The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-04-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
High Court of Impeachment.

High Court of Impeachment.
THE senate met at Topeka on the afternoon
for the trial OF TheOdosus BOtEin, Judge OF
the Thirty third judicial district. against
whom the house last winter preferred
articles OF impeachment Only twenty two
senators were present when the court was
called to order. The board of managers ap.
peared and announced that the prosecution
was ready and that 1t had engaged A. NJ.
Mackey and George L Douglass as counsel
to act in conjunction with Attorney General
Ives on the part of the people. Ex-Attorney.
General Bradford. one of Judge Botkin's at.
torneys. acknowledged the presence of tho
defendant and filed general demurrer to the
articles of impeachment. This set forth that
the conduct and misdemeanors alleged did
not constitute ground for the removal Of the
defendant from office, even should they be
substantiated The attorney general asked
for time to prepare objections to the de.
murrer, and an adjournment was taken until
next day.
THERE was nearly a full attendance Of sen.
ators when the senate met as q court Of i'm.
parchment on the afternoon of the 2lst.
The attorneys for the defense asked for more
demurrer, which was granted, and the court
adjourned until the following day.
The senate as a court OF Impeachment,
with barely a quorum present. listened to
motions of attorneys on the 22d. Judge Bot
kin has asked that an appropriation be
made for de:raying his expenses. including
attorneys fees. In his plea he claims that
fair trial was not granted him before the
house investigating committee and that. in
preparing for the house trial, he had ex-
hausted his means.
The court of impeachment met on the 2sd
with Lieut. Gov. Felt for the first time in the
chair. Attorneys continued their arguments
on the demurrer.
THE argument on the demurrer submitted
by Judge BOtkin to the Indictment against
him was continued in the court of impeach-
ment on the oath. The attorneys for the
state consumed the morning hour and Lewis
Hanback, for the defense. closed after the
noon hour. The court then adjourned until
Miscellaneous.
Farmers in Douglas county com.
planned that the late heavy rains so
soaked the ground that
spring planting would be materially re-
tarded.
In the United States district court at
Topeka the other day T. C. Howe
pleaded guilty to robbing the post
Office at Manhattan and was sentenced
by Judge Foster to IS months in the
penitentiary.
Burt Beck was arrested at Topeka
the other day on Rock Island train,
together with young girl with whom
he was clipping. He was a school
teacher at Sprague. Neb., and the girl
was one of his pupils. He has wife
and three children at Lincoln, Neb.
c. G. Leeper, formerly stenographer
in the supreme court, died recently in
Lawrence of consumption. Mr.. Leeper
was musical genius He owned and
could play thirteen different musical
and had, with one or two
exceptions, the most complete musical
library in the state.
BY the report of the auditor of state
for the year 1890 the municipal debt,
which includes county, city, township
and school districts, aggregates the
UNI Of sS7. 1897. This equals an in
on the valuation of the
property Of the state of only 2 CLIO per
cent
All Hee, four years laundryman of
has started for his old home
near Canton, China, to preach the Cos
pei to his heather friends For more
than a year Chinese class had been
carried on at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms in
and one Of the most earnest
was All Hee.
The assessed value of the property OF
the State in 1861 was S24,744, 333; in
1865, $50. 227, 29O; in 1870. S92. 32S. O9S: in
1875, 1921, 544, 344; in 1880, S16O. $40. 76l;
in 1855, S24S, $40, S1l, and in 1890. $685.
459, 943. The property is assessed at
not more than one-fourth of its real
value, which is estimated to be 81, $685.
$50, 772.
Henry Sherwood, of G;rard, aged So,
Is serving term in the penitentiary as
tie convicted murderer of man named
who was shot near Independ-
ence in 1879. His brothers have Sc.
cured the affidavit of a man named
that Letcher made an ante
mortem statement generating Sher-
wood, and are making efforts to secure
his pardon.
Miss Agnes Sommers, of Wichita,
two masked men in the room
of her young brother the other night,
to kill him unless he told
where the family kept their valuables-
She quietly procured a revolver and
entering the room ordered them to
leave, and upon the robbers hesitating
she sent bullet at them. which caused
the robbers to beat a hasty retreat,
closely pursued by another bullet
Charles, the fve-year-old son of
George Numa. living six miles west of
Wichita, climbed into the hay loft of
the barn the other morning and set the
building on fire while playing with
His mother saw the harm in