The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-07
NO SMOKING GOES
JUDGE DALES FIRST ACT IS 4 PRO.
EIBITIVE RULE
He Will Have No Smoking Allowed in His
Court Whether il is in Session or Not
and has Issued a Ukase to That Effect
Judge Reed Receives a Report From
the Investigating Committee That He
Does Not Know What to Do With-lt
Charges Nobody and, Therefore, Cannot
be lied for Record.

do you see that sign on the wall?''
said Judge Dale yesterday as a reporter
for the Eagle entered the district court.
The reporter rather sheepishly ac-
| krlowledged that he did for the sign in
dicated was as conspicuous as the big
gest locomotive headlight in the whole
Santa F'e system. He slipped his cigar
! IN his pocket where it set fire to ban
dana handkerchief and came within
an ace of running az overcoat.
The sign read mo smoking allowed in
this room, either while court is or is not
in session. and signed D. N. Dale,
judge.
The reporter thought he was snubbed,
| but he wasn't, for he soon afterwards
met three Democrats who had a similar
experience.
They AFFECTED principally on the
ground that Dave" as they still called
him, ran and was elected on an anti
prohibition platform and they did not
like the idea that his first official act
should be the prohibition of tobacco
smoking.
why" said one, sit is not half as
demoraiiZing as Whiskey and Dave af-
ten told me that ke was against the
prohibition of that"
The other two Democrats disa greed
with him and thought that smoking
was a great deal worse than whiSkey
drinking. In fact they thought whis-
key drinking was a habit that should
be encouraged in the interest of soci-
ability and, as one Of them naively Sug-
gested, Democracy.
MIR. Dale was sworn in early in the
morning but had no court. He simply
made the order for the anti-smOking
signs and he sat in the court nearly
all day watching th en-.
He told George Adams, the city attor-
ney, who likes a go)d cigar OCCASION
ally, that all smoking in the future must
be done in the southwest room OF the
building and George concluded that
under the circumstances the easier way
would be to quit smoking altogether and
from now on he will find pleasure in
chewing gum or something else that will
soothe the nerves and keep man fI,Om
being cross and pesviSh.
Judge Reed will spend a few days
hunting in the northern part of the
state with friends. He will leave this
morning.
Yesterday a reporter for the Eagle
called on him and found him in splendid
s>plTits. Freedom from the trials and
responsibilities of a judge, anxious to
do right, the first time in eight years
dSTeeu Wlul uiIIn very Well
Having heard that the committee
having in charge TIE Investigation of
non-professional praorIces among the
members of the bar had made a report
he was asked about il, and pushing the
report from his pocket, he handed ct TO
the reporter.
1t was very barren of what is usually
termed hot stuff and hence disap-
pointing TO a news gatherer. The re-
tai Or af low
yels suspected had paid in the fees
supposed to have been held OUT to
the proper authorities since the COM
mietee began its investigation and that
some others have not done SO. The
committee states that they are unable
ITO say that these fees are held out will
fully and hence cannot recommend that
charges be made against chem
Judge Reed received the report on the
evening of the last day Of MS term and
he does not know what TO do with il.
There is no provision in law by which
de can file the report among the records
and besides that the terms of the orig
inal order for the investiga ton orders
the repent made TO hiIa personally and
hence he does not believe il would do
10 put it on record even though there
was A law WaITaniting such course.
The only way out OF the delema would
zoe if the committee made specific
charges against somebody he could
then have a committee appointed 10
draw up charges in which event the
matter could go into the records le-
gally. AS the committee could find no
evidence to justify them in sUsh a
course there is nothing left for Judge
Reed 10 do but to put the report among
his papers and leave IL 10 his heirs at
Isrv after death. ?Even then il will be
worth nothing as a relic as no names
are given. in the report, whereby the
slick gentlemen of 1894 can be idenGi-
fed.
Only three members Of the committee, !
viz: Stanley, Ferguson and VeTminion, !
signed the report. Brooks and Amidon
did not sign il.