The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-19

NEWS CULLED
INTHECAPITAL
What Legislators Are
Doing and Other
Happenings.
crltIeIsss JUDGE kInkead.

Al a lOHhdi hdDl6 opinion, upnOlQ1nR
, its decision of some days ago in over
ruling the Franklin county common
pleas court in the Frank 4. Baxter
case, the Ohio supreme court severely
criticises Common Pleas Judge E. B.
hlnkead. Kinkead is the man who
held that Baxter, as former bank SUI
perlntendent, committed no crime in
taxing $4,000 Of the money of the de-
tunct Columbus Savings & Trust Co.
10 pay a private loan because he was
able to repay the loan before his &C
tlon was discovered. Commenting on
the kinkead viewpoint, the supreme
court says: ITO say that an oficer O,
state, entrusted with state funds, may
secretly use them to redeem securities
pledged by him for his debt and then
excuse him by showing that his luck
has turned and the securities have
been turned into money and the deficit
made up shocks the moral sense of
mankind"
Wild Deer Roaming in Ohio.
Two wild deer are roaming about in
Ohio. Deputy state game wardens are
trying to capture them. One of the
deer is somewhere in the southern
part OF the state and the other was
seen in Erie county. Reports have
been received by Chief Warden
Speaks that the animal has been seen
frequently in Knox, Morrow and Huron
counties recently. Hunters have chased
| the animal but have had trouble in
getting within gun shot distance of it
The animal that has been at large in
southern Ohio was first seen by a Nor
| folk Il Western Railroad engineer 1C
miles out of Portsmouth. 1t travelled
as far north as Ross county, where
trace of it was lost. The deer at large
in the northern part of the state was
seen at the same time that the other
was, so it is definitely known that
there are two animals. Chief Game
Warden Speaks said that it was prob.
able that one of the animals came
from West Virginia and the other from
Pennsylvania.
See Little Ground for Attack.
In the opinion of lawyers in the at.
torney generals Office there is little
ground for the attack just made in
the Franklin county court of appeals
on the new judiciary law providing
for chief justice of the supreme court
and the organization of courts of ap.
peals, which is based on a clerical er.
ror in the engrossed copy of the law,
which makes it appear that it passed
on April 20, 1913, when the legislature
adjourned one day earlier. Should
the objection against the law be held
to be we'll founded, the supreme court
would be left without a chief justice
and all courts of appeal would Aabol,
ished. The contention is also made
that the measure failed to secure the
necessary two-thirds' majority, as re,
quired by the constitution. 1t is not
expected that the attack on the law
will be successful.
Change in Racing Rules.
Ohio county fair officials played a
big part in the movement which has
just resulted in revolutionary change
being made in racing rules by the Ma.
tional Trotting association. These
changes will promote the sport Here.
after If horse makes a certain high
mark In heat, it will not be barred
from entering a class of mark
which is slower. If horse wins a
race, which usually consists of three
heats, it is limited for the season to
the class to which its record CORE
spends. If the animal does not better
its record during the year, it may en-.
ter a class a second slower the next
year, and so on for each year that the
record is not improved. A horse that
wins heat and not the race may enter
a class which is four seconds slower
than the animals mark Ohio mem.
bers of the National Trotting associa
tion predict that John c. Welty of
Canton, who has just been made one
of the vice presidents of the associa.
tion, before many years will become
it's president.
Weights and Measures Law.
An early decision of the supreme
court on the question OF the constitu
tionality of the weights and measures
law is expected. The common pleas
and appeal courts of Franklin county
held the law was unsound, and the
supreme court has consented to adj
vance the suit in which the law was at.
tackled SO that it's status can be finally
determined at an early date. The
dairy and food department of the state
agricultural commission, which has
charge of the enforcement of the law,
claims that the lower court decisions
only nullify a portion of the Law and
that the major part of it is unaffected.
The further claim is made that the
law is in force in its entirety in all
counties except Franklin, contending
that the effect of the decision does
not go beyond the limits of this
county.
$25,o0o,0oo Worth of Securities.
Locked up in the big vault in the
state treasury are 100000 worth( N
securities. Of these close to 100000.
900 belong to insurance companies
and are on deposit as a guarantee that
they will live up to the requirements of
the Ohio laws for the protection of
policy holders. Trust companies have
close to $5,OO0,0OO on deposit as Sc
curity for trusts they execute. Nearly
$9,O00,0OO of securities belong to banks
which handle regular deposits of
money of the state and are given to Sc
cure these loans ~.