The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-15
WILL ENLIST MORE MILITIA
Artillery, Cavalry and Engineer Units
Are TO Be Recruited in Kansas
at Once.

The Kansas National Guard is to be
augmented at once by one troop of
! cavalry, two batteries of field artil-
/ lery, one company of engineers and
two ambulance corps Authority to
recruit these organizations to be in
Guided in the Fourteenth Division has
! been received by c. 1. Martin, adju-
/ tant general, he announced recently.
! The Kansas troops, the First and, Sec
/ ond Infantry, Battery A of Topeka
and the signal corps and auxiliary or
| CARNATIONS, are part of the Fourteenth
| Division.
Recruiting for the new organizations
| will be begun at once and they will
be sent to Join the other Kansas
| troops at Douglas, Ariz., as soon as
| they are mustered in and equipped,
| according to General Martins infor-
nation. One of the new batteries will
be commanded by Maj. Bruce Griffith
of Wichita, now in the quartermaster
corps, and the captaincy of the other
| has been offered to w. A. Patterson,
who organized Battery A and for
many years was its captain.
Permission was asked of the War
Department by General Martin to or
ganize the Second Regiment provis-
iona1 company of Eureka, encamped
at Fort Riley with mo place to co.
as a troop of cavalry.
One of the new ambulance corps
will be organized in Kansas City, Kas.,
because of the proximity of the Rose
dale Hospital and the Kansas Univer-
sity Medical School.
Governor Capper reviewed the
troops at retreat the other after
noon, but he declined to permit the
guard to be assembled or paraded for
his inspection. With Mrs. Capper and
Col L. NJ. PenweIl, Col. Earl w. Rich
ter and Gen. c. S. Huffman of his per
sonal staff. the governor motored
from Topeka.
Oil Boom Near Toronto.-The first
Oil well brought in around Toronto was
shot at eleven hundred feet. In two
hours oil rose in eight H-inch castings
$50 feet indicating a 100-barreI well.
In the last two months forty thousand
acres have been leased at a dollar an
acre and up. Several rigs are in the
field. Many oil men are coming in.
A Rusty Nail FataI-John Wesley
Mason, 70 years old, of Greenwich,
died in a hospital at Wichita follow
ing the %amputation of a leg that had
become infected when he trod on a
rusty nail week ago. He came to
Kansas in 1858.
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Will Raise $2,5oo.-Saline county
will raise $4,000 to support families
n, K N G., who went to the front
The fund is being raised by subscrip-
tions limited to SO.
Snake Bites Man.-when Harry
Krenkle tried to decapitate a rattle
snake with an ak at Barnard recently
the reptile proved faster than the
man and bit Krenkle on the arm.
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QuantreII Raid Survivor Dies.-Mrs
Adam Oliver, a survivor of the Guam,
treIl raid and one of the oldest set
tiers of Kansas, is dead at Lawrence
at the age of 80 years. Mrs. Oliver
had lived in Lawrence fifty-six years,
| anu III OAC AO0SO lOk years
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Perry Fears Epidemic.-Cases OF
smallpox have developed in seven
families in Perry, a small town near
Lawrence, in the last few days, and
fear Of growing epidemic is felt
Public gatherings are discontinued
and no church. services are held.
No.. NaJ;ohs&a AEa~;4@--
of police recently searched the Mexi
can quarters IN Wichita, Selling all
firearms and daggers. Two encount
ers between Medcans and negroes
and Mericans and whites caused the
police to act. More than twenty pis-
tolls and forty dirks were seized.
Old Katy Empioye kiIIed-MiIton
NJ. Dugan. SIS, was fatally injured al
Parsons when he was struck by q
Katy freight train as he was crossing
the track He had been in the en-.
pIoy Of the Katy for many years