The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-20
UNDER THE DOME.
Governor H0eh Has Selected
Judge Humphreys Successor.
VIII Make Appointment Soon
After the Funeral.
HOCHWITHROOSEVELT
Governor May Not Be Here to
Call Special Session.
Petitions Against Cherokee
County Atty. Continue to Come.

| The successor to Judge James Humph-
rey has been selected by Governor Hoch
but will not be announced until the first
of next week. Governor Hoch did not
deny today that the matter was prac-
| ticaIly settled.
| Il will make no appointment" said the
governor. until after Judge Humph-
rey's funeral OF course 1 have known
for some weeks that his health was
| bad, and that he might be obliged TO
| resign 1 have been considering who
should be appointed in case of a va
cancy.''
No intimation was given out by the
governor as to the name of the man
who will become a member of the state
tax commission. 1t will be nard to find
anyone who can fully take Judge
Humphreys place.
Governor Hoch will accompany the
remains of Judge Humphrey to the
train today, but will not go to Junction
City. Mrs James Humphrey and MI
Humphreys son and daughter will be
ance- The state house was closed to-
day from 10 O'Clock this morning until
2 O'Clock this afternoon
On Saturday Governor Hoch will be
in Lansing all day, talking with prison
ers at the peniIentiary who want to be
released on pardon or parole.
There are about tw enty cases." said
Governor Hoch, that 1 am especially
anxious to investigate 1 want to see
the men and talk to them in order that
I may obtain all the information posi-
BILE before deciding what to do
! Governor Hoch may be out of town
on Oct. 5. the day upon which he is
| supposed to be due" to call a special
session of the legislature He will
make the trip down the Mississippi
| river with Theodore Roosevelt and
the governors of twenty western
states, for the purpose of interesting
the public in the work of improving
/ the navigability of that stream.
/ When it was suggested to the gov
ernor that. his absence on this trip
might interfere with calling the spe-
cial session. he said:
II will be back on the sixth, ex-
pect-"
Louis on Sept 80, and will join the
distinguished party of officials on
| Oct l.
Attorney General Jackson is plan
| ming TO take his assistant, John Daw-
| son, and go to St. Louis on Sept. % to
attend the big national pow-wow of
all the attorney generals of the coun-
try. which is to be held for the pur-
pose of talking over the anti-cor-
poration fights in which nearly all Of
| the attorney generals are engaged.
formal programme of papers has
been prepared. and there will also be
| extended discussions of an informal
nature. The question of state versus
federal rights in the control of cor
poratfons it is expected will be one of
the important subjects discussed Il
| expect the meeting to be one of very
great Importance to the interests of
| the nation, and the several states
| said General Jackson today.
| Petitions continue to pour into the
attorney generals office from the peo-
pie of Cherokee county asking him to
begin custer proceedings against Dan
| Woolley, the county attorney of that
| county, who is not sufficiently active in
the enforcement of the prohibitory
laws
Il am getting great many petit
+ tions," said General Jackson today.
| '"They keep coming in. and I am walt
! ing to see how long it will keep up.
/ have not decided what 1 will do. Mr..
WoolIey has started. some saloon prose-
! cutions, and of course L hope to see
him close up the joints in Cherokee
county The petitions come from
/ churches. religious organizations, and
from citizens at large And there are
/ certainly g lot of them
Charles D. Shukers, assistant attor-
ney general, will leave for BeIoit todfSy
for the purpose of spending Sunday
/ visiting with relatives. 1t is said that
| he also expects to browse around out
| in the Sixth district before his return
/ home and find some evidence against
! the harvester trust He has some law
/ business in Graham county to attend
| to. and may spend some time in north
ern and western Kansas before his
! return.
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