The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-24

| GELS LneIQ All.
Since the article in the State Jour
nal regarding the use of milk coupons
| instead of milk tickets, thus making
sanitary conditions in connection with
milk dealing, a North Topeka milk
man has purchased $4,000 coupons for
his work. He also read the article
concerning the new sanitary milk pals
and purchased them for his milk men.
This is the kind of spirit that brings
| business. DR.. Campbell stated this
morning that the above mentioned
dealer has followed every sanitary
piece of advice he could procure and
| his milk is faultless.
In the course of a few months the
proposed fire station east of the San
| ia Fe shops will be constructed,
| equipped, and in working order. City
Engineer John p Rogers staked out
| the ground this morning and the con-
| tractor, Edward Johnston, will COM
mence operations at once. Chief Will
marth has ordered his chemical engine
and the rest Of the equipment. The
! men who will have charge of the sta
not been limited Just who will captain
the companies in this new station.
| This new station will save the city
from mixing with the humane socie-
! ties over the city. 1t is a we'll known
fact that before team can pull
heavy truck TO far point in the new
district, the horses are in very bad
| condition. This new station will
shorten the run of the other COM
panies.
Mayor Green has received delega-
ton blanks from the National Irriga-
| ton Congress which will be held in
| Spokane, Washington. He has the lib
erty to fill out these blanks-ten in
number-with any names he wishes.
The mayor said this morning that he
had no preference and anyone who
wished to go to this congress could
receive the privilege by communicat-
ing with him. The National Irriga-
ton Congress is organized for the pur-
pose of saving the forests, attending
to the floods and make homes out of
deserts.
With two heavy cases ahead of him
| City Attorney Ralston is holding exec
utive meetings with himself behind
| locked doors these days. The city VS..
| NJ Snattinger in which 1T is claimed
| that Topeka is due $4,000 from the
| failure of the First National Bank and
Rufus Knott VS.. the city in which the
plaintiff claims $1,000 for personal
| Injuries received from stumbling over
| a broken crossing plate. are the two
cases now pending.
A new start was made on the new
| citv electric light plant when the cleo
| trio light commission held q meeting
and received bids for the electrical ap-
paratus. The new apparatus includes
poles. wiring, lamps, and all the neces-
sary auxiliaries. The award of the
bids has not been made on account
| of an immense amount of figuring and
planning which will be done within
| the next few days.
Active work at the electric light
plant is taking on a meaning form. A
| big smoke stack to be 125 feet high
| and Sc inches in diameter is being
| constructed and is about one-third
completed. One of the old boilers has
been removed and the new one will be
| inserted soon. The electrical machin-
cry is scheduled to arrive here from
Philadelph in a few days About
the first of May active work will
commence on the entire remodeling
the city. The city council has re-
| ceived scores of petitions for new arc
| lights over the city. On account OF
the recent amazing growth it is neces-
sary that a number of new lights be
installed.
The offices of the city engineer
| have been changed around until the
suite resembles a different place. The
| city engineer has changed his private
office from the rear of the suite to the
| center. This will enable him to en-
terrain from both ends of the hall. A
| private draughting room has been fit
| ted up in the old room used for the
| used by the city draughtsman and the
| city engineer, The front room has
| been allowed to remain as formerly
| There is a movement on foot among
| the councilmen to purchase a new
| roller top desk for the use Of the as
sistant city engineer, Mr.. Fulton. Mr..
| Fulton keeps file of all the work
| through his department and it is al
most necessary that he have a private
desk of some kind.
| There is an old map in the office
of the city engineer that Is one of the
most interesting relics at the city hall.
1t is a map Of Kansas published in
| 1870 for G.. o. Wilmarth, who was at
! that time a book dealer. The city en-
other day and asked him If he re-
memb ered the map but Chief VIII
marth tried to disavow any claims to
| it. His name is printed in bold letters
across the face. One interesting point
| in the maps the lack of section
lines over the state at that time. Some
| of the counties are not secuonized In
the least, being nothing but a box like
! square on the map. Other counties
are not named and such cities as Ar
kansas City, Chanute and the like,
| were never thought of by the map
men. Several old time branch rail-
roads loom up and the Santa Fe and
Rock Island were unknown foes. In
a railroad scene pictured on the map
| there are hundreds of barrels of whis-
| key and beer piled up on the depot
platform and immense oil derricks are
| in the background. Prohibition and
oil were neither popular at that time.
! Mayor Green, together with City At
| torney Ralston, have decided to do
away with the office of city prosecut-
| ing attorney in the police court and at
the next council meeting the matter
will be brought up officially before
the aldermen. Since the services of
former City Attorney Dreaming have
been procured to fight the cases now
| pending against the city in the dis
trict court the labors of the city at
torney have been lessened and 1t is
possible for him to conduct the pros
| ecuting at the police court. Phil VIII
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