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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
SILHOUETTES OF
WESTERN CANADA

The man from Iowa began to talk
land before the train was well out of
the c. N. r. depot in Winnipeg. The
talk began in rather wide circles. The
rush to the land, the bumper crop, the
system of summer following pursued
in the semi-arid districts, were all
discussed, and then, with a sort of
apologize smile, the Iowa man said:
I'm a bit interested in this country
myself. Some of the men down home
got a few sections up here along this
line, and I'm going to have a look at
them. Never been up in Canada be-
fore lit is curious how these mid
western Americans pronounce the
name of the Dominion as if it was
"Can'dy')-'but if it looks good we
will be up to stay next fall"
You see, it's like this, said the
man from Iowa-quite manifestly con-
tinuing an argument that had been go
ing on in his mind for some time
Back in our State land has become
dear. Anybody wanting to sell can
get $40 or $50 an acre for it, and
every farm that's offered is snapped
up. In Saskatchewan we have just as
good land that cost US 81 and SIP, so
that a man can take up five or six
times as much there as in Iowa on the
same investment of money.
''It isn't the money, though, that
brings most of US up from Iowa. I'm
not sure that money would be enough.
The invasion is a family affair. We
have no chance of keeping our sons
around us back home. They have
to leave the farm and go into the big
cities of the neighboring States to get
work. To keep them on the farm and
in touch with us, we come up here
and make little colonies with the chill
dren around us, on homesteads or
bought land. This makes it easier for
the farmers back there in Iowa to get
land for the stay-at-homes. The fam
lilies that come to Canada are kept
! together and the families that buy
the farms they leave are kept to-
! gether, too. There won't be any slack
ening of the rush, either, for they still
raise big families back in Iowa."
One could almost see the mental
process of this typical American farm
er in defending a step that meant a
new flag, a new allegiance, a new
;
don Old Glory of the Declaration of
independence for a good thing in
cheap land would hardly be playing
the game, but to go out into Sas-
katchewan to keep the family togeth-
err" was another and a quite higher
motive.
Why seek too closely to analyze the
reasons for the greatest land trek in
the history of America? 1t is enough
to know that the sons of the frontiers
men of Iowa, and Kansas, and Mime
sota-the best blood Of the midwest
are pouring into the Canadian west in
an ever-increasing stream, and are
learning that God Save the King" and
My Country IT'S of Thee" are sung
to the same tune.-Toronto (Ontario)
| GInha
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Cement Deal in Test Case.

ellington.-Acting under instruc-
tons from Attorney General Jackson,
County Attorney Herrick has filed
suit in the district court against the
Western States Portland Cement com
pany and L. E. Barbour, local lum-
Der man and material dealer The in
formation, which consists Of three
counts, charges that the defendants
enlisted into a combination to fix
prices of Portland cement at this
point. The suit is designed as test
case to ascertain whether, under the
Kansas antitrust law, q combination
can be entered into by individuals and
corporations to fix the price of an ar
ticle in common use.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
PREFERRED WALK ON STREET
American Tourist Indignant at Seem
ing Imputation That He Had
Feline ProcIiVities.

Senator Depew was asked by re
porter as he was having his luggage
examined last month, if he had
brought any stories back from Europe.
The senator laughed and replied:
We'll, in the smoke-room of the ship
1 heard an interesting thing about a
Montanan in Chester. Chester. you
know, is walled. Its wide walls, on
which you could drive a horse, are
famous. You can circle the town on
them
But the Montanan knew nothing
about Chester He had only arrived
in Liverpool that afternoon And as
soon as he finished his quaint dinner,
he said to the waiter in the quaint
Chester inn:
What is the best way for me to
amuse myself here for an hour or two
before bedtime?'
Well, SIR said the waiter, it's a
fine evening, the moon is full, and
think you'd find a stroll on the walls
most enjoyable
The Montanan, ignorant of the pop
ular promenade upon the wide walls
of Chester, thought he was being
guyed. He frowned at the waiter and
said bitterly:
What do you take me for? A tom
cat?"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
KANSAS GREATEST
SWINDLE CLOSES
ANOTHER YEAR WILL CLEAR UP
THE BUSINESS.
School Land SwindIes Grew Out oi
the Methods Originally Adopted
for Handling Lands Can
not Place the Blame.

