The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-19


ket about her head
Corn Versus Wheat.-Kansas has
great fame as a wheat state. Many
people think that 1t is this crop that
fills the bank vaults. But the value
OF Kansas corn grown in the past
twenty years is $100,OoO,000 more
than that of all the wheat crops grown
by Kansas since her beginning.
Killed by Train at Wichita.-James
B. Sheppard, weigher at the South
Washington avenue scales in Wichita,
was struck by a Rock Island freight
locomotive at the Douglas avenue
crossing and died at st. Francis hos
pital. He was badly cut about the
head and his back was hurt, but he
fell clear of the wheels.
Race Horse Is kiIIed.-Lualia B,
a Missouri mare owned by Monsees
& Martin, broke her leg in a pacing
race at the Topeka fair and had to
be killed. She was going at terrific
speed in the back stretch when the
bones cracked sruarely in two and
she dropped to the ground. She was
hauled off the track after the race
and killed.
Fell Under Engine; Lives. L.
Heath, of Fredonia, had a miraculous
escape from death at Wichita. Several
hundred persons at the Santa Fe pass
enger station saw him knocked down
by a switch engine, which was back
ing up. He fell in the center of the
track. The tender passed over him
and the spectators were watching
breathlessly, expecting to see him
come out in pieces, when he sudden
ly sprang out from between the drive
wheels. He was uninjure1.
An Accidental Shooting Fatal
Joseph Weyer, 19-year-old son of A.
]. Weyer, prominent citizen, was acct
dentally shot on the farm of George
McQuey, ten miles south of Haviland.
The young man was riding in spring
wagon with four of his companions
when he reached over to take a rife
from one of them, letting his shotgun
slip down on the outside of the wagon
box, striking the step and causing
the gun to be DISCHARGED The entire
load of shot took effect in the leg
just above the knee.
WelIhouse's Fruit Report.-Walter
Wellbouse. secretary of the state
board of horticulture, has issued
fruit report showing the percentage
of a crop which will be raised in Kan
sas this year. His returns indicate
that the various kinds of fruits will
yield as follow: Apples, Al per cent;
pears, 81 per cent; peaches 46 per
cent; grapes, "a per cent; the re-
port says: Owing to the very favor
able weather conditions. apples show
a gain Of 2 per cent for the state
since our last report was made; pears
Fave improved II per cent; peaches
have declined per cent, and grapes
s per cent in quantity"
Youthful Bandits Plead Guilty.
Bill Tennent and Harry Coleman, the
young bandits who robbed the Chau
tauqua State bank at Chautauqua
Springs on the morning of April II
last, and then locked Cashier Water
house and Del Easley, customer, in
the vault, entered a plea of guilty in
the district court at Sedan, and Judge
Altman sentenced each of them to
serve an indeterminate sentence of
from five to twenty-one years in the
state reformatory at Hutchinson. On
account of their extreme youth and
the fact that they are both very pen
itent, County Attorney Mertz asked
that they be sent to the reform school
instead of the penitentiary.
A Divorce a Day.-Cupid is having
even the pin feathers plucked from
his wings in Sedgwick county. From
April / to September 1, 112 suits for
divorce have been filed in that coun-
ty, or almost one for every week day
The general charge is cruelty. al
though the other customary charges
are plentiful. The large proportion
of the applications are made by wo-
men.
Need Teachers in OkIahoma.-Eas.-
ern Oklahoma is short of school teach
ers and William Stryker, of Tulsa,
has appointed himself a committee of
one to supply the shortage. Stryker
was formerly state superintendent of
the Kansas schools uLder the Leedy
administration. He has written to
State superintendent Fairchild to
send the surplus teachers in this state
to Oklahoma. He promises to find
them all employment. He says that
men teachers for small rural schools
can earn $50 month and women
about $40. Kansas has no surplus
teachers at this time said Mr.. Fair
child. I'm fact we will have a har1
time to supply our own demand"
Registered Letter Missino.-A post
office inspector is at Eldorado trying
to trace missing registered letter
con: aiming $500 sent from an Eldorado
Bank to the bank in Cassoday. The
carrier on the route says the post
mist ess at Durachen took the letter
from the mail pouch. receipted the
special registry card, made out a
new card for delivery in Cassoday.
put the registered letter back in the
pouch and locked it. The carrier says
he put the pouch in his wagon, drove
to Cassodav and delivered il with tie
otker mails.