Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-15
Topeka News Letter
Topeka. November IS.


PEELED TO stand off any of its creditors
this winter by stamping its warrants
mot paid for want of funds, says
state Auditor w. E. Davis. The
state treasurer is calling upon county
treasurers for the final five percent
of last years tax which they still hold
on deposit Less the usual losses
and refunds this will amount to a.
bout S165. 900 which with the Sl35, 600
or so still on deposit in the state,
will be enough to pay all the running
expenses for the month. By the mid
die of December the new funds will
become available At this time of
the year the state educational insti-
buttons are in good shape as their fee
funds are filled with the fall receipts.
The State University is paying its
running expenses this month from its
own fees and will need to make no
draft upon the general revenue funds.
Secretary F. D. Coburn of the state
board of agriculture isn't so sure
that Western Kansas farmers are yet
in the same class with the starving
natives of India, although he is well
aware there was crop shortage in
many localities. When the seed wheat
shortage was first announced Mr.. Co
burn permitted the newspaper repor-
tiers at the state house to print his
own offer to GRUB stake any west
ern farmer of good standing in his
own community with seed enough to
plant his acreage this, fall. 1t was
Mr.. Coburn's own personal way of
helping out.
II expected to be flooded with calls
for help" he said in telling about it,
'aand / opened my mornings mail for
a week in the expectation that /
would be overwhelmed. l am still
waiting. There hasn't been single
solitary answer to my offer. The
Kansas farmers are evidently worry
ing along without US back here in
Eastern Kansas
The twelfth car load of fish is be-
ing distributed from the state hatch
cry this week, this delivery being
made at points between Emporia and
Winfield. For the last six weeks the
to two cars week and Prof. L. L.
Dyche, state fish and game warden,
SAYS this rate will be kept up until
the weather becomes too cold. War
den Dyche has declared in favor of a
state fishing license to be issued to-
gether with the hunting license and
included with the regular price of
one dollar. He says that revenues
from hunting will fall off since the
abolition of the spring shooting by
the federal government, and that
since permanent stocks of bass are
gradually being built up in the better
streams of the state, such a license is
a reasonable check upon market fish
ermen. He would let boys under
sixteen in free, however.
Governor Hodges, who is attending
the National Convention of the Anti
Saloon League of America at Column
bus, Ohio, Wednesday and Thursday,
November y and Is, asserts that af-
ter careful examination of such
statistics as are now available, under
the application of the Mahin law re-
l1iC ACS VI dAA
shipped in, he can prove that the pei
capita consumption Of intoxicants in
Kansas is less that SIPS a year. He
puts this figure against the fedora
statistics of $50 per year as the
average consumption of liquors anC
beers by every man, woman and child
in the United States. Speaking o.
the data on which his assertions are
based Governor Hodges said:
81 have taken the reports of the
seven brig liquor using counties fol
August and September, together
with the reports of a number of tn,
driest counties in the state and aver
aged them. Among the dry counties
in kansas the average is only 7!
cents a year per capita and a liberia
average for the wettest in the stat
is only s.. lO.''
After next year Kansas schoo
children will begin their reading in
Kansas primer, the work of Mis-
Anna A. Arnett Of Lawrence, who's
manuscript has just been accepted b.
the state text book commission
This is the first book to be purchases
by the new commission and will b
the first OFF the presses of the new
state hindery next year The tex