The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-09-18
AREN'T CZARS YET
HOWL AGAINST ASSISTANT ATTOR.
NEY GENERAL IN CRAWFORD co.

Like an Absolute Monarch He Sends all the
Officers of Club to Jail and they are
Dawes Lick-spittles is Without end and
Limit-Case to be taken to the supreme
Court and ubmitted-Prohibitory Row
Is Spreading all Over the State of
Kansas
Topeka, Kan, Sept. 17.-(Special.)-
All over Kansas the prohibitory war IS
breaking out with renewed fury. The
spirit of antag gonism to the law appears
to be contagious. In many Of the coun-
ties juries refuse to convict when the
evidnce is incontrovertable against sa-
loon keepers. This il will be Remember
ed was the case in Dickinson county
last week.
In nearly all the other counties in the
state the least spark sets of. a row over
the law. At Fort Scott the city council
has repealed all ordinances and the po-
lice commissioners have laid down fiat.
In Labette county a fierce struggle is
going on. II Emporia it has been found
necessary for the law and order ele-
ment to get up q spotting committee.
any attempt to enforce the prohibition
law in Atchison, Leavenworth and Kan
sas City would be the signal for the
most astounding political sensations
against the Morr.H administration.
The latest row of pretensions is in
Cra wford county. There ii has assum-
ed a new phase. Assistant Attorney
General r. w. Coggswell of Pittsburg,
recently summoned the officers of the
Zinc City Turnverein to appear before
him and testify in regard to the manner
of the disposition of beer and other
drinkab bles in their club room. The Off
GERS refused TO answer the questions
propounded and Cogswell sent them
to jail for contempt. They have en-
pLoyed lawyer and ha beaS corpus pro-
ceedings for their release will be insti-
tuted in the supreme court. 1t will be
claimed that the assistant attorney gen
eral has no authority to commit wit
nesSeS.
There is a section Of the prohibitory
law which gives county attorneys power
to commit witnesses who refuse 70 an
swer questions in regard TO violations s
of the prOhibitory statute, when such
witnesses are summoned before them
for that purpose. but the supreme court
some time ago declared it to be uncon-
stitutional. Whether this construction
would apply to an action of an assistant
attorney general probably is a debate
able question.
NEW KIND OF FUSION.
The Democratic and Republican COM
mittees of Seward county nave called
a joint convention to nominate a county
ticket in opposition to the Populists.
n
an apportionment of delegates with the
understanding that a combination tick
ct would be nominated. This is the first
instance in Kansas where two political
parties have deliberately combined to
defeat third. 1t is a new kind of fus-
ion in Kansas. Heretofore fusion deals
have been effected on the quiet.
NOTES FROM TOPEKA.
Judge Hazen Of the district court to
day set the criminal libel suit of United
! States Judge c. G. Foster against Major
J. K. Hudson, editor of the Topeka
Capital, fer trial a week from today.
The case of Labor Commissioner W. C.
Bird, charged with taxing employees in
his once, will follow. Then will come
the third trial of the celebrated Matson
| murder case, in which Frank Nevels
is the defendant. 1t probably will take
Before leaving for the south Governor
Morrill, prepared a blank for monthly
statements from the state oil inspector
! In future the inspector will be required
| to account for every barrel inspected
or the reports must show that the in
spector or his deputies personally In
spected every barrel. 1t has been the
custom to leave inspection stamps al
the oil station, practically giving the
| oil men permission to do the inspecting
| themselves.
The penitentiary sentence OF Charles
Pashal of Kansas City, Kan, who was
in March. 1890, convicted of burglary
end grand larceny, has been commuted
! from twenty years to ten years. Gov
ernor Morrill, signed the papers last
week, but it was not made public until
/ toady. The state board of pardons
which investigated the case, found that
! Paschsl's sentence was heavier than
the law provides.
The state reform school here, with
200 boy inmates, has been placed under
quarantine restrictions by DR.. L. A
Ryder, the attending physician, on ac-
| count of a case of diptheria. The pa
! tient is Arthur Workman of Clound
county. who has the disease in mag
! hgnent form.
| Ex-Adjutant General Artz was arrest
ed this afternoon for riding bicycle
on the sidewalk. He put up 50 at police
headquarters TO pay the fine