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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23
KANSAS NEW LAW FOR
SECURING GOOD ROADS.
sRsnaIties Are Fixed for Officers Who
DO Not Enforce Provisions.

Every resident Of Dickinson coun-
~ is interested in the good roads
law adopted by the legislature Tne
Reflector herewith gives its prin-
ripal features. 1t will be seen that
il provides strict penalties for any
saOwnship officer who neglects or re-
frses to enforce and carry out the
rEoyisions Of the law:
Sec. is. That each incorporated
city Of the second and third class
shall constitute a separate road town
ship, and the corporate authorities
81 such corporation shall have the
mower to appoint street commits
sloner for such corporation, fix his
term Of office and compensation.
and remove him from office for any
misconduct, and shall require him
to give bond with good security to
the proper corporation for the faith
xul discharge Of his duties, and for
che safekeeping and proper use OF
smny money that may come into his
mands, and to disburse the same in
she manner directed by the corpora
zion; and such street commissioner
shall do and perform oil the duties
IN the same manner and under To
same instructions and limitations az
are provided for the government Of
township trustees in this act, ex-
sent as herein otherwise provided;
and the said corporate authorities
Of any such city are authorised and
empowered to use the road tax pro
ssided for in this act in paving. mac
asamIzing or grading the streets and
aYleys in such city in any mannel
provided by ordinance or resolution
Of any such corporation; provided
such tax shall be applied first I.
the most public streets and macadam
i.sd or graded. and any such cit
shall have the power to pass an
tv.lnw or ordinance necessary to car
~ ont fully the provisions Of TIL
at.
See. IS. That the roads Of ever
eounty In the state shall be CLASH
md according to Aeir relative i'm
pcrtancs as state roads," count
rosdu,- mail routes" end town
hnip roads" Ths state roada' shal
b an roads laid out and deiine'
~ he state Of Kansas The count
rondS shall Be an roads deaignate'
80 such By The board Of county CON
m'usionsrs Of 4 county. Who shall
- hear ns practicable, name as SUE
rty roads direct hiehvayl con
Nesting cities and market center
shtthsi both such cities o. center
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23

townships, and it shall! be their duty
to Keep the same In repair, and TO
improve them so far as practicable.
The work on roads shall he done
t'mc'y and in accordance with the
hest known methods Of roadmakins
by proper grading and thorough
drainage by tile or otherwise. as
may be expedient, or by the applica-
ton Of gravel, rock or other material.
The highway commissioners may en-
rloy q superintendent, outside their
own body, to execute their orders
and superintend contracts entered
into by them, and they may let con-
tracts and employ laborers, "r they
may entrust the same to the control
Of the county engineer; provided
that no contract the estimate cost OF
which is in excess Of one hundred
dollars shall be let under the pro-
visions Of this act except to the low
est responsible biddner nor until at
least ten days have elapsed after a
publication once in a newspaper
which shall have had a general cir
culation in the county for a period
Of at least twelve months preceding
the time Of such publication; pro-
vided further, that in no case shall
the contract price exceed the estimate
furnished by the highway commits
sioners; and that the sum total Of
/ the cost of outstanding contracts
shall not exceed the amount raised
by the tax levy authorised by law.
Sec. rs. That the highway com
mlssioners shall each receive for hi
services, the sum Of two dollars pei
day for the time actually and neces
sarily spent by him in attending meet
ings Of such highway commissioners
Sec, 81. That in all counties o
J, the state, II In the judgment Of thu
\ board OF county commissioners tn
county surveyor be competent to 81
perintend the county and state roads
such county surveyor may be th
T. county engineer Of public highway
I, and bridges; but. II the board 0
: county commissioners shall deem tn
! county surveyor Incompetent 70
; such work. they may appoint som
. person other than the county sui
: veyor. county engineer Of publ
Highways and brideSa The count
3 engineer shall have general supeI
vision Of all the county roads an
bridge work in the county under u
. authority Of the board Of count
. commissioners. and Of en- mall route
: and township roads under the dire
I ton Of the township trustee and n
: Highway commissioners IN the val
ious townships Of the county.
: Sec. 81. That With The approvi
. Of the Highway commissioners q
township Trustees shall dctsruir
I uhai man routes ard township road
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23

