The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-04

for Troutmau for Governor When DE
has Taken the Precaution to Give Al
most All the Appointments to Topeks
Men-It Looks Like ILgratitude and
the Morrill, Men are Now Talking bout
Taking Revenge-Not Likely That To-
peka Will Get Conventions.
Topeka, Kan, April 3.-The war cloud
has shifted to Topeka. This town will
now have a row which may make even
| the Wichita row secondary in state inn
! portance. Topeka has not only police
commission fuss on hand with the Tenn
| perance union picking at her; she has
, not only the cold shoulder of the Re-
| publicans and Populists in their refus-
ing to give Topeka any state conven-
| tions, but the Troutman boom has preci-
| pftated political row.
Morrill, thinks Shawnee county should
| be for him. Troutman's boom he does
not regard as anything permanent or
serious and after he has given so many
appointments to Topeka ne thinks it is
a shame to be so treated.
| Morton Albaugh voices the thoughts
| of the administration in his Kingman
paper this week by saying:
Topeka wants the earth. Not sat
| fsfied with being the capital city Of the
state, with having two of the most i'm
portant state institution located there
| and with having almost one-third OF
the appointive places at the disposal OF
the state administration, they now in
siSt that they must have the governor
md -acr c6T1 q
nor Morrill, has given the state a good
administra ton, but that is not TO count,
for they want the governor They ad-
NIT he has inaugurated reforms in the
management of the states affairs that
even a Populist state administration
would not dare abandon, but that is to
be forgotten, for Topeka wants the gov
ernor.
But II won't count. The people Of
Kansas are looking after the dollars
and cents they annually pay as taxes
more than they are at what Topeka
wants. They know that Governor Nor
rill's administration has saved them
money and at the same time the wards
of the state have been better cared for
than heretofore and they will not turn
down the man who has taken the init
ative in these reforms They will not
do IL even to please Topeka"
OTHER OFFICERS HOT.
Judge Guthrie informed Senator
Sterne at recent conference that If
any of the state officers expected the
support of Shawnee county they must
come out for Troutman for governor,
This talk has also been made by other.
OF the supporters of Mr.. Troutman, and
the consequence is the organization Of
a rebellion right here at the home of the
Troutman boom.
All of the present state officers have
active friends in Topeka and Shawnee
county who vigorously object to this
apparent attempt to bulldoze them into
supporting Mr.. Troutman. At the
present writing, it looks very much as
II this rebellion would result in an op-
position delegation being put in the
field. A large number of local politi-
clans have expressed themselves as
opposed to tieing- Shawnee county to
one man to the exclusion of other inter-
eSts and they will make a campaign for
an independent delegat ton. 1t is not
proposed to make this an outspoken
Morrill, delegation, but rather to run in
opposition to the idea that every inter-
est must be sunk beneath the ambition
or Mr.. Troutman.
VERY QUEER RUMOR.
Hutchinson, Kan, April S.-A report
was recently circulated in this city that
gained some footi1oId elsewhere. to the
effect that r. r. Price, who died at his
home here, Dec 10, 1894, is not dead, and
has been seen with his wife in Califor-
MIA: The facts are as follows: Mr.
Price was sick at his home for about
ten days prior to his death, and was
visited by scores of people, and not less
than five physicians, two of whom were
IN constant attendance upon him. He
was operated on for appendicitis by Dr..
Cordier of Kansas City, assisted by Drs.
Brown and Clipped of this city, his reg
uIar attendants. Two days later he
died in the presence of his family and a
group of friends, neighbors and atten-
dants II. Whiteside of this city was
present at the operation and his death.
as well as number of other well known
citizens of Hutchinson. His body Law
In state and was viewed by hundreds
or acquaintance and friends, while in
charge of the knights Tempiar. He was
buried by that order in Topeka in the
presence Of hundreds OF his friends. The
insurance companies long ago paid all
the policies on his life. aggregating $780,
600, without ever raising the question Of
his death, and never have limited a scin-
tilla OF doubt; as TO his demise since.
The whole story is silly fabrication.
and probably was prompted by the re-
ports current concerning the famous
Hlllmon case at Topeka. This exposure
OF the false report can be substantiated
by the testimony Of hundreds of per-
sons here. and not living person could
be produced who would testify to tba
contrary, without being sent TO the peni
tertiary for perjury. The story is a
fabrication, manufactured out of whole
cloth.
TOPEKA END OF IT.
Topeka, Kan. April 3.-The rumor
that Reys r. Price is alive and sojourn-
Ing with his wife in California has been |
hoating around here for several DAYS.
Jacob Mulvane. administrator Of the |
Price estate. received a letter last Sun
day from the Manager Of the Mulvane |
Salt plant at Hutchinson. stating that
the story was in circulation there. J. II. |
Stevenson, brother-iu-law of Price. was |
informed Of the report yesterday by a 4
Hutchinson man whom he met on the ,
street This afternoon Mr.. Stevenson |
decided 10 Investigate the matter. not /
50 much for his own satisfaction. for he
was sure that ReyS Price was dead. but !
10 nip the sensation in the bud that i
might not bloom under the care % fake
artists. - the annoyance Of the family
and friends Of the decea sed.