The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS
Brief Review of the Happenings of Week Condensed Into
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| of the state annual school fund has
just been made by the state super
intendent of public instruction and it
amounts to 45 cents for each child
of school age in the state. The total
amount distributed is s22S. 433.50. The
total number of children in the state
Of school age is 507 $50.
BiddIe After Bigger Game.-William
l. Biddle of Leavenworth, at present
member of the board of directors of
the Kansas penitentiary, has served
notice on Governor Stubs that he
doesn't seek or want a reappointment
as prison director. He expects to be
appointed postmaster of Leavenworth
just as soon as the term of the present
incumbent expires.
To Pen for Careless DriVing.-Ira
Brecount of Arkansas City, who was
convicted at the November term of
court of manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree, on account of the death of Mrs.
Fred Bower in a collision with the fire
chiefs wagon, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for a term of one or two
years. His motion for a new trial was
overruled, just before the sentence
was pronounced. Harry Scott, the fire
chief, is yet to be tried on the same
charge.
Handling Trains by Telephone-The
trains over the eastern division of the
Santa Fe between Emporia and Holt
day are being dispatched by tele-
phone. While the new system has
not been formally adopted it has been
completed and all of the trains are be-
ing handled by telephone. The San
ia Fe is planning to equip the entire
road with telephones for dispatching.
The first link in the system was
made between Emporia and Newton
and the work of installing the sys-
tenn over the double track cutoff be-
tween Emporia and Kansas City by
way of Ottawa will be rushed and
then the system will be extended to
Chicago.
To Establish Packing Plant.-With-
in a few days the state charter board
will be asked for a charter for a $780,
600 packing house for Hutchinson. A
fenced packer, said to be from Kansas
City, are the hackers of the new en-
terprise. The local men are the same
men who built the local street railway
and electric light plant. Prominent
among them are Senator Emerson
Carey, Representative w. Y. Morgan,
Major ]. P. Harsha, president of the
Hutchinson Wholesale Grocery com
pany, and K. E. and c. N. Sentney of
the Sentney Wholesale Grocery COM
pany. Work on the plant is expected
to begin within thirty days.
Delegates to Dry Farming Congress.
Governor Stubs has appointed
twenty-five delegates to the Trans
Missouri Dry Farming congress, which
meets in Cheyenne, Wyo., February
%, "a and %, to represent the state of
Kansas. The delegates have to pay
their own expenses, but most of the
railroads are granting rates of one
fare for the round trip. 1. L. Diesem.
Garden City; E. 1. Spencer, Wichita;
George NJ. Curtis, Bellefont; Frank
Lockard, Goodland; Richard Broiller,
Hugoton; S. NJ. Wells, Lenora; John
Bell, Moreland; Levi Gum, Great
Bend; r. D. Blaine, Pratt; John A.
Shanstron, Coolidge; L. P. Worden.
Syracuse; J. L. Horlacher, Colby;
Charles Jung, Russell Springs; Chris
Christensen, Orion; c. c. Gilmore, Oak
land; Roy Charles, Allison; Eugene
Mowrey, Lucrene; William Nc Cal
lum, st. Francis; A. w. Merrill, ST.
Francis; F. F. Bliss. Oberlin; David
Gripton, Smith Center; Charles Har-
den, lexington;
Kansas Law acknowledgements
Stubs of Kansas is lending all the
assistance possible to Governor
Hughes of New York in his fight for
a state primary law. During his visit
to Kansas during the last campaign,
Governor Hughes made a close study
of the Kansas primary law. He said
it met his views better than any other
law of that kind that he had examin.
ed. The New York law, which he is
backing, is patterned to a great ex
tent after the Kansas law
State Masons Elect Officers-At the
annual meeting of the Masonic grand
lodge at Wichita the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year
Grand high priest, Thomas G. Fitch
Wichita; deputy grand high priest
| Fred Washbon, Anthony; grand king
! William H. Evans, Marion; grand
treasurer, Aaron H. Connect, Grea
Bend grand secretary, Albert X. VIII
son, Topeka; grand captain, Harry E
/ Best, Manhattan; grand r. A. captain
! William L. Maxwell, Paola; grand
chaplain, Charles H. Rogers, Hutch
inson; grand sentinel. w. Amer Bur
nett, Oberlin; grand marshal, Eleck c
/ Cole, Great Bend.
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Farmers Union May Mine Coal
| The Farmers Educational and Co
| Operative Union in session at Salina
spent much time planning to handle
| the products of the farms of members
of the union and to furnish coal Il
members without a dealers profit
| The union expects to soon open a Goa
| mine in Cherokee county.