Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-08-02
The War is Draining the State
of Most of Its Good
Physicians.
SOME HOSPITALS MAY CLOSE
To Government That Officials
Are Alarmed.

and surgeons. Most of the first-class
doctors and surgeons will be with the
troops. OF all the professions, the
medical men are showing the most
patriotism. They are volunteering by
the hundreds. but still there is a
shortage of surgeons in the army.
Next to common soldiers surgeons are
needed in the greatest number.
1t takes private soldiers and sur
geons to win a war. The outcome
doesn't depend entirely upon the stay
at home farmers, as many of the poll
ticians are now preaching. Many of
the big surgeons of the state have not
only volunteered their services but
have offered to equip field hospitals.
Two Topeka surgeons, DIR. McClintock
and DR.. Bowen, even offered to estab-
lish and run base hospital, but the
war department has been compelled
to reject all such patriotic offers.
1t is organizing the hospitals, both
field and base, itself and will permit
no others to be organized in the fu-
ture. Early in the war game it did
give authority to one. or two sets of
surgeons to organize hospitals, but it
has now changed its policy in that re-
spect. Nearly every surgeon of any
consequence in the state has offered
his services. The surgeons are not
SO particular as to what rank they are
given. They are ready to go in most
any capacity. just SO they can go and
the threatened exodus of first-class
surgeons to Europe has caused alarm.
One big Topeka hospital may close
during the war on account of losing
it's surgeons and nurses engaged in
IL 1or hot
the hospitals of the big cities will all
have to form a pool to take care of
the home situation during the war.
Next to medical men perhaps the
newspaper profession is furnishing
the most soldiers-that is, from the
professions. The training camp at
Fort Riley is filled with newspaper
men.
Veterans EIect.-Officers elected by
the Spanish War Veterans, Kansas
Department, at the encampment ses-
sion in Salina, are: L. C. Housed. Sa-
lima, department commander; E. ].
Lyons, Salina. senior vice-command-
er; A D. Smith, Larned, junior vice
commander; M. G. Cockey, Salina,
physician; ]. B. Stone, Fort Leaven-
worth, marshal; ]. w. Ozias, Military
Home, Leavenworth. chaplain; c. W.
White, Military Home, Judge advo-
cate; B. S. Berry, Hutchinson, judge
advocate; o. A. Faulk, Topeka, adj
jutant; H. V. Hilton, Salina, quarter
master A resolution was passed in
dorsing the appointment of c. 1. Mar
tin as brigadier general
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Wheat and Oats Good.-The first
car of wheat was loaded out of Buoy
rus recently and tested sixty-three
pounds to the bushel. Wheat there
is averaging from eighteen to thirty
bushels an acre and oats forty to sew
enty.
Stabbed Harvest Hand-W. Som
mers of West Plains. Mo-, a harvest
hand, was probably fatally stabbed by
an l. w. W. in Mcpherson county. He
was brought to Mcpherson by DR.. L.
F. Quantius.
Nav Have New, Hotter H. Dean,
q Kansas City hotel man, is expected
at Eldorado to consult with the local
committee in regard to the hotel FL
dorado is projecting. The plans call
for a 1925, 900 hotel.
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Wheat $104 An ACCESSIBILITY more
than forty-seven bushels of wheat to
the acre was threshed by Robert Roth
on forty-four acres in Chase county
The crop, 1880 bushels, sold for $500
a bushel, yielding $104 an acre.
A pioneer EDITOR btad-R. G. FL
Holt, founder of the Kansas Free
State, the first newspaper in Kansas,
is dead at Lawrence. Mr.. Elliott
came to Lawrence in 1854 from In
DIANA and with Josiah Miller. founded
the paper devoted to make Kansas
free from slavery The Free State
lasted until 1856, when it was de-
stroyed by Southern sympathizers
controlling the state government Mr..
Elliott was member of the first ter
ritorial legislature, the county treas
urer and county assessor of Douglas
county He was a member of the first
free state party reaching Lawrence
and the last survivor of this group.
Car Strike -Ends-Cars of the Jop-
lin & Pittsburg Railway Company
started running again after suspen-
sion of service of four days The
strike of the engineers at the power
houses of the company was ended by
an agreement
Chaplain to T. n. c. a. work.ZDr.
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