The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-01-30
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| 0INSu Lev AIC LIIC III
sent C. Robb, editor Of the Ottawa
Guardian, and an employee of the Kan
sas legislature, was found guilty of
contempt by Judge Smart. He was
given a scathing lecture by the court
and placed under $500 bond to appear
at the next term of the court with
sentence suspended.
six-Foot Anti-Auto Petition.-Anti-
automobile legislation is asked for in
a six-foot-lOng petition from Sumner
county, sent to Representative NJ. p.
Harbaugh at Topeka. Complaint is
made that the automobiles have be-
come a menace to safety, and that
they are so numerous the farmers are
afraid to trust their wives or daugh-
tiers with teams on the public high
ways.
Sues Hurst for Political BiII.-P. H.
Pelky, manager of the Wichita Elks
band, and Leo Sheehan, a Wichita
newspaper man, have ordered their
attorneys in New York to bring suit
! $3.50 expenses incurred in the hold
ing of a Hearst-Hisgen meeting there
last October They cleim that the
Hearst manager has repeatedly failed
to pay the bills. contracted for
Must Put Ropes in Wichita Hotels.
Fire Marshal A. G. Walden of Wich-
tia has completed an inspection of the
hotels in that city and found that in
none of them were there ropes in each
room as the state law requires, and
for which the Topeka department was
censured following the Copeland no.
tel fire. He ordered each of the no.
tells to provide ropes for each room,
in addition to making Improvements in
the fire escapes.
Frisco Files Big Mortgage-There
has been filed with the register of
deeds of Harvey county about the big
gest thing in the way of a mortgage
that has ever been entered upon the
records of that office. 1t was filed by
the ST. Louis and San Francisco Rail-
road company and was for $4,000
900 and contained 5000 words. The
document was made in favor of the
Bankers Trust company of New York
and was given by the Frisco system to
secure funds with which to carry out
some extensive improvements.
May Collect 100000 in War Claims.
! Kansas is in line for receiving a
snug bunch of money from the federal
treasury if congress can be induced
to make the necessary appropriation.
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Sam owes the state nearly 100000
by way of reimbursement for money
that was expended by Kansas in arm
ing and equipping troops to repel in
vasion and guard against Indian de-
predations. The claim of the state
for these funds has been prosecuted
before the auditor of the war depart
ment by Attorney Nicholson of New
ton, agent for the state in the prose
cution of it's claims. Judge Nicholson
presented the claims and arguments
were made in support of it by Sena-
tors Curtis and Long and special in
terest was manifested in the subject
also by Representative Madison. The
auditor of the treasury for the war de-
partment has informed the members
of the delegation a careful examina-
ton of the case had demonstrated that
there is owing to the state of Kansas
from the federal treasury $425, 065.43
The next step by the delegation will
be to obtain certificate from the de-
partment upon which to base an ap-
preparation to meet the payment. The
funds were expended by Kansas on
account of Indian depredations, the
money having been borrowed by the
state to meet that expenditure,
Killing at Wichita-Determinin
that his successful rival to the hand
of Dolora Alamora should not marry
her, John Vanchez, a Mexican at
Wichita, shot and instantly killed
Frank Pierce. The trouble started
when Vanchez and another Mex
lean named ole Mantez quarreled
over the hand of the girl. 1t is charg-
ed that Vanchez went to the girl, com
handing her to marry him, and she
refused. He severed a large mass of
hair from her head. The killing was
done on fremont street, now chiefly
inhabited by Mexicans and negroes.
K. U. Moves Up a Step.-Chancel-
lor Frank Strong has received word
that the University of Kansas was ad-
mitted to the Association of Ameri-
can Universities at its annual meeting
at Ithaca, n. Y. The action was tax
en- as a means of recognizing the
standards of the work done in the
| Kansas school. The association is an
organization of the leading universe
ties and colleges of the country, and
is dominated largely by the eastern
schools. The state universities of
Kansas. Nebraska and Missouri are
| now members.
Death From Gas Fumes.-Maurice
8. IngallS, Jr., a young druggist of
Halstead, was found dead in the
bath room of his home upon the re-
turn of his wife, father and mother
from church. Sis death was I'M
doubtedly caused by gas fumes es-
Gaping from a small stove used to