The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-13
Want TO KNOW.
Attorney Generals Office is
Flooded With Inquiries.
ing the Letters.
SIMPLE QUESTIONS.
Samples of Some of Those Now
ON File.
News From Various State House
Departments.

The force in the office of the attorney
general and the attorney general MIN
self, will seriously consider the PROPOSE
ton of resigning and taking to the
woods if the flood of idle questions con-
tinues to pour into the department like
it has been coming for week
The corps of assistants and the prln-
cipal official of the department nave
been drawing heavily on the contingent
fund for postage during the past t"o
weeks answering hot weather questions
which seem to multiply as the warmth
increases. 1t seems, judging from some
of the questions upon which ngnt Is
sought. that the people have nothing
to do throughout the state now Out 10
figure up the value of their wheat ana
estimate the prospect for corn, WRITING
in the meantime, letters OF lhduAAS ~
keep up a correspondence
Many of the requests Tor an oplilioi4 -
are referred back to the prosecuting at
torney of the county from Whlch the IN i
curry comes. This was the rate OF q
number of inquiries yesterday
One man wrote 100 words TO lnQulrS
if a man 81 wears of age, who had voted
but once was liable for road TAX -
Another asks Mr.. GODDARD to notlfy
him by return mail if there is any law
in Kansas compelling a woman orAEins
to keep to the right.
Another wants to know II ne can
prosecute the owner OF a steam thresnS &
engine for traversing the pubic ROAD.
A woman writes to ascertain IL
neighbor may be compelled by a process
of law to keep chickens fenced In.
A Scott county man wants to prose-
cute the government Tor noidlng d re-
fer in the postoffice until the postage
is paid by the sender who deposited II
in the mail without the necessary stamp
An Ellis county Russian asked b H;
Tracy for his opinion as to the polltlcal
iT1in that he wanted TO
be sure and get on the side OF the ma
jority.
A Wyandotte county man wrote a
personal letter to Judge ]. ). west ASH
ing that the administration suppress
the celebration of the Fourth OF july
on the 5th and 9Th of the month.
James Clayton, chief clerk in the
Office was asked by a Barton county
neighbor a few days ago while he was
at Great Bend, if the governor stooo
any chance of invalidating the title 70
his office by being absent cohsloeraoie
part of the time
A Franklin county man, an enemy OF
Henry Allen, wants the attorney gen
eraI to define the duties of the private
secretary to the governor rms man u
saws: Mr. Allen is in Ottawa most OF
the time
These are but samples of the queries
which worry the attorney generals de-
partment. Then come the letters from
the county attorney asking for 1nfor-
nation on some technical proposition
upon which no case is based and the
chances are that the question would
never be raised in court.
At this season of the year when the
lawyers and judges are enjoying a re-
spite from daily toll the troubles of the
attorney general multiply.
DUVAL MAY RETIRE.
1t is gossip at the state house today
that Claude Duval with soon retire from
the congressional race in the Seventh
district making way for L P Campbell.
the Populist, to be the only candidate
for the fusioniSts.
1t is also reported that DR.. ]. B:
Dykes of the Sixth is to withdraw and
give Tully Scott, the right of way
there This would give the fusion1sts
an equitable division; a Popul1st in the
Seventh and a Democrat in the SIKH
MUNGER NOT MENTIONED.
The Greenwood county Populists held
a convention yesterday and it is re-
ported in Topeka that the convention.
did not mention the name of George M.
Munger during its deliberations.
Mr. Munger was one of the earliest
candidates for the nomination for gov
ernor by the fusionists but the fact that
his county does not instruct for him
and the further fact that the delegation
seems to be for Breidenthal indicates
that Mr.. Munger is out of the race.