From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 10, 1914:

• “Lawrence apparently was visited last night by a gang of burglars who have been operating in Kansas towns recently. The opinion of the officers is that a number of robberies committed here last night were the work of the same men who entered a number of homes in Topeka the night before…. Two homes, those of A. Monroe at 615 Louisiana street and Ed. W. Parsons, 900 Arkansas street, were entered last night and robbed. The lunch stand operated by Charles Pine at the corner of Massachusetts and Eighth street, was also burglarized…. The robberies were reported this morning and with a few meager clues the police started to work. However, nothing definite has developed thus far.”
• “Tomorrow is open season on dandelions, in fact tomorrow is the official day for war on the little pests with their bright yellow flowers. The fight on the greens is to be led by the Civic League of Lawrence, which organization is responsible for the declaration of war. The city administration has promised to help and citizens generally are urged to join in the fight.”
• “The bug hunters at the State University are starting out early after the grasshoppers this year. The early bug hunter is expected to do more effective work against the destructive hopper. P. W. Classen, assistant entomologist at the University of Kansas, is now in the western part of the state investigating hopper conditions, seeing how many eggs there are to the square rod, and warning the county commissioners to get busy early. ‘Disc the fields at once. This will destroy the eggs.’ This is the advice being given the farmers.”
• “Suit for $2,310 damages for alleged assault and battery was filed in the Shawnee county district court today by Mrs. Luella West of Wichita, against Governor George H. Hodges. Mrs. West visited the governor’s office April 8 and with Mrs. Laura Buckwalter, a companion, carried from the state house copies of letters and office files in connection with the parole case urged for Frank Sullivan of Sedgwick county. The governor sought to recover the papers but did not secure them. In a petition Mrs. West charges that in an encounter, the governor wrenched her wrist and arm and struck her on the shoulder with his fist.”
• “Washington, D. C. — Twenty-five million dollars is the amount the United States agrees to pay Colombia for the partition of Panama and the acquisition of the canal zone, in a treaty signed in Bogota by American Minister Thompson and Colombian authorities…. The boundary between Colombia and Panama is to follow the line laid down in the earlier treaty which was signed, but never approved by the Colombian congress. The acceptance of the latest treaty ends ten years of negotiations and friction between the United States and Colombia.”