Topeka.-"One more year viii wind
up the greatest swindle ever perpe-
trated in Kansas" said Captain Glib
; son, school land clerk in the state
auditors office, as he went through 4
batch of correspondence on school
lands. "Of course l have reference
10 the school land business. 1t was
one of those swindles for which no.
body in particular is responsible but
which grew out of the methods origin
ally adopted for handling the lands"
The state school fund now contains
about 100000 in bonds, purchased
with money derived from the sale of
school lands Captain Gibson says if
different system had been adopted
IL selling the lands-for instance, the
system used by the university, normal
school or agricultural college in dis
posing of the Landslide permanent
school fund now would have been
$10O,OOO,O0O.
There now remains about $4,000
acres of school land" said the cap
tain. This makes about 312 quarter
sections. That is usually the way the
land is sold. If the sales keep up this
land will all be gone the coming year.
And this swindle will then be closed.
Asked to explain how the swindle
was perpetrated, the captain said ::
ooh, it was worked in a thousand
ways. But the chief system was to
use collision in purchases, collision
that the state couldn't prove, but col
fusion just the same. For instance, a
settler would spot a certain piece of
school land He would move on it
and make 500 worth of improvements
as the law provides. Then he would
get up the necessary petition and the
county superintendent would name ap-
praisers to appraise it. AS a rule
these appraisers, friends Of the settler,
would fix the price at the minimum
SO for while and now only S1.25 per
acre. He would go in and pay the ap-
praised price and get the land. Ninety
nine per cent of the land was worth
much more than the appraised value.
Most of it was worth from two to four
times that amount. The settler only
had to pay One-tenth the purchase
price in cash and was given twenty
years to pay the balnace at per cent
interest l know of hundreds of cases
where the settler would sell his land
a few days or weeks after receiving
his certificate for four times what 1t
cost him.
Captain Gibson suspects that some
of the local authorities have helped
work various schemes to get the land
cheap for others, but he says it would
be impossible to secure evidence on
which to convict, especially as the
cases would have to be tried where
some of the recipients of favors were
almost sure to be drawn on the jury.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Children Perish in Flames.

Pratt.-Three children, aged II. 4
and L year, respectively, were burned
to death here in fire which con
sumed the house of Mr.. and Mrs Hen
ry Blanton, colored. The father was
at work at the Rock Island round
house and the mother left the house
for short time, locking the little ones
inside, and when she returned the
house was in flames and the children,
all the children in the family, perish
ed. The house had formerly been used
as store house for oil and it's tim
bers were saturated with the inflam-
mable oil.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
sIinht NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Mickey's mother visited a young
school teacher on the East side the
other day, says the New York Sun. AS
nearly as she could make out from the
mothers splutterings the teacher had
been calling Mickey names that no
lady would use and no dacint mother
would stand for" The teacher thought
hard, but could recollect no time when
she had given way to an impulse to
call Mickey dreadful names.
Sure but you did," insisted the
mother 81 don't know what you meant
by it, but scurvy elephant is no nice
name to call boy That's what he
said you called him, a seurvy ele-
phant''
"Scurvy elephant No." said the
teacher, in a relieved voice Il didn't
call Mike a scurvy elephant. I called
him a disturbing element, and reiter-
ate my statement"
Mickey's mother went home partial
ly satisfied, but not quite sure that the
teacher hadn't been calling her names,
too.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
TRADED FOR BLUE SKY.
Ottawa Man Searched in Vain for His
Western Kansas Farm.

