The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-12

Tax Values Must Stand.-Bourbon
county applied to the state tax conf
mission to have the % per cent in
crease in land values and 10 per cent
| increase in town lot values, as fixed
by the commission, wiped out, so that
the assessment would stand as re-
ported by the county assessor. The
tax commission turned down the re-
quest.
Mistake in Medicine FataI.-Rueh1
Wilbur, aged 10 years, died at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Wilbur. in Lawrence, from a
dose of carbolic acid, given by mis-
take for medicine. The boy had been
sick for some time with typhoid fever,
but was in fair way to recovery.
! The father got up to give the boy his
medicine and by mistake got hold of
a bottle containing carbolic acid that
! had been used as a disinfectant. The
| dose was not a large one, but the boy
was too weak to survive the effects.
Issues Call for Bank Statement
| State Bank Commissioner John @.
Royce has issued a call for state
ment showing the conditions of all
! state banks, all private banks and all
trust companies at the close of bust
ness, September l. The last call was
| made in May. The bank deposits
were crawling upward at the time of
| the last statement and everything in
| dicated that the financial troubles
were about over. For that reason
here will be considerable interest in
the coming statement
New Shop at Newfoundland New
ton is to continue to be one of the
most important railroad centers on
the main line of the Santa Fee is
brought into evidence more and more
every day. The latest addition that
| company has decided to make to it's
already numerous facilities there is a
factory for making guard rails, frogs
and switch points for the entire Santa
Fe system east of Albuquerque, in
place of buying this material in the
open market, as heretofore. The build
ing is to be approximately 4Ox72 feel
in size and will be located near the
rail mill. Plans and specifications for
the structure have already beca ap-
proved and the machinery Tor making
the material referred to has been or
dered. 1t is expected that the new
industry will give employment tc
about twenty men.
Orient Shops Big Thing to Wichita.
That the Kansas City, Mexico q
Orient Railroad company intends to
begin work on it's roundhouse, shops
and other general terminals in WITCH
ita within a few months is now as
sured. The plans for the improvS
ments to be made there are being
prepared by Mr. Parent, engineer for
the railroad company. When compIet-
ed the company will be ready to let
a contract for the work. The immcns-
ity of the general shops of the com
pany being planned for Wichita are
realized after the plans for the b lid
ings have been seen. Seven separate
buildings will be erected on the prop
erty of the company on the West Side
There will be brick 21-stall round
house, a large machine, blacksmith
and erecting shop, a brick power
house, a brick transfer stable, coach
tank and carpenter shop, one-story
brick house, a brick oil house and d
300, 000-gallon cement reservoir No es.
innate has been made on the COS: of
: these buildings, but it will be an enor-
nous sum of money, as all will be
built substantially. The bonds, re-
, voted by the city to the railroad COM
pany to secure the general shops OF
the company, make it necessary for
) the railroad company to have these
improvements completed by January
l, 1910.
Kansas Fruit Growers to Report
The annual report of Walter Well
house, secretary of the State Horti-
cultural Society, will be prepared
and given out in short time Mr.
Wellhouse is sending out one thous-
and postal cards to fruit growers in
all parts of the state with blanks
ready TO fill in with the information
needed for the report. This report
will be late enough to show practical
; ly what the fruit crop in Kansas has
) been this year. This will be an in
novation in Kansas
: Arrested for Selling "Phony" Honey.
Under the pure food law artificial
1
natural product of bees. Two boys,
Harry and Landsing Brace, tried this
in Fort Scott, and are now under ar
l rest. The boys came into town as
strangers and imediately began manu-
featuring honey and peddling it over
l town as pure bees honey They
5 made the mistake of trying to sell
some of it to A G. Fike, a pure food
? inspector. He knew the law and
5 knew pure honey, so placed the boys
under arrest instead of buying their
product.
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: formatory, $4,000; game warden,
5 $1,000 and part of expenses; director
free employment bureau, $1,000; for
estry commissioners, two at $1,000
r each.
Farmer Injured in Runaway.-David
: Parkinson, retired farmer is at a