can be dragged and shall each year
arrange with some person or per-
sons to. drag the rural routes and
township roads in their township,
at such times and upon such terms
as the highway commissioners and
township trustee may direct. They
shall have the power to bind the
township to pay a reasonable COM
pensatlon for dragging such roads.
but in no case shall the amount paid
exceed seventy-five cents per mile
for each time the same shall be drag
ged, and there shall not be expended
therefor more than ten dollars per
mile for any one mile upon which
work is done during any year. That
the county engineers with the APP
proval Of the board Of county COM
missioners shall determine what state
and county roads can be dragged
and shall each year arrange with
some person or persons to drag the
state and county roads within the
county at such times and upon such
terms as the board Of county COM
missioners and county engineer may
direct. The board Of county COM
missioners shall pay q reasonable
compensation for dragging such roads
but in no case shall the amount paid
exceed that specified for the drag
ging Of mail routes and township
roads; provided, that all labor per-
formed upon the roads either for
dragging or for other purposes au-
thorIzed by this act, except under
contract upon which estimates are
made from time to time shall be
paid by the county treasurer upon
the voucher Of the township truste,
;. approved by the county commission
ers in the case of mail routes ant
township roads; provided further
!, that any person employed to dral
; any road in a county or township
who shaiI make false return to .h'
} proper officer Of the number Of mile
! dragged By him, or Of the tine q
I which such dragging was done, shsl
u be deemed guilty Of misdeme ino
r and upon conviction therefore befor'
Ella court Of competent jurisdiction
: shan be fined in y sum not lee
G than twenty-five dollars. nor nlSn
yIthan fifty. dollars; provided furthef
-Ithst any officer under the authOris
! Of this section who shall neglect o
. refuse 10 enforce the provisions o
) this section as relates 70 the dras
81 ding Of roads or Highways shah b
) deemed guilty Of 4 mistemeaHof an
! upon conviction shall Be fined 4
: any sun not less than ten do..ars no
mors than twenty-five dollars.
l See. 81. That taxes assessed 70
slths purpose Of constructing an
y ma|nlalninr public roads and A'gh
n eays shall Be paid IN cash ana col
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23

are within the county, or one Is
within and the other without sucn
county. Free delivery mail routes
shall be known as mail routes"
and all other public highways with
in township are township roads"
All county and state roads shall be
maintained at the expense Of the
county, and all mail routes and town
ship roads where they do not coin
eide with county and state roads at
the expense Of the township in which
they are situated; provided that all
roads designated as county roads
under the provisions Of chapter 1913
Of the Session Laws Of 1909 and es-
tablIshed as such at the time Of TAX
ing effect of this act shall be and
remain county roads and shall be
maintained under the provisions Of
this act.
Sec. 10. That the township trus-
tee. clerk and treasurer Of each mu-
nicipal township in this state shall
constitute a board Of commissioners
Of highways and township auditing
board for their respective townships.
All mail routes and township roads
shall be under the control Of said
board Of commissioners Of highways
The township board shall appoint
one or more road overseers for all
mail routes and township roads in
his township and shall receive Q
salary Of two dollars and fifty cents
per day for each days actual service
for as many days each year as SAID
highway commissioners and COUNTY
engineer may direct.
Sec. 90. That the township trus
tee shall be the chairman, and tn,
township clerk shall be the clerl
of the highway commissioners.
Sec. 81. That the highway com
missioners shall hold regular meet
ings at the office Of the townshi
clerk on the second Saturday afte
the election Of the township officer
and on the last Saturday OF January
! April. July and October in each yea
and special meetings as occasion ma
. require. at the call Of the chalrma
!, Tor any two Of the commissioner
and no official business shall
: transacted except At 3 regular NEE
!. ing or At a special meeting Of While
an the commissioners shah have Ia
/ notice.
Sec. %. That the clerk Of cal
board shall keep . record o; al u
official acts and proceedings o. q
board. in a we'll bound book. to I
provided By the townshsp for tbs
purpose. which record shall Be siEl
"a By The chairman and clerk.
Sec as. That ths hishvay con-
m.fsloutra shan have charge Or q
|, mali routes. township roads az
township bridre1 q thelf rezpsrtiv
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23

