Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-03-04
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest.

The number OF militiamen in Topeka
when they were relieved Friday after
noon was asa.
The Topeka delegation to the Grand
Army encampment at Pittsburg was
not as large as usual.
DR.. McVicar addressed the students
of Washburn in chapel and stated that
the faculty approved of their course
during the recent war, and that absence
would be excused to those who had been
sworn in as assstant.sergeants-a arms.
Only one professor objected to the
action of the boys.
1t was decided at a meeting of the
worlds fair exhibit committee that
Chairman Taylor and Superintendent
Wooster be sent to Chicago for
the purpose of making the arrange
ments in detail for the educational ex-
hibit. The matter for exhibition is still
coming in in large quantities, and it is
Of high order of excellence. There
are more than $50 volumes of unbound
work in now.
Judge johnson and Judge Hazen
both sat in the circuit court at the trial
of some civil cases that involve nearly
100000, including several ranches and
a bank at Kinsley. The case Is an in
tricate legal tangle that requires long
controversy and the citing of many
authorities to decide Judge Hazen
left the district court to sit during the
trial with Judge Johnson, by the vote
OF the attorneys in the case.
Major General J. N. Roberts, of the
Kansas militia, has resigned. General
Roberts was adjutant general under
Governor Humphreys administration,
and was appointed major general the
night before Governor Humphrey went
out of Office. For a year previous to
that time the Office had been vacant
No appointment has been made to fill
the vacancy, and Mr.. Artz states that
none will be made at present.
1t was a great week for ribbons in
Topeka. First the populists with their
bits of indigo and the republicans with
their red badges. Then appeared Sher-
if Wilkerson's men with light blue dec
orations. When the college boys and
girls arrived, the white of the State
Normal, the crimson of the State uni
versity, the yellow of Baker and the
blue of Washburn, together with those
of other colleges, were added to the list.
William Raemer, republican repre-
sentative from Marshall county, is laid
up at his home at Herkimer with inju-
ries he received while making the charge
with the other republican members up
the stairway to representative hall. In
the conflict one of Mr.. Raemer's legs
was severely bruised. 1t was not
thought to be serious at the time, but it
has since turned into erysipelas, and no
one is. able to hear just how bad the
wound is.
The populist house draws better than
the Douglass house. ALI day yesterday
there was stream of visitors into the
state house to see the novel arrange
ment which the populists have fixed up
for representative hall. Speaker
Dunsmore was quite generous with his
tickets of admission, and nearly every
one who wanted to got inside. Their
new quarters, in the basement corridor,
has poor ventilation, and complaint is
made of an unwholesome atmosphere.
Suit has been fled on behalf of
Davis & Co. against the
Union Pacific railway company for the
sum of $4,000 for discrimination in
freight rates. The plaintiffs in their
petition allege that the Union Pacific
company has Disseminated
against them in the shipment of all
freight to points west of Topeka, Kan,
since February 81, 1891. They complain
that the cause Of the discrimination was
because they could not consent to give
the Union Pacific railroad company an
unfair and unjust proportion of their
shipment from eastern points to Tope-
ka. The petition further states that
the defendant has made better rates
and terms for shipment of freight from
all other jobbers in Topeka, Kan, and
to all ether jobbers in Lawrence, Kan,
and Kansas City, Mo-, and other whole
sale points; that the discrimination of
the railroad company was directed to
Davis & Co. alone; that by
reason of the discrimination Parkhurst,
Davis & Co. have been compelled to
abandon much of their trade on the
Union Pacific Railway company line,
and that the defendant has thus injured
and damaged large and lucrative bus
mess built up in the course of twenty
years.