The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-21
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Quincy School Pupils Equip Play
Ground.
RaiseFund to Buy TeeterBoards,
Swings, Etc.
CONVENTION CLOSES.
Sunday School Delegates Return
Home.
Other Items Of Interest on the
North Side.
CONVENTION CLOSES.


the playground with four teeter
boards, two basket balls courts and
intend to install four more teeter
boards, rope circle swing and likely
a board slide.
The plan was formed toward the
last of the spring school term. How
ever, it was too late to materialize the
idea, but the intention was kept alive
all through the vacation months. z.
F. Stanley, superintendent of the
school, had encouraged the movement
and at the beginning of this term
again preached the subject to the
pupils They solicited contributions
from parents-not to say other rela-
tives and friends. until the sum men
toned was raised.
1.-THE pupils have taken the greatest
OF interest in the projectZall of them.
said Mr. Stanley this afternoon While
our playground is small the equip
ment viii give the children plenty of
chance for healthy recreation. Last
spring this plan was talked of, but was
too late to carry it out l told them
that the playground should be
equipped the first thing this fall if they
helped-and they did
"A telephone expert sent by a Chi
cago company to Mazatlan state of
SinalOa, Mexico, wrote for an order
to buy ladders. He stated that he
couldn't climb the telephone poles
with the ordinary climbing irons, as
the poles in that city were either made
from ebony or mahogany. The COM
pany officials answered asking what
the expert had been drinking, but he
was perfectly sober when he wrote, as
on account OF the quantity of mahog-
any and ebony wood just at the edge
OF town the telephone poles and even
the street curbing and railroad ties are
made of either ebony or mahogany
This is the story told by J. L. An
derson. store keeper for the Southern
Pacific and Mexican railroad at Ma :
zatlan. who is visiting his parents, Mr.. /
and Mrs. James Anderson, Sr., of 1905 !
North Madison street
although ebony and mahogany are |
plentiful enough to be used for fire |
wood and can be had for the cutting |
from the timber just at the edge of |
town, one man has the shipping con- !
cesSiOn on it ALL" said Mr.. Anderson !
this afternoon. 1.-THE government has I
given him permission to control its
sale all over Mexico and outside. so he |
must be paid q high rate before it can
be sent away from the town. Another I
man. named ELISHA, living at Guaymas, I
has such a concession on all of the /
oyster and fish privileges in GuaymaS /
bay. These concessions are granted by (
the government to individuals usually !
for some service rendered in time of
war.
THE government also charges for a l.
permit every time you butcher even
your own COW, and if you refuse to pay
you are thrown in Jail. Which means
YOU stay in jail six months before any
trial is granted
Casually a convicted man is sen
fenced to serve in the army. The army
of Mexico is made Up largely of such
prisoners. And during the late trOu-
bic whenever the rebels would begin
to gain the soldiers would desert the (
government army for that of the in
surrectos.
after the war broke out the rebels
cut a pipe line which supplied the city
faT hso 1t.1sr 4
the old abandoned wells had to be
opened up. One time the rebels sent
word to the town that they were go
ing to take it. warshfp in a bay
ing on the roads leading out from the
town all night for some time.
lone night a company OF rurales, or
government cavalry. started out TO
meet the rebels. The gunners on the
beat mistoOk item for the insurrectos
fired on them and killed about 200 of
them.
These are just a few incidents
which happened near that city left
ten days before the treaty Of peace
was signed at FL Paso."
One of the features Of the quarterly
all day meeting Of the Women's Mis-
slonary union held at the Second Pres
byterian church Friday, vas an adj
dress by Mrs. A. T. Christoff of Kan
SaS City. Kan. She is a home mis-
sionary in the slavic quarter and
pupil of Miss Ellen Stone of Boston
the American missionary who was cap
tured and held for ransom by Turkish
pr1Sands until the American govern
ment secured her release The affair
threatened international complications
before it was settled. Mrs. Christcff
an orphan, was educated in Miss stones
MISSION school in Bulgaria from the
time she was two years old until she
was married and came to America =
few years ago. She looks upon the mis-
Irl0Ta
from her frequently. The latter is liv-
ing in Boston and taking a needed
rest.
Mr. and Mrs Christoff are much IN
demand among The foreign population,
as they are about the only ones in III
district who both understand the dia-
leets and speak English huentIy. They
nave HNed there about 4 year, coming
from North Dakota, where they located
soon after arriving from Bulgaria. Mrs
Cnristo1f's sister has just entered Park
college, Parkville. Mo. after finishing
a mission school at COnstantinople.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christof work under
the auspices OF the home mission de
partment of the Presbyterian church.
Mr. Christof is often called to court
to stand between the foreigners ana
the laws they have broken through |
ignorance. Mrs. Christof says that
she is often called out at night to in
terfere in Wife beating cases.
7 have seen things in Kansas City
more shocking than any in Bulgaria
or Turkey" said Mrs. Christoff. when
/ get into some of the crowded tena- /
ment houses 1 almost think am back
in Turkey. The greatest difficulty is
to make the women understand that
they have any more rights in America !
than in the foreign countries. They
think that their husbands have the
same right to beat them as in the old
country. In fact. it almost seems that
some of the women believe that their
husbands Go not care for them unless