The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-26
GOING TO LAW.
Asa Bum Who Charges Warden
Chase With Boodling,
Will Observation-Disclosures
ling at Once.
NO DODGING, SAYS HE.
The Charges Against Chase
Must Be Investigated.
Bum and Others Claim to Know
Great Deal.

Governor Lewelling will be compelled
to order an investigation of the charges
made against Warden Dick Chase and
the directors of the penitentiary.
Asa Bum, the discharged mine in
spector, who is one of the men bringing
the charges, is in Topeka today, and to
STATE JOURNAL reporter this afternoon
said: Governor Lewelling does not seem
to be willing to Investigate the charges
against the penitentiary officials, but he
will investigate them just the same. When
the charges were filed | thought of
course they would be made public and
an investigation ordered at once.
t'The law says when charges are filed
against such officials the governor shall
at once lay the matter before the lieuten-
ant governor and the speaker of the
house and they shall summon three
memb of the house and two senators
who shall form committee to conduct
the investigation.
"The governor has not done this; but
we are going to commence mandamus
proceedings in the supreme court and
compel him to order an investigation.
We can prove all there Is in the charges
; filed and more, too.
HThe trouble is that Dick Chase has
always been a boodler of the worst kind
l fought him and helped down him after
he sold out at Wichita. but he did not
know l was the man until after l was at
work in the mines
Il have been reformer for thirty five
years and Dick Chase is mistaken and
all other folks are mistaken who think l
will submit to the kind of crookedness
that has been going on at the peniten-
tiary without entering my protest.
"Lamm, the Republican mine superin-
tendent, couIdn' stand Chase's admins
tration any longer and he quit. Chase.
didn't know where he could get mine
superintendent and John Yarroll, the
1I- he
who could fill the bill. He told
him his name was Bum and he was
working for the Santa Fe. When Var
roll said Santa Fee Chase just jumped
at the chance to get "A man. he argued
that if l was working for the Santa Fe,
of course l was boodler and tool, but
wasn't he mistaken!
"Soon after l took charge of the mines,
Mr.. Gallagher, the state mine Inspector,
visited the mines, and In his report said
the shaft must be repaired at once. l
attempted to comply with the advice of
the state mine inspector and commenced
to repair the shaft, which | knew needed
repairing badly, and which | had said
before should be repaired.
"Chase ordered me to let the shaft
alone and get out coal. He was SO
greedy for Doodle that he did not care if
the mine caved in. | insisted on repair
ing the shaft and we had more trouble
and then he called me up and without
any investigation whatever discharged
me-
"He tried to work Stonehecker the
storekeeper on his thieving scheme
against the state but Stonehecker
wouldn't stand it and he was fired, too
John Yarroll the chief clerk who keeps
the books is also at outs with Chase be-
cause he won't do the bookkeeping accor-
ding to the Chase system but he don't
dare fire YarrOll.
'We are going to have an investigation
that will open the eyes of the people of
the State.''