The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

W. K Gillett, general auditor of the
Santa Fe, has rendered his resignation,
to take effect April Is.
According TO report just made,
there are now confined in Kansas in.
stitutions 1,722 insane people.
A Mckinley club has been organized
by the republicans of Lawrence. This
is the first club organized in the state.
The executive committee of the Farm.
ers' Alliance met recently at Topeka
and issued an address to the members
of the order.
A colony has been organized at Ar
kansas City for the purpose of going
to Alaska and working gold fields.
The party will start in February.
A number of populists have issued a
call for state meeting to be held in
Topeka, April o, 10 and IL, for the pur.
pose of organizing a cooperative asso'
citation.
Judge Miller, congressman from the
Second district, announces that he
will not be a candidate for renomina.
ton. He says he cannot afford to sac
rifice his law practice for a seat in con-
gress
The Kansas university claw school
students have withdrawn their request
to the faculty for permission to invite
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll to make a COM
mencement address in place of regu-
lar school commencement programme
in June.
Gov. Morrill, has honored the requisi-
ton of the governor of Louisiana for
L. A. Gourdain, wealthy lottery man,
who was serving time in the Shawnee
county Jail for violating the lottery
law. Officers took him to New Or
leans, where he was wanted for grand
larceny.
Judge Randolph, of the district court
Mt Emporia, has given a decision which
renders the state law imperative that
compels city councils to give prefer
ence to old soldiers in appointments,
other things being equal. The judge
held that a rejected old soldier is not
entitled to an injunction to 'oust" his
successful opponent
Gen. Thomas Ewing, first chief JUS
tice of the supreme court of Kansas,
died in New York on the 21st, from the
effects of injuries received by cable
car. He was author of the celebrated
Order No. IL" issued soon after the
Quantrell raid in Lawrence. Gen.
Ewing was then on command of the
union troops on the border.
Proceedings have been commenced
by Attorney-General Dawes in the SUI
preme court for the removal of Sheriff
Rufus Cone, of Sedgwick county, from
Office. Cone is charged with having
violated the election law last fall, in
that he gave money, whisky, wine,
beer and cigars to various persons in
consideration of their support in the
compaign and at the polls.
The family of w. B. Culbertson, of |
Larned, consisting of five persons, was
taken violently sick soon after eating
breakfast the other morning, and the
physicians pronounced it a case of |
poisoning. Two girls, eight and |
eleven years old, were in a critical
condition and one of them was not |
expected to recover. 1t was supposed |
they were poisoned from eating saul
sage that had been kept some time in
a tin vessel.
The general manager of the Santa |
Fe road has issued a circular to en-
ployes notifying them that since the |
road has passed out of the control of |
the court garnishments will follow the |
ordinary course of law, and further |
notifies employees that garnishments to
exceed three times within any II |
months, on debts accruing after the |
1st day of January, 1896, will be con-
sidered as sufficient cause for dis |
charge, Notwithstanding the ability or
length of service of the employed.
Mrs. Harry fuller, of Wichita, had a |
narrow escape from death by lamp |
explosion the other night. She was
sitting by the stand, having on her lap |
her threemonths-old baby, when the
explosion occurred, and her clothes
and those of the baby were set on fire.
Luckily, Mr.. fuller was in the room at
the time, and seized a comfort from
the bed with which he completely COW
cred his wife and child and smothered
the flames, but not until his wife was
badly burned. The child was I'M
harmed.
The abstract of the conditions of the
national banks of Kansas at the close of
business on December Is, as reported
to the comptroller of the currency,
shows the average reserve to have been
80. % per cent, against 81. so per cent
on September 2s. The loans and dis
counts decreased from $40. 800 to
$40, 145, 631; stocks and securities, from
1858, GAL to SOL, 697: gold coin increased
from 81, ZOOS, ASS to 81 ,OS6, 5S4; total specie
decreased from 81, 436, Alb to S1,403, 4S1;
lawful money reserve increased from
81. 974, 952 to S1,9s4, 9O2 Individual de-
posits decreased from Sic, SIS. 1856 to
S16.152, ss3
The annual meeting of the Kansas
State Historical society was held at
Topeka on the 21st. The following of
fcers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, Gov. E. II. Morrill,;
vice presidents, J. q. Abbott, of De
Soto, and Harrison Kelly, of Burling-
tor; secretary, F. G. Adams, of To-
peka; treasurer, John Guthrie, of To-
peka. Secretary Adams read a very
report of the society since
its organization % wears apo At the