The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-06
Secures Parole to Send Him to
Grandmother.
MR.. SCHENCK APPEALS
County Attorneys Request to
Governor Granted.
Governor to Make Campaign in
Automobile.

Some people do not like Stubs, the
politician, but every one who does BUSH
ness with Governor Stubs across his
desk likes his style. County Attorney
Schenck, Democrat, called upon the
governor Tuesday to try to interest his
excellency in the case of Wendell Mill
@r, the little Lebanon boy, who had run
away from home and who was about 10
be sent to the reform school The story
of the Miller boy was printed in the
State Journal yesterday. How his
mother was dead and his father had
married again. and the youthful step
mother had not been able to get along
with the boy. How the latter had had
q suit of clothes charged and been un-
able to pay for them Then he hao
run away and his father had asked
that he be sent to the reform school.
County Attorney Schenck became in
terested in the boy, who had been cap
tured here and was being held in Jail
awaiting transfer to the reform school
The boys grandmother, Mrs. V. s.
Groves of Gardner, came to the city
give her the boy instead Of sending
him to Hutchinson. The graz dmother
bore the stamp OF her character upon
her gentle face
The county attorney Went 10 Gov
ernor Stubs to see if the latter would
intercede for the boy who was under
the jurisdiction of Judge Prather Of the
Kansas City, Kan, juvenile court Inc
governor heard the county attorneys
story and then listened to his recon-
mendations. He asked what he could
do in the matter. Mr.. Schenck sug-
gueSted that he ask the Kansas CITY
judge to turn the boy over to the
custody of the Shawnee county attor-
ney with the understanding that he
be given to his grandmother. The gov
ernor turned at once to the telephone
and called up Judge Prather and put
the case to him in very few words
and asked for the boy. He got him.
Mr.. Schenck and the grandmother Went
away happy in the accomplishment or
a good deed
Speaking of the matter, Mr.. Schenck
declared that the governor was in
class by himself when it came to close
attention to small matters, grasp OF de-
tail and prompt and vigorous action.
II shall always think of my session
with the governor in connection with
the little Miller boy" said Mr.. Schenck.
when I hear anything good or bad
about his excellency- I saw new side
to his character at that interview"
During the last week in April Gov
ernor Stubs will open his campaign
in southwestern Kansas, making an
automobile trip through the counties
not served by railroads. AT the same
time Thomas Z. Wagstaff will open his
campaign in southeast Kansas, speak
ing to home folks at Independence
Wagstaff is expected. with his pleasant
personality and lively manner of
speech to make a rafting good cam
paign, but then he will be opposed by
one of the beet campaigners that ever
came out OF the west. Governor
Stubs is " iairlwind. He will make
the public .,ontroI of utilities one of
the issues and his political wisdom did
not desert him when he made this
choice. Mr.. Wagstaff's stand on this
question is not known with any GER
tainty. but all the machine men of the
last legislature opposed the governors
public utilities bill and won their fight.
Monday was an unlucky day for
governor. Dave spent Sunday in
Wichita, his home town, and the 'larg-
est, richest, fast growing city in the |
country When he started for the |
train Monday morning he discovered |
when about half way to the depot that |
he had forgotten his glasses, SO he had |
to hurry back after them. AS he |
he looked in vain through all his |
pockets for Ills pipe. He had left it |
at home and there was no time to re- |
turn and get I. So Dave bought a pipe |
and climbed aboard his train.
When he settled back for a comfort |
able smoke he discovered that the |
stem to ihs new pipe was solid piece, |
having no subway through which the |
smoke might be drawn from the bowl |
Of the pipe. Dave called upon the |
Irish saints and kings to witness his
In desperation he Dor
roMed a hatpln from g lady passenger
and excavated a tunnel through the
pipestem anG smoked-after fashion
At Newton he missed his Topeka
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