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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
NAY ADJOURN BEFORE JULY /
President Wilson Hopes Congress VIII
Complete important Legislation
Before Conventions Meet

Washington, May 1S.-President
Wilson, talking with congressional
callers today, indicated his gratiica-
ton at the progress being made on
legislation supported by the admin
istratiOn and expressed hope that Con
gress would be able TO adjourn early
in the summer. 1t is the hope of the
President TO see most of the admin
istratiOn program completed before
the political conventions in June
Representative Eagle of Texas
told the President he believed Con
-gress would adjourn by the middle of
July and some of the Presidents ad-
visers believe II viii be possible to
complete the legislative program be-
fore that time
Senator Kern, majority leader of the
Senate, however, has said that ad-
jOurnnent may not come before Aug
ust Is, and Speaker Clark believes it
hardly will be practicable TO set away
then
The Democratic platform viii be
based largely on the record OF Iegisla-
ton enacted The drafting Of the plat
form already has been begun and for
that reason the progress being made
by Congress is awaited with interest
by administration leaders
The measures that the President
particularly desires passed before the
conventions are the Shipping Bill,
Rural Credits Bill. Philippine and
Porto Rican Bills, the Tariff Commits
sion Bill and corrupt practice act.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
FOR LARGER NAVY PROGRAM
House Committee Goes Beyond the
Recommendations of Secretary on
New Vessels.

Washington, May 19--The House
naval committee voted today to aban-
don the 5-year building program
recommended by Secretary Daniels,
but decided on q bigger program for
this year by building five battle cruis-
ers, and no dreadn3ughts IN the cur
rent naval bill The battle cruisers
will cost SIG. 433, 531 each.
The program also provides four
scout cruisers, ten torpedo boat de-
stroyers, twenty submarines, one hos
pital ship, one oil supply ship and one
ammunition supply ship be built dur
ing the 1917 fiscal year.
The committee voted Is to on bat
tie cruisers and submarines
The battle cruisers are TO have a
speed Of 50 knots, 10000 horsepower
and a chief armament of ten I4-inch
guns. They viii be nearly 900 feet
long.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

-Chicago's new Young Mems Chris
tan Association Hotel was opened re-
Gently for inspection. 1t will be open
for service in a few days The build
ing is nineteen stories high and con-
$1,350,O00. 1t is two blocks from the
loop.
Rush orders for ten thousand s.
inch and ten thousand 5-inch shells
are being filed at the Norfolk Navy
Yard in what yard officials say is
preparedness test. Capacity forces
are busy at the work.
Sir Roger Easement and Daniel J.
Bailey were committed for trial at
London for high treason. This de-
cision was reached at the conclusion
of the preliminary hearing of these
men on the charge of participation in
the Irish rebellion, which has been in
progress several days.
German soldiers along the Swiss
Alsatian frontier, chiefly elderly men
Of the Iandstrum, have begun to ask
for food from the Swiss soldiers. The
Germans say they have not eaten
meat for weeks.
"A band thought to be composed Of
Mexicans stole ten head of horses
from Poole's ranch, eleven miles east
Of Shafter, Tex, recently. Texas rang
ers followed the trail far enough to
ascertain that the stolen horses were
being taken south, probably crossing
into Mexico.
Information received in Mexico
City and transmitted to the Mexican
consulate at Galveston in cable
gram Just received is to the effect that
President Estrada Cabrera Of Gaute-
uaIa is preparing to Zee the country.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
SAILED PLAINS IN A WAGON
Samuel Peppard Who Invented We.
hicIe Propelled by Wind, Is
Dead at Oskaloosa.

Samuel Peppard, who invented a
sailing wagon and rode across Kansas
fifty years ago in his wind driven We
hicle, is dead at his home in Oska-
loosa. It is said that Peppard's sail
rugged wagon was the first craft sue
cessfuIly to navigate dry land. In
1860 he drove to within one hundred
miles of Denver.
Peppard, who was born in Wayne
county, Ohio, in 1888, was one of the
pioneers of Central Iowa. He settled
in Oskaloosa in 1858, where he ran
saWmill on the banks of the GrasshOp<
per. The drought of 1860 made every.
thing dull in Kansas settlements anG
drove men to all sorts of desperation.
Peppard, for lack Of anything else to
do, built his wind wagon.
He finished it just fifty years ago,
and May 9, 1860, the wagon had its
first trial The wind was too high,
however, and it was wrecked before it
had gone very far. Repairs were soon
made and with three companions Pep
pard set out for Pixies Peak. The wa
gon weighed about three hundred and
fifty pounds. 1t had a bed three feet
wide, eight feet long and six inches
deep. A mast with a sail eleven feet
square was raised over the center of
the front axle and resembled the re-
versed tiller of a boat.
When they got within one hundred
miles of Denver a big storm was en-
countered. The wagon was demolished
and the occupants injured. They had
been on the road about four weeks,
but had Travelled only nine days, as the
weather had been unfavorabIe part of
the time. The wagon had attained
maximum speed of fifteen miles an
hour.
The injured all recovered. Peppard
remained in Colorado and in 1862 en-
listed in the Second Colorado Volun-
teers. He served three years and
three months in the Union army. After
the war he returned to Oskaloosa.
where he had since made his home.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
NEED MORE MONEY
Secretary MeAdoo Estimates
Revenues Will be Short
This Year.
An OMNIBUS BILL PROBABLE
Administration Expects Tariff Com
mission and Preparedness Meas
ures to Be Under One Head.

