Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-09
Warden Codding Has Separated
the State Convicts Into
Four Divisions.
PRISONERS ARE CLASSIFIED
Men and Women in Penitentiarv Are
Now Handled According to Their
Criminal Tendencies.

Warden Codding is trying out a new
method of prison management. He
has really made four penitentiaries
out of one. They are DESIGNATED as
penitentiary No. 1, the general insti-
tuition; penitentiary No. 2, which holds
the degenerates, the criminal insane
prison, and the woman's prison. This
enables him to classify his prisoners
and handle them accordingly
PRISONERS in No. 1 are given more
liberties than any of the other male
prisoners. OF the 700 in that depart
ment more than 100 are TRUSTEES.
They roam around the prison farm at
VIII and are not watched any more
than a hand on private farm
Those in No. 2 are closely guarded
! or kept under lock all the time I'VE
/ have bad lot in that department"
| said the warden. "They are the scum
of creation, degenerates of the worst
| type" The warden has equipped the
| guards of this prison with policemen's
| clubs. 1t is the only place around the
| penitentiary where any weapons are
in evidence, except in the towers on
| the wall.
| The criminal insane are now kept in
a separate department, formerly the
| woman's prison. About sixty of them
| are cared for. Not all of them are in
| sane by any means" said the warden.
But the courts sent them here under
| the criminal insane law and we have
| to treat them as such. Many a prison
er- in that department pleaded insan-
| ity to escape punishment for his crime
when he was perfectly sane all the
| time"
The women, only seventeen of
them, are now kept in an improvised
prison a mile from the regular peni-
Tertiary The prison consists of
| farsl house on top of a hill on the
prison farm 1t is in the center of a
two-acre blue grass plot, surrounded
by a twelve-strand barbed wire fence
| ten feet high.
I'VE don't need the fence to keep
| the women in" said the warden. but
| to keep the men out. 1t beats the
| band how many male creatures there
are at large who want to associate
| with these women prisoners Our
work is to protect the women. 1t GER
| tainly speaks well for the women of
Kansas when only seventeen of their
| sex are behind prison walls. In near
| ly every case man was the cause Of
the trouble
q
Keeps ascent Gas.-With the cheap
| est rates in the state from it's munich
pally owned water, electric light and
| power plants, the city of lola again
scored in the matter of gas rates. The
| city owns the distributing plant and
gas is supplied by the Wichita Pipe
Line Company. While other Kansas
cities are struggling with the problem
| OF increased prices and exorbitant
minimums, the rate in lola is to re-
| main the same-twenty-fiye cents per
| thousand
Kansas Line Bars Liquor-The
| Arkansas Valley Interurban,.- with
headquarters at Wichita and extern
sions to New, Halstead and Hutchin-
| son, has decided to take no shipments
| of liquor. r. B. Campbell, general
manager for the road, in response to
an inquiry from the county attorney
of Reno county, said that no liquor OF
any kind would be handled by the in
terurban as freight.
Il
An Augusta Girl Missina.-Anna
Anderson, "a years old, a member of
the Catholic Church, is missing and
| the Catholic priest and police are
searching Tor her. she left Augusta
| August 16 for Denver and her rela-
| tives have not heard of her
Bought a Mill in Atchison.-E. r.
Mcdonald, general manager of the
| Sudbury Flour Mills, Ontario, Canada,
has bought the milling plant of the
Cain Milling Company at Atchison
from T. G. Walker. Mr.. Mcdonald for
merly managed mills at Republic, No,
| Waterloo. Ia. and Minneapolis
Suicide When Crop FaiIed.-William
| Lyford, so years old. wealthy farmer
five miles south of Kingman, hanged
himself recently as a result of worry
| over his crop failure. He had lived
| there thirty years.
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Kansas Barber browns. - Foney
| Specie. owner of barber shop in Cot
| feyville, was drowned in the Verdigris
| river the other night while setting a
trot line He was "a years old and
unmarried.
Tried to Save Woman, browns
George A. Morris. so years old, a
| broker of Wichita, drowned at Oxford
while trying to save a woman in the
Minnesota river The woman was res