The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07

ment to be placed down this year. The
report was adopted
The monthly pay rolls for the var
ious city departments for the month of
February were allowed and paid as
follows:
Police department. 81, 971.77
City officers and councilmen. 1,3O9.91
Sanitary department. -.... 487.17
Judges and clerks of election. 452.75
Especial Bond Election-)
Street commissioner. 81, 205.96
Electric light department. 61O.S3
Engineering department. ... 1880
Fire department. .... 2,803.02
A communication from ]. c. Owen
offering to enter into a contract with
the city for the disposal of the gar
bage was referred to the committee
on health and sanitation.
A request from the G. A. r. posts
in the city asking for the free use of
the Auditorium upon May 20 and 80
for the observation of Decoration day
was granted.
recomnn ended to the city council that the
Warner Enclosed Arc Lamp Electric COM
more on terms proposed to the city by
said company The cost of the new lamps
The cost of 342 lamps. sufficient for the
city, would be IS. 100. The committee stated
of cost of carbons would be $1,000 annually,
while only one man would be needed to
trim in place of the five now employed
This would mean saving OF 81 46O per
year The report was referred to the COM
mittee on ways and means
A communication from the city engineer
with regard to the need of a number of
streets and the deepening and widening
of Biddle creek waterway from Tenth
avenue to Fourth street, was referred to
f0o -fr nd
By resolution the city council ordered
mains from the wooden approach to the
temporary approach to be erected in its
place while constructive work on tn Me
Ian bridge is under way
The contract for the desiccating COM
pany to care for the city's garbage was
referred to the committee on streets and
walks.
The estimate of the city engineer for the
construction of a detention hospital was
placed on file.
Several petitions for brick sidewalks
We're filed: The petitions We're referred to
the committee on streets and walks. The
sidewalks petitioned for are on the west
side OF Quincy street from Thirteenth to
on west side of Horn street between Will
low avenue and Sixth avenue.
The reports of collections from the var
ious departments for the past month are
Food inspector ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 15 Sc
License collector ........................5 33 IS
Police judge (ines) ..-..........-.-...- 122. 3
Weighmaster ....................... H.7O
Total 80. ........................... s916.1s
The approximate estimate Of the city
engineer for the kalSomining, papering
and painting the various OFFICES of the
city building and the Auditorium. was re-
ferred to the committee on public build
ings.
The approximate estimate Of the city en-
gineer for the changing of the location of
proved The estimate:
Buying lot No. q, Park avenues $500
1,105 cubic yards excavation at 20c..-. 90
Total --..-- -..........-..............s2 ss.OO
A resolution calling for an election to
submit a proposition to vote bonds in the
sum of $4,000 for the construction of a
crematory was referred to the judiciary
committee.
F Barnes and H McKeever. asking for
streets of the city were before the cOun-
ell. The franchise was deferred until the
next meeting of the council.
The Home Heat and Light company
filed 5000 bond as surety for excava- |
tons carried on within the city's limits |
Bonds were also filed by the Topeka |
company to guarantee faithful compliance
with terms of the contract. The Topeka
Bridge company filed S9OS5 bond and
the Marsh Bridge company one for 81, 900. |
These are the amounts involved in the
cost of construction.
A plat of Richards addition to the city
was approved by the council.
A petition for a fire alarm box in the
block bounded between Fifth street and
Sixth avenue and by Jackson and Van
buren, streets was referred to the fire de- |
partment committee.
A resolution asking for the transfer of |
the gas cOmpany's main from the wooden |
approach to the Melan bridge to the tenn |
porary approach being built, was referred |
to the streets and walks committed
The council adjourned until Friday. |
March 10.