Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

1t was recently stated that President
Colgrove. of the Ottawa university, had
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CATION will not be published.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 appropriat ton to the board does
not provide for printing.
The superintendent OF insurance on
the 14th turned into the state treasury
SIS, 900 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, an
aged inmate of the soldiers home. was
found on the railroad track near Leav-
evworth the other night. In early
days Piper was a prominent lawyer of
Leavenworth.
William Heddie hanged himself in
the Jail at Norton the other night
After an exciting trial lasting a week
he had been convicted of the murder
of Albert Applegate, a young farmer,
and was sentenced to serve a term of
is years in the penitentiary at hard Ia
Dor.
The populist state central committee
|
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 5
to nominate candidates for state Of
ficers.
Gov Morrill, has appointed Maj. j.
X. Hudson to be state printer 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 a
chattel 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. It gives
to each pupil of school age III cents.
Wyandotte county gets the largest
amount, IS, 129. A; Shawnee came next,
81, III. Il; SedgwiclS third Sc, IT. 10, and
Leavenworth fourth, $5,558. SO. Nor
ton county gets the smallest sum,
500 96.
The Kansas City, Kan, school board
proposes to submit to the voters of the
city a proposition to issue S1OO. 600 in
bonds for the construction of addi-
Gional 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
1854.
The supreme court has decided that
''no 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-
vey, the murderers of Mayor Marsh, of
Kinsley, from the penitentiary and ex-
ecute them without the warrant, which |
the governor refused to issue.
1t is said that there is 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 board of railroad commissioners |
is voluminous document and contains |
a fund of information for those who |
are sufficiently interested to wade |
through it labyrinth of figures. The |
report shows 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 26 roads making oper-
ating reports to this board paid divi-
dend for the year just closed, and
these dividends were light. one ~ per
cent and the other 215 per cent" The
board, however, is gratified at signs
of betterment The total number Of
employees of the various roads in the
state is 81 1854, decrease for the year
4,f Tho total ti,r, IL L