The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-15
NEW KANSAS LAWS NEEDED
state Charities and Corrections Con-
ference at Wichita to Submit :
Program to Legislature.

The Kansas conference of charities
and corrections, which has just closed
its seventeenth annual session at
Wichita, under the presidency Of II.
G. 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, OF 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.
K. U. Gets Inca Skulls.-Two wen
preserved skulls of the race of extinct
Inca Indians wrapped in well pre-
served cloth made more than 1900
years ago, have been received by H.
T. Martin, curator of the 'paleontologi-
cal museum at the University of Kan
! sas from Miss Beryl Lovejoy, uni
versity graduate now teaching at
Lima, Peru. The skulls were found
on a sandy plain Of Peru with the hand
woven cloth wrapped partially around
them. The fact that the design in the
cloth can still be seen and the tex
ture still is strong, is attributed by
Mr.. Martin to the fact that practically
no rain falls in the section of Peru
where the skulls were found. The
Incas have been extinct for centuries.
It was their habit to bury their dead
with cloth wrapped about the bodies.
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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
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MarysviIle Editor Dead.--Magill c.
Peters, newspaper man, is dead at
his home In Marysville. His father,
the late P. H. 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 Marysville
newspapers, later published the Han
over Democrat Enterprise and for a
year was manager of the Fairbury
(Neb.) News. He was 40 years old.
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Shoots Father-ln-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.
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Woman Writer Dead.-Charlotte
Frances Wilder, author of many re-
ligious 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.
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Chanute Pawnbroker SIain.-J. F.
Jersey, a pawnbroker, was shot and
killed in his shop at Chanute by Sc.
ferino Arenas. Arenas fled and was
captured near Petrolia, five miles
north. He says the shooting was ac.
cioental.