Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
NEW KANSAS LAWS NEEDED
State Charities and Corrections Con-
ference at Wichita to Submit
Program to Legislature.

FioSi ofI 10 LEGISLATURE
The Kansas conference of charities
and corrections, which has just closed
its seventeenth annual session at
Wichita, under the presidency of H.
c. Bowman of Newton, went on record
for the following state legislation: An
act giving juvenile courts the power
to grant mothers pensions; an act
providing that the families depending
for support on prisoners in state insti-
buttons be paid fair wages allowed the
prisoners during the period of their
Incarceration; an act providing for the
physical supervision of all public
school children and the medical treat
ment, at public expense, or those who
cannot afford to pay for it; an amend
ment to the present law prohibiting
the marriage of insane, epileptic and
feeble minded persons, and also laws
for the better protection of the mar
riage relation from the menace of
disease.
The establishment of three state
farm homes for county and city pris-
oners and one for women prisoners
was also recommended.
The present officers were reelected
for the ensuing year. The next meet
ing will be held in Emporia next Oc-
tober.
Fire in HospitaI.-Fire caused a loss
of $4,000 at the Arkansas City hospital
recently, destroying a portion of the
building, in which there were twenty
two rooms. Patients were removed
in great excitement.
Kansas Pioneer Pead.-Christian
Stiegtel of Westphalia, 81 years old,
died recently. He was a veteran of
the Civil War, serving with the TWEEN
tieth Missouri Regiment. He had lived
in Anderson county thirty-six years.
Falling Rock Killed Miner. John
Peters, a veteran miner, was killed by
a fall of rock in a mine of the Wear
Coal Company, northwest of Pittsburg,
the other day.
Kansas Editor Dead. d. L. Wad-
die, editor of the Weir City Journal,
died recently at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. r. Shannon, near Long
Lane, Mo-, where he had been for
some time. Waddle came here ten
years ago from Green county, Mis-
souri,, where he had for many years
been in public life, holding several
county offices.
MarysviIIe Editor Dead.-Magil1 G.
Peters, newspaper man, is dead at
his home in Marysville. His father,
the late P. II. Peters, founded the Lo-
connective in 1869, which paper since
has been changed to the Marshall
County News. Magill Peters, who for
years was associated with Marysviue
newspapers, later published the Han
over ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and for
year was manager Of the Fairbury
(Neb.) News. He was 40 years old.
Shoots Father-in-Law.-In a revol-
yer fight with his son-in-law, Floyd E.
Hart, A. l.. Wright, a real estate
dealer, was shot and probably fatally
wounded at the Hart home in Emporia.
Officers say Hart shot in self defense.
No arrests have been made
Woman Writer Dead.-Charlotte
Frances Wilder, author of many re-
hgious books, died at her home in
Manhattan the other day She also
contributed stories and editorial work
to church papers and magazines and
other publications
chanute Pawnbroker sIain-. F.
Jersey, a pawnbroker, was shot and
killed in his shop at Chanute by Sc
ferino Arenas Arenas fled ard was
captured near Petrolia, five miles
north He says the shooting was 40
cidentaL