Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01

week to take charge OF the defense OF
Ffnney county youth named Killion,
charged with the murder of a man
named Hitler, over a line fence
quarrel. Senator Thompson had
taken the case>out of friendship for
the defendants father. On his way
back to Washington he stopped in
Topeka long enough to call upon
Governor Hodges and other state Off
Gals.
School work has been resumed at
the Olathe school for the deaf, the
opening of which was delayed at the
direction of the board of educational
administration on account OF the
failure of the water supply, due to
the summers drought. A contract
has just been closed by which the
city of Olathe agrees to furnish the
institution with water when needed
so long as the city's supply holds out.
The Olathe school and three other
state institutions suffered failures of
water when the drought became
severe, entailing all sorts of trouble
for the state boards having them in
charge, and indicating that in the
selection of the sites for these estab-
lishments the legislatures of the past
have disregarded one of the first re-
quisites. The Winfield home for the
feebleminded also is being hitched
onto the local city water mains.
Charles Sessions, secretary of state,
Earl Akers, state treasurer, w. E.
Davis, state auditor, w. d. Ross,
superintendent of public instruction,
John Dawson, attorney general, and
Governor Hodges, the state officials
making up the executive council,
have recently made two trips to-
gether TO inspect state institutions.
Governor Hodges has expressed the
notion that the council, being
practically the board of directors for
all the states business, ought to
make such visits wherever practical
BILE, in the interests of managerial
efficiency. Such trip to the state
prison recently resulted in the i'm
mediate ordering of an expenditure
of several thousands of dollars for
needed improvements that had been
hanging fire for some time. The
council also visited the state fish
hatchery at Pratt, the management
OF which had been made the object of
several recent attacks. No order was
made about the hatchery, but the
visit ended the series of newspaper
charges against Warden L. L. Dyche.
Every Kansas editor will be made
an honorary member of the State
Historical Society, according to j. n.
Harrison, the newly elected president
of that organization. Commander
Harrison, for he also is leader of the
Grand Army in Kansas, appreciates
the usefulness of the newspapers
which are now needed to boost the
membership of the Society. The en-
tire history of the Civil War and of
every other matter that has engaged
the worlds or states attention since
then is to be read there in the news
papers. All this collection is to be
moved into the new Memorial build
ing next May, where it will share
quarters with the War Museum to be
made up by gathering the War relics
held by the various 6. A. r. posts of
the state.
A fine of 500 with a Jail sentence
of ninety days was but portion of
the penalty inflicted by local court
upon Manager Helton of the Kansas
Coal company of Kansas City the
other day when an investigation by a
representative of the state board of
health showed shortage of over two
tons in what had been, sold for eight
tons of coal. Under a civil clause in
the state law the coal company has
also required to pay the aggrieved
coal buyer twice the amount of the
shortage and SO additional. This is
the outcome of an investigation of
wagon scales at Kansas City. The
state board of health is making few
investigations merely to call atten-
ton to the necessity for constant
surveillance of wagon scales by local
authorities. The matter is outside
the regular province of the board.
Kansas livestock men at Topeka
passed resolutions protesting against
the idea of heaping any more charges
upon their industry under the pre-
text of improving the switching and