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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-20
circumstances Alter Cases.

Circumstances After Cases.
Lawyer-The evidence against you
is too strong, too cumulative You
have no chance of acquittal
Client-But I'm not innocent; I'm
guilty
Lawyer-Ah, that's different. Know
ing that, I'll be able to get you free.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
Chemical Research Men at X.
U. Seek Deposits to Sup
ply Fertilizer.
EXAMINING SALT ACCRETIOnS
German Government Controls the
Supply Now and this Substance
is Growing Very Scarce.

With the idea of developing in Kan
sas the production of commodity
of rapidly increasing value, the divi-
sion of the State Chemical Research
at the University of Kansas is con-
Quoting an investigation on the salt
deposits and brine waters of Kansas
to ascertain a possible source of pot
ash. All specimens sent the depart
ment will be tested without charge.
The scarcity of this substance since
the beginning of the European war
has made i Essential that a new field
be obtained, since the German gov
eminent, which controls the supply of
the entire world. refuses to let pot
ash be shipped outside German terri
tory.
Prof W. A Whitaker of the Metal
lurgy Division at K. u. has appointed
E. E. Lyder, an assistant in the
Chemical Research work, to investi-
gate the situation. Thus far no sam
pies from the salt deposits of Kansas
1 per cent potassium. However, but
few specimens have been submitted.
Mr.. Lyder does not think that de-
posts showing less than five per cent
potassium could be advantageously
worked in this state.
IF an accretion containing the ne
cessary amount of potassium can be
found in Kansas, we can improve the
soil of the entire state as we'll as fur
nish fertilizer for the Eastern sec.
ton of the United States,' said Mr..
Lyder.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13

Proper tariff Duties Would Es-
tablish Industry.
Wise Legislation Must Do Its Part To-
ward the Creation OF an Addi-
tionai Source of Wealth to
the United States.

Higher tarin protection, according
to the report of a committee of the
American Chemical society. is abso-
lutely needed. The present duty. of
80 per cent ad valorem on imported
dyes has been in force many years,
but it has not created an American
coaltar industry. The committee
holds that specific duty of 71z cents
a pound must be added to the 80 per
cent ad valorem to give real pro-
lection The small specific duty
would shut out the cheap dyes which
are so largely used here. while the 80
per cent duty would be suffi cient, as
now, on high-priced dyes.
There is plenty of raw material
produced in this country, the present
production of coal tar being sufficient
for supplying the textile industries
with dyestuffs. But the industry cam
not be established here without bet
ter tariff protection. The problem is
whether the public is willing to pay
for controlling it's own sources-for in
the long run the cost would fall on
the general public. Textile manufac-
turers, naturally enough, have always
opposed raising the duty on dyes. 1t
Is an interesting question whether
their present difficulties, including
their lack of many desired colors, and
much higher prices for those they do
obtain, will work a change of mind in
them The conclusion of the debate
is that we can have a coal-tar in
dustry if we want to make the neces-
sary changes. For decision, it is
necessary that the public should know
what changes are required, and that
these concern almost exclusively the
tariff. and the matter of cooperation
among the color makers. - Boston
Transcript
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
MEAT CLOGS KIDNEYS
THEN YOUR BACK HURTS
Take Glass of Salts to Flush Kid
neys If Bladder Bothers YOU
Drink Lots of Water.

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make mistake by flush
ing the kidneys occasionally, says
well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys,
they become overworked from the
strain, get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then we get sick. Nearly all rheu-
matism, headaches, liver trouble, ner-
vousness. dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts or IL
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full or
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by a sensation of scalding, stop
eating meat and get about four ounces
of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take
a tablespoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast and in a few days
your kidneys will act fine. This ia
nous salts is made from the acid OF
grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used for
generations to flush and stimulate the
kidneys, also to neutralize the acids
in urine so it no longer causes frrita-
ton, thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes a delightful efferves-
cent Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep tho
kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
complications.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
MONEY FOR STATE SCHOOLS
Senate Votes $4,2e6,35o for Mainten-
ance of Educational Institutions
for Next Two Years.

