The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-19
Mr. Bailey and Mr.. Stubbs Both
in Topeka.
Latter Has a Long Conference
With Leland.
ARE STILL WAITING.
Beth Decline to Announce
Senatorial Candidacy.
ssNot Today Said Mr.. Stubs
When Pressed for Decision.

w J. Bailey of BaileyvilIe and w. R.
Stubbs of Lawrence both came to town
Tuesday afternoon, but neither one had
much to say about the senatorial out
look.
ME- Stubs was asked whether he was
ready to announce himself as a candi-
date for the United States senate.
mot today" he said.
Perhaps you think it isn't necessary
to make a formal announcement" was
suggested.
Wei. don't know about that" said
Mr. Stubs doubtfully
Ex-Governor Bailey maintained the
same noncommittaI attitude that has
characterized him ever since his name
was mentioned in connection with the
senatorial office.
I'm not a candidate he said New
ertheless he admits that the job of Unit
ed States senator would not have to
chase him very hard in order to effect a
capture.
Mr.. Stubs had a long conference with
Cyrus Leland while in Topeka, and
Senator J. N. Dolly and I. B. Murdoch
were also here. 70
Washington, Dec. 19.-Senators Ben
son and Long will have another confer
ence today over the Kansas marshall
ship appointment Benson wants the
| appointment maze DeIOre he leaves for
home Thursday. He is backing N6lckey.
Long is inclined to delay it until after
the holidays. Mackey has supplied the
record in the horse trading case and his
explanation has been fully accepted.
C. Porter Craddock. mem ber-elect
OF the legislature from the Stevens
Morton representative district, says
that the big ranch owners are going out
of business in western Kansas NJ
I { III I've In,
tiers have been coming in there SO
rapidly during the past summer that
/ the ranchmen can see the end of heir
| business and are getting their affairs
| In shape to transact business on
smaller scale or go into other business.
Three or four homesteads are being
filed on every day in our county" said
Mr.. craddock. "and at this rate the
government land will not last long.
There VIII always be some government
land there. but it will be south of the
Cimarron river on what we call the
sand knolls
THE Boyce Cattle company has had
10000 steers on the company ranch
in Morton county for several years
Sometimes the number of cattle would
run oVerathis- numbe and sometimes
a little below Only recently the COM
pany sold 5000 steers and Is selling on
stock as fast as buyers want it. The
management can read the signs and
sees that there is no future in south
such an extensive scale. This company
probably will not run more than 5000
head of steers during a season here
after and these will be kept in pastures
where the company owns all of the
land. The company has had to take
down fences from around government
land and 1t does not pay to try to herd
that number of cattle without some
fence.
There are a number of ranchmen
in our corner of the state who are
handling from 1000 to 1900 head of
cattle each season. A majority of
these cattlemen own the land they use
for pasture and it is only herds of that
size which will be profitable in the
future out there. If good times con-
tinue with US the land will become too /
valuable TO be kept for pasture and the
ranchmen running even such a small
number of cattle as this Will find 1t
more profitable to divide their ranches
and sell 10 the farmers"
Mr.. Craddock says cattle on the range |
are in good condition and will go
through the winter nicely unless there |
many of the cattlemen will winter their
stock on the open range without any |
rough feed.
Lsatimer, of Wichita, midshipmen at 4
the Annapolis Naval academy.
G. H. Luling. superintendent of insur- |
Hcch Tuesday afternoon regarding |
needed legislation to strengthen the
state insurance department.
It is practically certain that the gov
ernor will again recommend the pas
sage of a law creating the office of I
state fire marshal as he did in his first |
shall IS intended to investigate fires of
incendiary origin with a view to assist
ing in the protection of insurance COM
panies from swindlers and thereby low
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the risk. A fire marshal bill was pass
ed by the house two years ago, but
failed of passage in the senate.
G. L. Banks. member of the legis-
Iature from Montgomery county, has
just returned from a trip to Texas.
While there he invested in 800 acre
rice farm on Double Bayou, across the
bay from Galveston. There are about
200 acres of this tract under cultiva-
ton, and it is worth about $50 per
acre. Last year the crop on the land
brought $4,000.
The Washington Post is a little
mixed in its +. Dumont Smith geog-
raphy, but 1t prints this story about
s.The prohibition law of Kansas is
on the statute books Of
the state" said F. Dumont Smith. a
prominent attorney of Topeka, who is
in the city in connection with case
nendinz before the United States SUI
Dreme. court. II do not think the peo-
pie will ever consent to resubmfs-
sion of the question"
Mr.. Dumont Smith was especially
Amounted by Governor HOch to rep
resent the state of Kansas In the legal
controversy between that state and the
state of Colorado over the right of the
use of the waters of the Arkansas
river, now before the supreme court
Thirty years ago he was law stu
dent in Washington, going soon after
his graduation to Kansas, where he To-
Gated In the state capital.
Iz.tT7ersonaIlys,' Mr.. Dumont-Snaith ex-
planned. speaking of the prohibition
fox r<,v- of