The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-21
Property Owners Get Money
Voted For Shop Extension.
Railroad Gives $500 Per Acr,
For the Land.
CITY MAKES UP REST.
Residents Of Topeka VIII Get
the Money.
The Registration Books viii
Close Tomorrow.

Only one day remains in which to
register for the city election which is to
be held on Tuesday, April 3 The ques-
tion of the Santa Fe shop extension must
then be settled.
If you are for Greater Topeka you
should not forget to register. The reg
istration books have been distributed
over the city in the various wards, and
there will be no excuse for any one who
fails to register and vote for the Santa
Fe shop extension.
The location of the proposed Santa Fe
locomotive erecting shops in Topeka is
! the most important thing before the peo-
! pie at the present time or that has been
presented to them in the past decade
The opposition to the proposition IS
diminishing" said Major T. J. Ander-
son, of the Commercial club, today. we
/ believe that the energetic work OF the
members of the Commercial club com
mittee is telling, and that the mass OF
the people of the city have come to re-
alize what this proposition means to the
city, and win support the. proposition on
election day.
zone Of the arguments being used
against the passage of this measure IS
that the $4,000 which the city will vote
will be given to the Santa Fe railroad
company
Nothing could be more erroneous"
continued Mr.. Anderson. THE money
will be used in paying the property
owners for their houses and land on the
proposed site of the improvements. The
sum of $40 900 is not adequate for this
purpose, and the Santa Fe railroad COM
pany win furnish money to the amount
OF $500 per acre for all the land secured
for the company, and what IS voted Dy
the city will go to the property owners
to make up the difference
Thus it may be seen that the rail-
road is not handling the money and is
not making a rake-off' as few have
been bold enough to assert
1.-The matter resolves itself into a plain
business proposition VIII the citizens
of Topeka vote the bonds that will bring
improvements to Topeka that will be Of
untold value to the workingmen as Well
as the professional man. or will they
through blindness or contrariness re-
club and strike a blow at the welfare Of
the city2
TT seems that such a question should
never for a moment be in doubt; and
that it ought not to be said that it was
with difficulty that the Commercial club
secured this addition to Topeka'S popula-
ton and taxable property.
WHERE TO REGISTER.
There is still time in which to reg
fster- The books will be found tomorrow
(the last day) at the following places,
well as at the main Office ir the Au-
FIRST WARD.
Jeffers & James. old postoffice build
ing.
tdanley Bros. store, SToTOOA d1u IL
peka avenue
SECOND WARD
Adamson's shoe store, East Fourth
street.
Whittlesey's mercantile store, Second
and Madison
THIRD WARD
Jordan's store, Twelfth and Lincoln.
Rosser's drug sore, Tenth and Topeka
avenue
FOURTH WARD.
Rice's grocery store, Fourth and
Taylor.
MerrilIs drug store. Sixth and Clay.
FIFTH WARD.
Osborn's grocery store, Seventeenth
and Kansas avenue.
Child's store, Twelfth and Washington
street
store at Seventeenth and buchanan
street
SIXTH WARD.
Dickinson's grocery store, Tenth and
Morris avenue.
Knox's grocery store. Auburndale.