The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-26

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erner of Note. BUSHES to Perry for a
Dose of that Famous Ninety-Day Keller
and will Probably be Restored to his
Bachelor Name-Eugene Rail Taken to
Kansas-OkIahoma News.
Guthrie, o. T, Nov. 25.-(SpeciaD-
The big fight against the Waggoner
Cattle company is on. This is the Texas
company with which Governor Rem
frow is charged with having been in
league in granting leases. Smaller
ranchmen were put aside by the gov
ernor. If was claimed, and the Wagon
ers favored. Since then the feeling to-
wards the Waggoners has not been of
the best.
Suit was filed in the FL Reno district
court Saturday by Attorneys Flood
and Hughes OF Texas, and Horace
Speed of this city, enjoinnig the collec-
ton Of s35, 600 taxes in Canadian county
assessed against the Waggoner Cattle
company Of Texas. A temporary in
junction was granted and bond given
in the sum of $4,000.
In the FL Reno district court last
week, Judge Burford heard the case Of
the United States VS.. Henry Frass, In
dicted for larceny, in which the de-
PENDANT entered a demurrer 10 the in
dfctnent filed. taking as grounds for
such action the decision Of Justice
Scott who ruled that the United States
had no jurisdiction over crimes COM
mitted in attached Indian countries.
Judge Burford overruled the demurrer
and decided exactly opposite to Judge
SCOTS ruling.
LAPPIN Is RELEASED.
Attorney Ed Semple and County At
torney Porter of Wood county. appear
ed before Judge Scott in chambers Sat
urday and argued a habeas corpus case,
the former desiring to secure the writ
and the latter opposing it. 1t was the
Territory vs.. J. W. Lappin and Bert
MORAY, charged with the murder Of
John V. Convey, in Wood county, this
summer. Judge Scott granted the writ
and admitted the parties to bail in the
sum Of $1,000 and 1000 respectively.
Santiago Garcia, the Mexican who
killed an Indian near Fort Sill. on &C
count Of the latter's intimacy with
Garcia's wife, was indicted by the
grand jury at FL Reno and will be tried
December Q. Garcia is so years old. a
large number Of federal cases will be
tried at El Reno on the above date.
PHOEBE COBB'S AUNTIES.
In the Perry district court d. Nc
Ieod Cobb has sued his wife Phoebe
r. Cobb, for divorce. Cobb is partner
with his father in a large manufa ctur-
ing business in Brooklyn, N. y. and he
IS a nephew Of Congressman Cobb Of
New Jersey. The filing of the suit has
created a sensa ton. In his petition he
swears that he and Phoebe B. Cobb
We're married in Jersey City in 1877, that
after 1882 she completely left his bed
and board. He says that she told him
che had an aunt who lived a Jersey
rity and that she very often left her
home in New York City and Brooklyn
to psy her aunt visits, whom she seem
ed TO love very much. and after years
ne learned that his wife bad no aunt or
relatives in that city. She also in 1881
left her home TO attend her aunt's
funeral in Kingston, n. Y. but he after
ward learned that she went to Wash
ington, where he nor she either had any
relatives or acquaintances that he knew
Of Cobb accuses his wife Of being
regular tattler.
RAIL- IN FOR 1T.
Alva, o. T, Nov. 25-(Specia1)-
News reaches here that Eugene Rail
formerly treasu Of Garfield county,
Kan sas. must go 10 Kansas to stand
trial, Judge Bierer dissolving the writ
of habea:s corpus over Rail, Saturday
at Perry. Rail is said to be on his way
to Finney county now Rail is c:harg-
ed with criminal liability for loss of
county funds by failure of the bank
designated by the board of Garfield
county commissioners as the legal de-
pos!tory Of The county funds His
friends doubt his liability even in a
civil suit against him and his bonds
men.
Mr.. Rail advised the board prior to
the failure of the Ingalls, band that he
considered the band unsafe. He also
advised the very person who now
makes the complaint. who at that time
was one of the board who ordered
him TO deposit in the ingalls, bank.
that it was unsafe and Mr.. Rail also
contrary TO the desire or opinion of
this member of the board. went and de-
manded the county funds before the
bank suspended but all he could get
was a certificate of deposit on a Kan |
BalS City hank, which also refused to !
honor the certificate. Mr.. Rail remain |
I'd a. citizen of that locality several |
years afterward and having rendered |
settlement, inclu41ing the certificates of |
deposit. and done what he could to |
close the accounts Justly |
To the county and to himself, feels that |
no one has any right to charge him |
His friends here do not believe that |
Mr.. Rail is cupable. much less do they |
believe that criminal proceedings could |
be allowed before civil suit is institute |
ed and decided.
Mr.. Rail is q grocer here and himself |
and family highly respected. He has |
held honorable positions here and else 1
where and is now treasurer of Alva-
FAY ROGERS MAD.
The greatest interest in Woods coun-
~ affairs now cen4ers on the outrage
nus tax levy made for the fiscal year Of
% and '95 by the Pop board of county
two Of whom were in
aicted by the last grand jury The
total levy for county purposes amounts
10 S4S.645.S7. the territorial tax being
but four and six tenths mills. Tax
leagues are being formed ali over the
sounty to resist the enforcement OF |
collection Of 50 much larger sum than
AN he legitlmately used and we ven
ture the opinion that an injunction will
be obtained against the collection OF
more than sufficient funds 10 properly |
the county government with
IN legal estimates. OF the above
mount the sum OF sl7.I463S has been
levied Tor salaries OF county officers Of
which SS.Sooeo IS the extreme limit OF
he LAW allowable for all Of the salaried
officers OF any county in Oklahoma
This leaves SS,si6-SS 70 pay the sheriff.
coroner and probate Judge the last tv,o
y which could not in reason exceed
1858. leaving s7,eeo for the sheriff be-
ids q contingent fund OF 81 COG u -