The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-18

NORTH SIDE NEWS.
Little Topeka" Located Near
First View, Colo.
Many People From Here Have
Taken Claims.
RELOCATING TRACKS.
street Railway Company Gets
Busy Today.
Move Rails Out Of Way of Melan
Extension.
RELOCATING TRACKS.

Little Topeka Col. What do you
know about that? This is the name
given to a neighborhood near First
View. Col, and is so called because
many Topeka people have taken up
claims in that vicinity. DR.. NJ. r.
Mitchell of 931 Van Buren, street, has
Just returned from that locality where
he has been making improvements on
his 800 acre claim. He says that the
people of Little Topeka include the
carriers, Williams. Miller, Fisher
Clusing and Harris families, besides
many others from the Sun Flower capt.
tai who have settled there recently a
Miss Adams and Miss Crawford, teach
ers in the Grant school, according TO
are having improvements made thereon
The land has hitherto been used Tor
herding and grazing until a law was
passed opening 1t for Eomesteads
Every one from other places. as soon
as they learned where 1 was from,
would ask me if was one of the Lit
tie Topeka people," said DR.. mitchell
this morning. "A great many people
from Topeka have settled in the V1clnl-
~ of my claim which is ten miles due
south of First View. The town is SO
called because it is said that the hrst
view of the Rocky Mountains may be
obtained from there.
mo, 1 never -~-- the mountains, but
it is said that a person can do so on
perfectly clear morning. a Mr. F1sher'
who lives near me. also from Topeka,
told me he had seen them from his
place.
Settlers are fiocking in from all over
The country. Alternate sections be
long to the government and TO synd1-
cate which is selling it out at from ~
TO $12 per acre. OF course, the govern
lnent land is homesteaded for the pay
lnent of certain fees and the making of
certain improvements. such as building
a house, fencing and digging well!
These things are being done. The
Misses Crawford and Adams. Grant
school teachers here. who own sec
ton together, are having house built
on IT. Water is found at from Il to 90
feet in depth. a Mr.. Miller. of To-
peka, who took a claim on the Big
Sandy, found water at II feet.
THE crops raised are much the same
as here. Corn yields poorly, however,
about 20 to % bushels to the acre. Al
of vegetables. 1t is difficult to find any
one to break the sod there is so
much demand for that kind of work.
Mrs. n. M. Mccall and daughters. |
AIinna and Clyda. wish to thank the |
nr any friends whose sympathy ana
kindness made their late bereavement
easier to bear.
Kansas City. Mo-. Thursday night, !
April IA. was born in Indiana but spent
his boyhood days in North Topeka. He
received his schooling from Third &c
Eighth grade in the old Quincy school
building. and graduated from the To-
peka high school in 1889. After spending
two years at Kansas university he ac-
copied a position in the K. G, F. 5. d
N. w. railroad offices. After a rev
years of this work he engaged in the
insurance business. serving as general
manager of different companies in Chi
cage, St. Louis and st. Joe. Lately he
has been a travelling salesman until
two years ago when he became pres1-
dent Of the Manufacturers Brokerage
company of Kansas City, Mo His Of
fee and warehouse were located at 1888
Walnut street at the time of his death. |
He had been suffering with severe pains
in the head for some ten days prior to
his death. After spending all day
Thursday at home sick. he went to his
office to give little attention to busi- !
ness correspondence. He had been US
ing morphine for his headaches and |
he heavy doses he took that day prov |
cd too much for his heart He was
brought back to his home at 1701
broadway a corpse, having died at st. |
Joseph's hosuital at 1870 a. NJ, Friday. |
The funeral services were at the home |
en- the thirty-eighth anniversary of his |
birth, Saturday, April 16. His body |
was buried in the Topeka cemetery at |
the side of his father. James Mccall, a |
we'll known contractor who died here |
at the home, 1923 Harrison street, IN |
September. 1890. Mr.. Mccall leaves |
q. wife, a 5-year-old son, Weyland Or
lin. and a 5-mont tbs old daughter, Gayle |
Viola.
The car tracks of the Topeka street |
railway company just south of Melan |
bridge are being relocated today fur
Their east so as to be out of the way IF |
the extension of the bridge. Meanwhile /
traffic between the South /
and North side is being interrupted. |
The northbound cars now stop at the |
of the relocation work, and
the passengers wishing to go to points
on North Kansas avenue walk across
the bridge and take the cars on the |
other side. Transfers are PROVIDED Ior
this The cars coming from Garfield |
park stop at the south end of the
bridge, where the passengers walk to
the waiting cars at the beginning OF
the torn up tracks. The street car peo-
pie say that they expect to have the |
cars running clear through by o'clock
this evening when the rush begins. The
tracks were cit about $3.50 O'Clock this
just after the morning rush.
BIJoU TONIGHT.
THE Judgment of Solomon" a Vita
graph, high art, Biblical, production.
Notes and Personals.
If you are contemplating making
your house modern, see Adams 6
Sweangen for plumbing installation.
Miss Myrtle Williams of 907 West
Gordon street spent Sunday in Kansas
City at the home of her sister. Mrs.
James Lawson.
Miss Edith Gabriel of Fairchild street
and Kansas avenue. who is taking q
special music course at X. u, spent
Sunday with home folk.
The Excelsior Bible class Of the Gen.
rial Avenue Christian church will give
a nose social at the home of Mrs.
Minnie Whitehead, 1414 Quincy STREE,
tomorrow evening.
First class buttermilk is for sale at
he TOpeka Creamery company. 1901