OTTAWA ]. McClay has return
ed home from Kansas City after at
tending the preliminary hearing of
S. w. West, alias s. S. Sims, who
traded for McC1ay's property at OF
tawa western Kansas farm which
afterward could not be found. West
was bound over and gave $1,000 bond
for his appearance in court.
In Kansas City the action is regard
ed as a test in land fraud cases. A
Kansas City story says:
A case that will be tried during the
January term of the criminal court,
in which it is charged a man traded
$50 acres of blue sky in Kansas for
a house and lot at Ottawa, Kansas,
giving warranty deed for the farm
that later proved worthless, probably
will esta blish a precedent in the trial
of future alleged fraud cases in Jack
son county.
August 3. 1909, c. w. West traded
100 acres of land in Morton county
Kansas, for a house and lot in Otta-
wa owned by A. j. McClay. West
gave a warranty deed. At the pre-
liminary hearing last week in Justice
Joyce's court the attorney for the de-
Tense argued that where a person
gives a warranty deed for property
and it later proves that the seller had
no title in it, no criminal charge of
obtaining property under false pre-
lenses would hold. The only remedy
at law, he held, was civil action to
collect damages.
To uphold this stand he cited a
Missouri state case, State VS.. Chune,
decided in 1915 A man sold negro
to a neighbor, giving him warranty
deed, but it developed that the seller
had no property rights in him. The
court in that case held that he seller
was not liable for criminal prosecu-
ton.
The state answered this, Floyd ia,
cobs, an assistant prosecuting attor-
ney, trying the case by citing a de-
cision two years ago when the state
supreme court held that where a war
ranty deed was given and the seller
represented that he had title in the
property and did not, criminal action
would hold
If this case is decided for the de-
PENDANT the prosecuting attorney may
refuse hereafter to file charges
against alleged fraudulent land deal
ers where charges similar to the one
in the West case are made. West was
bound over to the January term OF
the criminal court.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Temperamental Toilet Table.

very aged Englishman many years
ago gave this advice to his daughter
in letter as to what lady's dressing
table should contain:
The best beautifier young lady can
use is good humor. The best renovator
truth; the best rouge is modesty; the
best eyewater is the tears of sym
pathy; the best gargle for the voice
is cheerfulness; the best wash for
smoothing wrinkles is contentment;
the best cure for deafness is atten-
ton; the best mirror is reflection, and
the whitest powder is innocence
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
r. +. D. Men Elect Women.

INTELLECTUALLY 100 rural mail
carriers of the Eighth district met
here and formed an organization.
Means to further legislation in the in
terest of rural free delivery were dis
cussed. Miss Fora Thompson on
Lindsborg, the only woman rural mail
carrier in the district, was present
and elected secretary and treasure
of the organization. Other office {;
chosen are w. A Gwin, Cows =
Springs, president; Arthur Bell, Vic
tia, vice president.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
YOUNG Woman Burns.

Anthony.-Mrs William Hurley met
with fatal accident at her home here
while pouring crude oil on low fire
in a cook stove. The flame flashed
back, exploding the can in her hands
and in an instant her clothes were all
ablaze. Before neighbors could arrive
and extinguish the flames the unfor-
tunate woman's arms and breast were
severely burnea and patches of flesh
dropped off She died before morn
ing. Mrs. Hurley has been bride
but five months. She and her hus-
hand moved here from Blackwell, Ok.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Tuberculosis Death Rates.

The death rate from tubercuIOsis
among men employed in occupations
exposed to municipal and general or
ganic or street dust is higher than
among other employed males, accord
ing to a recent bulletin of the bureau
of labor of the department of com
merce and labor. The percentage of
deaths from consumption among
males exposed to organic dust is %,
while the percentage for all males
in the registration area is 14.S. The
percentage of deaths from tuberculo-
sis among workers exposed to metal
lie dust is very much higher.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Her Mistake.

A lady overlook little girl of her
acquaintance on her way to school
do you like decimals, my dear?" she
asked.
Now the little girl had not gone
very far in her arithmetic and she
was unfamiliar with the word deci-
mails. She shrank from acknowledge
ing her ignorance, so, after a minute,
she stammered: ''Yes'm, like them
pretty well, but not as we'll as
peaches"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Plenty of Johnsons.

