The Topeka state journal., 1901-10-19
BIC ROW ON.
Reform School Is Torn With
DissenSiOn.
Four of the Employees Have
Been Discharged.
MR.. KELLOGG TALKS.
Former Relief officer Says
School Is Mismanaged.
Took His Trouble to Board of
Charities.
HANCOCK SUSTAINED.
Officer Was Accordingly Told
He Could Go.
SUSTAINED.
Officer Was Accordingly Told
He Could Go.
Governor Stanley Lends His
Help to Fix Up Matters.

The axe has been swinging at the
State Industrial school, better known as
the Reform school, in North Topeka
-Four employees have been let out and IL
is said more are to go Decapitation be-
gan with the discharge Of Jesse Kellogg
general relief officer, by Superintendent
Hancock
The board of charities has taken
hand in the game also and has held sew
eral meetings at the institution this
month to straighten out the tangle-
Clyde Hancock, son of Superintendent
Hancock, is among the number let out:
The employees let out in this upheaval
at the school are: ]. kellogg, night re-
lief officer; Blacksmith Jewett, Clyde
Hancock, night engineer; Miss Wood
Carpenter Wilde will depart November
1 and young Hancock's resignation be-
comes effective at the same time.
Kellogg resisted his dismissal and
went before the board. His discharge
was affirmed, however, and Kellogg gave
Henry Allen, chairman of the board,
and Superintendent Hancock a generous
toasting Verbally he made charges of
gross mismanagement of the institution
against Superintendent Hancock and
careless supervision by the board of
charities He tells tales of cruelty to
the inmates, numerous escapes where
the details never get to the public and
the runaWayS are allowed to remain at
large because there is no fund provided
by the state for the capture of them.
Kellogg is a protege of George w.
Kanavel, members of the state board of
charities He was appointed from Kan
Sas City. Kan, last November to
place at the Topeka asylum. In January
he was transferred to the reform school,
Chairman Allen tried to squelch Mr..
kellogg when he w9s up before the
board, but Kanavel and Edwin Snyder
secretary of the board insisted that he
must have hearing. kellogg was pay
ing his respects to Allen himself in no
uncertain manner.
7 do not want to hear any more'
said the chairman, testify, when Kellogg
appeared second time before the board
at the asylum the day after the meeting
at the reform school, You are dis
charged and that settles it,
Let him go on insisted Edwin Sny-
der, jumping up, and go on he did to the
end of the chapter.
Governor Stanley was apprised of the
row in his official. family and spent last
Sunday at the school looking into it to
determine if official investigation is
necessary Edwin Snyder made trip
out Thursday night and Chairman Allen
and the board We're out gain yesterday.
It is not known yet whether the board
will make a formal investigation of the
charges of mismanagement.
The scandal has been hanging fire for
matter of two weeks or more in which
time Kellogg has been pursuing the
board for satisfaction. Miss Wood, one
of the discharged employees, was his
sweetheart When she was let out a
few days after Kellogg had been dis
charged, he went to Mort Albaugh. as
it was through his influence that Miss
Wood had been appointed. Kellogg saws
he asked Albaugh to ascertain why Miss
Wood had been discharged as no reason
had been given He says the sat Sac
ton has not been forthcoming Mr..
Kellogg and Miss Wood We're married
the day after her dismissal from the
reform school.
Kellogg's contention is that he was
discharged because he did too much
work at the school He claims that
his official acts had been criticised for
some time, and that the eliminating
incident that led to his discharge was
when he struck boy named Shoffer
over the shoulders with a No IL wire
His statement is. in substance. ssT
was discharged because 1 was doing TOO
much work, that is a about the size of :.
BESIDES being relief officer and exer-
clS1ng the boys on the relief grounds
milking the COWS and setting un bojl
ers, l taugh in grade and had numcr-
Gus other duties The day / had trouble
win the Shoffer boy l was setting UP
boiler In the engine house and the
boy was helping He was a big. Inn
berly, unruly chap, and 1 struck him
over the shoulders with a No - wire
1t raised mark 1 reported the oc-
currence to Hancock, and said I s11s
pected that l would suffer for it He
said L know the boy is an ornerv one
and suppose you had cause to be pro
voked-' But a week later 1 was dis
charged for it,
But l was not the only one to have
trouble with the boys. The officers have
trouble all the time. Hancock's son
beat up boy, and the board asked hin,
to resign He resigned. The way that
happened was this: Clyde Hancock
was in the engine house. He missed a
dollar, and accused the boy of taking
it. The boy denied it. Clyde grabbed
strap and fiogged the boy till he bled
The boy did not have the dollar at All
Tt was found afterwards where the hox-
had had nothing to do with it He re-
signed to the board at it's request
The boys are not managed at all
Half the time they are not in grade
They run away. There have Sheen 25
escapes at least this year and not one
has become known. The officers come
to North Topeka, and if they find the
boys they bring them back. If thev
don't they let them go entirely The
state does not furnish any moaev to
capture them These escapes are NOT
reported to the board of charities They
are all recorded in the books at the
school, but no report of them is made
to the board.
Il was up before the board when 81
met at the school on October 4. I did