Topeka, capital of Kansas, on the Kansas River, 67 m. W. of Kansas City; is a spacious, well laid out town, the seat of an Episcopal bishop, well supplied with schools and colleges, and busy with the manufacture of flour, heavy iron goods, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 34,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tope * Töpffer, Rudolf