The Jeffersonian Gazette from Lawrence, Kansas • Page 3

QUAILS ARE PROTECTED. THEY WOBKOJB BHDWfl BIG BRYAN BIG BRYAN I A JjOTU Vnn I UU 1 If I L.1 10 NEW DI0flGEPB0CT0H UHf COUNTY ATTORNEY IN ON ALL CASES. 0 Adams Blown to the Pavement with a Compound Wrist Fracture. FREIND'S YARD SCATTERED. Barn blown Down and Buildings Unroofed in the Clinton Neigh borhood Hail Accompanied Storm.

Wind damage was considerable in Lawrence and parts of Douglas county as a result of the storm last night between 5 and o' clock. In Lawrence Mrs. Jennie M. Adams, of 741 Tennessee street was walking along the west side of the 900 block on Massachusettsstreet when the storm struck, and was upset with the result of a compound fracture of the wrist. The fence along the Friend 1 lumber yard was blown down, and considerable lumber was scattered about the yard, although none of it was blown far.

A plate glass window in the Wilson drug store, corner Massachusetts and Quiricy streets, was blown in. The slamming of a door caused by the storm at the Weaver stored cracked a big plate glass window. The Garst delivery horse ran away during the storm and Garst and Walter Nelson were thrown out and badly cut and bruised about the head and face. Mrs. Garst and Walter Nelson were thrown out and badlv cut and bruised about the head and face.

Out at Clinton Geo. Tuttle's barn was blown down. One or two small buildings on the Cummings farm were unroofed. Two hay stacks on the Patton farm were blown over. Up northwest a shed roof was blown off and carried some distance.

At Bismarck Charles Wall's hay stacks were blown over. Frank John's meat house was unroofed. Telephone poles were blown down in the neighborhood of Bismarck, out towards Clinton and Lone Star, in the neighborhood of Williams-town, and some other places, and the service was somewhat demoralized. Trees were blown down in various parts of Lawrence, and in the neighr borhoods where the above items indicate that the storm was the worst. Eudora and Lecompton both reported no wind of unusual proportions and no damage done.

Hail was reported in the storm northwest of Lawrence, and in Lawrence a street car on the hill bad a window light blown out. According to the weather station at the University, which gave out the information this afternoon for the first time, the wind blew sixty miles an hour for five minutes just before 6 o'clock last evening. POSTAL BAIinWT HELP MONEY PLACED THERE IS SUBJECT TO TAX. Attorney General Writes an Opinion Which Has a Bearing on a Lawrence Case. Putting money in a postal savings bank won't shield it from taxation, according to a decision handed down by Attorney General Dawson to County Attorney J.

S. Amick this morning. The attorney general also hands down the opinion that money is only a source of trouble to a man anyway, and he wonders why anyone should want it. Those who watched him jumping around at Topeka when the legislature talked of cutting down his contingent fund will be surprused to know that he looks at it that way. A Lawrence woman refused to turn in to the assessor some money she hacf in the postal savings bank March 1.

claiming that Uncle Sam's institution was a sanctuary against the prying asessor. The assessor reported the inciaent to tne county attorney. That official couldn't see why the money in the savings bank was tax-proof, but to make sure he passed the matter up to the attorney general. Following is Mr. Dawson's opinion: "Answering your favor of March 15th I beg to say that money deposited in a postal savings bank or deposited anywhere else on earth is not exempt from taxation.

It makes no difference whether the owner of the money deposits it in a savings bank, the earth, the sea of the sky. The doctrine that movable goods follow the owner and are to be taxed ttm nlnfi where the owner re- sides, except as otherwise specified in the statute, is absolute. What does a man want any mon-: cy for anyhow? It's nothing but a 1 burden to him and an expense. Yours with kind regards, John S. I H-wscn, Attorney General.

Ill ID Lawrence Auto Club Will Hold a Banquet and Smoker to Boost the Cause. INVITE COUNTY OFFICERS. Committee Was Appointed at setine to Make Logs Annual meeting to mane of the Roads Running Out of Lawrence. A Good Roads booster meeting at which the officials of Douglas county will be interested in projects for the betterment of highways will be the outcome of the annual meeting of. the annual meeting of theLaw-rence Automobile club at the Merchants association rooms last night.

