The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS
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Sued for $4,000 amsses.-Ars. :.
w. Farley has brought suit against
E. V. Hoffman, the miller at Enter
prise, for $4,000 damages, claiming
that her husband was killed in a run
away as result of his teams fright
at an automobile driven by Mr. Hoff-
man. The accident occurred on
country road and Mr.. Farley was
thrown out and injured, dying some
weeks later
An Estimate on Wheat-In a report
just issued by F. D. Coburn, secretary
of the State Board of Agriculture, the
wheat yield for Kansas for 1908 is es
timated at 73.606,0O0, which is $4,000
bushels greater than last years yield
and 19 per cent less than the yield
of 1906. This estimate is based on the
reports of county assessors from each
of the 105 counties in the state. The
total acreage was 6.S34,S0O which is
less by 217,0S2 than the total arecage
of the previous year.
Bank Robber Given Pardon
Charles Arthur, sent to the penitenti-
airy in November of last year under
sentence of from five to ten years
for attempting to rob a bank, has been
released from the penitentiary under
Communication by Governor Hoch
Arthur and two other attempted to
rob bank at HunnewelI in Sumner
county, a year ago last March. They
1cred holes in the safe and set the
charge. When the dynamite exploded
Arthur was too close and the sight
of one eye was entirely destroyed and
the other was so weakened that it is
useless. Governor Hoch granted the
pardon so that Arthur could go to his
parents at Loui.;Ville. Ky. The of
ficials of Sumner county asked that
he be released.
$4,000 More Left Than Last Year.
1t has been found that the balance
in favor of the state at tn eclose of
the fiscal year 1908 was $43 600 ahead
of the balances at the close of the
year 1907, according to the figures of
the state auditor. The accounts of
the various counties with the state
have just been checked up and com
PARSONS made with last year. In 1907
the balances on hand at the close OF
the fiscal year were $1,057 900, while
| this year they were $1,100,000. This
condition was brought about on ac-
count of the large amount of fees paid
in by various state departments dur
ing the closing months of the year.
For three months it was not neces-
sary to make a draft OH the county
treasures for money 20 pay the state
! expenses as he fees were sufficient
| to meet all of the bills.
LOCO Inspections by Pure Food Men
| 1t is eighteen months since the Kan
sas pure food law went into effect,
and since that time nearly one thous-
and inspections have been made by
| the pure food department. Two in
| spections have been made in the
! stores of each of the larger cities and
in some cases the cities have been
visited three times. BY the first OF
| November all towns, even those with
| one store, and forty miles from a rail
| road, will have had at least one visit
from the pure food inspector. Last
winter the inspectors confined them
selves to towns on the railroads, but
! during the summer while the roads
have been good they have been doing
a great deal of driving and visiting
| the small towns off the railroads. For
| this reason the small towns in the
southwestern part CT the state were
not visited until this summer. In the
eighteen months in which the law has
been in operation only about twelve
prosecutions have been brought for
! violations of the law
A Boy Drowned at EimdaIe-Har-
| old Martin, aged 10 years, was drown
| ed in the Cottonwood river at Elm
| dale bridge, five miles west of Cot
! tonwood Falls. His father was fish
| ing and got his hook fast. Harold
started to wade out to loosen it and
| stepped into deep hole
Unidentified Body in car.-The body
| of a stranger. evidently a tramp, who
had been murdered, was found in a
box car in the Missouri Pacific yards
at Arkansas City. The skull of 'he
man had been crushed as with blIs.>:
| instrument. No marks of identified
| ton other than cards saying, I an
a crippled miner" were found on the
body. The man had been dead severa
days when found.
Forty-Eieht Die From tuberculosis
| According to its monthly bullentiT
| just issued there were reported to the
state board of health during the past
| month SO cases and As deaths from
tuberculosis; 1871 cases and % death:
| from typhoid fever: % cases and
deaths from diptheria; so cases and :
deaths from scarlet fever; 81 case;
and no deaths from smallpox, and !
cases and / death from measles.
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The Governor and His Patronage
When the new. governor of Kansa:
| takes the lines of the Kansas gov
errSnent from the hands of e. "
J Hoch he will have, among othel