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A MYSTERY SOLVED WAS THE SECOND BEST YEAR Kansas Farm Products for 1916 Worth REFORM BILLS INTRODUCED Resolution Providing for Constitution, al Convention Presented To Test State Road Aid A BOOST IN STATE TAXES EXPECTED AN APPEAL FOR FAIR PLAY $371,188,476, Says State Agricultural Board's Report. Body of Mrs. Charles Cochrane of Lawrence Found tn the Kaw River. Kansas produced agricultural products valued at $371,188,476 during the year 1916, according to the final crop Public Institutions as Well as individuals Hit by the High Cost of Living. MISSING SINCE OCTOBER 25 summary issued by the state board of agriculture.

This is $30,000,000 more than that of 1915 and lacks only of reaching a bumper record of 1914. The value of live stock Is placed at $341,020,835, larger by than any previous year. An outstanding feature of the year's inventory, aside from the high prices that generally prevailed, is the wheat crop. Its yield of 99,384,760 bushels is the second largest in the history of the A Nation-Wlde Search Had Been Made NEED AT LEAST MILLION MORE for State University Professor's Wife in Vain. Nearly Every Institution Clamoring When the Stomach, Liver and Bowels rebel, and Refuse to perform their regular functions, Play fair, Give Nature the help required, by trying HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS The body of Mrs.

Charles Cochrane, who disappeared from her home in lor Money and Improvements How the Taxes Are Apportioned. state, worth $134,615,300. While its pro Lawrence the night of October, 25, was duction is but little more than one-half the record output of 1914. its taken from the flume of the Bower Topeka. The people of Kansas can ngure right now on $1,000,000 increasa value is only 10 per cent less, and it sock Mill in the Kaw river there recently.

The body was lying against the grating, through which the river exceeds the value of the crop of 1915 in state taxes during the next two years. It is coming just as sure as the by nearly $49,000,000. The averaee water rushes into the mill wheels. sun rises. There is no wav out of it.

price received by the growers is riven George Couch and Ed Vogt, employes The increase could be $2,000,000 and as $1.35 a bushel, the highest reported CiT the mill fminst tha hrlr 1- since 1872. still all requirements would not be satisfied. The value of the field croDS of 1916 The high cost of living hits the Btate vrAj nuiiu 1 CI IV" ing driftwood from in front of the grating. An autopsy showed that Mrs. Cochrane met her death by drownine.

In amounted to $273,110,075. Forty-nine as wen as the individual. It will take per cent of this is credited to wheat. Only two corn crops in the last twen $100,000 more to feed all the state wards than it did in normal times. Topeka.

The better government movement got a start In the Kansas legislature when Robert Barr, Bourbon county, introduced the resolution necessary for submitting the constitutional convention to the people. Three resolutions were introduced. One providing the question be submit-ted to the people at the general election in 1918, another providing that more, than three amendments to the convention may be submitted at a single election. The third provides that when the constitution finally is drafted, it shall be submitted to the people for ratification. T.

O. county, introduced in the house recently an arbitration hill that is intended to stop much of the litigation now in the courts. The bill provides that when there is litigation proposed the petition and the answer may be filed in the court and then litigants may request an arbitration board which the court appoints. That board hears evidence without the red tape of the usual court procedure and then makes a ruling. This the court may approve, and if there is further dispute there may be a court trial on the disputed points only.

The plan to get a test of the Kansas constitutional prohibition against the state aiding good roads improvement was given a big boost. The Bard well bill( introduced recently, making an appropriation of $5,000 as state aid for good roads, was advanced to third reading and passed by vote of 106 to 8. The bill will go to the senate and similar action is expected soon. As soon as the bill becomes a law suit to enjoin the payment of the money will be brought in the supreme court. The court wift hear the case next week if it can be prepared in time and a decision will be rendered in If the decision should declare the constitution did not prohibit good roads work the present legislature could make appropriations and begin road work this spring, and not have to wait two years to remove the constitutional dications are that she committed sui ty-five years have been smaller than The clothing bill will be another $100, the yield of 62,127,190 bushels, and the 000 more.

The coal bill will increase. output of the sorghums ws far below the average, the season having almost that amount. Then comes the A Bit of Everything. Traveler (entering hotel) Can I have "something to eat? Proprietor Yes what would you like? Traveler What have you got? Proprietor Oh, we've got everything. Proprietor (shouting into kitchen) One stool New York Morning Deen unfavorable for both.

