The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-02-16

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law was changed. so far as the house was con-
cerned. this morning, by the passage Of q bill
lowering the amount to twenty dollars, by a
| vote OF Go to s..
Topeka, Feb. e.-The house today passed
Representative Mckeever's bill to readjust the
fees to be paid the superintendent OF insur-
ance. The bill leaves the fees the same as at
presenU. except that Kansas companies do not
have to pay the 81 fee for registering policies.
1t is designed to foster home companies.
The senate at o'clock this afternoon took up
| as special order the educational committee s
bill tc compel Kansas high schools to adopt the
books provided by the state law passed in 1897.
This bill also provides that no books. maps.
charts. globes or other apparatus shall be sold
| to Kansas schools until first approved by the
| state school text book commissioners.
| The state labor society which adjourned last
night adopted n constitution which provides
for an assessment of five per cent upon all Ia
Dor organizations Of the state, the money to
be applied in doing work not provided for in
the law.
| resolution was adopted requesting the leg
| islaturc to enact law authorizing the payment
OF per diem and mileage to the members Of the
society the ss>ne as is now paid to the members
! OF the state board OF agriculture.
| Topeka Feb. 9-The senate committee on
eli as Of the second class, Sheldon chairman. has
| recommended for passage Senator AnderSon'S
bill changing the boundary line between Pot
| win and Topeka. moving the same from the
west side OF West street to the center Of the
street.
Representative Broolse's bill to prohibit MAX
| ing subjects Of school children in hypnotic ex-
| hibitions was passed by the house today by a
! vote of So to 6.
Representative Brooke has introduced the
bill into the house to make appropriations for
| the improvement of the reform school, and it is
| now in the hands Of the ways and means COM
mittee. 1t makes an appropriation Of $4,000
for new cottage large enough for IS boys.
$4,000 for an industrial building in which the
boys may be taught manual trades. 81, 600 to re-
place the barn which was burned some time
ago. and $1,000 for general repairs.
hon 1Dfv, 1ov,c lpxr 6Aetf nal 70
remain on the statute books, Notwithstanding
Representative Fairchild's repeated efforts to
have 1t repealed and Governor Stanley'S rec
| concentrations that The board be done away
with.
Topeka, Feb. 10-There was brief quarrel
in the senate today during the discussion Of
Senator Lupfers's bill. defining butter, and re-
Quiring all butter and Oieomargarine to be Ia
beiled. SO consumers can by the sign"
| what they are eating if they can not otherwise
discern TIE difference between butter and oieo-
margarine.
The special pharmacists bill. by the provis-
ions of which a lot Of alleged druggists are au-
thorized to compound poisOns for innocent pur-
chasers. has passed the house. but it did not
have many votes to spare. The vote stood 6S
for the bill to % against it. It requires G3 to
pass bill. Six names were added to the bill
by the committee on public health when it
came up for final passage. making a total OF
forty druggists who are given the special priv
ilege allowed pharmacists. without first prov
ing that they are qualified to deal in drugs by
puSSAiAS AZ CAoLiiuoeAoA OSiOAC VIC SSoeC OOu1u
OF pharmacy.
The bill to limit the output Of the peniten-
tiary coal mines to the needs of the state insti
tutionS, and which caused considerable dis
cussion in the house committee Of the whole a
few days ago. has been passed by the house by
vote OF "A to IL.
To!eka, Feb. 1.-THE senate suspended the
rules and passed the house bill appropriating
S3O. 9O7.9 to pay Lawrence citizens moneys by
them loaned to the state to rebuild the boiler
house and electrical engineering machine shops
and to replace the machinery. all belonging to
the educational equipment Of the university,
and which was destroyed by fire March on 22d,
1895
The house committee of the whole has turned
down Mr.. Brookes bill to prohibit officers from
acknowledging deeds in blank. The bill made
persons who signed the blank deed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and this is what defeated the
bill.
1t has been the custom of all previous legisla-
tires for the Sergeant-a alarms to furnish all
m smbers with pocketknives as part Of the
sock OF supplies. All state purchases Of that
character are made through the secretary Of
state, and Secretary Of State Clark has stopped
the supply OF knives for members Of the house.
The senate this afternoon in committee OF the
whole recommended for passage Senator Tom
AnderSOn'S bill creating new city court in To-
peka and limiting the jurisdiction Of justice
courts to civil recovery suits involving no more
than 81.
Advertisements of real estate and
loan agents are beginning to take up
considerable space in many of the
Kansas papers.
An effort was made last week at st.
Marys to get the citizens interested in
a waterworks project. It did not catch
on, however, and the project has been
abandoned.
A Kansas boy at Manila says that
human bones litter the ground in the
vicinity of the old prisons just as buff
falo bones used to lie scattered over
the prairies of Kansas
Humboldt, with population of
something in excess of sixteen hum
dred, has sixteen secret societies
Some years ago coal was discovered
in the vicinity of Logan. In the spring
shaft will be sunk for the purpose of
ascertaining how extensive the deposit
is, and whether it will pay to work it
The discovery of coal would be a
great thing for northwest Kansas
People in the eastern part of the state
who kick on the price Of coal would
fall dead if they had to put up for fuel
as is done in western Kansas
The one lone, solitary wolf that rep
resented the net result of circle hunt
down in Sumner county was killed
with a club.
The car containing the new ma
chinery for the brick plant has ar
rived at Cherryvale where an engine
is being unloaded for the plant An
engine and boiler will also be unload
ed at Independence. When this new
machinery is installed the plant can
begin operations. The brick company
has orders ahead for three or fou,
million bricks