Western Kansas world., 1893-01-07
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News Of State
Interest.

interest
A number OF very fine collections OF
plants in the state house Offices were
frozen Sunday night.
Fuel and light made per capita e1-
pense OF $16.88 for each inmate OF the
Topeka insane asylum last year.
The state board OF railroad commits
sioners has denied the complaint for a
siding at Peck, on the line Of the A.,
T. & s. F. on the ground that the
roads facilities at that point are suffi-
cient for all demands.
Teachers Association Notes.
About 200 teachers enrolled the first
evening.
President Peter McVicar, d. D., of
Washburn college, was the only person
present who has attended all of the
thirty annual meetings.
The secretary was instructed to wire
greetings to the twenty other State
Teachers associations in session
throughout the United States.
The State Normal school headquar-
ters was in the speakers room in the
rear of the presidents desk. The re-
union was held in the senate chamber.
Superintendent Wooster, of the Kan
sas educational exhibit at the worlds
fair, has a number of things displayed
in his room off representative hall that
will be sent to Chicago. He has shown
considerable diplomacy in preparing a
large chart that shows in most strik-
ing manner the amounts donated to the
exhibit fund by the various Kansas
cities and just as striking are the blanks
that stand for the cities that have raised
no funds.
A painting of the oldest country
school house in the state is on exhibi-
tion at the association. It is log
structure, appearing to be about twenty
by thirty feet in size. It is situated
near where Fort Leavenworth now
stands. The school was taught in it by
V. K. Stanley in the spring OF 1856.
There was building in Wyandotte
county in 1s47, but it was for Indian
children; but this is the first building
for white children in the state. Mr..
Stanley is now q member of the school
board and q real estate dealer at
Wichita. The picture was painted by
his wife.
In his address Superintendent Winans
gave few facts regarding what is ex-
pected of state superintendent that
he said might be somewhat of solace
to a few Of those present. He said his
four years of Office had been the busiest
and most responsible of the twenty
five years he had been engaged in the
school work. In the four years he held
$50 public meetings in 100 out of the
1O6 counties in the state. He sd-
dressed sixty graduating classes; he
travelled as far as three times around
the globe right here in Kansas; he
spoke to eight district associations and
five state conventions, and besides all
the duties of his. office he had much of
the labor and duty connected with the
investment of $2,000,00O of school
bonds.
The state agricultural college had q
fine exhibit Of drawings and pictures
prepared for exhibition at Chicago next
summer. It was shown in the lieuten-
ant governors Office in the east wing.
The normal school exhibit in the
room back of the speakers desk in rep
resentative hall was very good. Some
very beautiful drawings, plaster of paris
casts, ETC., we've shown. Two of the
drawings deserving Of special mention
are design and elevation for country
school house, by Miss Essie Means, and
the other q plan and elevation of
modern city residence, drawn by Miss
T. M. Brio.
The State Normal school held its re-
union at the senate chamber after the
coucert at the opera house. The hall
was decorated with lycopodium moss,
which was hung in festoons from the
chandeliers. There we're about 15O
happy school people in all, including
nine Of the faculty of the school. At q
late hour refreshments Of confections
and fruits were served, which everybody
enjoyed. President Taylor made brief
address.
There were numerous reunions, by
states and by schools. All were en-
joyed.