Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-06-21
CAPITAL NOTES.

Home at Dodge City, vice y. IL Barker
of Girard, resigned.
In the case of Rooster VS.. the county
commissioners of Atchison county, the
Kansas supreme court sustains the act
authorizing the establishment and main
tenance OF county high schools, holding
that 1t is not in conflict with section 2,
article 6, of the constitution, nor with
the first clause of section IL of the
same article.
In the case of Winton ct. al. VS..
Wilson, sheriff, from Labette county,
the Kansas supreme court holds that
a sheriff holding an order for the
sale of real estate cannot be required
by a writ of mandamus to publish the
notice of sale in newspaper selected
by the plaintiff.
In the case of the State VS.. Shaefer,
from Shawnee county, the Kansas SUI
creme court holds that an analysis OF
cider seized upon the premises OF a
person charged with selling hard cider
which intoxicated, is competent testl-
mony, the circumstances OF the analysis
being taken into account. The court
further holds that hard cider is fer
mented liquor and is within the prohlbl-
ton of the state when sold as beV'
>rdge without permit.
Secretary Mohler attended meeting
Of the sugar men of tie state at Hutch
inson. He reports very interesting
meeting. The discussions and papers
covered all that is new in sugar making
from sorghum and beets. Much that
was practical and valuable was devel-
oped. The June report of the board
is in the hands of the printer, and con-
tains several valuable papers and also a
report of the experimental station at
Manhattan.
In the state ex rel. VS.. the county COM
missioners of Atchison county, the Kan
sas supreme court holds that 'a county
seat will remain precisely where it was
originally located until changed or re-
moved under the provisions OF the consti-
ution and statutes of the state; and held,
where a county seat was located upon
the territory of an incorporated city
and afterward the boundaries of such
city were enlarged, this extension of
the boundaries of the city did not have
the effect to extend the boundaries of
the county seat, but the county seat
remained precisely where it was origin
ally located" Opinion by Valentine,
j., Horton, G. j., not sitting or taking
in tho decision
In the case of State VS.. AGsms, from
Republic county, the Kansas supreme
court holds that it is within the discre-
ton of the. court trying a criminal
cause to admit the testimony of wit
nesses whose names were not Endorsed
upon the information until the begin
ming of the trial, and the defendant has
no cause to complain unless there has
been an abuse of that discretion. The
court further holds that in prosecu-
tion for the sale of Intoxicating liquors
where a controv srsy arises as to the
intoxicating quality of the beverage
sold, testimony that the defendant had
a jug of whisky in stock at his place of
business about the time of the alleged
sale, nd that the persons who drank
the beverage became intoxicated, tends
to sustain thu charge of the state and
is admissible in evidence.
Capital: Thirty-f years ago
Judge W. G. Webb was living in
Wisconsin. 1t was the year 1856. He
had been appointed notary public and
was ambitious to have a good seal.
There were no copper-plate printers
SO far west then, and he went eighty
miles to Milwaukee. They took copper
coin and hammered the surface smooth,
and then an inscription was craven
upon it as follows: NV. G. Webb
State of Wisconsln-notary public"
A printer was found in the person of
Z. G. Ross, who mounted the coin and
printed 200 impressions on common
rotary press. The Judge has recently
found Que of the printed slips from
the old coin and sent 1t to this Office.
Mr.. Ross was subsequently United
States senator from Kansas, and the
boy who attended the press is present
employee of the Capital.
Capital: About noon an excursion
train of five cars, all full of passengers
and with each of the platforms crowded
too, came in from Fort Scott. There
were about three hundred people from
Fort Scott, one hundred from Garrett,
and one hundred from Blue Mound
and other points along the
road. Among the Fl. Scott crowd were
the Methodist Sunday school of that
place and the Kansas Central Norm al
college students and band. They we're
fine lot of people, and To-
peka was proud to entertain them for
the day. The occasion of the excursion
was the festival chorus at Oakland.
The excursionists visited that ard the
State house, the art exhibition at Lii
brary hall, Washburn college, the San