Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-04-14
New Statute Conflicts in Re-
gard to Sale of "Under
Test" Gasoline.
MISTAKES IN OTHER LAWS, TOO
Attorney Generals Office Kept Busy
Trying to UntangIe Errors of
Late Session.

Tor test on gasoline and says If
gasoline does not meet certain test
then it shall be sold as Under Test"
The very next section makes it a
crime punishable by fine and impris-
onment for any vendor to sell gasoline
that does not meet the test.
The 1917 legislature certainly has
given this office powerful lot of
work to do said Attorney General
Brewster. Scarcely a day passes
that some bobble is not found in a
law which we are called upon to
straighten out. The latest is the oil
inspection law. 1t looks to me that
we viii just have to ignore the GRIM
NAL sections, because the Kansas re-
fIneries cannot put out gasoline at a
reasonable price that will meet the
test
The attorney general is now trying
to untangle a school tax law that af-
fects all the large cities. 1t seems
that legislative clerk put an amend
ment intended for Bill 374 into Bill
81, providing for tax levies for city
schools, and it simply plays hob with
the law. The records show that the
amendment had no business in 81,
but it is there and the law has been
duly signed and published.
Through an error of a legislative
clerk the published law in regard to
protecting Quails contains an amend
ment that was voted down. The
amendment gives an open season for
shooting quail from December 1 to Is.
The records clearly show that the
was never carried. Still
the law with the amendment in it has
been duly signed and published. The
general says that defect
must be rectified by all means
The attorney general will pay no at |
tention to the mistake made whereby |
the anti-pass law was amended to |
give passes to telephone employees |
The railroads all know that such |
was voted down, even |
though it is in the law, and they have |
served notice that they will issue no |
such passes.
Big Fire at Hoisington.-Two fires |
here shortly after midnight burned the
Missouri Pacific bridge over Dry Run |
and two residences and livery
stable at Hoisington. The bridge fire |
did not put the main line track out
of commission, although switching in
the yards was delayed several hours.
Prairie Fire in Kansas-A prairie
fire originating near the Rock Island
tracks, near Greelsburg, swept across
the sand hills for thirty miles the 9TH
er day. Several farmers lost their
entire property, while others saved
vailed.
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One Dead in q karsas Fire.-Jo-
seph Scott, cashier, met death at indie
pendence, and H. E. Jones, bill clerk.
was probably fatally burned, when
the lower part of the Missouri Pacific's
freight station caught fire Evidently
he two men smelled smoke and went
10 investigate. Jones managed to push
open car door and get out Scott was
found near another door with his coat
over his head. He was badly burned
md life was extinct.
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Farmer Found Dead. - Leaning
against his corncrib John J. Martin, a
-ich farmer, was found dead the other
hight near Augusta. A bloodclot on
he brain had killed him
X x x
Girl Spurns FIag.-Anna. Folkland
If the fourth grade in the Irving
chool at Wichita, was suspended re-
emily by the principal, Mrs Helen
1ckstein, because she refused to
alute the Stars and Stripes and give
he oath of allegiance, as is the rule
'he is Is years old and says THE flag
Ioes not stand for all that is in the
'ath- The father, G. w. Folkland,
he stated. had taught her the flag
i'd not stand for justice and she was +,
his instructions The girl
aid she would give up her education
n the public schools rather than be
hypocrite. The father has been a
socialist, he acknowledges.
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Expect Big Hay crop.-Prospects :
ever have been better for a big
rairie hay crop, according to large ]
olders of hay land in Woodson and /
wilson counties, the banner hay ]
egion of the country. {
Killed by Live Wire.-Horace Co
erly, aged Sc, a farmer, who lived ]
even miles northwest of Hutchinson. I
Tas killed recently by accidentally {
ouching high power electric trans ]
lission line. He is survived by his 9
life and one son. s
Gas Wrecked Home-A two-story
rame residence of Thomas Bowles
ras wrecked by a gas explosion at