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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
WESTERN KANSAS DROUGHT
November Was Pleasant With Plenty
of Sunshine, Says Report of the
Weather Bureau.

Topeka.-November was a pleasant
month in all parts of Kansas, with
temperatures generally above normal
and great deal more sunshine than
usually occurs at this time of the year,
according to the weather bureau. The
eastern portion received abundant
rains, but a severe drought prevailed
in the western half, where the fall of
1916 has been one of the driest on
record. High winds were more COM
mon than usual in November in all
parts.
Extreme range in temperature was
from 80 degrees above zero in the first
week to degrees below zero in the
middle of the month at some western
stations.
The average precipitation over the
eastern third of the state was 2.86
inches; the middle third, LOS; the
western third, 90, and for the entire
state, 1.50, or .33 above normal. The
dry weather retarded wheat greatly in
the western half of the state and as
it was frozen to the ground on the 14th
it was still short and of very little
value for pasture when the month
closed, though it was reported to be
healthy and needing only a good rain
or heavy snow to start it growing
again. In the eastern counties wheat
made an excellent growth.
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Would Bond Car Owners.
1. A. Rigby, a lawyer of Concordia,
has asked Governor Capper to urge
the legislature to require that every
motor car owner and a driver in Kan
sas be required to give bond. This
would cover any damages for any
wrongful or negligent act.
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Wants New Kansas Mine Laws
A complete revision and codification
of the coal mining laws of Kansas by
the next legislature is recommended
| by John Petigrino, state mine inspec-
| tor, in report filed with Paul ]. Nc
| Bride, state labor commissioner.
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Kills Wild Deer in Kansas.
Will Grinter, young farmer near
Perry, fifteen miles east of Topeka,
made the champion bag of game Of
any hunter in Kansas on Thanksgiv-
| ing day. He brought down 2-year-
old deer that weighed about 200
pounds. 1t is probably the only wild
| deer that has been killed in Kansas
In the last ten years. Where it came
| from no one knows.
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Favors New Cell Houses.
It is understood the governor will
recommend the building of new cell
houses at the state prison to take the
| place of the out of date ones which
have served the state for half a
century. The governor did not believe
| it probable a sum sufficient to rebuild
the prison would be appropriated at
| this time.
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Sues for Corporation Fees
Attorney General Brewster has
brought mardamus proceedings in the
supreme court to compel Secretary OF
State j. T. Botkin to pay into the gem
eral revenue fund $4,000 of fees paid
by ninety-six corporations under pro-
test.
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Kansas to Have Dry League
A call has been issued for meet
ing in Lawrence on Tuesday, Deem
Der 10, to organize the Kansas branch
OF the Anti-Saloon League Of Amer
lea.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
Safety First.

Newlyrich Ito his social mentor)-
Tell me what not to do next, Bud I'm
twisted already.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23

Wash day is smile day If you use Red
Cross Ball Blue, American made, therefore
the best made. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
The State Supreme Court Gusts
Mayor o. S. Gibson OF
Arkansas City.
RIVAL CANDIDATE GETS PLACE
as All the Salary Paid to
Gibson.

Topeka.-O. S. Gibson was ousted
as mayor of Arkansas City by the SUI
preme court recently and C. N. Hunt,
his opponent in the election last
spring, is to take his place. Gibson
also has to pay over to Hunt the sal
airy he has received since his inaugu-
ration The court held that promising
a man a job, either directly or through
a third party for active political work
just preceding an election, practically
is bribery.
1.-THE method is merely a refine
ment on the old, coarse form of plain
promise and accomplished bribery in
the sense in which the term is used in
proceedings of this character" the
court said.
Gibson promised directly and
through friends the appointment of
police judge, chief of police and some
other officers if he should be elected.
And these prospective appointees got
out and hustled votes among their
supreme court held that these votes
should be deducted from the vote
given to Gibson. Gibson was given
the certificate of election by ten ma
jority and the deduction of these votes
gives Hunt the place.
Gibson is a former member of the
state legislature and two years ago
was the Democratic candidate for Con
gress from the Third Kansas District
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23

A patent has been granted for 6
tub.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23

Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that it
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
Hold Down a Light Firm.

