The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-15
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City Said to Have Discovered a
Mysterious Something.
Seems to BE in the Nature of a
Stuffed Club.
FOR THE EDISON co.
Claimed That Company Will
Yield in It's Demands.
Contents of the Surprise Pack
age Are Kept Secret.
FOR THE EDISON CO.

A big surprise is being prepared for
the Topeka Edison company if the de-
Velopments continue to shape them
selves as they have IN the past
The surprise may be sprung in the
course of a few days and when it does
it Will have a close connection -1ith the
pending application of that company
for q new franchise.
Simply hints as to the nature of the
surprise are thrown out and the de-
tails are being carefully covered. 1t
is stated, however, that when the sur
prise box is opened it will have ten
dency to disa buse the minds of mem
bers OF the council who have had a
leaning towards the Edison company,
and have felt that the4 company has
been greatly abused and sbrowbeaten.
Claims which have been held out by
officers of the company and maintain
ed so earnestly TO the council that the
statements were believed, will be re-
futed it is said, by findings secured by
cOuncilmen who have taken the pains
to investigate these claims more fully.
What these claims are and the re-
futation of them cannot be treated in
more specific terms, say those back OF
them. The whole transaction has to be
clouded in generaities because the time
is not ripe for disclosure Suffice to say
councilmen claim they have a trump
card up their sleeve and will play 1t.
When it is played the Edison company
Will pay for a portion of the Sixth av-
enue viaduct repairs, whether the new
The proportion that the Edison COM
pany and the street railway will pay It
is stated, will be considerab Bile Of a pro-
portion of the entire cost of repairs
Mem berS of the ways and means
committee deny that there is any likeli-
hood Of the recommendation of the
pending franchise to the council for
passage at the meeting Of the COM
mittee Monday evening. Certain de-
sired amendments contained in the
franchise and asked for by the Edison
company may and will probably pass
the inspection of the committee but
members of the committee state that
there is nothing further from their
minds than the recommen dalton for
the passage of the entire franchise as
it stands@this takes in the main feat
urea COMMANDED for--that discrimina-
tory rates should Ike ilca uded and That
the annual report Of the company
should not be, as detailed as called for
at present, and that the part of the
stock. issued over and above the actual
cash value of the Investment should
he Included as part OF the investment
In order to compute the 10 per cent
net earnings of the company upon the
investment and the amount due the
city. above this interest. What the
pocket books of the railroads will co
for the Sixth avenue viaduct remains
to be seen. Several attempts have been
made to see General Manager Hurley
OF the Santa Fee by Mayor w. H. Da-
Wis and Councilman s. T. Howe with
reference to the attitude which the
railroa ds will take but Mr. Hurley has
been out of the city constantly for q
week and the planned for conferences
went for nothing. It is confidently ex-
pected that the railroads. Santa Fe and
Missouri Pacific, Will bear a share of
the expense OF repairs.