Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-02
State Departments.

Assistant Treasurer Williams spent
several days in Paola this week.
Ed. Little enlivened the annual
Knights of Pythias banquet, in Abb
lene, with one of his witty addresses
last week.
Senator Frank c. Field, of Reno Co.,
was visitor at the Auditors office
the other day. and W. W. Watson,
Sec'y. of the Senate, also took re-sur-
vey of the Capital.
Bank Commissioner Briedenthal,
and Insurance Commissioner McNall,
are in Wichita this week, attending
the annual meeting of the A. o. u.
w. Grand Lodge, of which they are
both prominent members.
Superintendent Stryker has Quoted
some unnecessarily alarmed souls by
pointing out to them the law, that ex-
pressly permits the bible to be read in
our public schools. He also attended
a teachers meeting in FIT. Scott on
Saturday last.
The Wichita coal rate case filed by
mayor and council of Wichita against
the Railroad companies entering said
city, alleging excessive rates on coal,
has been set down for hearing on
Tuesday. March LIST, at the Council
Chamber in the City of Wichita.
Capt. VIM. Walker, of Republic Co.,
chairman of his county and congress
sioual committee, and c. P. Carsten-
sen, ex-treasurer of Republic Co.,
came down to attend the Democratic
banquet, and while here, visited their
old friend, Asst. Adjt. Gen. Boyd.
Governor Leedy has issued notorial
commissions to the following: Joseph
E. Lehman, CORTLAND; Bette E. Hub
bell, Miltonva1e; J. C. Wolcott, Rus
sell; L. L. Mitchell, Salina; E. r.
Evans, Lebo; H. M. Burtis, Humboldt;
V. Richardson, Hamilton; o. E. Hop
mans, AJohS, L JOnuSIOu, fdOld.
w. B. Crawford, Girard.
Gov. Leedy has honored a requisi-
ton from Missouri for VIM. Snyder,
who is said to be mere boy, aud is
charged with entering a house and
stealing ten cents. Possibly the laws
of Kansas and Missouri make it the
duty of their Governors to issue and
honor acquisitions in such cases, but
if so, such laws are of the devil, devil.
ish, and cannot be repealed too soon.
Is it not time to have our laws thor
oughly revised in the interest of hu.
manity?
Rev. o. L. Smith, of WELLINGTON,
who was in town last week attending
ministerial meeting, paid visit to
the Capitol. Mr.. Smith is one of the
increasing number of ministers whose
religion permeates his politics to such
an extent, that he actually believes
the laws ought not to be so framed as
to enable the few to reap what the
many have sowed, and to make it i'm.
possible for the mass to secure more
than a small part of what they really
earn. That is, the golden rule is with
him something more than sounding
brass and tinkling cymba1.'
The different counties have been no.
titled this week, of the amount they
are entitled to draw from the State
school fund. The Populist Legislature
had the $15O,OOO of bonds now in the
school fund, refunded, and the interest
reduced from to per cent. Never.
theless, the receipts have increased SO
much that, although the number of
school children has increased 2,12o,
the apportionment is As cents per cap
This result is due partly to closer col.
1ections, but still more to the fact that
the money loaned, since Mr.. Stryker
became Superintendent, has been in
vested at and per cent instead OF
and as heretofore.
H. L. Jones, County Attorney OF
Harper County, was in the Attorney
Generals Office Monday, in the inter.
est of the movement now in progress
to refund the Cimmaron bonds. In
the hocus pocus money boom period,
when that place had between 1 1000 and
1,5O0 inhabitants, it incred a bond
ed Indebtedness of about 1900. Its
population is now I'D and it's tax.
able property less than SIS, 1000. The
pending proposition is to give 20 pei
cent. of the face of the bonds in new
% year bonds, bearing 2 per cent. in.
terest. To pay this interest and pro.
vide sinking fund, will require a
tax amounting to nearly 81 on every
man woman and child-but this
the people are willing to undertake.
Labor Commissioner Johnson is con-
Quoting several Important investiga-
tons. He has also complied the state
laws directly affecting labor, with the
decision upon them, and they will soon
be printed in a pamphlet. His forth
coming report will also show the
amount of government, railroad and
school bonds still remaining in each
county. An especially important line
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