The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-18
KANSAS LAND AWARDS MADE
of 317 Claims in Recently Opened
Forest Reserve.


Forest Reserve.
The list of winners in the govern
ment land drawing held in Dodge for
claims in the national forest reserve
was announced recently. More than
one hundred claimants were delighted
to find they had made the only entry
on the land they selected. More than
one hundred other claims went to the
winners in a drawing in which four
hundred and fifty contestants were en-
tered.
Prospective homesteaGers were al
lowed to file on the half section they
selected. If a second filing was made
on the land the names of both contest
ants were thrown into the drawing
box. The first name drawn out for a
certain claim was the winner in the
drawing. Due to the necessity of eX-
aiming every application before the
announcement of winners the list did
not come out before.
The successful applicants come from
all parts of the United States. Many
who filed stayed at the land office IN
til the list was announced, in order to
refile on unclaimed land in the reserve
if they lost out in the drawing. About
seventy-f1ve thousand acres were TAX
en- by the first filing and sixty thou
sand acres are still left. Due to the
amount of work necessary in handling
the filing papers, the notices cannot
be mailed to successful homesteaders
for several days.
Fought Off Five WoIVes.-Andrew
Geisert, returning to his farm from
Niles, Ottawa county, heard child
scream. He whipped up his team to
the top of the ridge he was climbing
and saw 7-year-old boy with a stick
facing five wolves. The boy, swinging
the stick, turned from side to side as
the animals circled about him. Gel
sert drove the wolves away with his
whip and took the boy to the home OF
his father, G. w. Washburn, farmer
q mile away. The child, not finding
his father when he returned from
school, had started down the road tic
a neighbours and was attacked by the
wolves. That section is not thickly
settl. d.
$4,000 to Emporia coIIege.-Trus
tees of the College of Emporia were
assured recently that business men Of
Emporia would give 1000 to help in
rebuilding Stuart hall, which was de
stroyed by fire. This decision was
reached within an hour after meet
ing called by the Emporia Commercial
Club
Dies of Broken Neck.-The death OF
Keith Schmidt, Is years old, at Salina
from a broken neck, makes the thir(
death from that cause in Salina il
four months. A fourth case, that O
Mrs. Arthur Hoffman, ended in re
covery.
Pioneer Woman Dead.-Nrs SaraI
Brown, widow of J. P Brown,
wealthy railway contractor, is dead il
Atchison, aged 70. She had lived there
fifty-six years. She was leader il
church and charitable work
Father of w. r. Stubhs Dead. w
Stubs, the father of ex-Gov. w. R
Stubs, is dead in Lawrence. He wa
80 years old. The funeral was helt
from the home of W. r. Stubs.
Gas Kills Aged Woman.-Mrs. Care
line Finke, 20 years old, was suffo
Gated in an unusual manner at Leaveu
worth. She put a wash boiler full o
clothes on gas cook stove and sa
down to wait until the water boiled
She fell asleep. When the waite
boiled over and put out the fire gas es
capped and filled the rooms, asphyx
ating her.
Three New OIL WeiIs.-The WIGHT
Natural Gas company has brought i
three new oil wells on their holding
south of Augusta.
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Negro Best Corn crower-Howar
Wilson, son of a negro farmer nea
Eabetha, grew an average of 1921
bushels of corn on five acres in tn
Kansas Agricultural college corn grow
ing contest this year. James Wilson
the father, grew eighty-seven bushel
of corn to the acre on 126 acres.
Fell Into Boiling water.-Ida, til
3-year-old daughter of Roy Kendall c
Mulberry, died in hospital at Pitt.
burg recently of burns. The girl fe
into an open kettle of boiling water i
her home.