Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-31
CAPITAL NOTES.

The city council has agreed to light
the fair grounds by electricity during
fair week.
Ellis county will make an agricul-
tural and horticultural display at tho
state fair. Douglas county expects to
carry away the blue ribbon for fruits.
Major VIM. Sims, president OF the
State Fair association, favors the sug-
gestion made to have the great republic
can flag presentation to Kansas by Ohio
take place during the state fair. Gov
ernor Humphrey also endorses this idea.
The finishing touches are being put
upon the big vault in the state treasury.
The painting is yet to be done. The
vault will not be ready to use until it is
furnished, but that is not part of the
present contract and is yet to be pro-
vided for
Mrs. w. d. Stormont has given a
check for five thousand dollars to Ed
ward Wilder for the city library, the
amount to be placed in a fund to be
known as the ''Stormont book fund"
The interest on this will afford very
handsome revenue to be devoted to the
purchase of new books. MI. Wilder
says it will allow the library to buy
twenty-five new books each month for
"a thousand years." B. Lantry & Sons,
of Strong City, have paid into the Ii.
brarv one thousand dollars to be known
as the "B. Lantry & Sons book fund.-"
and the income from which is to be used
for the purchase of new books. These
two funds are desirable acquisitions to
the library and reflect honor and credit
upon the donors, and will no doubt en-
courage others to follow q commend
able example.
Governor Humphrey has received
letter from Superintendent s. F. Walk
er, of the deaf and dumb asylum at
Olathe, stating that one member of the
graduating class OF last June, Mr.. Mon
roe Ingram, has been appointed by the
superintendent of the Missouri institu-
ton for the education of the deaf and
dumb as teacher of the colored depart
ment of that institution. Mr.. Ingram
is colored boy from Governor Humph-
rey's own county, Montgomery, who
stood very high in his studies at the
Olathe institution and bore clean rec
ord in department and morals. The
governor and other state officials visited
the school last year, and while there
saw him do some fine work at the black
board, indicating high degree of intel
ligence and proficiency, and very
thorough knowledge of public affairs.
He came from very humble parentage,
indeed, and being deaf and dumb from
birth, had nothing but quick mind to
aid him; yet now, at II years, he is
able to 60 and take charge of a depart
ment in q state institution.
The copy for the compiled statutes
of 1889, has been approved by Attorney
General Kellogg and is now ready for
the state printer. The work of compila-
ton was done by Hon. Irwin Taylor
and will take about three months for
completion after it goes into the hands
of the printer. The statutes will make
two volumes of 1,5O0 pages, each.
There are between $500 and 1000 Sec
tions in the new volume, and as there
are four or five references, on an aver
age, to zach section, there will be about
10000 references in the index, which
has been most carefully prepared. The
annotations cover all the syllabi of for
ty volumes of Kansas reports, which at
feet or construe all the statutes of the
state All the laws relating to state in
situations are placed in one chapter.
The next legislature will probably make
a new law relating to all the state insti-
tutions, and it will thus affect but one
chapter. Heretofore, the law relating
to state institutions has been scattered
here and there through the statutes.
Another change is the placing of the
railroad law under the head of the cor
poration law, where it properly belongs.
There are marginal words printed in all
the sections, by which the contents of
the page can be seen at glance, with
out having to read the whole matter.
STATE SCHOOL FUND.