The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-01
VETERANS ELECT OFFICERS
Chosen Department Commander at
Annual Encampment.

The Spanish veterans of Kansas,
holding their annual encampment at /
Atchison elected Captain Alexander |
l. Rense of Leavenworth department |
commander. Topeka was chosen as
the place for the next annual encamp- !
ment.
Other officers chosen were:
George Nesbitt of Atchison, senior
commander; C. P. White of the Sol |
diers' home, LeaVenwOrth, junior COM
mander; Oliver FaIk of Topeka, mar
shall; Baxter D. McClain of lola, |
judge advocate; John Lightburn of |
Fort Leavenworth, inspector; C. D. |
Lloyd of Leavenworth, surgeon; |
Jacob Schmidt Of LeaYenworth, chap !
lain; w. A. Weikamp of Fort Leaven-
worth, patriotic instructor.
Colonel E. c. Little of Kansas City, |
Major A. NJ. Harvey of Topeka and
Major Iron Jaw Brown of Kingman,
were among the speakers.
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Calls Katy Talk Moonshine.-Talk
of the Katys removing its general
offices to Kansas City, Kan, or to
any city in Kansas other than Par
sons is all ''moonshine'' in the opin-
ion of Attorney Gene al Dawson, who
so expressed himself in a letter re-
ceived by P. T. Foley, one Of the pc
titioners in the suit filed against the
Katy asking for the appointment of
receivers and the dissolution of the
company's charter.
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Boys Body in Cistern.-The body
of Manuel Garcia, 9-year-old Span
ISL boy, was found in a cistern at the
home of a Mexican at CherryVaIe.
The Mexican and his wife are held
on suspicion of murder The coro-
ner's inquest returned a verdict of
death by drowning, cause unknown.
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Balloon Travelled Far-A small bal
loon on which were inscribed the
words, July 3, 1914, this balloon was
sent up at Water Valley, Miss. Find
er please send date when found to
Miss Sadie Carr, Water Valley, Miss
was found by Phillip Rundus, farm
er, near Narka The balloon was I'M
damaged when found on the Rundus
! farm.
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! Four Hit at crossine-W, C.
Hughes, vice-president of the Emporia
National Bank, and his wife were
probably fatally injured and J. s.
knight and his wife were severely in
jured when a train crashed into a mo-
tor car in which they were riding in
lola.
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Swimming Pool for AbiIene.-In less
than a weeks time more than $4,000
in shares have been sold for a nata-
104 and a half dozen perspiring citi-
zens started the campaign the other
day.
Had Been Married Sixty Years.
Mrs. Peter Carrier, 80 years old, who
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of
her marriage last spring, is dead at
the farm home in the west part of Sa-
line county. The family came to Sa-
line county in the early '70s.
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Lightning Kills Farmer.-Thomas
Smith was struck by lightning and
killed while assisting in threshing on
the Kelley farm near Summit, eigh-
teen miles east of Marysville He
leaves widow and four children.
Ptomaines Kill PupII.-Rachel E
Anderson, 10 years old, sophomore
in the Wichita high school, is dead
from paralysis, due, the physicians
say, to eating tainted mutton which
was served in the high school cafe
terra
Preachers AssaiIant Fined.-Dick
Burt of Scammon, who was convict
ed of assault and battery upon the
Rev. c. c. Wilkins of Scammon at
, Mineral was sentenced to pay q fine
! of 500 and costs. Burt filed an ap-
peal to the district court
K. U. Instructor Resisns.-Profes-
: scr Grandville R. Jones has resigned
: as head of sanitary engineering de-
: partment at the University of Kansas
: and will take a similar position at
Johns Hopkins university at BaIti-
more, Nd.
I Negro Slabs White Man.-Charles
WHINING, a painter, was seriously
stabbed by negro in a fight near
{ the Missouri river bridge at Atchison
J Although pursued for some distance
, by police and bridge officials, one OF
: whom fired a revolver at him, the
negro escaped
a Cornerstone Laid. = The corner
d stone of the new school house al
a Barnes, Washington county, was laid
3 on the opening day OF the Barnes
+ chautauqua W. D. Ross, state super
intendent, spoke.