The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Brief Review of the Happenings of Week Condensed Into
Paragraph for Busy Readers

tory Oh the BOND Vault IN the state
treasury just completed shows an ag-
gregate of $15,12S,210 in bonds and
coupons belonging to the state.
Hoch Grants Requisition.-Gov
Hoch has honored a requisition issued
by the governor of Oklahoma for the
return of A G. Robson. wanted at
I Pawhuska for alleged bribery. Robson
IS accused of giving w. P. Steele, a
Pawhuska councilman, 500 for his in
1uence in securing the appointment of
D. B. Merry as city engineer.
To Fight the cirgarette.-The Kan
sas w. C. T. U. proposes to wage a
relentless war against the cigarette be-
fore the Kansas legislature next win
! ter. 1t has rented rooms in Topeka
and will maintain headquarters there
from now until the close of the legis-
! lative session. A corps of clerks will
! be employed at once to work up senti-
! ment in the rural districts against the
/ cigarette, and to get members of the
! legislature pledged to such legislation
/ long before they come to Topeka for
/ the session
/
/ is rather proud of it's credit just now.
! The city clerk, R. n. Dorr, has one
check of $500, another for $500, and
! $500 in cash locked up in his safe.
The money has been entrusted to him
with instructions to turn it into the
city treasury the minute the city of
| Wichita issues some bonds, and to
urn over the city bonds to the par
/ ties putting up the money. Wichita
! Issued several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of bonds in the past year
and all were readily taken.
Nine High Schools Teach Farming
Nine of the twenty-one county high
schools in Kansas teach agriculture,
according to the reports made to e.
/ T. Fairchild, state superintendent
! These schools are in the following
counties: Atchison, Chase, Crawford,
Dickinson, Cove, Norton, Scott, Sheri-
Ian, Sumner. The county high schools
ire primarily for the children of the
'CGntry districts of the county. In
cost of the county seat towns there
Is high school course offered and
IN most instances the county high
schools were established for the coun-
ny. AS agriculture is the chief indus
Try it is considered proper that it
thOuld be one of the coursese offered
III these county schools. 1t has only
been a short time since the recon-
mendation for this work was made
and already nine of the schools have
adopted it. Others may be working
on similar course, but the reports
made to the state superintendent do
not show it.
Good Interest on Deposits.-The an
nual report of States Treasurer Tul-
ley shows that the state received $19,-
SIS as interest on its deposits in the
state repositories last year. This is
almost double the amount it received
for the year previous. The increased
amount is due to two reasons: First,
the state had more money in the
banks; second, it got a bigger interest
rate. The report also shows that all
Of the Western Kansas counties have
settled their seed wheat accounts but
! three-Garfield, Seward and Haskell.
IN 1891 and in 1895 the state bought
seed wheat for many western counties
that had had crop failures. The coun-
ties agreed to return the loan. About
lalf of them did it promptly. Others
delayed. The attorney generals depart
ment got after them and it has sue
ceeded in getting settlements in full
from all but the three counties named
above. Garfield county is now a part
of Finney county. The total amount
due from these three counties ag-
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lieves that it will be paid this year.
Horse Killed Young Farmer.-H. Ad-
ser Hanson, a prominent farmer of
Republic county and at one time quits
prominent in politics in his county,
was kicked by horse and killed.
No tuberculosis Germs Here.-Ac-
cording to the Official report to the
French government, made by COM
mission of French doctors sent out to
investigate the whole world with re-
gard to climatic conditions and tuber-
culosis, Woodward is within one hours
ride of the center of a district which
| this commission describes as not only
! free from tuberculosis at this time, but
of such popularity of climate that the
| tdbercular bacilli will not develope or
live here.
| Arcadia Kansan Suicide.-After
! drinking the contents of a two-ounce
! vial of carbolic acid, Sim Humphrey
I of Arcadia fell to the ground in the
back yard of his home and died in
! great agony before any of the mem
bers of his family could get to him
No reason is given for his act. He
was SO years old and was born and
raised in that part of the country and
was in good circumstances. He leaves
a widow and three children.
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Body Found in FieId.-A body te-
lieved to be that of James P. Dolal
of Denver was found in a field near
Geneseo, Rice county. 1t is believed
he committed suicide as a letter was
found in a pocket addressed to the
citizens of Denver saying that he was
being sought by the Catholic priest
hood and he feared death. He had
been dead about two months