In tact hike in salaries, necessitated by the increased cost of existence. The rest. of the increase will be taken up in yields of all the principal products, excepting wheat, were less in their aggregates than for the preceding year, but owing to higher prices the total value of all field crops was more new buildings and improvements, absolutely required by different institutions. Nearly every institution in the state, educational, charitable and nenal. than $23,000,000 greater.

There is an increase df approximately $7,000,000 wants extensive improvements. The in tne value of animal nroducts. more COVETED BY ALL but possessed by few a beautiful head of hair. If yours is streaked with gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can restore it to its former beauty and luster by UBing "La Creole" Hair Dress- than $5,000,000 of which is accounted university wants the Pitts burg normal wants $200,000: the Aeri for in the one item of animals sold cultural college, $75,000 Hays Normal, for slaughter, which amounts to 762,369, compared to $63,438,405 in 1915, The income fjom poultry is more by $700,000, and the value of dairy the various insane hospitals about $300,000 and the prison and reformatory another $50,000. Many of these buildings must be authorized, else the state will dron behind in it ing.

i-nce t.uu. aqt. An instrument that measures the glare of light reflected from paper has been invented. products is greater by about an equal amount, a most notable gain having been made in condensed milk, from educational standing and fall short of 1,166,161 pounds, worth. $81,031.

in taking proper care of its wards. The total taxes raised in Kansas 1915, to 8,344,570 pounds, worth in 1916.. now aggregate about $35,000,000 a There been substantial in creases in the numbers of all kinds of live stock, except horses and hogs, which are less by 7.232 and 230.895 WhenWorklsHard That kidney troubles are so common Is due to the strain put upon the kidneys in so many occupations, such as: Jarring and Jolting on railroads, etc. Cramp and strain as In moulding, heavy lifting, etc. Exposure to changes of temperature in iron furnaces, refrigerators, etc.

Dampness as In tanneries, quarries, mines, etc. Inhaling poisonous fumes In painting, printing and chemical shops. Doan's Kidney Pills are fine for strengthening weak kidneys. A Kansas Cass 1.7 At 1 LEGISLATURE IS ORGANIZED head, respectively. KANSAS FIRE LOSSES GROW and Senate Ratify Caucus Nominations and Get Ready for the Regular.

Grind. Marshal Hussey's Report for Last Year Shows a Heavy Increase In the State. Fire losses in Kansas during 1916 totaled $3,845,682, a gain of $1,099,879 over 1915, according to a report by L. T. Hussey, state fire marshal.

Total fires in the state last year were 3,320, j. UDe, iuz Illinois Neodesha, says; "The first symptom of my kidney trouble was dizziness and I often had to stop work. My head ached Intensely and I had a deep-seated pain just above my hips day and night. Doan's Kidney Pills removed all these symptoms of kidney complaint. Since then, when I have caught cold on my kidneys, I have taken Doan's Kidnev against 2,445 in 1915, a gain of 873.

Returns completed In the state fire marshals' office show 355 fires in De Topeka. The Kansas Legislature met at noon, to organize and then adjourned to await the delivery of the governor's message the next morning. W. Y. Morgan, lieutenant governor called the senate to order and the oath of office was administered to the senators by R.A.

Burch, associate justice of the supreme court. In the house J. T. Botkin.ecretaryf state, called the members to order and-W. A.

Johnston, chief justice of the supreme court, administered the oath. The majority caucus nominations for the elective places in both branches were put through without delay. The officers of the senate are: President pro C. S. Huffman; cide while in a fit of despondency October 25.

The body was only slightly, bruised and was in good condition, considering the time it had been in the water. The supposition is that she had entered the water at the foot of Ohio street, about two hundred yards above the dam. The body was then washed downstream, lodging against the piling bridge of the Kaw Valley interurban line. The removal of the piling of this bridge apparently released the body, allowing it to be carried into the flume. Mrs.

Cochrane was the wife of Prof. Charles Cochrane of the K. U. Engineering School. Mrs.

Cochrane left her home in Lawrence the night of October 25 and was not seen again. A nation-wide search was instituted for her and various clews wre followed by Professor Cochrane and his friends to several cities in the Middle West. Tablet to Hero'sMemory. Instead of being buried in a pauper's grave, Richard Moore, railroad laborer and wayfarer, 50 years old, will have a marble monument with this inscription "Richard Moore, hero, who sacrificed his life January 10, 1917, to prevent the wrecking of a train." Funeral services for Moore were held in Savonburg, with the Presbyterian and Methodist ministers officiating. Traveling men who had read of his heroic death started a fund for a private lot and marker.

