The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

| should be- promptly report the matter
I to the inspector Such action will be
appreciated by the milk inspector and
| welcomed by honest dairymen. who
are perfectly willing. to have their milk
examined at any time. If all consum-
| ers of milk would thus notify the in
spector, dirty and adulterated milk
| would soon be unknown in our city.
Each milk user should provide him.
self with a milk dairy thermometer 1t
will cost about 25 cents and may be OBJ
tanned at any drug store. 1t is unlaw-
full to sell milk, having a temperature
of over 60 degrees Fab Milk should
be kept much below this temperature
into milk through careleSSnesS in hand
ling is of a particular loathsome and
dangerous character. Milk that con-
tains & sediment after standing, should
never be used. 1t is dangerous. The
cleanliness of milk that sours early is
open to suspicion. Take the matter up
with your milk man. possibly the cause
is to be found in the way you handle it.
If the matter cannot be adjusted salts
factorify, perhaps some suggestion
from the milk inspector will help. Do
not fail to call upon him when he can
be of service to you, and do not fail to
carefully read the 'Dont's for House.
keepers
If you possibly can make it a point
to visit your milkman's dairy. If he
keeps the right sort, he will appreciate
the interest shown by you. If his dairy
is not what it should be the visits of
his patrons will constitute a. strong in
f1uence for its betterment."
1t looks as though the city of To-
peka would have to join the union or
else carry out city business on "scab"
scales Last night at council meeting
j. w F. Hughes introduced resolu-
ton (by request) asking the city to
ls on hn
union scale. The resolution was re-
ferred to the judiciary committee. No
one had anything to say about the
resolution so it is not known what will
be done. One member of the council
did say that General Hughes has been
getting too democratic since obtaining
his new position.
At a meeting of the committee on
health and sanitation it was practical
ly decided that the Quinton idea OF
placing a tax of one mill on every gal
lon of milk should be adopted. The
usual fight on the merits of the Quin-
ton and Dreaming ideas was brought
out again but it did not last as long
as former battles. 1t was thought
that the Dreaming idea of taxing cows
was a little too hard on the dairy
men who are now paying for tubercu-
losis tests and the like. AS a whole
the new ordinance will be practically
the same as recommended by the
dairymen and they will receive the
benefit when 1t is passed.
At a special meeting of the council
last night it was decided that the re-
port of the appraisers on the Ken
wood sewer district was correct in ev-
cry detail and 1t was all approved
be levied and the kenwood sewer will
soon be in working order
City Clerk Burge has announced
that the newly elected officers who
wish to receive their official stamps
and Swearing will have to report to
him before sunset tomorrow. There
are a number of the newly-elected
who have not bothered with the tech
nicalities-and they will have to make
haste.
Just before City Attorney Dreaming
left his office he stated that some
thing radical would happen to the To-
peka street railway if they did not
consent to issue transfers from any
line in the city to any other line. He
went to the trouble of building a big
ordinance to this effect and the assis-
tant city attorney spent a whole day
making copies of the ordinance and
getting it into proper form. But Mr..
Dreaming has stepped out of office
with nothing done along this line and
the ordinance lies in peace near the
right hand of Mr.. Ralston, the new
city attorney. H. P. Miller, council
man from the Second ward, who
created the sentiment in favor of the
ordinance and who was sick at the
time that it should appear is now back
on duty with as much fighting blood
as ever and he promises the council
men that he will make business pick
up at the next council meeting. The
trouble started from the effort to
make the street car company issue
transfers from the Santa Fe and Oak
land lines to the cemetery and vice
versa.
j. e. kirkpatrick, field secretary for
Washburn college, drew up a COM
plant in behalf OF a number of resi-
dents on College Hill, including him
self, informing the city that the sewer
conditions facing Seventeenth and
Mulvane streets were disgraceful The
matter will be taken up by the proper
officials at once.
The board of trustees of the cleo
trio light works asked the city for
authority to purchase supplies, poles,
wire, etc. for needed improvements
The matter was approved at once.
Several of the city officials and
SOUitSlAiiAeH are iIdNOTlnS an ordnance
to cover law against storing fur
nlture and other combustible material
IN the basement of business houses.
This action was promoted by the re-
cent fire in the Hurd building in
which the firemen did such heroic
work to save the block In other
cities there are fire laws governing
such actions on the part of business
firms and it is proposed to introduce
such measures in this city at once
FIRE Marshal Wilmarth is very care
full man along these lines and he has
time and again given different bust
ness firms orders to desist in certain
practices but when they come back at
him and ask for an ordinance to
cover the order he is helpless and can
only rely upon his own foresight. The
fire chief has taken it upon himself
to make many amends in the city fire