Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-08-01
PLAN HIGHWAY COMMISSION
Officials of Various Good Roads Or
sanizations Are Drafting Law
With New Features.

The first draft of a bill to create
state highway commission has been
drawn and copies sent to the various
good roads and trails officials for their
approval The proposed law contem-
plates that the expenses of the COM
mission shall be paid out of the ex-
cess funds of administering the state
motOr-vehicle registration law. Re-
Gently Charles Sessions, secretary of
state, reported that the first year of
the license law would net the state
more than $4,000 above the cost of
administering it.
Three commissioners are provided.
with such assistants and engineers as
may be deemed necessary. The pres
ident of the state agricultural college
is to be one of the members. The
other two are to be appointed by the
governor, and must be of different po-
litical party affiliations. The salary
of the two appointive members is to
be a per diem and actual expenses
for time employed on road work.
AS provided in the first draft of the
bill, the commission would have au-
thority to lay out a plan of connected
highways over the state. Under the
present arrangement each county lays
out its roads to suit itself, and fire.
quently they don't connect. 1t is
planned to have the new commission
do away with the hodge-podge roads.
Wire Injuries Lineman.-Jeff Jeeter,
a lineman for the Union Pacific Rail-
road, is in a dangerous condition at
his home in Marysville because of
having run into a wire stretched
across the track, north of Manhat-
tan. Farmers had stretched the wire
across the track to keep their cattle
! from crossing the cattle guard. Jee-
ter, on his gasoline speeder, struck
the wire at full speed. He was
knocked over backwards People
started a search for him when his
machine went chugging through
Stockdale minus a rider
Dies at Picnic.-W. S. Fleming in
troduced T. A. Borman as a speaker
at the Tecumseh Fourth of July cele-
bration. He walked back to his chair
on the platform. In a minute he fell
off the platform and died without re-
gaining Consciousness. Death was due
in charge of the arrangements for the
picnic given by the Tecumseh Grange.
Caught WouId-Be Hero-Ralph
Shockey. II years old, was taken to
Salina from Solomon, charged with
attempting to wreck a Santa Fe train
Shockey is a dime novel reader, and
while he has confessed to the offense,
it is believed he intended to stop the
train in time to play the part of
hero. The section foreman hit the
obstruction, however, with his motor
handcar. The handcar was wrecked
Car Strike Called Off.-The strike
on the Union Traction .Company's
lines at Coffeyville, which began
March 81, has been called off by the
carmen.
Westphalia to Have Lieht-The
citizens of Westphalia have signed
contract with firm of the towns
business men for electric lights The
dynamo and other machinery have
been ordered and the plant is expect
ed to be in operation in sixty days
Impaied on Shaft.-Clinton ].
Burnes, city salesman for a produce
house is dead at Pittsburg from
| wounds received in collision with a
| wagon when a tire of his motorcycle
exploded Burnes was impaled ON q
| shaft,