Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-06-04
KANSAS aovERNoR,s HOME.
Preferred By His Family to tn,
Executive Mansion Mt Topeka.

Preferred By HIS Family to the
Executive Mansion at Topeka.
Ten years have wrought many
changes in Kansas Until 1900 the
crying shame" Of the State was that
Its governors were compelled to live
at hotels or boarding houses and scrimp
on their salary of $1,000 to keep both
ends on speaking terms.
For twenty years preceding that time
there was talk OF appropriating suffl-
cient money to buy or to build Gov
ernor's mansion, but when the Legis-
lature would assemble and some patri-
otto member or Senator would intro
duce the bill carrying such an appropri-
alton oratorical fireworks from the ru-
raj lawmakers, who were trying to
save enough from their per diem of
So day to pay interest on the mort
gage on their farm at home, always
sent the measure to the scrap heap.
About ten years ago the farmers Of
Kansas had paid off the mortgages and
were ready to help put the State in the
list Of commonwealth that believe In
treating their Governors decently."
The Legislature not only provided for
the purchase of an $4,000 mansion for
the Governor, with a sufficient mainte-
nance fund, but the people, by vote,
amended the constitution, raising his
salary to $1,000 a year. This seems
like dream to former Governors ST.
John, Click, Humphrey, Crawford and
Leedy, who are still living and pros
porous and who will remember always
the scanty food and the inadequate ia
cilities of Topeka hotels and boarding
houses in the early days, save a To-
peka correspondent of the New York
Herald.
And now, with a mansion richly ap-
pointed and with every modern con-
venience, where a Governor and his
family may enjoy life to Its full ex-
tent, Kansas has elected a chief execu-
tive who hesitates about using it. Gov
ernor and Mrs. Stubs and the chill
dren balk at the idea of having to
| live there for two or four years, as
the case may be. They are occupying
the mansion now, at the threshold OF
the new administration and during the
session Of the Legislature, but they
are going back to Lawrence as Soor
as the first robin appears.
There are several reasons why The
Stubs family prefers the home or
Windmill Hill in Lawrence to the ex
ecutive mansion In Topeka. The prin
cipal one is that the Lawrence home
recently built, is, in many respects 1
finer residence than the Governor
mansion. 1t stands out in the open IL
forest Of old oak and elm trees, will
plenty Of ground around 1t, and wit
plenty Of pure, fresh air, too.
That appeals to the Stubs family
1t especially appeals to the boys, VIII
like to have plenty of room to rom
and hunt rabbits. There are plenty o
rabbits in and around the Stubs home
stead at Lawrence, which, with gu
and dog, the boys have great fun i
chasing
Mrs. Stubs has Joined the boys in
protest against the Topeka idea tina
they must live in the mansion. She
willing to stay there during the sessio
of the Legislature, but she intends
go back to Lawrence in time to pu
out some flowers and superlntend tn
planting of garden seeds.
From time to time Mrs. Stubs an
the boys will run down to Lawrenc,
which is only twenty-six miles ava!
and look after the stock and home pet
which were left in the care of the serv
ants when the family came to Topeka.