Washington, Nay 19.-Secretary OF
the Treasury today submitted 10
Chairman Kitchin OF the house ways
and means committee and Chairman
Simmons of the senate finance COM
mittee revised estimates OF the gov
ernment's receipts and expenditures
for the remainder of the current fiscal
year and the fiscal year ending June
80, 1917, tending TO show that much
less new revenue will have TO be
raised TO meet the bin for prepared
ness and other large contemplated ex-
penditures than has been supposed
Only about $4,000, 900 in addition
al revenue viii have 10 be provided
during the coming year. Mr. MeAdoo
said This is less by $4,000, 600 than
the most conservative members Of con-
gress calculated at the outset OF the
session would be needed All Of the
additional revenue viii come from
taxes on incomes, inheritances and
munitions, in accordance with a plan
approved last week by President VIII
SON
Omnibus Revenue Bill Likely.
a meeting of the Democratic mem
bers OF the committee quickly follow
ed the return of Mr. Kitchin TO the
capitol. and later he announced that
the revenue raising plan would be
whipped into shape within two weeks
and that the house would begin to con-
slider it Immediately aftetr the ma
tional conventions.
II is probable that all of the reTe-
nue. measures including provision for
preparedness revenues, a tariff COM
mission and the encouragement of the
dye-stuffs industry, will be included
in an omnibus bill The president is
understood to favor that plan
McAdoo's Figures.
Secretary McAdoo's figures showed
that the balance in the general fund,
exclusive Of disbursing officers cred
its, probably would be $3.50, 100000 at
the end OF the present fiscal year and
S13, 5O0,O 900 at the end of the fiscal
year OF 1917 This estimate included
expenditures likely TO be made for the
proposed increase in the standing
army on the basis OF the measure
passed last night by the senate. and
expenditures which probably Will be
made next year on the naval program
now before congress
In addition to preparedness meas
ures, the revised estimate presented
by Mr.. McAdoo included liberal pro-
visions for good roads, rural credits,
and expenditures TO prevent and cope
with floods In making up the esti-
mates, the additional cost 10 the coun-
try Of preparedness during the year
1917 was placed at from sec, 900 600
to $1OO,OOO,OOO.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
THE Usage LEASE APPROVED
Action of Secretary Of Treasury Means
More Gas for Cities of
Southwest

Washington, May 1S.-Gas leases on
more than one million acres of land
and oil leases on 100000 acres in the
heatr Of the old Usage territory were
approved and delivered by the Secre-
tary OF the Interior late today. While
the big smelter companies got the
bulk Of the gas territory, the most
prolific field in the world at present
producing gas, the DOherty & Co. in
terests, which recently bought into the
Kansas Natural company, received
leases on 3O4, 900 acres
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
ELECT METHODIST BISHOPS
Seven New Names Added to Roll Of
Church Officials by the General
Conference.

Saratoga Springs, n. Y, May 20
Seven new names appear on the roll
of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church tonight. Four-Matt S.
Hughes of Pasadena, Cal, William P.
Oldham of New York, Franklin Hamil-
ton of Washington, D. c., and Charles
B. Mitchell of Chicago-were elected
by the general conference during to-
day and tonight.
The others, Thomas Nicholson of
New York, Herbert WEIGH of Della
ware, o., and Adna W. Leonard Of
Seattle were chosen in the earlier
baIIoting
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
ARMY BILL PASSES SENATE

Washington, May 1S.-The Senate,
after an aIl-day debate, agreed to
night to the conference report on the
Army Reorganization Bill without a
roll call. The House is expected to
approve the report within a day or
two and send the first Of the big ma
tional defense measures TO the Pres
ident.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
FOOLED ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE

Muskogee, Ok, May 20.-In a dar.
ing attempt to escape from Jail here
late today, Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. Had
ley, engaged in a savage fight with
guards which ended only when the
woman overpowered and locked in a
cell and Hadley had been beaten I'M
conscious. Although suffering from
conclusion of the brain, physicians
said tonight that Hadley had a chance
for recovery.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Trsin Bandits KiIIed 45o7

Laredo, Tex, May 17.-Mexican BAN
dts burned to death one hundred and
fifty passengers and killed the train
guard in wrecking a passenger train
carrying nearly one thousand persons,
at Aynxco. near Mexico City, accord
ing to reports here today.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
SIBLEYS FORCE
TO QUIT MEXICO
Message to Funston Says the
Americans are Coming
Back te 3Order.
MILITIA is SLOW TO MOBILIZE
by National Guard Movement
Troops to Big Bend.

