The Topeka state journal., 1902-12-11
Auditor Wells the First to An
n0unce Appointments.
LULING NAMES TWO.
Has Not Yet Officially An
nounced His Assistant.
Harry Bone Hasn't Yet Decided
About Acceptance.

Thus far the state off1cers-elect have
announced only a few of their appoint
ments. The appointment of the assist
ants in the office of the secretary OF
state are due today from ]. r. Burrow,
secretary of state-elect. and Harry Bone
will probably announce within day Or
two whether not he will accept the
appointment OF secretary to Governor
Bailey.
Seth Wells. state auditor-elect knew
just what he wanted and named all but
one clerk in his Office soon after election
His appointments are: J. M Nation, OF
Erie, assistant auditor; A Gibson, Of
Erie, chief clerk; I. H. Cole, of Giraro,
bond clerk; Isaac Jones, of Usage coun-
ty, school land clerk: and Mrs Gilyead.
of Montgomery county, stenographer.
The appointment of bookkee0er is still
unar.nOuuced-
C. H. Luling. superintendent of in
Surance-elect, has reappOinted /. =.
Lewis. of Stafford county. chief clerk.
and NJ L. Wadleigh, OF Marion county.
as stenOgrapher. 1t is supposed that
Charles W. Barnes, of Topeka, will be
assistant superintendent. Mr.. Luling
has intimated as much. but the appoint
ment has not been officially made.
| II. F. Mason. supreme court Justice
elect. has appointed William Vernon, Of
Iarned, as his stenogra pher, and the
other justices will probably reappoins
| their present stenographers. Other than
these no appointments have been def
| nitely made.
| In the governors office there was for
merly an executive clerk two stenog-
raphers and a general clerk, in addition
TO the governors secretary, but Leedy
cut all this force down to simply his
secretary and one stenograp pher. Harry
Brent is the stenograp pher. and he can
probably remain in the office under Gov
ernor Bailey if he so desires. as he Is
thoroughly competent, understands ali
| ilc Of fI1ea1 = 1,ar-
record as a Twentieth Kansas soldier
behind him
1t has been reported that Superin-
| tendentL Swingle of Riley county wou1c
be made assistant superintendent of
public instruction, but this report has
not come from I. L. Dayhoff superin-
tendent-elect, although it is probably
correct There are three other positions
in the office, bond clerk, statistical clerk
and stenographer. 1t has been rumored
that Superintendent w NJ Fisher of
Arkansas City would be offered one Of
| the clerkships.
The refusal of Judge West to accept
a reappointment as first assistant attor-
ney general leaves all four positions at
the disposal of c. c. Coleman, attorney
general-elect. vacant Colonel L. C.
| Judge West. James Clayton, third as
/ sistant is a candidate for reappointment,
/ and John S. Dawson of Graham county.
at present bond clerk in the state treas
1 Clad Hamilton, second assistant has
/ said positively that he does not want a
! reappointment, and it is possible that
I Clayton may be appointed to succeed
him and Dawson given Clayton's pres
ent job. Clayton will not ask for Ham
ilton's place, however, until Mr.. Cole
man has offered it to Hamilton. There
| is also a stenographer to be appointed
in this office and E. r. Simons may
possibly be continued in that place.
In the state treasury there are seven
appointments to be made assistant
| treasurer, chief clerk. bond clerk clerk
bookkeeper, stenographer and guard
State Senator Sponable of johnson
county turned down Mr. Kellys offer
to appoint him assistant treasurer, and
\ it is now expected that c. r. Richey
will be given the place. although this
/ is not yet certain. Mr.. Richey has been
chief clerk in the office for four years
and understands all its details. Mr.
4 Kelly says that he will give out his ap-
pointments as Christmas presents.
Rocks County Record: J. t Pringle
of Usage, will be the next speaker OF
the Kansas house. The storm center
has changed to the speakership, but as
before the goal fought for is the Kansas :
senatorshi9. We wish it were settled
and we don't care very much how it
goes. as between Stanley. Curtis and
Long. Out here in Rocks the news
papers have preserved a strict neu-
trality and the politicians have kept the
question out of local politics. Some OF