The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-05-15

One hundred and thirty young men
and women from twelve of the leading
colleges of Kansas are getting ready
to take up work in the foreign mis-
sion field, according to H. F. La
famine, who is working in the in
terest Of the student volunteer move
ment.
Escaped by Rope of Bed Clothes
Blanche Brown, a 14-year-old girl;
who was being held in the room of the
police matron at Wichita pending the
return of application to admit her to
the Girls Industrial school at Beloit,
escaped by making q rope of the
sheets that were on her bed. She
tied the rope to the radiator in her
room in the third story of the city
building. Sliding down she eluded the
officers and has not been found.
Wichita, the "BeerIess" Princes
For the first time in twenty-eight
years not a single book of blank af-
fidavits to be signed in receipt for
liquor bought at drug stores has been
issued in Sedgwick county. The last
permit held by a druggist in the
county was returned from Valley Cen
ter. Thirty-six permits were issued
during the month of April and they
have all been returned The entire
county is dry, with the exception of
liquor sold by bootleggers.
Can't Use States Name.-No state
or private bank will be permitted to
mislead their customers by advertis-
ing that their deposits are guaran-
teed by the state, so Bank Commits
sioner Dolley declares. The state, I'M
der the new law, does not guarantee
deposits All it does is to act as
trustee to administer the new law.
The banks, themselves, furnish the
insurance funds. It is simply a case
of the banks putting up a small per
cent Of their own assets to protect
deposits. The state has no interest
whatever in the fund behind the IN
surance policies, except to see that
the fund is handled honestly and at
no expense to the banks. Kansas
banks. which participate in the fund,
can advertise that they have their de-
posits insured under the bank guar,
anty law, but they cannot state that
their deposits are insured by the
state
At the State Reformatory-Al-
though no report is to be made, the
authorities of the state reformatory
at Hutchinson are anXiOusly looking
forward to the ending of the fiscal
year, which occurs June l. During
making it necessary to add improve
ments and this will be done, commenc-
ing the first Of the new year when the
state appropriation is to be available
During the year just ending, the prin.
cipal feature of improvement has been
the addition Of a laundry house. The
laundry will be completed in about
two weeks. 1t is one-story frame
building of sufficient dimensions
Most of the work is being done by the
! inmates of the reformatory. The
| present laundry location is just above
the boiler rooms, and is most unsatis
tory. New machinery will be added
| to the laundry. The reformatory is
at last to boast of a band An appro
| priation of $1,000 has been made fol
! band instruments, paraphernalia anG
a piano. This money will be paiC
soon and the work of getting up .
band will be started during July. AL
ready many of the inmates have ex
pressed desire to become members
| of the organization. A number of the
inmates are proficient with musica
instruments. A musical director is t.
be employed for regular duty. He
will probably have charge of the re
formatory choir and any other must
cal organization that may be formed
{ Kansas Won't Have Exhihit.-Th,
expatriated Kansans out on the Pa
cific coast are writing frantica;ly tt
Kansas state officials urging them u
do something for the Alaska ukol
exposition. That question was check
ed up in the legislature two years agc
and that body did not take much stool
in the exposition. Since it failed t.
make any appropriation for sending
Kansas exhibit about all the state of
ficials can do is to encourage thei
friends to attend the show. The leg
islature increased no salaries and TIT
exposition.
: Steel Trusses CoIIapse.-Four stee
trusses weighing sixteen tons, set il
place to support the roof of the rev
100000 normal gymnasium in cours
of construction at Emporia. fell, an,
Gus Whitening, an iron worker iron
Kansas City, was injured and ma
die. Whitening was on top of on
of the trusses and fell with it a dis
, lance of forty feet. A part of tn
running track which forms the fourt
floor was demolished and the wall
were damaged and the trusse
ruined.
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