The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-31
MAY BE over $1OO, 600.

counted for all of them.
"In the Richland township issue,
there are registered forty-nine cou-
pons in the auditors office. which is a
mistake, as there could not possibly
have been but forty coupons originally,
so this must have been intended for
| thirty-nine coupons.
"On each of these issues your chief
clerk has made the notation on each of
the bonds Coupon No. 1 clipped be-
| fore being deposited in this Office
Coupon No. 1 is not charged up on
your coupon register, neither is it
| charged against you in the state aud
itor's Office. All the other coupons are
| accounted for"
A very important fact which Mr.. Pat
terson fails to mention in this connec-
ton is that the auditors record which
he refers to has been shamefully gar
bled and changed at some time by some
one since the original entry. Where SO
coupons are charged to the state treas
urer on the Springvale township bonds
there has been an erasure and the hg-
ures "39'' have been written over the
erasure. The original record is in the
handwriting of 1. H. Cole, who was
then bond clerk in the auditors office.
The "39" which was made over the
erasure was made by some other per-
son with a different kind of ink The
erasure and change is very apparent.
The same is true with reference to the
coupons charged on the Richiand town
ship bonds. The figures "49" are made
over an erasure, apparently by the
same person who made the change in
che SpringVale township bonds In
making this change. however, the per
son making it seems to have been
nervous and made it 49 when he meant
to make SO.
This, of course, shows that the record
has been tampered with. Mr.. Cole says
he knows nothing of the change nor
when it could have been made. But
leaving out the fact that the record has
been altered, the further fact that T. L.
} W. 11a
same as he did the Garden City cou-
pons. shows that he knows where the
clipped coupons came from and who got
the money on them which was not turn
ed into the state treasury.
Regarding the shortage on the Wich-
ita bonds the state accountant said:
ION February 10, 1903, the school COM
r7issionerS bought bonds to the amount
of S25,OOO issued by the board of ed
ucation of Wichita, Sedgwick county,
on which s11 accrued interest was paid
at the time of purchase. Interest pay
able Semi-annually May rs and NOVem-
Der 25. The school commissioners rec
ords show that these bonds were pur-
chased with the understanding that q
sufficient amount of first maturing
coupons should be clipped from the
bonds to equal the amount of interest
due up to the date of delivery, which
amounted to 5000.
THE interest due the state May %.
1903, would be $500, less the coupons
above stated, 5000, leaving a balance
due for this period of $500. This amount
has not been accounted for in the an
nual school fund on the books of the
state treasurer
"Of the interest due November 20,
1908, amounting to $500. only $500 has
been accounted for in the annual school
balance unaccount0 I'd for Of 5000
Regarding this Wichita matter Mr..
Patterson says:
THE statement of the accountant
fI,a Of kadI
ton of the city of Wichita bonds is a
fragrant misstatement of the facts. The
accountant says: The school coI0miS-
sioners' records show that these bonds
were purchased with the understanding
that a sufficient amount of first matur-
ing coupons should be clipped from the
bonds to equal the amount of interest
due up to the date of delivery, which
ment of the accountant and not of the
record which reads as follows:
The following bonds were purchas-
ed: Board of education of Wichita,
Kansas. $25,000, dated May 1902 due
in 20 years, bearing per cent interest
and payable semi-annually- Bought at
par, clipping the first matured serni-an-
nual coupons and enough of second
maturing coupons to equal the accru-
ed interest due up to the date of de-
livery. which date shall hereafter ap-
pear on record See page 240, under
date of February 10 1903
These bonds are dated May 25. 1901,
due May 20. 1921, and were purchased
on February 10, 1908. therefore the first
maturing coupon to be clipped as
meant by the resolution would be the
coupon due May %, 1903. And in addi-
ton thereto, 5000 of the next maturing
coupons of November 25. 1903, leaving
ceipt No. go, dated November 81, 1908.
The coupon due May 25, 1901, was paid
January IL, 1904, on receipt No. S51. The
coupon due November 25, 1904, nearly
N leax-- &C 11iD nd ,oII fny
collection. and there is now on the bond
80 coupons which accounts for all mon
ey due. or claimed on this transaction"
In connection with Mr. Pattersons
report it might be noted that T. T.
Kelly continues to parallel his actions
in his Miami county shortage. When
the first charges of crookedness were
made in Miami county against Kelly
in 1902 he employed an accountant on
his own hook to go through his records
as county clerk of that county. Mr..
Kelly's private accountant found the
records all right. of course, and so re-
ported to Mr.. Kelly, just as Mr.. Pat
tersOn is now doing. But notwithStand-
ing the report of his private account
ant, Kelly paid back to Miami county
over $1,000 which the county commits
sioners said he had stolen from the
county.
Hiram Dillon, who holds T. T. Kel-
ly'S Escrow resignation, has selected
Stewart & Young, some chicago ac-
countants, to investigate the state
treasury under the terms of Kelly 8
letter to him. Kelly pays the expenses
of this investigation also. 1t is an
nounced that this investigation will be-
gin tomorrow, but it will take some
time to complete it-Mr. Kelly said
several months. Mr.. Young was in
Topeka Saturday comforting with Mr..
Dillon. In his letter notifying Mr.. Kel-
ly of his action, Mr.: Dillon says:
MIR. Young will begin his investiga-
ton Tuesday. 1 desire that you give
him access to all records. documents
and papers of whatsoever kind and de-
scription in your office, and afford him
every facility that the investigation