The Lecompton Sun from Lecompton, Kansas • Page 2

THE LECOMTTON SUN WHAT THE LEGISLATURE DID NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER KANSAS CUT DOWN LIST OF U.S. DEPOSITORIES NOW FREE FROM PAIN Lydia E. PinkWs Vegetable Compound Frees Another Woman From Suffering-. Nasty Colds 8lxty-Elght New Laws Were Enacted by Special Session in Three Weeks, Record 6howi. The special session of the Kansas legislature did more Important and constructive work in the three weeks It was In session than most legislatures accomplish In the two months of a regular session.

The work of the legislature is as follows: Bills introduced 204. Original bills passed, 79. Bills passed both houses, new laws, 68. Here are the Important new laws: Court of Industrial relations, which supersedes the public utilities commission, and is given power to regulate packing houses and stockyards. Anti-syndicalism law, modeled on Oregon statute.

Making possible 50 per cent increases In salaries of public school teachers. Creating state free employment bureau. Appropriating $:0,000 for the national guard. Broadening life insurance laws. Increasing salaries supreme court justices and district Judges.

Increasing salaries of a number of state- employees. Protecting Pottawatomie Indians from mescal. Giving Insurance department control over hail insurance rates, and prohibiting discriminations in rales. Providing a bonus for Increased tonnage of prisoners in state coal mines. Authorizing increases in school tonnage of prisoners in state coal mines.

Authorizing increases in school district bond Issues to provide better and more adequate school houses and equipment. Fixing a prison sentence of five to fifteen years for stealing motor cars. Important amendments to state highway laws. These Important proposition died or were killed: Extension of city manager plan to all cities. Anti profiteering bill.

Municipal Ice plant bill. Permitting establishment municipal fuel yards. City ownership of pipelines. Compel public utilities to take cases to state supreme court. Making Armistice day a legal holiday.

Establishing township parks and cemeteries. Bond Issue bonus of 3V4 million dol lars. for World War service men. Registration of title in motor cars. At the annual meeting of the Wom en Kansas Day Club In Topeka.

Mrs. H. B. Ashcr of Lawrence was elected president to succeed Mrs. F.

W. Watson of Topeka; Mrs. Eva Mor-ley Murphy of Goodland was elected vice president. Six hundred attended the annual luncheon. Other officers elected are Mrs.

H. B. Musser of Parsons, second vice president; Mrs. Matie Kimball of Manhattan, secretary; Mrs. F.

XV. Watson, Topeka, treasurer; Miss Grace Young of Be-loit auditor; Mrs. J. M. Miller ot Council Grove, historian.

James R. Plumb of Emporia has been elected president of the Kansas Livestock Association, John A. Edwards, Eureka, was chosen first vice president. J. H.

Mercer, secretary ot the association for many years, was re-elected secretary-treasurer without opposition. Patrick McCabe, 80, one of the earl test settlers of Chase County, is dead at his home at Bazaar. Mr. McCabe came to Chase County in the year 1858 and located near Bazaar where he engaged in farming and stock rais ing and has made his home there ever since. The Kansas Socialists are planning to put a complete state ticket Into tbe political field.

Including a candidate for governor, In the coming election This statement followed Socialist rally at Wichita, when Adolph Ger- mer, former national Socialist secretary, spoke. A local Socialist party was formed. The Socialists, just re viving from the split which cam when the Communist Labor party and the Communist party were formed some time ago, now has a membership In Kansas of about 2,000 it Is said. The Kansas Socialists have as their aim the overthrow of the present form of government, not by force, but by political means, it Is declared. Rally meetings are being held all over Kan s.is this month in an effort to put the party again on its feet.

The schoolhouse at Overland Park, eight miles southwest ot Kansas City, burned recently. The cause of the fire Is unknown. It will cost $20,000 to replace the building, according to T. Cutlip, a member ot tbe school board Happenings of More or Less Interest Gathered From Many Sources. THE KANSAS DAY CLUB MEETS J.

H. Lee of Harveyvllle Elected President Without Opposition Salina Gets State Convention. The annual "love feast" of Kansas Republicans culminated in the Kansas Day Club banquet, lit which party leaders from all over the state gathered in Topeka to hear speakers extol the accomplishments ot the state and the merits of the party. During the day the stale central committee met and selected Salina as the state convention city, fixing the date of the convention on March 31. At this convention delegates and alternates to the national convention will be selected.

At the regular business meeting J. H. Lee of Harveyville was elected president without opposition. Walter t'haney of Topeka was re-elected secretary of the club. The vice-presidents are chosen by districts, a man and a woman from each congressional district serving as the executive committee of the club.

The vice-presidents are: First district, W. M. Smith, Oaka- loosa; Mrs. J. K.

Codding, Leavenworth. Second district, Sennctt Kirk, Gar- nctt; Mrs. S. Sheldon, Ottawa. Third district.

F. E. George, Alta- mont; Mrs. Elizabeth Dittman, Independence. Fourth district, Fred Hammond, Burlington; Mrs.

J. M. Miller, Council Grove. Fifth district, Sidney Knapp. Con cordia; Mrs.

C. M. Hargcr, Abilene. Sixth district, C. W.

Miller, Hays; Mrs. Ida Walker, Norton. Sevonth district. W. E.

Ilroadie, Klnsloy; Mrs. J. E. Schall. Dodge City.

Eighth district. C. H. Hatton, Wichi ta; Mrs. Stella Iluynos, Augusta.

