The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS
Brief Review of the Happenings of Week Condensed Into
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! Santa Fe roundhouSe ct Wellington.
| Joe Seconia, young machinist, was
! working with the air compressor.
| when the air was suddenly released,
! throwing an iron bar against the
mans abdomen and inf1icting probab-
| ly fatal internal injuries Seconia
was taken to the Topeka hospital
J Horse Scared to Death.-A big gray
| work horse belonging to Jim Higgins,
! Lebo liveryman, was scared to
death Mr.. Higgins had taken some
oil out to the big power blowing out
| fit and the team was standing near
| the engine when it was first started.
! 1t is large gasoline traction engine
| and its first exhaust is very loud. 1t
scared the hourse and caused ii TO
! jump. ., 1t lunged forward and fell
| dead.
Shot Boy for Stealing Melons
Ernest Grams, a young Wichita boy,
! lies at his home in a precarious con-
| dition as a result of being caught in
| water melon patch in company With
| two other boys. J. A. Brown, a far
mer, caught the boys in his melon
| patch and fired the two barrels of d
shotgun at them. The attending ply
stefan found over 100 small shot scat
tered from the hips to ankles of both
legs of the Grams boy.
Fist Fight Over Article in Paper
David Mulvane, chairman of the re-
publican state committee, and NJ. f.
Amarine, editor of the Council Grove
| Guard. had spirited fist fight in the
| lobby of the Copeland hotel in To-
| peka. Before friends could separate
the combatants each had landed tell
ing blows on his opponent, which
caused blood 10 flow. The dispute
arose over an article Amarine publish
ed during the campaign.
Hoch Grants Two More Pardons.-
Governor Hoch, upon the recommend
alton of the prison board, has par
doned Clarence Abrams from the pen
itentiary. He was sent up in March
1899, from Leavenworth county on
the charge of stealing a set of har
ness. Jack Hudson was also pardon
! ed by the governor. He was cen
victed of grand larceny in Cherokee
county a year ago. He is very sick
suffering from locomotor ataxia.
Some Penitentiary Statistics.-One
hundred and seventy-fve Kansans
went to the penitentiary in the year
ending July I, and it cost the state
just $4,359.1S to put them there. The
greatest number Of prisoners sent to
the penitentiary from any one county
was from Cherokee-19 men. 1t cos;
the state $520.21 to transport then
from Cherokee county TO Lansing
There were fifty-four counties from
which none were sent to the peniten
itary during the year.
Delegates to Lincoln Celebration
| Governor Hoch has named five Kan
sas men as delegates to the Tooth
anniversary OF Abraham Lincoln
which will be celebrated February l.
at the dedication of the Lincoln Ma
tional Park at HogenvilIe, Kentucky
These men will also act as a Kansas
committee to assist in the raising OF
a fund of $250000 for the preserva
ton of the Lincoln farm in Kentucky
the birthplace of Lincoln. Half OF
this amount has already been raised
by the Lincoln Farm associat ton. The
| uISA1DcIS III the 1AdHSdS COIl11l11ClGr
are: George w Click, Atchison; w
H. Kemper, Topeka; r. n. Allen, Cha
mute; w. A. Johnston, Topeka; D
| W. Finney, Neosho Falls. An address
will be delivered at this celebration
by President Roosevelt and it will be
attended by such men as Secretary
Taft, Governor Johnson, Samuel Com
pers and Henry Watterson. Governo,
Folk is president of the sincoln Farm
association.
Apportionment Is Made.-The Aug
ust apportionment of the state school
fund has been made by the commits
sion. There are 50S,S70 children and
! the state apportionment is 40 cent:
each. The total sum to be distribut
ed is $249, 346.3O. Among the large
counties are Crawford, receivin.
$7,9OS; Shawnee, $S177; Sedgwick
1888; Leavenworth, $5,940.
Medals Awaiting Spanish Vets. =
The veteran members of the famou:
Twentieth Kansas do not apparent,
understand that awaiting their de
mand are the pretty little bOrnze med
ais awarded the members of thu
Twentieth Kansas infantry under tn
act of June %, 1906. These medal.
are in the hands of the quartermaste
general but he will not send them II
the organization. Instead they mus
be ordered by the individual soldiers
1t is necessary to address a lette
to the Quartermaster general request
ing blanks which must be filled OIL
| and returned before a medal is for
warded by return mail. Several o
. the veteran members who reside il
Eeged Tramp Out of HaviIand.-
Enraged at his Interruptions of a Sal
walton Army worker, several youni
men of Haviland egged an unknowI
tramp out of town. They did the jol
of egging artistically and completely
and for some distance the unknown
questioner left trail of oozing hen
fruit behind.
, Wichita Woman Robbed on Pullman
Miss Julia Hanover, buyer for
Wichita store, was robbed of $3.50 il
| Jewels while in a Pullman coach oil