The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-13
ARE AFTER K. U. SINNERS
Students Begins-Famous Work
ers Are in Charge.

The greatest religious campaign
ever conducted at any American Uni
versity, began at the K u campus
recently, when famous social and re-
Hgious workers from New York to
Denver assem- bIed for the Mott Meet
ing Week, March %. John R. Mott
of New York, Raymond Robins of Chi
cago, and z. E. Mercer, the wandering
Virginian, better known as Ted
were the headliners on the program
These leaders are drawn from a di-
yersity of walks in life. Leader Mott
has half dozen college degrees to his
credit and is considered one of Amer
ica's foremost scholars and lecturers;
Raymond Robins is a former Alaska
prospector and adventurer who heard
the call from afar and entered upon
social service work fitted by many
practical observations during his var
led experiences; Ted Mercer is
graduate of an aristocratic southern
school, who later drifted to the very
bottom of the social ladder before be-
ing rescued and restored to society as
a useful worker
In addition to these international
AAlCA III IN0AOc&o
public life showed their approval by
appearing before the students and aid
ing in the attempt to Christianize
every K. U. man and woman. The en-
tire state board of administration con-
sisting of E. 7. Hackney, former Gov
ernOr HOch, and Mrs. Cora G. Lewis
was on the campus for these meetings.
Other Kansas men, now in public life,
who used the kansas Language" to
good effect, were Lieutenant Governor
Morgan, editor of the Hutchinson
News; Henry Allen, editor of the
Wichita Beacon, and H. L. Heinzman,
a K. U. graduate, now international
secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Special meetings for women were
under the direction of Miss Lucy
Riggs. of Denver, Colo, and Miss Myra
Withers, a student Y w c. A secre-
tary, now under appointment for work
in India.
Coddino's AssaiIant Dies.-Jake
Wiseman, who was charged with at
tempting to kill ]. K. Codding, as
sistant attorney general, is dead at
his home in LeavenwOrth Death re
suited from Bright's disease. Sever
al days ago Wiseman sent for Codding
and asked his forgiveness for the at
tempt made on his life. The shoot
ing took. place last summer while Cod
ding was raiding a store owned by
Wiseman, in which he was supposed
to be selling liquor.
Killed Infected cattIe.-Four hun
dred and eighty-nine steers, eighty
hogs and five bulls, afflicted with foot
and mouth disease, were killed on a
farm twelve miles northeast of Edo
RADIO recently. They were owned by
]. L. Hurt of Center, Colo. The car
casses were buried under 10000
pounds of quick lime in a ditch 500
feet long, eighteen feet wide and eight
feet deep. Rifles were used by the
federal authorities to dispatch the ami
mails.
Saw Victoria Crowned.-Mrs. Ros-
anna McClain, who died recently at
the home of her daughter in Lancas-
ter, Atchison county, enjoyed the dis
tinction of having attended the coro-
nation of Queen Victoria. She was
born in Scotland ninety-three years
ago, and was Is years old when she
went to London to the coronation in
1888.
x X X
Child Fell Into Boiling Water
Leona Wymer, the 3-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Wymer of
Lebo, is dead in st. Mary's hospital
at Emporia. She fell into tub OF
boiling water at her home.
Brooded Over Sisters Death.-Axe1
Carlson, 81 years old, was found dead
in his home six miles west of Salina.
Big Gasser at DougIass.-A test
through the pipeline was made of the
gas flow from the well on the Love
place, near Douglass. the other day,
four and one-half miles north of town.
In twenty-four hours flow the gas
measured Is million cubic feet in the
pipeline and showed a reduction in
the pressure at the well of only one
hundred pounds. According to gas
experts who were at Augusta this
would indicate that the capacity of the
well exceeds 80 million cubic feet
daily.
X x x
Tree Falls on Agen MANFRED W.
Moody, farmer SO years Of age, Iiv-
ing six miles northeast of Olathe, was
pinned beneath a falling tree and Sc
vereIy injured Members of the fam
| lily rescued him and carried him to
the house.
X x x
Boy Hunter KilIed.-The 12-year-
old son of Michael Wishnuck, thirteen
miles northwest of Ellis, accidentally
shot himself in the head with a shot
gun, while hunting rabbits. He died
instantly.
X
Wealthy Farmer pies.-F. L. Kill
| lam, so years old, one of the wealthiest
men of Cowley county, is dead on his
farm near Winfield as the result of
falling from his wagon and striking
his head on a stone Mr.. KiIlam
owned fourteen hundred acres of land
/ in Cowley county. He is survived by