The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-28
ABOUT THE CAPITOL.
Items of Interest Pertaining to State Off
and Officials.

Items of Interest Pertaining to State Off,
and Officials.
Governor Morrill, yesterday afternoon
appointed six men to office. They were
all made justices of the peace.
There are two Brown county men
now applicants for appointment under
the administration. John Schillings
wants to be state accountant and John
Robbins wants to be deputy bank COM
missioner.
Mike Heery's bond for $4,000 as
member of the board of public works
has been approved. His bondsmen are
A. ]. Arnold, Jacob Smith, w. A. l.
Thompson, A. w Knowles, W. III. Forbes
and Jonathan Thomas.
John Seaton and Mike Heery have
both qualified as members of the board
of public works, but Sol Miller is yet to
be heard from.
The girls industrial school at Beloit
will probably come in for investigation
before the summer is over.
At Governor MorrilPs own request the
legislature reduced the appropriation for
the governors contingent fund from
$4,000 to $4,000. If all of the investi-
cations are to be paid for out of that
fund, there won't be much of it left.
G. P. Bolmar, who was clerk of the
house ways and means committee dur
Ing the session, says the Topeka gas
company's bill for January and February
is none too large. He says every gas Jet
in Representative hall was burned
almost every night until midnight, and
sometimes there would be- only a few
clerks in the hall
Two townships of Cherokee county,
Lowell and Gardner, are to be kept un-
der the quarantine rules of the live stock
commission. A government inspector
will inspect all the cattle shipped from
other parts of the county.
The new live stock commissioners have
organized by electing ]. w. johnson OF
Eureka president and ]. w. Moore OF
Marion secretary.
Speaker c. E. LobdelI who has been
here several days appointing members
of the various legislative Investigation
committees, left for home today.
The Bohemian State bank of Wilson
Kan, has amended its charter and iii
capital stock is now placed at $4,000.
Labor Commissioner Bird, who is an
electrician, prevented fire at the Cary
hotel at Wichita the other morning b,
knowing what to do when the wires
we're out of order. The other guests
wanted water turned on.
G. g. Jobes, the new bank commits
sioner, has had his bond for $4,000 ap
proved. Sixteen Harper county mer
are on the bond
The state board of railroad assessor
will spend the rest of this week goins
over the Burlington. They went to Atch
ison this afternoon.
The new state board of pardons viii
organize next Tuesday.
The penitentiary investigation com
mittee will commence business at
o'clock tomorrow morning.
The latest guess on the penitentiar-
wardenship Is that L s. Crum will gel
the job
Judge c. E. Foote, lately member O
the state board of pardons, is said to as
plre to the POpulist nomination for gov
ernor
M. c. keely, the new state oil inspeC
tor, whose bond was proved by the exc
cutive council Yesterday, 10 said to b
one of the richest mon in Kansas. Hi
office is also one of the best 1t paws il
the neigh borhood OF $4,000.
George I. Anthony's bond has bee
approved and he is now ready to assum
his duties as insurance commissioners.
An effort is being made to lay tn
blame for the pleuro- pneumonia scare o
E. M. Turner, the Populist member {
the live stock commission, whose teri
expired Monday.