To Consolidate Kansas Counties

Topeka, Kas., Dee. 14.- It is stated here that Gov.-elect Leedy, in his forthcoming message to the state legislature, wil] reconimend a general consoliclation of coimty governments in the thinly settled districts of western Kansas, where county governments organized in boom times are now maintained at a great expense to taxpayers The plan is sure to meet with determined opposition in many of the towns which would cease to become countj eats.