The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-15
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Il have been informed that a man
who works in the. state bank commits
sioners office said that the work could
be done by this man with a stenog-
rapher and one clerk, yet am inform
| ed that they have nine clerks in this
| office, one of whom is unlawfully paid
from stamp fund.
.'If L Was Governor
| IF I was governor of Kansas there
would be no man filing office that was
a member of the legislature. The gov
ernor has given to several members of
| the legislature important state offices
and they are filing them at this time
Worst of All Administrations.
The governor and his supporters
have been printing in their prejudiced
newspapers reports from the peniten-
| tiary and the reformatories how they
were saving money for the people and
turning money back into the treasury
when they know that at the Hutch
| inson reformatory the funds appro-
priated for that institution were ex-
hausted in April. and the penitentiary
only carried balance of some $1,000
to apply on May accounts and they
know that this fund practically was
exhausted with the April account.
and the maintenance accounts pre-
esnted since that date up to July 1
were paid out of the contingent fund.
So it will be seen, that the governor,
instead of giving the state a business
administration has given it the most
unbusiness like administration since
its admission to the union
Notes of the Trip.
About 400 people assembled in the
air dome at Garrett to hear Curtis
and Wagstaff speak. This was a much
larger crowd than greeted the COVER
nor at that place, but the latter's sup
porters say that the arrangements for
the Stubs speech were "balled" up,
as he was scheduled to speak in the
afternoon and then the meeting was
deferred until night. Stubs spoke
anyway in the afternoon to small
crowd, and it rained at night.
They can talk all they want to about
the Missouri Pacific running slow
trains in Kansas. They may be true
on the Central Branch and even the
main line, but on the branch from
Garnett to Waverly it is different. The
morning local on that line has the
California Limited on the Santa Fe
tiled to post" for speed.
Talk about risks in a battle, or rid
ing an aeroplane, or entering a lions
den. Just like children playing in
doll house compared to riding the
Waverly-Garnett branch train on its
wild flight through space. The track
lSAJ0Sl uIiS dlOnS the STOuHo Will
occasionally tie. but the engineer,
a man utterly Indifferent to death and
injury, turned on the third speech
and 'let her 60"
The passengers cling to their seats
and put their trust in Providence.
They are beyond human aid. The car
rocks like the hush-a-bye cradle when
the bough broke. When it rides on
the ties there is little difference from
the movement over the rails. Give
that engineer an engine on good
records since time began.
The brakeman and the conductor
ate dinner in the smoking car and it
beat a vaudeville show to a pulp to
watch their antics. The brakeman
placed piece of pie in Tom Wag-
staff's lap. Wagstaff was sitting be-
hind him. The conductor picked up
his cup of coffeeSxnd balancing himself
crafti1y, essayedsfo place 1t to his lips.
The engineer at that moment, seeing
valley ahead or a place where the
another link" in order to jump the
obstruction. and the conductor poured
the coffee in Charlie Curtis big straw
hat.
To any one wishing to get rid of the
monotony of the good old summer
time ride on the Waverly branch is
respectfully recommended. Yes, it is
dangerous. but it affords all the
thrills of flirting with death at a cost
of only two cents per mile. A mile
minute out in the open on a three
mile-an-hour track Is quite a little
jaunt and the memory of it will linger
in the mind after many other things
that happened that week have been
forgotten.