The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-23
ROADS MUST RAISE BRIDGES
Kaw Valley Drainage Board Wins in
State Supreme Court After Long
Legal Battle.

The long legal battle between the
railroads and the Kaw Valley Drain
age District was settled the other day
in the Kansas supreme court, except
the controversy over the Missouri Pa
cific bridge at the mouth of the Kaw.
The drainage board won all Of it's con-
tentions with the Kansas City South
ern, the Kansas City Terminal and the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
roads, and peremptory writs of manda-
mus were issued against them by the
supreme court.
The Kansas City Southern had
agreed to raise it's bridge, to make it
a twO-pier structure and to remove the
pile trestle, so the suits against it
were dismissed. The Kansas City Ter
mina1 was directed to raise its bridge
to the level of the bikes along the
Kaw, to remove the pile trestle at the
east cid, to substitute a 7O-foot steel
girder span and to raise the tracks.
The Santa Fe was directed to raise
its tracks along the Kaw up to the
level of the bikes. The Santa Fe and
the drainage district are to work to-
gether in repairing the damage caused
by the Turkey Creek floods last sum
mer, and when this is done the Santa
Fe tracks will be put on the same
grade as the terminal and Southern
tracks approaching the two bridges.
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Girl Won Stock Judging Contest
Miss Carol Martin of Noria, Douglas
county, was awarded first prize in the
stock judging contest at the Douglas
County Fair, which was held recently.
She is Is years old and was a student
at K. U. last year.
Former Mayor Injured.-Frank Vim
cent, three times mayor of Hutchin-
son and former state senator Of Kan
sas, was severely injured recently
when he was struck by a motor cycle.
Mr.. Vincent is So years old.
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Have 90 Cars of Fish.-Warren Teg-
emier of the Kansas fish hatcheries
will soon turn two hundred thousand
fish into Ninescah river. This years
output of the hatchery is larger than
ever. Tegemier says he has ninety
carloads of fshready for distribution.
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Fell on Fork-WilIiam D. Stringer,
a 16-year-old boy of Parsons, received
fatal injuries when he fell from a hay
stack upon the points of a pitchfork.
which had been left leaning against
the stack with the tines pointing up
ward. He died a short time afterWard.
Probate Judges Meet.-The Kansas
Association of Probate Judges held
it's annual meeting at Winfield recent
", with a representation of about
thirty-five counties.
Editors Mother Dies.-Mrs. Jane
Rutledge, mother of Hugh ]. Powell,
editor of the CoffeyviIle Journal, is
dead at her home in lola after a short
Illness. Mrs. Rutledge was as years
old She was born in Wales. With
her first husband, Morgan Powell, she
settled on Kansas homestead in 1871.
Must Pay Editor.-The case of Rob
ert Good, editor of the Cawker City
Ledger, against J. w. Higgins, a bank
er, for SANDER ended at Beloit with a
jury verdict in favor of Good for
| SIs0UV. AC grew OON VI POSC-
office fight at Cawker City.
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C. NJ. Connolly to SaIina.-C. NJ. Con-
nelly, state grain inspector at the Kan
sas City terminals, has been trans
| ferred to Salina to succeed H NJ. Sto-
yer, resigned. Mr.. Slower resigned
because the state refused to give him
an assistant.
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| Pioneer Ferry Captain Dies--Eph-
riam Durham. aged u, is dead at
his home in East Atchison. He had
lived in that vicinity for sixty-eight
years. When mere boy he was cap
tain OF the first ferry boat to be op-
Grated at Atchison. He was Con
| federate veteran.
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/ Odd Fellows to BuiId.-A contract
for the $40, 1000 Odd Fellows building
in Minneapolis was awarded the other
night at a special meeting of the com
mittee to Henry B. Winter OF Manhat-
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