The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-11-28
WOMAN SLAIN IN HER AUTO
Assassin Shoots Mrs. Roy Ard of
EIsmore in Presence of Sister
and Husband.

Mrs. Viola Ard, &c years old, wife
of Roy Ard, a well-to-do young farmer
Of EIsmore township, fifteen miles east
of lola, and bride of a few months,
was killed while at the wheel Of the
Ard motor car. by an assassin.
Mr.. Ard, his wife and her sister,
Miss Latimer, had been visiting at the
home Of Mrs. Mary Trammell, north
OF Elsmore. Charles Ard, a brother of
Roy, lives at the TrammeI home and
is secretary of the Anti-Horse Thief
local Roy Ard presented his app1ica-
ton for membership in the associa-
ton and the party started on the re-
turn trip home with Mrs. Ard driving
the motor car.
With in a quarter Of a mile of the
Roy Ard farm, two and one-haIf miles
north OF Elsmore, there is a small
bridge, and on either side a row of
hedge. AS the car passed over the
bridge its speed was checked Barely
had the car again struck the road
when some one concealed either be-
meath the bridge or in the hedge. fired
rife. The bullet struck Mr. Ard
under the left shoulder, entering her
heart and killing her instantly.
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SaIina Has Grain Trust.-It has been
charged in petitions filed with the
state authorities that a grain trust
exists in Salina. that the trust desig-
mates the price Of wheat locally, that
wheat brings 4 greater price in all
surrounding towns than in Salina.
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A Call to Labor.-A call to the wage
earEers of Kansas to give at least one
days wages to the fund for buying
-four for the Belgian refugees has been
issued by w. R. Stubs. chairman of
the state committee.
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To Make War Harness-To nego-
tiate with agents Of an European gov
eminent for the manufacture Of be-
tween 100000 and $4,000 worth Of
artillery harness and saddles, Henry
Diegel Of the Atchison Saddlery COM
pany has left for South Bend, Ind,
to meet the government agents.
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Gave $1,000 to enthusiastically
T. Sullivan, a wealthy farmer of Sa-
lima, who died recently. left $4,000
TO Catholic institutions, giving $4,000
TO Sacred Heart church. Salina: $4,000
to the Catholic church OF Solomon.
81, 600 to Nazareth Academy at Con
cordia, $1,000 to the Catholic Church
Extension Society and $1,000 to the
Little Sisters Of the Poor at Kansas
City. Fifteen thousand dollars went
to friends and relatives and the bal
ance, constituting the greater part OF
his fortune. goes to the widow. There
were no children.
Miners on Strike.-Seyeral hundred
miners employed at the mines Of the
Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal Mining
Company have been ordered TO walk
ont by the district executive board OF
the United Mine Workers OF America.
The action will tie up four mines.
New Sewage PIant.-Workmen have
started on the new sewage disposal
plant in Fort Scott. The plant when
finished viii cost $4,000. Farmers on
the Marmaton river, south of there,
forced the city to install the plant
Helped Their Heighbor.-The Plum
Creek branch Of the Farmers Union
went to the home of Frank Heneberg.
a neighboT near Beloit, who has un-
fortunately been confined in a hospi-
tai for some time. and made them
selves handy. The visitors cut and
stacked stock feed. dug potatoes and
other things to help their neighbor.
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SaIina Pioneer Oies--Timothy T.
Sullivan, who went there when the
townsite of Sa1ina was being laid cut,
is dead. He had lived in the county
for fifty-four years.
Salt Company to Move.-The Nor
ton Salt Company, which operates
what is said to be the largest SAT-
plant in the world, at Hutchinson. an
nounced that the Hutchinson and St.
Louis general offices OF the company
wiz be consolidated At Kansas City.
Train Kills Ranch Worker-James
Roberts. 2 ranch worker, was hurled
to death. both horses he was driving
killed and q heavy wagon demolished
when struck By the Golden state Linz
tied train at the Rock Island crossing
at Maple HID.