The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-10

school erected on the old military reser-
walton decided to Kansas some years
ago by the national government, for
this purpose, and found the school un-
der the able management Of Prof.
Picken and his accomplished wife, in a
hourishing condition, while the expert
mental fam is also proving OF immense
practical value.
Charitable Institutions
The nine institutions known as the
state charities are especially worthy OK
your fostering care and commend to
your careful consideration the biennial
report of their board Of trustees and
the recommendation which they make
to you
Western University.
Under the able management of Prof
W. T. Vernon the Quindaro school IL
an institution which merits your hber-
al support. It is high class school
and an honor to the colored population
Bows and Girls Industrial Schools.
The Girls Industrial school at Beloit,
and the Boys Industrial school at To-
peka are institutions which appeal
strongly to every sympathetic heart.
These wayward boys and girls many OF
them have been More sinned against
than SHINING" but there is hope for
these boys and girls, and every one OF
them saved to society is worth the
whole cost of the institution. I ask
your careful consideration of the needs
of these institutions as presented BY
their respective
Soldiers Home.
Kansas patriotism and gratitude have
found beautiful expression in the SOL
diers' Home at Dodge City There, IN
cosy cottages, several hundred Datte
scared veterans, upon whose heaos nave
fallen the SHOWS which melt not away
many OF them with their wives ana
children, patiently await the pugle can
across the river. The state has maze
many contributions to their comfort
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Mother Bickerdilze Home.
A kindred Institution more pathetic
If possible in its character than this
is the Mother Bickerdike Home Tor
soldiers widows at Ellsworth; Dut'
am sorry to learn from numerous
sources that this institution has been
somewhat neglected by the state. Great
as is our debt Of gratitude to the sol
diers themselves, greater still, II posi-
bic, is our debt to the patriotic women
whose services and Sacrlnces IN the
humble homes of the land Supplement-
ed those Of the boys in blue in the heid.
call your attention to the MotheE
Bickerdike Home and its needs.
Live Stock Sanitary Board
There appears to be a great d.
versity of views among stockmen as
to the practical value to the stare. or
to their interests particularly, OF this
board. Some contend that it is Of in
caIcuIable value while others INSIST
that it has no value at all and snouiu
be abolished When doctors diner
patients are in doubt about the medi-
cine. 1t seems to be pretty generally
agreed among cattlemen that the IN
spection fees are no longer or value
and should be discarded as 1t is SAID
that these fees are generally paid
without any real inspection service l
hope you will give the whole subject
careful investigation.
National Guard.
The recent war with Spain forcibly
Illustrated the Ualre of organized
military force ready for emergency.
The National Guard of this state Is
composed of a splendid body OF young
men, finely Differed. They should pc
the pride of the state and are entirely
worthy of legislative liberality.
Insurance.
The state superintendent of insur-
ance, Hon. c. H. Luling. follows the
mending the creation of a new office
for the protection of property from
fire, the incumbent to be known as
the state fire marshal. Statisticians
panies paid losses in this state during
the year 1903 amounting to $751;
600. They also assert that more than
one-third of the property lost by nre
was not insured. so that the fire losses
in this state last year amounted 10
two million dollars. Many other
states have a law similar to the one
It is proposed to enact in this state
and it is said that in Massachusetts,
for instance. it has been definitely as
certained that more than one-third OF
all the losses from fre are from IN
cendiarism, and that the fire marshal
of that state has reduced the tncen-
diary losses from 4 per cent to less
than per cent, or one-seVenth or
what it was before the law went into
effect More anxious to reduce the
present number of offices than to
create new ones, I am somewhat re-
luctant to give my approval to this
hut
cation you should find the claims Of
fire marshals in other states sustained
by facts, the creation of this new de-
partment would probably be wise I
should wish, however, that this legis-
lation might be supplemented by some
law which would prevent the fnsur-
ance companies from reaping all the
benefits of the losses thus saved at
state expense; otherwise, 1t would be
of no great value to the people. for
what would it profit us to reduce, at
our own expense, the risks OF the
companies unless our policy rates
were correspondence reduced? In
this connection I wish to call your at
tention to the alleged evasions of the
laws of 1889 and 1901 partly passed
for the purpose Of preventing the or
ganization of trusts or combines in
the Insurance business. It is said
that insurance rates have been in
years by reason of this evasion from
SO to rs per cent The processes by
which these evasions of the anti
trust laws have been accomplished
given the subject study. First local
boards were organized in the towns
and cities which fixed the rates on
property, but these were short lived
owing to the interference of the courts.
Then, what was known I believe, as
the Clarkson rate was established
which was also driven cut OF ex-
istence by the courts. But substan-
tfaIlv the same rates have been re-