The hearing before the state public
utilities commission the other day COW
cred four cases of the Northern Kan
sas Light and Power Company. One
application of the company for ap-
proval for certificates to do business,
one for authority to issue bonds for
$560,000, one to buy property of the
Marshall County Power and Light
Company, and another to purchase
property and franchises Of the Con-
cordia Electric Light Company, were
made. All four cases were denied and
dismissed by the commission.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
To Helm ATTORNEY General.

To Help Attorney General
The public utilities commission will
help the attorney general in discover
ing whether or not it is the railroads
or the mine operators that are the
cause of the coal shortage in Kansas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
Ask New Buildings for K. U.

The board of administration has
given out it's recommendations of the
needs of the state educational insti-
tutions for the next two years. The
board recommends that the legislature
replace old North College at Law
renee, erected fifty years ago, and
used for fine arts; asks for house
hold arts building, at Pittsburg and
an addition to the Agricultural build
ing at Manhattan. 1t asks for the
erection of the class room section
on the foundation which was built
six years ago at Kansas University.
The fine arts building has been con-
demned. The estimated cost of the
new building is $350,000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23

Kansas to Have Dry League
A call has been issued for meet
ing In Lawrence on Tuesday, Decem-
Der 10, to organize the Kansas branch
OF the Anti-Saloon League Of Amer
lea.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
Favors New Cell Houses.
Sues for Corporation Fees.

Attorney General Brewster has
brought mandamus proceedings in the
supreme court to compel Secretary OF
State J. T. Botkin to pay into the gem
eral revenue fund $4,000 of fees paid
by ninety-six corporations under pro-
test.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
Must File Weekly Reports.

The Kansas public utilities commits
sion has made an order directing
all railroads operating in Kansas to
file weekly reports showing the num-
Der of cars requested and supplied to
Kansas shippers for handling various
commodities
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
Orphans In Danger From Fire.

The Kansas Orphans Home at Atch-
ison is in serious danger from fire,
according to L. T. Hussey, state fire
marshal. In a report to the governor,
Hussey stated the state should install
adequate water mains and arrange for
high pressure water to be used in
event of fire. He also urged all the
outer doors of the buildings be swung
so they will open outward and thus
lessen the danger of a jam at the
doors in a fire.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
Board of Trade for Topeka.

A board OF trade having a mini
mum of fifty members was organized
here recently by local grain men, The
board will be established as soon as
the necessary machinery for its oper-
atoms can be perfected.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
Gas Must Meet the Test.

The Kansas Supreme Court held
that 4 firm which sells gas to dis
tributing company under a contract
for merchantable gas must provide
fuel of quality that meets standard
tests. The decision reversed a ruling
of the Neosho County District Court,
which compelled the Wichita Natural
Gas Company to pay in full under a
purchase contract with Bell Brothers
& Mcdonald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23

Pass on c. NJ. Sheldon Film.
The first film exhibition west of
Chicago of the dramatization of
Charles NJ. Sheldon's book, 1.-THE Cru
cifixion of Philip Strong" was given
before the Kansas censors recently.
The book was dramatized twenty-five
years ago by Francis Nelson, a mem
Der of the English Parliament.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Col. E. NJ. House of New York,
confidential adviser of President VIII
son, said recently that he will sail
soon for Europe at the request of the
President. Colonel House declared the
sole purpose of his trip would be to
deliver official information to certain
American ambassadors
-Transcontinental traffic on the
Great Northern Railroad was tied up
recently by snowshdes in the Cascade
mountains. The snowfall in the noun
tains is nearly four times as great as
it was at this time last year.
John Maye and his wife, one son
Is years of age. two daughters 10 and
IL years old and an infant were burned
to death the other day in their home,
five miles from Yorktown. Tex. Off,
GERS are searching the country and
bloodhounds are on the trail. murder
and arson being suspected
-Forty-seven prisoners walked out
of the Oklahoma state penitentiary the
other afternoon on pardons and pa
roles granted by Gov. Robert L. Will
liam Ten we're paroled and thirty
seven had been granted pardors.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
HAS EVIDENCE OF BIG PLOT
Government Agents Trace Destruction
of Property and Loss of Lives
to Foreigners.

