Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-08-30
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from an initiative and referendum
vote on the prohibitory constitutional
amendment.
Most of the Kansas schools will
open right around September 1"
Said State Superintendent W. d.
Ross today For the most part
things will be in first rate shape and
L expect to see a general increase in
attendance. The dry weather will
probably put more children in school
than it will keep out, because there
will be less farm work to do in local
tiles where crops are short, and few
cattle are being fed. The full seven
months Of school will be conducted
anyway A few districts where
funds are short will have to issue
warrants to be taken up later when
times improve but this always hap
pens The next year of school
throughout Kansas will show better
courses and better attendance than
ever"
The building committee is now sell
Getting floor title for the Memorial
building which is being erected by
the state in honor of veterans of the
Civil War. The completion is prom
ised for May 1 of next year as work
under the second legislative approp-
ration is proceeding without delay.
The first appropriation of $3.50, 600
proved far from adequate for the
building. The second appropriation
of 81 rs, 900, which was found neces-
sary to be made by the last Iegisla-
ture in order to finish the building
brings the total cost up to s425, 600
For a number of months work on the
building was suspended for want of
funds. When completed it will be
one of the most handsome of the
states edifices and as it will largely
be used for museum purposes, will be
visited annually by thousands of
Kansans.
Under the present management the
oil department of the state is paying
into the general revenue fund about
$4,000 more per month than under the
old law. Since the new law became
effective cutting down the fees paid
inspectors who numbered about l30
to salaried inspectors, the receipts
of the department have increased
from S23, 900 to s29, 800 for the past
four months, while expenses which
in the corresponding four months,
of 1912 were S11, 1872, were reduced to
S4, l60 in the past four months of the
present year. The increase in reven-
ue to the state will be about $40, 900
a year.
Kansas having won by the recent
ruling of the interstate commerce
commission which removed the bar
rier raised by the railroads against
jobbing centers within the state, the
public utilities commission is this
week going after another important
l-eonceSsion. BY the Missouri river
rate decision handed down few
weeks ago, the interstate commerce
commission removed the discrimin-
atory rates which centralize the job
cling business of this territory at
Kansas City and Omaha and made it
possible for Kansas jobbers to com
| pete for the business of the south
west. Now the public utilities COM
mission is asking for another order
preventing the discrimination in
rates on shipments from New Orleans
and Galveston. This week a com
| plaint was filed with the interstate
commerce showing that rates from
New Orleans and Galveston to Wich-
ita, Hutchinson, Topeka, Indepen-
| dence, Salina, Lawrence, Anthony,
Arkansas City, Coffeyville, Emporia
and Winfield are from one third to
one half higher in proportion to the
| distance, than the rates 10 Kansas
City and Omaha on lot of import
ant commodities. An order putting
rates on on equal footing is sought.
This ruling would effect cotton goods
coffee, sugar, rice tropical fruits,
turpentine and other commodities
important to Kansas people.
| An interesting discussion by Cover
nor Hodges of his ideas upon the com
mission form OF government is
promised at the conference OF
governors which is being held in
Colorado Springs the last of this
week. The commission idea has had
general discussion throughout The