The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-24
STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS. |
Judge Morton, of the District Court |
at Topeka, has delivered decisions in four
druggist test cases under the Prohibition
law. The motions to quash were sustained
by the Judge in two of the cases and over
ruled in the other two. In one case, Mr..
Rowley is charged with having sold four
gallons of alcohol to the A., T. & S. F. Rail-
road Company for mechanical purposes.
Judge Morton holds this an illegal sale. In
another case, Mr.. Rowley was charged with
selling half pint OF whisky, together with
an ounce Of syrup of tolu and two ounces
of syrup of wild cherry, on the prescription
of DIR. Wyman for man actually sick. DR..
Wyman bard not taken the physicians oath
prescribed by the statute. This sale Judge
Morton decides to be legal. In another case
Mr.. Barnes was charged with selling half
pint of brandy on the prescription Of Or. Tent,
for q person actually sick, in consump-
ton. DR.. Tefft had taken and filed the
PHYSICIANS affidavit. Judge Morton holds
this sale to be illegal-the difference between
this and the preceding case being this, that
here the sale was of intoxicating liquor alone,
while in the other the sale was that OF mix
ture compounded Of syrup Of tolu, syrup Of
wild cherry, and whisky. In the fourth case
Mr.. Smith was charged with selling bottle
Of DIR. oherman's Prickly Ash Bitters. The
information set forth the formula of this pre-
paration, showing the exact quantity and
60, NJ oil ia in
pounding the bitters. Judge Morton holds
this to be legal sale. The defendants ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court.
The Coffsyvills Journal says that
Robert Chestnut, an old wagon-master on
the Plains, who came to Coffeyville about
eight years ago with considerable money,
and who, as every one supposed, had gone
through with it all, surprised the natives
the other day by digging up $1,000 in cash
that he had buried. When Bob came to
Coffeyvills he deposited . considerable sum
of money in the bank, and drew from 1t IS
often and Is much as was necessary to meet
his expenses. He was addicted to strong
drink, but had sense enough to know that
his money would soon be all gone unless ho
could give up whisky. He therefore re-
solved to bury it, first taking solemn oath
never to touch 1t until he had become sober
man. That time having arrived, he exhumed
his buried wealth and at once started for the
Territory to purchase cattle for shipment
Within the past week, says the Com
,noncealth, several large parties OF Memo.
mites have arrived at Topeka from the East,
and have gone to Hillsboro, Halstead, Great
Bend, and to other points along the Arkan-
sas Valley. Many Of these immigrants pos
sess considerable means, and as rule make
industrious citizens. In all perhaps four
or five hundred men, women and children,
have arrived in Kansas within the period
named. The uniform encouraging reports
recently transmitted to these people in Rus
STA, by their friends and acquaintance in
Western Kansas, is what is causing this
heavy immigration.
Daniel Hopkins, a colored laborer
at Topeka, was sunstruck while piling lum-
Der and expired almost Immediately.
The completion of the Fort Scott Il
Wichita Railroad to Uniontown was cele-
brated on the It'll by an excursion over the
new line and procession, banquet, etc., at
Uniontown. This railroad, when completed,
will connect the cities Of Wichita and Fort
Scott. 1t is being built rapidly, at the rate
of one and half miles per day.
Warden Hopkins, of the State Peni-
Tertiary, has submitted his report for May to
the Auditor of the State, showing the total
receipts for the month Of sc, 299. "a; total cx-
penditures, %,424.13 excess over receipts,
1,14. 40; expenses for the State coal shaft,
81, 4Si,s5; coal mined during the the month
of May, $14,3lO; sales Of coal for
the month above that received at the institu-
ton, $1,O44.9S. The men are now engaged
in finishing up the shaft and putting in cage
for hosting. This work will be completed
by July 10, and then the work Of mining coal
will be vigorously prosecuted, hosting about
1900 bushels per day. There are 662 prison.
ers at the Penitentiary.
The prisoners confined in the Law
renee Jail recently made desperate at
tempt to escape. One of the oonvicts who
had been out after water grabbed the Sher-
if just As he was opening the door to con-
duct him to the large cell, and attempted to
get his revolver away from him. During the
struggle one man escaped and the rest were
trying to, but Sheriff Asher succeeded in
freeing himself from the grasp Of his man,
and, pulling his pistol, compelled them
all to retire back into their cells. he
then locked the doors and gave chase to the
man who had gotten loose, and in less than
an hour he was once more inside the iron
walls.
The attention of School Directors de-
string to negotiate school bonds is called to the
factthat the State School Fund Commissioners
are now buying six per cent. bonds OF school
districts in Kansas at par, and they are pay
| ing . premium of two cents on the dollar on
all seven per cent. school bonds. The ad-
vantases that will accrue to the various
school districts through dealing with the
Board are obvious, one Of the most import
ant being that the interest upon the bonds
thus purchased goes into the permanent
fund for the direct benefit Of all OF the
schools throughout the State. Another sub
stantial benefit is that the bonds thus sold
to the State can at any time be redeemed by
the school district issuing the same. State
| Superintendent Speer will answer all letters