The meeting will take the form of a banquet and smoker which will be attended by all the members of the local club. The county commissioners of Douglas coupty, Senator Benj. E. Wilson, and Representatives J. M.

Newlin andJ. R. Topping will be guests of the evening. C. W.

Barnes, president of the state association, and D. E. Wat-kins, secretary of the state association, will be secured as speakers. Both there men have been interested for a long time in the subject of highway improvement and it is expected that they will devote par ticular attention to the methods in which the members of the club and the countr officials can co-operate with others in securing some sort of orderly system of road improvement in Kansas. The date of the banquet and smok- er has not vet been set.

Mr. Me-! Quary, secretary of the local asso ciation, went to Topeka today to make arrangements for it. The old officers of the local club were re-elected at the annual meeting last night. A committee was appointed to go over the important roads leading out of Lawrence and make logs of them, with reports on the dangerous turns and other features which travelers will have to look out for. Assignments were made for this work as follows: Lawrence to Eudora, Will Griesa.

Lawrence to Lake View and Lecompton, O. H. McQuary. Lawrence to Williamstown, Dr. R.

E. Barnes. Lawrence to Tonganoxie and Six Corners, R. E. Protsch.

Lawrence to Baldwin, J. W. Mil ler. Lawrence to Clinton and Lone Star, Otis Perkins. The new automonbile registration law, which will turn $4 out of every 55 collected back to the county in which it is collected, for the permanent improvement of roads, was discussed at the meeting.

CLASSIFY THE PROFS. Their Pedigrees Are Compiled for Use of New Board. The Chancellor's office at the University has been busy for a week or more compiling a "herd book" for the use of the new board of administration which held its first meeting in Topeka today. This is list of all the faculty members and employes of the University with complete information about each one. The information comprises jthe schools from which the faculty members graduated, the degrees held by them, the date of their election to the faculty and the number of years they have served in their positions.

In addition to this information there is a complete tably showing the subjects taught be each instructor at this term and the number of hours he spends in the class room each week. It was the desire of the board oft administration to have this infor mation ready for them at their first meeting, but the material could not be compiled in the short time that intervened after it wras called for. A stenographer has been kept at work on the job constantly but is only about one third of the away through the list. It is believed that the new board wishes to use the information in mak ing an investigation into the alleged I duplication of work in the three big schools of the state. tLLL.

iSSTATE TRANSFERS. Casper Marfelius and wife, Eu-I dora, to Peter Breicken, lot 8 blk 1240, City of $11. Christian Thoren and wife Eudora to Christopher Meier, lot 4. blk 215, raiaora, consideration i Paschal Fish and wife, Eudora to C. Myers, lot 3-5, blk 215 consideration $30.

D.E.McCallamtoT.Hankins,Iot lot 51 College street, Meia, Kan, consideration Miss Marcella Olmstead has re-1 turned from attending a house party in Kansas City. I I I Senator Wilson's Bill Yent Into Effect Yesterday. Benj. E. Wilson's game I bill, which puts the lid.

on the kill-I ing of (mail or. prairie chicken in Kansas for the next five years, became a law upon its publication in I the official state paper yesterday. I There is now no time of the year when these birds can be killed and they will be allowed to grow numer-jous enough to provide some fairly good sport for the hunters five years I from now. ny trie provision oi tne oui.tne number of wild ducks which a Kansas hunter can kill in a single day is increased from twelve under the old'law to-twenty; and the same increase is made in the case of doves and plover. 40 DEGREESTEMPERATURE DROP FIERCE RAINSTORM FOLLOWED BY CHANGE.

Regular Summer Thunderstorm Conditions Frightened People Generally. The cold wave predicted late yes terday afternoon by the weather bureau, dropped down on the com munity with a sudden "fierceness that caused 'much alarm, and the temperature dropped from 58 degrees at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon to 21 degrees at daybreak to day, proved the cold wave predieti- tion. The change came wih a swift gathering of the clouds in the west, and a darkening of the skies to a degree that frightened the timid very greatly. It is doubtful if there was ever a darker daylight in Lawrence from an approaching storm than that which blackened the community between 5 and 6 o'clock last night. The wind came with the clouds and the darkness seemed to drop down in almost a minute, and without warning.

