The Globe-republican., 1905-04-13

Fighting Gas CoMhlne.-W. "A. De
Ford returned to Ottawa from
New York, where he has been
helping the fight against the New
York city gas combine. He Will
return East soon.
on Good Terms Again.--Salina is
once more on speaking terms with
the Union Pacific. The officials Of
the road, worried at Salinas cold
manner, promised to spend 100000
there for terminal facilities, thus find
Ing favor with naughty Salina.
viii Be Given a Job.-Postmast
General Cortelyou has promised Sena-
tor Long to provide position in the
department for Homer Hoch, son Of
the Kansas executive, who was so I'm.
tremendously dismissed by Mr..
Wynne, former postmaster general.
To Sue Standard Business
Mems association of Cottonwood Falls
threaten to bring suit against the
Standard Oil company before Judge
Dennis Madden of Emporia. They
claim that oil retails in Emporia at
10 cents while In Chase county Is
cents Is charged. The suit will prob
ably be brought by the Chase county
attorney.
Suggests Standard OIL. It has
been suggested that II bottle Of
champagne is used in christening the
battleship Kansas, Carry Nation be
permitted to smash 1t with her hatch
ct, but as Carry Is busy and Govern
or Hoch is against " frewater there
would really be nothing wrong in u.s.
ing bottle Of Standard Oil and per.
hitting Tom Lawson to do the smash.
ing act with his hammer.
Dalrymen at Saline. - The Eight
zenith annual session Of the State
Dairy Association met at Salina. The
first meeting was well attended, many
of the officers being present. 1t is
estimated that $50 visitors will be
present The meeting was addressed
by James A. Kimball, president of the
Salina Commercial Club, and Hon. J.
A. Glover, associate editor of Hoard's
Dairyman, Atkinson, Wis.
Long Coming Home.-Senator Long
and family expect to return to Medi-
cine Lodge on the 18th Of the present
month. The senator will remain in
Kansas until the latter part of June,
when he will join the congressional
junket to the Philippines During the
interim he will deliver an address on
Decoration day and numerous
speeches at high school graduations
throughout the state and on other 90
casions.
Guaranteed 1000 Sheep. - C. }.
Keishner, state live stock inspector,
arrived at Emporia and put 1000
sheep in the Santa Fe stock yards
under quarantine, claiming that they
are suffering from scabies. The sheep
came from the Southwest and were
unloaded to give them rest. The
law requires that sheep so affected
must be sheared and dipped before
resuming their journey to market
and large force of men are now
working on the sheep.
Wheat in Good Shape. - "The
crops in Western Kansas are in won
derfully fine shape this spring. said
E. e. Ames, of Norton, national bank
examiner for Kansas. I'm the
twenty-five years that | have been
travelling around through Kansas
have never seen them better. Two or
three good showers are really all that
Is needed for the wheat now. What
we are praying for, in view of the ex.
periences of the last two or three
years. is that we don't get too much
rain.
Socialists Defend viii. - The state
committee of the Socialist party issu
ed a statement generating State
Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Will and
the Wichita society of completely in
an alleged plot to wreck the Socialist
party in Kansas. The statement will
be followed by the submission of a re-
ferendum on whether or not the char
ter of Kansas City, Kan, local shall
be revoked. Members of that organi-
cation are said to be responsible for
the charges against the state officer
and the Wichita local.
Oil Operations at StandstilI. = At
Humboldt all the oil operations in this
part Of the oil fields are practically
stopped. There is no drilling going
on and all the wells west of the Santa
Fe tracks are disconnected, and none
are being pumped P. ]. Mckinley,
the gauger, says that he has been
laid off. as his territory was in the
cut off district. How long this thing
is going to last is hard to tell, but 1t
is crushing the life out of many COM
panies, and throwing hundreds of peo-
pie out of employment.
Col. Godfrey Leaves Fort Riley
Colonel e. S. Godfrey, commandant
of Fort Riley, left the fort for Omaha,
where he will be in command of the