The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-10
NOW FOR A FAIR.
Central Committee Will Have
Charge of Election.
Will Help to Carry Proposition
at Election.
TO MAKE A CANVASS.
Members Will Talk With All of
the Voters.
Another Bridge Across the Kaw
Asked For.
There a Only Five in the
County Now.

Inc commercial club at its meeting
last night took initial steps in the
movement to secure the passage at the
fall election, of the proposition to levy
| one-half mill tax to be used in re-
pairing and i'm proving the fair grounds,
preparatory to establishing an annual
state fair.
The members of the club authorized
its president, John E. Frost, to appoint
a central committee composed of one
member of the club from each ward,
who will have authority to appoint sub
committees in each ward of the city.
These committees will make a syste-
matte and thorough canvass of all the
voters in the city, and in this manner
hope to secure the passage OF the pro-
position.
Major T. J. Anderson, secretary of the
club was instructed to prepare a letter
to be sent to all the voters of the coun-
ty living outside the city limits explain
ing the situation, thereby giving the
voters an idea of what is intended to
be accomplished. This method of get
ting into comm unication with the vo
tiers in the county is adopted as it Will
be impossible to make personal can
vass in the short space of time remain
ing before election.
Because of the fact that fake mer-
chants have been in the habit of open
ing up stores in Topeka after the first
of March, thereby escaping taxation,
and closing out the stock before a fol-
lowing March; selling their goods in the
country at prices exorbitantly high
when compared with the prices on the
same quality of goods for sale at legiti
mate stores in the city, the following
resolutions was presented and passed:
Resolved, That the state tax COM
mission be respectfully asked to make
some provision in the tax law; being
recommended by it to the next legisla-
ture for the assessment for taxation, by
the proper officer of all stocks of mer-
chandise brought into cities of the first,
second and third class after the first of
March in each year, which class of pro-
perty entirely escapes taxation under
the present law.
Resolved, That the secretary be in
structed to forward copy of this reso-
luton to the tax commission and call
the attention of the board to the in
portance of such a provision to the mer-
chants and business men of this city"
The following resolution was also
passed concerning the proposition to Sc
cure a park in the Fifth ward:
Whereas, The citizens of the Second
and Fifth wards have petitioned the
city council to condemn and appraise
certain triangular piece of land for
park purposes at the intersection of
Eighth and Tenth avenues east, and
Whereas, The said tract of land is
on the direct route to the cemetery, and
as Eighth avenue is about to become a
paved street; therefore
Resolved, That the committee on pub
lie parks are hereby instructed to con-
fer with the streets and walks coramit-
tee of the city council and use their best
efforts to secure the above described
tract for park purposes
The citizens of Menoken and Mission
townships addressed a letter to the
Commercial club, asking for it's sup
port in the proposition to secure a fifth
bridge across the Kaw at a point near
the old sugar mill.
Robert Stone was present and ex-
planned to the members of the club that
the people living in the territory that
would be benefited by such a bridge
were the victims of a huge joke.
1.-The citizens of this section" he said
s'were the first to appear on the scene
for a bridge across the Kaw. Repre-
sentative John Sims was induced to
present a bill in the legislature author
izing the construction of bridge at
that point. The bill would have been
passed, but before an opportunity was
offered delegations from other localities
began pouring in with the information
that they did not want such bill
passed, but that if it included a bridge
over the Kaw at their locality they
would be reco1ciled. In all four bridges
We're authorized by the act of the leg
islature.
ssBut in the final adjustment, when
the county commissioners located the
bridges as they thought, where they
would serve the most people the best,
the originators of the proposition to
get a bridge across the river were left
out in the cold
TT is almost an absolute necessity
that the people living in this territory
should have a, bridge It is Impractical
for them to go around to the south or
to haul heavy loads over the steep hills
that are now available for traffic to To-
peka from that vicinity.
ssIt is a matter of justice that the
people in this vicinity should have a
bridge from the fact that they were
the first to agitate the question.
1.-The proposition to build the bridge
will not bring a heavier taxation upon
the county than that authorized by the
legislature. The legislature permits the
levy to raise $4,000 for the purpose of
building four bridges. The county
cure the four bridges for considerable
less than that amount, and the fifth
bridge may be erected for an amount
within the limit of $4,000. 1t is Justice
that the people of this section should
have a bridge, and / believe that the
citizens of other sections of the county
when they understand the proposition
in the right light will see the justice of
the claims of the Mission and Menoken
people and will vote for the bridge. The
other people have secured their bridges
primarily through the efforts of the
people of the locality that is now left
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