The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16
BARS KANSAS LIVE STOCK
Against All Animals from Middle
Western States.

Eleven carloads of Kansas live
barred from competing for prizes at
the Panama-Pacific Exposition be-
cause of the quarantine established by
California recently. A telegram re-
ceived by Joe Mercer, sanitary live
stock commissioner, stated that Cali
fornia had issued a rigid quarantine
against all live stock shipments from
east of the Mississippi river, and from
Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas
and Montana. Prevalence of the foot
and mouth disease in northern Illinois
is given as the reason. The states
west of the river, against which the
order was issued, are those in which
there were outbreaks of the disease
last winter.
In the telegram, D. o. Lively, in
charge of the Kansas live stock ex-
hibits that were to have been at the
exposition, said that there was
chance the order might be modified
later in regard TO horses and swine.
There was little doubt that the
Kansas live stock would have swept
the prizes,' said Albert T. Reid, chair
man of the Kansas commission. "They
were carefully selected from the best
herds in the state, and had been con-
ditioned for weeks under the direc
ton of Professor W. A. Cochel of the
state agricultural college"
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A New Postmaster at Lawrence
The first Democratic postmaster in
Lawrence in seventeen years, c. C.
Seewir, took charge of the office re-
Gently. Seewir was owner of an IN
dian novelty store here before his ap-
pointment.
Married 81 Years.-Mr. and Mrs. ].
A. Erp, living three miles south of
Horton, recently celebrated their
sixty-second wedding anniversary.
They were married IN Pulaski county,
Kentucky, September %, 1853, and
have lived at their present home south
of here since 1856. They have six
children living and there has never
been a death in their family.
Atchison Abstractor Desc F.
Chavis, for thirty years an Atchison
abstractor, died at the Atchison Hos
pital following an operation He was
81 years old and twenty-three years
ago married Miss Katherine Boyd, who
survives.
New Science Hall for Ottawa.-PIans
for the erection of a new science hall
to cost about $4,000 for Ottawa Uni
versity will be taken up at the Kansas
Dor let o+
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Muscotah centenarian Dead.-Mrs.
Sarah Hale, who celebrated her Tooth
birthday last January, is dead at
Muscotah. She was born in New York
January 8, 1915, and had been mar
ried twice.
Tall Corn Stops Phones-Corn-
stalks are so tall in some parts of
Leavenworth county that they are in
terfering with the country telephone
service where the wires are strung on
short poles. At Dan Monroe's place,
south of Lansing, cornstalks pressed
against the wires, causing a short cir
cult
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H. Hodges, ex-governor, returned the
other night from thirty-day speak
ing tour of Texas under the auspices
of the Anti-Saioon League
K
Bethany College to Raise $500, ooo.-
DR.. E. F. PihIblad, president of Beth
any College, Lindsborg, has completed
arrangements for starting a campaign
for 100000 for Bethany College. The
campaign will begin at once. Linds-
borg has started it with a $4,000 sub
scription-
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Train crushes Roy.-H. C. Davis, a
young man employed on a. Santa Fe
work train, was caught in the door of
dump car near independence and
killed. His head was crushed. He was
the son Of DR.. a. NJ. Davis OF Chanute