New York, Dec. 2O.-With the ar
raignment here of Paul Koenfg, said
to be the head of the German secret
service in this country, and Richard
Emil Leyendecker, a New York art
goods dealer. on a charge Of conspir-
ing to blow up the Welland canal, fed
era1 officers asserted they had in their
hands the c1ews to a countrywide con-
spiracy to blow up munitions plants,
which has already resulted in the loss
of many lives and destruction of mil
lions of dollars worth of property.
For several years Koenig has been
the head of the detective force en-
ployed here by the Hamburg Amer
lean Steamship Company. The COM
pany, which is subsidized by the Ger
to his aid and through local surety
concern supplied $4,000 bail for him
and $4,000 bail for Leyendecker.
The arrest of Koenig and Leyen-
decker was coincident with the arrest
by county authorities of Frederick
Scheindl, clerk in the National City
bank. Scheindl, detectives claimed,
confessed regarding the shipment of
munitions to the allies. This informa-
ton was obtained through kilograms
and letters received by the National
City bank, which has had prominent
part in the purchasing in this country
of supplies for the allies. Scheindl
told the police that he is a German
reservist and that he acted solely from
patriotic motives.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
WILSON'S AT HOT SPRINGS, VA.
The President with His Bride are,
Settled at Southern Hotel for
Their Honeymoon.

Hot Springs, Va, Dec. 20.-Presi-
dent Wilson and his bride arrived here
shortly after o'clock this morning to
spend their honeymoon. They were
met at the station by crowd of sew
era1 hundred people who applauded as
they a1ighted from their private car.
Waiting automobiles took the couple
Immediately to their hotel.
Hot Springs and it's colony of Wis
itors welcomed the president and his
bride enthusiastically. When the
crowd began appIauding at the sta
tion, the president and Mrs. Wilson
appeared to be just as nervous as any
other newly married pair. They
smiled at each other and at the crowd
and the president raised his hat. Then
they walked briskly to a waiting
White House automobile which had
been shipped ahead for their use.
The president and Mrs. Wilson oc
cupy four rooms in a section of the
hotel set apart especially for them.
No other guests will be given rooms
near them. The suite is on the third
floor and -porches outside the window
overlook the golf links. The suite has
a dining room and the couple expect
to have all of their meals served pri-
vately. They did not appear in the
public part of the hotel tonight
Trials of the seclusion seekers be-
gan today with the arrival of corps
of photographers and moving picture
operators. The president has directed
that no pictures be taken of Mrs. Will
son or himself during the trip and the
order is being enforced by the usual
group of White House secret service
agents augmented by several addi-
tionaI men ordered here from their
regular stations to aid in guarding the
couple After some skirmishing to-
day the photographers declared a
truce but said they would try for some
pictures tomorrow.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
PROHIBIT FORD MEETINGS
Copenhagen Turns Down the Ameri-
can Peace Party-Newspapers Elk
press Little Hope of Success.

Christiania, Dec 21.-Henry Ford
has received information that he would
be prohibited from holding meetings
in Copenhagen, it was learned today.
He will go there, however, to select
the delegates to accompany his peace
party to The Hague
The newspapers, in commenting edi-
torially on the Ford peace mission,
express little hope for the success
of it.
The Verdens Gang, after saying that
the expedition will live in history.
adds:
THE great industrial organizer has
undertaken a gigantic task seemingly
without a definite plan His peace plan
seems without shape and not worked
out. The delegates appear to know
nothing about it. The purpose is great
Iy admired, but it unfortunately is
vague. Nevertheless it will figure in
history
The other newspapers comment in
q similar vein
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS MEN
State University Faculty Planning
the Annual Short Course for Rene-
fit of Kansas Merchants