lected as provided for In relation to
other taxes. When so collected the
county treasurer shall pay that pro-
portion of the same which is to be
used upon mail routes and towns
roads or upon city streets to the
treasurer Of the township or city
from which said taxes are collected,
to be used exclusively for such road
purposes.
Sec. "a. That for the purpose Of
carrying out the provisions Of this
act the highway commissioners shall
recommend to the county commits
| sioners of each county in this state,
on or before the first day of August
Of each year, levy or not more than
three mills on the dollar on all the
property in such township, and It
shall be the duty of the county clerk
to place such levy on the tax rolls
Of said county; provided, that at
least seventy-five per cent of all
moneys collected under the provisions
of this section for road purposes
from the taxable property in each
township. shall be used to improve
the rural route and township roads
within such township. And 1t shall
be the duty of the township trustee
highway commissioners and county
engineer to see that this provision
is complied with and that this per.
centage Of the moneys collected shall
be used, as nearly as practicable, up
on such roads ins the neighborhood
!, Of the property from which tax II
1 raised; provided, that wherever
there are in the township railroads
or factories valued at not less thar
fifty thousand dollars, that the taxel
derived from said railroad and fac
tories for road purposes shall be pait
into the general fund Of the town
ship to be used for the benefit o.
the whole township without specia
reference to the location Of said rail
road or factory or factories; pro
lvided further that the highwal
commissioners Of any township Il
this state which has outstanding a
1.-THE time this law goes into effect
unpaid warrants issued for the i'm
|, prosement Of roads. may discharge
J and are hereby authorized 80 to d
lif they deem best the Indebtedness
represented By such warrants out 0
+ the tax raised under the provision
If this section.
Sec. IS. That the township treal
|, rrsrs shall receive from the count
treasurer their proportion Of u
broad taxes under the provisions o
: lthls act. and the same Under the a
rectlon Of the highway commissioner
shan Be appropriated 70 the buildinl
! Of bridges and The repairing Q
lruads within TIE respective township
ard the puIeAauo 81 ne requislt
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23
"a card q Thanks.

We, the undersigned. wish to ex-
tend out thanks and express our APP
probation to the church. friends and
neighbors for their floral tributes
and kind assistance during the sick
ness and death Of our husband and
father--MrR VIM. L. Allison, FL
mer Allison, Ethel Allison FerEe-
son. >
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23

An expert from Springfield, Ms.
win tell you the merits Of Racine
sattley implements. Lister cultiva-
torS. Corn Planters. Listers. Piovs.
etc. on next Friday and Saturday al
Miniek 4 Taylors store Be sure
70 see 1t. vi
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23

Mary hTerS o. Manchester ~
brought suit for divorce against I'd
WIN Myers. whereabouts unknown.
e1e chaFsta ata1donmsat
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23

Everything new in mil
linery will be shown at
Cuthbert's tomorrow and
Saturday.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23
Slaughtering This Entire
Stock Of EmbrOideries

ANY piece Of Embroidery in the house one-half
price
news to hundreds of women in this community
This fine stock Of embrOideFies, the finest and
biggest assortment in this community. Thousands
and thousands Of yards all going Saturday ONE
HALF PRICE.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-23
Ladies' 1.25 Silk Vests 69c

Close these out Saturday is the order for this
low quotation.
Ladies' fine white silk Vests, the best roo
81 .25 value in the country, going. VUW
Ladies' White Gauze Vests, good 15c Tia
quality, special Saturday, each. .....,...I leu
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-30

