The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-06
BACK HOME AGAIN
Summer VacafiOnfsts Are Re-
turning to Topeka.
Sea Shores and Mountains De-
serted Once More.
FAVOR Pixies PEAK REGION
Many TOpekans Have MOtOred
to the Snow.
Trains Crowded With Tourists
From Kansas.
FAVOR Pixies PEAK REGION

With the month of September. Kan
sas people who have been spending the
summer in the cool places Of the Rock
les. Great Lakes and the sea coast, are
returning to their homes The children
will start in school soon, cooler weather
should arrive in a few weeks and the
watering places are becoming lonely
and even more expensive as the tour
lists depart The trains from the re-
sorts are crowded while cars to the
many summer cities are not well filed.
In the Pixies Peak region this year
many Topekans have been cooling off
this summer and enjoying the sights
of the district Most of them visit the
top of Pixies Peak, Cripple Creek, the
many caves. Cliff Dwellers and the
Garden of the Gods Several Topeka
automobile loads have been in Colora-
do since June 1. and they report that
the red sand roads of the mountains
are in the pink OF condition.
One former Topeka resident has lived
in the Pixies Peak region for many
years, Col. Tom Wilson OF Mountain
View, Col Wilson esta bIished a small
weekly in North Topeka when he was
only Is years old and North Topeka
was a small and feeble village
Later ne worked on daily newspapers
in the west and started the Pixies Peak
Daily News several years ago at Noun
tain View, on the Cog Road Col Will
son has spent every summer in the
mountains, 10000 feet above sea level.
since 1880 He owns a large ranch at
Rocky Ford. Col, where he lives in the
winter. but when May comes he is to
be found at his little cabin on the
Pixies Peak railroad. where he prints
the souvenir paper of Pixies Peak The
colonel calls il the most elevated
publication in the world
Rows Hold Record
Kenneth Oeilvie and Gale Morton.
two high school boys, and Merrill
Gage, all of Topeka. have the record
of the best trip on foot for this year.
The three left the Williams camp on
the side Of Pixies Peak one August
morning Their trip lasted all day. be-
ing on foot all OF the time, and not re-
turning until late in the evening. The
trip took them up Pixies Peak by the
Bottomless pit. up the Peak crater.
down the west side toward Cripple
Greek and finally up Mount Badly, 49,
coo feet high They returned by way
of the Seven Lakes, after walking for
nearly Is hours and making a total of
nearly % miles
Governor Hodges spent considerable
time in the Pixies Peak region. at
tending the governors conference at
ernor made the trip with the other
executives last week on top of Mt
Manitou- The party assembled the
mountain. over 5000 feet above the
sea. in cable cars that were carried
upward at about so degrees At the
pavilion on the summit, the governors
held an executive session and made a
few trips to parts of Mount Manitou
park.
Lagerstrom Went Overland.
Frank Lagerstrom and family, ac-
companied by Frank Scott of Topeka.
made the trip overland in the Lager
strou automobile Mr. Lagerstron
was attracted especially by the various
speed limits in the western Kansas
and eastern Colorado towns One col
lection OF small buildings called a vii
Iage, had the following sign placed on
the road: speed limit 100 miles an
hour: population s"
After this week the Pixies Peak dis
trict will be depopulated on account
cf the end of the Shan Kive CahnivaJ
in the Garden of the Gods The car
nivaI has always proved a great at
traction TO tourists and many wait I'M
I'll the finish before leaving for their
home towns and cities. The Cowboy
and Cowgirl congress meets at the
same time and the last of this week
the cattle people are in full force As
soon as the carnival is over. the three
cities at the base of Pixies Peak will
become deserted only natives and a