The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-10

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I istic meeting al Phillipsburg which has
. been in progress since August 30. As
! a result of his work 457 converts were
T made. A voluntary offering of S996.06
was received TO pay the expenses OF
the meeting, and s1,048.S3 was con.
tributed Sunday to pay the evangelist
and his three assistants
! One Found GuIty.-The jury at Nor
| ton in the trial of Charles and Ralph
Madden for the murder of Sam Row
| ley, acquitted Charles Madden and
found Ralph Madden guilty of man
slaughter in the second degree, after
being out about five hours. Rowley
was killed in a fight with the Mad
| den boys August l, and the evidence
showed that he made no resistance
and that Ralph Madden followed him
up when he tried to get away and
| struck him a number of times after
/ he fell
100000 Pounds of Oats.-Thomas
Dixon of Junction City has been
awarded the contract for furnishing
oats for the two army posts. Riley and
| Leavenworth. The contract calls for
| 100000 pounds of oats-S.000,000
for Riley and 100000 for Leaven-
worth-to be used commencing Octo-
Der 1 and ending July 1. Mr. Dixon
had the contract for last year. There
is considerable increase in the amount
now contracted for over any previous
year. The fact that the contract is
given TO a Junction City man means
much to the farmers of the county,
as Mr.. Dixon will this year, as in
previous years, buy as much of the
grain here in the home market as he
can. OF course. the quality must be
of the best, and for these the highest
market price is paid.
Raise Quarantine in Western Coun-
ties.-The government and state quar-
| antine authorities will remove the
quarantine from seven Western Kan
sas counties at once. These counties
have been quarantined since last
spring because of mango among cat
tie. They are: Decatur, Hodgeman,
Ness, Ellis, Rush, Pawnee and Ed
wards The first of last January there
were thirty-five counties in Western
and Southwestern Kansas that were
quarantined against on account of
IndASC- O1AC6 IudI tlIu6 Iue state anu
government officials have been work
ing out plans to stamp out the dis
ease. They have been working through
the long summer and have driven
the disease out of the seven counties
mentioned above. The government
and state quarantine on the balance
of the counties will be raised October
10 so there are twenty-eight counties
from which the mango must be stamp
ca out within a very brief period
Big Bond Issue For Three.-Three
counties of the state, Montgomery,
Wyandotte and Sedgwick, issued near
ly half Of all the new bonds issued in
Kansas last year. The total for all
counties was $3,2S9,529 and this in
cluded city, township, county and
school district bonds Montgomery
county issued $539, 972, Wyandotte
$501,O71 and Sedgwick issued $489, 1922
Other counties which issued a good
sized bunch of bonds during the last
fiscal year were these: Crawford
$148,851, Labette S113,750, Shawnee
$92,0S9, Cowley $S9O66, Seward SS5-
315, Renok S79,97O. Johnson $76,676
The total bonded debt Of all the
counties, cities, townships and school
districts of Kansas is $35, 625,S44. Iris
debt is divided as follows: County
debt $10,763,628, city debt $40, ISL, S35,
school district debt $4,272, 1927 The
county with the smallest bonded
debt of any county in the state is
Cove, which has outstanding in al
kinds of bonds, city, township. county
and school district, only $4,000
Cleo Bennett Has Reformed.-Cleo
Bennett, woman who was the terror
of the Topeka police for years, has
been released from the penitentiary
and is doing evangelical work. She
says she has reformed and that here
after she will devote her time to saw
ing hayward women.
For a Ten-Ton Alfalfa MiII.-A. Fl.
Hill and A. G. Collins of Wichita have
commenced the erection of a ten-ton
alfalfa mill at Burton. It is expected
that the structure will be completed
in three or four weeks. This is Mr..
Collins second venture with an al
falfa mill in Burton. His first mill,
] together with a large elevator, was
destroyed by fire last. April-presum
ably the work of an incendiary.
The Half Million Mark.-The half
million mark for hog receipts at the
Wichita Union stock yards has been
passed To be exact, at the close OF
business the week ending September
%, the total number of porkers nm
loaded at the yards from January
was 500,460. For the same period of
1907 there were 331,S54 hogs received.
The increase for the present year is
16S,606, or 80 per cent
~here sick almost to death he had
remained all summer. His family,
Mrs. Gethin and four children, have
left for that place and will make their
home there. For over year his fam
lily have not known of his whereabouts.
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