Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-01-30
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
January Is, 1914.

January rs, 1914.
/ Both the state administration and
.the.federal authorities are to be con-
graduated on the success of the pros
Nutiou against the Mondays. They
were convicted last week in the feder
al court at Leavenworth on each Of
aine counts for fraudulent use Of the
United States mails. The new Blue
Sky Law which was passed by the
Democratic legislature of 1913 extend
ing the operations Of that law to real
estate schemes, was responsible for
TIE prosecution. As soon as Bank
Commissioner Sawyer took charge OF
Ns office he began an investigation
u the, Mondays, whereat the Moun-
days enjoined the Bank Commission
&c and the Attorney General from in
terfering with them. This did not
stop the investigation however, and
1fr. Peterson, of the Blue Sky De-
Dartment went to New Mexico to
gather evidence, while United States
Inspectors were put to work in Kan
$50 and Colorado by the new Demo
-Ssatic United States district attorney
Nh. Robertson. The state and fed
D leral authorities worked together ant
the result is a conviction upon which
sthe Mondays may receive a maxi
'mum Of As years in the penitentiary
and a fine of mine thousand dollars.
About the only defense which tn
attorney for the Mondays urged be
tore the jury was that the prosecu
ton was a political conspiracy on tn
part of Governor Hodges, Bank Com
Suissioner Sawyer and United State
District Attorney Robertson to raj
road innocent people into the penited
't1ary. The jury took no stock in tina
and promptly convicted the defend
e, .Ats.
Doubtless the law abiding peopf
q Kansas will give their hearty az
provad to all 'conspiracies' Of thi
sort
..
The new Irvine plant at the Kan
: sas State Penitentiary is now in ful
operation, and the first ball of twin
produced was sent by Warden Boz
: kin to Gov. Hodges. Experts pre-
. ,nounee it to be Of superior quality
h is now certain that by harves
time, the state will be able to sup
ply Us much or more Irvine as eve
. TO the farmers of the state.
This new Irvine plant-built b,
prison labor and without borrowing
any money-was recently prOnoune
ed by Prof. Blackmar, to be the onl,
modern and efficient part of the pen
'ltentiary.
MIR. Capper's Topeka Daily re
printed from one of the Ne too pa
pers of the state, a statement tina
UP at Beloit nearly fifty people hav'
been fired to make room for untrain
ed Democratic workers. ,
The extravaganza of this state
ment becomes apparent when it i
shown that not more than thirty-sev
"a have been carried on the payroll
Of the Girls Industrial School at Be
iolt. Of these, nineteen or twent
left the institution voluntarily wit
Mrs. Perry on a sort of @sympath.
strike which reminds Us that Thu
Reform School for girls is for TIN
first time in twelve years being con
g Quoted as was originally intended, a
a reform school for girls ON the mel
q Il and parole system, and that tn
seew superintendent II making a grea
success Of her work.
So far as Mrs. Perry is concerned
she has been forgotten.
o The Manhattan Nationalist, edite
Oy Mr.. N. W. Huston, is one of tn
oldest and most influential Republ
can papers in central Kansas. RI