Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-08
Topeka News Letter


bonds and paid off the old issue of
bonds over which several suits were
filed last summer. Practically all the
new issue was sold at home. The
city attorney has been instructed to
file libel suits against several Eastern
publications which alleged last sum-
mer that Atchison was repudiating
the old bond issue. The trouble re-
suited from the city's efforts to re-
fund old bonds at the same low rate
which the old bond holders refused.
The new issue pays little higher in
terest. Kansas municipal securities
continue to be rated as good invest
ments.
State Auditor w E. Davis is writ
ing western Kansas county clerks
asking them to warn settlers on
school lands that they must watch
their own dates of interest payments
to avoid forfeiture of their home
steads. AS the forfeiture laws works
automatically after ten months grace,
the auditor, who is also school land
commissioner, is compelled to refuse
patents on claims where payments
have not been made within the ten
month limit. Davis is reminding
settlers to protect their own interests.
w. HI. L. Pepperell, newly appoin-
ted collector of internal revenue for
Kansas, moved from Concordia to
Leavenworth on the first of the
RI hi
The Importance of this officer has been
increased by the passage of the new
income tax law. 1t it estimated by
the internal revenue department that
at least 5000 Kansas people will pay
tax on incomes of 5000 or over. II
| will be Mr.. Pepperell's business to
get the money. !,
Two court decisions important to
| organized labor have recently been
obtained at Wichita by w. L. o.
and industry One wasrhe conviction
of A. Z. Written, foreman of the
| Wichita Construction company,
charged with coercion in demand
ing that Y carpenters employed by
! him in the construction of the Union
Depot there. give up their union
cards or quit work. Whitten was
convicted but has appealed. This is
| the second case of its kind where a
similar decision was secured, the
| first being now in the United States
supreme court.
1t is probable that a bill for the en-
couragement of county farm aSsocia-
tions empowered to employ farm
demonstrators will be urged before
| the next legislature by the combined
efforts of the Kansas Bankers Asso-
Citations and the various local organi-
zations already interested in the
movement. Experience Throughout
the United States has shown the
county unit plan of working out agri-
cultural problems to be the most
practical. One man. in charge of a
county organization can direct the
efforts of the farmers in his locality,
presenting to them the Information
| cleaned by ali the scientific agricul-
tural students of the country. For
mer Governor Willis J. Bailey and
Charles Nj. Sawyer, state bank COM
missioner, both members of the
Bankers Association, are urging the
plan for legislative assistance
| Private John F. Phillips of the
Fifteenth regular cavalry, has just
finished his enlistment at Fort
Leavenworth, has taken his discharge
/ and gone to Harrisburg, Pa, to claim
an Inheritance of s25, 900 left by a
relative with the proyiso that he
serve out an enlistment in the army.
He has had enough and will not re-
enlist.
A new face has been showed into
the Seventh district picture gallery
where candidates for Congress AND
the Senate have been numerous oi
late. Emerson Cary of Hutchinson
is being entered for the Congressional
race on the Republican ticket Ii
/ Congressman Neeley enters the
senatorial race Carey's friends will
take off their coats and boom him
hard, they say. Mr.. Cary is well
known over the state, having served
three terms as state senator His
present boosters say that he suppor.