Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-17
Institute of Arts and Languages.

Institute OF Arts and Languages.
On pay day for December in the state
house and for the officers within the
building the auditor issued warrants for
$4,000 in round figures. The pay roll
for the state at large amounts to some
thing over 100000
Secretary Of State.el Billy Ed
wards, has appointed George A. Sells
chief clerk pro tenn in his Office j. H.
Hamilton Of Cherokee county, who was
the first offered the position, has de-
clined it because Of his private business.
Mr.. Sells is young lawyer at Larned
and an intimate friend Of Secretary elect
Edwards. w, Q, Hiltz, of Larned, has
been appointed engrossing clerk under
the secretary Of state and will have a
job during the session of the legisla.
ture.
Captain Henry Booth, Of Larned, re-
publican, has begun a contest for tho
seat in the house from the Ninety Sec
ond district, for which the certificate OF
election was issued to A. II. Lupfer,
populist. The grounds of contest arc
fraud, illegal voting and illegal re-
turns. Booth was chairman Of the re-
publican state central committee in
1883 and was tho Same fall elected rep
resentative from Pawnee county, and
was speaker Of the house during the
session Of 1889. Lupfer was chairman
of the elections committee OF the Duns.
more house and'was very active prior
to the decision Of the supreme court in
favor of the Douglass house in his Of
forts to unseat republican members.
The legislature elected in 1894 must
hold two sessions; the first with the
present senate and the second in 1896
with newly elected senate. Section 2
of article 10 of the constitution provides
that the Legislature must apportion the
state into representative districts in the
year 1865 and every five years there
after, which will require a session for
such apportionment in the year 1896, so
that there will be session Of this legis.
lature convened in January, 1896, and
also another session convened in Jan
uary, 1896, which will be equivalent
to annual sessions OF this legislature.
The last apportionment was made at
the regular session of the legislature
in 1891; the time for the previous APP
portionment falling in 1886 Gan even
year, when the legislature is neve:
in regular SESSION. a special session was
required. At these special sessions a
large amount Of general Legislative bust
ness is always transacted.
The cholera fund case to prevent DR..
Dykes and his associates on the state
board Of health from capturing the
$4,000 appropriation 10 repel an inva-
sion Of cholera into Kansas is settled so
far as the district court is concerned.
There is talk, however, OF appealing the
case to the supreme court. When Judge
Hazen granted the injunction several
weeks ago, which prevented Dr. Dykes
from appropriating the money, Dykes
lawyer, F. B. Dawes, demurred to the
petition on the ground that the Shaw
nee county district court didn't have jrL-
risdiction in the case. The argument
was made about ten days ago Mr..
Dawes contended that threatened in
vasion" was matter left to the discre.
ton of the board, and that it's decision
regarding it was final Judge Hazen
holds that the threatened invasion was
not declared by the board of health, but
by Secretary Dykes who is not mem
Der Of the board, but its officer and SER
want. The demurrer was overruled and
his former decision stands.
Miss Eva Ryan, Of Hiawatha, Kan,
has fled with State Historical society
the original manuscript Of Mrs. Ellen p.
Allerton's poem, walls Of Corn"
Shawnee county is debarred from
competing for any Of the prizes offered
for the largest enrolment at the state
teachers association meeting. This
year the enrolment OF Shawnee county
reached 113, more than double that Of
Lyon county which captured the flag.
Lyon county enrolled forty-seven.
Shawnee county broke all her previous