Topelza.-The- Kansas Senate has
voted to give 4A million dollars to the
Kansas educational institutions for
the next two years. This includes
$960,S50 for new buildings. 1t is IA
million dollars more than was granted
the same schools two years ago, but
lacks almost million dollars of being
the budget asked for by the school
heads.
The appropriations granted are prac-
tically the same as the recommends
tions of the board of administration
in charge of all the schools.
The bill adopted provides for ST.
1880 for the fiscal year beginning
July 1 and s2,150,6OO for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 1916. As mat
ter of fact, the appropriations for the
schools are 100000 less than this, as
the senate reappropriated that amount
for use in the next fiscal year from
funds provided for the new buildings
by the legislature of two years ago.
but not used The appropriations for
new buildings for each institution as
allowed by the senate were: Kansas
University, $25O,0O0; agricultural col
1ege, s1O6,350; manual normal school,
1924, 800; normal school, administra-
ton building, $250,O00; Fort Hayes
normal, building, $125,000; new dis
pensary building, Rosedale, 100000;
new hospital, Rosedale, $4,000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
COSTS STATE $1,000 A DAY
Senate With Fewer Members Than
the House Has the Largest
Expense Account.

Topeka--The Kansas legislature
has cost the state more than one thou
sand dollars a day since it has been
in session, and the total expense viii
be in excess of $4,000 for the ses-
sion The legislature has already ap-
propriated $4,000 to pay its bills. The
fifty days for which the members re-
ceive pay expires March 2. and the
total pay roll expense will be $780,
1880, with $5,625 additional Tor post
age and telephone and telegraph busi-
ness. After the fifty days the en-
ployes will still get their pay, and if
the present employees are retained this
means more than six hundred dollars
a day for help alone.
Although the house is more than
three times as large body as the SEN
ate and has handled so per cent more
legislation than the upper house, the
employees expense in the senate for
the last ten days was $564-5O greater
than that of the house The senate
pay roll also shows thirteen more en-
ployes than in the lower branch of the
legislature
On the pay roll of the senate at this
time are la men and women engaged
in handling the work of the upper
house members. The house pay roll
contains 101 names.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13

Congressman From Wichita District
Declares He 10 Out Of Politics
For All Time-

victor Murdoch, ON and after March
4. will be out of politfcs-for good
That is his own declaration, and he
believes he knows what he is talking
about. For twelve years Murdoch has
been one of the picturesque and
stormy figures in the House of Repre-
sentatives. March 4 his term expires
If fortune had favored him, Murdoch
would have been in the Senate of the
Slxty-fourth Congress. He ran for
that office last fall on the Progressive
ticket But fortune did not smile, al
though Murdoch is smiling today and
declares he never felt better in his
life.
I'm through" he said. .Al1 my
friends knew it. Some people tell me
I'm not through. but 1 believe I know
better. 1 haven't the slightest idea of
ever getting back into politics.
I'm going back to the writing
game That's my real business. For
the next year or eighteen months I'll
be doing a good deal of lecturing, fill
ing contracts already made. But writ
ing is my trade, and I'm glad to have
a chance to get back. And by writing
don't mean writing letters. That's
about the hardest job a member of
Congress has.
Il really came into politics by acct
dent, and not because / ever felt 1t
was my real business. 1 got good
licking in the senatorship fight last
fall I'm not a bit sorry now If there
was any sting in it at the time it was
all taken away by the fact that my
own congressional district stood by
me, as it always did,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
Committee of the Whole Recon-
mendS Bill to Establish Set
Elements for the Poor.
SENATE AFTER UNDERTAKERS
Upper House Passes Bill introduced
to Stop Alleged Cheating in Sup
plying Caskets and Clothing
for the Dead.

A bill that will enable the larger
Kansas counties to establish welfare
settlements for the poor and ill was
recommended by the house of repre-
sentatives the other day. 1t author
ICES the counties to issue bonds for
the welfare settlement, to consist of
a county hospital, county tubercular
hospital and a county home for the
care of delinquent and dependent chill
dren and for a home for those indi-
gent>persons who have no other home.
The counties may spend fifty thousand
dollars in building the welfare settle
ment Persnos who may want to live
at the county home and are able to
pay for their keep or are able to work
for it may also be admitted
The senate has passed a bill in
tended to stop alleged cheating by
undertakes in supplying baskets and
clothing for the dead. The bill was
introduced by Senator Simpson with
a specific case in mind An under
taker had put in high bill for an ex-
pensive casket and shroud and some
time later it became necessary to ex-
hume the body. Then it was discov-
cred that the body had been wrapped
in sheet and buried in the cheapest
box obtainable. The bill just passed
requires each undertaken to file re-
port with county health officers of the
quality and price of every item enter
ing into burial expense.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
Our "lgnobIe Peace"

They (Wilson and Bryan) take the
view that when we are asked to redeem
in the concrete promises we made in
the abstract our duty is to disregard
our obligations and to preserve ignoble
peace for ourselves by regarding with
cold-blooded and timid indifference the
most frightful ravages of war commit
ted at the expense of a peaceful and
unoffending country. This is the cult
of cowarGice. That President Wilson
and Mr.. Bryan profess it and put it in
action would be of small consequence
if only they themselves were con-
cerned. The Importance of their ac-
ton is that it commits the United
States.-Theodore Roosevelt in the In
dependent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
INDIGESTION, GAS
OR SICK STOMACH
Time it! Pape's Diapepsin ends
all Stomach misery in five
minutes.

