The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-14
Echo of Days When Western
Kansas Was Hard Up.
UNITE TWO SCHOOLS.
State Superintendent Falrchlld
Carrying Out Ideas.
Warden J. X. Codding Likes
His Job.

About eighteen years ago the Slato
furnished seed wheat to large nun
her of the counties of the state WHICH
were hard up at that time. The couii-
ties agreed to repay the state as soon
as they felt able and up TO GATE nc
are only two counties in the state which
have had the non-agreeable feeling.
uasIreIl and seward counties are the
only counties which have failed TO pay
the state these seed wheat debts-the
former owes $166 and the latter 500
THE rest of the counties have paid up
under the persistent effort of state
Treasurer Tulley. Mark IulIey SaSo
that he will clear up the deots DeIolo
he goes from office -,- .o,,,,+y
xvas the latest district to pay Up .tII LnTLl
! debt They used to belong 10 larll Lleid
county even when that county palu
their obligation but they have peen per
fac+iv wiiling to fly under the Finney
county debt and pay again.
If the plans of the state department
some Of the poorer school districts in
Wilson county will be complnso 49, ~
the heavily taxed and r1cher olstrtcte TIE
end a happy medium oetWeen e,o tIle 80 of
Will he brought to the advantage OF
the school children who nave pecn i
forced to attend the little log school
house" o-oodes+a
In Wilson county nSdA
4Lera is district belonging to the
Standard Oil Company Ihe levles oiI
this property are low oul theI &c. "a
EQUALS far more than can be use9 oy
+he district for school purposes Iney
now have a brick school house, WIFI
sectional bookcases, and the Idtese
conveniences of maps, GLOBES IilooerH
improvements and the like.
enough money to run a SIX months
school and it is thought by Superln-
+endent Fairchild that it Will pc pos
sible to consolidate the KockeLelIel piS =,
this manner form a good heaIeuS dI ny
school. Plans along this line will be
made at once.
IF state Architect Chandler has his
vVav the state memorial building In To.
ueka will cost $500.00O instead OF
100000 as was originally lnlsnueu5; 5
1The state architect has Just returned
from a visit to the Northern states
where he studied the plans and arcnlc
lecture of the memorial buildings OF
Wisconsin, Iowa, ETC., and he flnds an
of them to have cost at least 100000
Mr. Chandler would go ahead WITH
his plans. build the foundation ana
prepare the big building ready LOT
state appropriate 100000 more for
fhe remainder. He has found none or
the buildings in other states 10 oc-
cupy any more than the iots I.IapPSa tts
locatio is not to be compared with
The present location of the Kansas site |
lust facing the state house square.
AS the G. A. R. and the hlstorlcal So
ciety are to occupy the building when
cornDleted there is a NOV e1nent on hand
10 have the next legislature make the
additional appropriation and then To-
peka will have a $5OO;oOO structure m
stead of the original Lall at cost or
5000, 900.
When the other state schools of Kan
sas hear of the plans of State Archi-
tect chandler to build a concrete fence
!, .-ound the athletic field at the Enl-
poria Normal there Will be DIG noWl
going up for a repetition of the scheme
Mr. Chandler left for Emporia To-Day
where he will figure with the cement
dealers on the cost of erecting such n
fence. The fence will be eight feet
high and the concrete panels four feet
thick. Every sixteen feet q. conc etc
post will be built
Later Mr. Chandler will figure out the
plans and specifications for a concr tie
grandstand around the athletic field,
giving it an amphitheater effect. The
prospects are that the State Normal
school will have the finest athletic field
in the state before the college season
sets in.
Once more Kansas comes to the front
with her new laws and her power as an
example for all states to follow. Monday
a big party of legislators from the
state of New York will visit the state ,
and make their headquarters in To- :
peka for the purpose of making a thor
ough study of the Kansas primaries ,
and the working of that new addition
to the laws of the Sunf1ower state.
Judge Walter H. Knapp OF Canaan
dafgua N. Y, who was appointed coun-
sci for the committee. was in the city
today making arrangements with Gov
ernor Stubbs and other state officials
1,a 0f ho Vrr ,,r4x- 4
The governor has promised to meet the
delegation at room at the state house
and discuss the technicalities of the
law with them. A number of officials
to Topeka to confer with the New York
legislators and give them all the in s
possible for the benefit of I
their change.
The state of New York has q. num- ;
1er of proposed amendments to their ;
aw on foot and this party of investi- {
gators is travelling. over the primary '
states studying their laws The ad- Z
7ance counsel OF the New Yorkers sta
ed today that the people of the EN- 2
Dire state were greatly impressed with /
he power of the Kansas law and thew !
%re going to spend considerable time '
" it's study. $
The committee is composed of Sena-l :
or G. l. Meade of Rochester. Senator :
,. H. McCarren of Brooklyn, Assem-
lyman Phillips of Allegheny. Assem- r
lyman Fay OF Brooklyn, Assamblyman
lyman Fay of Brooklyn, Assemblymanl
I'd of Tioga and Assemblyman ConklinI
f New York. =
Although he has been state wardenI :
the penitentiary for a very short Z
ime. J: X: Codding has become a I
borough student of the existing conf .
itions and he has made many planst :
Or the betterment of the prisoners and j