Wichita eagle., 1888-01-07
TOPEKA ITEMS.
The Rush County Contest Casa Sleepy
Juror.

Aho huSn Oounty CVHtcSe Ndsc- picePy
Juror.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 6.-The case of the
| state ex rel. the attorney general against
the officers of Rush county, TO compelI
them to remove from La Crosse to Walnut
| City, which claims to be the county seat,
is now before the supreme court on a
| motion for rehearing, the case having
been decided month ago in favor of
Walnut City. 1t involves an old con-
troversy and has been SO long in court
that it now excites great attention in
legal circles. In February, 1878, the county
seat being at La Crosse. an election was
held to relocate. The result as declared
by the commissioners was six majority in
favor of Walnut City. This. however,
was promptly denied by La Crosse parties,
who claimed that forty illegal votes had
been cast in favor of Walnut City The
district court so found and ordered the
offices TO 90 to La Crosse, with which order
the officers failed to comply. In 1881 a
cltizen OF La Crosse procured leave of the
| district court TO prosecute the state of Kan
sas, to compel the officers to obey the order
Tins action was decided in favor of La
Crosse and was appealed to the supreme
court which affirmed the decision. In pur-
suance of this decision the officers. who
were all Walnut City men, in November
lSS2, moved to La Crosse, where they have
remained ever since About a year ago the
attorney general brought an action to COM
pei them TO return to Walnut City in
which action it was denied that the state
was bound by the former decisions. they
having been rendered in actions where
private parties were REALTORS. issue was
joined and l 400 pages of evidence were
taken upon the controversy. About a
month ago an opinion was handed down
in this proceeding in favor of Walnut CITY.
The motion for rehearing is on the ground
OF the court mlsconceiving the facts and
overlooking material matters During last
summer and after the case was submit
ted and before a decision was rem
dered, another county seat election was
held in which La Crosse had a majority of
426. Walnut City Immediately enjoined
the count of this election and the matter
is now pending in the district court. The
county officers still remain at La Crosse
and should any attempt be made to com
pei them to remove to Walnut City a des-
perate resistance will be made
The motion Of County Attorney Barrett
of Pratt county to dismiss the Pratt colIn-
ty seat case was today allowed by the
court, the attorney general refusing to al
lON HIS itdlllt tp lbt tlSHti III IurtnTr
ceedings. This ends the Pratt county seat
contest.
The following charters re fled in the
office OF the secretary of state today: The
Wichita Citizens club, capital stock $40
600, incorporators, 5. NJ Hinman. John
Hoenscheidt, Geo. X. Welton, Joseph f.
Baehr and Henry SchnitZler; the GirarC
Canning and Preserving company, capital
stock $4,000, incorporators w H. Merri-
wRatb her X II hrtb E,,ll
j. Wildly and n. T. Huston; Hannah S de-
tcctive agency OF Golden, incorporators J.
y. Hannah, A. f. Voorhees,, Henry Koch
\. }. carp and James Snodgrass.
NOtorial commissions were issued TO
the following persons today: Ellwood $.
Jones at Russell Springs, Henry T. Fegan
at Oberlin, G. A. Winsor at Otego. ". +.
Pierce at Mcpherson, A. p. Bingston at
Lindsborg, Morgan Banks at Roxbury, J.
j. Sears at Oakley, F.. NJ Prendle at
Grainfield, q. III. OttO at Halstead. Myron
o. Burdick at Nelson and w +. Right
mire at Larned.
A committee of the Topeka board of
trade has been appointed 10 wait upon
Pension Agent Click relativs to the bro
agency from this city. The citizens are
Just beginning to realize the loss the city
would sustain should the agency be re-
moved to Leavenworth or Abilene both of
which cities are doing everything in their
power to secure it.
A juror IN a case on trial in the United
States court i'll this city slept through the
entire trial and did not awake when Judge
Foster directed verdict, being left in the
jury box quietly. sleeping when the case
was concluded. An attorney who was an
amused eyewitness or the affair remarked
that in very many cases tried by jury it
might he better for the administration of
jhsJice if the entire panel would follow the
example of the sleepy juror.
The report eminating from some ma
licious source in Leavenworth, that Cap
tain Quinton Campbell, editor of the sun.
recently charged with shooting his wife.
has fed from that place and left his
bOndsmen in the lurch is untrue Campbell
is at work on the Commonwealth of this
city and left LeavenwOrth with the con
sent of his bOnGsmen and the authorities.
Governor Martin states that he has re-
ceivep no appeals for relief from southwest
Kansas, where the people are said to he
suffering There is individual suffering
there incidental to all new settlements.
but the accounts of communities being
frozen to death and starving are simply
the widest sort of eXaggeration.