The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-05-29

| dates chosen for this years rifle shoot
| for the Kansas national guard are
June FL to %. AS usual, the shoot
will be held on the rifle arnge al Fort
Riley. Medals and other prizes will
| be given to the best marksmen in the
various events. besides which the
Kansas team to represent the state
at the national rifle shoot Will be
state is to send its three best shots
as determined in local range work, to
| the state shoot
Parcels Out Normal Work.-The
state board of education, in session at
! Topeka, selected twenty-six high
schools and academies I'M the state to
teach the normal courses as provided
by the new law. Each Of these
schools will receive $500 year state
| aid. The board will meet again in
June, to complete the selections.
About sixty-five high schools have In
Dictated a desire to come under the
normal course. The list of high
schools selected follows: lola, Eff
bingham, Medicine Lodge, Great Bend.
Hiawatha Academy. Eldorado, Clay
county high school, Decasur high
school, Enterprise academy, Troy,
Garden City, Junction City, Holton,
Campbell academy, Olathe, Lakin,
Phillipsburg, Chanute, Beloit, Nc
Pherson academy, Lincoln, Tonga
noxie, Rawlins county high school,
Thomas county high school and Ere
donia.
Jackson Warns Druegists.-In the
opinion of Attorney General Jackson,
the druggists of Kansas need not place
much dependence on the opinion of
Judge Frank Doster if they propose to
handle liquor. Judge Doster held
that the new law making the prohib-
itory law apply to druggists was in
valid. LAS l see it, all that the new
prohibitory law did was to repeal
the druggists permit law" said the
attorney general. Boiled down, that
is what the new law does. Now
don't believe that it is unconstitution-
al to repeal law. 1t will be hard to
convince the supreme court that the
repeating law is invalid. Drug store
jointists are now placed in the same
class as common, every day jointists,
and If they are caught selling liquor
they have no permit or license to
crawl behind for protection. There
may be question as to whether the
legislature could annul permits al
ready granted. Those permits might
stand for the year for which they
were issued, unless the probate judge
simply annulled them. He has that
power"
To Irrigate Kansas.-D. W. Eaton
of Kansas City was in Great Bend the
other day to look into the feasibility
Of filling the Cheyenne bottoms with
water and creating a vast lake to be
used for irrigation purposes. With
him was w. w. Toilette, an engineer
of Dennison, Tex. His report is ia
vorable. Mr.. Eaton says there will
be plenty of money for the scheme.
This country is not in the need of
water so far as wheat farming is con-
cerned, there being good rain fall
every year, but the alfalfa growing
is where the promoters expect to
make the lake plan successful. Prac-
tical1y all of the government land is
hOmesteaded now and there will be
endless suits in regard to the owner
ship OF the land should the project be
revived. The Cheyenne bottoms is
natural basin varying from three to
SIX miles in width and about twelve
miles long. Engineers state that by
building a short dam at the eastern
edge of the basin between two chains
of hills, reservoir will be made
which will hold sufficient water to ir-
rigate the central part of the state.
Will Burn Their Dead.-It is prob
able that crematory will be built in
Wichita for the incarceration of bodies
of people who prefer cremation to
burial. The proposition is for three
hundred people to take stock and
make it a sort of cooperative asso-
citation. Those taking stock are to be
given certificates emitting them to
cremation. A large number have sub
scribed under this plan. The crema-
tory as planned will cost about $751;
600.
Tired of Puny Teachers.-County
superintendent of Western Kansas
have formed a combine to insure the
employment of all their local teach
ers. Notices are being printed in all
their local papers that until all local
teachers are employed the county SUI
perintendent will not o. K. the certi-
ficate of outside teachers. This &C
ton is taken to shut-off the influx of
weak-lunged teachers from the East.
The educational authorities are work
ing with the state board of health to
reduce the number of weak-lunged
teachers, who come West for their
health and teach school to pay their
way.
Renews Offer of Reward.-Two par
ticularly brutal murders were COM
mitted in Brown county last year.
Thomas Mooney killed E. Grewei: on
the streets of Horton on August /.
Dave Woods killed Dennis Casey on
December 4. Both men made their
escape. The local and state au:hori-