The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-03
LIFTS A CATTLE QUARANTINE
Restricted Area Now Comprises
Three Butler County Stock Farms
Situation Normal Again.

Restricted Area Now Comprises
Three Butler County Stock Farms
Situation Normal Again.
Modification of the Kansas live
stock quarantine against Butler coun-
ty was announced in a bulletin re-
Gently issued by DR.. J. H. Mercer,
state live stock sanitary commission
er. The order, which follows, revokes
all previous quarantine orders relating
to that ounty:
"An that part of the territory Of
Butler county lying on the outside Of
the three-mile area surrounding the
infected premises of James Teeter, A
W. Graper and A. z. Scribner will be-
come free territory, permitting live
stock to move from point to point in
the state of Kansas. That territory
within the three-mile area around the
infected premises of the above de-
stribed farms will be classed as re-
stricted area. Live stock within this
area will be permitted to move to mar
ket centers within Kansas for imme-
date slaughter.
Doctor Mercer also announced that
there had not been an outbreak of the
foot-and-mouth disease in Kansas for
more than ninety days, and that the
situation in all sections of the state
had again become normal.
x X
William Martin, guardian for Hen
derson Hickcox, minor, has filed suit
at independence for $4,000 against
the Prairie Pipe Line Company, be-
cause of injuries received by Hickcox
February 9, 1915, while in the employ
of the company, that resulted in the
loss of his mind. Hickcox, assistant
engineer at the company's pumping
plant at Caney, was sent into the con-
denser pit to start an engine. The
engine started suddenly and Hickcox
was struck by a blast of steam and
hot water. He was thrown with great
violence against the cement base of
the engine, it is alleged, and his skull
crushed and he was also badly scald-
ed. He is now in the state hospital
for the insane.
Slayer Got IS Years-George A.
Post pleaded guilty to the charge OF
second degree murder of his son, Roy,
June 2, at Mcpherson. He asked the
clemency of the court and received
thirty-five years in prison.
x
Golden Wedding at Atchison.-Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Terry, who have
lived in Atchison forty years, recently
celebrated their fftieth wedding ami
versary.
cox-BIodgett Assets SoId.-The re-
naming assets of the Cox-BIodgett
Dry Goods Company, bankrupt since
December, 1913, were auctioned OF at
the county court house in Wichita by
Trustee o. z. Smith. The assets,
which were in notes, bill sand mort
cages, had face value of 100000.
They brought exactly $4,000, L. S.
Naftzger, president of the Southwest
State bank, being the high bidder Of
three. The sale of these assets prac-
tically winds up the affairs of the COM
pany. the failure of which caused a
sensation here.
Weed Seed Makes Stock Food
Prof E. H S. Bailey of the Univer-
sity of Kansas has discovered a meth
cd of extracting oil from common
Kansas weed, the Devils Claw"
which grows profusely in the south.
western part of the state.
Poisoned by Ice Cream.-Frank
Carson of Yellville, Ark. 20 years old,
e
ing the eating Of ice cream at a res
taurant in Salina
Biggest Kansas Woman Dead.-Miss
Mabel Hammond, aged &c, and known
as the heaviest woman in Kansas, is
dead at her home near Harlan. Her
weight was 500 pounds, but until her
last illneess she was remarkably &C.
tive. Her sister, Bertha, weighs 565
pounds.
Killed by HighWayman.-A young
man, said to be Benjamin Rider Of 81
East Ninety-ninth place, Chicago, died
at a hospital in Wichita from a gun
shot wound received from a bandit,
who held him up in the railroad yards.
r r +
Motor Fire Trucks for Atchison.-
Complete motorization of the Atchi-
son fire department, including a car
for the fire chief and combined pa
troll and ambulance for the police de-
partment, has been decided upon. One
hre station is now equipped with mo
tor apparatus. The additional motor
equipment will cost $4,000.
Killed by lightning. 49,. Clarence
Short, a farm hand near Cofeyvills.
was killed by lightning in a storm the
other day. He was Is years old and
unmarried.