The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
FIRE SWEEPS WHEAT FIELD
Locomotive Sparks Start Blaze in 800
Acre Patch in Saline
County


A Union Pacific locomotive set IRE
/ to a 120-acre wheat field belonging to
| William Dillman, seven miles east of
Salina, the other afternoon. Three
| fourths of the wheat was destroyed.
A general telephone call was sent out
over the rural lines and to New Cam
| bria, but the men were all in the fields
and it was some time before help ar
rived. A high wind prevailed and it
was with extreme difficulty the fire
was kept from spreading. Work Of
| cutting the field had just begun.
Girl Fatally Burned.-Nora Dyer
was fatally burned at Hunnewen when
match fired her garments. She is
an orphan and lives with an aunt.
Seize Parcel Pos Liquor.-That all
| liquor sent by parcel post into Kansas
will be confiscated, is indicated in q
ruling received at Atchison by Post
master Casey of the local Office from
| the Postmaster General. About ten
| days ago a quart bottle of whisky was
received at the postoffice there. An
| employee reported his find. The or
der received in reply says to conf1s-
| cate the parcel at once and adds that
in the future all parcel post liquor is
to be accorded the same treatment.
Negroes Novel Defense.-A novel de-
Tense has been put up by Manuel
Freezing, negro under arrest at In
| dependence on the charge of Violatig
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barrel of bottled beer captured at his
| place was for his pet bear, with which
| he does vaudeville act. Manuel says
the bear drinks lots of beer. and just
naturally has to have it, and that was
why he had so much on hand. It was
all on ice, too, by the way.
Parcel Post Romance.-A unique TO
nance of the parcel post eliminated
with the marriage of Miss Inez Wright
| of Atchison to ]. R. MARBLE of Yates
Center. Miss Wright, while employed
by an Atchison wholesale house, wrote
her name on a package which hap
pened to find its way to MARBLES
plumbing shop at Yates Center. Cor
respondence followed. Later the cou-
Live Wire Kills observation-disclosures
| Tandy, a lineman for the electric light
company, was almost instantly killed
while working with high voltage wires
on an electric light pole forty feet in
the air.
River Cutting Land.-The recent
rise in the Missouri River has added
new danger to the farm lands along
the river bank near the old townsite
OF Geary, north of Atchison. One farm
er, William Cavanaugh, has lost sew
eral acres of rich corn land. The
Geary Road has been eaten to pieces
in several places.
/ Fire Destroys Wheat-A field of 100
acres of wheat, belonging to Jacob
Ochs of Wheatland township, in the
north part of Barton county, was de-
stroyed by fire. Reports of how the
fire started conflict.
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Leaps Under Train.-Fred Tickle,
% years old, jumped in front Of a
Santa Fe passenger train north of Abb
Iene and was killed. He was despon-
dent.
Suspect Incendiary Fire.-The vet
Urinary hospital of F. NJ Stipe at Eb-
ing, seven miles south of Peabody,
burned recently with large stock of
drugs. The loss aggregated $4,000.
Incendiary origin is suspected.
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Hoiton Aids College.-Four hundred
enthusiastic business men and women
assembled at the court house In Hol-
ton to devise plans to finance Camp
bell University for the next five years.
The ministers of the town made
speeches Prof W. D. Kuhn. who was
connected with the university twenty
years ago, urged the business men
and citizens to support the university.
Twenty-one business men pledged SIS
year for five years; twenty-five gave
$50 a year for five years. and A. D.
Walker, ex-railroad commissioner, will
give the institution $500.
Mule Kills Farmer.-E. Spence, =
young farmer near Blackwell, was
dragged to death by a young mule re-
Gently. He had tied the mules rope
to his wrists while leading it to
wheat stubble field to plow and the
mule became frightened and ran away.
Empor,a pionser pies-James
Smith, a resident OF Emporia since
1878, died at his home there recently
of pneumonia He vas born in Lon
don IN 1888. and came TO America In
poria in 1895.