Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-08

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Trav cling library ....--.---..-.. 10SO0
Legislative reference library. 5000
Academy of science zoOO
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Bureau of labor. including. mining
Industries and free employment
bureau under law passed at this am
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Judges district court --.-.-..-- 206,990
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Two farm experiment stations for
western Kansas to show the farmers
of that section the best methods OF
farming and to prove that all of the
western third of the state is arabic
have been authorized by the Kansas
senate. One of the stations is to be in
Kearny county and the other in
Thomas county, both to carry on ex-
periments especially suitable to the
| different sections of the state. Kear-
ny county is to furnish 160 acres of
land and spend $500 on improve
ments with the state spending $4,000.
Thomas county is to furnish the same
amount of land and spend $4,000 and
the state is to pay an equal amount.
The Kearny county farm is to be de-
voted chiefly to methods of irrigation
and pumping from the underfiow while
in Thomas county experiments in dry
farming are to be carried on.
The senate committee on labor has
backed up on the Minimum Wage for
Women bill and made favorable re-
port to the senate with one amend
ment inserted to pacify the legislators
from the small towns who have been
| hearing from home" The bill is the
house measure exactly, except that it
provides that the act shall not apply
to domestics or to hotels or other
establishments employing less than
| ten people. The house bill made the
minimum wage of Sc a week apply to
domestics who do not reside in the
home where they work and it also ap-
piled to every establishment, regard
less of the number of people en-
ployed.
| The recall of deselict Kansas Of
ficials is a possibility now 1t is up
to the people to decide whether or not
| the recall constitutional amendment
| shall go into effect. The house has
concurred in the senate amendments
to the original house measure by a
vote of IS to "a. The senate amend
for state officers should be signed by
| 10 per cent of the voters, for district,
| officers by Is per cent, and for county
! officers by 25 per cent, and also in
cluded the recall of judges. Only those
who voted for an official are eligible
] to sign petitions to recall him.
The Kansas women, who became
| eligible to jury service when the equal
| suffrage amendment was adopted last
fall, may not be compelled to serve on
! juries in this state. The Senate pass
ed the Sutton bill which allows the
women to claim an exemption because
of their sex. 1t does not say that
women cannot serve on juries, but
simply provides that any woman,
when summoned for jury service, may
plead her. sex and the Judge of the
court is compelled to excuse her.
J. H. Heriff of Erie has filed i'm
parchment proceedings with the house
of representatives against Judge Fin
lay of the district court for oppression
in office. Heriff was made correspond
ent in divorce and alienation suit in
Neosho county and Judge Finlay re-
fused to dismiss his plea in abatement
- CoAHAuilleS was AdAeu 70 iHNeSli-
gate the charges and see whether or
not they should be presented to the
whole house.
The house of representatives has
passed the administration inheritance
tax law. The bill affects only the col
lateral heirs and exempts entirely all
direct heirs from paying any inherit
ance tax The tax fixed on the shares
of indirect heirs varies from per cent
up to 10 per cent of the total share, ac-
cording to the amount of money in
volved and the degree of relationship.
The bill will take the place of the old
Inheritance tax law repealed by the
legislature over a month ago The old
law taxed all shares of estates of more
than $1,000 value.