The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-11
CLAIMS Fathers ESTATE
Attorney for Forgotten Son Checks
Settlement of Dead Neodesha
Mans Affairs.

Settlement by partition Of the estate
of Dugald Stewart, who died at his
home at Neodesha February 4, 1913,
leaving property valued at $4,000, was
checked in probate court at Fredonia
by the appearance of a son through
his attorney.
Stewart came to Neodesha forty
five years ago. A short time after he
was Joined by a sister, Kate, who kept
house for him. She was his constant
companion until her death on January
%, 1913. The Stewards were success
full in business and accumulated con-
siderable property. Dugald was never
supposed to have been married, but in
his will he gave $40 to James Alexan-
der Stewart, and the balance of his
property was to be equally divided be-
tween his sister Kate and his brother
James.
1t now develops that Dugald was
married in 1871 to Susannah Campbell
Morrison at Glasgow, Scotland, and
afterward was divorced. James Alex
ander Stewart claims to be a son born
to the union in 1872.
His Girls Cut Wheat.-Ed. Harring-
ton, a wealthy farmer near Alva, did
not let the dearth of harvest hands
prevent him from cutting his wheat.
With his wife and three girls his 100
acres and the sixty acres of neigh
boris were harvested. An 8-year-old
daughter rode the lead horse on the
shocked the grain. Harrington and
his wife did the rest The wheat
made twenty-five bushels to the acre
The Harrington family viii have va
cation now.
Sunday School contest.-The eff
cheney contest between the Fredonia
and Neodesha Methodist Sunday
schools closed with Fredonia well in
the lead. The attendance for Ere
donia was S25, nearly one hundred
more than attended the Neodesha
school
Pioneer Dies From Heat-The ex-
| treme heat claimed a fatality when
Robert Hayes, a pioneer resident Of
East Atchison, was overcome and died
on the front porch of his home.
Harvester Loses Legs.-William ].
Wetzel, "a years old, of Kansas City,
was run over at Council Grove and
lost both legs above the knees. Wet
eel, accompanied by William o.
Givens and John Dwyer,-left Kansas
City for the wheat fields in western
| Kansas and it was while attempting
to board a moving freight train that
| Wetzel fell beneath the cars. Doctors
say he cannot live.
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Child Burned to Death.-Gertrude
Hicks, aged 3, was burned to death
at Clyde when the home of her par
ents was destroyed by fire. The child
was playing in a room on the second
cred until too late to save her. The
child's mother, Mrs. S. S. Hicks, was
seriously burned.
Hodges was the guest of the Usage
Valley Masons at Osawatomie recent
~. A public reception was held in
the auditorium of the Masonic Tenn
pie Building in the afternoon.
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Horses Kick FataI-The kick Of a
horse caused the death of Waldo Dye
SO years old, near Lakin He was
working on farm and when his team
wandered over to a neighboring farm
house, search was made and he was
found in the field unconscious.
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Lightning Kills HarVester-A young
man giving the name of William Hen.
| derson, Kansas City, was killed al
Wilson by lightning. With other har
vest hands on the farm OF Joseph
Hasek he took refuge from a storm
in a barn