The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS
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thousand fish on each run for distri-
button at stations along the different
lines Of road: Union Pacific, from To
peka to Grainfield; Santa Fe, from
Strong City to Superior, Neb., from
there over the Burlington through the
northwestern part of the state to St
Francis; Santa Fe from Pratt to Kan
sas City; Frisco from Kansas City to
Fort Scott; Missouri Pacific, Wichita
to Fort Scott; Missouri Pacific, Fort
Scott to Leoti; Santa Fe, Florence to
Great Bend, via. Mcpherson and Ly-
ons; Santa Fe, Larned to Jetmore;
Santa Fe, Harper to Winfield, Mo-
line, Elk City, independence. Coffey-
vile and Pittsburg. After these trips
are completed a few more will be
worked out in order to dispose of all
of this seasons fish. During the fall
practically every part of the state
will be visited Warden Travis says
there is little likelihood that any Hun
garian pheasants will be distributed
this year because of an increase in the
cost of their importation. Those i'm
ported a year ago have multiplied
4
Wis received reports from points over
the state frequently that large flocks
of them have been seen. These birds
are protected for five years and the
indications are that by that time the
state will be pretty well filled with
them. Mr. Travis will import several
hundred blue quails this fall. They
will come from New Mexico. These
quail are game little birds and are rs
good eating as the ordinary quail.
Each bird has a top knot. These birds
are already to be found in Western
Kansas where they have come from
the West of their own accord, but Mr..
Travis wants to get them distributed
over the eastern half of the state.
In Regard to Registration.-It will
be a relief to many voters to know
that by failing to vote at the primary
election they did not lose their right
ITO vote the general election. There
was some fear on this ground and to
quell it all Attorney General Jackson
rendered an opinion holding that the
primary was not an election at all,
that it was simply primary and that
it had nothing to do with the registra-
ton of voters in cities of the first and
second class. The opinion reads.
1.-The primary election law has abso.
| lutely nothing to do with the general
election laws of the state, and conse-
quently the registration of electors
| in cities of the first and second
classes. The primary law requires
registration to vote at the primary,
but the general election laws do not
require one to vote at the primary
in order to vote at the general cleo
ton. The primary of August was
not an election at all. 1t was just a
primary. The registration law re-
quires an elector to vote at each gen
eral election and to reside at the
same street number or tc re-register,
but as the primary is not a general
election, it is of no consequence
whether an elector voted at the prl>
mary or not. Putting this matter in
another and perhaps in a simpler
light, if a voter has not changed his
residence and has voted regularly at
the annual city elections in the spring
and the biennial elections in Novem-
Der, he does not need re-registration.
And as for the primary law-forget it,
until the time comes to nominate can
didates again.
100000 to Be Spent at Riley
Notice has been received at Fort
Riley that the plans for a hundred
thousand dollars worth of construc-
ton work at the post are being made
and that bids will be advertised for
J within a few weeks.
Child's Leg Cut Off.-While Chas.
McClain, who lives west of Concordia
about eleven miles, was moving sorg,
hum his 4-year-old boy wandered oul