The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-11
KANSAS NEWS.
ROsedale City Council Has Kill
kenny Cat Time.
Its Proceedings Show a Queer
State of Affairs.
SNAP FOR JOINTISTS.
Given Their Own Time in Which
to Pay Their Fines.
Proceedings to Be Begun
Against City Officials.

Roseda1e, Kas-, May 1--There are
two ways to collect revenues from sa-
looms. one is to license them and make
them pay; the other IS to prohibit them
altogether and then fine them. ms
last is the Rosedale, Kas-, way.
Rosedale has another custom which
IS somewhat unique. That IS, 10 grant
each of them three weeks of grace dur
ing which no fine is payable. AFTER the
first three weeks $50 month IS regu-
larry paid by each of the six Joints,
as they are Familiarity called by the
mayor, Newell Smith. the police judge,
Theodore knobber, and the city cOuncH
members.
Rosedale politics. Strictly speaking,
they are factions and not politics.
Rosedale is hopelessly Republican, out
there are two factions-the people
progressive party and the citizens
party. Just now the peoples progress
sives are in the saddle, having the
mayor, the police judge and a majority
of the council. But the citizens minor
fly had blood in its eye last night. and
when the police judge submitted his re-
port the fun began The report had
q statement of $50 collected for fines
Il want that statement itemized,
said Councilman Stuhlman. w here is
Jim ChristOpher's fine for running his
joint2"
The police judge explained: Mr..
Christopher refuses to pay the fine. as
he says he is entitled TO three weeks
grace. He only started his joint, you
know, Just after election"
His honor, the mayor. Newell Smith,
here took up the narrative.
Gentlemen, each of the other five
joint keepers are allowed from three
to four weeks after they start to run
without paying a fine, and it is only
fair to extend the same privilege to Mr.
Christopher A resolution is in order
allowing Mr.. Christopher the three
weeks of grace"
The motion was duly put and carried
unanimously. Mayor Smith afterwards
explained to a reporter that Mr.. Chris
TOPPER would undoubtedly pay his fine
of $50 a month as each of the other joint
keepers We're doing
The three citizens aldermen said that
the police judge had collected $3.50 and
had only turned over to the city treas
urcr S305, and they wanted an explana-
ton. The police judge said he had
turned all the receipts over to the
finance committee. and If it had failed
to account for it he was not responsible.
Then the citizens said the finance COM
mittee members who are Of the peO-
pies progressive faction had used the
$1i5 to help in election expenses for
their party
In turn the mayor and the p. p. alder
men said that the city clerk, J. T.
kingsley, who is a citizen and is alb
sent from the city. had collected poll
taxes and dog licenses without turning
the money over, and that he has de-
strOyed his bond and the books of his
Office and had disappeared. These
charges were made by the finance com
mittee, composed of Z. A. Tompkins
Peter Meyers and John Grant, and were
repeated by thesmayor and L II. Rose
the postmaster, who seems to be prac-
ticing the science of obstetrics for tn:
p. p. delverances. Acting on these
charges, the council appointed George
Corner city clerk without depOsine
Kingsley. It was then left to tn,
mayor to appoint man to go over th'
town and find out just who had pait
matter Jin Christopher, the join
keeper. suggested that the assess3
would be a good man to appoint jim
is not a member of the council, but he
as nearly everybody else in the room
took q hand In the proceedings.