Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-06
State Departments.
Special correspondence.

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Haskins, of Kingman, to be coroner,
vice S. Lanings, deceased.
Theodore Farce has been appointed
a justice of the peace for Kinsley
township, Edwards county, vice A. c..
Fisher, resigned.
Governor Leedy has granted a req
uisition on the Governor of Idaho for
W. r. Wentworth wanted in Rush
county for larceny.
A. Y. McNea1, convicted of stealing
$500 from mans pocket in Ottawa
last fall, has appealed his case to the
Supreme court.
Reports of Fire Insurance compa-
mics doing business in the state show
that they received in premiums dur
ing the year 1897 the sum of $1,735,-
983,05.
In reply to query from the author
tiles of McCune, Crawford county, AS
sistant Attorney General George Smell
ling has given out an opinion that &C.
cupation tax ca not be imposed upon
insurance agents in cities of the third
class.
Mrs. Anna Diggs has been duly in
stalled as state librarian. ]. E. Lati-
mer of Pleasanton succeeds Miss Alice
Ordway as assistant librarian and
Rev. w. G. Todd of Kansas City takes
the position of clerk in place of ]. J.
Falls.
Adjutant General Allen will sell at
public auction at the door of the arm
DRY in the State house at 2 O'Clock D.
m, April Is, the following described
property: Blouses, $50; trousers, 634;
campaign hats, pa; pairs of 1eggins,
21; bugles,8; shovels, 4; axes, 4.
Governor Leedy has honored a re-
QUESTION from the Governor of Ne
braska, for one John Doe, alias Rich
ard Roe, whose real name is unknown
who is wanted at Crab Orchard, Ne
braska, for horse stealing. Doe is
now in Jail at Marysvi11e, awaiting
the Nebraska authorities.
Governor Leedy has appointed the
following as notaries public: A. E.
Saxey, Alma; E. Ella Horn, Hutchin-
son; James K. Lowell, Ho1ton; Geo.
c. Kennedy, Fort Scott; S. L. Books,
Woodbine; w. H. Yates, Yates Center;
E. A. Graham, Mound Valley; Henry
Ocker, carlton.
Charles Taylor, assistant auditor of
state, has returned with his family
from two weeks visit to his home in
Pratt county. Mr.. Taylor says the
wheat in Pratt county was not hurt
any by the recent freeze, and in his
judgment the fruit also escaped prac-
tically unframed.
Hon. r. H. Semp1e received word
Saturday of the death of his brother
at Seattle, from IN attack of pneumon-
la contracted on his way to that CITY
enroute to Alaska. Mr.. Semp1e's Sis
ter, who is not expected to live, has
not been notified of her loss. The
body will be taken to Ottawa, Kansas,
for burial.
Assistant Attorney General Smell
ing has commenced a suit in the SUI
preme court to compel the Broadway
manufacturing company of Leaven-
worth, to report it's sreciepts and ex-
penditurcs for 1897 to the Secretary of
State. An alternative writ of man.
damus was issued, returnable April
IA. A. A. Fem is president of the
company. r. H. Feun is secretary.
w. D. Kuhn, of Holton, has ten
dered to Governor Leedy his resigna-
as member of the State Board of Ed
ucation. He was appointed about a
year ago. Mr.. Kuhn resigned because
he has withdrawn from school work in
the sale of his interest in the Camp
bell university at Ho1ton. He has re-
Gently bought the ]. G. Elliot COM
pany's grain elevators.
Department Commander Botkin has
made public another interview attack
ing Commissioner Evans of the pen.
sion bureau. Botkin says that if Evans
would die or resign, he would confer a
favor on the public. If Mckinley
should dismiss him, the administra-
ton would thereby come into favor
with the old soldiers and redeem itself
from the injury that has been done to
1T by Evans in his administration of
pension affairs.
Superintendent Stryker has received
the stereotyped plates for printing the
report of a committee on rural schools.
which was made at the meeting of the
National Educational association at
Milwaukee. The report was consider
ed of such value that plates were made
for its publication in pamphlet form.
Superintendent Stryker will publish
an edition of 5000 for distribution
over the state.
A remarkable petition comes ND
from Pratt county and will be present.
ed to the State Board of Pardons. The
petition is in the nature of remon-
STRANGE against the pardoning of Ellis
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