San Francisco Call, Volume 96, Number 42, 12 July 1904 — SENATOR BURTON'S APPEAIj IS GRANTED BY BREWER [ARTICLE]

SENATOR BURTON'S APPEAIj IS GRANTED BY BREWER

Kansas Politician, Convicted of Taking 3Ioney From Trust, Makes ' Point in High Court.

ABILENE, Kans., July 11. — United States Senator Joseph R. Burton today received a telegram from his •attorneys at Washington saying that Justice David Brewer had allowed the appeal of Burton's case to the United States Supreme Court. Senator Burton was convicted at St. Louis of having received money as an attorney to work. In the interests of a grain company whose case for illegal use of the mails was being investigated by the Postoffice Department.