The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
FAXED A UNIVERSITY STORY
Michigan Liquor Interests Misuse
Prof. Dickenson's Name in
Local Option Fight.

Prof. E. S. Dickinson went to the
University of Kansas about a month
ago and began teaching there Since
then his old home town, Iron River,
Mich, has gotten into local option
fight Someone wrote to Professor
Dickinson and asked him about the
saloons and liquor in Lawrence. An
Iron City paper published a statement
from Professor Dickinson that all
student boarding houses and clubs are
well supplied with liquor and liquor
openly Sold
Governor Capper received a tele-
gram from Iron River asking about
this. The governor called Chancellor
Strong by telephone and the chancel-
Tor asked the new professor to come in
and tell how he found out so soon that
liquor was being openly sold and that
all the university clubs and boarding
houses had full supplies. Professor
Dickinson made a complete denial. He
hadn't seen any liquor and didn't know
anything about it and never made the
statement credited to him
Splinter Caused Boys Death.-The
4-year-old son OF Frank Haba, near
Caldwell, is dead from the effects Of
tetanus due to a splinter he ran into
his knee a week ago; the wound sud-
denly turned worse and the child died
before the doctor could arrive.
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Cheap Irvine for Kansas.-The
board of corrections has bought
enough sisal hemp to run the Irvine
plant at the state penitentiary until
July 1. This will enable the plant to
manufacture 100000 pounds Of Irvine,
already ordered, which will tax the ca
pacfty of the plant until harvest. The
board was fortunate in getting the 81
cal at a price which will enable it to
sell this years product at the low
figure established and will save the
farmers of Kansas thousands of dol
lars.
Co-Eds Win Debate. - Arguing
against Philippine independence, the
coed debating team of Washburn col
lege, led by Flora Harrington Of Kan
sas City, Kas., defeated the girls
team of the Kansas State Agricultural
College at Manhattan.
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Mumps Stop schooIs-With five
of the seven teachers of the schools
at Fomoso i'll with the mumps and
more than half the pupils confined
to their homes, the city schools have
taken an enforced vacation The de-
lay in the school work will be made
up at the end of the school term.
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DIR. John F. Harmon, president Of
McKendree College at Lebanon, Ill,
has been elected to the presidency Of
the Kansas Wesleyan University in
Salina to succeed DR.. R. P. Smith, re-
signed.
Apple Tree a Peace MemoFiaI.-An
apple tree as a memorial to the sur
render OF Gen Robert E. Lee to Gen
o. S. Grant under an apple tree at Ap-
pomattox April 9, 1865, has been plant
ed on the courthouse grounds at Otta-
va by the local post Of the G. A R.
Find Skeleton in Mine.-A skeleton
found at the bottom OF an old mine at
Joplin, Mo-, recently has been identi-
fed as that Of William WenzeI, a
farmer who lived at Crestline, Kas.,
and who has been missing since De
cember %, 1910.
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Old Santa Re Official Dies.-Henry
W. Wilson, So years old, for many
years superintendent OF the coal prop
critics Of the Santa Fe railroad in New
Mexico and Kansas, is dead at his
home in Pittsburg He was a native
of England