From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Mar. 9, 1911:

“Some of the more important things accomplished by the 1911 Legislature:

• Created a public Utilities Commission.
• Consolidated Educational Institutions under one board.
• Amended inheritance tax law exempting direct heirs.
• Effective and far reaching good roads law.
• Provided for vital statistics of deaths and births and their registration.
• Created sanitarium for care of tuberculosis patients.
• Granted to women the right of suffrage.
• Made second violation of the prohibitory law a penal offense.
• Provided for the use of voting machines at future elections.
• Approved an income tax amendment to the constitution.
• Gave traveling men the right to vote away from home.
• Created a state School of Mines.
• Created an asylum for the criminal insane.”

“Hunting has never been better since Saturday than at any time for years. The warm weather Friday and Saturday followed by the cold snap yesterday has had a tendency to keep the ducks pocketed right here in this territory. Those which started on north were turned back by the cold wave.”