The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-26
REJECT ROADS CONTRACT
Striking Employees on Joplin & Pitts
burg Electric Railway Decide to
Continue the Fight.

commune InS right.
The executive committee of the
striking employees of the Joplin &
Pittsburg Electric Railway Company
have rejected redraft of the propos-
ed contract submitted by General
Manager w A. Satterlee Of the COM
pany. The reflections opens up again
the whole matter of a contract. The
redraft was composed of all the sec
lions of what was supposed to be
contract verbally agreed upon by the
company and the men, except the one
relating to wages, and another relat-
ing to duration of contract.
The object Of the redraft was to
eliminate from the controversy, which
it was expected would be submitted to
arbitrator, all sections upon which
the men and the company were not in
agreement.
Labor Society EIects-The State
Society of Labor and Industry will
meet in Pittsburg next year The fol-
lowing officers were elected: w. S.
Gibbons, Winfield, president; J. J.
Llewelyn, Newton, vice president; E.
P. Livingston, Pittsburg, secretary;
Alex Naylor, Hutchinson, treasurer
recommended for state labor commits
sioner, J. J. Llewelyn; legislative COM
mittee, James A. Bostic, Topeka; al
ternate, James E. WHISKY, Pittsburg
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Death of Atchison Pioneer.-Mrs.
Mary Duryer, aged &c, is dead at At
oh fo
in 1853. She was the widow of Pat
rick Duryer, a pioneer railroad man.
Wealthy Doctor Dies.-Dr. D. ].
Meyer, for many years a physician at
Junction City, is dead after an illness
of several months. He owned much
valuable property in the city.
Business Man Dies at 77.-Thomas
Baxter, ST., II years old, is dead at
Garnett For the last twenty-five
years he and his son have been in the
feed business in that city.
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Commits Suicide in Park.-A man
about so years old, believed to be J.
W. Eaton of Mortonsville, KY, was
Sound dead in Island Park at Winfield
Carbo1ic acid appeared to be the cause
of his death. In note ne stated that
enough money would be found in his
pockets to bury him here. The amount
found was s1O7
Killed by Auto.-George SchlegeI.
wealthy farmer and cattIeman of Otis,
was killed, and three of his children
slightly injured when his automobile
turned turtle A brace rod entered
Schlegel's body, piercing the heart
and causing instant death.
Pioneer Kansan Dies.-J w. Hoi-
land, 90 years old, of Cowley county,
died suddenly at his home at New
Salem the other day. About a year
ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis
and since then had been unable to
talk. He was Civil War veteran.
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Bakers Big EnroIIment.-Baker uni
versity opened the other morning. The
enrolment of students started Monday
and continued all week The enroll
ment exceeds that of last year.
| newspaper Subsidiaries
Grant has bought the Columbus Mod
ern Light from W. B. Lowry, who has
published it for seventeen years. The
new owner is now publisher of the
Mineral Times, which he established
several years ago. Mr.. Lowry will
spend the winter in California
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Aged kansan KilIed.-Isaac Schoon-
over, 20 years old. forty years a resi-
dent of Rice county, was killed by an
overturning motor car on a road five
miles southeast of Bushton the other
day.
EIoped With Wife's Sister.-Deputy
Sheriff Purcell, Eldorado, has left for
Eastern Tennessee. where William
Friend, a 35-year-old farmer OF Butler
county, and Pearl Hodges. 21 years
old, his sister-in-law. who eloped July
20, have been located. There is a
charge OF wife desertion against
Friend, who left wife and six small
children.
Train Kills Miner.-MiehaeI Ranne-
ger, a miner, % years old, was killed
by a Kansas City Southern train at
Nelson early the other day.