The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-07-19
KANSAS
KANSAS COMMENT

Both Feet Cut OFF, Joseph Lyme
was run down by a freight train o
the foot Of Minnesota Avenue in Kar
sas City. Kan, and both his legs wer
crushed at the ankle. An ambulanc
from police headquarters took Lyme
to st. Margarets hospital One foo
was completely cut or by the ca
wheels and the otter was remove,
by the surgeons at the hospital
Knife Cut OF His Nose. - Franz
Huff of La Harp attempted to adjus
the spring on one of the screen door
at his home, using sharp knife tt
pry the spring from the staple. TIL
position in which he was working wa
such that when the blade slipped
from the spring it struck him on the
nose. almost severlng a portion of 4
from his face.
Two Pardons Asked For. - Gov
ernor Hoch has received application
for a pardon for John Coop, Mitch
ell county man who is serving five
years in the penitentiary. Another
application from Mitchell county Is
for the parole Of Sam Harvey, who
was sentenced in 1904 to serve an in
terminate sentence for kidnapping a
girl.
Asleep on PIatform--KiIIed. - Joe
Williams of Beattie was killed at
Home City by being struck in the
head by westbound freight tr9in.
He had fallen asleep while sitting on
the depot platform and did not hear
the incoming train and one side of
his head was crushed in. killing him
almost instantly. He WIS member
of a bridge gang. He leaves a wife
and two children.
Jurisdiction to be Tested. - The
board of railroad commissioners will
have an opportunity to test the pro-
visiln of the railroad law giving the
board supervision over irritation
bitches. L. r. Tapscott. of Syracuse
has complained Of the damage done
by an irrigation ditch which has been
affected by a new culvert constructed
by the Santa Fe. The ditch is said
to be flooding farms every time there
is a rain in that part of the state.
Need Hundreds of Teachers.-I. L.
Dayhoff. state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, has compiled the re-
ports from the various counties show
ing the shortage of school teachers
for the state. The seventeen coun-
ties which report shortages Of teach
ers will require between 230 and go
teachers before they can open their
schools this fall. This is an extraor-
dinar.ly large number Of teachers to
be needed so late in the year. There
is also an unusually small number of
surplus teachers in the counties in
which there have heretofore been
hummer Vi ltdCutIo W Spti Z.
District School Libraries. - I. L.
Davhof. state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction. has made the states
first collection of statistics relating
TO the school district libraries. The
comniled reports show that there are
1886 school district libraries with
total of l07. 435 volumes. In nearly
every instance the funds for these Ii
braries are collected by the enter
tainments given bv the schools. In
some of the counties library taxes
have been levied. Thirtv-seven OF
the counties have no libraries or have
failed to report them to the suDerin-
tendent. Butler leads the counties
with 19T libraries and Nemaha is a
close second with 1913. Brown and
Marshall each have $4,000 volumes in
their libraries.
Free Delivery in Kansas Counties.
Great strides have been made in
Kansas during the past year, ended
June so to extend better mail facill-
ties to the farmers. A regular net
work of rural routes are found in
many counties, which extend to -
cry community fairly well populated.
Before the first Of the new year one
half of Kansas will be placed under
a complete county system of the free
delivery service. At the present time
AZ counties have this special delivery.
Nine additional counties are under
consideration for complete systems.
The area covered by this special SER
vice includes practically every coun-
ty from line drawn through the
central part of the state to her east
ern borders. The counties which
have the complete county system of
rural free delivery are Allen An
derson Atchison, Bourbon, Brown,
Chautauqua, Cherokee, Clay, Cloud,
Coffey Cowley, Dickinson. Complain.
Douglas. Elk, Franklin, Harvey, JEFF
ferson, Jewell. Johnson. Labette
Lynn, Lyon, Marion, Marshall, Nc
Pherson, Miami Mitchell, Montgom-
cry. Nemaha, Neosho. Usage, Reno,
Renublic, Rice Saline, Sedgwick,
Shawnee. Sumner, Washington and
Wyandotte. The counties now being
considered for this special service
are Butler, Geary, Greenwood, Jack
ron Morris Ottawa Riley and Wood