The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1920-12-16
KANSAS NEWS
BY THE DEMOCRATS SpEC,
IAL TOPEKA COR
RESPONDENT

RESPONDENT I;
TOPEKA, Dec. 11.-Another chap
ter in the Council Grove town row
was completed in the supreme court
Saturday when an opinion was hand
ed down holding that M. F. Amrine
was entitled to his seat on the board
of education.
Amrine went to France as a Y. NJ
G. A. worker and letter he wrote
back was construed into a resigna-
ton as a member of the school board.
j. j. Rhodes, wealthy lumberman and
Republican leader, was elected to fill
his unexpired term, but when Amrine
returned he was president of the
school board and refused to recog-
nize Amrine. George and Amrine
are newspaper competitors. Amrine
then brought a mandamus suit in the
supreme court to compel the board
to reset him on the grounds that he
did not mean his letter to be taken
resignation. The court upheld
him.
Topeka, Dec. 13-The Haskell
county seat fight that has been occu-
plying the attention of the courts and
legislatures for many years, was f.
nally settled Saturday when the Kan
sas supreme court handed down a de-
cision declaring election under the
act of 1920, special session of the
legislature, placing the county seat
at Sublette, was legal and valid.
This means that the county records
will be removed from Santa Fe to
Sublette at once.
This is the last county seat scrap
in the state and has been settled
after many years of bitter fighting
Santa Fe was a prosperous county
seat until railroad went through
the county, then Sublette on the rail
road line sprung into prominence and
claimed the county seat. Santa Fs
not on the railroad line made a de-
termined effort to retain its prestige
but gradually went down and now
has received the final blow in the
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TOPEKA, Dec. 13-Railroads do
not have to go to the same trouble
in protecting persons who ride on
freight trains as they do in protect
ing THOSE who ride on passenger
trains. This was the decision of the |
supren court Saturday in reversing
a Judgment given Wolf Binder in the
Ellis county district court against
the Union Pacific railroad. Binder
was accompanying shipment of cat
tie belonging to Representative John
O'Laughlin to Kansas city. He was
riding in the caboose. He testified
that in switching at Topeka, TIE en-
gineer was SO rough he was knocked
to the floor and that in lying on the
floor he took cold because the ca
boose door could not be closed tight
enough to keep out draft. The FL
lis county jury gave him judgment,
but the supreme court held that the
law permitting care takers to accom-
pany stock shipments did not obligate
the railroads to provide the same
comforts given to patrons riding on
passenger trains.
TOPEKA, Dec. 13.-Kansas is get
ting out of the meat producing bust
lness. That is in the indication of
figures made public by the state
board of agriculture Friday, which
show that the supply of beef cattle
n Kansas is lower now than it has
pen at any time during the last five
Years.
EStimates show that exclusive of
airy ppimals there are now only
,843,O00 head of cattle in the state,
Thile last March there were $780, e
49,, and at the same date in 1918
here were 2,239,7S3.
Not only il cattle raising appealing E
} the Kansas farmers less and less, E
ut also the raising of hogs is being E
wen up in all parts of the state, it e
said. Speaking of hogs, the re- E
prt says: II
data gathered concerning pork e
duction indicate that the swine pro- E
iction in Kansas is at its lowest E
ID in 40 years. At any rate, the &
199,470 head on hand March /, III
st, is less than has been reported e
r any year in that period except +
1871, when the census recorded LII