The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS
Brief Review of the Happenings of Week Condensed Into
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$211,6So For NoVember.-It is esti-
mated by State Auditor j. NJ Nation
hat it will cost S211,680 to cover
| the expenses of the state for the
month OF November and he turned
this estimate over to State Treasurer
FulIey. The state treasurer will draw
warrants on the county treasurers
who have state taxes in their hands.
This is known as the state Treasurer's
draw"
Hutchinson Chief Exhonerated.-
Judge P. J. Gale of the district court
at Hutchinson sustained the motion of
Attorneys Prigg and Williams to
quash in the case brought by Council
man G. T. Hern against Chief of Po-
lice w. H. Dixon. This throws the
case out of court This is the case
brought through the county attorneys
office to GUST the chief from office be-
cause it was charged that he had fail
ed to do his duty. The attorneys for
MI. Dixon claimed that the charges
did not state that Chief Dixon had vio-
lated any statute of Kansas or ordi-
nance of the city of Hutchinson and
that, therefore, there was nothing for
the court to hear The judge so decid-
ed.
Unknown Man Dead at Wichita
The body OF an unknown man about
| 55 years of age was found in the rear
of residence at 3O8 fremont street.
This is the Wichita red light district.
Cocaine was found on the mans per
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jury: THE jurors upon their oaths,
do say that from the testimony given,
the deceased came to his death from
poison or dope of some kind either
taken or administered byhimself or
some other person unknown to the
jury. The said unknown man came
to his death at the house of one Ella
| Dawson, No. S08 fremont street,
whose reputation as shown by the evil
dence Is that of a dope fiend." Tbs
body was buried at the expense of
Sedgwick county.
Irvine Cheaper Next Year.-The
price OF raw sisal, the material used
in the making of harvesting Irvine at
the state penftentiary, has dropped
to the bottom and the wheat raisers
of Kansas will reap the benefit next
summer in the low price of twine The
price OF sisa1 has been going down
all summer and few weeks ago War
den Haskell let the contracts for fur
nishing the state plant with the pro-
duct at much lower prices than ever
before. The shipments of sisal have
just begun reaching the penitentiary
and the Irvine plant is working full
time. 1t is an uncommon thing for
the penitentiary plant to be running
at full time this season of the year
Because of the low price of sisal War
den Haskell has started every spin
die going in order to make up into
Irvine as much of the cheap sisa1 as
possible. The result of this cheap
sisal will be a big saving to the wheat
raisers Of the state next year. Just
what the saving will be has not been
figured out. But the reduction in
the price per hundred pounds will be
considerable. The penitentiary Off
Gals are wondering what they are
going to do for help since the removal
of so many of the Oklahoma prison
| d
| where help can be hired when it is
needed. The officials have to depend
upon the judges and juries of the
state to furnish them with necessary
help. Many of the Oklahoma prison
ers have already been removed and
when they are all taken, which will
be soon, there will be but eight hun
dred men left in the institution to
work the mines, the brick yards and
twine plant.
It's Special Legislaton.-In the trial
of two young men arrested for fish
ing with a trap, Judge Dillon in dis
trict court at Concordia held section
of the game and fish laws, as amend
ed in 1907, to be special legislation
and therefore unconstitutional The
section as amended permits fishing
other than with rod, hand line or
set line in the Missouri and Kansas
river as far from the latter's mouth
as Douglas county, but not other
waters.
MfItonvaie College Assured.-The
Wesleyan Methodist college is an as
Sured fact for Mi1tOnYale now. The
deeds have been made to the land
and the contract let for the building.
That was the big task that the people
OF Miltonvale undertook themselves,
but they were evidently equal to it.
Fine Horses Burned.-A barn and
fourteen horses, together with gran
airy and alfalfa stacks and other small
er buildings belonging to r. c. Sings
by, east of Clay Center, burned.
Slingsby is a breeder of pedigreed
! horses.
| Trickett Exhonerated.-C. w Trick
EFT, assistant attorney general of Kan
sas, was exonerated by board of
three examiners appointed to hear
disbarment charges made against him
Mr.. Trickett was accused of making
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