The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-04-17
It Happened In Kansas


at Usage City were totally destroyed
by fire. The parsonage was worth
about $4,000 and the church about the
same. Insurance on the parsonage
was $1,000, and on the church 81 200.
The contents of the parsonage were
entirely destroyed.
Supreme Court Against Autos.-The
first automobile damage case to- ever
reach the Kansas supreme court was
cided by that body against the owner
of the machine whom it found to have
been careless and negligent, thereby
causing injury to the plaintiff, George
Yoder. The case comes from Neosho
county on an appeal. Miss Yoder was
given Judgment for $4,000 in the low
er court and this decision is affirmed
by the supreme court. The defendant
is ]. NJ. Mcdonald.
Live Stock Rate Hearing April 90
The State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners has set the date of hearing in
the Kansas City Live Stock cases for
April 20 in Kansas City This is the
case filed by the live stock commits
sion men of Kansas City charging
that the railroads entering Kansas
City are too slow in delivering stock
to the yards after it reaches the ter
minals and that loss from shrinkage
results
Will Furnish Fort Riley Hay.-Ed.
Whitehair Of Junction City has receiv-
ed word that he was the lowest bid
der on 1000 tons of prairie hay to be
delivered this year at Fort Riley
Mr.. Whitehair will have the privilege
of cutting the hay off the reservation
and will start work June l. A num-
Der of sub-contracts will be let and
the work will be pushed along as
rapidly as possible. Mr.. Whitehair
has had the contract for furnishing
the hay for several years.
Standard Lays Down Arms.-The
Standard Oil company is letting up
in its warfare on its competitors in
Kansas. Representative Mitchell of
Douglas county says the independent
oil refiners of southeastern Kansas
have received a tip from &c Wall
street that the Standard will not be
SO severe on its competitors in the
future and that its officers have no
objection to the Independents extend
ing their business. What prompted
this change of policy is not known,
but the independent refiners feel free
now to invade Standard territory and
are doing it.
Have Plan of Their Own.-Now
that he department of Justice has
ruled that national banks cannot par
ticipate in the Kansas bank guaranty
law without an act of congress, the
national bankers will proceed to for
mulate a plan of insurance of their
own. The committee of twenty-five
appointed at the recent meeting of
bankers, held in Topeka, will meet
Immediately in Kansas City, Kan,
and devise plan. It is understood
that it will be in the form of a clear
ing house association with a trust
company as a side issue for insur-
ance purposes.
Knock on Kansas Does.-Live
Stock Sanitary Commissioner Mercer
received word from Hiawatha that
several cattle near there had been
bitten by a mad dog and gone mad
He went up to investigate the case
ut would be a profitable thing for
Kansas if every dog in the state was
killed" said Mercer. dogs do more
damage to live stock than the Texas
fever, the mango and all other dis
eases combined. They kill sheep,
bite cattle when they are mad, kill
ing the cattle; run more flesh off of
put back on in three months, and are
a general all around nuisance -
Race Menace to HeaIth.-The
Shawnee County Medical society,
composed of all the leading physi-
clans of Topeka, at meeting in To
peka, adopted a resolution against
the proposed juvenile Marathon race
now being promoted. The twenty
seven doctors present declared that
such a race would do irreparabIe in
jIty to the health of the young par
Elephants and urged the promoters to
call it off.
1o5 Cases and 73 Deaths.-Statis-
tics to the board of health show that
during the month of February there
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losis with seventy-three deaths; forty
two cases of typhoid fever, with thir-
teen deaths; 1873 cases of diphtheria
with fifteen deaths; 231 cases of scar
let fever, with seven deaths; and 250
cases of measles, with two deaths.
Kansas City. Kan, led in tuberculosis,
with nineteen cases and sixteen
deaths. Topeka led in smallpox with
forty-seven cases. Wichita being sec
ond with thirty cases. Jewell county
reported thirty cases of diphtheria.
Meade county led in measles, with for
ty cases.
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Boy Killed While Plowing.-Mich-
ael Strutzel, the 14-year-old son of