• Oscar Kraus, the Kansas giant, was in Ottawa this morning on his way to Joplin, Mo. He has been visiting in the Chippewa Hills for a while and is looking now for engagements on the show circuit for the summer. Oscar sells permission to see his unusual stature for real money. Oscar is still in the field of matrimony too. He explained this morning that his most recent break into matrimony came to a sudden end last Christmas when “some codger out in the hills wrote a letter to the future Mrs. Kraus and queered the whole affair.” The future Mrs. Oscar lived in Omaha. Kraus was once the husband of a woman who weighed over 300 pounds. She died in New York several years ago.

• TOPEKA — The surreptitious sale of liquor in Kansas was given what is considered the nearest to a knockout blow it ever received, by a favorable action by the House last night on the Mahin bill. This bill is in line with the now-famous Webb bill, which the recent Congress passed. The Mahin bill provides that nobody shall ship liquor into the state except for his own use and further provides that the transportation company, railroad or express company, shall file with the clerk of the county to which the shipment is made the name of he party to whom it is sent. This is made compulsory and the law provides a public record shall be kept. This eliminates the practice of securing consignments of liquors “on the quiet.” It is held by friends of the bill and of prohibition to be one of the greatest aids in the enforcement of the law ever given to state and county officers by a legislature.

• Oscar Kraus, the Kansas giant, was in Ottawa this morning on his way to Joplin, Mo. He has been visiting in the Chippewa Hills for a while and is looking now for engagements on the show circuit for the summer. Oscar sells permission to see his unusual stature for real money. Oscar is still in the field of matrimony too. He explained this morning that his most recent break into matrimony came to a sudden end last Christmas when “some codger out in the hills wrote a letter to the future Mrs. Kraus and queered the whole affair.” The future Mrs. Oscar lived in Omaha. Kraus was once the husband of a woman who weighed over 300 pounds. She died in New York several years ago.

• TOPEKA — The surreptitious sale of liquor in Kansas was given what is considered the nearest to a knockout blow it ever received, by a favorable action by the House last night on the Mahin bill. This bill is in line with the now-famous Webb bill, which the recent Congress passed. The Mahin bill provides that nobody shall ship liquor into the state except for his own use and further provides that the transportation company, railroad or express company, shall file with the clerk of the county to which the shipment is made the name of he party to whom it is sent. This is made compulsory and the law provides a public record shall be kept. This eliminates the practice of securing consignments of liquors “on the quiet.” It is held by friends of the bill and of prohibition to be one of the greatest aids in the enforcement of the law ever given to state and county officers by a legislature.