The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-11-14

RECORD For Ho9 killIn9.-Ine big
gest weeks record for the slaughter
ing of hogs by a Wichita packing
house was made recently when the
Dold plant killed 9,1S5 porkers. This
record exceeds any previous weekly
record by fairly 1000 head
Charged With Abandoning Family.
Governor Hoch has honored a re-
QUESTION issued by the Governor of
Ohio for the return of Charles Her,
wanted for child abandonment. Ac-
cording to the story told by the sher-
if of Preble county, O., to the Cover
nor, Her had a wife and three small
children. He is said to have left one
night, leaving them destitute
Andae Girl Suicide.-Bertha
Shocks of Andale, aged IS years, shot
and killed herself because her lover.
Army Baker. is dying with consump-
ton. The girl was working at a wash
tub and suddenly left it, went into
the house, secured her fathers re-
volver, and shot herself through the
heart, dying instantly.
Killed While Hunting--George Simp-
son, a 16-yeaT-o1d boy living in Con-
cordia, was instantly killed while re-
turning from a hunt. A shotgun in
the hands of a friend of about the
same age, Frank PALLET, was acct
dentally discharged at short range
and the entire charge lodged in young
Simpsons breast, killing him instant
ly.
Buried Alive in Cave-in.-A tunnel.
in which several men were working,
caved in at the State Agricultural col
lege at Manhattan, killing one man,
injuring two and killing a team of
mules. The tunnel was being dug for
a passageway for steam pipes con-
Meeting the new buildings with the
heating pant, and was seventeen feet
under ground.
Eleven Horses Perish in Fire.-One
OF the most serious fires that has &C
Cured in Great Bend for the past year
was that of the Bush feed barn and
it's contents, entailing a loss of
something more than $4,000. 1t was
especially distressing on account of
the burning of eleven head of good
horses, which were absolutely help
less, and persisted without even
fighting chance for their lives.
Life Sentence For Two.-Henry
Behner, convicted at independence
of the murder of Tobias Sawyer, while
inflamed with the belief that Sawyer
had ruined his daughter, was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. SINH
lar sentence was pronounced on Will
liam Lipsey, who went with Behner
to Sawyer's home when the shooting
occurred. Lipsey served a term in
the Kansas penitentiary when young
man.
Parker Shows in Troubie.-About
thirty-fiVe attachment and garnish-
ment suits have been filed by attor-
| neys for different creditors of the G..
w. Parker Amusement Company of
Abilene, while it was holding forth
in Chanute recently. Most of the
suits are for labor claims, but local
creditors OF the company who have
| failed to get money which they claim
| is due them, nave filed suits against
| the Parker company.
Bet Cow on His Wife.-G. G. Bur
| ton of Topeka. whose wife ran on the
| Democratic ticket for superintendent
| of Public Instruction, paid an unusual
bet on election when he transferred
| the title of registered Holstein COW
| valued at $175 to r. K. Putnam OF
| Oakland Prior to the election Mr.
| Burton wagered the cow against s.
that the entire Republican State tick
ct would not be elected. Burton
thought his wife would be elected.
In Kansas, of Course.-The frs
baby named for Taft after the polls
| William Howard Henshaw of Ulysses
| Young Mr.. Henshaw was born cleo
J ton day and a letter from his father
| N. C. Henshaw, to the William How
| ards grandfather, B. c. Henshaw, o
| Garden City. says: We named hin
| William Howard after Taft and claim
| he is the first baby in the United
States named after the next Presi
| dent after the polls closed.
Sues City Officers.-In the distric
court at Leayenworth. Nick Beery
has filed suit for damages against
Mayor GRANGER, Chief of Police Tay
| lor and Officer Mcclure. He ask:
for $4,000 damages in each case. The
suits were filed by Kansas City
attorney employed by Mr.. Berry. Mr.
Beery alleges that Officer Mcclure
acting under instructions from his su
periors, entered his (Beery's) dwell
ing one night recently presumably il
search of lewd characters and there
by injured his reputation. The may
or and chief refused to discharge Nc
Clure upon the request of Mr.. Beery
Brakeman Fails Between Cars
Thomas w. Mcbride fell between tbs
cars at Wellington and received N
juries which caused his death hal
| an hour later. He was % years or
and was married. Three of his broth
ers are engineers on the Missouri Pa
cific running out of Wichita.
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