The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-28
E.B. DAWES IS DEAD
Former Attorney General Sue
cumbs After Long Illness
al Clay Center.
WON THE CITY'S LIGHT FIGHT
1855 and Spent His Boyhood
on Farm.

1855 and Spent His Boyhood
on Farm.
Fernando B. Dawes, attorney gen
eraI of Kansas in the administration
of Governor Morrill,, is dead at his
home in Clay Center. He had been
in failing health about a year and Sc
riously i'll for six months, though the
final attack had lasted only about five
days. Previous to this attack it was
presumed he was getting betttr. An
abscess on the brain was the cause
of his death.
After spending the summer in st.
Louis for his health, Mr.. Dawes only
few days ago reopened law office in
Clay Center. Previously he had been
in partnership with R. c. Miller.
Mr.. Dawes was born in Allen county,
Indiana, November ii, 1855. His boy
hood days were spent on farm there,
and in June, 1873, he came to Clay
Center. He was one Of the first at
torneys in this section of Kansas. He
always took an active interest in Re
publican politics and was elected at
torney general in 1894. He served
but the one term, the Populists being
successful in 1896. Later Mr.. Dawes
located in Leavenworth, but about
eight years ago he returned to Clay
Center
His most prominent law case and
greatest victory was the winning of
Clay Center's electric light fight.
Throughout the state and federal
IL
itics and until a few days ago was
contemplating making Republican
speeches in the state. Previous to
his death he was unconscious for three
days Mr.. Dawes is survived by
widow and three daughters, Mrs. R.
Russell of st. Louis, Pansy, teacher
in the Kansas City, Kas., schools, and
Mrs. Delfs of Clay Center.
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Dictagraph in Mayors Office.-A
dfctagraph arrangement was taken
from Mayor Bentley's office at Wich-
tia recently. City firemen saw two
fine copper wires extending across
the street from the city hall to hotel
and informed the mayor. Investiga-
ton developed that the wires led
from the mayors office to a room in
a hotel nearby. No instrument was
found attached to the end of the
! wires.
Fever Among K. U. Students
Nineteen cases of typhoid fever have
| developed among Kansas university
/ students. The source has been traced
to a boarding house. Seven of these
| students are in the University hos
pital, while the remaining twelve left
| Lawrence for their homes.
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Crushed in CoIIision.-When two in
terurban cars collided at Pittsburg,
Daniel DetwyIer, motorman, was so
badly crushed that he is not expected
to recover.
A New Teachers Magazine.-West-
ern Kansas has a magazine all its
own now The first issue of the Gold
en- Belt Teacher appeared recently.
1t is edited for the schoolboards and
school teachers of the Short Grass
country exclusively.
Larger Wheat hrea.-The wheat
! acreage in the Kansas hard wheat
belt will be 10 per cent larger than
last year, according to c. A. Walker,
division freight agent of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Art Show at McPherson.-The an
nual art exhibition of the Mcpherson
city schools, marked by the showing
Of paintings by many well known
American artists, opened there re
Gently. The exhibitions held at Nc
Pherson every year are beginning to
attract attention all over Kansas.
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Katy Fireman KiIIed.-Guilford Bo
lander, a Katy fireman, % years old,
was run over by a train and killed in
the yards at Parsons recently. He is
survived by his wife and three chill
dren.
Memorial to Carry Nation.-A me
mortal to Mrs. Garry Nation, former
Kansas prohibitionist crusader and sa,
loon smasher, will be erected on Cap
itol Square in Topeka. At the an
nuaI convention of the Kansas Wo
mans Christian Temperance Union al
Hutchinson delegates voted to erect
the memorial. 1t will consist of q
large drinking fountain, including q
trough from which horses can drink
Part Of the money to pay for the me
mortal will be raised by the sale OF
Mrs. Nations autobiography
Seed May Cause Death.-Edward
Sheppard, a pioneer of Southeastern
Kansas, is at the point of death al
his home in Pittsburg as the result
of a timothy seed lodging in his eye
five weeks ago. The optic nerve was
directly affected and in turn his en-
tire nervous system was wrecked.
Fall Broke chiId's Neck.-A flower
box, on which the 21s-year-old daugh
ter of R. Curry was playing at Pitts
burg overturned. throwing the child
to the ground and breaking her neck
She died a few minutes later.