The advocate., 1897-11-17

who was disbarred before he left that
city, Is a fugitive from justice, being
charged with embezzlement from a Chi
cago firm by which he was employed.
Kansas City Star: Shawnee countys
Republican majority is becoming shaky
The county continues to go Republican,
but sometimes the faithful hold their
breath until the result Is announced"
The comfortable majority given in ia
vor OF the poor farm proposition in
Rocks county indicates that the Repub-
icans of that county are not banking
on an overdose Of Mckinley prosperity.
The Mayor of Coffeyville has issued
a proclamation for special election
to be held December to vote on the
proposition to issue $17 900 in bonds to
be used to erect light and power plant
w. c. Olson has transferred the Wa,
Keeney Independent to A. H. Cox and
w. L. Olson. Mr.. Olson has built up
good paper which has exerted a COM
mendable influence in Trego county pol
itics.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon one day
last week the proprietor OF little store
at Milton, in Sumner county, delivered
his available cash to a man who pro-
duced a convincing Winchester request
for 1t.
The Lebanon Journal says that Ban
ner township, Smith county, the pre-
cinct in which Webb McNall votes, gave
the largest Populist vote in proportion
to the total vote cast Of any township
in the county.
The Executive Council has made con-
tracts amounting to about $4,000 for
the completion of the dome Of the State
House The old dangerous scaffolding
which has been in the rotunda so long
will be removed.
A Pratt county young lady explains
the defeat of two candidates on the
Populist ticket by saying that they mar
ried Reno county girls and thereby Of
Tended marriageable daughters Of a
large number of voters.
President Andrews, who was deposed
from Brown University and afterward
relnstated when 1t was apparent that the
move was unpopular, will lecture before
the Kansas State Teachers Association
at Topeka in December.
The affairs of an Abilene bank have
just been wound up and the depositors
get per cent. Of their money. The liza
blllties were $6SO,OOO and the assets at
the time Of the failure were given at
about the same amount.
Cherokee county voters gave a major
ity for a new Jail. Galena provides more
business for a county Jail than all Of
the remainder of the county, and the
proposition was very properly given a
majority in every ward.
j. J. Herman, Trustee of Smoky Hill
township, Mcpherson county, has filed
complaint with the Board of Railroad
Commissioners charging that the rates
charged by the Union Pacific between
Salinn and Mcpherson are excessive.
Ernest Wilson, who has been running
the Richfleld Monitor Republic as a non
partisan paper, will quit that sort of
Thing and run a silver paper. He favors
Bryan for the Presidency in 1900. His
paper Is the only one published in Nor
ton county.
John e. Turner, stoCkman Of Coffey-
vile, has been convicted in the District
court OF Montgomery county on a charge
of moving cattle across the quarantine
line without permission. The penalty
provided by the statute is $500 to $1,000
fine and thirty days to one year in JAIL
An Oklahoma banker presented him
self at the State prison at Lansing with
commitment papers for himself, He
came unattended by officers to serve
three years sentence, having entered
plea Of guilty to a charge of receiving
deposits when his bank was in an insol-
rnnA condition