The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-01
PLAGUE VICTIMS NEED HELP
ton is Inadequate to Care for All
Afflicted in State.


Afflicted in State.
There are more than two hundred
men and women dying of tuberculosis
in Kansas because the state has not
the funds to care for them and the
state would be pleased if some men
or women or organizations would, give
SITS to 5000 to make it possible to
take care Of two additional patients.
Four years ago Kansas began tu-
berculosis sanitarium at Norton. Pol
itics entered into its location and
building and after spending $4,000
there is room for only forty patients
at the sanitarium. But the hospital
has sufficient maintenance account
and power plant and IS able to hire
enough nurses and attendants to take
care of two hundred patients, but
there is no place to put them.
DR.. G. S. Kenny, superintendent of
the sanitarium, last summer built
what is known as Tent Colony No. 1.
This consists of four tents, each
walled up three feet high, with a good
roof, entirely screened in, solid
floor and curtains. In each of these
there is a small dressing room with
stove. Each tent is eighteen feet
square and will accommodate two
persons. The actual cost of building
one of these tents is about 800 and
the equipment costs from SIS to $100
1--WE have more than two hundred
men and women begging US to let
them come to the hospital for treat
ment," said Doctor Kenney. eve
haven't room for one. We have the
money to supply the tents with all the
necessary linen and bed clothing and
to supply the food for the patients,
but these funds cannot be used for i'm
proVements."
Diplomas for Aggies.-Forty-one stu
! dents received degrees at the annual
winter graduation exercises of the
Kansas State Agricultural college re-
Gently. Two-thirds of the graduates
were women A diploma was sent to
the parents of W. H. Wilson, a student
who was drowned near there shortly
after the beginning of this term.
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3e1 Rabbits in One Day-Three hun
| dred and ninety-one cottontails were
the result of roundup at Goddard re-
Gently by two crews of thirty men
| each. The losers in the rabbit hunt,
who only bagged one hundred and fifty,
served the winners and their wives
with an oyster supper.
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Baby Dies in BIaze.-The residence
of Jack Campbell, a teamster of Cot
tonwood Falls, was burned the other
day together with all its contents.
! Their only child, a son, years old,
| was burned to death. Mrs. Campbell
had gone TO a neighbor's home on an
errand and left the child in the house.
| Boxcar Victim Dies. = Hershel
knight, the Kansas City boy who was
shot and robbed in a boxcar near Bon
ner Springs, died in a hospital at Law
renee. The three men arrested after
the attack on Knight still are in jail.
Leaves 100000 for shriners.-By
the terms of will left by the late
John NJ Hodges of Pittsburg the Mir
"a Shriners are given property worth
probably 100000 for a temple.
|
Two Burned by OLA pool of oil
near the boiler at the Western States
Cement Mill at independence expIod-
ed when fires were lighted. A. W.
Ke1lar, an engineer, and c. R. Just. a
workman, were burned badly and for
a time it was feared they would not
recover.
oIathe's First Pipe organ.-Profes-
sor Edward Kreisler of Kansas City
opened the s2.40O pipe organ just in
stalled at the First Presbyterian
church at Olathe the other night It
is Olathe's first pipe organ.
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Saline County Veteran Dead.-Wil
liam ]. BarteH, "a years old and a
Civil War veteran and pioneer citi-
zen of Saline county, is dead at his
farm home following a stroke of par
alysis. He served in the Eleventh
Michigan cavalry.
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Students III of Grip.-An epidemic
of grip is rife among students and
faculty members Of the University OF
Kansas. The university hospital is
taxed to its capacity, while virtually
every fraternity and sorority house
also has hospital list.