The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-15
PLAN TO DRAIN KANSAS LAKE
Missouri Pacific Believes Farm Land
Near Great Bend More Valuable
Than Duck Pond.

Chief Engineer Leighty and Land
Commissioner Andrews of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, were at Great Bend re-
| Gently looking over the proposition Of
draining the Cheyenne bottoms. Dur
ing the dry years OF the nineties a
company was organized in Kansas
| City for the purpose OF turning the
water Of the Arkansas river into the
/ bottoms and making a natural lake
twelve miles long and from three to
six miles wide, which would irrigate
Barton and other counties east. A
big ditch was dug, the water was
| turned in, and the bottom became one
| of the finest duck hunting places in
| lowed and litigation ensued that was
not settled for fifteen years.
The land in recent years has shown
great fertility and lately the project
OF draining the lake and making it
valuable farm land has taken the
place Of the irrigation scheme
The Missouri Pacific men estimate
that it will cost from $4,000 to 49,
900 to construct a canal to drain the
bottoms into one Of the nearby
creeks.
Death Under Wagon WheeIs.-Near
Kiowa, while accompanying his faith
er with a threshing outfit, Oscar
Schuyler, years old, fell asleep IN
der a wagon cook shack. John Chat
fee, not knowing it, started his team
and the wheels Of the wagon were
! drawn over the boys head. He is
fatally injured
Fatally Injured by Train.-While at
tempting to board a Missouri Pacific
train at Herington a man believed to
be Luther Hamilton of Bonneville,
Ark, received injuries that physicians
say will prove fatal
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Lineman Hurt.-H. S. Price, Of e.
dorado, telegraph lineman, sustained
a broken rib. a broken wrist and bod
lily. bruises and was rendered uncOn-
scious when he fell thirty-five feet
from a pole at Atchison-
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State Normal cIoses--The summer
session OF the state manual training
normal at Pittsburg has closed. More
than 1900 students, most of them
teachers in Southeastern Kansas, have
been enrolled.
Shot While Aiding Woman.-John
Blakely, an old settler, was shot and
killed at Wakeeney recently. Frank
O'Neil, it is alleged, was threatening
his wife when Blakely heard her
screams and rushed to her assist
ance. He received two shots in the
side O'NeiI had Just lost his job as
an implement salesman. He is the
first inmate of the jail here in four
years
Fall Kills Nurse.-Sister Corona, a
nurse at the St Francis Hospital at
| Wichita, was killed by a fall from a
third story window Of the hospital the
other day. She was As years old.
Played with GasoIine.-Ray SeeIey,
of Great Bend, years old, received
burns from which he may die. He was
playing with other boys and gasoline
which was thrown on him was ignited-
Pioneer Woman Dies--Mrs. Clara
J. Russell, 70 years old, a resident Of
AtchisOn county since 1854, is dead
in Atchison at the home Of her daugh-
ter, Mrs Emma J. Welsh.
Train Kills Baby.-WaIking down
the Frisco tracks a quarter of a mile
from home, Aryille Hiekinhotham. 1e
months old, was struck and instantly
killed by passenger train No. 6, a mile
east OF Anaconda. Engineer J. o.
ThieI saw the child too late to pre-
vent the accident The child's father
is a section hand.
Candidates Father Dies-Joseph
Brewer. aged so, father OF ]. z Brew.
er. candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for lieutenant governor, was
found dead in bed at Abilene.
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Trolley Strike Called oT.-The
strike of the conductors and motor
men on the interurban line OF the
Union Traction Company between Cot
feyville and Parsons and on the city
lines in ConeyviIle and Independence
: was officially called on at meeting Of
the men The strike has been on for
four months
City Attorney Resigns. s
Smith, city attorney Of Abilene, has
resigned because OF the press q
other business c. 8. Crawford Is his