The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-22
WARDEN /. FRANK KEGS IS FIRED
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paign to appoint the state labor COM
missioner from King county and a
personal pledge was given to ]. d. Far
rell that Kincaid would have the place.
Kincaid was Northern Pacific loco
motive engineer, running out of Seattle
on the Seattle branch of the road.
B. S. Grosscup and the Tacoma con-
tingency Of the Mead support demand
ed the appointment of Hubbard, anoth-
er Northern Pacific employee but a
| resident of Tacoma. Grosscup won.
A stormy scene took place between
Mead and Farrell after Kincaid was
turned down and the governor offered
as a consolation prize the appointment
on the state board Of control. Kincaid
accepted the berth reluctantly as the
salary he drew from the railroad
equalled that the state pays members
of the board Of control. He was finally
prevailed upon to accept the appoint
| ment on the ground that if his admin
istration was creditable it would give
him a standing as an executive and
business man that would be invaluable
in private life
| Davis Wanted Place.
James A. Davis, the Pierce county
member of the board of control, has all
along sought the appointment as war
den of the penitentiary. He was in
volved in the preparations for handling
the penitentiary vote in fight for con-
troll of Walla Walla city and county
politics and figured as Meads political
representative on the board. If Davis
gives up his penitentiary ambition it
will probably be with the feeling that
he will succeed to the actual control of
the state board.
There was talk of Charles S.
Reed, superintendent of the reform
school, might be named for warden
should a vacancy arise. Mr.. Reer was
appointed to the reform school manage
where Governor Rogers placed him.
ment from the state board Of control
He was formerly chief of police at
Seattle and both mere and in the reform
school accustomed to the handling of
criminal classes. Governor Mead has
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from other candidates for the job.
Part of Campaign Deal.
! KEGS went to the penitentiary as a
part Of the campaign deal between
| Mead and the Ankeny following. 1t
was promised during the state conven-
ton and as D. B. Croker sat on the
advisory committee ne kept a close
tab on the penitentiary appointments.
John L. Wilson made an Intellectual
fight against KEGS selection, but Gov
ernor Mead mad scarcely sifted into
his chair before he sent KEGS to the
penitentiary to relieve Warden Dryden
who had opposed him through the cam
paign.
Conditions have not been wholly sat-
isfactory to the board Of control at any
time KEGS was entangled in the scan
dial over the registration of voters in
the Walla Walla municipal campaign
last year. It was clearly shown that
the voters VINO registered actually in
tended to reside in Walla Walla per-
manently and were entitled to go there
Beside this showing there was the ad-
ditional fact that KEGS was too close
to Ankeny to be disturbed So he re-
manned as warden while subordinates
had to bear the brunt of the guberna.
torial wrath.
Breaks With Ankeny.
KEGS broke with Ankeny over Eugene
LOTIONS dismissal from Ankeny's pa.
per, and though some of Ankeny's ad-
l visers have insisted that KEGS was
keeping out Of county troubles, An
| nOAAy AilAloCiA lbs OOCil SACPIlCdls Tx
did not feel like making any further
fight for KEGS and the removal of Che
warden is pretty apt to give intense
enjoyment to the strong Ankeny work.
ers.
KEGS was on dangerous ground when
the state board of control began its
last investigation. Ugly charges about
the handling of convicts had been
floating around and it is an open Sc
cret that KEGS antipathy toward DR.
Martins prevented the parole or par
don of the Eatonville physician after
he had saved the lives of scores OF
convicts in a typhoid fever epidemic
Since many of the strongest men in the
republican organization had taken uI
this fight the state warden had several
black marks registered against him In
the Mead books in consequence.
The Grain Sack Scandal.