The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-11
And the Salary That Accom-
panieS Each Office.
JOHN OSTLIND'S POSITION
Progressive Legislator Will
Fight for Thompson.
Robertson of Sixth District
Would Be District Attorney.

OemOCTdIS VINO the lean
years in state politics have lost all
trace of the appointive offices under
the hand of the governor, the State
Journal publishes list of these offices
and their salaries for the benefit of the
anxious ones. Hundreds of letters have
come to Topeka asking for this infor-
nation. The newspapers, the political
Headquarters, and state Officials have
been flooded with requests for infor-
nation There is apparently no reason
why this information should not be fur
nished.
On page 9. secretary of states report
is found the offices which are appoint
ives by the governor. Clerks and stem
ographers are not included in the list
printed by the State Journal. The off
cials, appointive under the governor,
and their salaries include:
Bank commissioner, 81, 500; assistant
bank commissioner, $1,000; 10 deputy
bank commissioners, $1,S0O each
Three members board control, $500
year each. Secretary to the board, 49,
600; heads of institutions under the
board include: superintendent Topeka
hospital s., 900; superintendent Osa-
watomie hospital, $1,000; superintendent
Parsons hospital, $1,000; superintendent
school for feeble minded, Winfield, ST.
500; superintendent school for deaf
Olathe, 81, 200; superintendent school for
blind, Kansas City, $1,000; superintend-
en- Soldiers orphans home, Atchison,
81 200; superintendent boys industrial
school, Topeka, $1,000; superintendent
girls Industrial school, Beloit, $1,2OO-
The adjutant general, $1,SOO; adJutant
general, 81, 400; quartermaster' R1,zoO-
State accountant, 81, 500; state archl-
tect, 81, 500; fish and game warden, 81
500; free employment agent, $1'zO0'
grain inspector, $1SOO; live STOCK sam
tary commissioner, $500; oil inspector,
81 500: state agent at Washington, paid
from contingent fund
Three members state tax commission, !
each s., 800
Superintendent state reformatory,
Hutchinson, $1,000. Four members
board of managers, each $1,000
Warden state penitentiary, Lansing,
$500. Parole officer, $1,000. Three
members board, $500 each. /
Commandant state soldiers home,
81 200 Three board of managers, each |
5000.
The governors official family includes
private secretary at $1,000; executive
clerk, 81, $780, confidential stenographer
and assistant executive clerk, $500.
In addition to these appointments |
are appointments as members of the
various boards of regents for which
provision for per diem and mileage
only is allowed.
ell include:
Custodian of state house. $1,000; en-
gineer, 81, 200; electrician, $1,000; cura-
tor Goss collection, $780,
Look them over and make your own
selections Governor-elect Hodges will
not return to Kansas until after Christ
mas and there is yet plenty of time in
which to decide which place suits your
own taste.
oh OSfIind ir vuhn has hnan
turned to the legislature from Nc
Pherson county, is a Progressive Re
publican, but he will fight for the
election of Judge William H. Thomp-
son as United States senator. Ostlind
signed statement No. 1. He was for
Stubbs, but made the fight in the open.
Now he will give Judge Thompson his
absolute support. In a letter to the
State Journal Ostlind says:
st was elected with the understand
ing that the vote of the people for :
be my instruction. I was elected after
having advertised in six different
newspapers that 1 had signed state
ment No. 1, and that it is against my
constitution to go against my promise
or word if 1 can help it. If the peo-
pie have chosen a man who is not
my business. 1t is my business to do
that which the people have asked me
to do and intend to do it, even if 1
am the only one"
Burt E. Brown of Lawrence, Demo-
cratic candidate for secretary of state
in the recent election, is a candidate
for a federal appointment, although
the exact appointment to which Brown
aspireS has not been announced
Brown was in Topeka Tuesday for the
first time since the election He is
smiling and apparently happy, al
though he was beaten in the race
Col. William F. Sapp, of Ga1ena. {
Democratic national committeeman for
Kansas, is urging the appointment of
H J. Waters. of Manhattan, to the
position of secretary of agriculture
Sapp urges Kansas newspapers to get
behind the Waters boom and also in
vites the circulation of numerous petit
tions to be presented to President
elect Wilson, asking that the Kansas
man be named
Sometime ago the metropolitan pa
pers mentioned the fact that H. J.
Waters, president of the Kansas Agri- ]
man for Governor Wilson to appoint
secretary of agriculture said Sapp.
Since that time I have never seen a
word in Kansas paper urging this
matter, except one, and that editor said
Waters was too valuable to Kansas.
Kansas has never had one of it's citizens
in the cabinet, and it seems to me that
the time is ripe to ask that the state
and of its foremost citizens should
be thus honored.
president Waters is acknowledged to
be one of the ablest men in his line in