The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-21
Has Become a Resident Land
Owner in Sherman.
HE'S AFTER AN OFFICE
Wants to Be Register of Colby
Land Office.
Gale Jones Appointed StenOg-
rapher to Judge Geiger.

Ex-senator Frank -Lockard, of Nor
ton, has moved to Sherman county,
where he has bought a. section of land
about ten miles from Goodland. He
win farm and raise stock. He will
also be nearer the chair which the
register occupies in the Colby land
ONCE, which Lockhard has been an
aspirant for. He was Topeka Wis
itoT late last week, and was in con-
sultation with politicians regarding
the Office. His friends claim it is
horserace between Lockard and John
Thomas, Of Phillips county, as to who
Senator Long will recommend for reg
lister to succeed the present incumbent,
A H Blair, who will return to Wa
,Eeeney. and engage in banking as soon
as his successor is confirmed. Thomas
and Lockard are hard political work
ers, and they have "scrapped" in
many hard political fights. In the
battle between the machine" and
boss busters" they were arrayed
against one another, Thomas being
lined up with the Long and Bailey
factions, and LockaFd was anti
Gale r. Jones, Of Norton. we'll
known in Topeka, has been appointed
by Judge A c. r. Geiger. Of the Sew
enteeuth district his Official court
gtenOgrapher. This will last till the
end of his term, which will be next
spring. Mr.. Jones Is a son Of Col. C.
D. Jones. present member of the 1egis-
lature from Norton county. The ap-
pointrnent is an excellent one. and Mr.
Jones viii do his duty in flrst-class
manner.
J. B. Taylor. Of Osborne county, has
announced his candidacy for another
term for member Of the legislature
from his county It viii be remem-
'bered the boss busters fought Taylor
TO finish for a second term but he
easily won out over their protest.
There is going to be a lively race
for Judge of the Seventeenth judicial
district. w H. Pratt. of Phillips
county. and ". S. Longmade. OF De
eatur county, are the Republican and
Democratic nominees, respectively.
MI Pratt came to Phillips county in
1919. He was admitted to the bar
IN 1876, before Judge Joel Holt The
same year he was elected county at
torney. serving two terms In 1881
he was nominated and elected Judge
Of the district, which at that time had
fifteen counties nine of which Phil
Trego, Decatur. Sheridan and Raw.
Inns, were organized, and the unor.
ganized counties of Cheyenne, Thomas
Sherman. Cove, Logan and Wallace
were attached to the organized coun-
Ties fOr judicial purposes. He served
one term and declined a denomination
In 1889 he was again elected count,
attorney, serving one term, and agar
IA 1894 he served another term. HIS
friends throughout the judicial distric
have no doubt OF his election, anc
that ne viii have no friends to re.
ward but viii treat the bar alike
courteously and honorably.
The nill City papers of last weel
mention that John Dawson now assist
ant attorney general viii return witt
his family about the first of July. Ths
oapers don't say whether he viii e
after the place OF county attorney Of
Graham county, which is a stepping
stone for something better later on.
M, s. Fleming, a successful business