The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
AN INDIAN HONORED
Bronze Tablet Placed on Grave
of William Walker, EARLY
Kansas Governor.
WAS A CHIEF OF WYANDOTTES
Marker Unveiled in Kansas City, Kas-
in Presence of Large Crowd of
Distinguished Persons.


Oak Grove cemetery, Kansas City,
Kas., the other day. was unveiled
bronze marker in honor of the early
day governor Of a territory now in
cluded in Kansas, Nebraska and Colo
RADIO. Indians who knew Governor
Walker were in the crowd that attend
ed the ceremony.
Following the address of welcome
by Mayor Green to the Indians and the
members of the Daughters of the
Founders and Patriots of America,
who had charge of the services, the
Rev. Sherman Coolidge, son of Chief
Strongheart of the ArapahOes, and
president of the Society of American
Indians, spoke on the advancement of
the Indian and eulogized Governor
Walker. The Rev. Philip Gordon of
Washington, D. c., an Indian Catholic
priest, spoke. He said it was the de-
sire of the Society of American In
dams, in convention at Lawrence, to
get Congress to free" his race, and
give it the ballot. Besides Father
Gordon there is only one other Cath
Ollie priest who is al Indian, Father
Albert of Oklahoma.
Governor Walker was born in Ohio,
March 5, 1900. He was chief of the
tribe of the Wyandottes and postmas-
ter of Upper Sandusky, o. He came
with the Wyandottes to Kansas in
1843. He was named provisional gov
.ernor in 1853. He served in that ca
pacity only a short time, retiring
when President Pierce signed the bill
which made Kansas a territory in
1854 He died in 1874. He was pio-
neer Mason Oak Grove cemetery
was originally a part of his family's
holdings.
Ottawa Theater Burns.-Fire de-
stroyed the Rohrbaugh Theater here
early the other morning when flames
started probably from crossed electric
wires just beneath the roof. The
building and practically all fittings
were a complete loss, estimated at
$4,000. The company which con-
trolIed the theater carried $4,000 in
.Surance.
They Paraded for HeaIth.-With
the day observed as a public holiday,
schools throughout the county dis
missed, every town and hamlet par
ticipating, Wilson county celebrated
the conclusion of the sanitary survey
begun last May. 1t is the first made
by government officials in the state
of Kansas.
Sold Farm for $500 an Aere.-Twen-
ty-five acres of land east of Salina
have been sold by Joseph Duncan to
the Gothardt Schippel estate for $500
an acre. 1t was formerly the home
site of Col. w. A. Phillips, ex-congress-
man from the Fifth Kansas district.
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Train Killed OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Trumble, a Frisco brakeman, was
killed near New Albany by passen-
ger train as he sat on the rails on a
curve. Trumble was tagging for a
work train. He lived at Wichita.
Atchison Twins are 72.-Mrs. AIDE
Iaide Estes and Mrs. T. H. Bailey,
twins, celebrated their seventy-second
birthday anniversary at Atchison re-
Gently. They have lived in Atchison
sixty years, coming from their birth
place in Erie, Pa, in 1855.
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$50 III After Church Supper-Can-
ned peas cooked in chicken pie served
at church supper at Ottawa caused
most of the $50 persons who attend
ed to become i'll. They were afflicted
with ptomaine poisoning. None was
in a serious condition.
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O-,,- h-,.F,.r,e
Kansas physicians have been advised
to inquire into conditions at the Kan
sas State Hospitals for the Insane by
Dr. Amelia A. Dickinson of lola. Doc
tor Dickinson, who recently caused an
investigation of conditions at the Iowa
Insane Asylum at Mount Pleasant bY
her charges, was speaking to the mem
bers of the Southeast Medical Society.
While not making definite charge,
Doctor Dickinson said from what she
had learned of the Topeka asylum she
believed the doctors of the state
should make an investigation.
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Morgan in "SuH" Fight.-Lieut Gov
w. Y. Morgan left recently for New
York state to devote the next three
weeks campaigning in New York, New
Jersey and Massachusetts for equal
suffrage.
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Operation Fatal to Pastor.-The
Rev Theodore Bundenthal, pastor of
Trinity German Lutheran Church at
Atchison for eight years, is dead, fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
He was SO years old and before going
there filled pastorate at Topeka.
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Water Bonds for Manhattan.-The
Manhattan city commission recently
voted bonds in the sum of $50, 500 for
the extension of the water equipment
and mains in the city. Almost all the
work will be done by the city, and
only a small part let out by contract
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She's Student at S4-Mrs. Amy
Winship, "a years old, has applied for
permission to enroll as a student in
Kansas University. The authorities
are considering the application. Last
year she took special work in sociol-