The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-04
MR.. EBY'S HOSE.

Tt Entertained the POtwin City Council
for Awhile, Then Came Other Things.
Mr.. Ebenezer Wilson. of Indiana, was
at the meeting of the Potwin city council
last evening but he had bill of $3S
against the city which he wanted to col
lect and accordingly maintained re-
spectful silence
Mr.. Thomas Eby, who used to have
some hose, was there also however, and
made the meeting as interesting as pos
sible for Mr.. Ex-Street Commissioner
Hill, who, it seems. had borrowed the
said hose on one occasion to put out a
small fire with.
Eby claimed, and he didn't have it with
him to prove it. Mr.. Hill was not exact
ly prepared to say that the hose had been
returned, but he felt sure that somebody
had put it somewhere at sometime and
covered it up with something. This was
of course most lucid explanation of the
whereabouts of the hose, but somehow it
didn't seem to satisfy Mr.. Eby, who
wanted either his hose or $3.50.
Seven dollars and fifty cents Sc emed
little high to Mr.. Hill and to sustain his
position he further advanced the belief
that the hose was rotten and not worth a
continental, anyhow, and that the price
of hose we'll as the hose itself see med
to have gone up.
This seemed to touch Mr. Ely to the
quick and he fastened to remind Mr..
Hill that he was not only story teller OF
the deepest dye but was guilty of divers
low, ignorant things
To all this Mr. Hill replied heatedly as
became the evening.
No flows were struck, however. and
the evening passed very pleasantly.
Mr. James Booth having had in him
combined the double honor of being
made street commissioner and city mar
shall, all at the same time, the matter of
how much there was to be in it for him
came up. Mr. Booth had a team that
must be provided for and Mr..
E. M. Atwood suggested that
the council give Mr.. Booth and his
team $40 month. There was murmur-
ing among the solons in a modest way
at this, and Mr.. A. P. Jetmore moved to
make it $40 and hire the team on the
European plan. This was finally agreed
to.
The council was rapidly running out
! of something to amuse itself with, so the
sidewalk question was taken up, and
about one thousand feet of sidewalk will
be laid.
The walk in front of lots /, 3. 5, 7. 10
and 10 on Woodlawn avenue, lot 1 on
| Greenwood avenue and lot on Elmwood
avenue were condemned as antiquated
and will be replaced by brick. It is
board walk now and has an unpleasant
way of arising and shifting the pedes-
trian several inches below the belt as no
we'll bred sidewalk should do.
A large number of bills were allowed.
Among them were, one of ]. II. Hunt for
stone for crossings, $25; The Wilson,
bill for actual labor performed, $38, and
that of the Capital City Paving compa-
ny for brick, $99.75, which was disposed
of without quarter and called even.
There were several minor bills
City Clerk Miller was appointed to
collect the dog and poll tax and will be
universally lodged hereafter. F. G..
Willard was the only councilman absent.
Cholera Continues in Russia.
WASHINGTON, June 4-Consul Gener
al Karel at St Petersburg reports to the
state department that cholera still con
tinUes in Russia. The official report
from the government at Volga, shows
that there were 100 cases aud 80 deaths
from April IA to April 81. Six cases
were reported in St. Petersburg
The only new cases in the police court
today were those of Walt MCGEE and