Dodge City times., 1889-05-23
CAPITAL NOTES.

The Kapsas Master Plumbers Assc
clation held its annual meeting at th
Knights Of Pythias hall during th
week.
The State Bankers Association ha
been in session in Topeka during th
week. The reports show an interastin
and valuable conference.
The Kansas river is at very high wa
ter state. The safety OF the kansa
river bridge was discussed generally o.
Saturday, with forebodings.
One hundred and fifty zone an
brick masons have begun active build
ing operations on the approaches t
and the walls of the capitol.
General H. A. Pierce has been in To
peka, buying material for a newspape
Office at Guthrie, Ok, of which, it
said, NJ. W. Reynolds will be the editor
By action of the court and bar Wash
burn College students are made wei
come visitors upon the sittings O
Judge Guthrie's court, with all prlvi
leges of members of the bar.
The body of Olof Hammerbeck, al
inmate of the insane asylum, who dis
appeared several months ago, has beeI
found hanging in the hayloft of th'
asylum barn. 1t had been there TO
months.
The dispatches announce that Pres
ident Harrison has appointed Majol
William Sims to be state agent fol
Kansas OF the agricultural department.
This position is now held by Editor
Vandegrift, of the Atchison Globe. 1,
is the duty of the agent to collect re-
ports as to the condition of crops, ect.
and forward them to the commissioner
of agriculture. The salary is SL2O0 pei
year.
A brother of the Very Rev. F. NJ
Hayden will arrive in a few days. hav.
ing been advised by his physician to
try Kansas air for few weeks for the
benefit of his health. He is the editor
of paper in Ireland, and is pronounced
in his utterance for home rule. Father
Hayden says of him and of another
brother who is member Of parliament,
that ''they take turns in prison for
their free speech"
Captain ]. Lee Knight, of the board
of county commissioners, paid an off.
cial visit to the poor farm, and while
there was attracted by the pitiful ap-
pearance of very old and decrepit man
who is helpless and almost blind. He
made inquiry of the old man concerning
his case and found ont that he is an old
soldier. His name he gave as Tilman
Peters, and said he enlisted and served
in an Ohio company and was twice
once at Fort Donelson. Cap
tain Knight visited the adjutant gener-
ais office, and upon examining the
printed register Of Ohio enlistments,
published by that state, he found the
old mans name and record, just as he
had given it. Captain Knight has set
about to have the veteran admitted to
The soldiers home at Leavenworth, and
will have no trouble in securing his I'd
mission to that splendid institution,
where the nations defenders are we'll
cared for and their last days made as
pleasant as possible.
In the Supreme court an interesting
question in the case of John T. Little
t al. VS.. William NJ. Evans. error
rom johnson county (affirmed), in
which the court rules that "a judg-
nent rendered by justice of the peace
n a case of misdemeanor against the
witness for costs, where
10 finding has been made that the pros
cutting witness without probable cause,
u without reasonable grounds, or from
Malicious motives, is void" There are
many statutes making officers and
,thers ''liable" under particular circum-
It noes, but where it does not specifi-
ally and expressly authorize Judg-
nent to he rendered against him upon
he happening of such liability, the
'ourt does not think any judgment
'ould properly be rendered against him
because of such liability.
Another lnseresting case in the Su-
,reme court was that OF James Fl. Easter
IS. J. G. Traylor, clerk of the district
'ourt or Lyon county. This was an
Iction of mandamus to compel the de-
endant to issue an order of delivery
n replevin act on brought by Easter
gainst the sheriff of Lyon county for
he recovery or forty-fve barrels and
ixty-two cases OF to.tled beer. The
Traylor, claimed that the
was in costOdy of the sheriff.
hat it had been seized in a criminal
ction wherein the state was plaintiff
nd that he was enjoined by the district
udge from issuing any such order.
The supreme court says, "the clerk Of
he district court is purely ministerial
'fficer, and whenever an action Of replevin
8 brought. and in such action the
,rOper affidavit for an order Of delivery
nd the proper undertaking are filed in
he clerks Office. it is the clerks duty
o issue the order Of delivery.
intoxicating liquors are not contraband
lor outlawed in this state. They ar,
still property in legal contemplation
nd may be legally manufactured and
old for certain purposes, and may be
egally used for almost any purpose for
which intoxicating liquors may ever bs
Ised." The clerk mEst obev the law.
Easter certainly las a right to his
7rit of rep.evin notwithstanding the
rider of injunction from the district
ourt." The peremptory writ of man.
ANUS will be allowed
Governor Humphrey has pardoned
Ienry Mundy from the penitentiary.
Ie was sentenced from Leavenworth in
1856, for burglary, for five years. Also
'ardoned Archie Craig. o, Bourbon
ounty, after serving eight months Of
ne year sentence for larceny. Also
'ardoned John Smith, No. /, from
shawnee county. who was sentenced for