The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-18

be sure he had purchased it of the rail-
road company at S1.25 an acre. which
was the regular price. and had paid for
it in bonds which cost him only 3712
cents on the dollar. but the English
man thought ten dollars an acre-of
two pounds sterling, to be more ex-
act-was wonderfully cheap.
Victoria became a place Of consider
able Importance. The railroad COM
pany built a large stone two-story depot
there. when all other depots along the
line were little wooden structures.
Money was plentiful and every body had
a good time. But there were few work
ers in the colony and consequently it
could not last. After few years Sir
George died. The Russians had come
in and settled all around. Little by
little they purchased the land which
Grant had originally bought and which
had been sold to the English. Now the
Russians own nearly everything in that
locality They are industrious and
economical They raise a great deal of
wheat and the country Is prosperous
But some of the buildings which were
erected for the titled sons of the Eng
lish nobility still stand IN Victoria.
The Lawrence Gazette observes that
Kansas ESCAPED the disgrace and hu-
initiation of the joplin lynchlng. but
only by few miles. It might also De
observed that al the glory there was
in connection with the Joplin affair re-
dected upon Kansas Pearl Decker. the
young city attorney of Joplin, who hello
the mob back from its purpose Tor SONS
time. and who is the only one men
toned in the dispatches as opposing the
lvnohing and lawlessness. is a Kansas
bov. He was born and raised on
farm near Hollis. Cloud county. The
joplin DISPATCHES stated that when ths
mob was formed to lynch the murderer
of Policeman Leslie, Decker made
speech persuading it to disperse. Later
it again organized and secured the pr1S-
nd then Decker held the
mob back for half an hour.
Decker is still under so. He was am
bilious for an education and few years
ago he went to Park colle~e and worked
/ his way through. He developed talent
as an orator and won the interstate ora
torical contest one year Then he stud
i led law and located at Joplin Three
years ago he was elected city attorney
on the Democratic ticket. and has since
/ been reelected
/ county in the recent legislature, has
j purchased the Lebanon Criterion and
/ the Lebanon Journal and viii consoli-
date them. Just what be proposes to do
with them is not known. Linton was
one of the solid" man of the legis-
/ lature. one who always did just what
/ he thought was the right thing, re-
/ gardless of what others might do or
/ think.
Since George w. Martin. secretary of
/ the state Historical society. has stated
that Kansas colleges have never receiv-
ed any gifts from the nillionaires OF the
east, some of the Kansas editors are
saying that Kansas does not need any
such gifts-that he educational Inst1-
tutions can get along without them, and
that the people Of Kansas are them
selves building colleges which, for real
merit are not excelled anywhere The
4 fact seems to have been overlooked that
DR.. D. K. Pearsons. the Chicago phil
/ anthropist. has offered S25,000 to Beth
any college under certain conditiOns,and
John D. Rockefeller has offered Ottawa
university $4,000, also under certain
conditions. Commenting on the latter
/ fact and that gifts from some quarters
i do not really come from the givers, A.
e. Veatch, editor of the Manlzato Moni-
/ tor, says:
Tn 1891 the editor of the Monitor re-
members very distinctly of buying gas
olene at II cents per gallon At the
present time the Monitor Office is using
on an average of seven gallons per
! week and we are paying $1.1O for nYe
gallons, or 22c per gallon. 50 that the
/ Monitor is now donating to Rockefeller
4 II cents per week. or S40.04 per year.
The editor has no shining credit of hav-
ing donated to the Chicago university
or to Ottawa, yet we are 'heeced' for
that very purpose.
! a IuN0y L1iDS ndHpSllEN az -1O4SC
( City Friday. Victor MurdOck and C.
z. CIy1se, opposing candidates for con-
gress in the Seventh district. reached
there in the middle of the night from
Garden City, and through some mistake
the night clerk at the hotel assigned
them both to the same room. Friday
I morning a. reception committee of each
party went to the hotel to receive their
respective candidates. Each committee
found that its candidate had not yet
arisen, and an investigation showed
that they both were sleeping IN the
same bed
Some of the county clerks over the
state have begun to make complaint 10
the secretary of state over the passage
of the law fixing the date for the an
nual school meetings in districts on the
third Thursday in June The county
commissioners do not meet as board
Of equalization until the first Monday
in June, and that gives an exceedingly
short time for the county clerks to get
/ all the valuations in shape for each
school district before the school meet
ings This matter was discussed on the
floor of the house when the bill passed
the legislature. but it was passed just
/ the same Some of the county clerks
are asking the secretary of state what
/ can be done. but the secretary of state
+ is powerless in the matter
The state board of railroad assessors
will begin Inspecting the railroads Of
the state next week. They will start on
I Tuesday and go oveg the southern
Kansas line of the Santa F'e to Win
/ field and Arkansas City. returning by
way of Wichita and Newton. The
4 following week they viii take the Union
/ Pacific and Rock Island
Mrs. Lille Denied New Trial
David CITY. Neb.. April 1s-Mrs- Lena
Lille. convicted of the murder last
4 October Of her husband, a grain broker,
was today denied a new trial. Evidence
was offered by the attorneys for the de-
fense that tended to prove perjury on
T the part Of two jurors Judge Good,
however. after he heard the arguments
f TODAY overruled the motion fer another
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