The Globe-republican., 1908-12-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS
Brief Review Of the Happenings Of Week Condensed Into
Paragraph for our Busy Readers

3-year-old son OF w. e. Bidwell OF
Severy pulled tub Of boiling water
on himself and was so badly scalded
that he died few hours later.
Nearly $4,000 Insurance Men. Ac-
cording to figures in the office OF
Charles w. Barnes, state superintend-
ent OF insurance, there are now 1857
insurance agents in the state and all
appear to be making good thing OF
1t. The insurance business appears
to be profitable one in Kansas.
Hardware Men Elect officers.-The
ninth annual convention Of the South
western Kansas and Oklahoma Imple-
ment and Hardware Dealers associa-
ton came to close at Wichita with
the election Of the following officers:
Fred Zutavern, Great Bend, president;
J. w. Farmer, Coats, Kan, vice pres
ident; F. l.. Wright, Wichita, secre-
tary; directors, J. w. Halstead, Chero-
kee, Ok; H. c. Taylor, Lyons, Kan;
w. H. Hubbard, Conway, Kan; c. L.
Ehman, Newton, Kan; J. D. Rippey,
Stafford, Ok; s. s. Clark, Caldwell,
Kan
Trying to Get Out Of Prison.-R. B.
| Shepard, now serving sentence In the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth
for mailing obscene literature, has ap-
piled for his release on a writ Of ha-
beas corpus in the United States court
at Topeka. Shepard was formerly a
lawyer at Anthony, Kan. Some years
ago he moved to Utah and after prac-
ticing a while, went into the obscene
book business. He was convicted last
summer by the federal court in Utah
and sentenced to thirteen months in
the penitentiary. He now claims the
court had no jurisdiction to try him.
Drink Alone on Trains.-All of the
principal railroads Of Kansas, in obe-
dience to the instructions of the state
railroad board, have ordered their
conductors to prevent the indiscrim-
mate drinking of liquor by passengers
on trains. After this If passenger
wants to take a drink of his own IL
quor he must retire to the toilet room.
He will not be permitted to drink in
the presence of other passengers or
to offer them drink in public. Con-
ductors are also warned to have spit
toons in the cars kept clean and not
to permit porters to sweep cars while
passengers are In them.
Would have Electric Headlights
Used.-Robert Loofbourrow, newly
elected member of the house from
Wilson county, will introduce a bill at
the coming session of the legislature
requiring all railroad engines to be
equipped with electric headlights. A
similar bill was introduced during
tho last session but 1t was killed in
the house railroad committee because
1t was shown by expert testimony from
railroad employees organizations that
electric headlights in railroad yards
were binding to the sight and caused
many accidents. First switch engines
were omitted from the bill and finally
h,,r ;oI
Let the People Vote On It.-A meet
ing of the executive committee of the
Kansas Bankers Association was held
in Topeka to discuss proposed legisla-
tion in regard to insurance Of bank
deposits. While most of them are op-
posed to such legislation, they believe
1t is coming and the only thing to do
is to pull as many stickers out OF the
measure as possible and let it pass.
The proposition to have the legiSla-
ture submit the question to vote of
the people at the next general election
met with some favor. No attempt
was made at the meeting to bind the
bankers of the state 10 any particu-
lar line of action.
Locomotive Turns over.-A Mis-
souri, Pacific freight engine, running
without train, jumped the tracks at
Hallville, Saline county, and turned
over. John Hill, engineer, and Mike
Flannery, fireman, jumped. Hill
stumbled and the engine fell on him.
killing him instantly. Hill was As
years old and leaves wife and two
children at Council Grove.
Plan Two New Dlstricts.-State
Senator Glenn of Greeley has pre-
pared bill for general reapportion-
ment of the state into senatorial and
representative districts. His plan
gives western Kansas two new sena-
tors and five representatives at the
expense of eastern Kansas. He wants
six senatorial districts created out of
the four present districts in the west
ern part of the state. The five coun-
ties out west that have no represen-
tative are each to get one and in Or
der to equalize things Marshall But
Ter, Franklin, Brown, Usage, Jeffer-
son and Leavenworth are to lose one
member each Senator Glenn also
proposes to give Montgomery and AL