Do some foods you eat hit back
taste good, but work badly; ferment
Into stubborn Jumps and cause a sick,
sour, gassy stomach Now, Mr. or
Mrs. Dyspeptic, jot this down: Pape's
Diapepsin digests everything. leaving
nothing to sour and upset you. There
never was anything so safely quick, so
certainly effective. No difference how
badly your stomach is disordered you
will get happy relief in i've minutes.
but what pIeases you most is that 1t
strengthens and regulates your stom-
ach so you can eat your favorite foods
without fear.
You feel different as soon as "Pape's
Diapepsin'' comes in contact with the
stomach-distress just vanishes-your
stomach gets sweet, no gases, no belch-
ing, no eructations of undigested food.
Go now, make the best investment
you ever made by getting a large fifty
cent case of Pape's Diapepsin from any
store. You realize in five minutes how
needless 1t is to suffer from indiges-
ton. dyspepsia or bad stomach. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
No Task for rvros

One of the men at the front has told
us how he tried to milk a cow-with-
out the expected result. This is not
an easy task for an Impractical hand.
Leslie Stephen was once on a long
tramp. in Switzerland, accompanied
by his friend, Doctor Morgan. They
missed their way and found them
selves, parched and hungry, far from
any dwelling place. At length they
came across COW, from whom they
determined to extract some nourish-
ment, but after trying their best for an
hour, each holding on to her horns in
turn, they had to abandon all hopes
of milk. This, remarks Doctor Nor
gan, is zone of the very few occasions
on which l ever saw Stephen fairly
thwarted."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
The President to Business.

In his speech to the American Elec-
trio Railway association at Washing
ton President Wilson said:
1T seems to me that l can say with
a good deal of confidence that we are
upon the eve of a new era of enter
prise and of prosperity
The president has been saying this
for more than year. Indeed, he has
gone much further; he said that the
era of prosperity had arrived and that
the blindness to 1t was purely psyche
logical. Apparently he was mistaken
in his former utterances- The amend
ment is accepted with hopes that the
new guess may come out true.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
A Mind With No sidetracks.

Why is it that the administration
will persist in following certain ideas
when every available scrap of infor-
nation as to them indicates that they
are wrongly conceived? The official
attitude towards Mexico has been a
mistaken one from the beginning.
The cotton-loan pool was opposed by
hard-headed bankers whose business
it is to know economic conditions;
the ship-purchase bill is opposed by
business interests the country over.
The fact that the cotton-loan plan
would help the administration out of
a difficult political situation was not
a sound reason for forcing that plan
ION the bankers.-Buffalo Express.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
When the Mists WIN Blow Away

The president seems to have had an
other vision of the good time coming,
says the Baltimore American. In his
speech at the Electric Railway conven-
ton he declared, Il feel that the mists
and the miasmic airs of suspicion that
have filled the business world have
now blown away" Well, the mists
and the miasma will doubtless blow
away eventually-say along about the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November of next year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
Makes Friends erIeve.

1t becomes clearer from day to day
that the speech recently made at In
dianapolis by President Wilson is one
which makes his most judicious
friends grieve and vainly wish it had
not been spoken Unfortunately for
President Wilson, he seems to have
near him and in his confidence no
sagacious and competent adviser in
such matters, or, what is probably the
case, he is so convinced of his own
self-suficiency. If not infallibiIity, as
to be incapable OF seeking or receiv-
ing counseL-Hartford Courant
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
MORE SICK KANSAS CATTLE
Foot and Mouth Disease Found Among
Big Herd of Calves Near
EIdorado.

