The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
STATE. NEEDS MORE CATTLE
a Gradual Decline in the Business
Since 1904 When 2,757,ooo
Head Were Produced.

The history of the live stock bust
ness in Kansas was at its zenith in
1904. when 2.757,OOG head, exclusive
of milk COWS, were produced in the
state, J. c. Mohler, secretary of the
state board of agriculture, told dele
gates at the third annual convention
of the Kansas Live Stock Association
at Wichita recently.
There has been a more or less
gradual decrease since the record
year of 1904, until in 1914 Kansas pos
sessed fewer cattle than in any pre-
Vious year since 1885, Mr.. MohIer
said. There was a decided increase
last year, however. although the num-
Der was under the 100000 mark.
Values have risen a. such a rate that
the cattle, although fewer in num-
Der, were worth more in 1915 in the
aggregate and in the average per head
of AL classes, than in any other prior
year. There is solace in that. Rec
ord values, however, by no means af-
feet the need of Kansas for infinitely
more beef animals, but rather would
seem to emphasize that need-to make
it more imperative.
Death Followed Pulling of Tooth
Orville L. Thompson, % years old,
is dead at the home of his mother
in Salina as the result of the extrac-
ton of tooth last October. Infec-
ton made an operation necessary and
a part of the jaw was removed. Pneu-
monia followed, resulting in death.
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Offer $3.50 for Bush's Murderer
The Saline county commissioners
have offered a reward of 500 for the
arrest and conviction of the murderer
of John Bush, who was shot January
| 25 while sitting in his. kitchen near
Shipton. This makes $3.50 reward now
| offered
Disastrous Fire at Dexter-Half a
block of the business houses of Dex-
| ter were burned the other morning
! The fire broke out in butcher shop
and before it could be controlled had
destroyed all the north half of the
block
! Dies of Exposure-As a result of
| exposure when he fell by the road
near Huron, recently, A. H. Davis, a
farm hand, So years old, died in the
Atchison hospital He was found with
both feet and hands badly frozen.
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| Hear Helen KeIIer.-With an attend
ancte of 1900 and lively sessions
| scheduled for every hour, the South
west Kansas Teachers Association
held one of the most successful con-
ventions in its history at CoffeyviIle,
recently. After a day of lectures and
discussions, the evening was given
over to entertainment. Helen Keller
proved the greatest attraction and
drew two packed houses.
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Found Dead in Bed.-Norman Grist,
a Sumner county pioneer, was found
dead in his bed at Belleplaine the 9TH
er day. He had lived there forty-fve
years and was Civil war veteran.
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Killed In FaII.-Frank French, 81
years old, son of a Wichita doctor, fell
from the fifth floor of the Butts build
4 ing at Wichita to the second floor and
was killed.
Wichita Bank to BuiId.-The Off
Gals of the Kansas State Bank of
! Wichita, announced recently that they
would erect at once a 100000 bank
building on the site of the present
building. The building viii be Of
granite and cut stone and win be an
exact replica of the First National
Bank building in Kansas City.
Farmep Dies of Burns = Jacob
Schuss, farmer, Y years old, is dead
at his home south of Larned from
burns received when he attempted to
start fire with kerosene.
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Cold Closed Baker University-A
| fuel shortage and cold weather forced
Baker university to dismiss classes
recently until supply could be Sc
/ cured. The schools heating plant
uses crude oil and although car was
ordered it went astray in transit and
the local supply was exhausted.
City Utility at AtWood.-Workmeu
are assembling Atwood's new munich
pal lighting plant and installing a sys
tenn of street lights which were pro
Vided in $4,000 bond issue voted
last fan.