The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Drawing the Line.

COmancne ana Bar DER counties, Man,,
and Woods and Woodward counties,
Ok. The official surveyors of the four
counties are quarreling over the
boundaries Recently three broth
ers, named Eickler, killed a man
named Wash Phillips, and they were
arrested by the authorities of Barber
county. At the preliminary examina-
| ton the question of jurisdiction was
| raised, and it was then found out that
Phillips was killed on the state line
and on the exact spot where the four
counties Joined. AS the prosecution
would cost $4,000, Barber county in
sisted that the murder was not COM
mitted on its soil, and the other coun-
ties made the same claim, all feeling
too poor to undertake the prosecution.
The surveyor of each county was APP
| pointed to constitute a commission to
agree as to where the murder was
| committed.
& Miscellaneous.
The Delaware bank at Valley Falls
has been placed in the hands of the
bank commissioner.
T. J. Kellam, prominent citizen of
Topeka, died in that city few days
since from injuries sustained IN late
railroad wreck near Victor, 20
| The house committee ou public
buildings and grounds have ordered
favorable report on the bill appropri-
ating $50, 600 for public building at
| Topeka
Judge Munroe at Hays City has de-
cided that any man, whether member
of the bar or not, can be elected n
county attorney and can perform all
the duties of the office except plead
case in court
The council of administration of
the G. A. R. has fixed the date of hold
ing the fifteenth annual encampment
at Beloit, April 81, 90 and %. The
headquarters Of the department will
be at the Avenue hotel and will be es-
tablished Monday, April 90
J.R. Colean, defaulting cashier of the
State bank of Fort Scott, pleaded guilty
to one count of ENLIGHTENMENT in the
district court in that city the other day
and the other counts against him were
dismissed. The greatest punishment
for the crime Is five years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The state council of the American
Protective association, at its late ses-
sion in Topeka, elected officers as fol-
lows: President, A. d. Hubbard, To-
peka; vice president, s s. King, Kan
sas City; secretary of state, G. w. Ii.
Ross, Leavenworth; f. H. Barker,
Kansas City, state secretary, and
George Pickard, Kansas City, treas
urer.
The one crop about which the most
inquiries are now coming to the Kansas
state agricultural department, not only
from Kansas, but from all the Missls-
sippi valley, is Kaffir corn. The litera-
: ture as to this valuable grain and for
age plant is as yet quite limited, but
Secretary Coburn says he will be glad
1 to furnish applicants with such infor-
3 nation as is available.
Some time since Mrs. Fred J. Harris,
of junction City, received $4,000 insur-
ance on her husbands life and placed
it in bank. The money was then gar
/ nisheed on an old judgment Judge
t Moore, of the district court, held that
a since it was the same money received
on the insurance it was exempt from
attachment under the new insurance
# law, which makes policies exempt.
n Judge Alden, of Kansas City, Kan,
grand chancellor of the Knights OF
Pvthias for Kansas, said recently that
: the letter of the pope placing ban on
9 secret orders had not affected the
9 pvthian lodge in the state in the
@ least. So far no Catholics had with
n drawn from the order. There are six
: or more deputy chancellors in the state
who belong to the Catholic church.
IL In the district court at Wichita a
g. few days ago Judge Dale decided that
1t he would not admit any private pa
,r pers, membership certificates or drink
Ia tickets to be used as evidence against
=, the owner of clubs charged with VIC
= lntion of the prohibitory laws. He
70 said it was against the federal consti-
Is tuition and in line with decision in
le the I26th United States reports.
a Jacob Martin, Kansas pioneer and
40 noted character, died at private hos
pital in Leavenworth the other morn
ing. Martin was Sc years old and
IS we'll remembered by old settlers. He
became partially demented % year:
s. ago and has been a charge on the cOun'
rs tv since He was under the delusior
is that he was candidate for mayor or
G. cheap grocery platform and was con
~ stantly making speeches.
:. Judge Dale, of the Wichita district
10 court, is reported as having lately
y made the announcement that under nc
III circumstances would he try any more
Ie liquor cases under the prohibitory law
pr His action was prompted by the fac
-, that juries invariably return verdict'
!! of acquittal, in some instances without
10 leaving the box Only one jury this
IL, term has been more than six minute:
Id returning a verdict of acquittal in a
n. whisky case.
=, Over 300 men were recently dis
charged from the Santa Fe shops a
Vi Topeka. in accordance with the policy
n of the new management for economy
is and retrenchment. At nearly every
ys point along the system, where th'
III company has shops of any size a reduc
- ba force his usaar