The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24
Due TEN YEARS.
Large Sums Now Owing to
School Fund.
Total Is Over Two Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollars.
OKLAHOMA A CREDITOR
Ten Counties Are Debtors to
School Fund.
Where Interest Is Kept Up,
State VIII Wait.

man the list of counties which are de-
linquent in the payment of bonds and
coupons to the state school fund. The
delinquent bonds and coupons extend
back, in some instances, ten years. and
the total due the state school fund in
unpaid bonds and COUPONS is over a
quarter of a million dollars.
The new law requires that when the
state treasurer is out of money with
which to pay warrants he shall draw
funds from the state school fund and
pay the fund per cent. for the use of
the money. There is no money in the
school fund for the treasurer to use for
the purpose, and he has called upon the
attorney general to collect the moneys
dus.
There is due the annual school fund
SOL l27.9 Sc. The unpaid bonds and
coupons due the permanent school fund
amount to s1s2. 1872 So The amount due
! the Normal school fund is 81, 354 SO. The
total due the Agricultural college fund
is $7,930-S6. The amount due the State
university fund is IS. 427.
The total due the state school fund
IS $297 ,52l67. There are ten counties in
Oklahoma that owe the Agricultural
college fund a total of 81, S83.05
In cases where the counties keep up
the interest after the bonds are due it
IS likely that no effort will be made to
collect the bonds or to refund them. as
II they are refunded the rate of in
| terest will be lowered The following
amounts are owed the funds by the
| counties:
Annual School F'und-Stevens county,
unpaid coupons, $6,250; Barber county
unpaid coupons 5000: Bourbon 11nnaid
coupons $50; Cherokee. unpaid coupons.
$944O; Cheyenne, unpaid coupons, $26 Is;
Clay, unpaid coupons, $21.25; Comanche,
unpaid coupons 1854, accrued interest
$13.4S; CoWley, unpaid coupons S694O:
/ LeCatur. unDai0. SOC
unpaid coupons, $40; Graham unpaid
coupons, $685.; Gray, unpaid coupons,
$Zs9.5o; Finney, unpaid coupons s5.470
unpaid interest $1,57O; Grant. unpaid
coupons, S15,55s; Greeley, unpaid COUP
ons $3.50; Greenwood, unpaid coupons
800 80; Greenwood, unpaid coupons
$3255; Hamilton. $1O,212.50
HaskeH unpaid coupons, 81 ,00S; Kear-
ney unpaid coupons, $4,000: Linn I'M
paid coupons, $S6.6S; Lincoln unpaid
coupons, $3S2.32; Mcpherson unpaid
coupons, $162.50; Montgomery I'M
paid coupons, s5563; Morton unpaid
coupons, $3.50; Nemaha unpaid coupons
SH.50; Phillips unpaid coupons, $40;
Pratt unpaid coupons, 81, $50; Rawlins
unpaid coupons, $23.7e: Scott county
unpaid coupons $7442o; Sedgwick un-
paid coupons, $685.; Stanton unpaid
coupons, $500; Trego rrpaits bonds
500: Wabaunsee unpaid bonds 5000:
Wallace unpaid bonds, S2O): Wichita
unpaid coupons. $118; Wyandotte I'M
/ Ddlu coupons, MILO 1O3I, 20.
| Permanent school fund Stevens
county delinquent bonds. $3.50; de-
linquent interest 1925. 20: Anderson uu-
paid bonds, $500; Barber unpaid bonds,
49, 200; unpaid interest, $50: bourbon
| county unpaid bonds. $27c u: Cherokee
enne unpaid bonds, s40o: unpaid cou-
pons, $11; Cloud unpaid bonds. $1G0;
Commando unpaid bonds, S7,3s5: UNI
paid interest $162: Edwards unpaid
Ar,, dc =
geo; Graham unpaid pon1s, 5000; Gray
unpaid bonds, $500; Finnev unpaid
bonds, $2.425; unpaid interest. S1.12o;
Garfield township unpaid bon is, IS, $780,
Grant unpaid bonds, $1,520; Greenwood
unpaid bonds, $500; Hamilton unpaid
bonds, $12 200; unpaid interest, 1888;
Harper unpaid bonds, $4,000; Harvey
4 unpaid bonds, 800; Haskell unpaid
\ bonds, $1,000; Jewell unpaid bonds SEQ;
lKearney unpaid bonds, $780, kingman
unpaid coupons, Sc, 400; Kiowa unpaid
bonds, 81, S75; Lane unpaid bonds, $500;
Linn unpaid bonds. $40; Logan unpaid
bonds, $500: Marion unpaid bonds,
81 900; Mead unpaid bonds, $500;
Mitchell unpaid bonds, 5000; Montgom-
cry unpaid bonds, 5000; Morton unpaid
bonds, $500; Nemaha. unpaid bonds,
5000; Norton unpaid bonds, $3.50: Ness
unpaid bonds, $3.50; Dosage unpaid bonds,
Sc $50; Phillips unpaid bonds, $500;
Pratt unpaid bonds, $3.50; unpaid in
terest. $3.50; Scott unpaid bonds, Sl,1lp;
Sedgwick unpaid bonds, $10c; Seward
unpaid bonds, $1,000; Sheridan unpalo
bonds, $500; Stafford unpaid no in 30
900; stanton unpaid bonds. $500; un-
paid interest. S148; Washington UNPAID
bonds. S725; Wichita unpaid bonds. S59u;
shawnee unpaid bonds. $21, 800; UNI aid
interest, $5.744.92; unpaid coupons So
919 Total. 1882, $3.50.
| Normal school F'und-Stevens county,
unnaid coupons. $201. SO; Anderson coun-
lty. unpaid bonds. 500: Barber unpaid
bonds 500, delinquent interest GOV
lCbauta1olla unpaid coupons. 81 So;
Cherokee unpaid coupons, $3l SO; Chey-
lenne. unpaid bond, 500; Ellis, unoa1d
bonds. $500; F'inney, unpaid coupons
$780, Grant, unpaid bonds, $zoO; Has
lxelI. unpaid bonds, $1,3S7; Ottawa. I'M
paid bond, 5000; Stanton. unpaid nonds
$500; Stanton, unpaid coupons, $llzi
wallace. unpaid bonds, 5000; Washing
ton unpaid bond 800, unpaid coupons
$62 so. Total. 4.S54.9
Agricultural College Fund-Barber
county unpaid bonds $137.45, unpaid in
terest $50; Cherokee. unpaid couDons
$50; Comanche, unpaid bonds, $3.50; Ellis
UNPAID bonds, $500; Ellsworth, unpaid
bonds $500, unpaid coupons 81 500
Montgomery, unpaid coupons, 1885
Morton, unpaid coupons, 1.130: Wyan-
dotte, unpaid coupons. $685. 80. Total
81. a30se
University Fund-Stevens county, un-
paid coupons, 1915; Cheyenne county
. unpaid bond. 500; Coffey, unpaid coup
OnS, S25, COnanche. unpdlu boIldS. $SSV
Graham. unpaid coupons, SIS; Gray, IN
paid bonds, 500; Grant, unpaid coup
ons, 1882: Kingman, unpaid bonds
$50: Wichita, unpaid bonds, 5000. Total
& 427.
The Oklahoma counties which ow,
} amounts to the Kansas Agricultural
5 college fund will be required to pay o.
. be sued. The Oklahoma counties ow'
the Agricultural fund the following
: amounts:
l Fingfisher county ...............$ 1000
Potfawatornie county ... 536 81
, nav county $3.50. o.
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