The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-19
WICHITA sQUATTERS LOSE
District Court Outlets Title to Aeker-
mans Island in the Arkansas River
At That Place.

Squatters who settled on Acker-
mans island and other land in the
bed of the Arkansas river two years
/ ago last February, lost their claims
to the land, valued at $4,000, when
the district court at Wichita quoted
the title Of A E Nuttle, owner Of the
land. AckeTman's island is held by
NuttIe and the Wichita Amusement
Company and is occupied by an
amusement park and the Western
League baseball grounds. It is with
in a half mile of the main business
section OF the city
The state was made a party defend
ant in the action to quiet title because
of question of whether the island be-
lOnged to the state under a supreme
court decision relative to all public
lands in rivers becoming school prop
erty. The decision is said to be the
forerunner of countless other cases Of
like nature involving land in the Ar
kansas river bed all through the state
Twenty-one head of yearling steers
belonging to Matti brothers, who live
five miles southeast OF Cottonwood
Falls, were killed by lightning in a
severe thunderstorm recently The
cattle had gathered in a fence corner
and not one Of the bunch escaped
The loss is estimated at about a thou
sand dollars and was not covered by
insurance The supposition is that a
heavy bolt Of lightning struck the
| fence, the electricity being carried by
the wire and scattered among the live
stock, killing them instantly. When
found by their owner, the cattle lay
piled so closely together that their
bodies completely covered the
ground
Poisoned by MIstake.-AIrs- Lewis
Masters of Newkirk, Ok, mistOok
stryehnine tablets for headache tab
lets the other evening and died soon
afterward
I Death in CycIone.-A cyclone struck
/ LeOti early the other morning One
/ person is known to be dead and sew
/ eral others are reported seriously in
jured- Many houses were wrecked,
both in the town and in the adjacent
country. Much damage was caused by
. the heavy rainfall accompanying the
visited that part Of Kansas
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Anderson County Pioneer Dead
Mrs. Captain Reppert, IS years old,
is dead at her home in Harris. Ander-
son county. She came with her hus-
band to that county more than fifty
years ago
First Mail Carrier Dead.-Richard
Ferguson, 55 years old, who was At
chison's first mail carried is dead.
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Big Wheat Aereage-Cherokee
county is breaking its record this year
in wheat acreage. There are 90. 9OI
of 1900 acres over 1914, the previous
record The estimate among the farm
ers is that the wheat viii average at
least twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Women in Egg Company. The
/ Quality Egg Club. a cooperative sell
ing organization Of Lyon county farm
/ women, incorporated at q meeting IN
Emporia recently The club is in irs
second year and is doing $1,000 worth
OF business; 2 week
Humboldt Boy DroHned.-Fred Nor
ton, is years old, was drowned in the
tNeosho river at Humboldt With two
companions, he was rowing across the
river, when the undertOE drew the
boat under a dam All three we're
thrown out The others were rescued
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Baby browns in Tank-Otto Is
miller, Is months old, a son OF aIr.
and Mrs Robert EsmiIler, living on
a farm vest OF Great Bend, was
drowned recently IN 4 water tank.
The baby had wandered from the
house and had been missed only z
few minutes before the body was
found
Miner Killed Under csr-CharIes
Rennison OF Mulberry, a miner, vas
killed under a car that was being
switched on the Frisco tracks IN 1Iui.
iberTy the other afternoon.