The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

true 1t is no reflection on Reid, and
the presentation was very generous on
his wife part Money never could have
done him SO much good. 1t gave him
his emancipation. The Tribune is now
owned by the Reid and Mills family,
with few scattering stockholders.
Mutations of The Times.
The Times first number was publish
ed in the winter of 1851. with Henry ].
Raymond as editor and stakeholder,
George Jones, e. B. Morgan, D. B. St
JOHN and E B. Wesley being its other
stockholders. In the course Of years
George Jones bought the controlling
interest and held it to his demise, past
80. The Harper Bros. were once in
terested in it, and at another time
Robert Bonner was. George Jones felt
great pride in The Times, as we'll he
might, for it yielded him his chief con-
sequence. He left the pruprietorship to
his only son, Gilbert E. Jones, who
after a number of months, felt uneer-
tain of the papers future and was anx-
ious to dispose of it. Charles R. Miller,
the editor, and E. j. Spinney, the man
aging editor, were elected as sales
agents, and they effected their purpose.
They have an interest, but the bulk of
the property is supposed to be in the
hands of two rich insurance companies
and several prominent nti-Tammany
Democr
The Varying World.
No newspaper here or in the whole
country has had stranger history than
The World, begun in the summer Of
,1o,s
journal Alexander Cummings of Phil
adelphia set it up and made it almost
Puritanic in its contents and comments.
But New York, even it's religious por-
ton, did not like it, and it's money was
wasted. 1t changed hands and became
political. Such men as Samuel j. Til
den, S. F. M. Barlow, August Bel
mont, Fernando Wood and Augustus
Sohell, all dead now, were supposed to
own it, It followed devious ways, drew
much attention but raade no money I'M
til, within few years, Joseph Pulitzer,
Hungarian by birth, from st. Louis,
suddenly got possession and entirely al
tered its financial destiny. He was
thought to be near his end for a good
while, but has now grown much better.
He threatens to remain in and with The
World far beyond the century. He is
sub1imely self confident and audaciously
enterprising
His brother, Albert Pulitzer. owns
The Morning Journal and spends much
of his time in Paris, while locking
sharply after his paper. He shares many
of his kinsman's astute qualities and
his special capacity for pushing ahead
The Journal is IL years old.
The Recorder is lusty youngster
some four years old. Various capitalists,
like Duke. the tobacco man, and Starin
of steamboat fame, pushed it into being
with heaps of money. George W. Tur-
ner, formerly of The World, has edito-
rial and business charge of the paper
now, but controlling stock interest
probably rests in other hands. Mr.. Tur-
ner has had phenomenal success in jour
nalism, and whatever may be said of
his methods he holds the respect of the
staff of bright men and women who as
sist him in making the paper He is I'M
assuming in manner and of retiring
nature. He is now on the staff of the
governor of New York and bears the
title of colonel The other daily papers
are too many to mention in space so
brief. j. @. Soaring.