The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-31
WRECK FOLLOWS ACCIDENT
Engine That Killed Widow Near
GaIena Runs Into Open Switch
20 Minutes Later.

Twenty minutes after Victoria Ben
nett, so years old, a widow, was killed
r. an eastbound Missouri, Kansas &
Texas passenger train, two miles west
Of Galena, the train was wrecked.
1t ran into an open switch and the
engine was demolished. Passengers
were thrown the full length of the car
in one coach and two injured severely.
They are George Camp, Parsons, Kas.,
and William LarimOre, Pawhuska, Ok.
The enginemen were not injured. The
train was travelling twenty miles an
hour when the accident occurred.
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Allen County Wins First-AIlen
county got away with the lions share
in the Kansas counties building in the
Judging of products by the official jury
of awards at the International Dry
Farming Congress. Allen county took
first premium from twenty-four other
contestants for the best county dis
play for the greatest number of GER
eals and for its industrial exhibit COM
bined with agriculture.
Kansas Flour to the War.-Within
ten days fifty thousand barrels of
Kansas flour will be on the way to
Europe to feed the allied armies. Bids
for this amount of flour will be opened
in New York, according to local mil
lers, who are bidding on a part of the
contract. The flour is to be delivered
in Kansas City within ten days from
the time the contracts are awarded
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Fear Men Lost Lives.-Ira Brott of
Junction City and another man, whose
name is not known, have been missing
several days, and it is feared that they
we're burned to death in the fire that
destroyed the H w. Pugh barn there
1t became known that the men had
slept in the loft of the barn on the
night CO the fire.
SaIna Pioneer Dies.-John Neff, 10
years old, pioneer resident of Salina,
is dead. He established one of the
first machine shops and foundries IN
Central Kansas and for years conduct
ed the business there. He left
widow and six grown children
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Kansas Horses to EngIand.-C. w.
Lamar, Of Salina, recently shipped
ninety-eight horses for the French and
English armies. The shipment was to
st. Louis.
Make Students Read Wharf.-The
Yates Center public schools have
adopted the Lawrence plan of giving
| credit for home work such as washing
the dishes, cooking, sweeping, making
the bed and observing proper rules of
sanitation. Parents will be required
to make regular reports of the con-
duct of the students at home. A grade
| of ten points is to be given to the
| child who manifests a cheerful spirit
at home each day. Reading daily ac-
| counts of the European war, as pub
lished in reliable newspapers, has also
been made part of the high school
pupils duties.
! Walt Mason CeIebrates.-With a re-
ception to intimate friends, Walt Ma
son. the poet, celebrated the seventh
| anniversary of his arrival in Emporia.
| Mr. Mason went there penniless and
| in debt, driving into town in a buck
board and behind his pony, Billy. He
was employed as telegraph editor on
the Gazette at a small wage. Now he
is one of the best paid poets in the
United States, his monthly income to-
falling $500. Mr.. Mason is erecting a
$4,000 residence in Lawrence.
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Killed by Emery WheeI.-Louis VII
burn, a blacksmith at Mineola, was
killed when rapidly revolving emery
wheel over which he was working
flew to pieces. A large fragment
crushed him. He left a widow and
four children.
Cook Fatally Burned.-Mrs. Tom
Davidson of Wingate, while preparing
dinner for a haying outfit, was burned
so badly that she died. The fire was
caused by a gasoline stove exploding,
burning the boarding tent and con
tents.
Old Minister Dies.-The funeral OF
the Rev. F. D. Baker, pioneer circuit
rider and Methodist minister of the
Northwest Kansas Conference Dis
trict, was held recently at Salina. Dr.
C. B. Spencer, editor of the Christian
Advocate, Kansas City, conducted the
services.
WestphaIia Pioneer Dies.-FranB
Cayott, SO years old, died at the home
of his son, Ferdinand. at Westphalia
recently, following stroke OF paraE
vsis He was born in France and had
lived near Westphalia since 1858.