The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-26
CITY HALL NEWS.
DR.. ID. M. Campbell Explains
New Milk Ordinance.
Dairymen Are Flocking to City
Hall With Questions,
PETITIONS ARE OUT
Mayor Green Sends Papers to
Commercial Club.
Other Items of Interest From
the City Building.
PETITIONS ARE OUT

There is more than usual interest
connected with the recent milk ordi-
nance passed by the city council.
Dairymen are fiocking to the office of
the city milk inspector, Dr. D. NJ.
Campbell, asking for information con-
corning certain clauses in the ordi-
nance. 1t seems that there is a mix
up in an attempted explanation of the
ordinance and in an interview with a
State Journal reporter this morning
DR.. Campbell explained the problems
in this manner:
80 far as the registration of cows
is concerned, the new milk ordinance
which will become effective June LIST,
1909 will be great convenience TO
da1rymen and to the city clerk The
cows are registered free and may be
registered by the owner, or anyone else.
1t is necessary to fill out an application
blank, stating the number and location
of the cows. These blanks can be Sc
cured at the city clerks office, milk
inspectors office or at any milk depot.
They also may be taken out to the
dairyman by the milk haulers and re-
turned in the same manner when the
license will be issued to the applicant.
The licenses are subject to revocation
or clause. A revoked license may or
may not be renewed. The manner of
securing a license to sell milk and
cream is simple and the daily papers
have given so much publicity to the
new ordinance, that no one can plead
ignorance of the requirements as an
excuse for not securing a license before
the first of next month. I do not con-
slider it any part of the milk inspectors
duties to personally notify dairymen
that a license is required.
THE same may be said on the parts
of the ordinance prohibiting the hand
ling of bulk milk in stores. or the use
Of canned milk on the street. Every
one having anything to say regarding
this part of the ordinance was given an
extended hearing before the committee
of the council and a decision to enact
it as it now stands was arrived at only
after a careful investigation of all
phrases on the subject. The dairymen
we'll know that the opening of cans on
the street for the delivery of milk is
made unlawful by the new ordinance.
should have made arrangements to
bottle their milk by June LIST.
THE sections referring to the sale of
milk containing sediment and to the
temperature to which milk must be
cooled before selling it, have been
printed in the papers a number of
times and other parts of the ordinance
are not changes from the reauirements
of the ordinance now in force. The
full text of the ordinance was also pub
L
do not see how any dairyman can
violate a portion of the new ordinance
without having full knowledge that he
is doing so'
The man with the most troubles
in the city of Topeka today is Will
liam Core. the city dog officer He
is meeting with great success Kidding
the city of undesirable and unlucky
dogs but he is also meeting with
varied objections on the part of
alleged owners-these objections are
sometimes accompanied with words
and sometimes with the aid of the
fist.
Mr.. Core came to the State Jour
nal office this morning breathless
and excited. He said that a new
point in the law had caused him the
loss of a number of CANNES. In ex-
PLANTATION and for the information of
the people over the city he wanted it
known that the law requires all dogs
to have a collar with a regulation
city metal tag. If the tags are lost
they will be duplicated by the CITY
clerk. All dogs found without a tag
will be taken to the city pound.
Fifty cents a day penalty on dogs at
the pound.
The dry standpipe at the National
hotel was tested by the engine and
hose companies with Chief Wilmarth
from station No. this morning. 1t
was found to be in excellent shape
Water was thrown from the top of
the hotel. six stories in the air.
clear across the Elk building into
Jackson street 1t was a great pres-
sure and a good exhibition of the
equipment at the hotel for fire fight
ing purposes Chief Wilmarth said
this morning that he was we'll
pleased with the efficiency of the