The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-08-22


erfer, living seven miles south of En-
terprise, fell down stairway at his
home, producing injuries from which
he died. He was SO years of age,
and was an old timer.
Fought at Wilson creek.-Twelve
old soldiers, survivors of the battle of
Wilson Creek. met at the home of
Chas. FRANKIE in Leavenworth and eel
ebrated the forty-seventh anniversary
of the the battle day. F. B. Dawes
made an address. Most of the day
was spent in reminiscent talk.
Burns IA Horses.-Fire of unknown
origin destroyed the livery barn OF
Grant Armstrong, at Arkansas City.
burning fourteen head of horses, thir-
ty-f1ve or forty vehicles, many sets of
harness and large quantity of feed.
The estimated loss is $4,000. with in
surance on the stock of $4,000 and
$4,000 on the building.
No Blue Sunday.-The Solomon city
council turned down a blue Sunday
ordinance by vote of four to one and
now everyone, that is nearly every
one, in the little city is wearing a
smile. Father can buy his cigars
and chewing tobacco on Sunday as
he always has and the boys can treat
the girls to chewing gum and ice
cream as heretofore. Solomon has a
sensible council.
No Complete Returns.-Many let
tiers and kilograms reach Topeka ask
ing about results on certain election
matters. There is no way to deter
mine the results Official returns of
the primary held a week ago are com
ing in very slowly to the office of the
secretary of state, where they will
be canvassed by the state canvassine
board. About twenty counties have
reported their vote. Totals are be
ing compiled as rapidly as the votes
arrive. 1t will probably be a week
before the grand total will be given
out
Big Flour Contract.-Word has beer
received at the office of the Hogan
Milling company of Junction City no
tifying them that the firm has been
awarded the contract of putting uI
250,0O0 pounds of -four in tin cans
for use in the army in the interior o.
the Philippines. This contract was
bid for some time ago. There are {
number of mills in Kansas which
passed in bids, but the Hogan Mill
ing company received the contract.
Oldest Veterans FuneraI.-The flu
neral of Hiram J. Coval took plac'
from the Congregational church al
Jetmore. He was the oldest old sol
der in Hodgeman county, being g.
years old. He was a member of the
G. A. r. post at Pleasanton, Kan.
where he lived prior to moving t.
| Jetmore.
! Seven Children August Born. =
son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Donley. 1t was the seventh child il
| the family and all of them have beer
born in the month of August. The old
est child is Is years old and two o
the children have the same birthday
| Mr.. Donley is letter carrier at the
Hiawatha office, and his birthda!
falls on July 81.
Baby Born in JaiI.-Lucy Wulf,
a short sentence in the county jai
| at Leavenworth because she had NJ
money to pay hotel bill which sh'
| incurred, gave birth to boy, which
| is probably the first child born in tn
county jail. She was given ever!
care and attention and both mothe
| and child are doing nicely. BY tn,
kindness of Mrs. Brown the child dix
not actually come into the world il
a felon's cell, the mother being al
| lowed the use of a room in the sher
| ifs residence. The unfortunat
mother will be released fro mail a
soon as she can be moved.
Segregate Dope Fiends. = Superin
tendent Uhls of the state insane asy
lum at Osawattomie has suggested
brand new scheme to handle drunk
ards and dope fiends. In his repor
to the state board of control, he rec
| ommends that the state establish
| separate institution for these unfoI
Inmates and put them to work Il
addition to this he suggests that tn
stae pension the people who are de
| pendent upon the drunkards and dop
fiends for support.
One Killed, One Injured.-One Mex
.can was killed and one so badly in
jured that there is small hopes of hi
recovery by a work train near May
field. The work train under ConduC
tor Holmes and Engineer L. E. Smit
had gone on a siding to let the cas-
bound passenger by. Two Mexican
stepped out of the way of the pass
enger and directly back of the wor
train on the siding. When the pas.
enger was clear Engineer Smith bacl
ed his train out on the main line an
hit the two Mexicans, who were stanC
ing on the end of the train The me
were not employed by the Santa F
and were just hanging around tn
camp visiting with the other Mex
cans.
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