Mount Vernon signal., 1900-03-16
KENTUCKY SITUATION.
Neither Side Intend to Cause an
Open Conflict of Arms.
stin Great Unensiness Is Felt and
Will He Until the Members of the
Legislature Have Departed
After AdjOurnmcnt.

Louisville, KY, March 11.-Judgc
Fields, in the circuit court Saturday
morning, hanucd down an opinion
that he has no jurisdiction in the
cases brought to determine the gov
ernorship controversy. He holds that
the constitution vests in the legis-
lature the power to decide contests
for this Office.
Frankfort, KY, March 10.-W. III.
Coulton, a clerk in the Office of State
Auditor Sweeney, was arrested and
placed in Jail, charged with compiled
ty in the murder of the late William
Gocbel. The arrest was made by Chief
OF Police Williams.
Warrants have also been issued for
the arrest of Secretary of State Caleb
Powers and Capt. John w. Davis, po-
liceman of the state capitol square.
Frankfort, Ky, March 12.-The
sheriff who held the warrants for the
arrest of Secretary of State Caleb
Powers and State House Policeman
John Davis, charged with completely
in the assassination of William Goe-
bel, was denied admission to the cap
day Saturday. In the evening the
two men, dressed in the uniforms of
soldiers, accompanied by about 20
soldiers, succeeded in getting on
board a train, but were arrested upon
their arrival at Lexington, where
they are now in Jail.
The first move on the part of Beck
b hams followers toward the forma-
tiom of a state guard under his adj
ministration has been made. City
Clerk Ben Marshall circulated paper
ana enlisted the requisite number of
men who are to compose company,
guns for which have been provided
by citizens here, most of them being
either needle guns or Winchesters.
Beckham appointed Col. David II,
Murray, of Cloverport, assistant adj
jutant general, with the rank OF
colonel, and he was sworn in.
Harland Whitaker and w. III. Gull
ton, who are confined in Jail here,
charged with completely in the assas-
sination, were removed from the Jail
at an early hour Sunday morning and
taken in hack 10 Shelbyvillc, where
they were placed on train and sent
TO Louisville under heavy guard.
Taylor has issued lengthy state
ment, addressed to the people of Ken
lucky, reviewing the conditions lead
ing up to the 'serious conditions and
dangers" now confronting them, and
severely condemning the course taken
by the Kentucky courts, which he
characterizes as courts of conviction
instend of trial" lie also explains
why he granted pardons to Secretary
of State Powers, w. Ii. Culton, Chas.
Finley and Capt. Davis.
Lexington, Ky, March 12.-The
threatened riot oeer the arrest here
of Secretary of State Powers and Po-
liceman Davis did not take place. The
time was ripe, under misleading re-
ports that mountain .2en were pre-
pairing to rescue the prisoners from
the Jail, for desperate resistance on
the part of the local officers, who are
mostly Goebel men, and had an at
tempt been made to take the prison
ers, the result is unpleasant to con-
template.
Capt. Longmire received orders
from Assistant Adit. Gen. Dixon, un-
der the Taylor administration, to dis
band the soldiers here. He ignored
the orders. Robert Kenny, of this
city, is acting as assistant adjutant
general under Castleman.
Lexington, March 13.--At 2 o'clock
Monday morning Sheriff Suter, of
Franklin county; Sheriff Bosworth,
of this county; Police Detective Har-
ry Slough and Deputy Jailer win All
rem went to the Jail and awakened
Republican Secretary of State Caleb
Powers and Capt. John w. Davis, who
were arrested here Saturday night
charged with being accessories before
the fact to the killing of Goebel. They
told the prisoners to get up and dress
in their soldier clothes, as they want
ed them to take a ride.
Powers told the officers that they
had no right to take them out of
Jail at such an unseemly hour and
not tell them where they were to be
taken, and that they had no right to
take them out without first allowing
them to see their attorney The Of
ficers told them to hurry up and
dress; that they had no time to dis
cuss law points, and when Powers re-
fused to dress, the officers assisted
him. He continued to resist after he
was dressed and the officers hand
cuffed him and Davis together.
They had to drag the prisoners
down the steps and to force them
into waiting carriages. They were
then driven to Versailles, where they