Preparations are well under way at
the University of Kansas for the third
short course conducted annually for
Kansas merchants by the university
extension division The 1916 course
will continue five days, opening Febru-
airy z.
Some of the special topics to be con-
sidered at the coming sessions are the
mail order problem. store management,
business law, credits and collections,
and methods of handling produce re-
ceived in trade. The purpose of the
courses is to teach Kansas merchants
how to increase and more successfully
handle their business.
I'VE have had great sucress in our
two preceding courses declares F. r.
Hamilton, director of the K u. extern
sion work, -and the experience gained
makes it possible for an even stronger
program to be offered this year"
I'VE have secured excellent speak
ers, including Paul H. Neystrom of
New York city, an expert on the mail
order business, and K. W. Kerr, of the
United States department of agricuf
ture, who will lecture on The Work
of the Bureau of Markets" F. G.
Weeks and E. NJ. Mcclure, of Kansas
City, are on the list of lecturers.
Mr. Hamilton expects the attendance
to reach the 500 mark this year. Three
hundred and twenty Kansas merchants
attended last years session
One of the features of the course
will be the daily round table discus
sions at which the merchants of the
respective lines represented at the
course will talk over problems of their
own.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
Naval Advisory Board Says
American Fleet Must Equal
the Most Powerful.
TO PROTECT our COMMERCE
Present Conditions on High Seas Show
Necessity for Aetion-Want In
crease Each Year.

Washington, Dec. 22.-The Ameri-
can navy should be equal to the most
powerful maintained by any other ma
ton of the world not later than 1925,
in the opinion of the Navy General
Board headed by Admiral Dewey
The annual report of the board, made
public tonight, discloses that this ma
val policy was formulated by the body
in July last in answer to the following
propositions propounded by Secretary
Daniels when the administration
reached its decision to enter upon a
campaign of national preparedness:
What the navy must be in the fu-
ture in order to stand upon an equal
ity with the most efficient and most
practically serviceable.'
Should Be Increased Each Year.
The boards conclusions follow:
The navy of the United States
should ultimately be equal to the most
powerful maintained by any other ma
ton of the world. 1t should be gradu-
ally increased to this point by such a
rate of development year by year, as
may be permitted by the facilities of
the country, but the limit above de-
fined should be attained not later than
1925"
At the same time the board present
ed building program for 1917 in COM
pliance with the secretary's request
for "a program formulated in the most
definite terms, planned for a consist
ent and progressive development of
this great defensive arm of the nation
Requested Building Program.
Details of the boards reply are not
revealed, as subsequently, in October,
the secretary asked the board to pre-
pare "a building program for the navy
that will continue over a period of five
years with an expenditure of about
100 million each year for five years on
new construction only The admin
istration plan for the construction OF
is founded on the boards answer.
At the same time the board again de-
veloped it's idea of the place the Ameri-
can navy should hold in the world in
the following language:
3.The General Board believes that the
course of the war in Europe affords
convincing reasons for modifying the
opinion which it has expressed for the
last eleven years as to the proper size
of the navy. A navy in firm control of
the seas from the outbreak of war is
the prime essential to the defense of
a country situated as is the United
States, bordering on two great oceans.
A navy strong enough only to defend
our coast from actual invasion will not
suffice
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
REPORT RloTING IN JUAREz
Mexican Mob Stoned FL Paso Street
Car and Robbed the Aneri
can Passengers.

FL PaSo, Tex, Dec 22.-Rioting be-
gan in Juarez about noon yesterday
A street car which entered the town
at the international bridge was stoned
by a mob and the passengers, includ-
ing several Americans, were robbed.
The crew and passengers fought off
the Mexicans and the car escaped back
to Ell Paso. A crowd of Mexicans
gathered at the bridge seeking pas
sage to American soil. Several Juarez
stores were closed Some were robbed
Troops in Juarez declared they
would remain loyal to Villa until their
commander, Gen. Manuel Ochoa,
signed the articles of surrender exc
cuted by the Carranza government and
certain Villa generals here yesterday
Ochea,s name was not included among
the signerS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
GIVE BIG FUND TO AID JEWS
New York Hebrews Raise $615,o for
Sufferers of Their Faith in
Russia and Poland.

