The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-21
WICHITA PROUD AND HAPPY
Opening of New S2,5oo,ooo Union Sta
ton Celebrated With Fire
works and Speeches.


A city's dream came true in Wichita
the other day. Passenger trains on
four railroads, the Santa Fe, Rock Is
land, Frisco and Orient arrived or de-
parted from the most magnificent In
ion passenger station, and the only
track elevation, in Kansas.
Built at a cost of $2,5OO,OOO, the I'm.
ion terminal is the pride of Wichita. I
For two days the city and Santa Fe, /
Rock Island, Frisco and Orient rail-
way officials have been celebrating
over it's completion. The ceremonies
began with reception, banquet and
ball in the station.
More than $4,000 people visited the
station in one day. At night the prin-
cipal streets of the city were ablaze
with red torches for more than an
hour while band paraded and sere-
naded. Whistles, torches, bombs,
rockets and bells lent their aid to the
din of celebration.
Old Merchant Dies - Theodore
Weichselbaum, the first merchant in
Kansas, is dead at his home at Ogden,
ten miles west of Manhattan. He was
80 years old and had been i'll for sew
eraI months. He saved his money
from the start and was wealthy man
when this country was fairly opened
up.
Dies in Bed-Mrs. Elizabeth Jane
Case, a widow who lived alone in a
suite of apartment rooms in Winfield,
was found dead in bed the other morn
ing. She had not been seen for sew
eral days and the ,supposition is she
died of heart failure. She was "a
years old.
Mine Open to students.-The state
| board of correction has opened the
state coal mines at the Lansing peni-
Tertiary for the free use of the mining
students at the University of Kansas.
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Stop Public Dances-To elevate the
moral atmosphere of Coldwater the
ministers there have leased the only
| public dance hall in the city and in
stalled motion picture show there.
/ X X x
cave-In Injuries Two.-A cave-in at
Salina in a sewer broke both legs of
M. J. Finnegan, foreman, and seri-
ously injured Arthur Sigler, worker
last ten days.
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Unique Prize.-Governor and Mrs.
w. R. Stubs have offered the depart
ment of child waIfare in the Univer-
sity of Kansas $1,000 to be used in
bringing out a contest among the sec
ond-class cities of Kansas. This
money will be given as a cash prize
to the city of the class named which
| by May 1, 1915, makes the best show
ing as a place in which to rear chill
dren..
Rich Man Takes Acid.-Dr. C. G.
Fletcher, who came to Erie several
months ago from North Yakima
Wash, to visit his sister, Mrs. Henry
Lodge, was found dead in a barn re-
Gently. He had committed suicide
with hydrocyanic acid. He is said to
have been very wealthy and had re-
tired from practice. He lived in Erie
/ before going to North Yakima
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Woman Runs For Mayor.-Mrs. Sa-
die Kessinger has entered the race
for mayor of Emporia. She announces
her candidacy on a platform contain
ing sixteen clauses, all of which sup
port popular rule in municipal affairs.
There are four mayoralty candidates.
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| College President ouits.-Dr
Henry E. Thayer, president OF Fair
mount College at Wichita for seven
years, has resigned to go into com
mercial life. Dean Arthur Hoare viii
be the acting president of the college
of the present.
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Fire Drill Saves PupiIs-Ffre de
stroyed the roof and damaged the
rooms of the Lincoln grade school
at Abilene the other morning The
200 pupils were marched out by the
two teachers in two minutes time I'D
in good order.