Scandal. Scandal Independent
Telephone company has no less than
twenty-one patrons named Johnson on
it's respective lines out of this place
which exceeds greatly that of any
other of the names on the list and
makes it a rather difficult trick foI
the hello girls to distinguish be
tween the different Johnsons at times.
This being largely a Swedish and Nor
wegian settlement is responsible to a
certain extent for this.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Clay Center Banks Consolidate.

Clay Center-The Citizens State
bank of Clay Center has transferred
it's business to the Peoples National
bank of this city, F. B. Fullington,
heretofore president Of the Citizens
State bank, becoming president of the
Peoples National bank. L. McChes-
ney. for many years president of the
Peoples National bank, died on No
vember 10 and since that date the Of
flee has been left vacant. 1t was re-
Gently offered to William Docking,
who for the past twenty years has
been cashier of the bank, but he de-
clined the office.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Surprised Rural Carrier.

Ottawa.-When Carrier Colciazler
of rural route No. 6 got to one stop on
his route Friday, his patron was down
at the box holding dollar in one hand
and a goose in the other. Take 'Gm
both" said the man, with my wishes
for Merry Christmas" The rural
mail carts looked like delicatessen
wagons as they came in from the runs
Friday and Saturday. They. carried
all sorts of gifts in the way of meat
and produce. and the feasting prom
ises to last over for many days.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Court Martial Trial Finished.

Leavenworth.- court mar;,eI
trial of Major E. n. Jones of the AIRY
service schools ended and the fl d.
ings of the court were sent to Wass-
ington- Major Jones was CHARGED
with neglecting to answer official let,
tiers while he was at Fort D. A. Rus
SELL He said il his defense that SC ne
of the letters were received while he
was absent from his post on leave AID
that he had forgot to answer Others.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Goals of Fire

One Christmas evening a Sunday
school pupil appeared at church, only
to be surrounded Immediately by a
number of deriding playmates.
She's wearing her sisters coat"
cried one.
And she's got her brothers gloves
on" cried another.
Yes" was the retort that turned
the tide of ridicule, and I came with
my mothers blessing ''-Judge.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Restrained by PoIiteness.

Prisoner. have you any reasons to
present why the sentence of the court
should not be pronounced upon you?"
mo, your honor. 1 feel as if
should like to say few words about
the defense my lawyer put up for me,
but there are ladies present; you can
go ahead with the sentence, your
honor"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
His Little Mistake.

They stood beneath the stars, silent
as the heart-beats of the night, look
ing into the diamond-studded shirt
front of the sky.
us that Mars?" he whispered, as he
slipped his arm round her taper waist,
and gazed upon glittering orb in the
distant blue.
mo, it isn't" she exclaimed, jerking
away; it's mine; and if you think
you are hugging mother, 1 can tell
you that you are very much mis-
taken"
The matter was amicably adjusted
before anything serious resulted.-Ex-
change.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
1t Is Grandpa Hoch Now.

ute.-Ex-Governor E. w. Hoch
became a grandpa by the birth of a
son to Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Reid
of this city. Mrs. Reid is the younE-
est daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Hoch.
Mr.. Reid is a member or the law firm;
of Jones & Reid. The baby has been
named Edward Hoch Reid.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Punctual for Nineteen Years.

Leavenworth.-M Dollie Terry of
this city has completed her nineteenth
year without missing a Sunday in at
tendance at Sunday school This is
believed to be the highest record of
the kind in the United States.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Preached Farewell sermon

Belleville.-Rev H. o. Hotter, pas
tor of the NJ. E. church here for near
ly five years, preached his farewell
sermon here Sunday evening and with
his family leaves in a few days lor
his new field of labor IN Olathe.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
A Pessimistic View.

