Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-08-06
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News Of State
Interest.

Carloads of piles are arriving for the
new Topeka railway bridge.
The corridors of the state house are
the coolest place in the city.
Two new sixty foot postal cars are be-
ing built in the Topeka shops.
Secretary Smith has called meeting
Of the Kansas worlds fair board for
August s.
The state auditor has registered s., 900
of Shawnee township, Cherokee county,
bridge funds.
The portraits of all the supreme court
justices in the court room have been re-
framed in handsome frames of natural
wood and gilt, and now show off to much
better advantage.
The arrangements for Labor day ex-
ercises at Topeka are completed. At a
meeting of the entertainment committee
q committee composed of j. G. Samuel
son, A. d. Bauer, Larry Sheehan and
Ed Smith was appointed to bill every
town within seventy-fve miles of Tope-
ka, and advertise the exercises on every
line of railroad.
John E. Frost, land commissioner of
the Santa Fe, who has just returned
from Colorado and western Kansas, says
he saw no evidence of destructive hot
winds along the way. He brought home
with him some fine photographs of the
great wheat fields of Finney county.
Some of them are veritable seas, deep
enough to cover man to his neck and
almost obscure the horses hitched to the
binders.
The four Grand Army posts of Tope-
ka and Old Abe camp S. of V. have ar
ranged to give fair and entertainment
in Che city on November "a, 25 and
26 next, under the management of Col.
Lew Ginger. of Colby, Kan. Colonel
Ginger has had much experience and
successful experience, in affairs of the
kind. He has several patriotic plays
which he puts on the boards during
q fair, and one feature usually is a
company of young ladies in military
drill.
Attorney General Ives has rendered
an opinion for the board of police COM
missioners in Kansas City, Kansas, in
which he declares playing policy to be a
form of gambling and punishable as
such. There are several policy shops
running in Kansas City, and when the
police arrested the proprietors it was
claimed for the defense that they were
running lotteries, which are not prohib-
tied under the law. The men we're re-
leased but will no be re-arrested. The
opinion of the attorney general follows
the ruling of Justice Waite, of the United
States supreme court.
The Topeka pension agency is the
largest one in the United States. The
work of the institution goes on SO regu-
larly and quietly that many right here
IN the city have no idea whatever of the
immense amount of money that passes
each year through the hands of Pension
Agent Kelly. Nearly $15,0O0,000 was
disbursed last year, and that amount is
constantly being increased. The Topeka
agency is not only ahead in the amount
it pays out. but its quarterly payments
are made in less number of days and
with less number of clerks than in any
other agency in the country.
The deputy United States marshal of
Oklahoma brought Thos. Jensen and A.
w. Foreman to Topeka to stand trial for
perjury. The men are what is known in
Oklahoma as 'sooners." They entered
the new country before it was opened,
and according to the presidents procla-
nation forfeited their homestead rights.
Foreman secured filing on q portion
of what is now the TOWNSHIP of Ell Reno,
but in a contest it was shown that he
had sworn falsely. He lost the land and
will now stand trial and perhaps go to
the peniteutiary. Jensen had similar
difficulties over land located near.
Do You Want Space at the Worlds
Fair?
The following notice to exhibitors is
issued by Secretary W. h. Smith, of the
board of managers of Kansas exhibit:
'.Your attention is called to the fact
that the Columbian commission have not
made any allotments of space to states
for collective exhibits in the departments
of electricity, fine arts, machinery or
manufactures. Nothing but individual
exhibits will be placed in these depart
ments, and each exhibitor will make his
own application for space on regular
blanks, filled out as required by the
rules of the exposition.
1.-THE applications now on file are not
by any means sufficient to fully repre-
sent our state in these important de-
partments. Intending exhibitors should
make application at once. All applica-
tions received by the board of managers
will be promptly transmitted for record,
and final consideration and disposal
Blanks will be furnished OF applica-
ton"
No Hot Winds,
George c. Sperry, assistant superin-