From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 11, 1915:

• “Twenty-seven years ago today the keys of the jail of Douglas county were turned over to Ike Johnson by Sheriff James Love. With the exception of three terms Ike has held the position of deputy sheriff and jailer without interruption. It was through the exercising of his good humor that brought this place to Mr. Johnson. In 1888 when James Love was elected Ike laughingly suggested that he and Mr. Love’s son be made deputies…. For fifty-three years Ike has been in Lawrence and has seen the city grown from a village of log cabins. In fact he came to this community transported by an ox team and ‘prairie schooner’ after gaining his freedom from slavery. ‘The jail business has changed since I first was connected with it,’ says Mr. Johnson. ‘In the old days we occasionally had a bully to contend with who objected to being locked in a cell. It was then necessary to beat him with a bluff or my knee. Now the inmates are peacefully inclined.’… At one time an inmate who had broken every jail in which he had ever been confined was under his care. This man, Charles Trude by name, declared that he could see a lock in his sleep and then make a key to fit it. He was a source of great annoyance to Mr. Johnson especially after he had nearly been successful in gaining freedom by breaking a lock. He exercised some of his own ideas on criminology in the way of solitary confinement and had no further trouble with him…. Mr. Johnson’s long association with the study of crime has given him a few ideas of his own on the subject of prevention. He says that when he first started his work, men, women and even children were kept in the same jail. Now the children are turned over to the juvenile court. If a child is kept in jail for any length of time he will lose his fear for the law, but if he is kept in a night or two and then paroled he will remember for a long time according to Mr. Johnson.”
• “Arthur Capper, the first native Kansan to be chosen governor of the state, was inducted into the executive office at noon today. The inaugural ceremony was one of the simplest Kansas has had in years. There was no military display and no pomp. Governor Hodges was the first Democratic governor in nearly thirty years and with his retirement today the state administration was returned to the Republican party. Governor Capper was not only born and reared in Kansas but except for a few months spent in Washington and New York he has lived his life in this state…. Governor Hodges introduced Governor Capper. As soon as the new governor had completed his inaugural address he took the oath and at its completion the battery fired the official salute of seventeen guns and as the last gun was fired the two bands played The Star Spangled Banner.”
• “Fire which originated in the basement of the Sneegas furniture exchange at 718 Massachusetts street did considerable damage to the building and to the contents last night. The alarm was turned in at 3:30 o’clock. The cause of the fire is unknown.”