The rain came with the wind, and for a while wind and rain swept the streets and deluged everything that was exposed. People took hurried shelter and carlines carried crowds to their homes at the supper hour, while others waited until the worst was over. The wind was not so slow, either. It blew down trees, sent signs swirl ing along the streets, snatched dead limbs and carried debris in such a way that some streets were swept clean and others were badly littered. The Friend lumber yard was in line of the most violent wind gusts and some lumber there was scattered, and numerous big trees in different parts of town were uprooted.

High winds, rain, snow and hail did considerable damage over the greater portions of Kansas, according to reports which reached Lawrence. Telephone and telegraph companies had lots of trouble as a result of the high winds and communication with a number of points was almost shut off for some time. The storm was accompanied by a remarkable drop in temperature, with the result that freezing weather occurred all over the state in the ake of the storm. At Topeka the wind attained a maximum velocity of 47 miles an hour, but other parts of the state had even more wind. At Altai ista, fifty miles west of Topeka on the Kock Island, there was a small tornado which did much damage, injuring one.

Buildings were unroofed, trees broken down, while a number of box cars were blown off the Rock Island's tracks and rolled over. At Paxieo, thirty miles west of Topeka, the storm unroofed the Rock Island depot and the rain which followed almost flooded the building. Wamego reported severe hail storm, Which did considerable damage. Marriage License. Probate Judge Lindley issued a a marriage license today to Pearl F.

Johnson and Lillie F. Dillon, two young people of the Lone Star neighborhood. Wheat Prospects Good, Wheat in this vicinity is coming out in fine shape. Most of the fields are becoming a mass of living green. The plant is making rapid growth with the warm spring days of the past week and there is considerable moisture in the ground.

Everything points to a big crop in this section again this year. Eudora News. Shipment of New Nickles. The Watkins National bank received a shipment of the new nickles direct from the mint today and any person who cares for the new coin may change old ones for the new. There has been a demand for the new variety that has not previously been met, because of the failure of the mint to fill orders as fast as they were sent in.

AT DINNER AT LINCOLN. State Administration Must Get Job for Lawrence Man to; Snow It Has Influence. Among the Kansas politicians hd medicine made for them a the. ran wlcoration Lincoln, wneii uie people oi that town cave a dinner tor the new secretary of state, was Burt E. Brown of Lawrence, secretary of the senate at the recent session of the legislature.

Topeka was practically depopulated of democratic office holders who went to Lincoln in the interests of themselves or of various friends who are candidates for office. It is likely that Mr. Brown had as much done in his behalf as any candidate. The Topeka democratic office holders have placed themselves in a position where they pretty nearly have to land something for the Lawrence man or else have it known to their constituents in this state that they are without influence with the national administration. Mr.

Brown had the legislature pass a resolution endorsing him for the position of director of the reclamation bureau. Both houses passed the resolution and as the republicans voted for it it passed unanimously. It was a neat com- pliment to the Lawrence man'. But it was more than that. It was an expression of the wish of the state administration of Kansas.

And it is up to the state administration to go ahead and pluck down that particular plum, or another just as good for Mr. Brown, in order to he Pc.Plc Kansa3 that it, stanas mgn witii tne upper councils of the party in Washington. For this reason if for no other, the Lawrence man had plenty of friends to plead his cause with the secretary of state at Lincoln. LQVELAND HAS NOTHING TP TELL SAYS WHISKEY STORY IS "JUST A JOKE" Refuses to Divulge What Passed Between Him and Porter at Lawrence Hotel. There is a young colored man somewhere in Lawrence who shares a secret with Rev.

Frank L. Love- land of Topeka, and neither of them will tell what it is. Dr. Loveland is the man whom a Topeka paper said was approached by a porter at a Lawrence hotel and offered a half pint bottle of whiskey. That wasn't exactly what happened, says Dr.