donated the money; Selma Lagerlof Of
Sweden, best known in this country
for her fairy stories and allegories,
who received the literature prize in
1909; William Marconi, the inventor
of wireless telegraphy, who divided
the physics prize of 1909 with Pro
fessor Ferdinand X Braun of Strass-
burg; Professor Theodor Mommsen,
who received the literature prize in
1902; M. Addhenius, the Swedish sci
enlist, who got the physics prize in
1908; Monsieur and Nine. Curie and
NJ Becquered, the discoveries of Ia
dunn, who divided the chemistry
prize of 1903 among them; Henry
Ibsen and Bjornstjerne Bjornson of
Norway, who divided the literature
prize in the same year; Sir William
Ramsey, who won the chemistry
prize in 1904 Frederic Mistral the
French poet, and Jose Echagaray the
Spanish poet, who divided the litera-
ture prize of 1904, and many others
less Familiarity known to the general
public, but equally famous among
people in their own vocations.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-30

enjoy the use of wealth he had not
earned. Said he in conversation with
some of his friends:
Experience has taught me that
great fortunes acquired by inherit
ance never BRING happiness; they
only tend to dull the faculties. Thus
any man possessing a large fortune
ought not to leave more than small
part of it to his heirs-just enough
to enable them to make their way in
the world.
1T is an injustice to leave them
great sum of money which they have
not themselves deserved, which ia
vors idleness and prevents the nat
ural development of the faculty of
personal initiative which is in us
the tendency to create an independ-
ent position for ones self"
On another occasion he said:
q could never leave anything to
man of action. I should expose MIN
to the temptation of ceasing to work.
On the contrary, would willingly
help a dreamer who might have got
into difficulties"
The first of these doctrines he car
ried out in his will, but it may he
questioned if he took the right meth
cd of oo ,.r1,iro ont tl,o cooood ci,oo
many of his requests, not all of Them
do go to men of action" in the sense
he meant.
Nobels relatives did not share his
theories and they contested his WILL
but it was upheld. 1t was then found
that about 100000 a year remained
for the purpose of the prizes he had
ordained, making each prize worth
about $4,000.
In each of the five departments
created by Nobel committee was
appointed to award the prizes. These
committees formulated rules defining
by whom candidates may be nomin-
ated, and requiring that all nomina-
tons be made by February 1 of each
year for the awards in the following
December.
The first award was made in 1901
as follows: Physics, Professor Roent-
gen, Munich; chemistry, Professor
Vanthoff, Berlin; medicine, DR.. Beh-
ring, Marburg; letters, M. Sully-Prud-
homme, Paris; peace, divided between
M. Dunant, founder of the Geneva Red
Cross, and NJ. Passy, the French dep
uty who founded the University
Peace Union.
Among those who have since been
awarded prizes are President Roose-
welt, who received the peace prize in
recognition of his part in ending the
Russo-Japanese war in 1905, but who
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-30

shall have made the most important
discovery or improvement in the do
main of chemistry.
THE third to the person who shall
have made the most important discov-
cry in the domain of physiology or of
medicine.
THE fourth to the person who shall
have produced the greatest work, in
the ideal sense, in the world of let
tiers.
The fifth to the person who shall
have exerted the greatest or the best
action for the fraternity of peoples,
for the suppression or dimunition Of
permanent armies, and for the forma-
ton or spreading of peace con-
crosses"
Between forty and fifty years ago
Nobel succeeded in doing what many
scientists had been trying in vain TO
do-make a mixture of nitro-glycerine
that would be safe to handle. His
invention consisted in mixing the
deadly explosive with siliceous earth.
He was then thirty-four years old.
He took this new explosive, which we
now call dynamite, to the British
government and offered to sell the
secret for $4,000 His experience re-
sembled that of the inventor in Lit
tie Dorrit," except that he was not
kept waiting so long, and strongly
suggests that whether or not the cir
cumlocution office is still dong bust
ness, great inventors are still getting
the same sort of welcome in other
respects.
The wise British government kept
him waiting for three months, during
which Nobel made repeated requests
for a decision one way or the other.
The war Office tackled it first and de-
cided that dynamite was a worthless
invention which couldn't be used in
war, but on the chance that it might
have some commercial value they let
the Board of Trade take a look at it..
The Board of Trade examined it
and saw Immediately that dynamite
would never be of any value what
ever. So both these wise departments
of the British government turned it
down, and Nobel was politely in
formed that the British government
saw nothing worth while in his in
vention
After this Nobel was reduced 10
such straits that he began to despair
Of ever boring his way through the
dense fog Of stupidity that surrounds
governments, and he offered to sell
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-30
BYAUTBORITY
NOTICE.
Payment of Sewer Rates.

