Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-06-25
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest

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There are ninety one state officers ant
employees in the capitol building.
The state saves $4,000 since electric
lights were put in the capitol building
The secretary Of state Dispenser
about 10000 lead pencils every month
The state house dome can be seer
from Eskridge, thirty miles from To
peka.
An average of about three cases day
are filed in the supreme court the yeal
round.
An average of fifty people day visit
the collection in the state agriculture
rooms in the capitol
Nine new posts have been chartered
by the department in this state since
the Atchison encampment.
The labor commissioners report can.
not be printed until the July printing
appropriation is available.
Requests for the programs of the To-
peka Chautauqua assembly, from all
over the state, are being answered.
There will be grand display of fire.
works and colored lights from the top
of the state house dome on the 4th OF
July.
An adjourned term of the United
States circuit court will be held the last
week in September, at which jury will
be drawn.
State Insurance Commissioner W. 81.
Mcbride went to attend the convention
of insurance commissioners at Minneap-
oils, MINI.
Treasurer Fairchild is still receiving
money from all over the state for the
Kansas exhibit of educational work at
the worlds fair.
The Topeka insane asylum made set
Element with the state auditor for the
May expenses of the institution, amount
ing to S7,501.53.
The state house dome is sixty-fo
feet in diameter where it springs from
the brick work and copper commences,
1876 feet from the ground.
The stone that is being broken on the
state house grounds will be used as the
base of the new artificial stone walks to
be laid around the grounds.
From reports received at the state
superintendent Office, the enrolment
of the normal Institutes this year will be
much larger than ever before.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has issued 339 institute in
structor's certificates and eighty-nine
conductors certificates this year.
The bonds in the state treasury be-
longing to the different funds are as
follows: Permanent school fund, S.
921, 7S1.40; state university, S131, 49,
Sc; Normal school, S132, 999; Agricul-
tural college, $475,S11.12.
The copper with which the state
house dome is covered is exceedingly
heavy. 1t weighs twenty-fou ounces
to the square foot, while the usual
weight of copper used is only twelve to
sixteen ounces. It will last forever,
nearly.
The railroad assessment for 1892, |
to S51,257. 62O.25, is about |
completed by the auditor of state and
the certificates are being mailed to the
counties having railroads. The valua-
ton is 1891, 794.91 more than it was for
1891, which is largely accounted for by
the increase of rolling stock added by |
the different railroad systems.
Bank Commissioner johnson says he |
receives letters every day from old banks
that think they are carrying too much
capital stock under the new law, asking
how they can reduce. The attorney
general has given it as his opinion that
the only way it can be done, owing to
an omission in the law, is by filing a
new charter, which virtually means the
of new bank.
A recent inventory of the arsenal in
the state house yard shows that it con-
tains the following supplies: 125
Springfield rifles, As calibre, and 200 of
80 calibre; $50 Sharp's carbines, 200
targets, 600 rubber conchos, $50 gov
overcoats, 500 United States
uniforms, $4,000 rounds of ammuni-
ion and 265 wall tents, besides mod
'rate supply of camp and garrison equi-
page.
In compliance with the request of the
legislative committee, representing the
lifferent orders of railway employees of
he state, Labor Commissioner Betton,
n his report for 1891, now ready for the
printer, has succeeded in procuring re-
,orts from engineers and conductors,
epresenting $500 trips made during
he year 1891, has thoroughly analysed
hem, and the results are submitted in
cries of tables. These tables show the
lours on duty, number of miles run.
wages earned, and in short all the de- |