The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-30
FIGHTING FOR FEES
QUEER MIDDLE IN WHICH a COUNTY
Is INTERESTED.

One Party Says that . Certain Contract wa
FRAUD and a snare-Tbey Afterward
Assume the Contract and Want it Car
ried Out-The other Side Then Says il
sa Fraud and a Snare and Does Not
Want to Fulfill It-Botb sides Appeal to
The Courts and Pile Up Costs in thu
Cave.
Yeste rday document was filed in the
appellate, court that made the stenog-
rarter r effect on the brevity of life II
contained about 500 pages Of type writ
Ter. matter an of which win have TO be
re-copied. Tt weighs about as much as
a sack of fic ur and is entirely too much
for the trial hands of a young woman
TO lift.
This doclIYns mt ds an appeal from the
co,,rt of Sum fer county by Campbell
A. Hood. editor and publishers Of the
Wellington Mon itor and Sumner County
Standard
In 1893 when p ,litics was hot in Sum
her county, the tandard, published by
Mrs. Carrie HERR ng, widow of Luke G.
Herring, was the Democratic organ OF
Sumner county. n the fall or that year
the evidence show ;, that County Com
missioner ]. P. FsTout promised Mrs.
Herring the county, printing II the pa
MRS influence coul d be used against a
fusion of the Demo Gratis and PopuEsts.
Il was so agreed AMI the Standard sue
cessfvely opposed fusion
In January 1894 tfse county commits
sfoners stood two r publican and one
Democrat AT the .irSt meeting MI
i,arot voted with Nj. Stewart to give
he county printing 10 Mrs. Herring,
Publisher of the S stand ard, and 1t was so
>-dered The Monitor having been the
.epublfcan organ kicked furiously and
II long and bitter editorials denounced
he printing contracts between Mrs.
relYing and the commissioners as
audulent. The '-roasts'' accomplished
)thing and the owners of the Monitor,
{ irr-pIbell & Hood, had 20 patroniZe the
Z I of diplomacy. They found that Mrs.
I .r,niTg was not in fact, ghe owner OF
= Standard but that it Wtls owned by
> ro1nias George and the widow of Ike
/ ne. They entered into negotiations
y tn Mr.. George and Mrs King and
bought from them the Standard
C,anpibeH & Hood then proceeded to
e1 the Democratic and Republican or
3 rs of the county thus having mo-
] parties.
When the trade was made the county
G. ansissioners gave orders to the clerk
~ | treasurer not 10 give any more
~ 1ting to the Standard. In the course
&C. a short time, a few days or so, the
g. nty commissioners declared the con-
Z, st with the Standard void and en-
g; d into a contract with r. T. Sirnons
ril ing the printing Ito the Caldwell
= VS..
len followed the suit Of Campbell
& Iood for the profits of the county
~. hing for their uneXpired term,
,,r uniting to 81, 600.
, Ne county commissioners in defense
PC red by the editorials of Campbell &
ito d, published Immediately after the
ri. ting was given 10 Mrs. Herring,
- the contract was fraudulent and
they knew it; also they proved by the
s,r editorials that there was a co1lu-
5, on between Mr.. Farot and the StanI
o.. | AMI that the county printing was
~ as a reward for a certain pOlit-
a position the Standard would take.
TIE case went to trial before Judge
Tu nett who decided in favor of the
coU fly commissioners. From his de-
c.si n Campbell & Hood appeal to the
~ elate court