The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-29
AT SCRANTON.
Two Hundred and Sixteen PeO-
pie Must Be Fed
For Some Weeks at Least at
That Place.
A journal" Reporter Visits the
Town Again.
SUPPLIES ARE SHORT.
Not Enough to Last Much
Longer.
Usage County Commissioners
Doing Absolutely Nothing
TO RELIEVE HUNGER.
Topeka Capitals Efforts to
Keep Relief Away
Usage County Commissioners
Doing Absolutely Nothing
TO RELIEVE HUNGER.
Topeka "Capital's'' Efforts to
Keep Relief Away
Prevent Contributions That
Would Otherwise be Made.

Usage county may be able to take care
of the destitute Scranton miners, but
Usage county is not taking care of them
There has been a loud cry from several
weekly papers in Usage county that the
county is "amply able to take care of It's
destitute" Why doesn't it do it?
When the STATE JOURNAL published
the true condition of affairs at Scranton
the politicians of the county at once an
nounced that the publication was Sian
der as Usage county is one of the richest
counties in the state and had $12,OOO
living there in the banks drawing Interest
and was able to take care of its own
people and did not want any outside
help.
The facts are, however. that men,
women and children would be starving
at Scranton today had it not been for the
aid sent to that town by charitable PEG
pie in response to the publication in the
STATE JOURNAL of the existing condition
of the people of that community
The people of Topeka, Usage City
and Lyndon have sent liberal supplies
of provisions to Scranton, but Usage
county, through its commissioners. has
not sent a cents worth aside from the
paltry 900 pounds of -four which cost
the county just SIT, and which was dis
tributed and exhausted before the t1ra1
publication of the needs of the miners.
A STATE JouRNAL reporter who Wis
tied Scranton yesterday secured fro N
the books of the relief com mmittee an ex-
act statement of all the aid whic b has
been sent to Scranton, from what source
received, which shows that it was the
STATE JOURNALS publication of the con
ditions of the miners which has thus far
given them relief; and this N spite of
the Capitals active efforts to prevent
ANYBODY from contributing.
The supplies received by the miners
have up to the present time been as fol-
lows:
Governor Morrill-Balance of western
Kansas relief fund, $4186.
T. G. Pipp, Burlinga sacks of
John 7. Hoover. Scranton-22 pieces
Of meat.
Palace Clothing Company, Topeka
500 loaves of bread.
Ii. a. Sheldon, Scranton-25 bars of
soap.
Mrs Goodwin, Topeka-Cash $12.25
Flour-$6
Corn meal-6O cents.
Other provisions 60.
Rice-24 cents.
Boys suits-$10.
Gingham-$1.35.
]. H. Stavely, Lyndon-Cash So.
From BurIingame.
35 sacks of flour
20 sacks of corn meal
From Lyndon.
1900 pounds of -four.
3 cases tomatoes.
81 pounds of coffee
III pounds of beans.
100 pounds of sugar.
200 pounds Of bacon
pounds of tea.
pounds of soda.
Fifty pounds of rice
Thirty pounds of butter
Total value. $961O
miscellaneous
Charles Curtis, Topeka, cash, $50
a farmer, half barrel apple butter.
This is the entire amount of aid re-
ceived by the miners relief committee
and does not include the 1000 pounds of
-four first given by the county commits
siOners and distributed by the township
trustee.
In addition to this Miss Helma Peter
son, a formerly of Scranton young woman
who is now telegraph operator for the
Missouri Pacific at Tevis. Shawnee
county, sent $50 to the township trustee
The JOURNAL reporter took an invoice
OF the provisions on hand in the aid
store last evening and found the follow
ing: Seventy one sacks of -four, Is sacks
cornmeal, packages soda, 25 packages
coffee, 50 cans tomatoes, $50 pounds
pscon, pounds butter, 5 gallons apple
butter, about 100 pounds of beans, Is
pounds of rice, 25 pounds of sugar and a
lew loaves of bread
Two hundred and sixteen mouths are
oelng hlied by charity, at Scranton, rep-
resehting forty-three families. which
have been supplied with the necessaries
OF life by the relief committee in charge
of the aid fund
AS FAR as the miners who are EMPLOYED
IN tne two big Santa Fe shafts are con
eerneo' the situation is little better than
when the JOURNAL reporter visited
Scranton two weeks ago. The men in
these these two shafts had up to that time
week. but since then they have been