The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-01
WANTS HIS COURT A MODEL
Dennis Madden, Candidate for District
Judge at Emporia, Believes Law
suits Are Unnecessary.

suits Are Unnecessary.
Dennis Madden of Emporia is a can
didate for district judge on platform
that his court will be a court of arbi-
tration and only a court of law as a
last resort. For several years an eff
fort has been made to have established
in Kansas counties arbitration courts
to try to stop much useless litigation.
Every effort has failed and Judge Mad
den has announced that he will. try to
put into effect in his court the very
plans advocated before the legislature.
There is too much unnecessary lit
igation,' said Mr.. Madden. Much Of
this can be avoided without big attor-
ney fees if the contending parties
could only be gotten together inform
ally. If 1 am elected judge 1 shall in
vite ligitants' having pending litigation
under standing rules to state to me in
each others presence the facts in the
case. l will then attempt to mediate
the cause. If mediation cannot be had,
1 shall offer the opportunity of arbitTa-
ton to the parties. Each may volun-
tarily select an arbitrator, and if the
parties desire l will advise with the ar
bitrator on questions of law. In case
of arbitration, the award will be en-
tered as a ruling of the court and judg-
ment rendered thereon, like the YER
dict of jury
eff none of the primary methods
avail, then the ordinary course, itiga-
ton, may result"
x x x
Killed by Rock crusher-Ben Rena,
a Mexican, was killed at lola when
he became overbaIanced while at work
in a cement plant there and tumbled
into a rock crusher.
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Wheat Finally Threshed-The latest
wheat threshing ever done about Hor-
Wyson finished threshing Nicholas
Berney's wheat crop.
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Rural Teachers Met at Olathe.-
Fifty-f1ve teachers from the rural
schools of Wyandotte county were the
guests of the Johnson county teachers
at joint meeting at Olathe recently.
1t was also the occasion Of the annual
meeting of district boards.
$212.5o an Acre for Farm-The high
est price Brown county farm land ever
brought was paid the other day when
Albert Walters sold his S0-acre farm
a mile east of Hiawatha to K Knudson
for $212.5O an acre.
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Kansas Boy to PhiIippines-A Kan
sas boy, Victor Massange of Wetmore,
has just received a commission as
supervisor of rural school of the
Philippine Islands He will receive a
salary of $1,000 year with a two
months vacation. He has orders to
sail from Vancouver May Is.
Woman StrangIed to Death-Mrs. P.
NJ. Gates, wife of P. NJ. Gates, owner
of the Pratt Monumental Works at
/ Pratt, was found dead in her home the
other day. She was strangled to death
by the end of a scarf she was wearing
becoming entangled in an electric
washing machine.
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State Senator Dies.-Senator J. H.
| StaveIy is dead at his home in Lyn-
don. Mr.. Stavely was serving his sec
| ond term as senator from the Six
teenth District.
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Leedy in Canadian PoIitics-Otta-
wa, Ontario, sends word that J. W.
Leedy, ex-governor of Kansas and now
residing at White Court, on the Nc
Leod river north of Edmonton, will be
a candidate for the legislature OF Al
berta at the next election
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Issues Anti-Cigarette Tracts-Hun-
dreds OF pamphlets showing the in
juries and evils OF cigarette smoking
have been sent to mothers and relig-
/ ious workers in Kansas by the de-
partment of child welfare at the Uni
versity Of Kansas.
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/ Chapman VIII ImproVe@The Child
Welfare and Civic improvement move
ment was started at Chapman recent
~ under the direction OF Professor Nc
Keever of the University Of Kansas. A
committee has been appointed and the
town will enter the race for the 81 900
prize to be given for the greatest i'm
proTement-
Died in Motor Wrecl-Mrs- Henry
Beleke was killed and three others
were injured when a motor car struck
a gate and turned over on a ranch