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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05

has been done. The buildings have
oeen overhauled, plastered, painted
and electric lighted and a night school
established. A magnificent laundry wei
lighted and ventilated and made fit
place for women to work has been es-
ta.bIished.
Ten unnecessary jobs have been
abolished at the penitentiary at a saw
ing of $4,000 a year.
There has been a general overhaul
ing of buildings, new roofs are being
put on, paint applied and repairs made
Wherever necessary. Nothing is vast
ed at the penitentiary or allowed to de-
cay.
A dairy herd is now maintained at
the penitentiary. Fifty cows are fur
nishing all the milk for the prisoners
use. More than SLIGO spent for milk
previously has been saved to the State.
Twenty acres of sorghum and vast
quantities OF wheat, potatoes and 9TH
er products have been produced under
this administration to cheaper the cost
OF maintaining the prisoners.
BY the adoption of business methods
the Irvine Plant under this admins
tration has been able to sell all the
Irvine left over from the previous adj
ministration and all manufactured dur
ing the present year. At the present
time the Irvine Plant Is paying a very
nice profit to the state.
The prison mine is producing $4,000
WI III VI SOd1 each LlO1lIu az LuO RACD-
ent time. 1t is said to be one of the
best managed mines in the west. 1t is
now lighted with electricity and fur
nished with safety appliances wherever
needed. 1t gives 5000 tons Of coal per
month to State Institutions.
The penitentiary brick plant is now
turning out half a million brick per
month. New machinery has been used.
New methods adopted and the plant is
not only up to date, but it is able to
furnish nearly all the brick needed in
the building of the various State In
situations.
In the management of the peniten-
tiary the main object is to make it as
much of a reformatory as possible. 1t
aims to send men back into civil life
better fitted to take the place of men
and perform all the duties Of good cit
izenship.
The policy of the administration has
been to treat the prisoners as men and
feed them as men and when this is
done it is expected the men shall do
full days work in exchange, which
ahey do
Politics have been eliminated from
the penitentiary entirely and every
man is supposed to give his entire time
to the State.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
GOVERNORS OFFICE.

The administration of Governor
Stubs Is conceded above all other
things to be honest and efficient by
friends and enemies, alike.
To begin with he put the state on a
sound business basis by paying up all
back debts and providing against fu-
ture deficiencies.
He called George Gould to his room
in a New York hotel last fall and de-
manded that he fulfill the obligation
of his road in Kansas to the patroniz-
ing public.
He fulfilled his promise to the peo-
pie in every respect by urging that a
bill for the physical valuation of public
corporations should be passed.
He used every power within his
command to have a decent anti-lobby
law passed by the legislature.
He secured from President Taft a
promise that the boot-leggers who
were doing business in Kansas under
quasi authority from the government.
would be prosecuted in the federal
courts.
He promised reform in the Grain
Department and made his promise
good.
He promised reform at the peniten-
tiary and made that promise good also.
He took the Board of Control and
its nine charitable institutions out of
politics and placed them on business
basis.
He promised reform. economy and
good service in the Oil Department
and he has made that promise good.
He promised that there should not
be a single political scandal in the
state during his two years in office and
he has succeeded.
He refused to lend the state troops to
coal mining corporations for the pur-
pose of enabling them to make their
own terms with the miners. He stood
nv the men in the southeastern Kansas
strike and they had such confidence in
him that not a blow was struck in vio-
Iatfon of law during the five months it
lasted.
Governor Stubs took the reforma-
torv at Hutchinson out Of politics and
laid down the rule that any employee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Under the division of the depart
ment relating to General Health and
Sanitation the principal work accom-
plished during the past year has been
as follows:
A very careful study of Epidemic
Anterior Poliomyelitis Qnfantile Spi-
nal Paralysis), with extended expert
ments on monkeys, under the super
vision of the State Board of Health
conducted at the University Medical
School at Rosedale; considerable i'm
portant information has been elected
by this study, and the board has been
enabled to make an important contrib
ution to the literature on the subject.
One hundred and thirty-three treat
ments for diphtheria were furnished,
through this department, free of cost,
to the poor children of the state Suf-
fering from diphtheria. 1t is impossi-
BILE to estimate the number of lives
that have thus been saved.
The Travelling tuberculosis Exhibit
has been shown in one hundred and
three towns and cities in the state, with
an attendance of approximately 100000
people, who have seen the exhibit and
heard the lectures on the cause, pre-
yention and cure Of tuberculosis. In
addition to this statewide educational
campaign against a foe that is killing
four Kansas citizens every day, the
board is also printing and circulating
a large number of pamphlets dealing
A sanitary force of los county health
officers and nine city health officers, of
cities of the first class, is better or
ganized and doing more effective work
than ever before in the history Of the
board.
Approximately 2,4oo specimens have
been received and examined in the
meteorological laboratory during the
past year.
Under the division of foods and
drugs, thousands of places where foods
and drugs are prepared or offered for
sale have been inspected as to the
quality of the products and the sani-
tary surroundings.
The Weights and Measures Law has
been vigorously enforced and we be-
lieve that it is entirely within a rea-
sonable estimate to say that the Wig
orous enforcement of the Food and
Drugs Law, and Weights and Meas
ures Law is saving the consumers Of
this state $1,000000 annually. Such es-
innate is based on the present condi-
lions as compared with the conditions
found previous to, or Immediately af-
ter the passage of these laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

