The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-07
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News OF State
Interest.

The State Fair association has passed
an order paying off all the employees OF
the association and all construction bills,
amounting to over $4,000.
The unions in Topeka are increasing
all the time at good rate. In July the
unions in the Trades and Labor assem-
bly, received fifty five new members and
in August 121.
The Lake View sporting and fishing
club will give their first reception and
formally open their club house and
grounds Friday, October 21st. A
brass band has been engaged for the
occasion.
The state superintendent is sending
out the governors Columbus day proc
lamations, with his accompanying cir
cular, to every county and city superin-
tendent in the state, and hopes to place
them il the hands of every teacher in
Kansas.
At Washburn college this year there
is a sum of 500 offered to the students
for prize orations. OF this, $50 will be
given to the collegiate students and 500
to the preparatory. There will be three
prizes, of S25, SIS and $40, in each de-
partment. A student will have to sus-
tain an average of so per cent in order
to compete. These prizes are offered by
friends interested in the college. The
orations will be delivered some time in
February or March.
Among other gifts made by Rev. A.
NJ. Richardson, of Lawrence, to the
State Historical society, is copy of the
american Pioneer" two volumes. This
was a worthy periodical published at
Cincinnati in 1912 and 1S43, devoted to
the object of collecting and publishing
sketches relative to the early settlements
and successive improvements of the
country west of the Alleghanies. Mr.
Richardson also gives several Kansas
prohibition pamphlets and pamphlet
giving an account of the great religious
revival in Lawrence in 1917, in connec-
ton with the evangelistic labors of Rev.
E. Payson Hammond. This is PAM
phlet of forty-seven pages, made up
from tho reports which appeared each
morning in the Lawrence Republican
Daily Journal, of which T. Dwight
Thacher was the editor and Noble L.
Prentis local editor. The society also
has similar pamp,et giving an account
of Mr.. Hammonds revival meetings in
Topeka.
The case of Cornell university against
the county of Klngman, in which was
involved the validity of railroad bonds
issued by the county and purchased by
the school, has been decided for the
plaintiff by Judge Riner, of the United
States circuit court, sitting in Topeka.
The bonds we're issued in 1885 to the
Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Narrow
Guage Railroad company, the county
subscribing for $125,OOO in railroad
stock in exchange for bonds for the
same amount. While an Injunction
against the issue was pending in the
courts the name of the company was
changed to the Denver, Memphis & At
lantic Railroad company, and the legis-
lature passed an act authorizing
change of guage to standard width, and
also making valid the bonds of the old
company before the change was made.
A year ago, interest being in default,
the university brought suit upon tie
coupons. The decision Of Judge Riner
was that while the issue of bonds was
unlawfully made. the act of the legisla-
ture cured the defect and rendered it
valid. At the time of the issue the coun-
ty had no authority to bond itself.