Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-27
FOUND FLAW IN THE TITLE.
Gov. Stanley Says Uncle Sam Must
Clear the Cloud That Hangs Over
Fort Hays Reservation.
CATTLE FOR AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Both Houses Have Passed the Bill Appro-
prIating S4I 900 for Bringing the Twen-
t1eth Kansas Boys Home from Philip
pines-New Law Regulating Tax Deeds
Executive Mansion for the Governor.

pines-New Law Regulating Tax Deeds
Executive Mansion for the Governor.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 23.-The bill in
troduced by Hamer giving women the
right to vote for presidential electors
was reported to the house. The house
passed Representative Millar's bill pro-
hibiting the double taxation of cattle.
1t is designed to make cattle feeding
in Kansas easier. The bill to provide
for a kindergarten course to all
schools in second-class cities was re-
ported adversely.
The senate appropriated $4,000 to
buy blooded cattle for the state agri-
cultural college.
A bill in the senate is calculated to
make it difficult for foreign building
and loan associations to do business
in the state. Local companies are en-
couraged.
Gov. Stanley has found a flaw in the
title to the Fort Hays military reser-
vation recently ceded to Kansas by the
government and unless the title is
cleared the state will spend no money
in establishing a branch agricultural
Gov. Stanley says that about 60 fam
lies had taken homesteads on it. and
that the interior department had ap-
proved the titles to a number of their
claims.
BY strict party vote the bill APP
propriating $4,000 for an executive
mansion passed the house.
A fight was made on the bill APP
propriating $4,000 to pay the Santa Fe
for bringing the Twentieth Kansas
soldiers from San Francisco, but it
passed the house as it came from the
senate.
Other bills passed by the house fol-
low: TO improve the state reform
school at Topeka: to meet the state
peni;entiary deficiency: to complete
the administration building and build
a heating plant at the Topeka insane
asylum; limiting the quail shooting
season to the month of December;
Seaton's bill giving the county the
right to make an absolute fee simple
deed to property held for three years
for taxes; authorizing the clerks in
the bank commissioners office TO ex-
ernor shall approve all acquisitions for
state printing.
Gov. Stanley Friday signed Senator
Hurrell's bill declaring places where
liquor is sold contrary to law to be
nuisances.
The new directors of the peniten-
tiary will he /. G. Brown. of Norton
county: Mark Tully. of Montgomery.
and +. c. Elicit of Butler. Brown is
farmer, Tully is a travelling salesman
and Elicit u banker. Gov. Stanlcv's
determination to change the board is
the. elimination of contention be-
tween the old board and Warden Tom
linson since the governor appointed
them two years ago. The board has
held up the warden for appointments
and the warden. who is responsible
for the management of the prison.
objected.
The fee and salary bill of Branine.
of Harvey, was discussed by the SEN
ate in committee of the whole and
recommended for passage. The dis
cussion of this bill was made inter-
esting by the presence in the senate
chamber of many county treasurers.
clerks and other officers who expected
their salaries TO be raised by the pas
sage of the bill. A few senators were
open opponents of the bill and fought
ii, tooth and nail. Chief of these men
were Carpenter. of Neosho, and
Smith, OF Edwards. Smith said the
bill would raise the salaries of county
officers about ten per cent. and his
county could not stand the increase.
The fusion senator's opposed the bill,
every one of them voting against it,
During the proceedings Smith. of Ed
wards, moved resolution that the
bill be reported unfavorably, but the
resolution failed to pass by vote of
IS to Is.
At II o'clock the house suspended
committee work while Charles S. Mar
tin, who had been previously selected.
read George Washington's farewell
address. Mr.. Martin is a famous legis-
lative reader. Some years ago he was
reading clerk of the national house
of representatives and he frequently
has filed the same position in the
Kansas Legislature.
Judge Andrews. of the Thirty
third judicial district. is TO be lcgis-
lated out of his district. He is a popu-
list and seems to have an indefinite
lease on the judgship. Every time he
runs he is elected, and so il is pro-
posed-to give him an enforced rest for
year, a republican, meanwhile. to
be given the office. The counties of
Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Hodgeman.
Ness, Lane, Scott, Wichita and Greeley
constitute the district. BY senate bin
No AS it is proposed to abolish the
district and re-establish it as No. 16.
the act to take effect in January, 1902,
when Judge Andrews present term
will expire. No election is to be held
next fall. The governor is to appoint
a Judge for year, and in November,
1902, Judge viii be elected for four
years.
Five Years for Forty Cents