Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-06
KANSAS STARS.

Mr.. Proper is minister of the gospel
at Topeka.
To the Kansas legislature Quit
pumping wind and go to saving wood.
The public is patiently waiting for
the niger to emerge from the peniten-
tlary wood pile at Leavenworth.
Speaker Booth, of the Kansas house,
wants the new insane asylum located
at Larned, and has introduced a bill
providing for an appropriation of $685.
900 for that purpose.
The statement that Wellington paws
out 81 900 each month to the Louisiana
lottery is probably made in the interest
of movement to secure the location of
the new insane asylum at that place.
The Mcpherson opera house was
opened by Topeka amateur company
which produced the Chimes of Nor
mandy" The troop escaped uninjured
and retured to Topeka the same night.
The vigor with which every town and
city IN Kansas is striving to secure the
new insane asylum would seem to indi-
cate that an additional institution of
that sort is very badly needed in this
state.
The Topeka Democrat has lust
Matched out little presidential boomlet
for Gov. Hill, of New York, which it
keeps wrapped up in flannel in an old
fashioned bread-basket behind the Of
flee stove.
An eastern paper which evidently
keeps pretty close tab on Kansas SAYS:
Senator Plumb was peaceably re- elect
ed In Kansas on Tuesday. This is the
first public event that has occurred in
Kansas without fight for a consider
able time.
Topeka Democrat: Donot accuse the
legislature of idling time away. 1t has
passed one bill. which has been signed
by Gov. Humphrey, namely, a legisla-
tive appropriation bill which provides
for the payment of the members and the
necessary expenses of the session.
Lawrence Tribune: The proposed
act to prohibit municipal corporations
from voting aid to railroads when al
most every city and county in the state
is bonded to its uttermost, is on par
with the action of the present legisla-
ture In passing resolution giving old
soldiers preference IN the selection OF
officers. after the appointments had
nearly all been made.
The proposition to build governors
mansion at Topeka is not meeting with
very general endorsement throughout
the state. There are always plenty of
men in Kansas who are willing to ac-
cept the Office and board the year round
at Topeka hotel, and as long rs this
lofty spirit of patriotism survives in the
state the mansion business may be set
down as a needless piece of extraya-
gance.
Representative Hoch, of Marion
county has introduced bill in the Kan
sas house which calls for the appoint
ment by the governor of commission
er from Kansas to the Paris exposition.
and makes an appropriation of Sc. QUO
to pay his expenses. The duties of the
commissioner will be to prepare
pamphlet descriptive of Kansas. its re-
sources and advantages. lave it printed
in French and distribute it at the ex-
position. The commissioner must hc
conversant with the French lc.nouaoe
aud must be Thoroughly ACQUAINTED
with the European continent. There
are LARGE number of Kansans who
would be abundantly qualified to expend
the appropriation, but it is believed that
the educational requirement. of the bill
would practically bar the claims of can
didates residing within the Sunflower
state, with the exception, possibly, of
Father Baker.