E. r. Smith, bureau of animal indus
try at Washington, and DR.. Ritter Won
Malicki, state veterinarian, found the
foot and mouth disease in herd of
519 calves on a farm twelve miles
northeast of Eldorado recently. The
calves were shipped in from New Mex
leo last December
A quarantine for six miles each way
has been esta blished.
Two federal veterinarians, who had
been inspecting stock in Butler coun-
ty for traces of the.foot and mouth dis
ease, became suspicious that the
calves were infected, and took some of
the virus. They established a quar-
antine then. Examination of the virus
bore out their suspicious, and Drs.
Smith and Won Malicki were called
and substantiated what the others had
suspected
The owner of the calves has 1000
other cattle in the neighborhood, the
affected farm being in the heart of the
cattle feeding region.
The affected herds, it was said, will
be destroyed within five days.
X
Take Burglar After BattIe.-A
crowd of $50 citizens armed with
lAASS, ISfOlN0TS anu SnOISunS dlQou
the police to capture a burglar at
Hutchinson after a battle in which
many shots were fired. The robber
was surprised in the house of DR.. C.
l.. McKattrick.
Woman Left Large Estate.-Mrs-
Adelia Higginbotham, SO years old,
is dead in Manhattan. She settled
there in 1860. Three children survive.
Mrs. Higginbotham leaves a large es-
tate
Unusual Accident.-Railway men re-
port a very unusual accident which
befell l.. J. Quarrels, who lives near
Superior, Neb. Quarrels boarded a
train at Superior, and when it passed
his home at a speed of twenty miles
an hour. he jumped off and chisel
in his pocket penetrated his body. He
is in a hospital at Concordia with a
slight chance of recovery.
Wesleyan Head Resigns.-Dr. Rob
ert p Smith, for seven years president
of Kansas Wesleyan University in Sa-
lima, has rendered his resignation
X
Open New Gas FieId.-The Indepen-
dence Mining and Transportation
Company recently opened up 5-mill-
ion-foot, gas we'll in the Stephen Per
kins farm, eight miles northeast of
Independence. The well has a rock
pressure of 420 pounds, which is rath-
er unusual The well opens a new
field.
~ - -
Safe-crackers Get $25.-Robbers dy-
namited the safe of the Baker Mercan-
tile Company at Cunningham the other
night and fed with $25- Bloodhounds
were used to trail them
Fire at Haskell lnstitute.-A SIC, 900
fire recently destroyed the carpenter,
harness, shoe and boiler shops of Has
kell Institute at Lawrence. One horse
belonging to the Lawrence fire depart
ment was killed by stepping on live
wire.
- -
Hodges Goes East-Ex-Governor
George H Hodges left recently for
Philadelphia He will make sixteen
speeches in and near the city in about
three weeks He will talk on national
prohibition in the interest OF the Anti
Saloon League
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
NEW LIFE FOR LABOR BILL
State Society Measure is Referred to
Committee of Whole by Action
of House.

Topeka.-The labor lobby, with the
aid of Chairman Shirley Jocelyn of
the judiciary committee and Speaker
Robert Stone, stole march On the OPP
ponents of the state labor society bill
and the measure is now before the
house ready for action in committee
of the whole. The bill takes the APP
pointment of labor commissioner out
of the hands of the governor and re-
stores it to union labor, through the
creation of state society of labor and
industry, whose secretary is, by vir-
tue of his office, the labor commission
er. 1t was defeated ten days ago in
the house, after minority of the COM
mission on efficiency and economy
had brought in a minority report fav-
oring it, but it was introduced again.
r r r
F. w. B1acRmar, head of the gradu-
ate school of the Kansas University,
may be the new warden of the Lans-
ing penitentiary, to succeed Jerry"
Botkin. There is a rumor in Topeka
that an agreement has been reached
whereby Warden Botkin, who is a
Democrat, will retire July to permit
Governor Capper to name a member
of his own party for the place. Bot
h1n WAS dppOint0Q ny OON0IQOT
Hodges two years ago for a term of
four years. Several old-time Republi-
cans have asked for the position of
warden.
Hits Stock Yards.
Senator Mahin has Introduced in the
senate a bill to make the Kansas City
and other stock yards companies in
crease the number of scales in the
yards so that all stock sold in the
yards can be weighed within two
hours after the sale.
Lift Kansas Quarantine.
The Kansas quarantine against ship
ment of cattle into the state has been
| removed. and the only restrictions are
| those provided by the Federal Bureau
of Animal Industry.
| r r r
Would Fire Fair Commission.
A proposition to discharge the en-
tire membership of the Kansas Com
\ mission to the Panama-Pacific Expo
sftion because of alleged illegal acts
\ in hiring H. Z. Dean as secretary and
paying him salary was presented to
the senate the other day by Senator
Davis of Bourbon county The sem
ate spent the entire morning debating
the matter. Dean was appointed as
member of the commission. The law
provided that no member should re-
ceive pay. Then the commission paid
him $40 week to act as secretary.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13
RsxehoIoaieaI Money unaeeeptabIe.

There's nothing the matter with
American business except state of
mind" says Mr.. Wilson IF you are
going to buy it. buy it now" Yes, but
the trouble is the storekeeper won't
accept psychological money.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-03-13

1t is a whole lot better to howl be-
fore you are hurt than to howl in
hospital.-Philadelph Telegraph