The Globe-republican., 1907-06-06

In Shawnee county for May indicat
that 21,322 purchases of liquor wer
made and signed for at forty-fve TIC
peka drug stores. This surpasse
the record-breaking number Of las
month by 10,931 sales.
HoisIngton to West Point. - Ed
ward G. Hoisington, Of Newton, hal
been notified by the war department
of his appointment to cadetship II
the United States military academy
at West Point. He has passed the
entrance examination and is ordered
to report at the academy June Is
Hoisington has been attending Kan
sas university at Lawrence the past
winter. He is the son of Colonel P
M. Hoisington, Second infantry, K
N. G..
Kansas Furnishes Another Cadet
Carl J. Ballinger, Coffey county
boy, has received official notification
that he has passed the physical ex-
animation for admission to- the mill
tary academy at West Point and that
he is to report at the academy June
Is. He took the examination at Ft.
Leavenworth, May /, and he an
nounced at that time that there was
practically no doubt Of his passage
He was appointed by Congressman
Miller. taking the place of Carl
Duehn, of Council Grove, resign
ed.
Must Accept C. o. D. Whisky. -
Judge Pollock has granted manda-
tory injunction compelling the Wells
Fargo and Pacific Express Com
panies to accept and deliver in Kan
sas c. o. D. liquor shipments. Judge
Pollock holds that prohibition or To-
cal option laws cannot affect inter
state shipments, and that since I'M
der the constitution an express COM
pany cannot be stopped from max
ing deliveries in a prohibition state,
1t cannot refuse to accept such c. o.
D. shipments in another state. ]. M.
Shoenheit, general attorney for the
distilling company, urged that that
discrimination could not be made
against liquor or any other class of
merchandise. Judge Pollock's tenn
porary order is to hold until June Is,
when he will give the matter a hear
ing.
Coolest in Forty Years. - The
weather report for May, 1907, pre-
pared by DR.. F. H. Snow, of the Uni
versity of Kansas, from observa-
lions taken at Lawrence, says the
past month was the coolest May in
forty years record. There were five
white frosts during the month, the
last being on the 9th, the latest
spring frost on record. The rain
fall was nearly the normal amount.
The wind was below the average We
locity, and the cloudiness very much
above normal. The mean tempera-
ture was 59.05 degrees, which is sos
degrees below the May average. The
highest temperature was S7.5 de-
grees, on the 18th; the lowest was
SO degrees, on the Sd. The rainfall
was 406 inches, which is .55 inch be-
low the May average. The entire
rainfall for the five months of 1907
now completed has been 1858
inches, which is SO inch above the
average for the same months in the
thirty-nine preceding years and
double the amount for the same
period in 1906. Rain in measurable
quantities on seven days. There
were three thunderstorms during the
month, The month was 5,97 per cent
cloudier than usual.
Several to Receive Raise. With
the publication Of the session laws,
the superintendent of the Topeka,
Osawatomie and Parsons asylums
will draw $4,000 per year instead Of
81 800: the secretary Of the state
historical society gets a similar
raise, the assistant newspaper clerk
In the same Office is raised from 5000
to 5000, the stenographer from $72O
to 5000, and the assistant librarian
from 5000 to $1,000
Liquor Cases Disposed Of. The
last of the liquor cases against six
teen Of the Parsons druggists who
have been on trial at Oswego has
been disposed Of Eleven of them
confessed judgment and were taxed
up with the costs In their cases and
by attorney fees. Four of them went
on trial, three Of them being found
guilty and one was acquitted. The
two remaining cases were transfer
red to the June term of court.
In Hurry to Leave. - Samuel L.
Bonar, sent to the state penitentiary
for life from Washington county on
the charge of murder, has made APP
plication for a pardon, after serving
less than two and one-half years. 6
Negro to the Pen--Andy Neal, of
Hutchinson, negro, who stole sew
eral hundred dollars worth. of brass
from the Morton Salt Company re-
Gently. was sentenced to the Ian