Oldest Kansas Mason Dies. John Westmoreland, 84 years the oldest Odd Fellow, in Kansas in point of membership and believed to have been a member of the. Masonic order longer than any other man in Kansas, is dead at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Matthew Corman, two miles west of Kansas City, Kan. He had a Mason and an Odd Fellow sixty-two years.

Rifle Shot Kills Boy. Frank Scott, the 7-year-old son of Dan Scott, a carpenter, was accidentally killed at his home in Holton by a bullet from a rifle. His 10-year-old brother was in the room at the time, but is in such condition from shock he cannot give a satisfactory explanation of the shoot-. ing. Chapman Elevator Burred.

The --Injured by Dynamite. D.F.Don-xnyer, 33 years old, a farmer living near Salina, is in a hospital suffering from a dynamite wound. Donmyer had several sticks of dynamite in a boat and was preparing t6 dynamite a fish hole in the Smoky Hill river. The "dynamite exploded prematurely. To Store Cement in Bins.

The Iola Portland Cement Company, has completed the construction of six mammoth cement storage bins with a combined capacity of 100,000 barrels. The bins are made of cement and are seventy feet high. They are the first of the kind west of New York. Dump Car Turns Over. Willis E.

Whipple, 35 years old, was killed, a Mexican suffered a fractured leg, and numerous other railroad section employes narrowly escaped injury near Richmond, Franklin county when a dump car turned- over and rolled year. One-tenth of this amount, or $3,500,000, is state tax. The; rest is school, county and municipal. The state tax is $1.30 per $1,000. Many people wonder how the state money is spent The state tax commission has figured it out Out of every $1.30 raised, 57 cents goes for education, 27 cents for charitable 14 cents for penal institutions, 4 cents for soldiers homes and the remaining 28 cents for paying the expenses of all other state departments, including the supreme court and district courts.

Even with the $1,000,000 increase, the people have the satisfaction of knowing that the state tax rate is still far below the average of the other states. a Huge Increase in Deposits. Deposits in the 983 state banks, three private banks and eleven trust companies Increased more than during the last year, according to figures given out by the state bank commissioner. 4 4 Probe Kansas Mine Disasters. The two mine disasters In Kansas -will be investigated at once.

3 The house of representatives took up the Montee resolution already passed by the senate and adopted it under a sus pension of the rules. The resolution calls upon John Pellegrino, state mine inspector, for a complete report on the Stone City disaster and the Osage City mine fire. fr 4 4 Denied a Charter. The state charter board has refused to grant a charter to the Royal cember, with a total loss of $539,528. The month ranked second for the year in losses and third Jn number of fires.

In March 393 fires occasioned a total loss of $305,098, while 360 fires in Au Pills and they have always brought good results." Get Doan's at Any Store, 60c Box AN.9 S.TJLV FOSTER-M1LBURN BUFFALO. N.Y. gust resulted in losses of $607,176. The Hussey review of December secretary, Emmett George; sergeant-" fires shows the heaviest loss in Sedgwick The Sedgwick loss for December alone was $95,000 in excess of the Shawnee county loss for the entire year. Burning of the Masonic Orphans' Home at Wichita added to the heavy December losses in Sedg wick county, which totaled $210,704.

Of the 355 fires last month, 197 were in dwellings, where a loss of $286,296 resulted. Fifty barns and stables burned during the month, with a loss of $50,639. Fires in four elevators were responsible for losses aggregat ing $97,600. Seventeen stores burned with a total loss of $41,913." Stoves, furnaces and pipes caused Fratfernal Association of Kansas City, Kan. This association was organized thirty-two fires and a loss of $210,048.

Spontaneous combustion caused twelve to take over and consolidate all of the fires and losses of $32,270, according Mr. Wree "Do you know what's good for rats?" Miss Slows" Why, poison, of course." Mr. Wise "No. that would kit! them cheese." Do you know what's good for a cough, throat and lung troubles, that will allay Inflammation and insure a good night's sleep with free and easy expectoration in the morning? Theanswer always the same jear after year is BoscheeV German Syrup Soothing and healing to bronchial and throat Irritation. 25c.

and 75c. sizes all Druggists and Dealers everywhere. Your grandfather used it 51 years ago. Try It yourself and see how It stops a hacking cough like magic. fraternal associations run by the for to the report.

eign element of Kansas City, Kan. 4" 4" 4 Every Senator a Chairman. The S3nate committee on commit at-arms, E. B. Jones.

