The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
FOR A NEW KANSAS PRISON
State Architect Has Completed His
Plans for Rebuilding the State
Penitentiary at Lansing.

The plans for the complete rebuild
ing of the Kansas Penitentiary to
make it the most modern penal insti-
tuition in the country have been finally
completed by Charles H. Chandler.
state architect, and approved by the
penitentiary commission named nearly
two years ago by Governor Hodges.
The rebuilding is not to be done all
at once, but will cover a period Of five
or six years. The cost will be around
100000, the prisoners doing practical
ly all the work, and much of the ma
terial being made by the prison.
All of the buildings will be as near
ireproof as it is possible to make
them, steel and concrete being used
entirely in all of the buildings even
to steel window frames and sills and
steel doors. One of the main features
Of the prison will be light. The pres
en-. buildings are dark and dingy,
while the new ones will contain as
much glass as possible, that the sun
may shine directly into the prison
cells
The first move for the new prison
will be the extension of the walls to
the east to inclose another five acres
Then the two big cellhouses are to be
reTnodeled and the warden's residence
taken entirely outside the walls.
residence for the warden is to be pro-
vided The administration offices are
to be taken from the main prison
buildings and placed in a new build
ing just outside the present walls.
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Wei Oynamiter at Laree.--While
Weir was getting ready to catch the
dynamiter who had caused five explo-
sions and terrorized the town the al
legged maniac threw another stick of
dynamite into a back yoEd and es-
capped. About $50 p. m. an explosion
occurred in the rear of the home of
William Fleming. a carpenter employ
ed by a coal company. No damage
was done.
Was 90 Years OId.-Eliphalet John
son, 90 years old, is dead at Dresden.
tie was a pioneer in Ohio, Iowa, Hi
nois and Kansas. He was born in
I,ew York in 1916.
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Council Grove Hotel Burned
| Guests in the Saddle Rock Hotel in
| Council Grove were routed from their
beds at 4:3O o'clock in the morning
and barely escaped in their night
clothes when fire destroyed the build
| ing. The thermometer registered 10
below zero and those who escaped
suffered severely from the cold.
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Farmer Killed in RunaWay.-George
| Sjo, a farmer near FaIun, Saline coun
ty, is dead from injuries received in
a runaway. He is survived by a SOL
and five daughters.
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Pecan Raiser Dead at 76.-Mrs. Ra
chel Hewitt, rs years old, and owner
| of what is said to be the largest pecan
farm in Kansas, is dead at her home
eleven miles north of Parsons. Mrs
Hewitt vas a pioneer settler of La
bette County. coming to Kansas from
Tennessee in 1865.
independence Sells Bonds.-The In
| dependence commissioners recently
| opened bids for $50, 600 worth of city
bonds for a new city hall and fire
| fighting equipment They were sub
scribed twice over.
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Buried Aqueducts Found.-What is
believed to be the remains of early
| Spanish civilization in western Kan.
| sas or possibly of a period dating
| back further than that has been IN
| earthed on alarm a few miles north
| of Coolidge in Hamilton county. While
digging a well A. E. Sunnyfrank dis
covered what appears to be masonry
| aqueducts and other concrete work
about twenty-five feet below the sur
face OF the ground. 1t was a tunnel
like affair and branches out in diff
ferent observation-disclosures have
been asked to come and investigate
/
Street Car Kills Boy.-James Gard
ner, 16 years DID, high school stu
dent, was killed at Pittsburg when b,
ran in front of a street car in TIT
south part of the city. The boy wa.
on the back Of a wagon and jumpe,
on. running directly in the path o
the car.
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Meade County Pioneer Dies-Judg,
John H Randolph. an early day Meade
County settler. the last eight year.
probate judge is dead Of Bright's dis
ease at his home In Meade. He VA
81 years old