The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-25
STATE HOUSE EVENTS.

The state board of charities has
made a settlement with the state audi
| tor showing the following expenditures
at the state institutions for the month
of January; Winfield asylum-ATain-
tenance, $1O6S.71; salaries, $593.S2 Blind
institute, Kansas City-AGaintenance
81. 6S5 .68; salaries, $685. Olathe deaf. and
dumb Observation-Disclosures, 81, 176.25:
salaries, 1898. rs. Orphans home, Atch-
ison-Maintenance, 1914; salaries
$Sf5.32. OSaWatomie asylun-Mainten-
ance, $13,OlS.11; salaries, $3,S16.81. TOpe-
ka observation-disclosures SIC, 95S. 80; sal
aries, $3285.70 Reform school, Topeka
Maintenance, $2074.2O; salaries, s949.16.
H. B. FIeharty who resigned as ex-
ecutive clerk to the governor to open a
law office and inspect oil on the side
has been assigned to the district which
includes the distributing points of Con-
cordia, WamegO, Horton, Atchison, To-
peka and LeavenWOrth. 1t is Ohio oil
that is sold in this state The oil from
the Kansas wells goes mostly to Wieb-
tia and from there south and west.
Three oil companies sell all the coal oil
used in the state and they are the
Standard Oil company, the National Oil
company and the Pennsylvania Oil com
pany, which has recently established an
agent in Topeka.
The new doors now being put in the
north and south entrance to the state
house are no larger than the doors of
come the dignity of the state house
%
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal is
in Chetopa on business for his depart
ment-
Secretary F. D. Coburn of the state
board of agriculture has returned from
a visit to Kansas City
When the weather is almost too bad
for people to be on the street the
greatest number of visitors climb to the
state house dome
The secretary Of state is experiment.
ing with new duplex type writer
which works on record books. It is an
interesting piece OF mechanism and
does good work.
The Kansas war department has
sent to the arsenal at Rock Island. H.
200 Social Springfield rifles to be ex-
changed for the new 45-caL guns of the
same kind.
Webb McNaH as superintendent Of
insurance has been compelled to return
to fire insurance companies a Isrea
have failed to comply with the require
ments of the department.
The superintendent of insurance has
returned the annual report of the
Standard Life Insurance COMPANY of
Detroit, requesting them to comply with
the requirements of the department
and furnish a statement of the claims
paid and now remaining unpaid in this
state for 1897.
Attorney General Boyle is now pre-
pairing his brief in the scrip and screen
law passed by the last legislature. and
destined to help the miners of Kansas.
Inc case is in the supreme court. The
brief will be exhaustive treatment
of the subjectIt is not generally known
that the attorney general was a miner
hi 1cn1f
from Canada to LeadVilIe. Colo. when
he was or 10 years old. She was
comparatively poor and when the fu-
ture attorney general should have been
at school he was compelled, by stress Of
circums stances, to go into the mines of
| Colorado to work. Before daylight in
/ the winter mornings he went down into
a silver mine with his little dinner pail
and remained there until after dark.
He saw the sun on Sundays only. For
five or six years he was a timber boy
in the mines, dispOsing of timber to the
miners by means of a little cart BY
this means he made money sufficient to
enable him to go to college and acquire
a legal education
Webb NcNall, state superintendent
insurance, has inaugurated a campaign
against fire insurance companies. The
| companies, a dozen of which have al
ready filed their annual reports in the
department, are being required to COM
pIete them with an exhibit of the
amount of the policy, the date of loss,
date of settlement and amount upon
which settlement was effected, upon
losses incurred during the year.
G. A Van Hall. the leading Druggist
| of Butler, Mo, writes: I'VE are hav-
| ing splendid success with Beggs Blood
Purifier and Blood Maker. It is one Of
the best sellers we ever had and gives
! satisfaction to all who have tried 1t.
| We take pleasure in recommending it
| At druggists.