Tho swan song ot the public util ities commission as it has functioned for the last several years allows the Wostorn Union Telegraph Company to continuo in effect the schedule of rates fixed by the order of Postmaster General Burleson on March 29, 1919, for another thirteen months. At the end of that time a report Is to bo made, on all intrastate business. Tho other order Issued by the commission on tho last day of its existence will allow L. A. Walker, II.

M. Evans and K. Hlggins to sell their telephone plants at Pittsburg, Parsons and elsewhere in Kansas. A list of the cases filed with tho utilities commission which has given way to the court of Industrial relations as created by the legislature shows that 882 applications havo been filed since January, 1919, and that orders hare been issued in 764 cases. On the commission's docket now taken over by the new court are Ihirtj five gas cases, fifty-nine tele phone esses and thirty-three railway cases, soventen appeals nave Deen made from the commissioners' orders After many mouths of investigation, Pvt.

Paul Schmidt, son ot August Schmidt, has been officially reported "kilted in action, July 20, 1918." Many conflicting reports were received by the parents through military chan nels, The Leavenworth boy was a member of Company 28th Infantry. Another "whistling well' has been drilled in southwestern Kansas. It Is on tho Fred Dahm farm, ton miles east of Meado. The well, one nun dred and fifty feet deep, was drilled for water. During fair weather Mr.

Dahm Bays air is drawn down the tho hole with a suction sufficient to ruuso a whistling noise. Just prior to a storm, the owner of the well as sorts, the currents is reversed and air comes rushing out of the well, Dr. Dahm and his neighbors now do. pend on it to forecast changes lu the weather. In this section of the state tho well Is commonly known as "Dahm's natural barometer." Influenza continues to spread rapidly through Kansas reports to the state board ot health showing a total of 1,424 new cases during one day as compared with 778 the day before.

Herman Klasiuskl, 55 years old pioneer grocer of the city and presi dent ot tbe Leavenworth Retail Groc ers' Association Is dead after a long illness, lie was a native of Poland Drastic Action of Treasury Department Leaves Less Than Four Hundred. SAY SITUATION HAS CHANGED Plan Is To Provide for Scientific Appointment and Cut Off the Inactive Accounts. Washington. Drastic reduction in the number of national banks designated as government depositories is being made by the treasury department with the result that less than 400 of the 1,331 such Institutions holding federal funds on June 30, 1919, are expected to survive the pruning knife. Changes in the government's financial situation, brought about by war's fiscal operations, it was said officially, have made It necessary to abolish hundreds of the depositories and revise the plan for distribution of government moneys among banks employed since prior to 1912.

While the treasury Is cutting off the Inactive accounts it Is also reducing the balances carried by many other banks in all, In fact, where government transactions do not require the use of large sums. No Banks Favored. "Scientific apportionment," it is said, will be based in the future for disposition of surplus funds. Officials explained the new policy as to depositories would operate so that each bank will bo able' to realize equal returns on a basis of business done for the government. Included In the list of national banks already struck off are 6C6 bsnks which had accounts of only $1,000 and which were designated as government depositories during the administration of Franklin McVeagh as secretary of the treasury for President Taft.

Practically half ot the banks to be deprived ot government balances already have been eliminated from the rolls and outstanding balances thus have been reduced from $52,000,000 to 27,000,000. Other banks will be taken off of the official list of depositories and other accounts will be reduced ntll by the end ot the calendar year It is expected the new policy will be fully completed. Officials are reticent as to the geographical location of tho epositorles canceled. Special Depositories Stay. Tho new policy of tho treasury does not contemplate disturbance of the present system of special depositories which was created as an emergency measure during the war.

EPIDEMICS RUN IN CYCLES Disease Organisma Reproduce Then- selves Says an English Physician Who Has Studied Them. Washington. Recurrence of Influ enza epidemics In cycles thirty three or sixty-six weeks apart are discussed In a statement issued by the bureau of the census based on a study mide by Dr. John Brownlee, an English physician, who advanced the cycle theory. it is now exactly sixty-six weeks since the mortality peak of the epidemic In Chicago," the statement said.

"The same is true for New York City ami Washington. In all three of these places Influenza is euidemlc. 'The periodicity suggests mat we may be dealing wi'h organ Isms which not only have the power to reproduce themselves in a virulent from continuously for a long perloa susceptiblo persons are exposed, but which also have the power of develop ing In cycles ot thirty-three or sixty, six weeks. This recurrence of ept denilcs ot 1889. 1890, 1918 and 1920 all have common etiology.

A HUGE RAILROAD DEFICIT Washington. Operation ot Ihe rail roads, Pullman lines, express compan ies and waterways, unified under fed eral control, has cost the nation approximately $700,000,000, according to official calculation since mey taken over two years ago. Figures made public by tbe railroad administration tonight revealed a net loss of $594,200,000 from railroad oper ation alone In the two-year period Statistics, gathered from official sources as to operating costs of tbe Pullman lines and waterways and ex press companies while operated by the government, show the addition of $100,000,000 to the treasporUtlon costs. Bavonne. N.

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This famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with lithla, and is harmless to flush clogged kidneys nnd stimulates them to normal activity. It also neutralizes the acids in the urine so it no longer Irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salt Is harmless; Inexpensive; makes a delightful effervescent lithla-water drink which everybody should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean, thus avoiding serious complications. A well-known local druggist saya he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe In overcoming kidney trouble while It Is only trouble. Adv.

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