The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-19
DEPOSITS MOVE up.
Bank Commissioner Benson's
Report Tells Story of Con-
tinued Prosperity.
THE INCREASE, S16,OOO,OOO
One June go Kansans Had a Total of
$145, 1855, s97 in the State
Banks.

posits and 100000 in loans report
ed by the state banks of Kansas dur
ing the year, tell a prosperous story.
The figures we're given out the other
day by W. F. Benson, state bank COM
missioner.
Deposits on June 80, the date of the
last call, in state banks alone aggre-
gated $145, 685, 1897 as against $129, S1S,-
79S on June 80, 1915. Loans on June
80, last, were $127,553,5 44 as COM
pared to $11O,712,876 for the previous
June.
81 can understand, in a way, why
both loans and deposits would show
some increase" said the bank COM
missioner, but cannot account for
such big increases. Especially is it
remarkable that deposits have grown
over $4,000 900 since last March. What
the Kansas farmers found to sell be-
tween March and June to bring them
100000 in increased deposits is an
enigma to me. The reports show that
business is becoming more active
throughout the state, and that much
money is being put into new enter
prises."
No Cars for Wheat-Twelve thou
sand bushels of wheat is lying in one
pile on the ground near the Pratt
Equity offices. No cars are available
to handle the incoming wheat. The
Anthony & Northern Railroad ordered
two hundred cars Saturday. The Rock
Island needs five hundred cars to sup
ply the demand in that division.
Dies on Professional CalI.-Dr. J. NJ
Vanderpool, an elderly physician OF
Wetumka, Ok, who had come to Well
ington to prescribe for a patient in
whose family he had formerly prac-
ticed, was stricken with apoplexy and
died in local hospital.
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A Farmer Drowned Near PaoIa.-
John Berg, a farmer who resided two
miles northeast Of Fontana, was
drowned the other night while diving
in the Marais Des Cygnes river for
clans. He is survived by a widow and
three small children.
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Rock Falls Kill, One.-Two miners
were caught by falls of rock in the
Kansas field recently. Frank Martin
was killed at Mineral. At a Fronte-
nae mine Mike Benoik received in
juries which probably will prove fatal.
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Train Strikes Deaf GirI.-Marchie
Remington, 20 years old, deaf girl,
didn't hear Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train whistle and was struck by it
near Chetopa and probably injured
internally. She was taken to Bart
lett.
Record Day In Oil FieId.-Fifteen
shallow oil wells, two deep ones, and
a gusher, producing between 1000
and 1900 barrels per day, was brought
in in one day recently mile north Of
Eldorado. The production also in
Guided one gasser.
Train Decapitates Man.-An Eniden-
titled man was killed near Valencia
the other day by Rock Island train
No. 35, according to word received in
Topeka He was decapitated.
Stoekman Dead at Emporia.-W. H.
Cox, a stockman in Kansas since 1880,
is dead at his home in Emporia. He
was born in Pennsylvania in 1852.
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Canned Fruit in SchooI.-More than
one thousand quarts OF vegetables and
summer by fifty students at the sum-
mer session Of the state manual train
ing normal under Prof. B. W. Scheib.
Most of the fruit has been canned in
classes, but some of the students have
practiced at home or at the homes Of
neighbors. The process Endorsed by
the federal government has been used
by Professor ScheIb and his stu
dents. The heating outfit by means
of which the fruit and vegetables, af-
| ter being blanched, are put through
a heat bath, consists Of q lard can
| with a false bottom made of wood.
The outfit cost fifteen cents.
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Rider OF Motor KiiIed.-AlIen Hook
| er, the young man injured in an auto
mobile and motorcycle collision near
Mankato recently. is, dead. Young
Hooker and a friend were returning
| from the Mankato chautauqua about
I ~ CAOCk OuuOd4 u1Suls W46n IuSy
| colIided with an automobile, driven by
Joe Dick, Of Weber. Dust is sup
posed to have obscured the lights Of
both machines.
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Threshes 1900 Bushels Per Day
Thomas Maloney. from near Russell,
| claims the best threshing record for
one day that has been made this year.
Friday he ran 1000 bushels through
the machine, working twelve pitchers.
The grain was of a very fine quality,
with little straw, and dry.
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Kansas Land Is High.-A quarter
section of land belonging to G. W
woodwork, west Of Salina, was sold
at auction recently at $144 an acre to
Ned Allison, neighbor. Five hun
dred people attended the sale.
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thousand at Birthday Party.-More
than one thousand people from Miami
| Franklin and Johnson counties. with