The following remarkable showing
is made by the State Agricultural COL
lege at Manhattan and its branches,
during this administration.
Last year more than 1900 students
attended the col1ege-the largest en-
rolIment of any agricultural college in
the world.
agricultural college last year, was
$4,000, less than any other institution
of its size in the country.
Four new Departments were added
to the college during the year-the De-
partment of Industrial Milling; the
Department of Forestry; the Depart
ment of Highway Engineering, and the
Department of Industrial Journalism.
It is estimated that Kansas now pro-
duces annually million more bushels
of wheat than formerly. through the
efforts of the college improving wheat
The profit to the state from this
source is several times greater than
the entire cost of the college.
The grand champion steer of Amer
lea and perhaps of the world was fed
and exhibited last year by the State
College.
Last year the College had at the IN
dustriaI Live Stock Exposition at Chi
cago, the best herd of five steers in
America.
At the first fat stock show held this
year at st. Joseph, Missouri. a College
steer was the grand champion.
During the past year fifty thousand
produced at the College and distribut-
ed to the farmers of Kansas.
Before serum experimentations
were made by the College, the annual
loss to the farmers of Kansas, was
more than a million dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
STATE PENITENTIARY.

In no department of the State has
greater work been done than in the
Penitentiary.
Under this administration the entire
penitentiary has been renovated. ven
ttlated and placed upon an absolute
scientific sanitary basis
One of the new reforms instituted
under Mr.. Codding at the suggestion
of the Governor was the abolition of
metal plates and dishes and the intro
use.
Eight hundred and fifty vermin in
tested cells were thoroughly cleansed,
whitewashed and painted
Better food is being served the men
than ever before at a cost to the State
in money of 10 cents a day
Owing to the greater comfort of the
quarters and the better food the dis
cipline of the prisoners at the peniten-
tiary under this administration is bet
ter than ever, and the Warden gets
an average of IS per cent more work
per day out Of them.
Humane treatment is one of the
strong policies of the administration at
the penitentiary.
Prisoners working in the shops and
mines are now given two hours per
week for outdoor recreation. By
this innovation the death rate at the
penitentiary has been enormously re-
duced.
Inc NUMBER OF inmates OF the nos
pital has been reduced more than half.
This is caused by better food and bet
ter treatment and as a result of this
the State gets vastly more labor from
the men.
Better quarters and better food in
the Insane Wards of the penitentiary
with three meals a day instead of two
has resulted in the return of nearly
half of the insane patients to work
Warden Codding found one out of
five patients in the penitentiary aff1ict-
ed with tuberculosis. He combated
the disease with great vigor. the re-
suit of which is that not a single new
case of tuberculosis has appeared dur
ing the year.
In the women's Ward great work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
BOARD OF CONTROL.

Here are some of the things accom-
| plished by the board of control during
the last biennial period, which ended
June 80, 1910. The law creating this
board was introduced in the legisla-
ture by Governor Stubs while a MEM
Der of that body.
A 100000 administration building at
the State Hospital for Epileptics has
been erected. A new reception hos
pital has been erected at the State
Home for Feeble minded at Winfield.
Two cottages for women. with a ca
pacity of 40, costing $4,000, have
been erected at the Topeka State Hos
pital.
A new cottage for men, capacity 40,
costing $4,000 has ben erected at the
State Hospital for Epileptics.
A new water plant, costing $4,000
| has been installed at the State Hos
pital for Epileptics.
A cottage for crippled children cost
ing $25, 900, has been erected at the
! State Orphans Home at Atchison.
A modern cottage, with capacity
of &c. has been erected at the Boys
Industrial School.
A tubercular pavilion each for men
and women has been erected at the
Topeka State Hospital.
Ten thousand dollars has been ex-
pended for additional land at the Boys
Industrial School.
Two ward wings for ITO male pa
tfents have been erected at the Topeka
State Hospital.
At the close of the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1910, there was an unexpend-
ed balance in the funds appropriated
to the nine state institutions for that
year of $230,152.31, of which sum only
$35,903.36 will be expended.
Some of the things accomplished
since Governor Stubs secured the
passage of the Board of Control Law:
$144,556.07 has been collected for
the care of the insane in state insane
hospitals from those who were amply
able to pay, and paid into the state
treasury, thus relieving the taxpayers
of some of their burden.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
SECRETARY OF STATES OFFICE

