The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-09
FIxASSESSMENTS
North Topeka Taxes Will he
Adjusted.
County Commissioner Sterne
Makes an Announcement.
AMOUNT IN DOUBT.
There Is Yet Time to Make the
Changes.
Street Commissioner Snyder
Gives Good Advice.

Material reductions will be made in
| the appraisements of North Topeka
property as we'll as all of the property
in Shawnee county which was mum
dated by the food waters from the
Kaw-this statement was made today
by W. E. Sterne, county commissioner.
"It would be impossible for me to
say as to how much, even to venture
guess as to what the reduction will
be" said Mr.. Sterne. There will be
material reductions, readjustments of
the appraisements as made and re-
turned by the county assessors to the
commissioners. The matter is still
open to us for readjustment you know
for we have done nothing with it as
yet. AS soon as some of the smaller
pieces of business are cleared away
the county commissioners sitting as a
board of equalization will devote its
time to the reimbursement of North To-
peka properties and > tho Shawnee
county farms. We. will talk with the
business men Of North Topeka and
prominent property owners over there
and by this method and personal visi-
tation discover how much of a reduc-
ton in valuations should be made"
Taxes to the North Topeka people
can only be lessened in this manner
for the city will not be able TO remit
the taxes for special improvements,
done by the city delving into its gem
eral improvement fund and paying the
installment due this year. The new
paving which is being put down on
North Jackson from Morse 10 st. John
streets and the alley bounded by
Jackson street will have IT'S first pay
ment due in December. by that time
the people will have fully recovered
and ids have ssa Almost Mn0e %sm their
who is himself a large North Topeka
property owner. There will not be
so much damage done this year. the
water is not laden with silt and mud
like it was in former years.
''It is not making the houses SO
hard to clean and the damage is not
so heavy either. The city will have a
job cleaning up the streets, fixing side
walks but this is not discouraging by
any means"
1.-THE people should clean their
houses while the water is in Them
said Frank Snyder, street commits
sioner. cit is much easier to clean
houses under those conditions than to
wait until the water subsidies and the
mud has packed and settled
What about the health of North
Topeka following the flood" said
DIR. M. r. Mitchell, city physician,
whose house had four feet of water in
it on the North Side and who is him
self marooned on this side of the
river. "Well you will find North To-
peka a great deal healthier following
the flood than the South Side. This
has been the experience of the city
following the big flood of 1908. On
the South Side here there was a
veritable epidemic of typhoid fever
and diphtheria but we had scarcely a
case in North Topeka. 1t. seems to
thoroughly cleanse that part of the
city but believe me we don't care
very much for such heroic measures
There are very few dead animals in
North Topeka, probably a few of the
smaller animals and fowls but moth
No you will find North Topeka
healthy and the city board of health
have not outlined anything beyond
the usual routine precautions