The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-13
HORRID FUMEs Ola DECAY


Fiji the Air All Around loves Fraudu-
lent Cremat0ry.
No bigger fraud has boen perpetrated
on the people Of Topeka than Scavenger
NJ E. loves claim to a crematory. For
several months Lowe has boosted of a
crematory. where he reduced the horses
and other dead animals to harmless dust
The fact has been developed, however,
that the so-called crematory has never
been in operation and the dead animals
after being skinned were dumped onto
the sand and left there to rot and breed
disease.
City Physician Hibben became suspi-
cious of the existence of loves cremat-
ory and yesterday he gave Sanitary OH
Ger Stewart instructions to "lay" for
Lowe at the Kansas avenue bridge and
to follow him TO his dumping place.
Stewart followed DIR. Hibben's instruc-
tiOns and last evening he was rewarded
by seeing Lowe drive over the bridge
with two dead horses in his wagon. Stew
art followed him to his dumping place
and found a terrible condition of offairs,
which he reported at once to his supe-
riOr.
This morning DR.. Hibben, Assistant
City Attorney Hungate, Sanitary Officer
Stewart and a JOURNAL reporter, drove to
loves alleged crematOry. It Is located
half a mile from the city limits, north
river. To reach it Soldier creek is
crossed east of the railroad tracks, and
an unfrequented road is followed through
the woods. The stencil from the place
was perceptible long before il was
reached, Notwithstanding the wind was
from the opposite direction
DIR. Hibben explained that there had
been considerable complaint regarding
the place all summer, but the source of
the trouble had not been located Stew
art added that the people of North To-
peka have been in the habit of closing
all their windows and doors when the
wind shifted to the east.
Finally an open clearing in the woods
was reached. This was the scene of
loves operations. At one end of the
clearing is a barn-like structure that
contained nothing but two leaky barrels.
In front of this was the large boiler in
which the alleged refining process was
supposed to have been performed. It
was covered with rust of several weeks
accumulation.
Sanitary Officer Stewart was not long
In discovering that Lowe, aware OF his
visit, had made some kasty improve
ments since he was there last evening.
There had been fully dozen dead horses
lying unburied on the sand, exposed to
the action of the sun and the elements.
hasty attempt had been made to cover
these up with thin layer of sand, but the
positions of their bodies and their hoofs
were not concealed. Many of the
animals have lain there for weeks if not
months, and the foul odors which ac-
cOmpanied their decay is not an agree
able subject for newspaper comment.
In one place there was an immense pile
of the horses entrails at which no effort
had been made towards burial or con-
cealment To make matters worse there
was near by a dumping place for refuse
of the sort which the ordinances provide
shall in all cases go over to the city dump.
This had been merely dumped on the
bank of the river
And this is the way Scavenger Lowe
has been 'cremating g" animals! The first
rain Will wash away the remains Of the
dozen dead horses
City Physician Hibben is con-
WINGED that this state Of sanitary af-
fairs is responsible for the epidemic of
which prevailed in most
malignant form in the east side of Worth
Topeka last spring.
City Physician Hibben swore out
warrant today for the arrest of Lowe for
the city sanitary regulations.
Other warrants will be issued every day
that Lowe continues to do a scavenger
business in violation of the city's laws.
The health department claims that Lowe
has substantial backing in his violation
of the law from some of the police Off
GERS who makes it point to give Lowe
the sanitary work that IS reported to
them, rather than give it to the licensed
Notice was served BY the health de-
partment today on Mr.. Kaczynski. the
owner of the property, and Eli Chiddix,
who rents the property, that Lowe shall
not be permitted to do any further dump
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