The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-04-03
STATE NEWS NOTES
Condensed Report Important Happened in Kansas


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Fatal Accident at WinfieId.-Henry
Hoel, laborer of Winfield, was in
stantly killed when large rope broke
while workmen were hosting a large
stone, let the derrick fall over and
crushing him
Won't Change at Once.-There will
be no change in the office of state
| live stock commissioner until after
| the shipping season is over and at
that time ]. H. Mercer of Chase coun-
ty will succeed John P Baker.
Bakery Blown up With Dynamite
A bakery at Dunkirk, ten miles north
west of Pittsburg, was dynamited and
| the building completely wrecked No
one was in the building at the time,
though it had just been completed. A
building was wreckeds in a similar
manner at Breezy Hill coal camp, near
Dunkirk. 1t is believed the same per-
son is responsible for both outrages.
No clear reason for the crime has been
found.
Keep the Kansas SchooIs.-At the
meeting of the North Central Associa-
ton of Colleges and Secondary Schools
held at Chicago, forty schools were
dropped from the accredited list for
inefficiency, insanitation and other
violations of the rules, and 123 schools
were added. Michigan took the high
mark for new credits, securing twenty
two; Indiana was second. Kansas,
North Dakota and Colorado were the
only states in which schools were not
| dropped.
Meeting of State Teachers.-The an
nual meeting of the State Teachers
association will be held in Topeka the
last Thursday and Friday in October.
This date was fixed by the executive
committee of the association which
held meeting recently in the office
of State Superintendent F. E. Fair
child. The association at it's last
meeting during the holidays voted to
fix the date earlier in the fall, but left
the selection of the actual dates to
the executive committee.
Applicants Lacking Here-Governor
Stubs has a large number of appoint
ments that are going begging. They
are all cases of the offices hunting
the men. A great convention is to be
held at Guthrie, Okla, on May and
6. The attendance will be from every
state in the union. The occasion is
the meeting of the national commits
sion on country life" Governor Stubs
is asked to appoint a representative
delegation of Kansas citizens to at
tend this convention, but there are no
applicants for this job
Will Test New Law-The druggists
of Kansas have decided to test the
new prohibition law which forbids
them selling alcohol for medicinal,
scientific and mechanical purposes.
Sumner county has been selected as
the place to fire the first gun against
the new law. AS soon as the law
takes effect the druggists say that ar
rangements have been made for the
probate judge of Sumner county to de-
fly it by issuing a druggists permit I'M
der the old law. The new law wiped
out the old permit law. That will
bring the thing to focus at once.
Farmers Have No Old Wheat.-It is
the unanimous opinion of the seventy
five millerS who attended a meeting
of the association of Missouri, Kan
sas, Nebraska and Oklahoma at WITCH
tia, that not per cent of the old
wheat crop is now in the hands of the
farmers, or is yet to be put on the
market from any source. In large
majority of cases the millers say the
old wheat still being held will not
amount to even 5 per cent and in some
sections, especially in the great wheat
producing counties of Kansas and Ne
braska, practically no wheat is in the
hands of the producers.
Gets a Pension for Life.-William
Saunders of Junction City, who has
been employed in the Union Pacific
round house for thirty-seven years.
has just been retired by the company
on pension for life. Several months
ago he declined pension, preferring
to work, but i'll health lately made him
change his mind.
Won't Publish journal Until July
Notwithstanding the efforts of Will
Beck, chief clerk of the last house. to
make a record in getting out the house
journal, it will not be published until
after the end of the fiscal year, which
will be June 80. The state printing
plant is loaded down with work. 1t
has the session laws, lot of printing
due to the bank guaranty law, print
ing for several departments and the
senate and house journals
Pay for Prisoners keep.-State Au-
ditor Trap of Oklahoma issued a war
rant for $4S,6S5.SO payable to Kansas
for the care of Oklahoma prisoners in
the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing.
The warrant was issued to r. w Dick,
warden of the Oklahoma penitentiary,
who transferred the amount through
bank draft to the proper Kansas au-
thorities.
Col. Hughes's Fine Record.AColo-
mel ]. w. F. Hughes, the retiring adj
jutant general of the Kansas national
guard. made a fine record in handling
the special Spanish war fund appro-
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