The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-14
WANTS POND SITES LOCATED
Believes the Storing ct Excess Water
Would Prevent Floods and Fore
stall Droushts-Other States
Included in Measure.


Included in Measure.
a government survey OF the west
ern half of Kansas TO locate every
possible site for a reservoir or lake
in which water might be stored TO
meet such situation as Kansas con-
fronted last summer was asked by
Senator Bristow of Kansas in a bill
just introduced in the senate.
The BristoW bill would have this
report made not only for western
Kansas, but the plains of Oklahoma,
Nebraska, eastern Colorado and New
Mexico" 1t would carry an immedi-
ate appropriation of 100000 to de-
fray the expense Of the survey and
investigation. The Kansas senator
said it should include not only reports
On projects such as would make good
irrigation plants as most Of the pre-
vious reports have been, but also
smaller projects, which, he said, COM
munities of farmers would build If
they had the necessary Information.
From 1000 to 10000 of these lakes
varying in size from $50 acres up to
speech, could be esta bIished in this
plains country. Several thousand
could be built in western Kansas. 1t
largely would remove the loss from
the droughts, he said, and at the same
time store the flood waters.
Boosting Farmers Union.-Twenty
thousand members in Kansas, is what
the Kansas branch of the Farmers
Educational and Cooperative union
hopes to have enrolled by the time
its annual meeting assemblies at Hays
Wednesday morning, February Is, at
10 o'clock. The cooperative move
ment and cooperative societies are
showing much life in Kansas. Even
in the rich counties like Brown, Ne
maha and Marshall, the farmers are
going 51fc0 the union as rapidly as or
ganiZerS can establish new locals.
Recently four new locals of the
Farmers union were instituted in one
week in Ellsworth county. One good
thing the Grange, Union and Farm
! ers' Equity organizations are doing
for Kansas, is teaching farmers tde
| benefit Of working and acting together.
All these organizations are increas-
ing their membership in Kansas.
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Turkeys Fatten on Grasshoppers.-
That grasshopper plaques help tur-
key raisers was demonstrated at Gar
den City when 154 birds from the
E. R. McCue ranch brought $329.70 on
the local market The birds lived on
! live grasshoppers during the plague
last summer and have been fed large
~ on dead hoppers since that time.
| The total feeding cost for the flock
was s24.
kansans Met in Chicaso.-Fiye
hundred former Kansans attended the
annual dinner OF the Kansas Society
| of Chicago at the Auditorium Hotel
the other night. The principal ad-
dress was made by Miss Margaret
Hill McCarter, author, historian and
educator from Topeka.
Concordia Wins Subtitle city Of
/ Concordia won an injunction suit
when Judge Hogin dismissed the ease
brought to stop paving, which the
city was preparing to DO, under the
/ 1913 law. The point of whether nom
residents counted On a petition or not
was involved. Judge Hogin upheld
the 1913 paving law.
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New Kansas PostmasteEs.-The
President has sent to the senate the
following Kansas postmaster nomina-
tons: George E. Sain, Nickerson;
Rettiger, Strong; J. c. Simmons,
WeIlsvilIe, and W. C. Dysart, Parker.
! Fire Removes Eandmark.-In the
destruction of the farm residence of
James King, who lives four miles
southwest of Watervil1e, which was
the result of fire originating in
the kitchen, one of the oldest and
most widely known landmarks OF
that section of the country has been
lost The residence was built IN the
early sixties zzsses
Sent a Calf by Mail.-The rev Mr.
Elliott, who lives near Alton, in Os-
borne county, received a live calf by
!!sparcel post. 1t was sent from Alton
by a friend and taken out of Alton
/ On the rural route to the minister.
The calf bore a card attached to a
ribbon around its neck which was
properly addressed and stamped.
Mcpherson Gets colIeee.-Word has
been received of the definite location
of the Free Methodist College at tIc-
Pherson by the acceptance by the
! inco I'd Of tho nror,ositinn offorod thee