Daily Topeka Argus from Topeka, Kansas • 4

length, and at least two feet higher than highest water knowu in the Kansas river. '1 Work on the Santa Fe railroad shops is said to be rushing. It was quite moony" last night. Elegant visiting and wedding cards, in to be placed one at each end of the dam, and out at each end of the guard lock, aud one at each Daily Topeka Argus. Tuesday Evening, May 9, 1876.

"Oh, fix your bustle?" is the way the girl of the period slangs it. all tints, handsomely printed on short end of the waste wav. The guard lock to be notice at the Argus office. built with gates so constructed that you may mvenientlv miss boats and burses of seventy five tons burden, the construct ion of the work- Send in your name and have the Argus left at your door. Only 10 cents a week by carrier.

Every merchant and business man in Topeka ought to have a card inserted in the Argus. The recent rains have so thoroughly soaked the ground that garden makers are for the present at a stand still. The M. E. Sunday School is talking up a pic-nic.

The Republican State Central Committee meets in this city on the 24th inst. The Investors' Guide for May, published by Haywood and edited by Sam. Hodges, is out, and a creditable look The Osage County Chronicle says: A. Becker, formerly of Quenerao, this county, has taken charge of the Capitol House, in Topeka. Mr.

Becker is a very kind and obliging gentleman, and will make an excellent landlord. All kinds of candies made daily, and for sale at H. Reisner's, Kansas Avenue. ing sheet it is too. New maple sugar, direct from Michigan, for sale at H.

Reisner's, 185 Kansas Ave. The Congressional convention for the first district is to meet at Abilene. Houses are in demand just now. The unusually large immigration this spring has filled up nearly all the empty houses in the city, and it is becoming more difficult than ever to secure a dwelling near the business part of the city. Those who have good houses to rent will do well to advertise them in this paper.

Only three cents a line each insertion. They cross the Raw at Lawrence by steam, at a nickle a head for foot passen gers. The Waterville Telegraph in noticing the fact that the people of North Topeka are calling upon Postmaster Admire to become a candidate for probate judge, says he would doubtless make an Admirable officer. The Santa Fe road is doing an immense passenger business at this time, every train going west having from four to six coaches filled with people bound for the Arkansas Valley and the rich mining region in the San Juan country. The second number of the Kansas Advertiser, the new real estate paper published by J.

P. Ennis is on our table. It is a neat and tastefully printed eight page monthly paper, and deserves a liberal patronage. Lawrence is proposing to follow the example of Topeka in regard to a cow ordinance. Yesterday was one of the most delightful days we have had for a week, and although it was 'blue Monday" there was a large number of ladies continually on i he street.

A large number of children throughout the city have recently been afflicted with mumps. The house in "King row," lately vacated by Gov. Osborn, him been leased by Rev. Mr. Loring, recto, of Grace church.

We are under obligations to the Commonwealth for exchanges and other courtesies in getting The AttGUS started. By he new time-card on the T. S. F. railroad, the regular passenger trains uow rtti to Kansas 'if instead of Dr.

and Mrs. S. E. Sheldon will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their marriage this evening. The roads are rapidly drying up and, in a day or two, will be in splendid condition for wheeling.

to be first-class of their kind with due regard to durability, and permanently covered with thret inch planks for roadway; and all the tim ber thoroughly saturated with boiling coal tar, the waste way to be constructed, bridged and protected in like manner, both of the latter structures to be of such size and dimensions as to accommodate all the water required for said canal. Will excavate the upper fifteen or six teen hundred feet of canal between guard lock and waste way below low water in the Kansas river, and extend the canal down the river from the dam to a point north of the bluffs to intersect the extension of Clay street, of the depth and width above described, from thence to the King Bridge Shops, eight feet detp and forty feet in width on the surface, with slope of banks one foot horizontal to one foot vertical, the company furnishing the right of way. Will receive in part payment for the above work one hundred thousand dollars of the capital stock of said company: Provided that the city of Topeka will rent for the term of five years (with the privilege of rtucwiug the same for any number of years) two hundred horse power at an annual rental of forty dollars per horse power, vent to commence when canal is finished and water power as above set forth furnished at a point on the east line of the city park near the south end of the a.gon on Kansas avenue as may be practicable, the city furnishing the right of way across stueets and through the said city park. Provided also. That in wise city should cause water works for furnishing city with water, to be constructed, and any accident should happen the dam or canal so as to cause the.

power to fail for a time, the Water Power company to agree and bind itself to furnish engine to run water works until lull repairs are made. L. B. Sears. And whereas, It is the desire of the mayor and council that said proposition, so important to the interests of the city, be fully understood and acted upon, to the end that the wishes of the people may be understood, 1, George W.

Veale, President of the Council and Acting Mayor of the city of Topeka, do, by virtue of the foregoing resolution, and by authority in mc vested by law, declare and proclaim that an election will be held in the city of Topeka, on Friday, May 19th, 1876, at which election the following question shall be submitted: Shall the mayor and council of the city of Topeka, contract with the Topeka Laud and Water Power company for two hundred horse power of water for five years, with the privilege of renewal of contract, at an annual price of forty dollars per horse power, in accordance with the proposition of I). B. Sears, hereunto submitted? Ballots cast in fa vor of said proposition shall have written or printed thereon, For proposition of the Topeka Land Water Power company." Ballots cast against said proposition shall have written or printed thereon. Against he proposition of the Topeka Land and Wafer Power company." The polls will be opened in each of the several wards in this city, from twelve o'clock, noon, until seven o'clock in the afternoon of said day. at the following places, and the persons hereinafter named, are appointed to act as judges and clerks of said election: I'IKSl WARD.

