The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-29

gational church in Mortified, Conn.
There he continued as Moody's lifelong
associate, conducting the funeral service
when the famous divine died. Ingalls,
once remarked of his quondam poiti-
cal ally; mo man can doubt the eff
ficacy of the scheme of Christian saliva
ton with the record of Scoheld in view.
There is no record that Rev. Cyrus L.
Scoheld ever paid the obligations he in
CURED in Kansas in the name of In
gals. It is said that he frequently re-
newed notes covering the various
amounts but when asked to pay said
that he was a poor man and could not.
From 1874 until 1879 the office Of dis
trict attorney was filed by George r.
Peck who was 3 years of age at the
time of his appointment. Peck had been
born in New York in 1913 and had en-
listed in the army during the Civil war.
He gained a captaincy although but
about % when he retired from service.
Peck came 10 Kansas in 1871, living in
Atchis0n for a time before coming toto
peka where he resided for twenty years
After five years in office, taking the
place that had been vacated by Sconeld,
he resigned to take up private practice
After two years he became general So
licitor for the Santa Fe railroad with
which he continued from 1881 until 1895.
MIR. Peck is best and most widely known
as an unusually successful railroad at
torney. although he has cultivated an
unusual talent as an orator. Some of
his addresses are masterpieces of elo-
quence Since 1895 he has lived in Chi
cago where he is general counsel for the
Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
ENDED THE STATE HOUSE WAR.
Peck avoided political preferment for
himself while he eXerted a remarkable
influence upon political affairs IN Kan
sas during his residence here. Although
a Republican, Fecks personal influence
was principally effective in securing
peaceable termination to the legislative
war which occurred during the admin
istration of the Populist Governor i. d.
Lewelling. He declined the appointment
to the United States senate when Sena-
tor Preston 3. Plumb died in office.
Colonel ]. r. Hallowell, who was
named district attorney by President
Hayes, had made an enviable military
record during the Civil war, existing
as a private at 10 and emerging as a
brevet colonel at "a. Colonel Hallowells
period in office was not marked by any
exceptional incidents although his later
life in Kansas was closely connected
with political events of Importance
Colonel Hallowell was known among
his political acquaintances as Prince
Hal" soubriquet awarded him as an
death occurred a few years ago. Colonel
HallOWeH filed the district attorneys
office from 1879 until 1885.
The incoming Of the Cleveland ad-
ministration saw Halloweu's retirement
from office and the appointment of W.
c. Perry, an able Democratic lawyer
of Fort Scott Perry had been born in
1856 in county Essex, England, but had
early come to America and to Kan
sas. He was q man of educa ton and
considerable force and conducted the
office in a manner which won for him,
unsought a second appointment by
President Cleveland after the intermis-
sion caused by the Harrison admins
from 1889 until 1898 as the appointee of
President Harrison was q resident OF
Newton. Kansas. an attorney of consid-
cradle ability and a politician of inn
portance in the Seventh district.
TESTED THE SHERMAN LAW.
His service as district attorney was
marked by several matters of import
ance, among them the test of the Sher-
man antitrust law made in a suit IN
the circuit and supreme courts of the
United States against the TRANSMITS
souri, Freight association. This litig3-
ton was terminated with a decision
favorable to the government by MI
Perry after Ady had retired from Of
flee. In 1898 Ady controlled all the Re-
publican support in the legislature IN
his race for United states senator, when
he was defeated by John Martin In
1896 falling health obliged him to re-
move to Colorado Springs where he
built up a remunerative law practice
and acquired some prominence IN Coio-
RADIO politics before his death from con-
sumption at the age of forty in 190l
Passing over the second term OF
Perrys tenure of office, this chronicle
reaches strictly modern history with
the beginning of J. E. Lamberts term
of office. Mr. Lambert was appointed
from EmDoria in which town he had
settled in 1873, selecting the town be-
cause it's name appeared in more con-
spicuous type in the railroad folder
which he consulted when preparing to
come to Kansas. Mr.. Lambert has
continued a resident of EmDoria since
that time, holding political offices of
being constantly active in political
affairs. He was succeeded in 1901 by
J. S Dean, of Marion county, the pres
ent United States district attorney.
An equally lengthy account of the
men who have served as assistants in
the district attorneys office might be
given here. They were the men who.
in frequent cases. did the active work
in the office. Beginning with Judge
Albert H. Horizons appointment, the
chronological order is followed: Archi-
bald l. Williams afterward prominent
as an attorney for the Union Pacific.
and now a resident in Topeka: Thomas
Ryan. member of congress, minister to
Mexico, and now assistant secretary of
the interior; Charles Blood Smith,
member of the firm of BossingtOn,
Smith & LISTED: A. l. Redden. after
ward district judge in Butler county;
Eugene Hagan, now practicing in To-
in the Indian Territory; Rankin Mason;
Harry Bone, private secretary to Gov
ernor Bailey, and e. d. McKeever.
present United States district attorney
Genealogist Carpenter rs Dead
New York, July 29-Daniel HoagIand
Carpenter, the geaealogist and author of
several books dealing with the history of