Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-07-15
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News Of State
interest.

| 0o Gno recenI annual meeClng or the
board of trustees of Washburn college,
Rev. DR., Blakesly, c. W. Jewell, II. D
Rice were reelected members of the
board.
Paymaster General F. NJ. Bonebrake
has drawn $4,000 from the state for ar
mory rent for the last quarter. This is
for all the companies in the Kansas Ma
tional Guard.
1t cost the state just $13,213.90 to
run the Topeka insane asylum last
month and $18,O39.13 to pay the ex-
penses of the Osawatomie asylum for
the same period.
A. G. Shinn, of Ottawa, vice president
for Kansas of the American Bi-Metallic
league, has issued call for state con-
vention to be held in Topeka July Goth
in the interest of silver legislation.
Henry Bennett, of Topeka, who has
the contract for the $4,000 addition to
the insane asylum at Osawatomie, will
make his own brick there. A fine quail
ity of clay has been discovered, and a
big saving can be made on this item.
The state board of pardons will be in
session week yet. A large number of
applications which have been before the
board several months and also number
which have been made only recently are
being considered by the board. Several
of the cases are quite important, there
being number of applications in behalf
of men who are sentenced to the peni-
tentiaty for life. Judge G. E. Foote, of
Marion, the new member who succeeds
the late s. A. Willoughby, began his du-
ties at this session.
Worlds fair commissioners II. II.
Kern and A. P. Collins were consulting
with Secretary Mohler about agricul-
tural specimens for the Kansas exhibit
at the Worlds fair. The commissioners
want samples of the best grain that can
be grown in Kansas. They have made
repeated calls through the newspapers
for samples but they are not forthcom-
ing, and commissioners Kern and Col
Inns now propose to make personal Wis
it to some of the best farms in the state
and secure the specimens they need.
Secretary Mohler invites farmers to send
samples to him, and he will see that they
are promptly forwarded to Chicago.
Governor Lewelling in an interview
said: "Whise was at WaKeeney pc
tition was circulated and signed by a
large number of citizens urging upon
me the necessity for calling the legisla-
ture together. made this subject a
special feature of my speech, and told
them that even if the legislature did
make the appropriation the money would
be expended through the county COM
missioners and paid back to the state
again, and urged upon them the de-
STABILITY of obtaining the money, from
these counties, as they could loan it as
well as the state. A great many coin
cided with my views in the matter. At
present I am opposed to a special ses-
sion, but such exigencies might arise as
would change my opinion.
1.-The Columbian History of Education
in Kansas has been issued under the
auspices of the Kansas State Historical
society for the Worlds fair. It is hand
somely bound volume of over $50 pages,
containing an account of the public
school system of Kansas, with an expla-
nation of its practical working, review
of the auxiliary teachers associations,
sketches of the several public education
al institutions, local histories of the
schools by counties and cities and
brief outline of the work accomplished
in private and UNCONVENTIONAL schools.
It also contains portraits of ex-State
Superintendent Peter McVicar, Isaac
Goodnow and George W. Winans,
State Superintendent Il. N. Gaines,
Chancellor F. 81. Snow, President
George T. Fairchild, President A. R.
Taylor, Editor John Macdonald of the
Western School Journal, and number
of county superintendent.
Attorney General Little is preparing
case in the supreme court, to get
construction placed on the law, which
gives the secretary of state the control
of the senate chamber and representa-
tive hall when the Legislature is not in
session. A short time after Secretary
Osborn had been arraigned for allowing
representative hall to be used for unlaw-
full purposes, the supreme court made
application to him for the use of the
senate chamber in which to hold court,
but the secretary of state said the SEN
ate chamber could not be used for that
purpose and the matter was dropped. A
few days ago Secretary Osborn found
that few newspaper men were in the
habit of going into the senate chamber
every afternoon to do their writing, and
he at once ordered them out of the |
chamber. One of the correspondents |
then made application to the executive
council for the privilege of writing there.
The executive council discussed the mat |
ter and majority of the members we're
Of the opinion that the statute which |
gives the council control of the state
house also gives them control of the two
legislative halls. They decided that they
wanted to be broad-gauged, and in order |