The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-10
REWARD FOR B0OTLEGGERs
Whisky PeddIers Considered in Same
Class as Coyotes by Yates
Center Council.

The town council of Yates Center
has offered a reward of $50 to any
person furnishing information that
will lead to the arrest and conviction
of Illicit liquor sellers. Notice of the
reward has been posted by Walter
Depew, city clerk.
I'VE intend to treat bootIeggers as
we treat coyotes" Mayor Bowen said.
I'VE pay a bounty for coyotes and we
intend paying a bounty for bootleg
gers, who do far more damage than
do the coyotes"
The offering Of/the reward is the
outcome of renewed activity by law
enforcement advocates in Yates Cen
ter. It is said that considerable boot
logging has been going on, some drug
stores. one or two cafes and several
back alley LIQUOR merchants evading
the officers.
K U. Man MISUNDERSTANDING dis
covered a new kind of ant, Prof. S.
J. Hunter of the department of en-
tomology at the University of Kansas
is now hOnOred by having his name
conferred upon the new species. Pro
lessor Hunter found the new variety
a year ago on an expedition in Mon
tana. Specimens were sent to Har-
ward entomologists who verified the
opinion of Professor Hunter that this
was a new kind of ant Recently the
name 'myrmica Hunteri" was given it
in honor of it's d:scoverer.
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D;Ia,x Na..G,.
Shellenbaum, 81 years old, one of the
pioneers of Riley county, died at his
home near Randolph the other day.
Out for D. A. r. Head.-Mrs. George
Thacher Guernsey of independence
will be candidate for president-gen-
eral of the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
in 1915 The next meeting of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
will be held in Washington the week
of April 10, 1915. The officers will
be elected at that meeting. Mrs.
Guernsey has been Endorsed by the
Daughters of the American Revolution
of Kansas.
Hoppers Are FIyine.-A flight of
grasshoppers took place at Wichita
recently, millions of them going
southwest, flying so high in the sky
that at times the sun was partly OBJ
scured The flight took place at noon
and lasted for hours.
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Peter Witt to TaIk.-Peter Witt,
who was closely associated with Tom
L. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, will
speak at the annual convention of the
Kansas League of municipalities
which will be held at Lawrence Octo-
Der z to 9.
Killed in Runaway.@Cleveland Ste
vens of Kanopolis was killed the other
night near his home when his horse
attached to a buggy ran away. The
buggy was demolished and the boys
neck was broken. Another buggy, oc-
cupied by two boys, was struck and
demolished, but the boys escaped in
Jury.
Killed by Falling Rock.-Frank
Melke, a miner, was killed by a fall Of
rock in his room at mine No. of the
Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal and Min
ing Company in Frontenac recently.
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His Brother in the War.-Captain
Herman Bath of the German army,
whose name enormously appeared in
the list of dead at LuneviIle, France,
is a brother of c. F. Bath, a business
man of Abilene A letter from Ger
many says that the captain was taken
back home seriously wounded and i'll
from fighting in the water-fl1ed
trenches, but he will be able to return
to his regiment.
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Fifty-Bushei Corn at saIina.-The
first corn gathered in Saline county
yielded over fifty bushels to the acre.