San AntOr ., Tex, May 20.-Late
tonight General Funston received a
message from Colonel Sibley saying
the expedition, which started from
Glen Springs ten days ago, was COM
ing out of Mexico. Major LanghOrne,
with two troops of cavalry, has pene-
trated to Cerro Blanco, 135 miles from
BoQuillas.
News at Variance.
Marathon, Tex, May 2O.-The order
of withdrawal sent to the SibIey-Lang-
horne expeditionary column TWO days
ago has been cOuntermanded and the
American troops which invaded Mex
leo in search of the Glenn Springs
bandits will remain there Indefinitely,
it is reported here tonight. This col
umn probably will be reinforced by
troops from General Pershing's army,
according to the same sources of III
formation.
Major Langhorne, when last heard
from, had established his camp at Ell
Pine, 125 miles south of the border.
Twenty-seven automobile trucks
were unloaded at Marathon today and
will be pressed into commission to-
morrow to rush supplies to Colonel
Sibley in Mexico.
San Antonio, Tex, May 20.-By the
first of the coming week almost 1000
men will be added to the border patrol
in the Big Bend district where ban
dts raided Boquillas and Glenn
Springs two weeks ago. General Fun
ston has given order for the Sixth
cavalry, commanded by Colonel JOS
eph A. CASTOR, that arrived today at
Columbus, n. NJ, from service with
General Pershing's column, to report
Immediately at Maria, Tex. From
there this regiment will be apportion-
ed to Sierra Blanca, Alpine and Mara
thon.
Slow to Mobilize
Washington, May 20.-GeneraI Fun
ston's reaIignment of the border pa
troll is being delayed, war department
officials said today, by slow mobiliza-
ton of the Arizona and New Mexico
national guard and by the disappoint-
ing showing in numbers and equip
ment of some of the guard companies
that have reported for service.
Although it had ten days since Pres
ident Wilson called out the Texas, Ari-
iona and New Mexico guardsmen for
patrol duty along the border, their
mobilization and assignment is far
from complete. The Texas companies
responded promptly, but in the other
two states the call has not met with
as quick a response as officials ex-
pected. In addition so many COM
Danies in all three states have been
found to be below their proper
strength that the war department now
expects the total guardsmen provided
will not be more than 5000 and prob
ably a few hundred less. When the
call was issued it was depended on to
add $500 men to the border patrol.
General Funston sent a brief report
on the killing of Sergeant Harry Fur
man of the Twenty-third infantry, but
gave no details beyond saying he was
shot on the Mexican side of the Dor
der.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Must obey United States Law.

Washington, May 19--Germany,
through Count Bernstorh, has in
structed all German consuls in the
United States to admonish German
citizens scrupulousIy to observe Amer
lean laws This was done in an effort
20, end alleged neutrality violations.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Fourth of Militia Unfit.

Columbus, N NJ, May 19.-One
fourth of the New Mexico militia so
far examined has been rejected on &C
count of physical disability. Those ex-
amined were from the noted New Mex
lean battery, said to be the finest mill
tia battery in the United States.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Circus Star Died in the Rfnq.

Dayton, o., May 18-Reno MeCree,
headline equestrian with Ringling's
circus, and brother OF JUNE McCree,
playwright, fell dead here last night
while bowling to the applause Of ten
thousand peoplee-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
NJ. K. &T. Train over a Bank.

Clinton, No, May 1.-THE south.
bound NJ, K. & T. train, known as the
Texas Special went over an embank-
ment twenty feet high here today.
Only sixteen passengers were on
board and none was badly injured.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
BRYAN Won't Be a DeIe4ste.

Lincoln, Neb., May 1s-W. J. Bryan
viii not attend the Democratic nation
al convention save as newspaper re-
porter. He gave out statement here
today saying he would not accept the
position of alternate from Nebraska to
which he was elected
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Hanoed Two Mexican SIayers.

