Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-22

an Official opinion by Attorney General
Boyle soon set this question at rest by say
iuE practically that as there was no law on
the statute books prohibiting the county
boards from going ahead and advancing
money to the state commission for the pur-
pose desired and there was every probability
that the legislature ut Its next session
would reimburse the counties, the boards
could 20 right ahead and act as a law unto
themselves.
All the state ever expected to raise at hrst
was $4,000. including the amount from thu
railroads, and 1t has now very closely APP
proximated that sum. To show what inter-
est the people generally took In the matter
1t was a; the urging OF the State Board Of
Agriculture, the State Horticultural society
and the Fine Stock Breeders association
that Governor Leedy appointed the commis-
sion. The Department of Promotion OF tho
Transmississippi Exposition board had COM
municated with u large number OF influential
men In that state, and some OF them paid
omaha a personal visit to look into the mat
ter for themselves, They saw that the thing
was going to he a success. and did not pro-
pose to have their state left out In the cold.
When he heard that the railroads had got
ten up q purse of $15, 600, Governor Leedy
said. We'll. I'll see that Kansas raises $751;
900 more" and he did not sleep over the
matter until he had taken steps to fulfil
this promise.
who Are Exhibiting
Among the more important exhibits from
Kansas in the mineral line are those OF
lead and zinc from Cherokee county, coal
from the Kansas and Texas Coal company,
Wear Coal company and the Western Coal
Mining company OF Pittsburg and the Lcav-
enworth and Riverside Coal companies OF
L~eavenworth; paving brick from the Pitts
burg and Topeka v~itriied brick companies
and the Atchison Paving Brick company;
rock salt from the Royal Salt company Of
Lyons, and the Western Salt company of
Sterling. and building stone from the BAN
dera Stone company of Redield. In the
agricultural line Horner 4 Ross OF Burr
Oak have n fine display of corn in the ear.
Vincent d Scofeld in corn and wheat and
there are some magnificent exhibits from
Washington, Labette, Atchison, Sedgewick.
Sumner, Cowley and Harper counties.
A great proportion of the splendid dis
plays of the Santa Fe, Rock Island and Cot
ton Belt railroads in the Agricultural build
ing has been drawn from Kansas, as n mat
ter of course. The railroads went ahead.
anticipating what a big thing for them the
exposition would be, and secured the cream
of the Kansas agricultural products several
months before any state commission had
been appointed, but with the assistance of
the State Agricultural Board and the Hor-
ticultural society, the commission expects
to be able to exceed anything Kansas has
ever shown in the farming and fruit indus
tries. Prof, II. l.. Worrell of Topeka, who
has had charge Of the exhibits of the Santa
Fe railroad for twenty years, is the super
visor of exhibits for Kansas.
The Kansas building is located to the
southeastward of the Nebraska building on
the Bluff tract. 1t has a very pleasing
effect, with It's numerous porticoes on three
sides and it's balconies on the second story.
John +. Stanton of Topeka was the archi-
tect. The prevailing feature in it's archi-
tectural composition is the classic, but style
has in a measure been made TO give way
to convenient arrangement and comfort.