A the office of M. M. Hale, Justice of the Peace, on Railroad street, between Kansas avenue and Jackson street. Judges-C. H.

Bowen, J. ft. Elm wood and Win. Angle. Clerks Charles Haywood and Wm.

Norris. BUCOND WARD. At the calaboose on Fifth st reet, bet ween Kau-sas avenue and Quincy street. Judges Fredrick Freitshe, George W. Veale aud John Armstrong.

Clerks -John Sheafor and Wm. Quinon THIRD WARD. At H. H. Parker's Grocery store, west side of Kansas avenue, just south of Tenth avenue.

Judges S. S. McFadden, A. Quick and E. Bodwell.

Clerks E. B. Fowler and C. E. Wheeler.

FOURTH WARD. At S. Rains' Livery Stable office, north side of Sixth avenue, between Jackson and Van Buren streets. Judges A. J.

Huntoon, J. Lee Knight and ft. E. Randolph. Clerks E.

P. Kellam and Nathan Harvey In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand aud caused the seat of the City of Topeka, Kansas, to be affixed, the day and year first above written. GEORGE W. VEALE, seal. Acting Mayor.

At Gerstel's you can always find new cabbage, green peas, strawberries, choice oranges and lemons, pineapples, etc. (2tf The bright moon-light last evening was favorable to promenaders. We noticed a large number of the youth and beauty of capital out for an airing. Emigration out west, and to the great southwest, is on the increase, and wagon-load after wagon-load of travelers can be seen daily on the streets. Buyers of seed corn, from Iowa, have been in Lawrence, bidding as high as forty-five cents per- bushel for seed corn.

They say there are about twenty counties jn that state that raised no corn fit for seed. We notice a large quantity of stone on the Presbyterian church lot, which is to be used in constructing an addition to the church. The present building, although a large one, is not of sufficient size to accommodate the numerous members of that denomination. The members of the Topeka Musical Union have been rehearsing, for several evenings past, in preparation for the grand costume concert to be given at the Opera House to-morrow evening. The Union always makes a success of everything it undertakes.

The Leavenworth Times of Sunday morning devotes over two columns, describing the great storm which visited that city last Saturday, a brief account of which was given in our columns last evening. The Times says the loss cannot fall short of $150,000 and may possibly reach a quarter of a million. We acknowledge a pleasant call this morning from W. G. Chappell, who represents the wholesale paper house of Snider Holmes, 103 North Second street, St.

Louis. From our four years' dealings with this firm, it gives us great pleasure to state that we have always found it one of the most reliable and prompt houses we ever dealt with. The handsome yard of I. T. Lockard, on Van Buren street, which was sodded with blue-grass last spring, is now one of he finest lawns in the city.

WATER WORKS The city council last night adopted the report of the committee appointed to prepare a contract with the Topeka Water Works company and appointed May 19th as the time of holding the election on the ratification of the contract. The following is the action of the council on the subject TeeKKA, May 9, 1876. KL HOT ION PROCLAMATION. Whereas, At a meeting of the City Council, of the City of Topeka, duly convened and held at the Council Chamber, on Friday evening. May 1876, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the following proposition be submitted to the voters of the City of Topeka "Shall the Mayor and Council of the City of Topeka contract with the Topeka Land and Wa ter Power Company, for two hundred horsepower of rater, at the annual price per horse power of forty dollars, in accordance with the proposition of said Water Power Company hereto attached, said contract to continue for five years, with the privilege of reuewiug the same at the discretion of the Council and not to commence until said power is ready to be furnished, according to plans and specifications to be agreed on by the Mayor and Council, and only then for the time that said power is actually furnished; said power to be measured and tested by a competent engineer to be appointed by the City Council.

And, Whereas, The above resolution is founded upon the following proposition made by D.B. Sears to the Topckaliand and Water Power Compauy and by said Company adopted and presented as its own proposition to the Mayor and Council of the city of Topeka, viz To the Tope.kn Land and Water Power Company: Gk.vilkmkn: 1 submit the following proposition to your honorable body: I will build your proposed dam guard lock and waste way, and excavate your canal and keep the same in repair for the term or five years, for the sum of two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, to be paid in installments of five per cent, per month, as the work progresses. Will construct dam alter model herewith exhibited. Will excavateeanal seven feet at an average width of sixty feet, with slope of banks two feet horizontal to one foot vertical. Will construct dam of good durable timber and stone and iron it in the most approved manner, pile, puddle and rip-rap it in such a manner as to make it perfecLy water tight.

Will build six heavy stone abutments of sufficient thickness and The Irving, Marshall county, Gazette mentions divine services at the Presbyterian church in that town, last Sunday, conducted by Rev. T. H. Vail, Episcopal Bishop of Kansas. 'Squire Hale still dispenses justice to litigants in Topeka.

The 'squire makes an excellent justice of the peace and has a host of friends in he first ward and thereabouts. The disaster to the dam at Lawrence cuts off, for this spring, the fish monopoly enjoyed by the denizens of that place. To this extent up-river people have reason to rejoice at the dam disaster. Workmen have been excavating across the sidewalk in front of the Capitol Sample Room, for the purpose of laying gas pipe from the main to the interior of that building. The Pueblo Chieftain says Large quantities of iron are daily arriving for the Denver Rio Grande Railroad, via the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad, and it is said that the track will be finished to Fort Garland early in July.

This movement on the part of the D. R. G. will give it control of the San Juan trade, and effectually prevents any other road from obtaining the business of that.