The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-14
Use Half Million Acres in
Southwest Counties.
ASKS THE GOVERNMENT
Would Have This UntilIable
Land Decided to State.
Dyche and Sportsmen Favor
Plan.

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in this state. Jocelyn would memorial
ize congress to cede to the state the
present forest reserve in Grant, Has
kell, Finney, Kearney and Hamilton
counties to be used by the state as a
game reserve. And what. to Jo~elyns
mind, is still better, it seems probable
that congress will grant the request.
At the. present time there are $50, rs
acres of untillable, sandy land along
the banks of the Arkansas river in the
five counties This land is the posses
sion of the government and is held as
a forest reserve For several years the
government has tried to dispose of that
soil. but no one seems to want it for
settlement purposes. So Jocelyn would
take possession of the big tract of
Kansas land and convert it into
mammoth game reserve
Under present conditions. the state
has no game reserve Funds from the
hunting licenses have been used to pro-
mote the fish hatcheries at Pratt and
the hunters have received nothing.
Now, with the possession of that big
tract of land in the name of the state,
Jocelyn believes that it would only re-
quire a legislative enactment against
hunting on the land to build up one
of the best and most profita Bile game
reserves in the world Quail, grouse
and prairie chicken would propa gate
rapidly on the reserve, if not molested
and a portion of the land Jocelyn
would use for the raising of deer, elk, /
antelope, buffalo and other large game. /
This game could be trapped and re-
moved to other portions of the state
under the supervision of the state fish |
and game warden and in a few years
Kansas would be one of the best
stocked game states in the Union
Prof. L. L Dyche. fish and game
warden. and officers of the Sportsmen's
association are enthusiastic for the
passage of the resolution by the Sedg- /!
wick county member And it appears
that only the passage of the resolution
through the senate is now required to |
secure this big tract of land.
No bills, except appropriation bills |
and committee bills, will be introduced .
in the legislature after next Tuesday
noon. The Brown bill, which passed
the house earlier in the week, provided
for the shutting off of individual bills
at noon Saturday, February Is. Over
Tuesday, February IS This morning
the house concurred in that amend
ment.
Stone of Shawnee would provide for |
a woman jail warden in all counties in
Kansas with population of more |
than $4,000. The bill, which affects
only Shawnee, Sedgwick and Wyan- |
dotte counties, provides that a woman |
Jail warden shall be a part of the Of |
ficial sheriff's force, but cannot be |
the wife of either the sheriff or any of
his deputies
of 5000 a. year for the new Jail war |
den. She shall be appointed by the /
sheriff and shall have charge of the /
female inmates of the Jail.
Speaker Browns white slave bill is |
going to conference over in the SEN :
ate. the bill was amended TO compel /
a woman TO esta blish her character I
haf he ~aT a a a
viction in a criminal case The house +
measure assumed the womanS char /
acter. 1t seems probable that the bill .
will be recommended with the senate 1
amendment intact and that the house /
will pass the measure in that form.
A telegram has been received from
mem bers OF the Missouri legislature I
by Miller of Ottawa, in which he is .
advised that the Missouri lawmakers
have failed in their efforts to secure
a conference committee to act with
delegation from the Kansas legislature
in an investigation of the Kansas City .
stock yards and an enactment of uni
form laws to regulate their operation /
Representative JoceIyn today intro
duced a resolution urging Governor I
Hodges to invite President Wilson to
attend the twenty-seeond Transmits
SisSippi Commercial congress which /
meets in Wichita in October.
Among the lovely little sandba gs /
aimed at Topeka and other cities of t
the first class. may be listed the bill /
introduced today by Representative !
Wilson, the Socialist member from /
Crawford county. 1t is a Socialist |
party measure of the first water, and /
should be printed in red ink. 1t pro-
vides that any religious, political. lit /
erary, scientific, mechanical, agricul- I
tural society, association. or any per- /
SON lecturing upon any such subjects, /
shall have the right to use any city I
hall, courthouse, schooInouse, library
or other room or building, or public /
park or yard belonging TO the public,
for whooping" place. His bill fur
Their provided for a fine or from s25
to 800 for any public Official who fails /
or refESes4.to open up such building .
poses upon demand of any such lee +
turer-likewise a 30-day jail sentence
to be tackled onto any such public
official who is chump enough to at
tempt to protect such public property
from being overrun.
BY an Overwhelming vote this
morning the house concurred in the
senate bill by Howe of Dickinson
creating board of corrections and /
abolishing the boards under which the
state penal institutions are governed /
at this time The vote was ~ to ?.
composed OF three members chosen |
by the governor. They are to have /
charge of the management and opera
ton of the state penitentiary. the
Hutchinson reformatory, the Topeka
reformatory, and the Beloit school for
girls ALI other boards. with the ex-
ception of the penitentiary control,
are to be abolished.
Taylor Riddle would provide for
seven holidays in Kansas. His bill /
designating the official holidays was
introduced today in the house Holt
days to be recognized under the Kan
sas law, if the bill becomes law, are:
Kansas Day, January %; Lincoln's