Hastings Banner Stirs Bliss Up

HASTINGS BANNER STIRS BLISS UP

TO INVESTIGATE BILL JUDSON'S OIL REPORT

Judson roasted the banner editor who now tries to get back at him.

Lansing, Mich., Feb. 25. - There are indications that Gov. Bliss is making an investigation of the charge of the Hastings Banner that Oil Inspector Judson has not been a good man for the state. The Banner charges that whereas in 1892 $44,834 were collected in fees and $21,959 turned over to the state after all expenses were paid, Judson and his deputies last year collected $40,368, and after paying expenses turned over only $8,150 as net profits to the state. The traveling expenses of the oil inspector have increase from $216.24 in 1892 to $971 last year. The same proportion holds good with reference to the traveling expenses of deputies which were $3,023 in 1892 and $9,976 in 1901. Gov. Bliss is looking up the figures himself.