The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-31


proposition because they have on hand
a number of petitions which either
cannot be granted or can be granted
whichever is the will of the commit
tee TIE people have been led to be-
neye that they have ha6 the right to
petition up to the last moment and
/ some mebers Of the committee say that
this is not right-the petitions should
have been closed before the contracts
were let.
| Another street naming dilemma will
appear If something is not done
1 Just before the regular adjourned
meeting of the council last night spe-
cial meeting was held to listen to the
report of the appraisers on the Wash
/ burn sewer and paving. Only one pro-
/ test was filed and this was simply a
| technical error without foundation.
/ The new milk ordinance will be re-
| ferred 20 the committee on health and
| sanitation and they will meet with
| representative of the Dairymen's as
| sociation, E. S. Quinton. and DIR. D. M.
| Campbell, city milk inspector.
IT looks as though there was going to
| be a big litigation suit over the new
| asphaftic concrete paving on College av-
enue and Mulvane street after all. Z. s.
| Quinton, representing the Boston con-
| Germ, was present last night and he told
the attorneys for the Kaw Paving COM
pany, also the mayor and city council,
| that If this paving was attempted his
firm would commence the suit at once.
He said he represented Warren BIOS:
| of Boston and that the firm had already
received judgment against Owarso,
Mich, for using stone paving of less
than 20 ''voids."
Mr. Quinton did not make a very
lengthy explanation but, he ended up
with this: "There is going to be some
thing doing"
This riled the attorneys for the local
firm and jumping to their feet they yell
ed:
1--WE defy any move made by this
Kansas Bitulithic company. We laid
paving 20 years before this Boston COM
pany ever heard of it. We have tried
| for years to make this company fight
us and we have never been able 20 get
them working-they always put up this
same argument simply for bluff. We
will lay this paving and when we are
through we will stay right here to de-
fend the city in the suit if it is brought
We are more than anxious for a mlxup
with this concern and we viii be here
on the spot"
IT was an open challenge and was ac-
cepted with a satisfied grin by Attorney
Ouinton. After the meeting the attor-
news on both sides refused to say more
than was stated in last evenings State
Journal when the whole matter was ex-
planned.
The city awarded the contract to the
Kaw Paving company of Topeka for the
streets named and a big bond Will be
| fixed to cover all suits of any kind
and the Kaw people have informed the
| council that they will be willing to put
I'D any bond suggested. From the spirit
| displayed last night it looks as though
the Mitigation suit will be filed all right
and the two companies striving to prove
their rights to the patent will air their
mysteries in the courts.
| A sure sign of the advancement of the
| Improvement interests in the city was
/ the large number of petitions sent in
! by people all over the city asking for
| sidewalks. All of the petitions so far
have been approved by the streets and
walks committee and they are ready to
| approve anything more that comes IN
for such a cause.
The original petition for the right to
Imacademize Williams street from Tenth
avenue to the city limits and Lime
street from the city limits to Twenty
first street came to the council last
night and was referred to the streets
and walks committee. This petition
contained a foot of names and after
leach name was a cash subscription of
| some kind. This was enough to prove
| to the council that the people were IN
earnest over the matter and wanted the
macadem at their own expense. The
streets and walks committee will I'M
1
for the grading and rolling together
with the cost of matchmaking the in
ltersection-
The Mystery of the Car Boys or Who
owns the Bottles was finally solved last
might when Chairman Fraser of the fire
department committee reported to the
city council that the car boys recently
alleged by the Capital Bottling works
to have been struggled away by the
fro RI three
number instead of four and that the
above mentioned company could have
them if they would come after them.
This is the final issue on the commune
when they claimed that the fire depart
ment had taken four of their car boys
and given them to the Arnold Drug
company. While reading the report last
night the city clerk read it Cow boys"
stead of car boys and strange to say it
created laugh among the aldermen.
The ordinance drawn up long
time ago making it a fine of five dol
lars to ride through the state house
i grounds received a bad blow last
night when Mayor Green through per-
mission of the council RENTED four
dollars of the fine to a certain A. E.
j Woodwork, living at 507 West Sixth
street, who was captured by the state
house custodian and sent to the city
Jail Woodwork stated that he was
ignorant of the law and he had no
evil intentions in riding through the
grounds. He also stated that five dol
lars meant a big sum to him and he
needed the money.
The city is facing another gratis
proposition-this one in the form of
. an appeal from the Foster Humane
|. society who ask that the dogs they
keep for humane purposes be exempt
from license. The communication
was referred to the license committee