The daily sentinel., 1905-05-13

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About the only thing the people
of the Grand valley ask right now is
a continued spell of fair weather.
90.
The oil production of Kansas
jumped to 5000 barrels last year.
The capacity of the refinery of the
Standard Oil Company in Kansas
City is 10000 barrels. OF the indie
pendent refineries there is only about
1000 barrels capacity The Stan
dard is building pipe line from Ok
lahoma into Kansas, from there to
Whiting, Ind The oil production of
Indiana is very rapidly diminishing
90.
It seems almost useless to send
out a warning to the public to have
the owners of dogs pay tax upon
them. They will not heed the warn
ing, therefore it seems necessary to
take drastic action. Marshal Wallis
says that this period of probation
viii end Monday next, and. If owners
of CANNES who have not paid the tax
upon their dogs find them killed.
they can blame themselves only The
tax on dogs is due and payable on
May /. and if not paid then they can
be killed without further notice. Re
peated notice has been given and the
time to act is here and action will
be taken
90.
We now have the expression of
Two members of the presidents Off
cial family on the question of freight
rates. Mr. Secretary Morton, who
represents the railroad side of the
question, has said in effect that the
railroads ought to be left to manage
their own business, an expression
which was as much as to say to his
chief. you are meddling in affairs
that do not affect you. and you should
keep your butt in out" Secretary
Taft says in effect that the presidents
policy is right and that there must
the Interstate commerce commission
to regulate freight rates. do away
with rebates and other iniquities and
inequalities in freight traffic We
stand with Secretary Taft and the
president on this matter, and hope
that they may start and continue the
fight to a finish with the railroads.
90.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. the brilliant
writer and poetess. does not think
that Nan Patterson should be made a
heroine of, by any manner of means
She says that it is a morbid taste
upon the part of anyone to desire to
throw around this woman, who stole
the husband of another woman.
halo of heroism. She should be Civ
en- all the elements of fair trial in
the courts of this country, says Miss
Wilcox. but she should be made to
suffer for her crime if guilty. This
may he the view of woman, but
vet it seems just one. Outside.
however. of the mere justice of her
trial and the tragedy that made it
necessary, there was an overwhelm-
ing sentiment that seemed to come
upon one mbidden, that Nan Pat
terson was innocent of the charge
though her career with this man was
in every way reprehensible We seem
to feel glad, without knowing partic-
ularly why, that she is at last free
nj Ia H.,
mother who was waiting for her
90.
Great Britain's railways do not
have a third of the accidents that oc-
cur each year in this country. The
number OF railway accidents this year
and last year have been appalling. so
much so that men and women hest
tate to travel as they formerly did
II is almost up to the government to
take steps to prohibit the ricklessness
with which trains are made to run
to meet schedules. Great Britain
holds railway managers to more
strict accountability for accidents
than does the American government
and we believe that some such legis-
lation will become necessary as to
restrict the demand to run at death
neck speed by the trains. The block
system is very generally in use in
England. and this has saved thou
sands of lives Some few railroads
have placed systems of block in this
country, but their number is few.
Until railroads are compelled to use
the block system or run less careless
ly. there will continue to be acei-