Wichita eagle., 1889-04-23
HASKELL COUNTY HAPPENINGS.
SANTA F'E, Kan, April 90.

| To the Editor of the Eagle.
Since my last to you it has been rain
| ing almost constantly and finer pros
pect for a crop can be seen no where
than in this county. Farmers are great
ly encouraged over their prospects, and
well has it been remarked by many of
| the Oklahoma boomers that if they
should be unable TO get land in Oklaho-
ma they could find plenty of good, cheap
lands in southern Kansas. And they
are right, for no country in the world
, offers better inducements to homeseekers
than does Kansas.
Our city and county was thrown into
quite an excitement on Monday of this
week over the appearance of the sheriff
of Grant county on our streets with a
warrant issued by Judge Bodkin of the
district court for the arrest of the county
commissioners and the county clerk Of
this county, for alleged violation of an
order of injunction issued by his honor,
enjoining the said county commissioners
and the county clerk from issuing a
certain lot of county scrip alleged to be
illegal. There appears to be misunder-
standing between the commissioners and
his honor, Judge Bodkin, as the com
missioners claim that they were not
served with any notice or order of in
junction, while the judge claims that
they were. The following are the facts
as | have been able to get them from
Captain Fallon, the clerk of the district
court of this county: A number of the
farmers had no seed to plant this spring
and SO the township trustees and
the county commissioners of this county
decided that it would be right!to furnish
such seed at the expense of tie county,
and SO they did. Now there are always
a class who assume to be the watch dogs
of public affairs, but inthis case they are
very few. One Ozias Wright made APP
plication to Judge Bodkin for a tempo
rary restraining order to prevent the
county commissioners from issuing the
county scrip to pay for the seed pur-
chased and distributed to the farmers,
and on Monday morning, the Sth inst,
long before the time of the meeting OF
the commissioners, the would be cham
-Wright-was on hand with his pa
pers ready to file as soon as the clerk S
office was open and while the
clerk of the court was getting the bond
and undertaking ready the order of in
junction was taken from his table, or at
'
so the treasury watch dog, Mr. Wright,
operations withdrew his petition and
other paper from the clerks Office, and
as there was no injunction ever served
the commissioners proceeded with their
business and issued the scrip and paid
for the seed. For this the charge of
contempt has been made, and SO the
were arrested.
do not know how this will end, but
one thing is certain, no county in the
state has better board of
county commissioners and county
clerk than has Haskell county.
They are all farmers and men who
have made a success attending to their
own business, and their management of
the business of the county has proven
them to be good managers of public af-
fairs. While other counties in the state |
let their scrip depreciate in many cases
to sixty cents on the dollar and some |
times much lower, Haskell county's |
scrip sells readily for 80 cents: and for
the greater part of the time at par. The |
county has but small debt, has good |
steel Jail, good court house, fire proof |
offices, and all its officers well supplied |
with furniture. j. E. Morton and c. Il.
have been members of the |
board Of county commissioners since the |
day the county was organized. The /
board is composed of men of good bust |
ness qualifications, backed by nine-tenths
Of the people of the county, and the i'm |
mense crop that has been planted in the |
county this spring shows the wisdom of |
the county officers in purchasing seed.
REX