Brownsville, Tex, May 20.-Jose
Buenrostro and Melquiades Chapa
Mexicans, convicted of the murder OF
A. L. Austin and his son, Charles, il
the Mexican border raids last fall.
were hanged in the Cameron county
iaih at 2:13 this afternoon.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
A German Torpedo Boat Sank.

Copenhagen, May 1S.-A German
torpedo boat has been sunk by a Ger
man mine OF FaIsterbo, Sweden, ac-
cording to the Berlingske Tidente's
MaImo correspondent All but one
man of the crew were saved
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Captain Jury Unable TO Agree.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 17.-David
Captains trial for murder in connec-
ton with the destruction of the Los
Angeles Times building ended today
when the jury reported hopeless dis
agreement and was discharged.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Custom Guards Kin American.

FL Paso, Tex, May 19.-An Ameri-
can soldier who crossed the interna-
tionaI boundary mile and half east
of Juarez early today was shot and
killed by Mexican customs guards.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
AUies viii Feed Wars Poor.

London, May 19.-Lord Robert Ce-
Gil, minister OF war trade and block
ade. In an interview announced that
the Allies have taken steps TO feed
the Be1gians, Poles and Serbs.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Town' 20 Ron a saIonn

Bridgewater.rS. D., May 1S.-Bridge-
water is to have a municipal saloon.
This decision was reported at a spe-
eial election yesterday. the proposition
earring by vote Of So TO Il.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
A shippinn ali Defeat.

Washington, May 2O.-Republican
members of the House caught the
Democrats mapping today and knock
ed out the governmental ownership
provisions of the Ship Purchase Bill
by a vote of 1O2 to 81.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Airnen Hit at Queen Helena.

Rome, May lit is reported that
Austrian air raiders attempted Mon
day to attack a train on which were
Queen Helena and the children Of the
Eoyal household
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
The 9Th Cavalry Withdrawn.

Columbus, N. n, May 20.-In a ter
rife dust storm today the Sixth Cav
airy rode into camp nom Old Mexico.
They Immediately prepares to go into
camp he-e.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
To ASK ~ Billion for War.

London, May 2O.-Premier Asquith
will move a new war appropriation OF
IL billion dollars next Tuesday, bring
ing the total war appropriations to
81, 900, 600, zoe, the Daily Telegraph
stated today.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

Lightning Killed Man-James R.
Sproul, % years old, was killed by
stroke Of lightning at the house of
John Mcdaniel in Wichita when a bolt
struck the transformer of the electric
lighting switch and burning it out, sent
1000 volts through Sprouts body. He
died instantly.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

Eastern Stars EIect-Grand officers
of the order of Eastern Star were in
stalled at Wichita recently as follows:
Mrs. Blanche Wilson, Sa1ina, grand
matron; David Ayers, Kansas City,
grand patron; Mrs. Lille V. Lennen,
Ness City, associate grand matron;
Walter Wilson, Washington, associate
grand patron; Mrs. Elizabeth Magic,
Girard, grand treasurer; Mrs. Matte
Davis, Independence, grand conduct
ress; Miss Annie Sutton, Olathe, asso-
ciate grand conductress.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

Woman Town Builder Dead-Mrs.
Anna c. Waite, widow Of the late
Walter S. Waite, died recently in Lin
coin Center. She was the first school
teacher in Lincoln county and she and
her husband helped in organizing the
town of Lincoln.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

Postpone x. U. CeIebration-Becaus
Of lack Of funds, the faculty of the
University of Kansas has decided to
postpone the semi-centennial celebra-
ton which was to have been held
next year in observance of the fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of the uni
Versity. If an appropriation can be
obtained from the legislature next win
ter the celebration, which probably
will take the form of a gigantic pa
geant, will be held in the fall of 1917.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

Republican Leader Dead. NJ
Simpson. Republican leader and pio-
neer citizen of Kansas. is dead in Nc
Pherson. Mr.. Simpson has been ia
mf1iar character in Kansas politics
since 1882. He was known to every
body as "Jim," and his good humor
and Optimism later won him the title
of Sunny Jim" among his close
friends.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

Prisoners Fled in Motor-Three
prisoners sawed their way from the
Butler county Jail at Eldorado the
other night, got into a waiting motor
car and came to Wichita. The jailer
was asleep. Five prisoners who re-
manned told officials that the hack
saw, with which the two bars were
sawed, was supplied by a woman.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

Fall Injuries officer-Capt. Fred ].
Herman. Quartermaster corps, was Sc
verely injured when he was thrown
from his horse while riding near Fort
Riley, sustaining a compound fracture
Of the leg. He is in the post hospital.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27

A Perry Pioneer Dead-Patrick
Hackett, who had resided in Kansas
forty-eight years, died the other night
at his home north of Perry. His
widow and three sons survive.
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First Published In The Daily Leader.
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