The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-29
NILES BOND
The New Adjutant Of the Grand
Army
Meets With Some Trouble About
Going Into Office.
HIS BOND is REFUSED.
Other Reasons For Delay in His
Installation.
Endeavors to Dismiss Miss Her
rell, Contrary to Promise.

Trouble is brewing within the g. A.
r. of this department.
That is not alls trouble is already
here.
Col. W. @. Whitney, the newly elect
ed department commander, has come to
town. and with him, his new adjutant
general, J. v. Niles. Mr. Niles has had
some trouble In securing his bond for
IS, coo. The bond which he got UP first
was turned down by the council of adj
nainistration before that body left Be
lott. Mr.. Niles has provided a new bond,
however. and this morning he present.
ed the bond to Curly Harrison. the
late adjutant general and called upon
the latter to turn over to him the funds
on hand belonging to the department.
Now the council Of administration has
to pass upon the bond of the
adjutanf general. according to the pro-
visions of the organization, and as the
next meeting OF the council does not
occur until May 6, Curly Harrison
was instructed to hold the funds In his
care until the new man qualified.
Hence. when Niles made his applica-
ton. or demand, to Harrison, the lat
ter refused. Niles insisted, but Harri-
son wss Arm, and stilI holds the funds.
Miss AIaude Herreu has been an en-
ploye of the department for a long time
and is thoroughly familiar with an the
business and details Of the office in this
city as well as all matters pertaining
to the department. The new adjutant
general wired Miss Herrell yesterday to
come home from the southern part of
the state where she was in attendance
upon a sick relative, and help straight-
en- up the business and make the trans
fer. She came to the office this morn
ing and was promptly notified by Mr.
Niles that after she had assisted in the
transfer and other Incidental work.
taking, perhaps, week or two, her
/ services would no longer be required
There was a fight on the proposition
4 of keeping Miss Herren at the late Be-
/ Io3t encampment The young lady is SO
/ edicient that her friends in the major
ity. won the fight for her.
Barney Kelly wanted the appropria-
ton for the services Of the adjutant
/ general cut down from $1,000, where it
has been for some time to a lower fig
ure, and only let up on this fight when
1 assured by the new commander and adj
/ jtuant general that Miss Herrel would
/ be retained. she to receive q portion Of
J this 81 200. He had a solemn promise Of
this, as did Curly Harrison and other
workers for Miss HerreI-
Now Mr.. Niles wants to let her so
/ entirely. and the proposition is to have
the new adjutant generals daughter
perform the clerical work hitherto
| done by Miss FIerrell.
Just what the end of the whole at
fair viii be. is not known. nor intima-
ted; but the friends of Miss Herren
who have the action of the late en-
campment back of them, will insist
| that the young lady be retained in
| spite of anything the new commander
| and adjutant general may say.
1t is rumOred that the new officials
| have it lin" for Topeka. and in fact
/ every other portion of the state except
the northwest Adjutant General Niles
( claims that all the trouble over his
/ bond originated in Topeka. where his
| was right at BelOit that the objection
| came to it. The first fntimation To-
| peka had of the invandity of the bond
| was by wire from Beloit. when it had
/ been turned down by the council of
I administration. Tt is said all the
banks of Beloit pronounced the bond
given in the first place by Niles as
I invalid