The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-05-08
STATE NEWS NOTES
Condensed Report Important Events That Happened Kansas


of Edgerton, committed suicide by
hanging himself to tree in his or
chard His body was discovered by
neighbor, F. H. Reid, who had been
summoned by the family to assist in
the search when Mr.. Middleton was
missed Poor health is supposed to
have unbalanced his mind.
Big Fire at Parsons.-Fire, which
broke out in Charles Gamers tailor
shop in the Strasburger business
block in Parsons from a gasoline ex-
plosion, destroyed the entire block
The sparks, carried by a high south
east wind. threatened the residence
portion of the town. The two local
fire companies proved inadequate, and
reinforcements were sent for from
Coffeyville. Joplin and Fort Worth.
The total loss exceeds 100000.
Attorney General Nails Lockers
In carefully prepared statement
just issued, Attorney General Fred S.
Jackson holds that if the present
state laws are enforced, clubs where
liquor is used cannot be maintained in
Kansas He declares that clubs may
liquor to members when the club re-
ceives pay for the same in any way,
direct or indirect, that clubs, may not
keep liquors for sale to members and
that club or lodge rooms may not be
used as drinking places for liquor
owned by individual members.
Must Have a Charmed Life.-While
train No. 2 of the Santa Fe was run
ming at the rate of 40 miles an hour,
about IA miles west of st. John, Yetta
Raderblitz, the 4-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Herman Raderblitz, fell through
an open trap in the vestibule of one
of the chair cars and escaped death
by a miracle. After being rescued
from beside the railroad track,rwhere
it had fallen, the child was attended
by physician at Hutchinson. To the
amaZement of the trainmen and pas
sengers it was found that the little
one had sustained only few
bruises.
Farmer Attacks chauffeur.-T. R,
MAIDEN, a chauffeur in the employ of
H. T.. Trice, the Whitfield real estate
man, is suffering from wound in
the head which he says was inflicted
by Joe Wolfe, young farmer living
near Postland. Wolfe was walking in
the road following a lister driven by
his brother, according to the story OF
the Trice party, and MAIDEN slowed up
the machine and asked young Wolfe
If the horses were afraid. The latter's
reply, they declared, was, an attack
on the driver with pitchfork, knock
in MAIDEN nearly senseless. A. war
rant has been issued for .wolfe's ar
rest. =
WinfieId's Butchers Arrested.-All
of Winfields butchers, A Dautsch-
man, Joseph Mitschler, Hudson e
Haines, w. L. Gordon and Cochran &
Helwig, were arrested on complaint
of Inspector A c. Pike for maintain
ing their slaughter houses in a filthy
condition, and taken before Justice
Emory Erhart, where they all pleaded
guilty and were fined So and costs,
amounting to SIS each. The com
! plant charged that the offal and filth
| incident to Strengthening animals was
not properly disposed of. The bitch
ers have taken the hint; also the nee
essaTy steps to put their slaughter
houses in such condition that when
the inspector comes again they will
have clean bill of health. This
makes the second batch of arrests
/ that have occurred in Winfield within
the last few days as the result of the
|. violation of the pure food and sanitary
laws, four of the grocers having been
pulled the first of the week for i'm
properly displaying their goods.
Wichita's New Motto.-Wichita hac
| fallen in line with other Kansas
| towns and adopted a motto: Watch
Wichita Win The mayor and com
missioners picked the motto and they
recommended it to the commercial
! bodies, schools, churches and the
| baseball club.
| Kansas Has Plenty of GaseGas l..
| spector Sealy L. Brown has just com
! pleted the testing of seven wells in
the southeastern part of the state fol
| the Kansas Natural Gas company, and
his repors show them to be in splen
did, condition. The aggregate vcIume
of the seven wells tested by Mr.. Brown
| iO,A1O,OCO uSSS are Ola wells ranC
some of them have been in constant
use by the company for the last five
years. This shows that the Kansa:
Natural CHS company has plenty Of
gas, despite the fact that wild rumor.
go out to the contrary. Mr.. Brown
has tested about 175 wells thus fal
and he has about fifty more yet to be
tested. The majority of these are the
property of the Kansas Natural Ga:
company which owns a number of re
serve properties.
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Clay Center Hotel Ordered Closed
After an investigation by DR.. S. E
Reynolds, county health officer, JONI
kleinhans of the state board of health
went to Clay Center and had a war
rant sworn out in Justice Williams
court for Charles Norden, proprieto
of the Harrison house. a dollar da,
hotel of that city, charging him will
running an, unsanitary hotel. Afte