The Globe-republican., 1905-07-20
KANSAS COMMENT

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Danger is Over.--The danger Of a
food at Wichita is past. AT no time
was there any serious danger here,
as the Little river was never filed
70 Its full capacity and the Big river
has always been able to carry or
the water emptied into 1t from the
tributaries in this section.
Against Park PropositIon,--At Cot
Z tonwood Falls the vote on the propo,
sition to purchase the vacant ground
west of the court house for $4,000 for
4 city park was against it. The vote
was the largest ever polled in the
city. Old men and women who never
I took part in elections before were out
with carriages and working like pro-
fc SIGNALS.
Bids for Court House. - Henry
Wagenkneckt of Wathena was the
successful bidder for the building Of
the new Doniphan county court house.
His bid was $4,000. Heating, light
ing and plumbing will be in addition.
Contractors from over the state and
from st. Joseph and Kansas City
were bidders. Washburn & Son of
Ottawa are the architects.
Board Of Control seoretary.--Brown
Corby, of Herington, will probably be
the secretary of the state board Of
control. j. N. Johnson, of Oskaloosa,
came down to take the job, but after
he found out the duties of the office
concluded that he didn't want 1t. 1t
would keep him confined too closely
Ccrby was figuring on going into a
bark at Marion. but this other oper
ing came up and he may take 1t.
Harvest Hand Murdered.--A strang-
er whose name is supposed to be Rob-
ert Ross, was killed by footpads in
the Union Pacific yards at Salina.
Ross - supposed to have been return
ing from the harvest fields. His part
ner states that two negroes held
them up and took what money they
had and then he End Ross separated.
La,er he heard shot fired which is
supposed to have killed Ross. This
i. the second man murdered here this
week. Both bodies lie at the morgue
awaiting notification.
Are Given Warning. - An imitator
of c. l.. Melvin, of lola, is in indie
pendence. A druggist received the
i following: You know the laws of
this state so far as they pertain to
the whisky business and you also
know you are violating these laws. My
advice is TO quit the whisky business
and do T. quick. Remember lola"
Later in the day 1t was discovered
that other druggists had received
similar warnings. 1t is believed the
author O. the notes is the same person
and car he found easily.
Material, For Refincry.-The Stand
ard >Oi Company has shipped seven
ty-fye carloads of tank material from
the cast for the Humboldt refinery.
The material is tanking that was torn
dowr In Ohio on account of the great
deer ,ase in the production of oil in
that state. Some of the material has
already arrived here, and before ten
da, s have elapsed $50 men will be
constructing tanks on the tank farm.
T'go carloads of two-inch pipe have
been shipped for use in connecting
Up the leases whose lines were torn
nut some time ago.
Increase In Oil Runs.-A great IN
crease in runs of Kansas territory
oil is shown in the bulletin issued at
Chanute Of runs for the first week of
July. 1t was the first announced cut
made since tie order was made to
take all OIL The increase for the en-
tire field Of daily runs is over 5000
barrels. The deliveries to refineries
remains the same as before, showing
that nearly all of the increased oil
runs was put in tankage. One hun
bred and eighty-four thousand barrels
were put in storage tanks for the sew
en- days. The greatest increase in
runs was in the Chanute-Humboldt
district.
Old Grades Established.-The Kan
sas millers won decisive victory
over the grain dealers and elevator
men when the state grain grading
commission practically adopted the
grades established last year. The
dealers wanted the board to establish
grades without fixing weights. They
c,rimed that the fixing of weights
worked a hardship on them unless
there was uniformity in all the states
and az all marketr, which was not the
case now. The millers said their
chief protection came from establish
ed weights. They knew now when
they ordered No. 2 wheat, for instance
within pound or two Of what it
would weigh to the bushel. If the
weights were abolished on grades
they could not tell whether No. Q
would be light or heavy, but appre-
hended 1t would be light. The board
adopted the old grades with one or
two minor changes.
Quit Selling Cider. -- At Emporia