The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-13
Personal AND POLITICAL.


eral this week
All the speeches at the Kansas Day
club banquet next month are 70 be limit
ed to seven minutes.
The legislature viii commence voting
on state printer the day after Governor
Morrill, is inaugurated.
Topeka is to have two speakers at the
Kansas Day banquet next month, A. w.
Dana and Tom AcNeaL
There were no Kansas people On the
Rock Island train which was held mp At
the Red river Monday night
Bent Murdoch wants the legislature to
make an appropriation for the enforce
ment of the fish and game laws.
Q. J. Brown, clerk of the supreme
court, is at his post again, after a short
business trip to southern Texas.
Judge W. B. Sutton Of Russell county
will, it is said. become the irrigation
candidate for speaker Of the house.
Samuel 7. Howe says the temperance
crusade committee should be resurrec ted-
It did good while it lived but it died too
soon.
John Schlyer of Ellis county viii be
the only Democratic member Of the
house at the coming session Of the legis-
lature.
The newly elected state officers are to
receive their certificates on some newly
designed blanks which have just been
ordered.
The Rock Island officials believe the
Red FLYER train robbery could have been
prevented if there had been guards on
the train
State Treasurer w. II. BiddIe and W.
ID McKinstry, a boOkkeeper in the treas
urer's office, have gone to Texas on
business trip.
State Senator Dan McTaggart, who is
here, wants the anti-horse thief associa-
tiona 70 hava the authority To arrest sIIs-
pected thieves.
l. s Crum, who wants to be state oil
inspector, is a farmer and has never held
a state Office. although he has for years
been one of the party leaders.
Sanford Topping Of Ottawa, who was
at the Copeland Tuesday, says Ottawa
people are already getting ready for
next summers Chautauqua assembly.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has
been notified that the deposiEors of the
Blue Mound bank will be paid in full to-
day 1t will take about So. 600 to pay all
VIM. Campbell Of Stafford county viii
likely be the leader Of the P0pulist for
ces in the house this winter He is the
only one Of the old leaders who was re-
elected
Governor Lewelling has signed the
papers restoring the rights of citizen
ship to twenty light prisoners whose
terms Of sentence in the penitentiary
have expired
A civil engineer who had been in
Texas running a line for the North &
South railroad was relieved Of 800 by
the robbers on the Rock Island train
Monday night
Wiley W. Cook newly appointed as
sistant state auditor, has rented a house
on Polk street near Twelfth, and his
family will move to Topeka from Oswe-
60 next week
1t is said that 20 per cent Of the PEG
pie who ride the principal railroads
of Kansas ride on passes, but our su-
preme court Judges now pay their fare
like common people
Private Secretary J. /. Bristow viii
bring his family to Topeka for the win
ter, but will return to Salina during the
summer. Secretary Bristow expects to
rent house in Potwin
Frank ~ Brown, who was chief clerk
Of the Douglass house. will be a candi-
date for clerk this winter He arrived
yesterday afternoon to look after his in
terests at the Copeland
c. III. Edgecomb Of Phillips county,
who runs railroad excursions is visiting
among the politicians at the Copeland
He is a Republican, but says be does not
want an appointment
Charles Coll ms Of Hutchinson. traffic
manager of the II hutchinson s. Southern
railroad says be does not want his old
place on the live stock ommission which
he held under Governor Humphrey
According TO the opinion Of Attorney
General Little Bank Commissioner
Breidenthal will have to give up his Of
fee in March and Superintendent of IN
surance Snider viii have to walk out the
first Of July.
Secretary Of State Osborn says he had
expected to leave Kansas and 20 out of
politics entirely, but if his libel suit is to
be tried a second time he viii be forced
to stay here and take a part in the cam
paign two years from now.
Governor elect Morrill, is gathering
statistics for his frat message, and is
trying to do some writing, but the office
seekers don't give him. much time. He
viii probably have TO 60 to his home at
Hiawatha to finish his message.
B. J. Miles. superintendent Of the boys
reform school at EldOra, Iowa, Is visiting
his brother-in-law, Gov. LewelIing- Mr.
Miles is a Republican, and has been
superintendent Of the reform school for
Gig hteen years. and held over under the
administration Of Gov. Boise
Lawyer John Madden of Emporia, who
is now a POpulist and one of the regnets
OF the State Normal school, has during
his life belonged 10 both the Catholic
and Methodist churches and has been a
Republican and q Democrat He was a
classmata at college with J. Ware Butter
field.
DR.. George c. Pritchard state veterin-
ariAn and secretary Of the live stock sani-
tary commission will be the prosecuting
witness at Garnett at the trial of Jacob
Warnock, who is charged with violating
the state quarantine laws by bringing
cattle into the state after the close Of the
season.
Governor elect Morrill, has announced
the appoimment Of Miss Kate Adams to
"a