The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-05-08

not give steady employment the year
around to people unless their services
are absolutely required. 1t has been
the rule in the past 10 appoint
weighmaster or helper by the year,
even though there was work only for
six or eight months. By cutting down
the employment to the bare necessity
the grain inspector hopes tp make
the department self-sustaining.
After Unsanitary NOTES.-THE state
board of health has begun its cam
paign against hotels and boarding
houses of the state which do rot
maintain proper fire ESCAPES or keep
their places clean. Upon complaint
of Inspector John Kleinhans, the pro-
prietor of the Harrison hotel at Clay
Center was arrested and fined 500.
The charge against him was that he
maintained an ursanitary hotel He
paid the fine and agreed to clean up.
| The inspectors are quietly at work
and the only safe thing for the hotel
men to do is to run clean places.
Gave School Fund No chance.-It
is possible that Attorney General Fred
| S. Jackson will start proceedings
against the board of education of the
city Of Hutchinson because it failed
to offer bonds issued by it to the state
school fund commission. The board
o. education recently issued, upon the
vote of the city of Hutchinson, bonds
! For the erection of new school build
! ihgs. The bonds were taken by To-
! cal men, and the state school fund
! -. IL.
| them. The law requires that the com
mission must be given an opportunity
! to purchase all bonds issued by mu-
inequalities in Kansas, and that, be-
! fore they are offered to anyone else.
! The city of Hutchinson and it's board
! of education apparently overlooked
this important matter and the attor-
ney general has taken the matter
up.
! Arrested, She Kills SeIf.-Mrs.
Helen Yarbrough, of Springfield, Mo-,
murder of John Bullette at Claremore,
Ok, several weeks ago, committed SUI
eide at the Manhattan hotel in Wich-
tia by taking strychnine. A warrant
had been served on her by a detec-
tive and she was about to be taken
to Jail by the officers when she asked
permission to step into another
room. She remained there long
enough to arouse the suspicious of the
officers, and when they went after her
| they found that she was in convul-
sions. She was taken to the hospital,
and after suffering three hours, died.
She was traced to the city by Pink
erton detective Bullette was a
wealthy Indian and it is said Mrs.
YIarbrough killed him because he re-
fused to marry her.
Destroying Old Unforms.-The ad-
lj4tant general of the Kansas National
Ghard has just destroyed three wagon
ldads of old uniforms. This cast off
clothing used to be sold at auction.
But the government stopped that for
the reason that so many people would
! wear army uniforms that it would be
Impossible almost to pick up army de-
serters. In order to make it easy to
catch deterters the war department
has ordered all condemned uniforms
destroyed. A few years ago "GinraF'
| Artz, who looked after the Kansas
/
tipn, purchased a carload of cast off
uniforms and shipped them to North
Arkansas, where he was mining. He
sdld the uniforms to the people there
Nearly every man in that part of Ar
kansas wore a blue uniform. This
LED to the saying that the people OF
Arkansas didn't know the war was
Ter.
Killed While Out Huntinc.-Arthur
the 14-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
R9dda Broadbent, who live six miles
southwest of Beloit, was the victim
OF an accident that cost him hiI life.
He had started out hunting with a
shotgun and in trying to get through
a hedge fence, pulled the gun after
him which was accidentally discharg-
ed in some manner. The charge
struck him in the groin, cutting an
artery and practically paralyzing his
right leg and thigh. Some time after
the accident he was found by his par
ents, but owing to the great loss OF
blood sustained in severing an artery
he was dead when discovered.
Sugar Beet Acreage Grows.-Rs
ports from the Northwest indicate
that the acreage of sugar beets is in
creasing so rapidly in Cheyenne cou.
ty that a sugar company will soon be
justified in establishing a sugar mill
there Beets in that section are rails
ed without water. So far there is
only one sugar mill in the state That
is at Garden City. Two others are
planned for the Arkansas valley. The
Northwest Kansas farmers are now
pulling for a mill.
also warned to close his hotel anC
keep it closed until he had placed i
in an absolutely sanitary condition.
: Want Bakers to Close, Too.-Wieh
tia grocers have decided to bring sui