Free press., 1907-06-15

| woodward county. convicted Novem-
Der. 1906. grand larceny, two years;
Bert Burns. sentenced from Kay
county, five years for burglary sec
ond degree; Sabin Tucker. Woods
county, sentenced two years for for
gerry.
Old Settler Shoots self.-John Nc
Knight, an old soldier, of Clay Cen
ter, shot himself just above the
heart with revolver The act was
due to despondenNy caused by i'll
ness. He is an old soldier OF the
| southern side and about Go years old.
re was once marshal of Clay Center
and known by everybody in the
county. The doctors say he can live
only short time.
Sanitation For Teachers. = School
teachers will be taught the new pure
food, drug and sanitation laws
Every county in Kansas will have a
| normal institute this summer The
board of health has prepared small
pamphlet which summarizes the
salient features of the new laws, and
these pamphlets will be the text
book for the teachers. Especially
will an effort be made to instruct
teachers how to cope with the sani-
tary problems in schools Through
the drinking water, the ventilation,
the heating and a good many other
avenues, disease is carried into
school rooms. More than that. the
teacher should know what to do in
community in which an epidemic of
contagious disease has started.
csnpbeI's Official Staff. = R. A.
Campbell. commander, department of
Kansas, G. A. r., makes the follow
ing announcements of appointments
for his official staff: Assistant adju-
tant general, J. NJ. Miller. post No. 1.
Topeka; assistant quartermaster-
general, H. X. Devendorf, post No. /.
Topeka; Judge advocate, o. L. Moore,
post No Go, Abilene; department in
spector Joseph A Walters, post No.
%, Great Bend; chief mastering
officer, A. NJ. Crary, post No 424,
Herington; patriotic instructor. Will
liam Leonard, post No. 25, Wichita;
assistant patriotic instructor, ]. NJ
Burt. post No. 81, Parsons; chief of
staff, A. NJ. Fuller, Topeka; chief of
recruiting aides, Daniel E. Reid,
Hutchinson; chief of aides-de-camp,
j. H. Rickle, Chanute; chief bugler
c. H. Hoyt, Lawrence.
Beat Up Reformatory Guard. =
John Simpson and Blair Riley sawed
out of their cells at Hutchinson and
attacked Officer Sherman Monroe,
night cell guard. and after beating
him nearly to death, were frightened
away by his cries for help. George
Goodman, an inmate and a cell house
trusty, went to sMonroe's assistance
with a broom, but was driven away
by Riley with the bar of iron torn
from his bed. Officer Monroe was
terribly beaten. The bones in the
back of each hand were broken, one
finger was cut off and there are nine
cuts in his scalp. He will recover.
Riley was sent up from Sedgwick
county for burglary in September,
1905. He had previously served a
term in the Iowa reformatory He is
"a years old. Simpson, sent up from
Labette county in 1904 for burglary
and larceny, is 21. He had been a
trusty until recently. Both were
eligible to parole and might have
been released next month, but will
probably be transferred to the peni-
tentiary.
Fatal Runaway Accident.-Claude
Buchner, of Concordia, youth of 19
years, met with an accident that will
prove fatal, he having sustained a
fracture Of the skull and vertebra. He
was driving a high spirited horse
that ran away and pulled it to one
side to keep from running down a
woman with child in her arms The
wagon was dashed against a tree and
Buchner was thrown out with the re-
suit stated
Giving Them Chance.-An effort
will be made to transfer about fifty
prisoners from the state penitentiary
to the Industrial reformatory at
Hutchinson. The prisoners are all
them were sentenced for minor
crimes. Gov. Hoch found there were
ninety-f1ve Kansas prisoners and
seventy-one Oklahoma prisoners in
the Kansas penitentiary less than %
years old and there are more than
100 Kansas prisoners less than 25
years old. The Kansas law permits
a trial judge to send men under 25
either to the reformatory Or the peni-
tsntiary.
Boy Killed by Cars. = Harry VIII
liams, the eleven-year-old son of Mr.. |
and Mrs Geo. Williams, of Wichita, |
was run over in the Santa Fe yards |
by switch train, losing an arm and |
one leg. He died in the Wichita Hos
pital two hours later.
Farmer Killed by Cars. = While
crossing the track in the rear of
switching freight engine in the Mis-
souri, Pacific yards at Ottawa, Allen
Hall, a retired farmer and an early |
settler in the county. was run over !