

Clarkson brought suit against l.nt. 



which wa> pr for the plaintiff. 



Railroad*. The total nub 



in Kansas, according to i I road 



is 8,942-7 ' trackage 



::4W; total for 1-.MJ. vM'.? '.: decrease 

 for the year, 87-91. The folio* ing were the earn- 

 ings and expenses of all the roads : Gross earnings 

 - 



fr 



ex- 

 pend $19.120.255.6*; income from operation, $G.- 



BSiiS 



atstssom in June increa^-d the assessments 

 of some road* ami lowered others, the net increase 

 being 717,200. 



Mining the : 



to regulate rates, asked the companies to mak 

 tain redu. n.. ;i s which it deemed reasonable, but the 

 companies protested that their earning in the 

 would not admit of the reduei 



Liter there was a disagreement in reference to 

 the basis of charges for cattle shipments. Ti 

 torney-General asked an injunction t<> prevent the 

 roads from charging by weight instead of by car 

 load. The injunction was granted. 



hart or was muted in July to the Superior, 

 i and Little Kock Railroad Company. 

 The capital stock of the company is $10,000,000, 

 and its principal office is in Hutchinson. 



Industries and Products. -An agreemei- 



the executive committee of the miners of the 

 Pittsburg district and the coal operators was made. 

 Aug. 6. It was agreed that the miners could - 

 any grade of powder they desired and it would be 

 furnished them at $2 a keg. The operators also 

 promised semimonthly payments, which was the 

 strongest demand made by the miners. I'.ut <>n 

 Sept. 1 some of the I'ittsburg miners went out in 

 consequence of the failure of the company to pro- 

 vide such screens as had been promised, the miners 

 complaining that the screens were so coarse as to 

 take too great a proportion of their coal. On the 

 same day there was a strike at Weir City because 

 To miners were each docked a car of coal for send- 

 ing up sulphur. The total amount taken was over 

 72 tons. This strike was ended Sept. 9 on the 

 agreement of the company to dock them for only 

 the actual amount of sulphur loaded that day, 

 amounting to 20 



The product of the lead and xinc district for the 

 year is given as: Zinc, 350,408,364 tons; lead, 59,- 

 099.140 tons ; value. $4.627,881. 



It was announced in March that an inexhaustible 

 bed of .'has is used in the manufacture of 



glass had been found along the river bank near 

 son. 



Tables prepared bv the Board of Agriculture 

 give the yield and values of farm products for the 

 pest ten years and the aggregate value f all ex- 

 cept live stock on hand. The total value for the 

 ten yean was $1,362.951,818; and the value for 

 1897 was somewhat above the average, $i:jr, 

 tt& Following are the largest items for 1897: 

 r wheat, 50,040,374 bushels, $33,798,612; 

 corn. 152,140.998 bushels, $28,555,293; live-stock 

 products, $44968,923; prairie grass under 

 94305,688: Kaffir corn, 1.358.879 tons, $4,07, 

 oeta, 28,431.273 bushels, $8328,192; Irish pot 



bushels, ,MfM*; alfalfa, $3!o48,984J 

 dai 



The net im-mase in value of this year's agrieul- 

 tural productions over that of 1896 'is $20,045,246, 

 and of lire stock $20,508.985. 



Att 



of pa 

 peka 



this i 



drawn this year to the re- 

 le State has made in the in 

 rtgage indebtedness. The To- 

 >lished a table indicating that 

 as been reduced nearly $106,- 



000,000 during the past seven 



Nl.ll II- M| .1 l.'eeemT. Ill the ease of the S 



1 1. llubbard. in whose accoi.i 

 was a short ap- of more than sT.iMHMhe Su 

 rendeiv: n that 



a receiver could not be prosecuted under the crimes 

 act, as a fe -t an agent. and r> < 



not mentioned in the statute with executors. 

 dians. ami others vested with functions s,, m e\s hat 

 similar t.. those of i The defendant had 



II the IVnitellt; 



Ihc I K,uor Law. A citizens' ma.- 



was held .May ?. in against the 



violation of the prohiliitimi liquor law and to 



.11 the city, county, and State authority 

 aiding or permitting a return to the saloon system. 

 roUl resolutions were ad. >p led and a 



.ition was perfected f..r proseculii. 

 of the law and bringing aUmt the removal of 

 li<-t otliciaN. '! .iteinenl was made by 



\Villiains. whi<-h seemed to relied the f. , 



of the large audience. " If it be conclusively si. 

 he said. " t hat t here is a failure of excciit i"ii because 

 the courts and t he ( i. .\ , rix-r and other sworn of- 

 ficers of the law relusi- to do their duty. then, and 

 so long as such conditi,,:, .\ernment does 



not exist, and the people arc resolved onoe more 

 into ot her elements where the law of might and not 

 of right prevails, and if the people of tin - 

 whelmingly oppose the saloons, which we had rea- 

 son to believe were forever banished from our 

 midst, and are denied the arm of the law in a bat ing 

 and destroying this crime, then we should meet 

 force with force, and, during the temporary suxpen- 

 sion of the law. by our own might utterly d. 

 the saloons and ail other institutioi ran in 



\ iohit ion of t he voted laws of this S 1 



I.e-islat he Session. The Legislature met .Ian. 

 12 and adjourned March H5. < >n j.int ballot there 

 were *S2 Populists. ,V. regular Republicans. :: silv-r 

 Republicans and 11 heinocrats. Ti -e of- 



ficers were inaugurated Jan. 11. Lieut. -(Jov. llar- 

 vev presided over the Senate, and M. A. House- 

 holder was president />ro ti'tn. \\ . I . Street was 



Speaker .f the II. .use. and K. C. Wellep S| 



A successor to United States Senator William A. 

 PelTer was to be chosen. Senator Peffer was a can- 

 didate for the nomination of \\\^ party. < Mher can- 

 didates were William A. Harris, .hid-^e |)ennis..n. 

 John \\". lireideiithal. State chairman of the IV..- 

 :.!;.. I-!. ('. Little, L. I. King, and John 

 Ma<lden. 'Mr. Harris was chosen, and was < 

 by the following vote : Harris. I'opulM. HM : ' I. 1 . 

 Barton, Hepubiican.53; J.C.CaldweU, Republican, 

 'J : King. I'"pnlist. 1. 



The message of Oov. Leedy was read to th. 

 islature. Jan. ]'*. One paragraph was as follows : 



"With a cheerful amlacity that almost -hal- 

 - admiration. (Jrub Str.-ej scriliblers mi a venal 

 prats, which panders to the most vicious instincts of 

 semidviliied foreign colonies like New Vr ( rk city 

 and Chicago, with semibarbaric splendor at the 

 aj>ex and semibarbaric squalor at the base of their 

 social life, have offered their puny and presumptu- 

 ous criticism of those w: -rings th. 



not worthy to unloose. The , 

 barked at the pyramids in for fifty centu- 



ries. w hen t lie accused I 1 L before the Ve- 



netian Council, he said : M v d< 



tioii.' Let (Jrub Street rail on. They well know 

 that Kansas was a pillar of cloud by day and a pil- 

 lar of fire bv night before an oppressed people in 

 the nation's darkest hour." 



In all. 1.H33 bills were introduced, and fewer than 

 400 became laws. An antitrust act which be 



