The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
End Comes to Former Kansas
Governor at independence
After Long Illness.
WAS VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR
Mr.. Humphrey Was Well Known
Throughout State AS a Lawyer,
Editor and Business Man.

Mr.. Humphrey was the eleventh !
governor of Kansas, serving two |
two terms, from 1889 to 1893. He was
elected a representative in the legis-
lature in 1876, state senator in 1884
and lieutenant governor in 1878. In
1892 he was a Republican candidate
for congress.
Mr. Humphrey was born July %,
1874, in New Baltimore, Stark county.
O. When the Civil War started he
enlisted as a private il the Seventy
sixth Ohio volunteers. serving
throughout the war participating in
twenty-seven battles with the Army
of the West and gaining a ccmmis-
sion as first lieutenant.
On retiring from the army Mr.. Hum
phrey continued his education at
Mount Union college and took law
course at the University of Michigan
In 1866 he came West to Shelby coun-
ty, Mo-, where he taught school and,
in partnership with Tom and Charles
zee and Colonel A. NJ. York, published
the Shelby County Herald. In 1870
he was admitted to the bar.
The next year he came to Independ-
ence with the zee brothers and Colo
mel York, established the South Kan
sas Tribune, but the year afterward
sold his interest and entered into the
practice OF law with Colonel York. His
first political office came in 1876 when
he was elected to the legislature.
Mr.. Humphrey was elected COVER
nor in 1888 by the largest plurality
ever given a candidate, carrying every
l. oil cd
in 1890 During the four years he
was governor he never travelled mile
at the expense of the state and each
year turned back into the state treas
ury the bulk of his contingent fund.
He closed his fourteen years of public
service in Kansas, poorer in purse
than when he began. After. his re-
tirement from the governors office he
returned to independence, engaging
in the farm loan and insurance bust
ness.
Mr. Humphrey married Miss Aman-
da Leonard, December %, 1872. Four
children were born to the union, two
of whom died in infancy but the other
two, Lyman l., associated with his
father in the loan business, and A.
Lincoln, a farmer and stockman of
Montgomery county, survive him.
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Veto Gas Compressor Station
Receivers for the Kansas Natural Gas
Company and the Montgomery County
District Court have been notified that
the expenditures proposed by the
court, 100000 for new compressor
station, will not be sanctioned by the
bondholders. Pittsburg interests, I'M
til the rate question has been set
tied.
Ends Life by Drowning.-John NJ.
Pollock, a member of Company L of
the Leavenworth Soldiers Home, end
ed his life by jumping into Lake
Jeanette, short distance from the
barracks the other morning.
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Sheep Pens at Emporia.-Two large
feeding sheds, of approximately $4,000
square feet floor space, will be added
to the sheep pens at the Santa Fe
stock yards at Emporia.
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Falls from Bumpers.-A man giving
the name of Edward Manchester and
claiming his home as Westerly, R. l.,
was found lying along the Katy tracks
near Walnut the other morning. He
says that he was riding the bumpers
and fell asleep, falling from the NOV
ing train.
To Merge Telephone Lines.-P. K.
Higgins of Liberty. Mo-, has pur-
chased the Mutual and Bell telephone
plants at Sabetha and will combine
them The Mutual plant was valued
at $27, 500. A modern one-plant sys
TEN will be installed with more than
eight hundred telephones.
Garnett Review Now a Weekly
The Garrett Evening Review, which
has been published by Richardson &
Champe the last eight years as a daily
has ceased to exist and it will be a
weekly hereafter.
Injured in Runaway.-Mathias Mer
gen, S3 years old, an old government
century helping safeguard reserva
tons, was severely injured recently
in a runaway accident at Leavenworth
New Railway to Larned.-At meet
Ing of the Larned Business Mems
Association it was unanimously voted
to accept the bond voting proposition
made by President Byers of the An
thony & Northern Railroad, the new
north and south railroad, which it i:
planned eventually TO extend to th'
Gulf of Mexico on the south and tt
some point in Nebraska on the north
The road already is built from Pratt
to TruesdaIe. twenty-six miles. The
narned extension Will give the new
line twenty-seven additional miles o
roadbed.
Official Sees Some Corn.-Presi
dent A L. Mohler of the Union Pa
eific, who was in Saiina recently
speaking of the corn he expressed sur
prise at its enormous growth an,
prospects. He said that the report
that stepladders being necessary t,
gather the crop were not imaginary.