The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

appeals to the board of health to
come over there and veto the council
concession. 1t is a fact that DR.,
Crumbine'S mail is loaded every day
with just such requests. The people
of every other town in the state write
in to tell about mud puddle or a pig
pen or something of that kind that
needs regulating and they think that
the state board of health should con-
Vene, get busy and brush the clouds
away. The state board of health has
only authority vested by state law.
Local officials are supposed to enforce
ordinances. The only effect of these
letters is to cause a board of health
stenographer to work overtime.
For the quarter ending June 80 the
school fund commission invested
$243,34 in bonds. During the same
quarter last year they bought only
$S5,600 worth of bonds
A railroad attorney in writing the
state railroad board the other day
took the startling stand that inter
state railroad yards were under the
jurisdiction of the Interstate Com
merce Commission and therefore not
amenable to the control of the state
board whatever. This is a play on
words worthy of the sophistry of Oily
Cannon.
Journal has estimated the winter
wheat crop of Kansas at 81 million
bushels, while Fred BuIIene of the
Star places it at the modest total of
So million bushels. Secretary Coburn
of the state board of agriculture has
not yet dared to make an estimate of
the yield, but is figuring on splitting
the difference in the figures of these
experts and reporting the crop at ~
millions. Then will occupy a per-
a hot !, y,
and offended vanity of these proph-
cts, said the secretary in a tone of
voice so dry that dust was seen to
fall out of his conversation.
When ]. N. Dolley entered Attor-
ney General Jackson's office the other
morning he found the latter talking
life insurance to some caller. DolIey
got in to the game and after five
rounds of hard milling the visitor
surrendered and took out a policy
for $4,000 in the new mutual insur-
ance company of which DolIey is pres
ident and Jackson a director. When
these two turned to the reporter the
latter had fed. The attorney general
gave up his news by telephone that
day.
Secretary Coburn has figured out
where the Wright brothers, Orville
and Wilbur, get their backing to con-
try and Europe. Now it would en-
barrass Rockefeller or Carnegie to
bear the expense attendant upon an
airship venture on two continents.
but when Secretary Coburn learned
that the Wrights have a brother who
is the owner of a Kansas farm in
Jackson county. he no longer wonders
at the ease with which these aviators
prosecute their expensive experiments
and he expects still greater things
from them. who wouldn't so into
the airship business said the sec
rotary, when he has the resources of
a Kansas farm behind him.
The recent controversy among a
lot of Kansas editors over the best
and the worst books in the world
aroused more or less attention in the
state house and the following slate of
the favorite books of some of the
state officials is based on the suppo-
sition that they talked as they thought |
and read as they talked:
Governor Stubbs-The Bible. John !
Dawson and ]. NJ. Nation-Three |
Musketeers. Justice Mason-SpaId-
ing's Guide. c. E. Denton-Reach's |
Guide. Mary Tulley-Brewster' Mil /
lions. W. S. Jackson-In the Reign /
of Law. J. n. Dolley-Cooper's Sea |
Tales
Received Pistol BAH in His Hand.
Hill City, Kan, July "a little son |
Of Mr. Saunders got his toy pistol |
out, made the mistake of putting in /