Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-27
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest.
Historical Library.


Historical society Secretary F. G. Ad-
ANS submitted the eighteenth annual
report of the society which was approved
by the directors. In it he said:
'The accessions to the library of the
society during the year ending Tuesday,
November 81, 1898, are as follows:
Volumes of books, 7O9; pamphlets and
unbound volumes, 1868; volumes Of
newspapers and magazines, 1,197 single
, newspapers containing matter of special
historical interest, SO; maps, aliases and
charts, so; manuscripts, BIT; pictures
and other works of art, 285; script, cur
rency and coin, Is; relics, 43; miscel-
laneous contributions, 118.
"rhe total of books, pamphlets, news
papers and magazines added to the Ii
brary during the year has been 1874
volumes. Of these 3,706 have been pro-
cured by gift and exchanges, and 1913
by purchase. The total of the library
at the present time, not including the
manuscripts and miscellaneous library
objects, is as follows, namely: Fifteen
thousand one hundred and twenty three
bound volumes; 1929 unbound vol
umes and pamphlets; 1880 bound
newspaper files and volumes of maya
zines; in all 1892 volumes. OF the
1,197 bound volumes of newspapers add
ed to the library during the year, 612
are of Kansas, and 385 of other states.
"The regular issues of 734 Kansas
newspapers and periodicals are now be-
ing received by the society. These are
the free gifts of the publishers, and they
include all that are known to the secre-
tary of the society to be published with
in the limits of the state. Of these 80
are dailies; 655 are weeklies; 1 is semi
weekly; ~ are monthly; 8 are semi
monthly; 1 is bi-monthly; 8 are quar-
terly and one occasional
''These come in from all of the 106
counties of Kansas. Reverses in the
frontier portion of the state have slight
ly lessened the number of newspapers
published; yet the number of bound
volumes of Kansas newspapers and mag
azines has been little less than in former
years. In this, the most useful depart
ment of any library of local materials
our library yet stands unequaled and
unrivaled. Probably no other library
in the world has during the year 1893
received into it's shelves the number of
734 volumes of newspapers and maya
zines published within the bounds of it's
own local sphere of work
''Of the manuscript accessions large
number of great interest relating to
affairs OF Kansas territorial war and war
history have been contributed by Gener-
al John A. Halderman, Colonel Richard
j. Hinton, Colonel Samuel F. Tappan
and others. Prof. I. T. Goodnow has
made additional contributions from his
carefully saved manuscript stores"
: The state penitentiary paid all of it's
expenses last month and turned q bal
ance of 81, 060.88 over to the state treas
ury-
Bank Commissioner Briedenthal has
issued q call to the state and private
banks for statement of their condition
at the close of business on January 10.
The Missouri Pacific and Rock Island,
10y their attorneys, B. P. Waggener and
David Kelso, and M. A. Low, asked the
board of railroad commissioners for a
hearing of the Symms case.
It is said that Mrs. Lease has bought
through Topeka agency, 12O acres of
oranges in California. A Wichita spe-
cial says that she is negotiating for 800
acres more. Mrs. Lease is in love with
California climate.
Benjamin F. Stonecipher, jr,, Of Atch-
ison, has been appointed to olerkship
in the pension Office. He will succeed F.
d. Coburn, recently elected secretary of
the board of agriculture Governor
Click states that there are two more
clerks to be appointed, and that both Of
these will fall to Missouri. He has en-
deavored to distribute his patronage
about equally throughout his district
The report OF the condition of the |
state penitentiary at Lansing, made to |
the state board of pardons, shows that |
during the month of December forty
four convicts were received into the in |
stitution, which exceeds the records for
any previous month OF the December
list thirty-six were convicted OF burg
larry, larceny and other forms of theft,
and eight for murder and kindred crimes.
General John G. Blanchard, of Michi-
gan, special examiner of the interior
has established headquarters
at the United States land Office in the
federal building in Topeka and will ex-
anime cases of fraud in obtaining gov
eminent lands as reported to the land
office. Mr.. Blanchard has already ex-
ahmed several cases and has made his
report to then interior department., where
frauds have been found in lands acquired
oy several English syndicates, in which
hey would get persons TO file on claims
md after pretended living on them,
transfer the title to the syndicate. 'The
Jarvis onklin Mortgage company has