Loveland in a letter to County Attorney J. S. Amick this morning. And he goes on to say that what happened wouldn't be any grounds upon which to base a prosecution for violation of the li-uqor law. But he does admit tha something happened though he won't tell what it was.

That something was the basis of a "laughable joke" which preachers like to enjoy at one another's expense. Evidently they enjoyed it in public up at Topeka and a garbled account of it got into one of the newspapers there. A careful reading of the Loveland letter will reveal that the secret of the incident is just as safe with Dr. Loveland as it is with the darker half of the sketch. Hejdoesn't intend to tell, and the general public will never know what the "laughable joke" pulled off in a Lawrence hotel at the minister's expense really was.

Here is the doctor's letter: "I am in receipt of yours of the 17th concerning a reporter's story in a city paper to the effect that I had secured a half pint of whiskey at one of the Lawernce hotels, ete. "The statements in your letter are certainly a most maccurate version of an incident that was simply utilized as a laughable "joke" on a preacher which we preachers hugely enjoy on each other. The story as you report it from the press is so far astray that it would be utterly impossible to base any prosecution upon it. "Again, so far as identification of any one is concerned, that, too, would be impossible. "I regret exceedingly if the re-! 'Dorter's version of this matter has! j.

caused anv reflection upon the hotel or its proprietor, lney seemed. IT most excellent people ana am sure are in no wise responsible for certain acts of any colored gentleman there-! abouts. "I would have no hesitancy in giving you any facts in my possession if they were such as would stop any violation of law but I could erive no such facts "I have long since ceased bearing resDonsibilitv for what reporters do. They are fine fellows as a rule, but 'tis ofttimes very difficult to base prosecutions upon their news items." Fravk L. Lovfland.

Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Soxman left last evening for Long Beach, Calif.

Plymouth Church Issued Second Year Book of Its History Today. ORGANIZED OCT. 22, 1854. Church Came Into Existence Three Weeks After Founding of Lawrence and Has Shared the Town Vicissitudes. A publication of particular inter est to Lawrence people is the year book of the Plymouth Congregation- al church, which was published to day.

Ihe publication is made in the fifty-ninth year of the church and is the second book of the sort that has been issued in the history of the institution. The first year book was published in 1SG6. The book shows that the church now has on its roll about G50 members in addition to a number of student members who are affiliated with the church during the time they are in the University. The by-laws of the church have been collected and published for the first time in this publication. The financial condition of the Plymouth church is shown to be excellent.

There was on hand in the general fund January 1 a balance of 565.39, and in the benevolent fund a balance of $296. 12. Plymouth church is one of the oldest institutions in Lawrence. It was on October 22, 1S54, that the paper establishing the church was signed in a thatched building on Massachusetts street which served the double purpose of a meeting house and a hotel. That was just about three weeks after the New England Emigrant Aid colony had reached Lawrence.

The new vear book contains the name of Q. A. Hanscom as a member at the present time. Mr. Hanscom was one of the men present that night in October, 1854, when the first paper was held a candle to light the sheet while the other members affixed their names.

That paper, yellow with age, is still one of the prized posessions of the church. It escaped the de struction of the other church papers in the Quantrill raid, as Sena tor Pomeroy had it his pocket at the time. After the "raid another paper was prepared in which the membership at that time was compiled from memory. This roll bear ing the notation that it is a compila tion from memory, is also among the church archives Three buildings have been occu pied by Plymouth church. The thatched building on Massachu setts street was a temporary affair, and in 1857 a stone church was built at the corner of Pinckney and Louisiana streets.

This building was used until 1870, when the present church building was dedicated. Through most of the years of the history of Plymouth church up to a little mora than a decade ago, the pastor was Richard Cordley, a member of the famous "Andover band." Dr. Noble S. Elderkin is the present pastor and the church has prospered since he has taken charge. INDIAN Y.

M. C. A. ELECTS. Member of International Association Commends Work.

The annual election of the officers of the Haskell Y. M. C. A. was held last night.

The following men were elected: President, Irvin Hunt; Vice President, James Minesinger; Secretary, Jubal Wilson; Treasurer, Burney Wilson. The new officers will take their positions early in April. Mr. It. D.

