The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
CARRIERS AGAIN.
Or Rather the Same Old Gang
of Lawyers.
Threaten More Trouble for the
State journal Delivery.
TALK SUPREME COURT.
Who the Lawyers Are That Are
Fomenters and
EndeayOring, With Poor Sue
cess, to Cripple This Paper.

The court gave the State Journal car
riers the right to bring separate cases
if they wish. The carriers intend to
| appeal the case to the supreme court
Topeka Capital, today.
We believe it is the attorneys, a few
disgruntled people, but not the carriers,
who are talking of taking the case to
the supreme court.
The lawyers ought to know betterthan
to advise college students to go further
with this case. which was so thoroughly
examined and ruled upon by the district
court yesterday.
Nothing that the court did yesterday
gave the carriers a right to bring sep
arate cases if they wish. That is priv
iIege any carrier has, or any person has.
and always has had if they have a case.
It is somewhat interesting to learn,
through the Topeka Capital. that our
carriers are going to appeal the old case
to the supreme court. It is unfortunate
that we have to go to some rival paper
to find out about our own business. Tt
might look to an outsider as if the To-
peka Capital were anxious for US to
have continued trouble with our carriers,
but we hardly think the carriers, or any
considerable number of them together,
gave this item to the Capital at all
1t is learned that the attorneys for the
carriers, who are Troutman & Stone,
and Rossington & Smith, are doing
their best to foment additional trouble.
The State Journal carriers case was
settled yesterday, but the desire Tor
blood out of the State Journal on the
part of Troutman & Stone and Rossing-
ton & Smith. seems to be still unsatia-
ted.
All of these attorneys have endeavor-
ed to get money out of this paper, with
more or less success, through suits in
stituted against the state Journal
They might be in better and more
profitable business, but they seem de-
termined 10 pursue this paper to the
bitter end.
We want the public to understand
that the great majority of the car
riers, out of the forty-three, engaged
in delivering the State Journal every
evening in this city, are a fine lot of
men. young men and married men,
too, several of them.
We want the people of Topeka to
understand that this trouble is caused
mainly by a few people whom we have
especially befriended and is abetted
by a few others who are engaged in
| the questionable business of endeav-
oring to extort money from the pro-
prietor of this paper.
/ The attorneys, as stated in this paper
yesterday, who are almost continually
engaged in suits against the State Jour
nal and who are fighting it at nearly
every step of it's progress, are W. H
Rossington, Chas. Blood Smith, James
A. Troutman and Robert Stone.
Now, who is this man Rossington?
Rossington is the man who was at
torney for Annie Oakley. in an effort to
extort ten thousand dollars from the
proprietor of this paper, on account of
the ordinary publication of a news
item.
This is the man who stood up before
a jury in Leavenworth and lied like a
trooper to that jury about the proprie-
tor of this paper and held him up to
scorn and contumely- The jury was one
of strangers, excepting one who hap
pened to be a Topeka man.
Colonel Rossington, of Rossington
& Simth, is the man who objected to
the introduction of testimony on the
part of the proprietor of this paper to
show that a correction of the item
was made; that no malice was in any
way intended; that every effort had
been made to publish a retraction;
that it was a mistake that might be
made in any newspaper Office and was
made in scores of them, and that
there was no desire in the least to
reflect upon Annie Oakley.
The woman of the item turned out
to be an imposter; that is, the woman
who called herself Annie Oakley ana
who appeared in the news item.
Annie Oakley herself bore a good
character, but her attorneys told the
writer of this article. the proprietor of
this paper, that they wanted monetary
damages. They did not care for re-
traction or correction.
The jury brought in a verdict against
this paper of $1,000 and the proprietor
of this paper paid the amount. Rossing-
ton & Smith deplored the fact that the
jurys award was not five to ten thou
sand dollars, as they did their best to
get it. This firm Of Rossington & Smith
had the assurance to say to the pro
prietor of this paper that he got of
easy on the Annie Oakley case"
This man Rossington is the same man
who is attorney in a libel suit, brought
by I. L. Dayhoff. superintendent of pub
lie instruction, against this paper. for
SIS. 100000 because we exposed a dis
graceful transaction in Comanche coun-
ty bonds.
This man Rossington is the same man
who is attorney for J. r. Burrow, secu-
tary of state. who also wants $4,000
from the proprietor of this paper, on
account of an article published exposing