The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
AT THE CAPITAL.
Big Sum Needed for Completion
of Z. s. Penitentiary.
Estimate Calls for Two Hundred
Four Thousand Dollars.
BUT THAT ISN'T ALL
Nearly as Much for Maintenance
-$5OO,OOO for Soldiers Home.
Public Buildings for Many
Kansas Cities.


mltted to congress by the secretary of
the treasury is contained the following
items of direct interest to Kansas in
stitutions.
For continuing the construction of
the United States penitentiary at Leav-
enworth, S204, 900.
For the support of the federal peni-
tent1ary at Leavenworth, $780, 760, as
follows; Subsistence. etc, $50.000; for
clothing. transportation, rewards, trav-
cling expenses, etc, $25,O00; for miscel-
laneous expenditures, etc, $4,000; for
hospital supplies, ETC., $4,000; for salar-
les, $77,46O; for foremen of industrial
For support of the western branch of
the soldiers, homes, Leavenworth, $44S,
600, as follows: Current expenses, $780,
600; subsistence. $16O,OOO; household,
$4,000; repairs, 1900; farm, $1S,0 900;
mortuary chapel and morgue $4,000;
truss roof to general mess kitchen, So
900.
Appropriations for the completion of
postoffice buildings in Kansas: Man
haitian, $4,000; wellington, $50, 900;
Pittsburg, $4,000; Parsons, $50, 900; In
dependence, $4,000; Clay Center. $55,0OO;
Great Bend, $4,000; Emporia (enIarge-
ment), $4,000; Coffeyville, S50, 600.
Appropriations for Haskell Indian in
St1tute at Lawrence as follows: For
support and education of $50 Indian
pills and pay of superintendent, $137, $50;
general repairs and improvements, $10,-
600; for hay barn, 50, 900; for equipment
of new manual training building, $1,000
Appropriation for the Indian school
on the Kickapoo reservation as follows:
For the support and education of so
Indian pupils and pay of superintend-
ent, $14,S60; for general repairs and i'm
provements, $4,000.
'It may be that it is advisable to
change the rules of the house." said
Congressman Dan Anthony, of the First
Kansas district, but if that is the case
it does not argue or signify that the
speaker is to be blamed for the ex-
istence of those rules. or their inter |
probation and execution.
Mr.. Bristew will come to the United |
States senate continued the tall Kan |
sas solon. THAT is settled, although |
certain corporations have been trying |
to influence certain members of the |
state legislature to vote against BriS- !
tow and elect a man more subservient |
to their interests. But as I said that |
is thing of the past, and Mr.. Bris- |
tow will come to the senate"
Speaking of the services Kansas has |
rendered the Republican party for so |
many years, Mr.. Anthony thought Kan |
sas should be entitled to representation |
in the cabinet of the incoming presi- |
dent. Being asked to name the men |
who deserved recognition with a seat in |
the cabinet, he said that Senator Long !
and Congressman Charles F. Scott were
both worthy of the honor and if select
ed, would fill the place allotted to eth
er of them with honor, dignity, and eff
ficiency.
Congressman Anthony said he was in
favor of lowering the tariff on lumber
and steel.
Congressman Victor Murdock is en-
gaging his time in comforting with
members of the house with a view of
tit, 70 (N1,a
non.
AT the proper time we will hold
1.-The sentiment against Mr.. Cannon is
growing. We want to make sure that
A board to represent each of the ex-
ecutive departments has been appoint
ed to prepare the exhibits of the Uni
ted States government to be sent to
the Quito exposition, which opens in
August next, to commemorate the first |
centennial anniversary of the political
Of Ecuador. Colonel S. r.
Burch of Olathe, Kan, chief clerk of
the department of agriculture, has been
named a member of the board to rep
resent his department. Col. Burch draws
an annual salary of $4,000, and is promi-
nent in official circles we'll Grand |
Army circles at the national capital
In 1873 c. J. Bascom used on the
tracks of the Kansas Pacific railroad in
M
sails and was propelled by the wind.
His carriage was modelled after a horse
less carriage that was invented by a
Dutchman in 1920, and was used on the
smooth, hard beach of Holland, travel
ing as fast as ~ miles in two hours.
with % passengers aboard.
The Kansas horseless carriage was
not a success, and was soon abandoned.
Later an inventor made a horseless
that was to be propelled by
the wind over the level Kansas prai-
ries 1t was a failure, too.
Experts of the department of agri-
culture are engaged at Independence,
Kan. in trying to devise method of
oiled roads analogous to
the methods which have produced the
famous oiled roads of southern Califor-
MIA They are mixing heavy oils, pos
sessing pronounced asphaltic bases,
with natural soil and sand, and COM
pacting the preparation with a tamping
roller One stretch of this peculiar class
If highway has now been completed
The oiled roads of California have
saved millions of dollars to the farm
srs and fruit growers of that fertile
state in the last few years by sup
pressing the dust that formerly arose
In binding clouds with the passing of
every vehicle. Those dust clouds. float
ing to adjacent fields and orchards, de-
Drecfated the price of farm products
and lowered values OF real estate to
startling degree. The sprinkling of oil
was tried, and and dust was held in
check. Then some of the roads were
olowed and the oil mixed with the
earth and the mass firmly rolled to a
properly crowned surface Splendid re-
suits followed, in most instances.