The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-08
Col. Bill Hackney Attends Su-
preme Court Session.
Talks Merrily of Old Times in
Kansas.
FRISCO FILES ANSWER
Claims 1t Entered State Under
Old Law.
Cannot Be Held Accountable by
New One.

Among the noted out OF town VlSltOrS
in attendance at the sessions Of the SUI
preme court today was w. P. (BilD
Hackney of Cowley county. The old
timer held forth in one of the ante
rooms of the court with a crowd of
friends and acquaintances present and
told interesting tales of other days.
Some one interrupted him to tell of a
state convention held many years ago
in the east wing of the state house at
which Col. Hackney presided. There
was fight on that year for the place
of attorney general on the Republican
ticket and when this nomination was
called for a delegate in the back end of
the hall arose and asked the chairman
| il it was necessary for the candidate
to be a lawyer. Col. Bill gravely re-
piled lit seems not to have been the
custom in past years" The shaft was
aimed at the attorney general whose
name was before the convention to sue
ceed himself Col Hackney laughed as
| heartily over this incident of past po-
| litical storms in his career as anybody
and it reminded him of a half dozen
other stories just as good
| The Frisco today filed its answer iE
| the custer suit started by Attorney
General Jackson against the road in
| it's total capital stock The answer
| quotes several paragraphs of the Kan
| sas statutes of 1894 and alleges that the
road entered the state in 1896 under the
then present law by which it had full
| filled every requirement in paying fees
! to operate a line in this state. The road
| holds that having entered the state un-
der one law and been given powers and
! privileges it should not now be COM
PEELED to pay excessive charter fees to
| ffac- I0v- Tear
| In the case of the disbarment pro-
| ceedings instituted in the supreme
] court against w. B. Washington, an
| attorney of Wichita county, it was
agreed by the attorneys for both sides
that a commissioner should be appoint
ed to hear the evidence and report find
| ings of fact to the court. The COM
missioner had not been agreed upon
early this afternoon.
| Walter Wellhouse, secretary of the
state horticultural society, has been
personally investigating the fruit con-
ditions of the state for the past two
weeks and has been in close touch with
his correspondents from all sections of
| the state, and he believes that Kan
sas will have a big fruit crop this year.
The cold weather all through the month
of March kept the fruit back and even
lot of Geld weather in April will nor
do Eauch harm.
|
| tremely cold weather in February but
there should still be a fair peach crop
The apples are in splendid shape. Two
years ago when the fruit crop was al
most entirely destroyed the warm
weather of early March had advanced
all the fruit three weeks ahead of its
present stage of development.
| 1T would take some very cold wealth
er to kill the apples and apricots now,
said Mr.. Wellhouse, but of course
I ,al. 11Ar f,1L q
at this season of the year. There will
be a fair peach crop this year"
Speaking of the recent order of the
state board of health to the effect
| that all dogs must be kept out of
grocery stores at all times hereafter,
a Newton paper gives warning as fol-
lows on the new ruling:
$50 far as we know. the inspector
has not visited Newton. but he is sure
| to drop in most any day. 1t might
be lust as well, then, for the house
wife to commence training Fido to
remain at home and spend his time
| gnawing on a bone while she ambIes
| down the street making purchases for
! the day, or sooner or later the afore-
| said Fido must learn that this is not
| a. free country for dogs; liberties ne
has heretofore enjoyed are being cur
! tailed He may elude the Newton
! dog catcher and go through the season
| without MS master 'peiiiS Gun! pOiioN
| to cough up two plunks as license
| on life for another year. He may sui
sing a Tyrolean yodle in the back yard
in the early hours of the morning. he
may go on and enjoy life about as
usual, but he is no longer permltteo
! to go shopping with the head of the
/ house particularly when that shopping
tour may include grocery store :,
ITO all owners of dogs we woulo
say, then: Get busy and train them
to stay at home. If you dont the
PN11 - L. hant who nernits