The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-03

OF allowing DeeS TO run at large IN the
city OF Topeka. My experience with
said bees is that they carried off my
crop of grapes and are very disastrous I
to peaches. NY neighbors Gillhllan
and Labaugh have had similar ex-
perience, and many others I sincere
ly pray that your honorable body will
take such action as you deem advisable
and give relief to your humble servant
as well as the balance of the taxpayers
OF our city
The judicial committee will struggle
with the proposed request.
The Melan arch bridge viii spring
from darkness into light. After
season of strenuous endeavor Council
man Simms from the First ward sue
ceeded in securing the council to ap-
prove the estimate Of City Engineer
McCabe for the placing of ten arc
lamps on the Melan bridge. The esti-
mate calls for an expenditure of ST.
600. Councilman Simms was elected
on the plank that he would get the
bridge adequately lighted. II am not
in favor of allowing an estimate of
that size, said Councilman VIM.
Green. 81 think that it is entirely too
high" 1.-THE city council should not
stand in the way of a few hundred
dollars. That bridge is so dark now
that you can't tell whether a man is
white or whether he is dark black It
is the rendezvous for all of the low
class of men and women in the city
who hail and stop pedestrians. It's a
disgrace to the city to have such
thing" said Simms.
81 am not standing in the way of ex-
pending a few hundred dollars, but
here you have got $1,000" returned
VIM. Green.
''WeIi. that isn't for the lamps.
about 500 is for installing trans
former, for Transforming the current.
You would have to have that if you
only had one lamp" returned Simms.
Councilman c. w. Horn objected to
expend1ng so much money. 1.-THE city
ought to furnish its own light to the
bridge instead OF letting the Edison
company do 1t. You would then save
the cost of this transformer. If the
city can't light the streets of the city
any more tear the electric plant down
then and make a contract with some
body do it"
THE Edison company has agreed to
do this lighting free of charge under
would cost the city close to $1,000 in
the next 80 years to light that bridge
We save all that
Chicken and animal shows are
barred from the Auditorium. Joseph
Griley introduced a. resolution prohib-
iting all such exhibitions from the
Auditorium in the interests of preserv-
ing the $4,000 pipe organ. Council
man J. W. F. Hughes has lost his fight
and he will be compelled to locate his
chicken show elsewhere. The resolu-
ton passed without dispute but then
Hughes is no longer general manager
of the chicken show.
The following regular monthly appro-
priation ordinance was passed as fol-
lows:
General revenue fund. .....S 1s5.07
General Improvement fund.-. 11,s91.s4
WaterWorks fund .............. 2,72S.79
Paving fund ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2,535.6l
Sidewalk fund -............ 515.O7
Sewer fund, district No. 26.. 1O,S2O.11
Alley opening fund ........ $500
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An ordinance appropriating the sum
of s9,7lS.1S out of the street and alley
paving bond fund and the Waterworks
fund to pay bond and interest due Oc-
tober 1, 1905, was passed.
The regular monthly pay roll for the
various city departments was allowed
as follows: ts7 +tl-is =
Police department ...,...s ,.....S 1,955.S3
Fire department .........s..... 2,S04.29
Waterworks department ....-. 1.2S9.49
Electric light department. 610.83
City officers and cOuncilmen.. 1,260.04
Sanitary department ....--..... $4,000
Special policemen, fair week 1920
Street department ..-..........- 2,258.54
c. H. Titus. election commits
sloner -....---....-...-.. 10000
Engineering department ....... 605.O0
Iotal .......-.4.......-..... Sll 4O6.0Z
The following reports of collections
for the month Of September were made:
Police department, fines. ........$ 1925
License collector ................ $500
Weighmaster --...............-.. 1870
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81. -s5
J. F. Schaefer, agent for the General
Electric company, made a proposition to