The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-05
The State Bank Commissioner
Spscuiates as to DISPOSE
ton of Huge Sum.
MOST TO go FOR MOTOR CARS
Farmers Expected to Pay $25, 900
For Automobiles This Year
Will Deposit $4,000, 900.

they Will receive for their wheat crop?
This question was asked Of State Bank
Commissioners Benson recently. Here
is the way he said it would be spent:
Handling the crop. S15,0OO,O0
Seed for new crop, S8,000,00O.
Payment OF current debts. $4,000
600.
Interest on mortgages, $1,000, 600.
Buying more land, S7,000.000.
Buying automobiles. s25, 200, 900.
''Gadding" 81, 900, 600
improvements and household ex-
penses. $4,000, OOO
Deposits in banks, $40 ,000,0 900.
However, the bank commissioner
says that the farmers will not get the
100000 600 all in a lump. It will come
in gradually Many farmers will hold
their wheat for a higher price.
The railroads will be taxed to move
that portion of the crop which the
farmers now want to send to market
In fact a shortage of freight cars is al
ready in sight. The roads are doing all
they can to relieve the situation, but
they declare it will be impossible for
them to supply all the needed cars
promptly.
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Killed a Sheriff-OfficiaI of Morton
county are in conflict and the opera
ton of the law practically has been
suspended as a result of the shooting
at Rolla of Sheriff Martin Moore. Don
Vanwormer, a Rolla real estate man,
has been spirited out of Morton county
for safe keeping in the Jail in Hugo
ton. Stevens county. Two other men,
whom one faction in the county want
arrested as accomplices of VanwoTmer,
are still at large through the failure
of other county officials to issue war
rants for them.
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Leaves Fortune to charity-James
H. Richardson. So years old, who died
recently at Mcpherson, left the bulk
OF his fortune to philanthropy. Nc
Pherson College was given a 160-acre
farm; the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION another quarter section, and
Southwestern College at Winfield
three other farms in that section.
Richardson was a veteran of the Civil
War. He never married.
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INittG0 NGaE GCuBSA MI anu M -
W. G. Waugh Of Coldwater, we're killed
recently when their automobile was
struck by a Denver & Interurban rail-
road electric car at Barzoi crossing,
nine miles north Of Denver.
Bomb Destroyed Thresher-A bomb
placed in a bundle Of wheat caused
the destruction of a threshing ma
chine near Copeland, according to the
story told by members of the thresh-
| ing crowd, who have come to Dodge
City While the machine Of Garner
Brothers was threshing at the Roy
| Williams farm two miles north OF
/ Copeland a terrific explosion tore the
separator apart, shot thousands OF
| sparks in all directions which fired
the surrounding wheat stacks, and
/ knocked down seven men who were
working around the separator.
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| Ran Into Butcher Knife-Clarke
Brown, "a years old, son of a butcher
at EIdorado, ran into a big butcher
knife that his brother had laid on the
block in the shop. He died later in
the hospital.
/
ScoIded Girl Commits Suicide-Mar-
guerite Caldwell, the 15-year-old daugh-
ter Of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cald
we'll of Sterling committed suicide re
Gently by shooting herself through the
/ head with a revolver. The girl had
been out with some young companions
and was reproached by her mother fol-
keeping late hours.
Kansan Killed in Dakota.-John H
Murray, son of John Murray, an Atch
ison real estate dealer, was killed
| near Marmarth, n. D., recently, when
run over by a train. He was working
as a brakeman.
Mitchell, a young farmer living neal
Diamond Springs, in the north part Oi
Chase county, was killed by a bolt Of
lightning while at work on his farm
His wife found his body in an alfalfa
field.
Bio Wheat Return.-C Vanderbilt
| a farmer near Solomon, threshed fifty
acres of wheat which averaged forty
two bushels to the acre and tested
sixty-three pounds. He received nine
ty-six cents for the crop, $40 an acre
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Oil Men Expect Price cut.-With {
view to improving the effectiveness
of their organization the Independent
oil men of Kansas held an informa.
meeting at Salina recently with aboui
fifty present. It was the universe
opinion that gasoline viii soon take
| a drop in price because Of the heavy
production Of crude oil
Town to Swat the FIy-Mayor Geo
H Hunter of Wellington has issued {
proclamation to swat the fly from Au
gust to August r. Prizes viii b
given for best killings
Open New Kansas Rsiiroad--Fiv'
thousand people saw the opening O
the Anthony & Northern Railroad int
Kins1ey the other day The specia
from Pratt. the first train into Kins
ley over the new road. carried thre'