The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-16
NEW HOSPITAL BROOM
DIDN'T SWEEP CLEAN
Change Made in Only Two Positions
The Steward Refuses 10 Resign
and Hangs on to the
CommisarIat.
HOW APPROPRIATION WILL Be USED

The new board Of managers Of State
Hospital No. at Pennington met last
Monday. The board consists of NJ. =.
Caycc of this place aud Judge lliggin.
bothani Of Washington county, ap-
pointees of former Governor Dockcry,
who hold over, aud DR.. b. G. Jones
of Poplar Bluff, Paul r. llinchey of
DE Soto aud John A Hope of Jack
son, recent appolntecS OF Governor
Folk. The new board was organized
by electing NJ. =. Caycc president and
John A. Hope vice president,
Shortly after the conyening of the
hoard, requests were sent all officials
of the Hospital for their designations.
The rcques, was complied with by all
except Steward Joe llocken, who re-
fused to hand in his resignation. The
board then proceeded to the election Of
officers for the institution DR., W. +
Kuhn of Kansas Cily was elected Su-
perlntendent to succeed Dr. j l..
Keith, and W ". Waters, editor of
the New Madrid Missuurian, was elect
ed Secretary to take the place of NJ &
Gresham. The resignation of DR..
Vernon, Assistant Superintendent, was
not acted on, and he holds oyci.
Mr. Hope offered a resolution that
the office of Steward be declared va.
cant, but motion of Mr. llinchey of
DE Soto that action on the stewardship
be deferred until the July meeting of
the board prevailed Steward Iloekcn
had been busy getting the "puSh' to
work in his behalf, and State Commit
tecman Weimer of jefferson county
was here pulling for him with all his
might, Notwithstanding the fact that
MIR Hocken was All uncomprOmi,ingly
bitter opponent OF Governor Folk in
the laltcr'> campaign for the nOmlna-
ton, aud in his "perniciou, activity
let the cOmmissariat of the hospital
take care of itself while he went to
Jefferson county, his former home, to
exert his influence in the primary cleo
ton against MIR Folk The ,loug dis
lance phone with jefferson City was
put into action, and II /, currently re-
ported that word came from Governor
Folk to let IIoekcu remain, which
may accounts for Mr.. Hopes resolu-
ton declaring the Office Of Steward va
cant being oycrridd"n with Mr. lliu-
chry's motion to deter action.
Treasurer ". \. Fleming was re-
elected, fact which gives general sat
sfaction; and the mntfon, Mis-. Gray,
was also re- elected. Instructions were
issued to the new Superintendent, nr.
Kuhn, to employ MIS-. Waters, wife of
the new Secretary, ~ "SupclioreSs, a
new position we believe with duties
described a, "simiIar to those of ma
trOn.'
The salaries of all the officers were
increased to correspond with those Of
other like institutions of the State
IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED.
The board Of managers considered
plans for the expenditure OF the Si40,-
600 appropriated by the last General
Assembly for Improvements at the hos
pital, among which are an extension
OF the sewerage system, enlargement
of the dining room, addition 10 the
power plant and an increase in the ca
pacity of the laundry Architect llo-
henSchield presented preliminary draw.
ngs of plans for the various improve
ments, and he was directed to employ
Fardwell, Young 4 Hook, engineers of
ST. Louis, to draft plans and spcciiica-
tions for II sewerage system to the ST.
Francois river, distance Of a mile
and half.
Dr. Kuhn, the new Superintendent,
is said to be an alIicniSt of some re-
putc and has been lecturer on ncu-
rology before the Kansas City Medical
University.