Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
KANSAS STATE NOTES.


mended for passage general bill
which will take take the place OF all
special bills on that subject This bill
grades the salaries of officers according
to the population of the county. The
salaries of county treasurers range all
the way from s7OO in counties of 1000
population and under, to $4,000 in
counties of $4,000 population and over.
County attorornies on the same basis,
will get from 5000 to 81, 800; probate
judges, from 81 200 to So, 400; registers
of deeds, fees in counties of less than
$4,000 inhabitants, and from 81 900 to
s., 200 in counties over that; district
clerks, the same as registers of deeds;
sheriffs receive fees in counties of less
than Is, 900 and from 81, 600 to Sc, 800 in
other counties. Clerk hire is also pro-
vided for in the bill. Witness fees in
courts of record are fixed at S1.50 per
day and milage of 5 cents, in justice
courts rs cents a day and milage.
Jurors are to receive the same pay as
witnesses County commissioners will
receive from 500 to 5000, depending on
the population of the county.
There is a class Of men in this state
that is tolerated as a necessary evil,
but the members of that class have not
equal rights with other citizens OF the
state. Gov. Leedy has issued an order
to the police commissioners of the cit
les of the first class forbidding the APP
pointment of gamblers, exgamblers,
saloon keepers, jointists, or exjointists
on the police force, 1t would seem
that the order was unnecessary. Men
that are known to be gamblers, saloon
keepers or jointist should be in Jail &C
cording to the laws of the state, and
consequently would not be ellegible tt
hold any position. Exjointists, exgam'
blers and exsaloon keepers are men
who have been convicted of breaking
the law against gambling or selling
liquor and have paid the penalty and
have been restored to full citizenship.
Having been restored to full citizenship
they are eligible to hold any office
There is such thing as q state as
suming too much parental care over
her citizens. The bill introduced by
Representative Botltin (Rep.) to prohib
It the sale Of patent medicine Of any
kind before being tested by the state
board of health is extremely paternal'
istic in its nature and is equal TO the
care and solicitude of mother tasting
the boiled milk to see if it is too hoi
before giving it to her child. When
the head of family makes up hi,
mind that he can't keep hOnse without
certain patent medicine it is taking
away his personal liberty when state
board of health DEGREES that his favor
ite remedy shall not be sold in the
state.
Some people are willing to reside in
Topeka while they are alive to defend
themselves, but prefer some other 10.
cality for last resting place. An old
man who died in that town recently
had such fear and dread that his
body would be stolen from the grave
that he made his wife promise that ha
would be buried elsewhere. His re.
quest was complied with and he was
taken to Missouri for burial When
man refuses to live in Missouri and OBJ
jects to being found dead in Kansas
it's stand-off between the two states
and honors are easy.
Poultry raising is rapidly taking
rank as one OF the leading industries OF
the state, and the house committee on
agriculture has reported favorably
bill providing for an appropriation OF
81 900 annually for the Kansas State
Poultry association, and providing
that the association shall be legalized
rs a state institution and shall hold a
circuit show annually. Such an act
would be of more general benefit to
the people than one changing the
boundry lines of senatorial districts or
preventing members of the Legislature
from appointing their relatives to
positions.
In Butler county there is a township
Of 1900 inhabitants and in the past "a
years it has had only one lawsuit and
three mortgage foreclosures. The
township has no indebtedness and the
oldest inhabitant can not remember OF
a single fight, scrap or quarrel 1t has
always given Republican majorities.
A man who had get up enough in him
to be a Populist wouldn't live in
township where the people are so far
behind the times.
The house committee reported the
maximum railroad rate measure Mon.
day. The reduction is no so great as
that made by the same bill when pre-
scented two years ago, the reduction
being nearer 10 than SO per cent The
penalties provided for the enforcement
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