New York, Dec. 23.-Amid scenes
seldom witnessed more than $615, 900
was subscribed by $500 jews in Car
negie Hall Tuesday night for their
suffering co-religionists in Russia, Pc
land and the other theaters of war.
Men wept audibly, several women
were forced to leave the auditorium
when the tales of terrible suffering
and privations of pogroms, slaughter
and famine were recited
When the call for assistance was
made J. L. Magnes of the treasury
department of the American-Jewish
tthe war, under whose auspices the
meeting was held, men emptied their
pockets and took rings from their fin
gers, while their wives and daughters
pulled bejewelled rings from their
ears and placed them on the stand
or in the baskets which ushers passed
around
Wealthy and poor alike joined in
the demonstration of generosity that
of which New York perhaps has never
SEEN One immigrant, lately arrived,
gave 5 cents, his carfare, and walked
to his lodging in the lower East Side
Another poor man, a clerk, pledged
$3.50, half his weekly wage, for the
next six months, while those in mere
affluent circumstances gave just as
substantially
There were four anonymous gifts of
S100 000 each
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
GUNS TRAINED ON JUAREz

Washington, Dec. 23--American
troops at Ell Paso, the war depart
ment announces, have been given or
ders to return vigorously any fur
Their deliberate firing" from the Mexi-
can side of the border.
General Pershing, in command at
FL Paso. has reported that the firing
which resulted yesterday in the death
of an American car Inspector, was the
deliberate act of a squad Of Mexicans
who appeared half mile east of the
international bridge
American troops, the report added,
were covering the whole river front
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
Sen. VILLA IS NOW AFueIIIvE
Mexican Chief Disappears When State
of Chihuahua and Rebel Capital
were Surrendered by Aides

Eli Paso, Tex, Dec. 21.@The Carran-
"a de facto government is now in Off
cial control of the former Villa state of
chihuahua, and the organization of the
Villa government, Including four thou
sand troops, the cities of Juarez and
chihuahua and all border points agrees
to accept the Carranza domination
This was made possible by an agree
ment signed by the Villa leaders, Cen
erals Roberto Timon, Manuel Banda,
Lieut. Col. F1avanio Paliza and Col.
Eduardo Andalon. and Carranza Consul
Andreas Garcia. The agreement grants
amnesty to all but General Villa and
his brother, Hipolito.
The generals entered into confer
ence yesterday as delegates from Gen.
era1 Villa to confer with the Carranza
consul, on a plan to turn over the en-
tire territory and all troops and arms.
and for Villa to leave the capital with
out any following
They reported late last night the re-
suit of their conference to General
Villa at chihuahua City.
Late today they had received no re-
ply from General Villa, and instead
learned that after receiving their ad-
vices, Villa gathered four or five hun
dred men and left the capital, and that
his whereabouts was unknown. By
some experienced observers of Mexi-
can affairs it is regarded as not impos-
sible that Villa may be somewhere in
chihuahua state preparing to take the
field against his former organization.
Upon opening the conference with
the Carranza consul today the consuls
announced they would proceed upon
the unrescinded authorization as given
by General Villa. They said they be-
lieved he feared that the delegates
would not be able to secure him i'm
munity from prosecution should he
cross the international line.
The surrender of the Villa organi-
zation includes about four thousand
armed men, about rs per cent of the
rolling stock of the railroads of Mex
leo, and the state of Chihuahua, the
richest mining and live stock district
in Mexico.
According to officials here the for
eign interests in Villa controlled terri
tory have suffered loss estimated at
SO million dollars, due to confiscation
and alleged thefts of ore, cattle and
other property, and the depreciation
of Villa currency.