The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
FLOOD RUINS POTATO CROP
Hundreds of Acres Along the KaW
Valley Between Topeka and Kan
sas City are a Total Loss.

Hundreds of Acres Along the KaW
Valley Between Topeka and Kan
sas City are Total Loss.
Hundreds of acres of potatoes and
other crops in the Kaw Valley from
Kansas City, Kas., to Topeka have
been ruined by the latest overflow
While the Kaw at its mouth did not
reach the height of the crest two
weeks ago more water came down the
stream and the river was higher than
two weeks ago at all points west OF
Kansas City. The current of the Kaw
was shooting half way across the Mis-
souri, while two weeks ago the Big
Muddy was forcing backwater up the
smaller streams.
J. G. Groves, a negro, known as 'Po-
tato King of the Kaw Valley, said
that there was more water at Ed
wardsyille than two weeks ago, but
that only about fifty acres of the po-
tato crop on the north side of the
river at that place was inundated.
Bat across the river there was
different story. The Santa Fe depot
at Holiday was flooded West of the
station acres and acres of land were
inundated The same was true at Lin
wood, Loring, Wilder and other towns
and faSming communities upstream
The water covered the lowlands first
on one side OF the river and then the
other.
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 8, 1915, while in the employ
of the company, that resulted in the
loss of his mind. HickcoX, assistant
engineer at tie 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.
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Move Big Glass Factory-The
dismantling of the glass factory at
Ponca City, Ok, is being carried for
ward rapidly, and it is expected that
it will be in operation at Augusta,
Kas., its new home, by July 1. The
move is made to get the plant closer
to Wichita, where the United Sash
and Door Factory, which owns the
plant, is located. The big glass tank,
which has not cooled from the last
output week ago, will be the last of
the plant taken.
The Spoiled ChiId's Debut.-The
first issue of the Spoiled Child, a
weekly publication for the Normal
| summer school, appeared recently.
Baker BrownelI, head of the Normal
school department of journalism, is
editor-in-chief, and the staff will be
changed each week.
Bride of Day Dead.-Mrs Roy
Livingston, a bride of a day, drowned
herself in Ayo feet of water in pond
on her fathers farm at PIainville re-
Gently. No reason is known for her
act, although she had limited to
friends that they might not see her
again.
Coal Company Official browns
Attempting to swim in the water
which filed strip pit near Mulberry,
H. L. Bevan, superintendent of the
Carney Cherokee Coal Company, was
seized with cramps and drowned be-
g.,
water.
Veteran Printer Read.-Dan S. Lind
sey, one of the best known printers
in Kansas, is dead at his home in
Wichita. For thirty-five years he was
| an assistant of former Gov. E. w
Hoch in the publication of the Marion
Record. They learned the printers
trade in Kentucky in 1871.
Maneled in Mower-Carl Campbell,
the 12-year-old nephew OF Harry An
derson of Americas, probably was fat
ally injured when he was struck by
the sickle Of a moying machine. The
boys left arm was cut OF and his
| right arm and body were severely cut.
The boy was oiling the mower when
the team became frightened and ran
| away.
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Gets Gas DePosits.-Columbus is
going to prepare for a rain of SIS bills
| in few days. The shower is not to
| be a part of an aviation stunt, but is
the expected result of a supreme court
decision in which the gas consumers
who have paid in So each as a surety
deposit with the American Gas Com
pany will be reimbursed.
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| KILLED by Live Wire.-George Wend-
ling, a member of the firm of Wirby
& Vending, ice manufacturers of
Frankfort, was electrocized by contact
with live wire at the ice plant He
is survived by his mother, Mrs. So