The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-13
TAKE The HELM.
New County Officers Are Now on
Duty.
No Ceremony Was Observed In
Making the Change.

The Inauguration ceremonies of the
state officers paled into insignificance
compared with the ceremonies attending
the installation of the new county OFF,
GERS, that is in point of time. It took
only about an hour to swear in the
state officers, sound the fanfare and
have the services over, but the county
officers began at s o'clock Monday
morning and things were doing at the
court house until noon.
The corridors were thronged with ne
gro politicians and others who wished
to congratulate the new county officials
and also wished to get a chance at the
box of cigars in each of the Offices
where a new incumbent was to begin
drawing pay at noon.
The mecca of the smokers was the
county clerks Office where Albert New
man succeeded John Wright as county
clerk and where a large box of large
cigars was. standing open on the table
with plenty Of matches within reach
Newman appeared at the office this
morning before the door was unlocked.
His hair was parted in the middle and
he had his nose glasses with him to
wear in case he did not at once assume
the air of a clerk. He put pen behind
his ear and began work. Some time ago
he was sworn in by l. s. Curtis, clerk
of the district court. and early in the
morning Newman returned the compile
ment by swearing IN Curtis and then at
Z o'clock began to draw pay.
NeW-man's bond as county clerk is in
the sum of 81 600 and his bOndSmen are
NJ Snattinger and D. J. Greenwald.
John Wright, WhO retired as county
clerk after a service of five years in that
capacity, became deputy county clerk,
the position he held for six years before
he became county clerk. In October he
viii become assistant county treasurer
under z. c. Bowen and VIII Van Ors-
dale of Silver Lake will become deputy
county clerk. Henry Monroe, colOred,
will take the place of second assistant
in February. Oscar SWayze retired
Saturday night as deputy county clerk
A. Z. Lucas succeeded Porter S. Cook
as sheriff. Lucas was under sheriff with
r. B. Kepley for two years and knows
how to perform the duties of sheriff
Lucas bond is for $4,000 and IS given
by q surety company. His deputies viii
be G. w Belts, known as Paddy"
Belts, under sheriff, John Ostrand. Of
flee deputy; Carl Lawson, who has been
jailer under Cook for five years. will
continue in that capacity; assistant
jailer. George Charles, and turnkey, J.
Patterson
Galen Nichols keeps on the even
tenor Of his way as county attorney
for another two years. and the fact that
he closed one term and began another
at noon did not cause a slip on the cog
of the legal machinery, for the cogs III
the county attorneys office are we'll
oiled and they know what and what not
to do without being told Nichols bond
is for 81 500 and is signed by r. Nichols
and J. F. Nichols. The deputies will De
Capt. J. r. McNary and W. l. Jamson
as before and the stenograDher M F.
Laycock-
John Marshall will continue as band
master. but this will not hinder his SerV-
ing the county as register of deeds He
filed his bond for $500, signed by D ".
Dibble and P Smidt. His Office CLERK
Will be Miss Dora Clark. who has been
in the Office under Frank Stevens. who
retired after five years service and viii
begin today as a juryman in the dis
trict court
I s Curtis who has been deputy in
the Office of the clerk Of the district
court for a dozen years. and who was
appointed to succeed DIR. A. M. Gala.
ham. who died. assumed the Office as
an elected incumbent. His assistants
will be the same as heretofore. Miss
Tillotson and Miss Fora West
W. F. Pagan began his second term
as probate judge. He has assumed
more of the dignity that goes with the
bench and wOolsack than he had when
he began. and he bears the title Of
"iedge'' very nicely. He will have the
same assistants. Capt. w. F. Orner and
Miss Mary Roth.
Coroner Hogeboom began his second
term with a larEe supply of beer ct al.
on hand which Sheriff Cook seized from
Fritz Durein and which was reDlev-
ined and placed in the charge of the
coroner. who by law looks after the dead
and the litisated liquor. He would have
been more popular, perhaps. than the
officials with cigars If he had tapped the
wet goods, but he did not.
County Surveyor Rodgers went right
on with the same assistant. Walter
Crawford. and they are ready to run
beads. lines. and chase squirrels in the
woods as before.
The honorable and august board Of
county commissioners reorganized. 3.
H Haines began his second term and he
retired as chairman. The pie has to be
handed around The three members
then bailoted for chairman, much after
the same manner as United States
sena tor is elected. It was all fixed be-
forehand- Silas Rain received two votes
and Haines voted for Rain. and Frank
Harrison put a Rain, ballot in the hat