The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-02-26
Domestic Items.

John d. Rockefeller has received
d,800 cartridges on his Pocantico Hills
estate.
Steps have been taken to contest
the election at Webb U4Cy, Mo-, which
recently banished the saloons.
The Young Mems Christian asso-
citation of Kansas City has 1850 mem
bers and q campaign is in progress to
get sufficient members to go ahead of
Boston which has 1920 members and
is the only city leading Kansas City.
Prof Dyche state game and fish
warden of Kansas mas issued a state
ment notifying FISHERMEN of the state
that the they must obey the law or be
arrested.
A campaign with the object of clos
ing the saloons of Chicago has opened
and will continue until the April cleo
ton. 1t will be holly contested by
both sides.
Floods along the Mississippi, Mis-
souri, and Grand rivers in Missouri in
1909 caused damages amounting to
$1S,000,000 according to statistics
gathered by the labor department.
A day of continuous rioting marked
The second day Of the street car strike
in Philadelphia. One girl was shot by
q policeman. More than 100 persons
were injured and one car was burned.
Prof. Hunter of the University Of
Kansas demonstrated the mixing of
spraying fluid and the spraying OF
trees before the members of the Mis-
souri, Valley Horticultural society at
the fruit farm of Frank Holsinfer near
Rosedale, Kan. The laws of Kansas
require the spraying of all trees af-
6ected with San Jose scale.
The Wright brothers have been
granted an injunction in New York
against Louis Paulhan in connection
with their dispute over airship patents
A Santa Fee train ran into a car
rage at Leavenworth. Kan, killing a
negro coachman and dangerously in
juring three others.
The Minnesota State Editorial asso-
citation held its annual meeting at
Minneapolis A part of the first ses-
sion was given over to an eulogy on
the late Gov. Johnson.
Six men were killed and 20 injured
by an explosion at the powder plant
OF the Trojan Powder Works near San
Lorenzo, Cal.
The first witness heard by Judge
Dillon, special commissioner to take
testimony in the inquiry instituted by
Attorney General Major of Missouri to
ascertain if a meat trust exists in
Missouri was c. w. Armour, president
of the Armour Packing company of
Kansas City.
The Kansas Agricultural college will
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land on a corn train to tell the farm
ers about Corn, Seed and Seed Bed
The lower house of the Illinois legis.
lature has passed the primary bill
Butler of Pennsylvania, introduced a
resolution giving thanks of congress
to Peary and the men who accom-
panied him in the search for the North
pole and providing that a gold medal
emblematic OF the discovery be struck
and presented to Peary by the presi-
dent.
Judge Mcpherson in the United
States court at Council Bluffs, Ia, has
continued the "bleached -four case
at the request of the government I'M
til March II.
The cruiser Washington which ar
rived at Seattle from Honolulu had on
board five cases of smallpox
Walter Williams, dean of the School
of journalism of the University of Mis-
souri, will address the Oklahoma State
Press association at Enid, Ok, May 20.
Emerson Piper conductor and Mr..
Casey engineer were killed when the
engine of freight train exploded near
Joplin.
1t is estimated that $4,000 insurance
agents are doing business in Kansas
Offfcials and directors OF the Ma
tional Packing company have been In
dicted by New Jersey grand jury un.
der the old common law on a charge OF
conspiracy to raise the price of food
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