The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-12-05
Fined for Sunday Dissertation

fine is $175 and costs. This case was
appealed from the Police court and
was made a test case.
Followed Sweetheart to Grave
Arnold Baker died at his home east of
Wichita of tuberculosis. Two weeks
ago Miss Bertha Shocks shot herself
to death, the suicide being brought on
by grief over the fatal disease of Mr..
Baker, to whom she was engaged.
Mr.. Bakers body was buried in a
cemetery by the side of Miss Shocks.
Rock Island Pleads Guilty In the
United States district court at Topeka,
attorneys for the Rock Island railroad
suits brought under the 2S-hour law
by the government, Santa Fe on eight
counts and the Missouri Pacific on
one. Dismissal of the other counts
against the two first railroads cleared
the docket so far as they are con-
cerned. It is understood that none of
the cases will go to trial but that s. i'm
liar action will be taken against those
still pending against the Missouri Pa
cific and those against the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas and the Frisco
roads.
House Cleaning for legislators
This is house cleaning time at the
state house as well as in private
homes. The legislature will meet in
January and that will bring in lot
of strangers and the state officials
want to give the impression that they
are good housekeepers. The represen-
tative hall has been redecorated, the
four flagpoles on the four wings of the
state house have been painted sky
blue, the brass cannon that adorn the
state house grounds have been pol
ished up until they hurt the eyes, and
the brass work all over the building
has been given rubbing down.
Frank Jewell, New York steeple-
jack, painted the flagpoles, and the
state paid him $50 to do it. There
wasn't a man in Topeka with nerve
enough to attempt the job.
Kansas Led Them AII.-Acting Sec
rotary of State Leo Meyer, Of Okla
bona, returned from ten days junk
ct of investigation of legislative meth
DDS in vogue within the adjoining
states, as a basis for recommendations
to the governor before the meeting
of the next session of the state assem-
bly, for a system of legislative proce-
dure to be inaugurated within the
state. The inquiry addressed to Mr..
Meyer as to which of the state visit
ed, in his judgment, presented the
most effective and comprehensive leg
islative system, evoked the emphatic
and unqualified reply, kansas" "Of
all the states I visited continued Mr..
Meyer, 1.-The system in vogue at To
peka, to my mind, is unquestionably
the most efficient and at the same
time the most simple and comprehen-
sive. Not only in the matter of legis-
lative procedure is this true, but
throughout the state house 1 found
men at the heads of the various de-
partmentS who at first acquaintance
unquestionably convince the visitor of
efficiency and accurate and compre-
hensive knowledge of their official
work, and concise knowledge of the
detail which in the popular conception
such officials leave to the tender
mercies of their subordinates." Secre-
tary Meyer is now preparing brief of
his Investigations preparatory to COM
piling his official report to the COVER
nor of his findings and his recon-
mendations as to legislative procedure.
Both Legs Cut Off Fac Mercer of
Hill City had both legs cut off while
attempting to jump from a moving
Union Pacific freight train in Salina.
He slipped and fell under the wheels.
He was in a critical condition when
taken to the hospital and will prob
ably die.
Hoch Communities Sentences Gov
ernor Hoch has committed the SEN
tence of two murderers. David E.
Davis, who was sentenced to hang in
Leavenworth in 1890 for killing his
wife, will be released December 1. 1t
is the opinion now of John H. Atwood,
who was the county attorney that
prosecuted Davis, and also seven of
the jurors, that Davis is an innocent
man. Thomas Marbut was sentenced
to ten years in prison by the Cherokee
district court in 1906 for killing his
step-son, a ten-year-old boy. An out
house fell on the boy and smothered
| him to death and 1t was charged that
Marbut pulled it over All parties in
terested petitioned for Marbut's par
| don on grounds that it was generally
accepted now that the boy was killed
accidentally.
Requisition for Ohio Man Cover
nor Hoch recently honored requi-
sition drawn by the governor of Ohio
for the return to that state of A. L.
/ Sawyer, who is wanted in Marion
/ county. Ohio, for wife desertion, which
| is a crime in that state.
Man of so Ends life -. Miner, of
Homer, H.. committed suicide at Par
sons by cutting his throat. He was
a man about 60 years of age and with
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