The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
OIL MEAL DEALER INDICTED
Federal Grand Jury Accuses Kansas
City Men of Violating United
States Law.

H. H. C06TTy, pT0S1O6uL OI Tie Ndu-
sas City Stock Yards Linseed Oil Meal
Company, and his associates, were ar
rested at Wichita on a federal indict-
ment returned charging that they VIC
lated the Interstate Commerce law by
soliciting from railway agents the
names of purchasers of meal cake
from competing companies. It is the
first prosecution of the kind under the
federal act. Five counts were re-
turned against Cherry and his associ-
ates. Bonds of $4,000 each were
given. The penalty is a fine of $1,000
and year in the penitentiary. Cherry
is alleged to have procured sight
drafts from Kansas City bank clerks
and thereby got names Of buyers OF
meal cake ascertaining what competi-
tors were selling for and was able to
arrange a cheaper schedule of prices
accordingly.
x x x
Government Fines Doctor.-Dr B.
F. Slusher of Hutchinson, who was
charged with sending forbidden mat
ter through the mails, entered a plea
of nolIe contendre in the federal court
at Wichita recently and was fined 500
and costs. G. NJ. Carr, ]. Frank Bel
lew and Homer P Covey, all Of Wich-
tia, were fined $25 each on a charge
of attempting to defraud the govern
ment out of Colorado land. The Santa
Fe and Rock Island railroad COM
panies were fined 800 each for violat-
ing the quarantine law.
x x X
Removes Tooth from Lung-Whiie
in a dentists chair Mrs. Clayton S.
Current of Wichita, swallowed a wis
dom tooth the dentist had just pulled.
The tooth lodged in the woman's right
lung. A surgeon later removed the
tooth by using a tube, which he passed
down the throat and in which were
mirrors and a pair of forceps.
X x X
Handcar Crash FataI.-Two men
were killed and four injured when two
laborers, jumped the track while 60
ing down a steep grade between Ef-
fingham and Muscotah recently.
x X
Paroled by Death.-SamueI Osborne,
a st. Joseph, Mo, convict, who was re-
ceived at the federal prison at Leav-
enworth recently, died in the prison
hospital on the third day.
x x x
Child Kills Wonan.-Mrs. James A.
Thorp, % years old, wife of the Santa
Fe agent at Akron, was accidentally
shot and killed by Ruby Rogers, a 10
year-old girl, whom she was instruct
ing in the use of a target rife The
bullet entered Mrs Thorp's left side
and penetrated the heart.
X x x
Child Dies From Rurns.-Louise
Splechter, years old, daughter of J.
Splechter, Kansas City, Kan, who was
burned while playing about a bonfire,
died later at st. Margaret's hospital.
x
Bakers at junction City-Seyenty-
five members of the Master Bakers
Association of Kansas were in attend
ance at the annual convention which
was held at Junction City recently.
x X
Candidate Dies-T. E. Moss, Repub-
1ican candidate for sheriff of Chero-
kee county, died at his home in Ga
lena recently. He was 48 years old.
A Successful Fair-The Bourbon
county fair closed recently at Union
town. It was the most successful fair
ever held in that county.
Train Hit VeIocipeGe-W. E. Par
ker, foreman of a bridge gang en-
pleyed by the Union Pacific near Lin
wood, in the south part of Leaven-
worth county, was killed by a west
bound passenger train. Parker was
on a trackman's velocipede when
struck
Votes for Sunday RaiI.-Anthony is
going to have Sunday baseball next
season. By 106 majority out of SOC
ballots cast, the fans won a victory
in an election recently. The entire
city voted, women and ali.
Township With No Deaths.-No
deaths occurred in Manhattan and
Manhattan township during the month
Of September, and there have been no
deaths In the city since August /.
Considering the fact that there is a
population of about ten thousand, this
is said to be an unusual record.
A. Cable Named Arbitrator-James
A. Cable of the Kansas public utilities
commission has been named by the
conductors and motormen of the Jep.
lin & Pittsburg Railway Company as
their arbitrator in the wage dispute.