The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22
MAIL CARRIER A SUICIDE
De Soto Man Shoots Himself in Head
While Sitting in Blazing
Hay Now.

Setting fire to the hay in the NOW
of his barn and waiting until the
flames gained Roadway, c. w. Hedge
fired a charge from a shotgun into his
head. His charred body was found
in the ruins of the barn by Coroner
Lathrop and a deputy sheriff
For years Hedge had been a mail
carrier He is believed not to have
been in his right mind lately A few
days ago he engaged local under
: taker to care for his body in a short
time" He said there would not be
much to bury He left a note saying:
q hate to do this. First the match
and then the trigger and hope will
be found in the ashes
Find Big PearI.-While dredging in
the Walnut river in company with a
party of Redmen for clam shells to
help out the wampum belt fund, Dave
Dix found the finest pearl ever taken
out of the river at Winfield. The
pearl is the size of a large pea and
nearly perfect in form. local
jeweler has fixed its value at SIS.
BESIDES about $40 worth of clam
shells, which the Redmen got for
their lodge, they obtained about $3.50
worth of pearls.
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Trolley Strike Continues. = The
strike of the employees of the Joplin
& Pittsburg electric railway lines has
entered on the sixth week. The first
attempt made to end the strike met
with failure when the street car men
voted unanimously to reject revised
proposal which the company made.
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injured by FaII.-Charles Burk,
carpenter working ON a dwelling
house in the south part of McPher
son, fell from the second story, about
eighteen feet, striking or. the back CT
his head and shoulders. Several ribs
were broken. It is believed he is
fatally injured.
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Loses Both Feet.-W. b. Ward. a
wealthy farmer at CoIdwater, was
struck by a Santa Fe train while 60
ing home in his motor car. Both
feet were cut off and he is in
Wichita hospital, where it is said his
injuries will be fatal,
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swamped With Wheat.-There are
$500 cars of wheat on the railroad
sidings in the vicinity of Wichita
waiting shipment for export. The
Missouri Pacific has a thousand cars;
the Rock Island l 200 cars, and the
Santa Fe 100 cars. 1t aggregates
more than four million bushels of
wheat that is waiting for the embargo
on foreign trade to be lifted.
Farmer Hurt by BuIi.-Charley
Schwartzer. farmer living near
Atchison, was attacked by bull and
dangerously injured. He was leading
the bull from the pasture to the barn
when the animal attacked him. He
was rescued by his sons who fought
off the animal with pitchforks.
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Pioneer Dies.-John H. Hartman,
90 years old and a resident of Bour-
bon county for sixty-five years, is
dead at Fort Scott He was mustered
in the Mexican war and served the
full four years in the Civil war, TAX
ing his wife and little son with him
on all of the campaigns.
A Long Petition.-A petition forty
five feet long. bearing the signatures
of 1900 Geary county voters, asking
for the sale of the present poor farm
and the erection of a modern county
home, was presented to the county
commissioners recently by women.
The proposition will be submitted to
vote at the November election.
To Protect Birds.-Ray Holland of
Atchison has been notified of his ap-
pointment as inspector for the United
States biological survey to enforce
the migratory bird law
Good oat Yield.-The best yield OF
oats in the RydaI neighborhood re-
ported to date was that of Hugh Nc
Gowah, a farmer living southwest of
there, who had a field which averaged
sixty-three bushels. The yield of both
wheat and oats over Republic county,
as a rule, is much better than ex-
pectations.
Rain Helps Corn.-An inch rain
falling steadily at Abilene, helped
corn greatly The crop is in fair con-
dition in Dickinson county and on
bottom lands is already made