then to Mexico with investors. total line completion expected within three years.
Iowa Governor Cummins and Attorney General Mullan dispute a Rock Island reorganization, calling it a device to water securities rather than a merger or consolidation. They argue the plan adds no track or value and may require legislative action to address the legal implications.
A meeting in St. Louis will address railroad efforts to steer migrants toward the Southwest with new rates and incentives. The October meeting at the South Western offices will discuss reorganizing the bureau and planning for the fall action.
J cape of transportation notes Illinois Central gains in freight efficiency. Daly states the railroad is now better equipped with 9,000 new freight cars built in the last year and 2,000 more cars owned than earlier in the year. The per diem car accounting system is cited as a key factor.
Salina Kansas report notes a new grain rate cut by Kansas City lines on the Gulf route, affecting Union Pacific central system traffic and sending cars toward Galveston for 15 cents per 100 weight. Railroads brace for impact as the rate may last only a few days, threatening major shipments and revenue.
Names like Hugh King and Mrs King Wiuuch Mattoon appear among railway staff in Topeka and Ottawa area notices. Foremen, clerks, and machinists move between shops, hospitals, and homes as Dan Miller, Edward Saunders, and Lee Senter relocate for duties. A hospital stay for machine work causes minor layoffs. locomotive No. 1 returns to service after treatment. A scheduled marriage in Chicago is announced for Nelson and Anna Fisher.
A short promotional note touts a pocket book on stomach weakness and digestion. It claims most people are not perfectly healthy and that good digestion prevents many illnesses. The text highlights symptoms, causes, and cures for dyspepsia and nervous debility, noting a table of digestion times.
The article threads recent departures and returns of local workers from Topeka. It notes Hope now an electrical engineer in Topeka connections fade four years away, Coughlin’s crew member headed to San Francisco for Catalina Island hunt, Ammel the boll eepaker returning from Lake Michigan voyage with near wreck, Breen’s brush with disaster at Atchison union depot after a smoke incident from a Santa Fe engine, and Wai how these events tie into town life and regional travel patterns.
A special Santa Fe train will run from Topeka to Atchison on September 25 for the corn carnival. It departs Topeka at 7:45 a.m., arrives in Atchison at 9:30, and returns at 10:20 p.m. Carnival dates span September 24 to 25 with round trip fare as announced. Rates extend west to Cedar Point and south to Chanute, with sale on September 22, 24, and 25.
Surveyors out to survey new Hing Ee Seyeeeee ree ager 3, ment today that if the surveyors succeed in establishing a per cent grade trout Castle Hook to Palmer Lake and Palmer Lake to Husted the road, will built at once. It is expected that the com of the improvewest will be in excess of g1,00, 000.
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