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Carmen Zamora testified Thursday that $30,000 a day came through the office of the so-called Kaweah Indian Nation from illegal immigrants hoping to attain permanent residency in this country.

Zamora said she handed stacks of checks and money orders to Malcolm Webber while receiving applications for membership in the unrecognized tribe.

The U.S. government contends the Kaweahs never were a real American Indian tribe, as Webber -- who led the Kaweahs -- stands trial on charges including harboring illegal aliens and fraud.

Zamora, a native of El Salvador who was working legally in this country, said she believed Webber's claims, as did thousands across the country hoping to find a permanent home in America.

She remembered Webber saying that people from Latin America were originally from American Indian descent, forced out by European settlers.

The two candidates vying to replace Tom Winters on the Sedgwick County Commission say they plan to be cautious about future spending, but they aren't ready to stop any current county projects.

Marcey Gregory and Karl Peterjohn say that if they win the job in November they will scrutinize spending and budgets. They say taxpayers demand that level of accountability and that's why Winters lost his seat Tuesday after nearly 16 years.

They say theydon't plan to block ongoing projects -- such as the Intrust Bank Arena and an aviation training center -- but they don't plan to take on other projects until the county gives taxpayers some relief.

Asked whether he would try to halt any current programs, Peterjohn said, "At the moment, no. But I'm looking at ways to limit the growth in county spending."

Peterjohn, a Republican and executive director of the Kansas Taxpayers Network, defeated Winters in Tuesday's primary election.

State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins widened her margin of victory Wednesday over Jim Ryun in the 2nd Congressional District GOP primary after some Shawnee County ballots were reviewed.

County Election Commissioner Elizabeth Ensley said 4,446 ballots were counted after a human data-input error kept them from being reflected as the votes were counted Tuesday. The problem was discovered Wednesday in 40 precincts, and all results were reviewed and retabulated.

The change gave Jenkins a 1,379-vote victory, according to final, unofficial results. She beat Ryun 51 percent to 49 percent out of more than 66,500 votes cast.

Jenkins picked up 374 votes when Ensley's office reviewed the results, which include the city of Topeka.

Jenkins' victory means she faces Democrat Nancy Boyda, who beat Ryun in 2006, in the November general election.

What will Phill Kline do now?

Johnson County's lame duck district attorney wasn't talking Wednesday. But some of those who know him were.

"Somebody this talented just isn't going to go away," said Kline supporter Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life. "If nothing else, every pro-life group in the country is going to clamor for him."

What Kline won't do, if he has any political smarts, is run for another office, observers said.

"In terms of his capacity to run and win an elective office in the state of Kansas, he may be at the end of the line -- at least for the near future," said Joe Aistrup, chairman of the political science department at Kansas State University.

Eduviges del Carmen-Zamora testified in federal court Thursday that $30,000 a day flowed through the office of the so-called Kaweah Indian Nation from illegal immigrants hoping to buy permanent residency in this country.

Zamora said she handed stacks of money orders to Malcolm Webber attached to applications for membership in the unrecognized tribe.

Prosecutors contend the Kaweahs aren't a real American Indian tribe, as Webber stands trial in Wichita on charges including harboring illegal aliens and fraud.

The defense, meanwhile, indicated Webber may not have been the "grand chief" the prosecution claims.

Zamora said she believed Webber's promise, as did thousands seeking a permanent legal home in America. She remembered Webber saying that people from Latin America were originally of American Indian descent and were forced out by European settlers.

As many as 30 people protested Thursday in front of Wichita City Hall over police officers shooting a 34-year-old man early Sunday at a southeast Wichita club.

Carrying signs with phrases such as "Stop Police Brutality" and "End Racial Profiling," the protesters said they want to call attention to James Ware's shooting in the parking lot of Max's Club, 1206 S. Rock Road.

Police said that Ware refused to put down a rifle he had retrieved from his car, and the officers fired when he turned toward them with the gun.

Family members have said Ware was unarmed at the time and did nothing to warrant being shot.

Wichita police earlier this week released a photo of the semiautomatic rifle confiscated from the scene. Ware was in fair condition Thursday at Wesley Medical Center.

A recent spike in gun violence is obscuring the fact that weapon-related crimes have fallen significantly in Wichita so far this year, police said Thursday.

The latest shooting occurred Wednesday night, when a man police described as a documented gang member ambushed another man arriving home from work, shooting him several times in his driveway. The victim was taken to Wesley Medical Center, where he was in critical condition Thursday. The suspect was arrested a few blocks away as he fled.

Capt. Brent Allred on Thursday acknowledged a recent surge in assaults with weapons.

"We see this spike, generally, in the summer months," he said. "People are outside.... Kids are out of school. There's more stuff going on. The weather's hotter. The economy's not the best right now. There's a lot of factors that contribute to it."

The victim and his attacker, both 21, had an argument two days ago that also involved several other people at the victim's house in the 1600 block of North Erie, Allred said. Investigators are trying to determine whether that fight led to the shooting.

Lynn Jenkins and Nancy Boyda campaigned Thursday at the Statehouse as candidates for change, saying that not much in Congress is working.

The two have less than three months before voters decide who wins the 2nd Congressional District seat.

Jenkins, the two-term state treasurer, was joined in the House by former Rep. Jim Ryun, whom she beat Tuesday in the Republican primary. Ryun pledged support for Jenkins, congratulating her for a good race.

"I believe our party is more united than ever," Jenkins said. "It is obvious that we are excited and motivated."

Ryun wouldn't say whether he is finished with politics or what went wrong in his comeback attempt. He served five terms before losing in 2006 to Boyda, defeated as part of a national wave of change that cost Republicans their congressional majorities.

Prosecutor Phill Kline's chief deputy, who is running for Shawnee County district attorney, is promising that if he's elected, Kline won't have a role in his office.

Eric Rucker's ties to Kline, the Johnson County district attorney, became an issue in Rucker's successful Republican primary race against two-term Shawnee County District Attorney Robert Hecht. Rucker's Democratic challenger, Chad Taylor, also has raised the question.

Kline lost his Republican primary race in Johnson County, where he was seeking a full four-year term as district attorney, having been appointed to the job in December 2006. Kline is a former attorney general who has received national attention for investigating abortion clinics.

Rucker was chief deputy attorney general for four years when Kline was attorney general, and then joined Kline's staff in Johnson County.

But Rucker told the Topeka Capital Journal that if he's elected Shawnee County district attorney, he won't offer Kline a job or sign any contracts with him, and won't have Kline as an unpaid adviser.

McCain, Obama get their lives illustrated

The presidential race is coming to the world of comic books this fall.

A month before voters cast ballots, comic book biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama will hit book stores and be available for reading on cell phones.

But don't expect Captain America-versus-Superman high jinks or super-villains threatening the electoral process. The books purport to tell McCain and Obama's true life stories, independently researched and illustrated by a team of veteran writers and artists.

IDW Publishing in San Diego, better known for stories of robots ("The Transformers") and vampires ("30 Days of Night"), commissioned the books with no input from either campaign.