The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
TO CROW IN PEACE
Topeka BOOSTERS Won q Victory
This Morning.
And Hens Cackled in Defiance
Over Commissioner Holman.
THE ORDINANCE LOSES
Chicken Houses Can Be Built
Any Place in City.
Commissioner Says Fowls Are
Animals in Topeka.

Boosters Must Not Crow Tonight"
This is the warcry of Commissioner
Holman.
But his warcry had little effect on
the enemy this morning. When the
city commissioner who would place
ban on noisy and naughty chickens at
tempted to break up the ranks of the
other commissioners and with a chicken
tail in one hand and an ak in the
| other stand above them with his battle
| yell he was defeated.
BOOSTERS Shall Grow Tonight!''
| That was the warcry of the other
commissioners and with a steady tread
they trampled the annihilator of hen
houses to the ground.
| Quoting the laws of the state of Kan
sas. telling of the suffering of hundreds
| OF persons in Topeka and condemning
the property owners who insist on
keeping chickens in their yards, Com
missioner Holman made one more
brave effort to exclude nearby chicken
houses at the meeting of the board of
city commissioners.
But the roosters of Topeka and their
afhnities-the lady friends who make
| it possible for fries and good white
sioners Miller, Tandy, Bone and Mayor
| Billiard. The majority stood pat with
the fowls and Holman the Hen Haras-
| ser swallowed the pill of defeat.
| mere Is what commissioner Holman
would have embodied in the city ordin-
ances-O No chicken houses within %
| feet of dwelling. (2) No Growing of
roosters-or hens either for that mat
ter-after 1 o'clock at night. Then
| there were some other features that
| were included under these two main
heads.
But the board of commissioners
wouldn't think of such a thing.
Mr.. Holman used the state law as a
iGhinld fC xxyn O
law says: mo horses. cows, hogs or
other animals shall be kept within
twenty-five feet of any dwelling
| When the commissioner quoted that
of the room. threw I'D his hands in
despair.
What do you want me to do. box
up my cat?" he cried. Cant we have
any more liberties in this town. For
heavens sake, Mr.. Holman, come out
of it,
but this is for chickens insisted
Mr.. Holman.
Then with downcast heads and
thoughtful expressions, that honorable
each man reviewed before his memory
the lessons he had learned in the
grammar school
Is chicken an animal?
That was the next question for those
representatives of the "pee-pul' of To-
peka to consider.
| us watermelon fruit or a vege-
table? ?" inquired Commissioner Bone in
accents wild
"And which was first on earth. a
| chicken or an egg?" meekly asked
Commissioner Tandy.
| Gentlemen" roared Mr.. Holman as
he stood in his chair. what difference
does it make if a chicken is an animal
or a pancake. 1t is a pest when it is
within rs feet of a persons home and
| it should be excluded. Let's get down
| to business. Once more. I move that
| the city attorney be ordered to draft
an ordinance to embody the features of
| the state law"
| but the state law says that this
ordinance would not hold good in the
fire limits said Mayor Billiard.
| "All right; let's have it outside the
limits" answered the ever-ready Hol-
man.
eff that's the case we could have a
chiken yard on the state house
grounds suggested the mayor.
Eyes, and convert the Fillmore
| Commissioner Tandy.
Mr.. Holman was agitated. Yes,
| plainly so. In fact he was perspiring
and his flashing eyes omen oftimes
have such things) swore vengeance on
hens and ROSTERS.
Gentlemen, gentlemen" he roared
again '"I am serious about this mat
ter. For the third time. I move-I
move you that the city attorney be in
structed to draw Up chicken ordi-
nance-and do it at once"
"Mr Mayor, 1 move we adjourn,
braveIy spoke Mr.. Bone.
81 second the motion" chimed in
| Messrs Miller and Tandy.
And the commissioners filed out of