The Advocate and news., 1898-01-19

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Company of Dickinson county, COM
paratively young concern, Is prospecting.
Mutual insurance is cheap and reliable
If the companies are honestly. managed.
Treasurer Hefebower is paying off all
the warrants which piled up while there
was deficit In the general fund He
will leave a much larger balance in the
treasury than there was when he went
In.
Bill Hackney is big gun among Ohio
Democrats. He was recently directed by
a conference Of prominent Democrats to
appoint committee to submit plan Of
reorganization Of the party TO the next
State convention.
Republican papers state that ]. X.
Cubbison and Dick Blue have goneinto a
combination by which Cubbison is to go
to Congress from the Second district and
Dick is to be Congressman-at-large
Neither will win.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
that Of the 100 banks that have failed
during his term of Office not one was
embarrassed because Of bad loans to
farmers. In every case it had been be-
cause Of loans to speculators
Governor Leedy has asked the rail-
roads to give $4,000 to a fund for
Kansas exhibit at Omaha. He reasons
that they can better afford to give than
anybody else as they will get a greater
proportion Of the direct benefits.
Ex-Governor Click says that the Oppo-
sltion to the Republican party will fuse
at the coming election but not on re-
submission platform. He says that the
gold Democrats will name a ticket but
that 1t will only get about 1000 votes
Fred Funston, son of the ex-Congress-
man from the second, has returned from
Cuba where he has been serving in the
insurgent army. He is badly wounded
and Is in a New York hospital He will
come west as soon as he is able to do so.
The Kansas City stock yards has
adopted rule that all stock brought to
the yards to be sold shall be placed in
pens on the Missouri side and be sold
there This prevents. the enforcement
of the rates provided under the Kansas
law.
A certificate Of election don't count for
anything in Crawford county. At any
rate a citizen, who has a certificate of
election and who received majority of
the votes cast at the last election, is un-
able to get possession of the Office Of
County Clerk.
Mr.. Ellis wants BelOit people to vote
on postmaster, which leads the Osborne
Farmer to suggest that If all Of the
towns in the district had had this kind
of an opportunity the defeated candi-
dates would not all have been against
Ellis denomination.
Wabaunsee and Coffey counties are
the only ones in the Fourth district
which have no candidate for the Repub
lican nomination for Governor. The
fight is becoming so warm that there is
talk of petitioning Charley Curtis to
move into the district.
A fool provision of law is that which
provides that jurors in an insanity case
gets no fees unless the person on trial
Is declared to be insane. Too many men
would rather vote to send sane man
to the asylum than to lose the fee due
them for their service on the jury.
The Phoenix Insurance Company has
withdrawn from the State because its
business will not warrant 1t "to remain
in the field under the onerous laws and
regulations affecting insurance compa-
MES" II this company can't stand hon
est supervision it will not be missed.
Governor Leedy has removed J. W.
Furnish, police commissioner at Wich-
ita, and appointed H. G. Toler as his
successor. 1t now transpires that TOler
is ineligible because he has not resided
at Wichita three years, which residence
is necessary to legally hold the Office.
Attorney General McKenna favorably
recommends the scheme to divide Kan
sas into two Federal judicial districts.
He suggests that If bill could be passed
which would enable Judge Foster to re-