The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-06

Assessed Valua ton Aug l. 1871 SIC, al. 0OO 10
The old board adjourned sine die,
and the new board was organized. P.
H. Griggs retired as a member of the
board from the Fifth ward, and B. p.
Williams, colored, took his seat. W. H.
Wilson was reelected president of the
board, F. H. Mallory was elected vice
president, and w. H. Stewart clerk
The first business of the new board
was to let the contract to supply the
schools with coal for the coming year.
The board will pay 10 cents ton more
for coal during the coming year than
last winter. The contract was award
ed without discussion, much to the sur
prise of all present, to the Southwest
ern Fuel company, on Weir City and
FrOntenac coal The Southwestern fur
nished the schools with Frontenac coal
last winter at $40 a ton. The price
this year will be 1925. The Weir City
and F'rontenac nut coal will be 81 80
and the milling $3.50. The Webster
TullOch company bid 1928 for Weir
City or FrOntenac lump. SO for the nut
and S2.6s for the milling J. w. F.
tenac lump, and $3.05 on the nut. The
Wear Coal company bid 50 35 on the
Weir City and F'rontenac lump and
$40 on the nut. Last winter the schools
used about l, 500 tons of coal.
The board finds itself in a predica-
ment in regard to the Nickel Plate
school house in The Strip" The school
was in district 49, and was taken into
grounds were appraised at s., 600 by the
county superintendent. and the board
of education will be called upon to pay
that amount into the treasury of Whae
is now left of district So outside the
city limits. Now the board finds that
part of the ground they are paying
for has been opened for a street but
has never been vacated. The school is
located at Second and Buchanan
streets, and Second street when opened
will pass through the school grounds,
and the entire width of the street will
be taken off the north side Of the school
grounds. The question Of whether the
board should pay for a street which
has been legally opened was referred to
J. Willis Gleed, the legal advisor of the
board.
A. NJ. Callahan. clerk of the district
court, presented a bill for SIS which
the board cut down to $135 Callahan
thought he ought to receive the amount
for recording the contracts of the board
at ten cents a folio The board object
ed and decided that the clerk should
receive five cents for fling the con-
tracts and that it was unnecessary to
record them.
President Wilson named P. I. Bone
brake to succeed P. w Griggs as chair
man of the finance committee. Mr..
Bonebrake made a motion, which was
carried. that no bills should be allowed
until the entire board passed upon
them and that no bills should be paid
upon the recommendation of an indi-
vidual member of the board or Of any
committee. Heretofore bills have been
paid which received the o. K of indi-
vidual members and of committees.
The board decided that janitors
should no longer have a mortgage on
their jobs as they have had in the past.
The board has been in the habit of
eleeting janitors annually and then
having to start court proceedings or
court martial to Gust a janitor who
did not give satisfaction. It was decid-
ed last night to employ the janitors
from month to month and to have the
autocrats Of the broom and brush un-
derstand that trail of dust and fringe