The Globe-republican., 1910-05-26
SUPPLIES FOR STATE HOMES
Board to Let Contract for Immense
Quantities Of Necessarles for
institutions IN June.

course your family will not demand
supplies like that for the next six
months. But that Is part and a very
small part of the groceries the state
will purchase for Its family In the
State Charitable institutions for the
next months.
The board will let the contract for
| supplies for the second half OF the
year, beginning June IA. 1t will take
three days to let the contracts and the
board will contract for the expenditure
! Of thousands of dollars. The contracts
for dry goods, boots and shoes will be
let Tuesday June ID the contract for
groceries will be let Wednesday, June
Is, and the contracts for crockery,
glassware, hardware, stationery, -four
and meat will be let on Thursday,
1 June 16.
The average man knows somewhere
near the amount Of supplies necessary
for his own family for six-month
period but the quantity of supplies
needed for nine big institutions is al
most beyond comprehension to the
man who has grocery bill of from
six to fifteen dollars week. The To-
peka state hospital alone will demand
10000 pounds of crackers and the
other institutions will want nearly as
much. The Topeka institution needs
| lust about what the other institutions
need except in few instances. Here
are some of its needs: Seven thousand
pounds of beans, 100 pounds OF choco-
late, 500 cans Of corn, 300 pounds OF
corn starch, 450 pounds of baking pow
der, $500 pounds of apricots, 1000
pounds of dried apples, 500 cans OF
peas, 5000 pounds Of rice, 5000 pounds
of raisins, 5000 pounds of prunes,
5000 pounds of peaches, 10000 pounds
Of granulated sugar, $500 pounds OF
tea, 1000 pounds of plug tobacco and
$50 pounds of smoking tobacco.
Here are two examples Of the i'm
mense profits that are being made by
men who were wise enough to buy
western Kansas land when 1t was
cheap a few years ago and hold 1t un.
til the present. F. NJ. Arnold of Clark
county, friend of Harry Bone, re-
Gently sold 5000 acres Of ranch land
for $40 an acre, or total of an even
100000. He bought the land decade
ago for less than $4,000. Simply by
holding it ten or dozen years he has
cleaned up more than $4,000, to say
nothing of thousands of dollars which
he has made off the products of the
ranch in the meantime.
The oil business is picking up in
Kansas. The report OF State Oil In
speetor J. E. Longshore for the month
of April shows steady increase in the
output of oil. During the month the
department inspected total of 4S,S9i
barrels. OF this 25,235 barrels was
kerosene and 1862 barrels was gaso-
line. The total amount of fees collect.
ed from the inspections was $4,S96.53
and the amount of the check to the
state treasurer was $2,71197. The diff
ference went to the inspector and
deputies and for expenses of the de-
partment.
The attorneys for 269 state banks
and one national bank have filed in the
supreme court an application to have
the case to which they were made
parties, dismissed. This is the case
brought by the attorney general
against j. n Dolley, state bank COM
missioner, and Mark Tulley, state
treasurer, to require these officials to
enforce the bank deposit guaranty
law.
| Charles Harris, director OF the State
Free Employment Bureau, will make
no attempt to secure reduced rates for
harvest hands this season. Since the
railroads put in the two-cent passen-
ger fare they have consistently refused
! to cut rates.
0
The Federation Of Women's Clubs
of Cottonwood Falls has instituted a
crusade against tin cans and II their
decree is carried out there will not be
can or old bottle left In town. The
women billed the town and all resi-
dents were asked to help collect the
| old bottles, cans and rubbish The city
is sending out wagons to haul away
| the trash.
/ D.
The smallest colt ever seen In Chau-
/ tauque county was born to one of N.
B. Hoyt's Shetland mares 1t weighed
only 30 pounds and was only % in
ches high. Nevertheless 1t was per-
fectly formed and is alive and healthy
and can do as much running and kick
ing in proportion to Its size as any colt
! in the county. Its mother weights only
/ 225 pounds.
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William Allen White. editor and ,au-
i thnr has attained tho highest ninnapIa