The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-19
LEGISLATIVE SNAP SHOTS.

lin Reeder. of Hays City, is looking
after the Fort Hays bill now pending IN
the legislature
The reports from the different divis-
ions Of the court OF appeals continue 10
arrive at the supreme court
m. j. White bankruptcy referee OF
Kansas City. was in the city TO-DAY salk-
ing with the members from Wyandotte
county.
The special election in Reno county
TO III the vacancy caused by the oeatn
nf Representative Wise viii pc neAo
February s.
labor society is SO much interested mas
mot been completed and will not be In
PRODUCED before next Tuesday
John E. Lord. manager OF the New
1erested in something at the legislative
hall 1t may be that it is the ant1-oieO
bill that attracts him.
Sergeant Timothy Slower
went to Fort Scott today to summon
witnesses in the Owen Haclett contest
case. which is to be taken up Monday
by the house committee on elections
Governor Stanley has approved the
special election bill and has issued
proclamation calling for special cleo
eson in Reno county to ill the vacancy
caused by the death of Representative
FL L. Wise
templating introducing a bill providing
that where the life Of a prisoner IS
threatened by a mob that he shall be
furnished arms with which TO de1eno
himself
y. R. Cox, county superintendent Of
Anderson county, is arranging TO DrlnS
suit in the supreme court to test the
validity OF the law changing the term
OF the county superintendentS from jan
uary to May
Senator Tapp of Wichita addressed
the Sa1vatiOnists in Kansas City last
night. Mr. Tapp is a great friend OF the
Salvationists and went to Kansas CITY
at the request Of Ensign White who for
merlE lived in Wichita
The bill to allow Topeka to aid in the
building of the new Santa E'e shops IN.
without an opposing vote in the senate
The bill also went through the commit
tee without the slightest opposition
The senate committee on cities of the
nrst class has so many ollis % con-
slider that the committee was allowed
atenographer The bills prepared by
the municipal league have caused the
unusual amount OF work for the com
mittee-
Ed Hoch's boom for state printer
seems to be gathering strength II the
present legislature cuts slices on the
state printers income In the way they
are talking of doing the Office viii not
be so valuable in two years. Only one
state in the union pays more Tor printing
than Kansas
The senate elections committee is
Finley-Ross contest in the Thirty-hf fifth
senatorial district. The hearing OF evil
dence in the case viii begin Tuesday
and will probably continue the remain
der Of the week The hearing Of evil
dence in the Observation-Disclosures case in
the Thirty ninth district will also begin
next week. but the case viii not be de-
cided until after the Finley-Ross de-
cision-
That's what the Bible says, the first
shall be last and the last shall be first -
reiterated Steve Cave last night as he
started for Manhattan to spend the re-
cess. Mr.. Cave maintains that the
prairie dogs would never have become
SO troublesome in western Kansas il it
had not been for the killing off of the
coyotes, upon the heads of which there
Is a bounty placed, because the coyote
is the natural enemy and destroyer Of
the prairie dog He proposes that the
bounty be repealed, as coyotes are
harmless compared to the other pests.
AS the question OF assessment and
taxation is of such immensely, and the