The work at every desk in this de-
partment has vastly increased during
the last two years. Among the i'm
portant things accomplished by the
present Secretary of State are the fol-
lowing:
He has paid out for salaries and
contingent expenses during the two
years ending July 1, 1910, $24,299.58.
He has collected and turned into the
state treasury during the same period,
fees amounting to $2Oo,734.O6, or 726
per cent more than the total expenses
of the department.
When the United States Supreme
Court, by a decision rendered last
January, annulled the state law rela-
tive to foreign corporations, he evolved
a satisfactory plan that saved the tax
payers of the state the enormous ex-
pense of a special session of the Leg
islature.
He has compiled, and indexed the
session laws of two regular and one
special session of the legislature and
thus far not a single complaint has
reached the office in regard to the
manner in which the work was done.
He has furnished supplies TO the
legislature, kept track of and en-
crossed their bills to the satisfaction
of the members and at a greatly re-
duced cost to the taxpayers of the
state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.

Under Fred S. Jackson, the office of
the Attorney General is at present the
pride of every good citizen of the state
of Kansas
When Mr.. jackson came into office
he found a wide open" state. Today
there is a wholesome and profound re-
spect for law and order in every sec
ton of the state.
Mr.. Jackson found the brewers of
eastern states entrenched in a dozen
places in the state with wholesale dis
tributing houses. He drove them all
out as far as he could go, in view of
the Interstate Commerce Act, con-
fiscated their legal property, and
closed the saloons tight for the first
time in the history of prohibition.
Through his energy and devotion to
right things, he secured the abolition
of the drugstore saloon and placed
mercantile drug houses under the
State Board of Health.
Two years ago he attacked the So
called "wet" counties of Kansas and
closed every open joint within their
borders.
Mr.. Jackson attacked and broke up
an unlawful combination of the mill
ing and grain trades.
He has attacked the Harvester trust
with great Vigor and success convict
ing on eight of forty-two counts for
which 1t was fined thirteen thousand
dollars.
The Attorney General has followed
up the suit started by Attorney Gen
eral Coleman against the Standard
Oil Company with his splendid vigor
and judgment.
Attorney General Jackson brought
the suit which dissolved the Kansas
City Traders Live Stock Exchange,
and stopped the unfair practices that
had existed and which were bleeding
the people of Kansas.
The masterful fight made by Attor-
ney General Jackson in defense Of the
Bank Guaranty Law, puts him in the
foremost rank of champions Of the
Kansas people.
In the Shawnee county court the
Attorney Generals office has now
pending very strong suit against
the lumber trust, which it is supposed
has been bleeding the Kansas people
out of a great many hundred thou
sands OF dollars
Attorney General Jackson is making
an aggressive fight for the conviction
of q former Grain Inspector, who Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
THE OIL DEPARTMENT.

The oil department has inspected in
the last IT months 374,2S2 barrels of
kerosene, 351,S57 barrels gasoline;
showing increase in inspection of ST.
$50 barrels of kerosene and 121, 013
barrels of gasoline.
The department has collected in
fees $72,S3O.5S, showing an increase
over the former II months of $21,-
056.S1.
The disbursement to inspectors for
this same time under the present in
spector was $3O,S51.71. Disbursement
to inspectors under former state in
spector was $24,S93.70; showing an in
crease under the new law of $5,96S.01
to local inspectors The new law
doubled the fees to local inspectors.
Net proceeds to state above all en-
penses, Sal, e0S.25 under present in
spector; net proceeds to state under
former inspector. $26. SS3.97. showing
a net increase of fees above all ex-
penses of S14924.2S under present
Inspector over the same length of time
under former inspector.
There has also been 54 new stations
added during the last II months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
GRAIN DEPARTMENT.

