The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
PLAN A WOLF DRIVE
Greeley County Citizens Will
Try to Run The Animals to
Death With Autos.
TO Be GALA DAY At TRIBUNE
Members of Party Will Assemble
Early and Attend Church in Town
After Chase.

Kas., on Sunday, November IA, under
the management OF Col. George Thy
fault of Tribune and Col William Car
ter Of Horace.
Those who take part will be there
with automobiles at z o'clock a. m.
Colonel Thyfault, a plainsman for
forty years, and Colonel Carter have
made many wolf drives and it is ex-
pected that there will be more than
100 automobile parties assembled to
participate.
Greeley county is on the Missouri
Pacific railroad in the extreme west
ern part of Kansas, and the southwest
ern part of the county is as level as
= floor. A township will be surround
ed by automobiles and the chase for
the coyotes will continue until either
they are overtaken or fall to the
ground from exhaustion. No guns will
be used.
This is always considered as Gree
ley county's gala-day. The drive will
not last more than two hours, and all
the hunters will then return to Trib-
une and attend church.
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Death in Dropping Weapon.-Brooks
Hardy, % years old, was shot through
the heart with revolver at Kingman
while packing his sachel to go on the
road to cover his territory for the
Menke Wholesale Grocery Company
of Kansas City. The revolver was dis
charged while it was in its scabbard,
probably as he tossed it into the bag.
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Emporia's Sheep Pens Biggest
Work has been started on an addition
to the sheep pens at the Santa Fe
Stock Yards in Emporia, which when
completed will provide feeding facili-
ties and shelter for forty thousand
sheep, making the Emporia yards the
largest sheep feeding station in Amer
lea.
New Catholic School for Salina.-
Mother Antoinette, superior of the
Sisters of ST. Joseph, announces that
new academy will be erected at Sa-
lima at cost Of 100000. This will
take the school away from Concordia,
and the Nazareth academy there prob
ably will be used as mother house.
x
Kansas Banker Dead-James H.
the Missouri Pacific Railroad, died
suddenly in a hospital at Wichita fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
Mr.. Lane was vice-president of the
First National Bank of Conway
Springs, Kas., and with his brother
owned that institution.
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Shoots Himself by Accident-Bryan
Heckroot, 81, accidentally shot him
self in the right breast while hunting
near Ottawa the other day. He prob
ably will die.
Women Motorists Injured.-Mrs. o.
B. Kiehl of Pittsburg was dangerously
injured and two other women slightly
injured when a Frisco passenger train
struck the motor car of Mrs. Kiehl
at a crossing in Pittsburg.
x X X
Aged Emporia Woman Dead-Mrs.
Hester Marshall Gooden, who was
born in Brooklyn, N. Y, in 1926, is
dead at her home in Emporia. Her
grandsons are S. H. Marshall and
Frank Warren of Emporia.
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Kansas Fair Building to K. u
1t is probable that the Kansas build
ing at the San Francisco exposition
will be moved to Lawrence to become
the woman's building at the UniYer-
sity of Kansas.
x x x
Dead in Kansas HoteI-John NJ
Reynolds, a travelling salesman for a
st. Joseph, Mo-, firm, was found dead
IN his room in hotel at Hanover the
other morning. Death was caused by
paralysis.
Ottawa Has New DaiIy-Ottawa's
new evening daily, the Ottawa Even
ing Journal, published it's first issue
recently. The Journal is published by
Glenn c. Wilson of Waterloo, Ia, and
F. w. Hemenway, former editor and
owner of the Junction City Sentinel.
A. E. Johnson, formerly of the Atchi-
son Champion, is city editor. The new
paper is Democratic.
X x x
Farmers Form Welfare CIub-A ru-
raj welfare club was organized the
other night in Hayes township, Frank
lin county. 1t is an organization for
community improvements.
x x X
Funeral of Warden's Wife.-Funeral
services for Mrs. Jennie Morgan, wife
of Thomas ". Morgan, warden of the
federal prison at Leavenworth, were
held at the old family home in Ottawa.
Several hundred persons attended. A
delegation OF prison officials was in
the funeral party.
x
Begin New Lawrence Bridge
Work on Douglas county's new $780,
900 bridge across the Kaw river at
Lawrence was begun recently The
bridge is to cross the river just above
the Bowersock dam.
X X
Died on Train.-Daniel L. Thomas
Of Emporia died recently on a Santa
Fe train near Gallup, N. NJ, of heart
disease. He had been Ill year and
had started to California in the hope
that change of climate would bene-
fit his health