The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-01
RAILROADS SUFFER DAMAGE
Three Hundred Yards of Track Wash
ed Out Near Hutchinson-Ottawa
Facing Flood.

county
The Arkansas Valley Interurban
railway, between Hutchinson and
Wichita, was forced to suspend serv-
ice when 300 feet of track was carried
away ubout five miles east of Hutchin-
son. Both the Missouri Pacific and
Santa Fe had Washouts near there,
and service was impaired Large Sec
lions of Hutchinson were under water
and four-foot rise was coming down
the Arkansas river, threatening to in
undate the entire city. The water was
higher than at the highest stage of
the 1903 flood
In some wheat fields near Hutchin-
son the grain is not visible. The
whole county is a continuous quag-
mire, and three weeks of successive
hot days is all that will save the
wheat crop from total ruin, farmers
say.
Ottawa is facing another flood, the
second serious one in ten days Indi-
cations are that the water will con-
tinue rising and the river will over
flow the valley again.
Heavy rains north of Wichita have
caused the second high water of the
month. Enormous crop damage is re-
ported. Roy Zimmerman. 20, far
mer boy, lost his life when he at
tempted to swim slough swollen
with flood water. Both Big and Lit
tie Arkansas rivers were rising rapid
ly and the United States weather bu
reau warned people in the lowlands
to seek higher ground.
DR.. r. c. Moore to K. U.-Dr. Ray
mond c. Moore of Chicago university
has been named to succeed in the
Kansas university department of geo.
1Ogy Prof w. H. Twenhofel. who re-
signed in April to go to the University
of Minnesota. In addition to taking
all of Professor TwenhofePs classes.
DR.. Moore is expected to become head
of the Kansas State Geological Sur
vey
Lecompton Buildings 6urn.-Seven
business buildings were burned at
Lecompton early the other morning
The damage was estimated to be $780,
600. The origin of the fire. which
started in butcher shop, is unknown.
Former Publisher Dead.-Corum H.
Young, So years old. owner of the
Atchison Champion from 1902 to 1911,
is dead there. In 1912 he was appoint
ed member of the Kansas Conserva-
ton Commission.
Identify Boys Body.-Identifcat
of Lee Robinson, the 14-year-old boy
whose body was found hidden in TN
derbrush near the Frisco tracks and
South Park week ago was made re
Gently by Oscar Jenkins of Galena,
halfbrother- The Boys mother is
Mrs. Harriet Lee OF Galena. The boy
left home in March. and relatives be-
Ieved him in Quapaw, Ok
Boy Swimmer Drowns.-Donald Aus
tin. a 14-year-old boy of Claflin, was
drowned while swimming in a creek
near there recently.
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A Pioneer Dead.-E. S. Mcfarland.
a resident of Geary county since 1855,
is dead at his home west OF Junction
City
Died on Kansas Train.-Beulah Ken
drick, Is years old. daughter of David
Kendrick of Harden, Mont. died re-
Gently on Missouri. Kansas & Texas
train between Kansas City and Olathe.
Heart disease was the cause.
1. w. w. to FieIds-Thousands of
circulars have been posted in cities
belt by the l. w w, urging the har-
vest hands to demand 81 day of ten
hours, double pay for overtime, good
clean food, comfortable beds and no
discrimination against the l. W. W.
They are also urged to use the motto,
Bum pay, bum work" The men who
are here now declare they pay no at
tention to the letters. but will work
for decent wage and do good work.
Most of them here now are destitute
More at Summer SchooI.-More than
seven hundred students have been en-
rolled for the summer course of the
University of Kansas, an increase of
more than two hundred over the at
tendance at the summer school in
1915.
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New Oil Well at Auausta.-The
Wichita Natural brought in a 10000
barrel oil well on the Kirkpatrick
lease, four miles southwest of Angus
ia the other night. 1t is the biggest |
oil well ever brought in in the Kansas
field.
4 X X
italy Buying Horses.-Twenty-one
hundred horses have so far been ac-
cepted at BelleviIle by the in |
specting and purchasing agent for the |
italian government. Purchases of /
horses have also been made at Belle |
vile by the French and English gov
ernments.
New Place for Prof. sixel-J. W.
Bixel has resigned as dean of the OF
-tawa university conservatory of music
to accept position in the musical de-
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