The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-21

able that enough signatures to insure
the election have already been secured,
but the work will be continued for Il
while longer.
Councilman Griley is planning to in
troduce an ordinance providing for
some extensions of the city limits in the
east Fart Of town. About six or eight
blocks lying next to the city limits are
quite thickly settled. and want to be in
cluded in the proposed new sewer dis
trict which is being created.
Suot. Goodrich of the city electric
light plant yesterday presented to the
city engineer the detailed specifications
for the new steel smokestack which the
council has ordered the city clerk to adj
vertise for. The steel smokestacx now
in use has lasted about ten years, and
is badly rusted on the inside.
The annual open meeting of the
Gamma Sigma literary society at Wash
burn college will be held this evening at
the Washburn chapel Rev. Graham
Taylor is expected to make a short ad-
dress, in addition to the usual program
of a literary and musical character. The
admission is free and the public is in
vited.
The city council should require the
city railway to use iron poles for its
track along the west side of Central
park The heavy wooden poles are very
unsightly, and as the company was
allowed to put in double track in
stead of a single track. it should be
willing to go to the additional expense
of iron poles
T. E. Dewey. Kansas supreme court
reporter, has boom for reporter of the
United States supreme court Mr.. JUS
tice Brewer. who is a strong force on
the United States supreme bench is
behind his candidacy. If Mr.. Dewey
should get it, it would very likely be a
life position The members of the Kan
sas supreme court have endorsed him
for the place.
DR.. H I. Page, one of the football
enthusiasts at the Medical college, is
heartily in favor of having the Wash
burn and Medic teams continue to play
together throughout the season. He
says: In spite of the fight which Min
ney and Frisbey are putting up, we
pect to put a winning team in the field
on Thanksgiving day against Ottawa"
Manager Mills. of the Washburn foot
ball team, says that he and the athletic
association are several hundred dollars
in debt on account of the failure of the
football team to draw good crowds
When the WaShburn and Medic teams
were merged Washburn assumed the in
debtedness of the NEEDLES. Now Mana
ger Minney of the Medics, refuses to
Washburn still has the indebtedness to
pay.
The city paid to S H Mitchell, the
representative of the company which
made the new aerial truck. the sum of
81 1924, in full settlement for the truck
Mr. Mitchell signed an agreement to
protect the city from all damages in the
Robinson case It is not likely that
there will be any claim for damages,
but Chief Wilmarth thought it would
be good scheme to be on the safe side,
and so he secured the agreement from
Mr. Mitchell.
Rev DR. Graham Taylor, an educator
in the Theological Seminary of Chicago
will address the students of Washburh
tonight at the chapel on the subject
The debt incurred by college educa-
ton and how to pay it, with reference
not to the cash expended but the debt
of educated men or women to their less
fortunate fellow mortals. DR.. Taylor is
one of the most forceful and interesting
speakers known to the west. His pres