The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-04

OF equipment in said penitentiary or
recommend or ask from the legislature
OF othef department of government
other additional Room, ground, or build
ings or means Of employing the oonvicts
or change Of location.
one hundred and fifty $50 of said
prisoners are employed by hiring them
% manufacturing firms at .ssyenty-five
(45) cents per day on work which they
do within the prison.
Ihal since said date the total number
OF prisoners IN said penttent1arys the
proportion of Oklahoma prisoners to
Kansas prisoners. the size and equip
ment or said institution, the means OF
employing the convicts and the other
facts and conditions set forth above
mere not materially changed
Ihat there has not been in Kansas
for many years last past any public
complaint regarding said penitentiary
either as to its location, size, equipment,
buildings, comforts, accommodations or
as TO the means of employing conYicts,
afforded therein
That there are now confined and
mpIoyed in the aid state penitentiary
ut Lansing, Kan. conNicts, part
" from Oklahoma and parry from
Kansas; that said penitentiary as now
constituted and in operation IS capa Die
OF accommodating III confinement ana
employing in suitable and proper en-
ployment, including said hire employ
ment, total number of twelve hum
dred and fifty convicts- That In the
opinion of a majority Of prison experts
not moro than twelve hundred con-
v1ets can be confined, cared for and
employed in one institution with the
best results. con this subject either
party may quote official prison reports
of any of the states or any recognized
authority on the subject.)
That an oil refinery such as IS pro-
v1ded for in certain act OF the legls-
lature OF the state of Kansas attached
to plaintiffs application for writ OF
mandamus herein, is a manufacturing
plant equipped with necessary build
ings, machinery and storage capacity
for accommodating and storing crude
petroleum and for refining the same
and manufacturing, handling, storing
and marketing the refined product and
the by-products of said crude pc
troleun1.
THAT in the construction of an oilre-
finery building and plant at Peru,
Kansas, as is Contemplated in said act,
the same to cost two hundred thou
sand dollars ($200,000), quite num-
Der Of conyicts could be employed, but
such refinery and plant after COM
pletion would in its operation furnish
employment for not more than twenty
persons of whom at least five must be
persons especially skilled in the bust
ness OF manufacturing and -rennlng
petroleum oil and manufacturing, pro-
ducing and handling the products and
by-products thereof; and such a plant
could be operated equally well with
twelve persons skilled in the business;
but that from twenty to twenty-five
convicts could be employed in and
about the housing. culinary work and
gardens connected with said branch
penitentfary and refinery. That there
are not now confined in the peniten-
tiary of the state of Kansas any con-
victs having the skill and experience
necessary for the operation of the
said oil refinery.
THAT crude oil and its products
and by-products which 1t is intended
shall be handled, stored refined. man
ufactured and disposed of in connec-
ton with the said refinery, are highly
inf1ammable, dangerous and explosive
substances; and that for that reason
the hazards of the business of hand
ling, storing and marketing the same,
as provided for in the said act are
very great, and that the highest degree
of care and fidelity is required and i'm
perativeIy necessary in the persons
employed in the said business"