The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-04-29
KANSAS lInEMs OF INTEREST.

jail is 'W1unOuJ'an OccupdHJ.
If you don't believe that the farmers
of Kansas are prospecting, ask the man
ayers of the lumber yards,
The charter of the First United
Brethren church of Robinson, Brown
county, was filed with the secretary OF
the state last week.
The crying need of the hour at En-
terprise is "a rock pile. Tramps are
flocking north and are becoming alto
gether too numerous there.
A farmer drove into Jewell City the
other day with fourteen loads of hogs,
and drove home again with fourteen
loads of lumber for a big new barn.
Governor Leedy has pardoned Frank
Rice, sent to the penitentiary from
Smith county in 1897 for six years on
the charge of burglary and larceny.
The pardon was recommended by the
state board of pardons after a hearing
of the case. Rice was convicted OF
breaking into hardware store and
stealing six razorS and a pocketknife
Frank Roberts, the new postmaster
at Oskaloosa, is in trouble. A few
weeks ago he received orders from the
department to leave the office at its old
location. In violation of these orders
he moved it to another place. The
postoffice inspector was sent to inves-
tigate the matter and he has reported
the facts to the department.
Farmers in western Kansas are com
mencing to brag about their orchards,
and their fruit yields. There was a
time when it was claimed that nothing
in this line could be raised in the
western portion of the state, and while
1t probably never will come up with
the eastern portion in this line, still
fruit raising out there is getting to be
more of feature every year.
The state has appealed the Greeley
county bond case to the supreme court,
after the district court of Greeley coun-
ty holding that the bonds in question
were invalid. This case resulted from
the county defaulting in the payment
of interest on S35, 900 worth of county
bonds held by the state. Proceedings
were brought in the district court to
compel the payment of the interest,
with the result that a decision was
rendered in favor of the county hold
ing that the bonds were invalid.
Judge Dale of the district court last
week rendered decision which inval-
idates all tax titles in Sedgwick coun-
ty secured by sales in the years from
1891 to 1895. The case was brought by
George Lyons to redeem quarter sec
ton of land which had been sold from
him in 1893 for taxes and was bought
in by Florence Bowers, who refused to
allow redemption. Lyons filed his pc
tition on the ground that the curative
act of the Kansas legislature legaliz-
ing tax sales under the university state
tax of 1889 was unconstitutional for
the reason that the co-state constitu-
ton says no taxes shall be levied eX-
cept by direct authority of law, which
shall state specifically the general pur-
pose of the tax, and that no tax shall
be levied for greater period than two
years. The university levy of 1889
was continuous, but according to the
state constitution expired two years
thereafter. Assessors made the re-
turns to conform with the act of 1889
through the three years from 1891 to
1895. Judge Dale has decided that tax
deeds secured since 1891 are therefore
invalid.
Andy Richards of Wellington recent
ly exposed some fake stove peddlers in
his paper at Wellington, and was as
saulted by the peddlers. They were
arrested and fined.
A lot of bonds were voted by Pratt
county for the Wichita G. Western, but
that road is now figuring on taking up
much of the track Pratt county peo-
pie naturally object and Attorney Gen
sral Boyle and County Attorney Craw-
lord will ask Judge Foster, of the Fed
cral court, to enjoin the receiver from
removing the equipment.
The funniest thing of the whole
situation is the way the fellow who
doesn't want to go to war respects the
sentiments of the other fellow who
also doesn't want to go.
A thirty-day session in November,
with a thirty-day recess, and then a
twenty-day session would, ex-senator
John X. Wright thinks, give members
of the Legislature better chance to
act intelligently on matters submitted
for their consideration. This would
give new members a much better
chance to do their duty.
One of the Pullman sleepers which