Hall, a member of the international committee for Indian work, spent today at Haskfil Institute and expressed himself well satisfied with the work the association is doing there. DIED IN HOSPITAL. George Hollingbery Had Been in Poor Health Long. Word came to Lawrence this morning of the death in the Swedish hospital at Kansas. City last night of George Mr.

Hollingbery had returned from a sanitarium up north but a few weeks ago, and had to go to the hospital early this week. He has not been well for a long time'. Mr. Hollingbery has been a resident of Lawrence for many years, and was for a long time one of the best known tailors in the city. He is survived by a widow and several sons, one of whom, Mr.

Horace Hollingbery, lives in Lawrence. Mr. Hollingbery was born December 26, 1844. He was a member of Lawrence lodge No 4, O. O.

F. Mrs. C. F. Squires left this morning for a ten days' stay in Excelsior Springs.

Mr. Squires will go later. Cbject is to Make it Harder for People to Separate on Trumped-up Charges. A new law regulating divorces will tend to put the lid on the separation of married people all over the state there were more than half a hundred divorces irranled Inst vear. The stricter regulations of the suits will probably cut down the average for the future.

The county attorney is made a divorce proctor and it will be his duty to inquire into all the circumstances surrounding every cae. The prime purpose of the law is to prevent the obtaining of divorce on the testimony of the plaintiff and one or two friendly witnesses, without a word from the defendant. Divorce by default is common as matters stand. John and Mary are living apart. Mary sues for divorce, publishes notice of the suit in the most obscure paper her lawyer can find, complying with the law's requirement of publicity, and as John has about one'ehance in ten million of seeing the notice and so makes no denial of Mary's statement, the court has no alternative but to grant her the divorce.

The divorce proctor will interfere in such cases. He- will inquire into the cause of John and Mary separating. He will communicate with "John if possible. And when Marj' files suit sixty days must elapse before a decree can issue, thus giving the divorce proctor time to investigate all the charges made. And there is every reason to expect that very many cases he will tell enough to convince the' judge that there is good reason to act with caution.

The full texr of the new law is as- follows: Section 1. The county attorney of each county in this state is hereby designated as divorce proctor, and shall appear upon the trial of every divorce case, Ins county whether contested by the defendant or not. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the plaintiff in every divorce case to serve a copy of the petition upon the divorce proctor, who shall endorse his acceptance of such service upon the original petition.

No petition for divorce shall be filed unless it bears such acknowledgement over the signature of the divorce with date of service. The service of the petition upon the divorce proctor shall not be construed as dispensing with the service of summons upon the defendant now required bylaw. Sec. 3. Immediately upon' the commencement of a suit for divorce, the divorce proctor shall investigate the charges made in the petition, and shall be prepared to advise the court, upon the to the merits of the case.

He shall have-power to cause witnesses to be sub--pjenaed testify, respecting any charges made in the petition or the answer, or upon any matter touching the material status of the parties, and the performance, ormeglect of any duty by either, to the end that justice may be done the parties, and that, society may be protected and the sanctity of the marriage relation preserved. Sec. 4. No hearing shall be had in a divorce suit until at least thirty days after the filing of the unless the court shall enter upon the records art ordp.r dpclnrinfr ompr- gency, the precise nature of which shall be specificially stated in such order, together with the substance of the evidence upon which it was based, and the names of the witnesses who gave such evidence. Sec.

5. A divorce proctor's fee of So shall be taxed as costs in each case "and shall be turned into the treasury as other fees collected and accounted for by the clerk of the district court. Sec. 6. In counties of more than 60,000 population, a special deputy county attorney may be appointed by the county attorney, with the consent of the county commissioners, tp perform the duties herein im posed.

Sec. 7. In addition to his regular salary, the county attorney shall receive such annual sum, as divorce proctor, as the county commission ers may allow, but such allowance shall in no case, exceed the aggregate fees collected the previous year under section 5 of this act, or the esti mated sum of such fees for the first year. Sec. 8 This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper Quarantined Chancellor's House was quarantined this week Frank Strong Jr.

has the measles. Mr. and Mrs. F. S.

Conger, of Montana, who have been visiting friends here, left this morning for their home..