The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-24

October 10, causing a loss estimated
at 100000. Seven business houses
were destroyed.
Gas Main to Emporia.-The work
of digging the ditch for the laying of
pipe line from the Elmdale field to
Emp0ria, to supply the latter town
with natural gas, has been begun.
The line already extends to Strong
City and will be extended here. A
ditching machine which works at the
rate of ten feet q minute is already
about two miles out of Strong City
Pinned Between Cars.-Tom Lewis.
a section hand, was injured, probably
fatally, in a rear-end collision between
freight train and a handcar in the
yards at Emporia. The car with its
crew of five men was following the
freight at a high rate of speed, and
when the train stopped suddenly the
car collided with it and Lewis was
pinned to the drawbar head, the iron
sticking through his right leg.
Get Ten Cents on DoIIar-The resi-
dence of Scott E. Winnie, in Wichita,
has been sold by the trustees in bank
ruptcy for 100000 Whine left Wich-
tia when it became known that the
Whine Mortgage company, of which
he was president. was about to lapse.
The residence is about all the cred
itors get out of the Whine estate, and
this will not give them 10 cents on
the dollar. Whine is said to be in
Brazil.
Plague of Pigeons-A phenomenon
that is causing damage to the wheat
fields in Rice county is the myriads
Of big, fat wild pigeons that appear
from no one knows. They appear
| almost by millions obscuring the even
ing sun and spend the nights and NOR
nings in the wheat fields which they
leave as clean of Vegetation as would
| a grasshopper raid. Pot hunetrs and
scarecrows can scarcely force them
to move on. 1t is many years since
such a visitation has happened before
in Kansas. They will disappear as
suddenly as they came.
Farm Product Prices.-At a meeting
Of the Kansas branch of theAmerican
Society of Equity held at Wichita,
President, L. P. King, Winfield; vice
president, L. T. Cross, Lewis; secre-
tary and treasurer, G. w. Peckham,
Haven; directors P. D. Spohn, Inman;
Frank Moore, Hayes; NJ. Chaplin, Hav-
/ en-; T. 3. Umrich, Pawnee Rock; D. S.
Haverstadt. Oxford. This is the first
meeting of the society in this state.
| The object of the society is to fix the
| price of farm products. 1t does not
attempt to eliminate the middle man
as does the Farmers Union, but the
members think that there should be a
unoform increase in the price of farm
| products.
Odd Fellows Elect Officers.-In the
grand lodge of the Rebkah assembly
| at Sallna. The following Officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Mrs.
Efiie McCurdy, Larned, president;
Mrs. Gertie X. Johnson, McLouth,
vice president; Mrs. Bertha Willis,
Wichita, warden; Mrs. lisa E. Potter
| Clifton, secretary; Mrs. G. B. White
Hutchinson, treasurer. In the grano
lodge Odd Fellows T P. Roney OF
Washington was elected grand senior
warden, the other officers having
been elected by the local lodges last
May. Wichita was selected as the
place for the meeting next year. In
the competitive drill of the Patriarchs
Militant teams Caldwell won the
prize. The only other team in the
contest was Kansas City. Kan.
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Forty Cows Under Cloud.-The gov
eminent has been making inspection
of the cattle at Haskell institute al
Lawrence and has made some alarm
ing discoveries. There are ia cattle
in the heard. seventy of which are
cows. The young stock does not
seem to be affected. OF the seventy
cows examined twenty-five showed
reaction in the tests, proving tuber-
culosis. Twenty We're suspects" and
are probably the worst of all. Tween
| ty-five seemed to be free from the
! disease. The tests were made by DR..
Barker of Kansas City. chief Of the
bureau of animal Industries of that
city, and Drs. Niles and Dickinson, al
so OF Kansas City Their reports will
be sent to Washington for eXamina-
ton. and nothing further will be dom
until orders have been received from
| headquarters. These cattle have been
gathered from here, there and every
where. and are of all kinds and breeds,
but all good stock. The most valuable
cows are those that Superintendent
! PEARS brought from the East. They
are Guernseys, and are the most deep
~ infected OF any of the heard. It
is probable that all of the infected
Put Trains Back On.-Two add
tional passenger trains will be put on
by the Santa Fe November s. This
announcement was made from the
Santa Fe general offices. The nav
trains will be 113 and ia and will
run from Kansas City to Wellington
and return. The fact that these trains
are to be put on indicates that pas
senger business is picking up on the
Santa Fe and that passenger business
| is paying under the 2-cent fare. 1t
was predicted when the 2-cent fare
was placed in operation that it was
only q matter of time urSil local
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