The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-07
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Boys Invade Proposed New Park
and Get Warm Reception.
Evidently Mr.. Rickenbacher Has
Been Too Previous.
PROPERTY is LEASED.
So.
VIM. kiuke, the Renter, Refuses
to Be Driven Off.
incidentally Tells About House
"Given Away"

There is. a new problem confronting
the real estate, dealer who is roofing for
the proposed new city park out east of
Quincy and south of Twenty-frsr
street-called at the present time the
Rickenbacher tract. It seems that the
people who now live on the tract and
who have leased it for some time refuse
to allow people to trespass upon the
land and trouble of all kinds has en-
sued. The people who now live upon
the tract. William Kluke and family,
have been disturbed beyond description
since the new proposed town lots were
offered for sale. People are continually
tramping through their gardens, tear
ing down their fences and disturbing
the live stock to such an extent that 1t
has caused the family considerable
loss
Sunday afternoon a number of young
boys We're crossing over into the park
when Mr.. Kluke ran out of the house
and demanded that they leave the
premises at once. They had been read
ing the signs erected by Rickenbae er
which gave directions to the great
boulevard and they refused to listen
to the farmer, saying that 4hsy had the
right to trespass on alleged public
property The farmer became angry
at this retort from the young Ameri-
cans and calling his dog he sent the
cur after the young boys. Clay Mos
ley. a ten-year-old, living at 1895 Kan
sas avenue, was grabbed in, the side
just above the waist line by the
ferocious dog. The boy was hurried to
a doctor and his wounds sewed up
The father of the boy, Henry Mosley
I1n &c %oIy
matter with the police at once The
whole trouble seems to border on the
right of Klul<e to the land and the
right of Rickenbacher to permit peo-
pie to enter the property.
In speaking with State Journal re-
porter Kluke said that he had leased
the land for the last four years and his
lease would not run out for a year or
more. In truth Rickenbacher has no
right to take such liberties with the
land and it is through this point that
the trouble commenced" he said.
The other day Rickenbacher at
tempted to survey the lots but Kiuke
refused to allow the surveyors on the
land. Kluke is up in arms over the
manner in which the real estate man
has taken possession of his property
and he will undoubtedly take the mat,
ter to court. In speaking of the houses,
offered free for the naming of the park
Kluke said:
..Rickenbacher says that this house L
am living in is worth $1,000. If 1t is
worth thai amount of money then the
transfer station, for instance, is worth
a million The house is. old and worn
out. There are big cracks in the walls
and it has been condemned for the last
five years"
Rfckenbacher has signs all over the
place telling of the exceptional values
in the land and it was through the
kindness of Kiuke that these signs
were erected. But he claims that the
promoter of the land has taken too
many liberties with the free will of the
rente, ard he vii! be stopped at once
II seems that Rickenbacher has no
lease whatever on the land, according
to the present renter