Kansas and Colorado Railroad Gets State Charter
The Kansas charter board granted a charter to the Kansas and Colorado Railroad Company with a capital stock of $5,000,000 and a $2,550 charter fee. The electric line will run along the Arkansas river valley through Kansas counties and into Colorado to Pueblo, with branches to Scott City and main line along the river. The listing also notes alfalfa, apple crops, and local business news from across Kansas.
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Kansas Colorado
Kansas & Colorado Railroad Company
Kansas Charter Board
State of
Kansas
Arkansas River
Colorado
Kearny, Finney, Hamilton, Gray, Ford, Kiowa
Pratt
Scott Counties
Coloroad River
Pueblo
Scott City
First Case Won in Pure Food Interference
State wins the first case arising from interference with pure food inspectors. Walter Mullen is the defendant at Junction City. Fire devastates the Business Section of Moreland in Graham county. Convict Fred Proctor, a life inmate from Oklahoma, escaped the Lansing State penitentiary by donning Warden Haskell’s son’s clothes and walking out the front. Federal action seeks destruction of 235 cases of tomatoes and 145 cases of peas in Wichita. Grandpa Carr claims the smallest chickens in Kansas, two pounds total. Charles Goodnight, 32, electrocuted at Western Iron foundry in Wichita after a spark from live wires. James Walter, 77, pioneer, dies of stomach cancer in Cedarvale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Mullen
Junction Cry
Fred Proctor
Oklahoma
Lansing
Proctor
Frank Haskell
W. H. Haskell
Tepeke
United States
Wichita
Kansan
James Walter
Cedarvale
Fireless locomotive seen as potential U S aid
Special Agent from the United States revenue cut tells of German fireless locomotives used in Berlin yards. The engine runs without a firebox, uses steam from a local boiler, and can operate four to five hours for switching. A single operator handles throttle, reversing gear, and brakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Carden
United States Revenue Cutter Service
Berlin
Germany
United States
Ths
Newcomb to receive Pour le Merite from Kaiser
Professor Simon Newcomb of New York City is set to accept the German emperor’s high honor Pour le Merite for science and art. He is the sole American authorized to accept a foreign monarch’s decoration in eight years and has long earned numerous international accolades and memberships for his contributions to astronomy and science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Simon Newcomb
Germany
Prof
Newcomb
Legion of Honor
Franklin
Institute of France
Czar
Imperial University of Russia
Imperial University of Japan
Imperial Observatory of Russia
Swallowed Sunfish by Conestoga, eel astonishing find
A Lancaster area youth fishing on the Conestoga left his line momentarily unattended. Returning, he found a drum containing a huge eel that appeared to be the first victim of the boy’s hook and hoe. The eel was peculiar with a broad middle and a barbed point embedded in its mouth.
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Hiram Denny
Lancaster
Philadelphia
Marine Eye Remedy Promises Quick Eye Relief and Cure
An advertisement touts Marine Eye Remedy claiming it cures eyes makes weak eyes strong and soothes eye pain without smarting at a price of 50e Labor touted as ridding society of poverty vice and other evils with Voltairean phrasing allegorically referenced Fors ana.
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Salina
J. A. Donmeyer
New Cambria
Kansas Board of Health
Chanute Grain Company
Parsons
First National Bank of
Sa Ine
Douglas
Saline
Dickinson
Kaw River
J. M. Ilon
Burlington
M. E
Sedgwick
Sedewick County
Epworth
Epworth League of the
Mound Valley
Moline
Rey
C. W. Odom
Altamont
Asa Dewey
Cher Tivale
Kansas Normal
Kansas State Noram
Topeka
Gerald Benton
Pasteur Institute
Chicago
Otis Renton
Oberlin
Topeks
Masonic Temple
State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
Republican
Democratic
Populst
Socialist
People’s Party
Shawnee
Sedewick
Dove- Wyandotte
Leavenworth
Kansas City Journal
A. W. Sherman
Wellington
Moreland
Graham County
Grandpa Carr
Council Grove
Charles Goodnight
Western Iron Foundry
Hus
Soration
Castoria
Astoria
Pharma- Cas Sea
Aeoiol
Bateman
Godfrey
Journal of Health
Weil
Minera
New York
Chas. H. Fletcher
B. Halstead Scott
Ills
William Belmont
Cleveland
Ohio
J. H. Taft
Brooklyn
R. J. Hamlen
Detroit
Mich
Fletcher
Wm. J McCrain
Omaha
Neb
J. R. Clausen
R. M. Ward
Kansas City
Thorntom & Miror
North Pole
Voltaire
Forsana
St. Augustine
Carters
Dodds
Pues
EWIS
Putnam
Conus
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