The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-20

about 145. The amount of production
is not known. The beets. when har-
vested, are sent in box cars to the beet
sugar factory at Rocky Ford, or some
other Colorado point. At the factory,
each lot of beets is tested, and the
amount of sugar ascertained. The
prOprietors of the factory then certify
by affidavit to the amount of beets
This affidavit is the evidence which the
state requires for the bounty payment
Down in the southwestern part of
the state the sugar beet acreage is much
larger than in the northwestern part.
There is reported to have been about
500 acres of sugar beets in the stnth-
ern part, but the harvest down there
has not progressed as far as it has in
the north. and the report on the
amount of bounty beets raised has not
been received. The agricultural de-
partment has representative in
southwestern Kansas who attends to
the collection of affidaVitS from the
sugar beet raisers.
Lee H. Harris is plaintiff in error
in an appealed suit from Douglas
county filed Monday in the supreme
court. The defendant in error is VIM
Gibson and other heirs of Lucian A
Gibson. Lucian A. Gibson was part
ner of Harris in a grist mill PROPOSE
ton, and when Gibson died. his heirs
claimed that they were unable to OBJ
tain settlement or even an inspection
of the books. They brought suit and
got judgment for $4,000, from which
Harris appeals.
Charley Sessions, Topeka represent
ative of the Kansas City Journal, has
been down at Coffeyville writing a
story about the dynamite plot.
In the recent election, 25 women
landed in various counties of the state
in the office of county superintendent
Two years ago there We're "a women
elected to this office in the various
counties.
On January 9, Harry Brent, Gov
ernor Bailey's clerk, will leave for
in the senate. secured for him by
Senator Long.
Charles F. Luling, superintendent of
insurance, has been notified by Major
T. J. Anderson, of his election to
membership in the Topeka CONNER
cial club. Major Anderson expresses
the hope in the letter that Mr.. Luling
will find it convenient to attend reg
ularly the meetings of the club and
work for the upbuilding of Topeka in
every way This is a terrible blow to
Mr.. Luling, for he is a red-hot Wichita
man, and when he does any upbuild-
ing. 1t won't be under the direction of
Major Tom Anderson. Luling says he
has been made the victim of a cruel
hoax. Somebody wrote his name on
at Commercial club headquarters, in
tending it fol. a joke. The officers of
the club seemed to think it was the
real thing, and the club, solemnly
went ahead and voted Mr.. Luling into
full membership. The next question is
whether Mr.. Luling can pry himself
loose.
While in Topeka the other day.
Governor-elect Hoch was interviewed
by some of the active boomers among
the BARRIERS in regard to his attitude
on proposed new legislation for the
BARRIERS. MIR. Hoch told them that if
the barber law is to be enforced at
all, it ought to be made to apply to
small towns.
1T is the small towns that need in
spection,' said Mr.. Hoch. I'm a city
of any size, the competition is enough
to make BARRIERS keep their shops in
sanitary condition. The real need of
inspection is just where the law does
not provide for any inspection
There is considerable foundation
for the rumor that the next legislature
instead of extending the authority of
the barber board will abolish that in
stitutfon altogether. The present law
limits the jurisdiction of the board to
cities having over 3.600 -popuIa ton