The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
AT THE CAPITAL.
Contracts for New Buildings at Fort
Leavenworth Awarded.

Washington, June 16-Contracts fol
number of buildings at army post:
were awarded today. At Fort Leaven-
worth a double signal corps barracks
will be constructed, at cost of owe;
$4,000; a wireless telegraph station al
g. cnst of over $1,000; a double stable
guard building, at cost of nearly So
900; signal corps station, at cost OF
about $4,000, and a gun shed which is
to cost in the neighborhood of $4,000
The contracts at Fort Leavenworth
will amount to over 100000.
Examination of enlisted men of the
army who have passed preliminary ex-
aminations for appointment as second
neutenants In the cavalry, field artil-
lery and infantry will be commenced az
Fort Leavenworth on August 2. They
will be commissioned after this year s
graduates of West Point.
BY direction of the secretary of war,
Adjutant General Mccain has called on
the commanding officers of all military
departments in the United States to
submit to his off the names and a
statement of service of enlisted men in
each department who are considered
qualified to act as instructors of the
organized militia That is done in Or
der that a sufficient number of men to
meet the requests of the state authorl-
ties may be selected and sent to Fort
I,eavenworth and Fort Monroe for the
purpose Of taking the preliminary
course of --struction.
Senator Joseph Little Bristow con-
ferred with President Taft about sew
eral things The most important re-
lated to the efforts of the Kansas sena-
tor 10 do away with. the Dutch stand
ard of color for American sugars.
The president has had explained to
him the methods of converting cane
r16 hRPn told
that the use of the Dutch standard IN
the customs laws of the country really
fosters the monopoly of the sue"~ trust
and prevents a decrease in the price of
sugars of the cheaper grades.
Senator BristoW led the hight IN the
senate for the elimination of the Dutch
standard. but lost there. The tight is
to be taken into the house, If possible
The existing law as to standard COM
pels the people of the country TO nuy
grauulated sugar and at the same
time compels practically all sugars TO
be refined or granulated.
senator Bristow said today that the
beet sugar men. who are opposing the
elimination of the standard. are SIM
ply serving the purposes OF the sugar
trust They we're mistaken in the idea
that the cheaper grade of sugars would
hurt their business.
It would be twenty-five years. he
said before enough beet sugar is made
in the UnlteQ States 10 supply inc NC
mand for graduated sugar, which will
always be in demand.
The Washington Herald says:
1.-THE uses of the college student are
MANY and increasing, according to Les
ter F. Carr, of Kansas City, who was
seen at the National.
"'Often he harvests the Kansas corn
CROP" said Mr.. Carr; supplies the
means by which the food is conveyed
from the kitchen to the dining-room
of the summer boarding house. He
is the distributing medium for num-
Der of books indispensable in the home
and office, and as a strike breaker has
been a huge success. On the front end
of a trolley car he is exceedingly use
full, and his presence in the kennel
behind will attract fares and insure
safe riding and courteous treatment.
"Tn addition, while dwelling in aca
den1ic shades he determines what the
fashion in coats and trousers shall be,
what brand of tobacco is preferable,
whether the stem of the pipe shall
curve or be straight, and whether a
golf club is better than tennis racket
when a-wooing. The uses of the col
Iege student are indeed many and in
creasing.'"
Miss Myra Binford of Wichita is a
visitor in the city. She is stopping at