The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-28
BAKER WANTS THAT $500, 600
Methodist University at Baldwin
Has Still $4,000 to Raise
Before October 1.

Rapid progress is being made by
Baker University toward a half mil
lion dollar endowment goal, which is
expected to be reached some time be-
fore October 1, the last day for OBJ
tanning the full amount. Baker must
be free of all debt and have had OBJ
tanned 1926, goo ia order to get an adj
ditfenal S125, 900 offered by the Ma
tional Education Board Of New York
City.
DR.. o. G. Markham, dean of the
university and manager Of the cam
paign, announced recently a pledge
of $1,000 by Bishop w. A. Quayle, an
aIumnus and former president OF
Baker. One hundred and ninety thou
sand dollars remains to be obtained,
including the amount necessary to
pay debtsOf $4,000.
Exhumed Severed Leg.-A post-mor-
tenn examination of the amputated leg
of VIII Schultz was held at Hutchin-
son for the purpose of determining
whether the toes of the deceased limb
were cramped. Schultz was run over
by a train several years ago and
his leg wa severed. 1t was buried II
the local cemetery but the young man
had been unable to sleep since the &C
cident because of a cramping sensa-
ton at the end of the stub, which
doctors thought must be caused by
the toes of the amputated limb being
cramped. Recently his father, w. T.
Schultz demanded a postmortem ex-
animation, but the toes were found to
be in a natural position, the under
taker having seen to this before in
terment.
Cow Kills Boy.-The 3-year-old son
of Ed Calvery of Columbus was killed
by COW he was feeding at the home
of relatives in the country south Of
Pitsburg. The boy had accompanied
a girl to the yard where the COWS were
kept. While she was milking he fed
a COW bran out of his hand Suddenly
she heard the child cry and found him
lying on the ground. The cow had
inflicted a fatal wound with a horn.
The child died within half an hour.
Mexicans Kill Kansan.-J. A. SERVE
ner Of Junction City received word
that his brother, Jasper Scrivener,
former Junction City man, had been
shot and killed by Mexicans near Tue.
son, Ariz. He was in charge Of a
gold mine near the border and had
recently written home that he had
been having considerable trouble with
the Mexicans.
Fines RaiIroads.-Judge John c.
Pollock opened the March term Of the
federal court at Wichita by assigning
one of the shortest dockets ever SEIZED
uled for trial in that city. Seven suits
brought by the government for alleged
violations of twenty-eight hour cattle
and quarantine laws by railroads were
settled without trial. The Orient Rail
road pleaded guilty in four cases and
the Santa Fe Railroad in three cases.
A fine of 500 and costs was assessed
in each case.
Fruit Expert Dies.-H. S. Hutseu.
70 years old, is dead at his home in
Winfield of heart disease. Mr.. Hut
sell was a soldier of the Civil war.
He had been a resident Of CowIey
county more than 35 years, and was
one Of the largest fruit growers in
that section of the state. He is sur.
yived by his wife.
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Trainnen Put Out FIre.-John Wal
ker, engineer on the Missouri Pacific,
stopped his freight train and with the
crew extinguished ire in a farm
house near Delevan.
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Old Chanute Resident Dies-W. H.
Smith, 81 years of age, a pioneer
business man of Chanute, is dead
from cerebral hemorrhage. His wife
and daughter, Miss Jessie, have been
spending the winter In Kansas City,
where the latter is attending dra-
matte school.
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Club Women to Wichita.@The state
meeting of the Kansas Federation OF
Women's Clubs wiz be held in Wichita
May 4, and g. The reception the
night OF May will be held in the Ma
sonie TanD1A