The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-15
Leading H0rticuIturist of East
ern Kansas Passes Away
at ROSedale Home.
WAS A VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR
Starting in as Private He Came Out
Major-Once Prohibition Can
didate for Governor.

1HOSL nOrIlCu1Cur1SCS OF the Missouri
valley, is dead at his home in Rose
dale
An ardent abolitionist before and
during the war, he was a soldier who
fought his way through the various
promotions from a private's billet to a
majors shoulder straps. He was
prohibitiOnist active in the national or
ganiZation and he was a horticultarist
who was looked upon as an authority
by fruit growers OF the Middle West.
He was born April 3, 1886, in Bed
ford county, Pa. When a young man
he taught school in the country dis
tricts near Woodbury., Pa, but at 10
he got the fever of the West in his
veins and migrated to Kansas. He was
living at Washington Greek when Fort
Saunders, a prO-slavery outpost, was
captured by Jim Lane during the days
of border warfare. Then Mr.. Holsing-
er returned to Pennsylvania and
Joined the Pennsylvania reserves. Lat
er he was made captain of the Nine
teenth Maryland negro infantry. With
them he fought at Antietam, The Will
derness, Fredericksburg and Bermuda
Hundred. At the last named battle
his right arm was permanently dis
abled by shrapnel. He was subse-
quently brevetted major. After the
war Major Holsingsr, as an officer in
the regular army, was stationed for
two years on the Mexican border OBJ
serving the rebellion that was to drive
Maximillian from his throne.
In 1857 he was married to Miss
Mary Frances Long of Hagerstown,
Md, and two years later returned to
Kansas. Major HoIsinger was char
ter member and former president of
the Missouri Valley Horticultural So
ciety, former president of the Com
mercial State bank of Rosedale, past
commander of the military order of
the Loyal Legion. He was candidate
for congress, for governor of Kansas
and for the Kansas senate at different
times on the Prohibition ticket
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Wettest Year in Kansas-The
weather record at Lawrence shows
51.62 inches of rainfall Gncluding
melted SNOWY in 1915, which is the
greatest in the forty-seven years rec
ord and 1854 inches more than nor
NAL.
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Mrs. Florence CowIey Dead.-Mrs.
Florence J. Cowley, 66 years old, one
of the early settlers of Cherokee
county, is dead at Columbus Mrs
CowIey was well known because of
her activities in club and church
work.
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Emporia Votes Water Works Bonds
Bonds were voted at a special cleo
ton in Emporia to the amount of $780,
900 for the improvement of the water
works system. The election was close
and the majority for the bonds was
only As, according to the unofficial
count.
Killed Two Rabbits, One Shot
c. W. Miller, editor of the Pratt Re
publican, defies anyone in Kansas to
shoot two running rabbits with one
shot, as he has done. Recently he
and two friends were out hunting
when two rabbits jumped up and ran
toward each other. The editor saw
only one. but he got both.
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Kansas Firm Sharing Profits-The
Humboldt Brick Manufacturing Com
pany, one of the largest plants in the
gas belt, has inaugurated profit shar-
ing plan. dividing a sum among its
employees equal to per cent of their
years wages. The presentation was
made at a banquet given the employees.
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Charity Cost Him So, 3oo.-While
William Mock, 68 years old, a farmer
residing near Corbin, small town
thirty-five miles south of Wichita,
was looking into young mans eye to
see if it was bloodshot, he was robbed
of a wallet containing cash and ne
gotiable securities worth $4,000.
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The Kansas Auctioneers Meet
The annual meeting of the Kansas
State Auctioneers' Association was
held in Leavenworth recently. "Col-
oneis" from all parts of the state
were there for the two-day session.
X x x
Gasoline Explosion Fatal-Miss An
IA Miller, 10 years old. of Russell, is
dead in Wilson as the result of burns
received in an explosion of gasoline
the other day.
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New Augusta Gusher-The first
real oil gusher in the Augusta field
was brought in the other night on the
Ed Warner farm 1t flows twelve hun
dred barrels a day. The drill is in
fifty feet of rich sand, which was
struck at 1855 feet.
y II
Pittsburg Banker Dies.-William L.
Miller, rs years old, one of the richest
citizens of Southeastern Kansas, is
dead at his home in Mulberry Mr..
Miller was head of the State Bank OF
Pittsburg. He had lived there forty
three years.
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"Aggies" Have Celebration.-Stu-
dents in the Kansas State Agricultural
College at Manhattan from fifteen diff
ferent nations gathered recently for
a belated Christmas celebration. The
students portrayed the holiday ems