The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-12
CITY TO ENLARGE.
Additions Outside the Limits to
Be Taken In.
New Ordinance Will Include a
Dozen Tracts.
1T is KNOCKED OUT.
Installment House Licens,
Clause Is Repealed.
The New Bicycle Ordinance Il
at Last Introduced.


the meeting last night. He is taking
his vavation in Colorado. His place
was filled last night by Assistant City
Attorney w. c. Ralston.
There was also slim attendance of
councilmen- The following were abb
sent: Blossom. Griley. Neil, and Howe
The next council meeting will be the
first Monday in October
More land is to be taken into the city,
The first steps in the transaction oc-
Cured last night by the adoption of
resolution presented to the city council
by S. A. Swendson. making the follow
ing provisions:
BE it resolved by the mayor and
council of the city of Topeka. that the
ways and means committee be and is
hereby directed and ordered to take
up and give due consideration to the
matter of taking into the city such ad-
ditions to the city as may be found
practicable and advisable: and further,
such committee is directed to have pre-
pared the necessary ordinances making
such additions to the city as are found
desirable. in the interest and welfare
of the city,
The city charter act passed by the
Legislature last winter changed some
of the laws regarding the annexation
1t makes it easier to reach out and
appropriate for. the purpose of city
taxation a piece of land which threat
ems to become well populated. Prior to
the passage of the city charter act, I'M
plated territory lying adjacent to the
city could not be taken in. Now if the
land is bounded on three sides by the
| city limits. it can be taken in whether
the owner has plated it or not. This
would give, the city the right, at any
time it sees fit to incorporate in the
city the large and very valuable Nets
ker tract. between Lowman Hill and
tract which has not been plated for
the express purpose of keeping it out
of the city. 1t is very valuable land,
and will make a desirable residence dis
trict when plated and placed on the
market Some of the tracts which will
probably be taken into the city, or con-
sidered by the ways and means COM
mittee, are the following:
A strip west of Boswell street. be-
tween Walnut street and Euclid avenue,
| une-half block wide and two blocks long.
tract in Bates addition, east of
Bradford Miller's. s.fsf ~ ffe,sr
tract north of Seward avenue, which
was formerly in the city, but which was
vacated. Nit
steeles addition. southeast of Wash
burn college.
Tract in vicinity of Twentieth and
Twenty-second streets, between Bolles
and Union avenues.
Investment company's additions be-
tween Eighth and Tenth streets, west of
Lincoln street.
Tract on which Christ's hospital is To-
Gated
Tract in Auburndale. west of Potwin
school.
Tract north of Second street, Fillmore
and Clay streets.
RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY.
The council adopted the following res
| 0l11fiOy7 of cxy171 a l7xy ia r1jIW r,f
Samuel T. Howe, which has suffered
great aff1iction in the death by typhoid
of Walter Howe, the 15-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Howe:
Whereas, Our co-laborer and associ
ate, Samuel T. Howe, an honored and
respected member of this council having
lost by death his son; Therefore be it
Resolved, That the sympathy of the
mayor and council is hereby extended to
| him and the members of his family in
| the irreparable loss of a beloved son
and BROTHER
The funeral will be held Sunday after
noon at o'clock. and the members of
the council viii attend in a body. They
will meet at the city hall at o'clock,
and go to the Howe residence in car
riages.
MUST PAY COSTS.
Section Al of the license ordinance.
| imposing a license of $40 year on in
stallment houses, was repealed. But
] the repeating ordinance IldhSS l1lG lOl-
lowing important provision:
1.-The passage of this ordinance shall
| in no way affect any prosecutions be-
gun and now pending under said sec
ton Al of said ordinance but all such
prosecutions shall be completed as
effectualIy as they could have been had
such section not been repealed"
This provision was put in for the pur-
pose of forcing the installment men to
pay the costs of the litigation they
| have started, so City Attorney Spencer
says. The prosecutions will then be
dropped.
The fly-by-night installment houses
are not "1et OUT of a license fee by
the repeal of this section Al. They will
have to pay under another section.
SPENCER'S ADVICE N. G.
The city councilmen, all except Coun-
Gilman Wolf gave City Attorney Spen-
Ger the cold, CLASSY stare last night,
and passed the police whistle ordinance
after the city attorney had emphatical-
lv said:
Gentlemen, can't endorse this or
dinance. 1 have not looked it up to
see if it is properly drawn. dom t
know whether it will stand the test of
the courts. 1 won't take any response
bHitv for it"
The council thereupon passed the or
dinance, and was in such a hurry to do
lit that the regular order of business
was suspended, the ordinance rushed
through its first, second and third read
ings in about five minutes. The pen
atty for blowing police whistle except
when you really. truly want something
/ is fine of from 81 to SO. There is
nothing on earth to tell what a police
whistle is. 1t is just a police. whistle
1t may be a fiat or 3 sharp, it may be
pianissimo or dimiruendo, it may be
tremulo or demi-cuaver. but if it is a
police whistle, that settles it; you
mustn't blow it.
This ordinance will give Duzenberry
! a new iOh said MaVOr ReroUQdthal
"Oh. 1 don't know" commented Mr..
| Wolf. Wen meet next week and re-
peal it. Nobody will ever be prosecuted
under it,
Odds are offered that Mr.. Wolf ism t
far from the bullseye in that opinion.
! LIGHTS FOB THE FAIR.