The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-12-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS
Brief Review of the Happenings of Week Condensed Into
Paragraph for Busy Readers

/ Bank Deposits lncrease.-A call for
statements from national banks of
their condition at the close of bust
ness November %, has been made
and the statements of the Wichita ma
ttonal banks show that they have on
deposit $7,138,657. One year ago the
| deposits amounted to S5,178,737.
Qualify on 100000 Ronds.-Mark
Tulley has filed his new bond for
state treasurer to cover his next term
of office. Although the law only re-
quires him to give a million dollar
bond, he gave a $1,100,000 bond this
time, and the remarkable thing about
it is that he raised all the bond in his
home county-Montgome Twenty
nine men in that county qualified for
$2,200,000, or double the amount of
bond for $75O,00O, qualifying for ST.
100000. They are A. c. Stitch, A. w.
Shultis, G. T. Guernsey, r. S. Litch-
field, P. S. Hollingsworth and H. F.
Sinclair.
Limit on Meals, Is Cents.-State
Auditor Nation has served notice on
all state officers who CAD around at
state expense that after this he would
only permit them to pay Is cents for
a meal on dining cars. That is the
state would allow them no more than
that amount. Officers who leave To.
peka in the morning for Kansas City
will not be reimbursed for their break
fast on the train. Nation says they
should eat at home before starting
"Seventy-five cents worth of grub is
enough for any man at one meal" said
Nation, land that is all the state pro-
poses to pay for. If some official
wants to gorge himself and pay more
why he will have to pay the differ
ence out of his own pocket"
Gross Earnings $500, ooo-Bank
Commissioner Albright has issued a
statement showing that stockholders
of Kansas state and private banks re-
ceived 11.88 per cent in dividends on
their stock during the past year. OF
the 1877 banks, 493 only paid dividends.
Most of the others were either new
banks or passed dividends for some
reason. The average dividend of the
493 banks was 1877 per cent. Count.
ing in all banks those that paid divi-
dends and those that didn't, the aver
age dividend was 11.88 per cent. Of
ficers of banks received $1,097, 900 in
salaries or SAP per cent of the bank
ing capital. Bank taxes aggregated
1.81 per cent of the total capital. The
gross earnings on the $12,6O0,000 cap
ital were $4,000, or A per cent. More
than 100000 was paid by banks as
interest on deposits. Dividends ag-
gregated $1,500,000.
November Was a Wet Month.-Dur-
ing the month of November, according
to the monthly weather statement is
sued by the University Of Kansas, 1893
inches of water fell, which is 81 inches
above the customary average. Only
four NoVembers in the entire forty
years that the record was kept were
wetter than the month just closed.
This will raise the total amount of
the rainfall for the year to 1892
inches, which is more than a foot
above the usual monthly average. No
vember was not only a record breaker
from the standpoint of rainfall, but
also from the amount and velocity
of the wind run. Total run of wind
during the month was the smallest in
forty years. The record has been kept
at the university. All through No
vember the month was exceedingly
calm for this season of the year, and
it was not surprising when the report
showed that the month had been the
calmest ever recorded for November
in Kansas.
Banner Prohibition County.-Sedg-
wick county is the banner prohibition
county of Kansas, and Crawford is
the banner Socialist county. That is
shown in the official election returns.
Sedgwick county cast more prohibi-
ton votes than any other county in
Kansas. It's total for the party's pres
idential nominee was 247. Crawford
county cast 1881 Socialist votes.
Cherokee county also has a lot OF
Socialists, 1,030 votes for Debs being
polled.
To Recover School Lands.-Attor-
ney General Fred S. Jackson has filed
suit in the Kearney county district
court to recover three quarter sec
tions of the school land from ]. N.
White, L. G. lyman and I. G. Eyman.
He claims that these men secured the
land for $1.25 an acre through a con-
spiracy formed with certain county
officials there and that the land is
worth from So to $40 an acre. On ac-
count of the alleged fraud perpetrated
in securing the land so cheaply, the
attorney general wants their deeds to
it cancelled, and the property restored
to the state.
OIpe Bank is Robbed.-Robbers en-.
tered the State Bank at Olpe, ten
miles south of Emporia, blew open the
safe and got away with $4,000 in cash.
Wichita Starts Hospital Fund.-Fif-
teen hundred dollars in round num-
ha S11y,7 ,.oiSod in tho TT1;Op