The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-02


Will Speak This Evening on ''Three
Great Superlatives."
herd, Editor Sunday School Publications,
st. Louis.
supplying the Teacher. ............:...:-..
Professor w. ]. McGlOthin
1918 Adjournment.
Wednesday Afternoon, May 3.
100 Conferences. (Three Simultaneous
Conferences from 1870 to 2:45.)
2:45 Service of Song
.............Led by Tullar and Meredith
Scripture and Prayer.
300 Platform Hour:
Little People, Big Plans and Proven
Possibilities" Miss Margaret Ellen Brown,
Elementary Superintendent or Nebraska.
Making the Adult Glass" .......-..:-.:...
Address, DIR. W. G. Puddefoot, Super1n-
tendent Home Missions for Indiana.
Grand Sunday School Procession.
Wednesday Evening, May 3.
7:3O Service of Song. ...:.:;:....:
............ Led by Tullar and Meredith
Scripture and Prayer.
500 Addresses:
THE Art of Finding Folks ....:...:..
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. M. w. A. Brown
CTopic to be Announced. ..........-..:..
...............Dr. w. G. Puddefoot
Convention Offering.
Baker university must wait until the
courts settle a few matters concerning
the will of Eliza Chrisman, who gave
her estate to the institution. The estate
is now valued at $71, 1881. When the
eleventh annual account of the trus-
tees was filed in the probate court to-
day, Judge Schoch ordered the property
turned over to Baker university under
the provisions of the will and the ac-
ton of the Methodist conference. DIR.
A. S. Embree, one of the trustees, took
exception to the ruling and served
notice of an appeal giving a bond for
$500 to cover court costs.
For eleven years Kansas schools OF
Methodist faith have waited patiently
for the division of the Chrisman estate.
When the property seemed within the
grasp of Baker university, the matter
of final settlement was again deferred
and it is probably that the district
court will take a guess on the pro-
visions of the will. ~.z
When Eliza Chrisman died in 1900,
she left an estate valued at about $780,
000 All of her property was willed to
prospective Methodist educational in
stitution to be established in Topeka.
Provision was made, however, that in
case the school was not established
within 10 years after the probating of
the will that the next annual confer
ence of Methodist churches should de-
eide on the appropriation of the prop
erty and that this action should be
final and binding.
In March, 1910, the conference voted
to give the money to Baker university.
but Judge Schoch held that the action
was too early, as Mrs. Chrismans will
had been entered for probate in May.
Consequently the trustees were re
tained and the matter deferred until
this year. At the meeting in Abilene
this year, there was a heated battle for
the funds. Methodist schools at Salina
and Winfield both asked for a portion
of the estate. Baker wanted it all.
Baker won.
Before the report, which was filed
today, Baker university asked the
court to order a final settlement 1t
also asked for an order of distribu-
ton. This order was sustained. Right
here was where trouble started. The
Chrisman estate is composed largely
of collateral consisting of first mort
cages bearing and 8 per cent inter
est. There is also property in Topeka
which pays good dividends. Baker
wanted the property turned over just
as it stands. S. S. OFT, one of the trus-
tees was neutral in the matter. But
Embree declared that the collateral
into cash. When Judge Schoch over
ruled this position, Fmbree, who
draws $4,000 annually for looking
after the property, filed notice of an
appeal
In his ruling today. Judge Schoch
year. He also made provision for the
payment of the 1911 taxes and for the
$500 annual salary paid to S. S. OFT,
as one of the trustees But Embree
is obdurate. He contends that all of
the provisions of the will can not be
fulfilled until the cash is turned over
TO the school. Judge Schoch believed
that so long as Baker was satisfied
Embree had little ground for COM
plant.
Should the case reach the higher
courts, it will present 4 peculiar situ-
alton. There is no contention over the
rights of the school to the property.
The only issue will be as to how it
shall be given. Baker wants it in its
present state Embree argues that
cash only is the provision of the will.
So the district court may determine
whether Baker university receives a
deed to considerable real estate and a
number of gilt edge first mortgage
loans, or whether the school accepts
the cold cash