The officers of the house are: Speaker, A. M. Keene; speaker pro W. A. Layton; chief clerk, Cfar-ence Miller; sergeant-at-arms, A.

E. Hawkinson. Each branch has one contest to he settled. The members who were given the certificates of election were seated and will act until the election committees and the members act finally on the contests. I.

Mahin, Republican, is contesting the election of W. C. Whitney for senator from the Fortieth District. R. E.

Herndon, Republican, is contesting the election of Samuel Clasen for representative from the Rosedale district, Wyandotte County. "Bone Dry" Law for Kansas. Kansas will be "bone dry" by February 1 if the legislature enacts a liquor law now being drawn by Attorney General The bill will be in line with the recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court on the Webb-Kenyon law and on the West Virginia law. 41 fr 4-For Munipical Ice Plants. A bill introduced by Representative Wilson of Pawnee county gives every city in Kansas authority to build an ice plant.

4 4 4 Too Many Laws for- Kansas. A. M. Keene of Fort Scott won applause from the Kansas legislators when he declared in his speech of acceptance as speaker of thd house that tees has completed the work of assign ing committee chairmanships in the upper branch of the Kansas Legisla ture. Every senator has been given a committee.

The committee is now at work filling In the numbers of the various committees. This work will not be completed for several days. FOR OLD AND YOUNG Tutt's Liver Pills act as kindly on the rtitid, the delicate female or infirm old age, as upon tne vigorous man. if Slow On License Fees. More than 2,000 hotels, restaurants Injures Six Children.

Six -children of J. W. Poison were, injured when their motor car turned over with them at a railroad crossing at Kiowa. Wright, 18 years old, is in a hospital seriously injured. The others' injuries are slight.

Murdock Home soon. Victor Murdock, formerly representative from Kansas; who has been visiting in China with his wife and daughter, Catherine, cabled that he will be back in Kansas soon. Open Lawrence Bridge. More than four thousand residents of Douglas county were guests of Lawrence at the opening celebration for the new $200,000 bridge over the Kaw river in that city. A program in the Bower-sock Theater was followed by a parade across the new concrete bridge, Among the speakers were ex-Senator J.

L. Bristow of Salina, C. S. Gleed of Topeka1, Ben S. Wilson, ex-state senator; G.

Kaill of Kansas City, representing the Union Pacific Rail, way Company, and K. D. Klemm, pres-i4at of the XCanaae City, Kaw Valley and boarding houses in Kansas have failed to pay theif annual license fee to the hotel commissioner and notice has been served on each one that It give tone and strength to the weak stomach, bowels, kidneys and Hnil'fT mm down an embankment. Dead After Motor Crash. Moses W.

Watsoil B.Coleman, Washington, D.C. Books free. Highest references. Best results. PATENTS will be closed on January 15 if it te not paid by that time.

4 4 4 Averts a Hanging in Kansas. William White, sentenced to be ST RATIO (No Oil) No more Wal1' ALL the state legislature might repeal one-half of its laws in safety and should hanged In the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, January 14, will not be get down to business and go home Hau, 8 2 years old, or Pittsburg, is dead at Scammon, four hours after the motor car in which he had been riding with relatives was-struck by an interurban car. Names New Geologist. Dr. Raymond Moore of the department of geology of the university, has been appointed state gcologitt by Chancellor Frank Strong, put to death.

Otho T. Woods. United at the end of a 50-day session. Kan sas has too many laws on the statute books without a stampede -for new Aches in Stomach, Back, Side or Shoulders; L1t TroiiMAS, 8tonmih MUwry, DyRrwrnstii, CVHc, Biliousness, Headache, Constipation, Piles, Catarrh) Nervousness, Bines. Jaundice, Appendicitis.

These are common Gallstone symptoms OA NBaCUHHD, Send for home treatment. Medicil Book im rf VP L)7r, Stomach. 6 ill Troubles snd Appondleitli. IxJULa flitllttoa Homed; Dept, W-i, 19 1, Bonbon II Ckluf W. N.

WICHITA, NO. J-1817. States here, has received a message from the federal parole board in Washington that White's sentence had bean coraxautad to -Ufa imprison- enactments except in cases where ab solute need exists, Kea told the beuie Binberii aaav.