The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-07
FOR DOCS so DAYS
Mans Faithful Friend" Finds
Champions.
Hughes and Fraser Force Com
3 promise From Council.
NOREFORM In DRIVING
Crossing Ordinance Is Defeated
Under Hams Leadership.
What the North Side Drainage
Board Wants.
NOREFORM In DRIVING

The ordinance placing all the dogs
of Topeka, 2,400 of them. under the
ban for the next sixty days, was finally
passed only after a most vicarlous
experience. Its passage was the tri-
umph of the members of the council
who were holding out for the sixty day
sentence as opposed to one of ninety.
incidentally the dogs and the dog
owners should remember three coun-
cilmen, Messrs. Hughes, Lannan and
Fraser. who valiantly fought against
tying up mans best friend. Though
it was no use, being overwhelmed by
superior numbers, the three gentle
men just mentioned went down into
the ditch still fighting. For this reas-
on the dogs and the dog owners should
remember the next election day when
their champions in the council ask for
another term.
Those who expected to see the
4 atmosphere torn into big rents ana
Z take on a crimson hue were vastly dis
appointed for the oratory was indeed
of the most genteel and mild Ac-
tivity was mostly confined to voting.
The ordinance as submitted called
for ninety days. A substitute motion
was made to reduce this to sixty days
This was lost on six to six vote.
Then the original ordinance came up
for a vote after the various sections
had been read and passed. The final
reading could not muster the required
votes, Councilman Kutz voting against
it with the original six. The ninety
day ordinance lost by vote of seven
to five. Here is the way they stood:
Ayes-Blakely, Jordan, Tandy, Van
Ness and Horn. Noes-Fraser, How
ard, Hughes. Lannan, Miller and KutZ.
Along towards the tag end of the
session of the council. Councilman
Jordan moved to reconsider the vote
on the ordinance. 1t was waving the
white flag to the men who held out
for sixty days. They capitulated when
the sixty days was inserted. On the
final vote the ordinance as amended
passed. Councilmen Hughes, Lannan
and Fraser voting no.
rs there any emergency existing
that calls for the passage of this ordi-
nance?" inquired Councilman Fraser.
"Nlne-tenths of the people that have
talked to me about it are against this
ordinance.
at think It is a great deal worse for
a dog to tie him up or muzzle him
than to let him run at large. If you
tie him up for a long time to a tree
or in the coal shed it is likely enough
to make dog go mad. Have we any
sure enough evidence before us that
the dogs talked of were mad?"
'sWe-have, the word of-a,veterinar-
ian." replied the mayor. 81 don't
know whether the council wants to
wait until tney can secure SWOTn
testimony or not, or whether they pre-
fer to adopt some preventive"
81 am in favor of tying them up for
365 days" said Councilman Horn.
1.-THE country Is the place for dogs.
They need some place where they can
roam around. The city is no place for
them"
1--WE had a mad dog scare last
year" said Councilman Hughes. AT
that time the ordinance did not
e. hi r1o xaync or h
served. Statistics show that there is a
great deal more danger of being killed
by the kick of a horse than from
rabies, the percentage of cases Is so
much greater. Last year I asked the
city physician If he had ever seen a
mad dog. He had not. I asked him
If he had ever treated any person in
all of his life who was suffering from
the bite of mad dog and he con-
fessed that he had not And yet after
this we last year passed an ordinance
muzzling the dogs"
The city will notify the owner of
every dog that has been registered
that he must keep his animal tied up
or if he does permit him on the street
10 hold him in leash with a chain or
some other suitable material. If after
the ordinance is adopted any dogs are
found running loose on the street
they will be picked up and impounded
by the dog officer. If the owner fails
to appear and pay the impounding fee
the dog will be killed after the expira-
ton of "a hours. \ violation of the
: ordinance is punishable by a fine of
from IS to $50. The ordinance will
probably go into effect Wednesday.
INN ediately after being published in
the official city paper.
The slow driving across street inter-
sections ordinance was sent back to
the streets and walks committee for
further consideration. Councilman
Horn led fight against what he term
ed IAN old fogy" ordinance single
handed and won easily. The ordi-
nance made il punishable by fine to
exceed speed of four miles per hour
across street intersections by automo-
biles. bicycles. autocycles or to drive
horse faster than a walk across
street intersections. Its ridiculous -
said Councilman Horn, who himself
owns an auto. Horn is a noted slow
driver and the councilmen poked fun
at him by telling him that the ordi-
nance would not work any hardship
could not drive faster than three miles
an hour anyway.
-Four things are asked for from the
city by ]. 3. Billiard and S. r. Kutz
president and secretary of the drainage
commission respectively as an aid tow
ards a prevention of flood conditions In
the future.
The request is framed up as fol.
lows:
ITO the Honorable Mayor and Council
of the City of Topeka:
THE North Topeka drainage board
intends to do everything practical fol
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