Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-09
CAPITAL NOTES.

CAPITAL NOTES.
The registration of male voters in To
peka, just closed, shows total Of 7,049.
Judge Guthrie. of the district court,
has appointed S. B. Bradford receiver
OF the Kansas Protective Union, mu-
tual life insurance company, with direc.
tons to wind up its business at once.
A large portrait of Ex-Governor st.
John has been received at the govern
or's Office and will be added to the col
lection Of gubernatorial portraits which
adosn the walls of the governors Office.
Colonel A. s. Johnson's force, the
land tax department of the Santa Fe.
has moved back into the general head
quarters building, from which thsy were
driven several months ago by the fire.
This is the first department to return,
but things will be in shape for all the
rest to move in week or ten days.
Secretary. F. G. Adams, of the State
Historical society, has issued circular
soliciting donations of books and PAM
phlets, particularly those relating to the
west, especially those written by Kansas
citizens on matters relating to Kansas.
ETerything in the way of books, PAM
phlets, circulars, newspapers, magazines,
that illustrates the history, progress,
and present condition Of Kansas is ear
nestly solicited. -
The board of railroad commissioners
rendered 8 decision in the matter of
the complaint of the city of Nickerson
against the Missouri Pacific The COM
plainant alleges that the company fails,
neglects, and refuses to properly drain
its right of way through the city. The
board, after an examination of the
ground, finds that the complaint is based
upon good grounds, and finds that the
company should do certain specified
work to remedy the evil complained of.
A large portrait of Hon. Nehemiah
Green, of Manhattan, has been received
at the governors Office. Through the
! efforts of Mr.. Admire, portraits of nearly
all the governors have been secured and
will be hung in the governors office.
Mr.. Green was elected lieutenant gov
ernor, and when Governor Samuel j.
Crawford resigned to enter the army,
Mr.. Green became governor, holding the
Office two months and eight days. He
was the only lieutenant governor in
Kansas who has taken the office of gov
ernor. Osborn and Humphrey were
lieutenant governor, but we're elected
to the Office of governor after their
terms as lieutenant governor had ex-
pired.
Topeka Capital: Since the financial
aid of the Santa Fe railroad company
has been withdrawn from the railroad
Y. M. G. A. at Fourth and Adams, as
a part of the railroads policy of re-
trenchment, an effort has been made
to raise the amount of the expenses
of it's continuance among the railroad
employees and other friends of the asso-
citation. The effort is proving very
successful and it is likely that all the
funds needed will be raised in week or
80. The attendance at the rooms aver
ages about ninety day. Men run in
and out at all times of the day, especial
ly in the evening. Last Saturday night
Evangelist Bliss, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Towner helped in the association meet
ing. The attendance was large and the
results seemingly good. Bliss and
Towner held meeting Monday night,
also at the rooms.
An instrument bearing the personal
signatures of Jay Gould and Russell
Sage has been filed in the register of
deeds Office. It is release by Gould
and Sage, as trustees, to the Union Pa
cific railway OF certain lands embraced
in the first consolidated mortgage on
the Kansas Pacific railway. The mort
gage was made May 1, 1879, and the
release was signed at New York on the
2pd instant, by order of the United
States circuit court of Kansas. The
order was made in this city June 7th
last, in a suit entitled James P. Ball
against Jay Gould, Russell Sage, the
Union Pacific railway, and the Kansas
Pacific railway company. Judge Brew
| er's order was that Gould and Sage
'deliver to the Union Pacific release
1lOA tuc lloA VI VIC uSU Occu LuduO W
| them by the Kansas Pacific railway
company, May LIST, 1879, of all lands
for the sale of which contracts were
made by the Kansas Pacific railway be-
fore the execution of the trust, and for
which full payment has been made by
the purchasers to the Kansas Pacific
railway company, and for which deeds
have been made to the purchasersof the
Kansas Pacific railway, or Union Pacific
railway, since the execution of said trust
deed"
In the United States district court.
Judge Foster has filed an opinion in the
famous case of Thaddeus 81. Walker. of
New York against Frank Cronkhite, of
Emporia, regarding some valuable Lyon
county real estate. In 1875, Walker
owned many thousands of acres of
Kansas land, but was involved in several