The State Grain Department was
thoroughly cleaned out and put on a
sound business basis by Governor
Stubs.
Recreant officers were removed and
criminal proceedings instituted against
them for malfeasance in office. Civil
suits were instituted to recover short
ages.
The force was greatly reduced. All
useless employees being Topped off.
The padded payroll was purged of
straw men and every man now on the
roll is doing his work.
The expenditures of this department
exceeded the receipts $26,000.00 the
year before Governor Stubs came in
The expenditures only exceeded re-
ceipts 100000 the first year under
Stubs, showing that $15.0OO.0O less
was spent under the first year of
Stubs than under the previous year.
A new system OF indexing cars in
spected and weighed has been estab-
lished which greatly facilitates the
business of the office and increases its
efficiency.
During the busy grain shipping sea-
son a Stray Department is maintained
which greatly facilitates the movement
of grain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
STATE BANKING DEPARTMENT

The Banking Department has been
brought up to a state Of high efficiency
and usefulness during the past two
years under the able management of
]. n. DolIey. New reforms have been
establishment not only making bank
ing safer but tends to give the peo-
pie greater confidence in the financial
institutions.
Not a single depositor has lost a
single penny in a state bank during
| this administration.
Bank Guaranty was installed on
sound business lines and was being
Administered to the satisfaction of all
! banks within the fund when it was
tied up through litigation by outside
! banks. The law has been sustained in
the courts and it is now back in op-
Grafton.
| Bank Guaranty means that deposit
| tors will not lose their money in bank
failures in the future and it was de-
manded by the people.
! The policy adopted by the present
commissioners in requiring examiners tic
call the directors of banks in at the
| time of examinat ton and go over the
assets in conjunction with them and to
| sign a sworn statement as to the value
\ Of said assets has resulted in getting
| rid of much bad paper and of remov-
ing incompetent managing officers.
Another policy which has resulted in
much good is the plan adopted of new
er closing the doors of a bank except
| as a last resort. During the past Is
months several weak institutions have
| been rehabilitated; dishonest and in
competent officers removed, new blood
and new capital installed and the insti-
| tuition put on a sound basis.
An information bureau has also been
established whereby prospective in
vestors in stocks and bonds are adj
vised as to the proper worth of such
| offerings. Many Kansans have been
saved from buying BLUE Sky through
the information he secured from this
bureau and an army of grating and
unscrupulous stock jobbers have been
driven from the state.
This feature alone is saving the peo-
pie of Kansas more than million of
dollars annually.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU.

The State Free Employment Bureau
was established for the avowed pur-
pose of supplying hands to harvest the
great crops of the state.
For the first time in the history of
the Bureau the supply of harvest
hands this year was not only sufficient,
but they were so well distributed that
the great wheat crop was harvested
without single complaint.
During the year the Bureau fur
nished 5.311 harvest hands directly,
and indirectly furnished over $4,000
more through its correspondence
During the present administration
the Bureau has furnished directly
1888 harvest hands, and indirectly
over 10000 more.
Besides the harvest hands business,
the Bureau has furnished employment
to thousands of people throughout the
state, in every line of business, from
messenger boy to civil engineer, and
does an every day work of bringing
employer and employee together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05

to get whatever assistance and help
1t asked OF Gov. Stubs"
During the present administrator
the labor bureau has done many good
things In the interests of labor.
It compelled the erection of fire es-
capes on all school buildings over
one story in height and on all. factory,
office and mercantile buildings over
two stories in height, except hotels
The board Of health has jurisdiction
than 100000 has been spent for fire
escapes by direction of the labor bu-
reau.
It compelled all Industrial concerns,
including railroads. to report acct
dents and their causes within "a hours,
IN order that recommendation could
be made to prevent their recurrence.
1t investigated all strikes and labor
disputes and used its good offices in
Cancellation and arbitration. 1t was
instrumental in settling many labor
disputes.
Labor Commissioner Johnson was
made arbitrator Of ali future disputes
that may arise between coal operators
and miners of the southwestern dis
trtct, composing southeastern Kansas.
southwestern Missouri, Arkansas and
Oklahoma.
The bureau has forced street rail-
ways to heat car vestibules for their
employees and establish convenient
toilets for their men.
1t is giving closer attention to fac
tory inspection, which insures better
protection to employees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.

The moral and intellectual life OF
this famous seat of learning has grown
finer and stronger. Social distrac-
tons have been lessened and other
features of university training
strengthened. Athletics have been put
on a sounder and saner basis and the
life of the student body is appreciably
more wholesome.
1t now maintains a standard equal
to that of the famous schools of learn
ing in the east
The university is now second to
none in this country in the brilliant
achievements of its research work.
Its graduates are prominent in the
business and professional world.
It is especially true of the freshman
in the university that more careful in
dividual attention is paid not only to
his class work but to his whole life.
An students are now brought into
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05

personal contact with the faculty Of
the university with splendid results
Within the past two years the re-
markable increase in the attendance
at the university called for a greater
teaching force. This was demanded
by the policy OF the managing officers
SO that each student should secure
more personal attention from instruc-
tors and the best that is in him
brought out in the interest of the state.
There has been a great increase in
the general equipment of the univer-
sity-repairs, new buildings. apparatus
and supplies-but 1t is scarcely enough
to keep pace with the widening de-
mands of a people ambitious for the
best education that can be obtained
upon this earth.