The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-04

in any way manifested interest IN. the
betterment of the Topeka, City Direc-
tory for so many years, and sincerely
trusting that the ambition of the un-
dersigned to make each volume just a
little bit better than its predecessor
may be realized in the future as it has
been in the past, I have the honor to
subscribe myself, Yours very truly.
SAM RADGES.
The sketch in the first part of the
book, written by James A. Troutman,
''The last state census gives kan
sas Cfty's population as 57,71O and
Topeka's as S9,149. Kansas City,
Kansas, is larger than Topeka but the
latter is the largest Independent city
in the state Kansas City, Kansas, is
an adjunct of Kansas City, No An
invisible state line marks the boun-
daries of the two cities, but CONNER
cially and socially they are one
''Tecumseh, Auburn, Burlingame,
Atchison, Lawrence and Leavenworth,
successfully, have been envious rivals
of Topeka One by one they have all
been distanced. Today Topeka has
but one competitor, Wichita, the
youngest of the larger cities of the
state. Topeka still maintains a COM
Portable lead, but the race is not I'M
interesting.
The prescribed limits of this article
preclude historical detail and statisti-
tennial is an OppOrtune occasion for a
cursory glance at the past and a
superficial analysis of the present.
Topeka was fifty years old December
5, 1904; the initial step for the organ
iZation of a city having been taken
December 5, 1854. On that day an
article of agreement was entered into
by nine men, in which it was agreed, |
among other things, that one and a
half miles square shall be surveyed as
a town site December IA, 1854, the
Topeka association was formed by
the same men, The nine men signing
p is q
D. H. Horne, Enoch Chase, NJ. c. |
Dickey, L. G. Cleveland, F. w. Giles, |
Geo. Davis, j. B. Chase. c. Robinson. |
AT an election held October 4, 1858, |
Topeka was chosen as the county seat !
of Shawnee county, in a spirited con-
test against Burlingame, Auburn and
Tecumseh. The officer to whom the re-
result But new occasions teach new
turns were made was strong partisan I
Of Tecumseh, and refused to certify the /
duties, and F. w. Giles the county 4
clerk, was equal to the new duty i'm |
posed by this Obdurate official. After /
he had endured the delays of his con-
tumacious judge as long as his respect
for the judicial ermine demanded, he
became little revolutionary in turn,
and quietly loaded the county seat in
to his buggy and carried it away to
Topeka, where it has ever since re-
NAMED. Now that I have betrayed the
secret that there never was a publica-
ton or official certification of the cleo
I
who fattens on injunctions, quo war
rantO, mandamas, or cOram nobis pro-
,eedings, will probably commence suit |
to have the county seat loaded into a
buggy and restored to Tecumseh.
Topeka is the best paved city in the
state. There are 800 blocks of asphalt
tum, brick, cedar and stone pavement,
or about 35 miles OF paved streets.
I'VE have Y church organizations
and So church buildings; a Railroad Y.
VI. c. A. building, completed, costing
100000 and a building projected for the
eity association that will cost SIS OOd
Dur chancel rails are plain and our pull
bits unadorned, but we have a brand
# piety that Will be triumphantly rec
ognized in the New Jerusalem.
Topeka has three national and four
tate banks, including one savings
'ank. On the first day Of November,
904, their aggregate capital, surplus
nd deposits. were as follows:
'apltal .-.,.-..... -....--...-$ 910,O0O00
surplus $500. $500. 2S1, $500
deposits ....----... ......... B, S5ls o45-4o
Topeka is not a great manufacturing
ity, but exclusive of its railways it has
capital of 81, 1850, $50 invested in manu-
acturing enterprises, employing 4,431
eople, to whom is paid annually 81
70, 705- These concerns used $S,931.77
Worth of raw material last year, and
urned out finished products worth $14, I
SO, 725. Incidentally it might be men I
Toned that Topeka boasts the largest
f Is, 500 pounds of butter per day. Last
ears output was nine million pounds.
Topeka has four railroads-Union
'acific, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island ]
nd Santa Fe. Upon these roads are
0 passenger trains a day, running into .
nd out of Topeka. The Rock Island !
makes Topeka an important point upon
IS system, and contributes largely to :
he material interests OF the city. But 5
'opeka is distinctively a Santa Fetown. .
IS shops located here employ at this |
ime 1852 men, with a yearly pay roll
f S1,113, 901. They use, in these shops,
aw material worth 81, 49, 14. and turn
ut engines, cars, machinery, etc, val
ed at 81, O53, S15
Shelley said, Hell is a city much !
Ike London If he were here now, he !
fOuld add, Paradise is a city much
Ike Topeka, Kansas, u. s. A. ."