Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-07-01

The adjutant generals Office is draped
in mourning, owning to the death of
Captain S. F. Redmond, who was killed
at Minneapolis.
Kingman county has RENTED $4,190
to the state treasurer to pay bonds not
due. These bonds would not mature
until from 1895 to 1903. Nearly every
county is remitting before the sums are
due.
Labor Commissioner Todd announces
that his employment bureau will be in
operation July 1. He has had the nee
essary blanks printed and in day or
two will notify all the firms in the state
employing labor that he is prepared to
supply them with help. They will be
asked to notify the labor commissioner
whenever they are in need of anyone
and persons wanting a job will at once
be put in communication with them.
Over thirty applications for work have
already been made to the labor commits
sioner.
Attorney General Little has decided
that the state board of public works
could not lawfully issue voucher on
state contract work unless it was salts
fed that such work had been done on
the eight hour system, and that the
board may properly insert in all con-
tracts clause requiring contractors to
present to the board certificates from la
borers that they worked but eight hours
a day on the contract and were paid the
current wages paid in the neighborhood
for ten hours work. The attorney gen
eral in the same decision held that city
councils, if they should choose, might
contract that all material or supplies for
city work should be manufactured in the
state of Kansas on the eight-hour system.
The farm of Mrs Sam Wood in Stew
ems county, is likely to be sold under
foreclosure proceedings to satisfy mort
gage and interest claim now amounting
to $3.50. The farm consists of 100 acres
and the improvements upon it are said
to be worth $4,000 Mrs Wood is left
helpless and has no way to earn the
money with which to satisfy this claim
Unless she is helped all she has will be
sacrificed. Under the circumstances she
has yielded to the earnest solicitation of
friends, and consented that an appeal
may be made for aid. The Topeka Ad-
vocate will receive subscriptions and will
publish the amounts received each week
so thai the contributors may be known
and the amount Of money realized. Sub
scriptions of any amount will be duly
acknowledged.
The state board of public works opened |
the bids for the new building at the Osa- |
watomie insane asylum. There were six |
bidders of whom four were Topeka firms |
Henry Benefits was the lowest bid, |
S56,450. The new building is to be
women's ward, which will accommodate |
400 persons. The capacity of the Osa-
watomie asylum at present is 800 Both |
the state asylums are crowded and APP
plications are being made every day.
The building at Osawatomie is greatly |
needed and the work will be pushed as
rapidly as possible. Before opening the
bids the board announced that pro-
vision would be included in the contract
requiring the contractors to secure the
signatures of every workman employed
on this building to statement that they
had not worked more than eight hours a
day on any day they were employed.
The supreme court of Kansas gave
decision III a murder case from Marion |
county. Hugh O'Neil was sentenced to
.he penitentiary for twenty-five years
or the murder of his wife. He was crazy
drunk at the time and the lawyers
sought to have the supreme court set
aside the verdict on the ground that,
being insanely drunk, he was not re-
'ponsible for the act. The court finds
hat he was In such a condition of mind
hat he knew he was doing wrong, and
holds that voluntary intoxication was NO
Excuse for the crime.