The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-23
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| 1t makes life pleasant and agreeable
to have an Independent phone
The judiciary committee of the city
council will meet next Monday even
ing.
Miss Fay Tincher. a Topeka girl,
who is now in vaudeville, is touring
Europe.
City Clerk Burge will return from
MS country vacation experience in
time to assume his official duties on
Monday.
The weather is favoring the paving
contractors and they are now rush
ing work in an attempt to make up
for lost time.
The work of repaving Kansas avenue,
south of Seventeenth street to the
bridge over the Shunganunga, is pro-
crossing rapidly.
The informal reception at the Cen
trail 7. M. c. A. for the men of
Washburn college will take place to-
morrow evening.
he Topeka baseball team will re-
turn home tomorrow to open the last
home series of games. PUEBLO will be
the attraction for three days.
The heavy summer rains were the
cause of considerable splastering fall
ing down in the city hall Offices The
damage has just been eradicated
Emancipation day will soon cease to
be attractive if the colored people in
Topeka continue to take as little in
lSI6SI III Lie event dS IQ6y manifested
yesterday.
The city engineering department is
rushing the preliminary work so that
it will be possible to let the contract
for the construction of the extension
of the Melan arch bridge.
The preachers and lawyers will
probably play another game of ball
next week for the sake of sweet
charity" The lawyers believe that
they can win a second game.
DR.. A. S. Andrews, the West Side
Auto company, J. w. Harrison and H.
E. Short have registered automobiles
at the office of the city clerk. There
are now $50 automobiles in the city.
The bricklayers are now building the
walls on the new ThompsOn-Hall build
ing at Fifth and Kansas avenue. The
cement has been laid for the first floor
end the cement uprights are now be-
ing built.
One of the colored men of prominence
stated yesterday that the Emancipatio
day celebrations have come down to
the point when they are nothing but
scheme on the part of the promoters
to clear a pocket full of coin.
Engineer Rogers made a general
tour of inspection today of the work
which is being carried in connection
with paving and other improvem
A. M. De Bow, one of the paving in
spectors, is reported as being i'll.
The contracting firm of Douglas
& Evans of this city has secured the
contract for the erection of a power
plant at the Soldiers home at Fort
Dodge. The cost of the plant will be
$4,000 and it will be up-to-date in
every detail.
In violation Of their franchise the
cars to stand on Jockson street as far
south of Tenth. There are three cars
III all, one of which obstructs one
half of Tenth street at the intersection
of Tenth and Jackson.
There is a big hole in the Kansas
avenue pavement at Fifth street, which
is in need of repair. There are a num-
Der of defects in the pavement. The
five years in which the paving COM
pany will keep the pavement in repair
have almost elapsed. and the burden of
re pairs will; soon fall on the city.
There is a great deal of complaint
in regard to the slowness of the cleo
trio light commissioners to authorize
the installation of lights where they
are required Councilman Miller, in
whose precinct there are at present
but two lights, called upon Mayor
Green this morning to inform him of
the situation.
There is an ordinance in New York
city regarding the height of vehicles
in that city so that the trees along the
parkings will not be injured. Such
an ordinance in Topeka would do
away with the necessity of enforcing
the tree trimming ordinance as far as
injury to trees is concerned, but that
would not facilitate the lighting of
the streets.
State Labor Commissioner John |
son left TODAY for Wichita to in |
vestigate two cases in which deaths |
occurred through defective wiring in |
the streets. He will probably make |
certain suggestions to Wichita and |
the state at large upon the com |
pletion of his investigation. in re-
gard to passing ordinances which will !,
require an inspection of electric |
wires.