The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-07

Smith Center. and Mr. Thompson of To-
peka. No one of these candidates has
yet secured support sufficient to insure
his election.
Governor Hoch has decided not to is
sue commissions for notaries public
whose term of office do not expire until
after January II. 1t has been the rule
for many of these notaries to secure re-
appointment and have their new COM
missions issued about month before
their old terms expire. Governor Hoch
holds that if he should commission a
notary, beginning at a date when he
himself is out of office the commission
would be worthless in the eyes of the
courts in case of litigation over any doc
uments. In speaking of the matter the
governor said:
For instance, what if some business
deal is attacked in future years and the
whole question hinged upon the ac
acknowledgement of the notary public and
it was shown that the notary was OPP
Grating under a commission issued by
me after 1 had gone out of office. A
commission signed by an ex-governor is
no better than one signed by any other
private citizen. Therefore, those no
taries whose commissions expire a few
days after I leave office must wait and
get their commissions from the new
governor. That is the only safe way to
protect business deals
Governor-elect Stubs visit to Wash
ington, where he will spend all this
week, may be set at rest by the Law
renee mans own statement before he
left that he was going to the capital %
meet and talk over matters of govern
ment with Governor Hughes of New
York and Ex-Governor Cummns of
Iowa and other governors and notables
who will be present to attend the ses-
sions of the forestry commission and
he Of ~ t11hlO
said to a friend before he left: Il want
to talk to governors who have gone
through the mill or one or more terms
as governor of a state and discuss with
them many matters of routine and
precedent connected with the office.
new man should get many ideas and
valuable advice on many subjects from
these men" It is expected that the
Kansas governor-ele will also have a
conference with the president While in
Washington.
Governor Hoch appointed r. NJ. Lee
of Topeka as clerk of the city court i'll
place of Ed O'Neil who will resign his
place Jan to assume his duties as
county commissioner. Mr.. Lee is just
out of school but he had letters of rec
ommendation to the governor from
twenty-seven Topeka lawyers. The
other candidates for this appointment
were Nate Thompson, David Taylor
and ]. NJ. Miller.
The Olathe Mirror in an editorial en-
dorsement of J. n. Dolley for speaker
of the next house presents the some
what unique argument that the Wa
baunsee county man is the proper per-
son of all others to cement the Repub-
Iican factions of the state together, but
the Mirror does not explain why a
radical square dealer is any better
qualified to bind up old wounds than
a dyed in the wool machine man would
be.
An order has been determined upon
by the secretary of the interior. to &C
into effect February 1, for the CONSOLE |
dation of the land office at Colby, Kan. |
with the land office at Topeka.
This action is based upon the fact |
that the law requires such consolida- |
ton in all cases where the aggregate |
of unappropriated lands attached to |
land office shall fall below 100000 acres. |
In that event it is made the duty of the |
of the interior to attach such
land office district to another district.
Senators Curtis and Long today called |
on Secret@--- Garfield and conferred
also with the commissioner of the gen.
eral land office relative to all the dis
tricts in the state.
No other action was taken however.
except to fix the time of the consolida- |
ton of the Colby with the Topeka Of
fee as soon after the above date as the
business of the offices will permit. 1t
is shown by the records that only $4,000
acres remain inappropriate Gin the
Colby district. Thomas L. Hickey.
clerk of the Colby office. will probably
be transferred to Topeka