Among the patients in certain hos
pital of Harrisburg there was recently
one disposed to take a dark view of
his chances for recovery.
Cheer up, old mani" admonished
the youthful medico attached to the
ward wherein the patient lay. Your
symptoms are identical with those of
my own case four years ago. / was
just as sick as you are Look at me
now!"
The patient ran his eyes over the
physicians stalwart frame. What
doctor did you have?" he finally asked,
feebly-Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Provided for Newshovs.

Mrs. William Waldorf Aston provid-
ed in her will that the newsboys of
New York should have a Thanksgiv-
ing dinner, as they have had at the
expense of the Aston family for half
a century. This year at least 1000
newshoys were on hand, the afternoon
papers having suspended work, thus
giving the little fellows a holiday.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
New State Bank for oteoo,

Otego.-A new bank will open for
business here within a few days. The
indications are that it will be a very
successful venture. Ex-Governor w.
]. Bailey is one of the principal stock
holders.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08

Exactly in the degree in which you
can find creatures greater than your
self to look up to, in that degree are
you ennobling yourself and in that de-
gree happy.-Ruskin.
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Halls Catal
Merry Funny.

Borroughs-Mr Merchants out, you
say? Why, he had an appointment
with me here. That's very funny.
New Office Boy-Yes, sir; guess
he thought it was, too Any ways he
was laughin' when he went out
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Just Turned About

with my husband" said the wife of
the busy man, lit is always a case of
talking shop
And with my wife," said the spouse
of the bargain hunter, lit is usually a
case of shopping talk"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Bonnie Bell. Racer. Burned.

Paola.-Bonnie Bell, the most val
liable race horse in Miami county, Was
burned in a fire. The Larn, which be-
longed to Jerry Mobley, with contents,
was a total loss.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children,
cure Feverishness, Headache, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, Regulate the Bowels and
Destroy Worms. They break up colds in "a
hours. Pleasant to take, and harmless a milk.
LIE Roy, N Y.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08

1t is SO hard to separate some men
from their money that they seem to
be suffering from lockjaw of the
pocketbook.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Mrs MuIuane DANGEROUSLY Ill.

Topeka.-Mrs. Joab Mulvane, wife
of the Topeka banker, and mother OF
David w. Mu1vane, one of the Repub-.
lican leaders of the state, is danger
ously sick with kidney disease.
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Doubtless.

The Homebody-W What's the indus
try in New York, near as We could
jedge, Agner?
The Travelled Man-Steppin' lively,
l reckon.-Puck
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The Difference

Wifey-John, couldn't you let me
have a little money this morning?
Rattleigh's is advertising six puffs for
a dollar.
Hub-Great Scott! And we men can
get 60 delicious puffs for ten cents
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of CataTrh that cannot be cured by Hairs
Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
We, the undersigned have known F. j. Cheney
for the Is years. and believe him perfectly hon
orable in all business transactions and financially
able carry any obligations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and surfaces OF the
system. Testimonials free. Price rs cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pulls for constipation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08

Smokers also like Lewis Single Binder
cigar for its purity. It is never doped,-
only tobacco in its natural state.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08

If : sa5 eys. T ase Thompson's Eye Wafer
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08

There is no use going into a politi-
cal campaign with any reputation, be-
cause you won't have any when you
come out.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
Financial.

Stella-Isn't Mabel going to marry
the duke?
Bella-No; he rejected the budget
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08
,mportan1 to Mothers,
one Idea OF Economy,

What do you mean when you tell
the people they ought to economize?'
I mean," said Mr.. Dustin Stax,
that they ought to go slow in patron
izing most business enterprises in or
der that they may have more money
TO spend with mine. Washington
Star
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AND SHE'S NOT THE FIRST.

What would you do if you caught
your husband f1irting?"
why, my dear, that's just the way
I did catch himi"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08

ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUsEKEEPERs
Use Red Cross Ball Blue. 1t makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. All grocers.
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Quick as Wink

If your eyes ache with smarting. burn
ing sensation use PETTIT'S EYE SALVE.
All druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-01-08

It's the judgment of many smokers that
Lewis Single Binder SC cigar equals in
quality most Zoe cigars