The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-02-16
of $245 Oh.

OI $Zfo VI.
Telephone service increased foi
the year 1896 as compared with
1894, from $50. 40 to $243, an added
cost IT $156 IS.
For the same years express
charges to the state were ~. BAT 81
aud $4,646 II, an increase OF
50, 400 20.
INCREASE IN OTHER CHANNELS.
The state militia for 1894 cost
$105, 469. IA, for 1896 $123, 452 81,
an increase of SIT .983.1
For glandered horses slaughtered
there was paid in 1894 the SUM 81
ST. ,051, 04, and in 1896 the sum 81
50, 062. 80. an increase of ST. oil 04.
During the year 1896 there was
paid on account of the State
Board of immigration, a wholly
new enterprise, the sum of s., 1892. :
43.
The cost of examiners of state
teachers swelleh TO 1891 36 in 1896
as against $335.37 in 1894, an in
crease If $555 SO.
The fish and game warden con-
tingent fund was raised III expense
to the state from 81 1882 III 1894
to So, O62 IS in 1896, an increase
Of $1,958.83; and an additional
amount of $I,266.97 was paid to
AN Oshkosh attorney as counsel
in the prosecution Of the men
charged with violating the fish
laws.
The cost of maintaining insane
in county asylnms was 500, ESQ. 80
III 1894 and $315,619 81 i'll 1896,
an increase Of $45, 03934
There was reduction In the
amount bounty paid for wild
animals Of $3,677 in 1896 from
The $13, 066 in 1894: and it may be
proper to state that great many
people are of an opinion that no.
body excepting a few breeders Of
wolves and foxes would suffer
greatly if the legislature should
cut off this perquisite altogether
and effecta saving of about $40, 900
per year to the state.
There was paid in aid of county
agricultural societies in 1894 the
sum Of $27, 374.30. and in 1896 the
sum Of $40, 591.27, All increase Of
$13, 1851.
Fish culture III 1894 cost the
state treasurey $4,000 and in 1896
it amounted to $27 900, an increase
of $14, 900.
The Blue Book in 1898 cost
$8,679.72 ard in 1896 1T cost
$24, 4Q9.95, an increase of 15,-
630.23.
There are twenty seven janltors
or messengers employed III the
state offices, exclusive Of the legls-
lative force. There are six police
men. There is upon the pay rolls
under the head of laborers force
of eighteen people who do the
work usually performed by jani-
tors. There are more men en-
ployed by the state chiefly to carry
mail from the postotfice to the
various offices than there are emf
ployed by the federal government
to conduct the business of the
Madison postoffice and deliver the
rest Of the mail about the city.
There is total of fifteen stenog-
rapAers employed in the state
Offices on the first floor, an aver
age of one to every regularly oc-
cupied office. although the super
intendent of public property and
the railroad commissioner employ
but one for the two offices. AT
least seven of these are increase
over the number employed prior
to 1895. It is the fact that the
majority of them are the most
cheaply paid of the stTte employees
and all of them perform work which
furnishes the most convincl
argument in favor Of the propo.
sition that material saving car
be effected in the matter Of clerE
hire by applying business rules
instead of political rule to the
conduct of the state department
Kansas City .Tonrnal.-A Chica