The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

passed into the hands of an agent fol
the mortgages.
1t was recently stated that President
Colgrove, of the Ottawa university, haC
become insane from overwork.
The report of the state board of irri
CATION will not be published. The at
torney-general holds that the legisla'
tive appropriation to the board doe.
not provide for printing.
The superintendent of insurance OF
the 14th turned into the state treasury
! $4,000 which he had collected since
January l, 1896, as license from insur
ance companies doing business in Kan.
! sas.
The dead body of William Piper, ar
aged inmate of the soldiers home, wa:
found on the railroad track near Leav.
evworth the other night. In early
days Piper was prominent lawyer OF
Leavenworth.
William Heddie hanged himself liz
the Jail at Norton the other night.
After an exciting trial lasting a week
he had been convicted of the murder
of Albert Applegate, young farmer.
and was sentenced to serve a term OF
is years in the penitentiary at hard Ia
Dor.
The populist state central committee
met at Topeka on the evening of the
14th and issued calls for two state con.
ventions, one at Hutchinson March Is
to elect delegates to the national con-
vention, the other at Abilene August {
to nominate candidates for state of
ficers.
Gov. Morrill, has appointed Maj j.
K Hudson to be state prin ter until his
successor is elected and qualified. This
action was taken in view of the fact
that according to the late decision OF
the supreme court in the state printer.
ship contest, some doubt was thrown
upon Maj. Hudson's title to the office.
r. T. Fowler, a responsible cattle.
man of Russell county, advises the
pu bile that some man is going through
western Kansas and swindling people
by false representations in regard to
securing property or supposed heirs.
Mr. Fowler is much annoyed by the
recent action, as the man assumes all
or part of his (Mr. Fowler's) name.
In the district court at Emporia
Judge Randolph has decided that
chaJtel mortgage covering exempt
property. not signed by the wife at the
time of making, could not afterward
be assented to by her; that the mort
gage was void. He also decided that
a chattel mortgage covering part eX-
empt property, not signed by the wife,
was void as to all of the property.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has completed the appor-
tionment of the accumulated interest
of the annual school fund to the diff
ferent counties of the state. 1t gives
to each pupil of school age Al cents.
Wyandotte county gets the largest
amount, IS, 1923 a; Shawnee came next,
81, III. u; Sedgwicl third, Sc. 1T. 16, and
Leavenworth fourth, S5,55S 81. Nor
ton county gets the smallest sum,
500 96.
The Kansas City, Kan, school board
proposes to submit to the voters of the
city proposition to issue 100000 in
bonds for the construction of addi-
tional school buildings. The report of
the committee to which the matter
was referred calls for five new build
ings and additions and repairs to those
now in use. At present the schools
are very crowded. The enrolment is
1909 and the seating capacity only
5,s64.
The supreme court has decided that
mo court has the power to fix the time
for the execution of a death sentence
before the governor has named day
for carrying it into effect, when he re-
fuses to issue a warrant for that pur-
pose" This disposes of the much dis
cussed Edwards county case, wherein
it was sought to take Arnold and Har-
vev, the murderers of Mayor Marsh. of
X nsiey. from the penitentiary and ex-
ecute them without the warrant, which
the governor refused to issue.
1t is said that there 10 great danger
of bloodshed in Meade and Comanche
counties, with the stockmen on one
side and citizens on the other. Some
time since several stockmen fenced in
large area of grazing lands belong
ing to nonresident owners, with wire
fence. Into this Enclosure they drove
several hundred head of cattle recently
shipped from Texas Several nights
later the wire was cut in a dozen
places, the herd stampeded and scat
tered over the country, and more than
100 head disappeared entirely. Notices
were posted warning the cattlemen not
to fence such lands again.
The thirteenth annual report of the
state hoard of railroad commissioners
| is a voluminous document and contains
fund of information for those who
are sufficiently interested to wade
through it labyrinth of figures The
report shows a great falling Off in the
earnings of Kansas roads during the
past year. The report says: ''Of the "A
roads Is are now in the hands of re-
ceivers and two others have in the not
remote past been in like situation.
| Only two of the % roads making oDer-
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