Payment of Sewer Rates.
In accordance with Act 1853, Session
Laws of 1911, the owners and occu-
pants Of the premises connected with
the sewer are hereby notified that the
sewer rates for the six months begin
ming January 1, 1912, and ending June
80, 1912, will be due and payable az
the office of the Superintendent Of
Public Works on the LIST day of Jan
uary, 1912.
If any sewer rates shall remain I'M
paid more than Is days after it is due,
10 per cent in addition thereto shall be
charged, which shall be collected as n
part of such sewer rate. All unpaid
sewer rates shall bear interest at the
rate of per cent per annum until
paid. MARSTON CAMPBELL,
Superintendent of Public Works.
Public Works Office, December 16,
1911.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-30

The award Of the Nobel Prizes this
month has aroused more than usual
interest on this side of the Atlantic
because of the report that the prize
in physics would be awarded to
Thomas A. Edison. 1t was announced,
however, on Mr.. Edison's behalf that
ii the award was made he would de-
CLINE it on the ground that the intent
OF Nobels fund was to aid scientists
who otherwise would not have the
means to prosecute their researches.
No such provision, however, seems to
have been contemplated by Nobel
when he created the fund, and GER
tainly the committees which have
been executing his will for the last
twelve years have never so con-
strued it,
The Nobel prizes are awarded an
nually under the will of Alfred Bern
hard Nobel, the Swedish inventor and
engineer, who conferred upon the
world the gift of dynamite In view
of the use in war of this greatest of
his inventions it seems at first a lit
Gle incongruous that one of his ne
quests should be to that person who,
during the year, shall have done most
TO promote universal peace, but Nobel
himself saw no inconsistency. He
was one of the curious persons, who,
in spite of the constant lessons of OK
perience since the bow and arrow
were replaced by the blunderbuss,
and that in turn reinforced by the can
non, believe implicitly that the more
deadly you make war the more you
aid in bringing about its abolition
When NobeTs will was opened after
his death, in 1895, it was found that
go several small legacies to
relatives and I then made this re-
siduary beQuest:
An the residud Of my fortune that
can be realized shall be disposed Of
as follows: !
The capital, converted into safe
securities by the liquidators, shall
constitute a fund, the income Of
which shall be distributed yearly 10
those who, during the year preceding,
have rendered the most eminent serv-
ices to humanity.
The income shall be divided into
five equOl parts, which shall be award
ed yearlG:
"rhe first to the person who shall
have made the most important dis
covery or invention in the domain Of
physics,
"The second tc the person who
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-30
NEW RICE MILL.

The K. Yamamoto Rice Mill is the
largest as we'll as the finest IN the is
lands. All machinery is of the very
latest pattern. The famous Tengu
Rice is cleaned at this mill. With the
large cleaning capacity they are able
to handle considerable outside partic-
ulor work which they guarantee.
Fine Job Printing at the Star office
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-30

Fine Job Printing at the Star Office
The Republican journal., 1911-01-12
CITY AFFAIRS,

At a special meeting of the municipal
officers January 3lst contract submit
ted by the Penobscot Bay Electric Com
pany was accepted. The city to have
PAL sixty-candle power Tungsten lights
at SIS per light per year and the privi-
lege of five 1000 candle power arc lights
at SIS per year.
The annual city election was held
March 18th. Edgar F. Hanson, Demo-
cratic nominee, had $40 votes and Ralph
l. Morse, Republican, $50. For the first
time the road commissioner was on the
ballot and H. S. Cunningham, Democrat,
had 678 votes and Edward E. Babcock,
Republican, CAB.
The compensation of road commission
er was fixed at $500 and 5000 for the use
of his team.
The city pays So per day for ten-hour
day to street laborers.
Two complaints brought before the city
governments: one for defect in highway
and the other for defect in sidewalks.
They are in the hands of city solicitor
Brown and will probably come up at the
January term of the Supreme Judicial
Court
VIM A. Kimball resigned as city mar
shall and NJ R. Knowton was elected to
fill the vacancy.