Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-15


educational administration to sup
plant the present school district plan
and will demand state legislation
with that purpose. The teachers will
work for a state school tax levied in
all the rural communities to be
handled by the state and apportioned
back to the counties with view to
obtaining uniformity in rural schools.
The paid secretary is to be selected
with a view to his experience in
legislative work.
in the supreme court last week was
presented the unusual spectacle of
district judge appearing to defend
his own decision before the superior
court The judge was E. L. Sapp of
Cherokee who appeared in behalf of
himself and the clerk of his district
court resisting an application for
writ of mandamus to compel him to
allow fees to the attorney general for
the prosecution of liquor cases in Cher
okee county. Judge Sapp has refused
to allow fees to w. P. Montgomery,
special assistant attorney general,
after the latter had convicted several
jointists in his court: Montgomery
asked for a writ of mandamus to COM
pei the judge to allow the fees and
Judge Sapp appeared in his own. de-
Tense. The same proposition has
been threshed out in previous cases
and the attorney generals Office is
confident of another victory. The
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When the county assessors start on
their annual rounds next spring they
win be required to enumerate the
dogs under the new state law, just as
they do any other live stock. Dogs
which the owners refuse to list as
personal property will be ordered
killed. The state law will not inter
fere with the levying of special dog
taxes in cities as has long been
customary.
Federal pure food inspectors opera
ting from Topeka are working on a
case against a Kansas City lug
dealer who has been shipping a few
bottles of unlabled beer into Kansas
in the same package with bottles of
non-intoxicating imitation beer. AS
the whole package is labeled s'non-in-
toxicating BEER the federal authori-
ties have gone after the dealer under
the pure food law.
| Next Sunday is to be observed in
all the Methodist Episcopal churches
of the state as Packer University
Sunday when pledges will be asked
from every member of The church in
an effort to raise S1SO,OO0 or more for
the endowment fund of the institu-
tion, which is located at BALDWIN,
Kans. At the recent conference of
| the church the various districts of
the state undertook to raise proper
tions of the entire sum as follows:
Atchison district, $50. 900; Clay Center
district, $4,000; Emporia district,
49, 900: Fort Scott district, $50, 0Oo:
Ottawa district, 5000, Topeka dis
trict, $50, 000
Children at the State Orphans
Home at Atchison viii be guaranteed
| fire protection in the future by the
contract just closed between the
state board of control and the city of
Atchison, calling for the laying of an
S-inch water main from the city to
the school, 1t is estimated that the
state has spent nearly $4,000 in
furnishing water for the Home under
provisional arrangements in times
past. The cost of the pipe line will
be about $4,000. This will supply
pure water for domestic purposes as
we'll as sufficient in case of fire. The
states property at the home is worth
about 1925, 900.
Good roads boosters will gather al
| Newton on December and for the
annual meeting of the Kansas Good
, Roads Association. Governor Hodges
has just completed a list of over two
, hundred appointments of county
r delegates, two from each county anG
r several extra. Besides there will bs
; large number of enthusiasts whC
: will go officially.
81 Saved His Foot.
H. d. Ely, of Bantam, o., suffered
from horrible r1lrar ON hiS foot fo,