The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-04
Prove What a Vile, Filthy Place
1t Is.
MUST CLOSE WINDOWS.
People Who Live in Vicinity
Tell of Horrible Stencil.
Have to Close Windows Before
They Can Eat Meals.
No Steps Yet Taken to Abandon
the Health Menace.

Youthful Judge Disney of Oakland,
the Joint Keepers terror, led the at
tack of a regiment of enraged oak
landers on the city council last night
and q desperate attempt was made to
drive the city fathers out of their posi-
ton behind the city dump.
The Oaklanders were armed with q.
big bundle OF afidavits. were well
drilled in oratory. and each member OF
the regiment was loaded to the muzzle
with argument After Smelling the for
tihcations with affidavits. the Oakland
ers opened fire with their biggest ora
t0rical guns, ana almost silenced the
batteries of the sanitary committee ana
board OF health. The attack was Well
planned and executed. and the council
was placed on the defensive through
out
The result of the enga cement was
that General Hughes and the council
We're obliged to retire for rest and re-
Inducements. They promised to renew
the battle on Friday by making a
grand reconnaissance in force in the vi
cinity of the dump. for the purpose Oh
ascertaining the strength of the enc
ny's position
General Disney, however, threatens
to follow up his advantage gained last
night by forcing a renewal of the battle
in the district court this morning by
Vancouver known as the Injunction
ambuscade. The Oaklanders declare
position on the city dump question
There were more than a score of PEG
pie from Oakland and vicinity at the
council meeting last night TO protest
against the location Of the city dump
on the river bank in that part of town
1t YVES the most determined kick on any
proposition the council has encountered
for a. long time
To stin further complicate the situa-
ton, the two crematOry propositions
were submitted TO the council. one by
Oscar Kuehne, and one by Frank
The Oakland people want the council
to abandon the dump instanter, and
accept one of the crematory r oposi-
tions. They would not listen to any
suggestion of delay The council
begged for two months time. for thirty
days. for a week. but the stern men
from east of town turned all suggest
tions of this sort to the wall without
looking at them.
Finally the council voted to consti-
tute itself q smelling committee, and
proceed en- rnasse to the dump on Fri
day afternoon at 2 o'clock. then and
there to see whether or not its OdOr is
as bad as the Oakland people say it is
Meantime. the committee on health
and sanitation viii meet this evening
and discuss the relative merits of the
two crenatory propositions. Council
man Myers has agreed to take Council
man Griley's place ON that committee.
during Mr.. GrilCyss absence from To-
peSa- The committee viii be composed
Of Myers. Nichols and Warner
The two crematory propositions do
not differ very materially. Both plans
contemplate the utilization of the dead
animals products as far as possible.
Both plants VIII be located some dis
lance from town, though the Zingheim
proposition has q slight advantage in
being somewhat closer than the other
AR Kuehne wants a franchise for ten
years; Mr.. Zingheim asks for only sew
en- Mr. Zinghein's proposition is rath-
er more definite and certain. and tells
in detail the plans of the work
The bundle Of affidavits which was
presented by the Oakland people con
tanned some very bitter denunciations
of the dump. The following are extracts
and summaries Of some OF the more i'm
pOrtant afhdavits-
THE AFFIDAVITS.
F. Sardou says in his affidavit that he
has lived in Topeka Al years; that his
home IS about one-half mile from the
city dump; that he has been annoyed
by the dump and crematOry for II years
and that al times his home has been IN
bearable because Of stencil; that all OF
his protests have been answered with
the argument that the nuisance was
only temporary, and would soon be re-
moved that from the Iowness of the
river at this time the new dump which
has been esta blished viii exceed in hor-
TOT any thing that has as yet been per
petrated upon him; that he has had
several sales Of property spoiled on &C
count OF the stencil. and that one tenant
has notified him he would leave if the
dump were established Mr.. Sardou says
ne has made Soundings in the river and
finds IL to be only 215 feet deep in the
deepest place, and that most Of the filth
Is being dumped in water inches deep
Frank s Thomas says in a sworn
statement that he has found 1t difficult
to keep tenants on his SO-acre farm
across the street from the DUMP He
says that the people living there have
70 shut their windows before they eat
their meals He further argues that the
property owners can maintain a dam
age suit against the city if the dump is
located there.
c. H kutz swears that he is principal
OF a school on State street in Pleasant
Valley. He says it has often been nee
essary to shut the windows to keep out
the foul odors from the old crematory
and that In the nature Of things will be
worse under the new order Of things.
George p Bates swears that he is the
owner Of Bates addition and that his
tenants complain about the stencil from
the dump. Mr. Bates considers it a
menace and dstriment to his property.
c. F. James Of 314 East Sixth, makes |
affidavit that he owns property on the |
road leading past the dump, and finds il |
states that it is almost impossible to
force his team to go past the place be-
cause Of the stencil
r. Dietrich says he considers the
dump q nuisance and a menace to |
health.
the owner Of ITO acres near the dump:
that the river current carries the Nth |
down and leaves it on his land. max |
ing stencil dangerous to health.
r. v Lesson and J. H Oils say in |
their affidavit that the dump occasions
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