The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-24
RECOVER NINE STOLEN CARS
coffeyviIIe Officials Believe They
Have Broken Up Gang of Auto
mobile Thieves There.

mobile Thieves There.
Local authorities at Coffeyville have
recovered three more stolen motor cars
as a result of further investigation of
| the alleged ring of motor thieves be-
| lieved to have established headquar-
| tiers there. AS a result of the activity
Of officials by whom nine stolen cars
! have been restored to their owners in
| three days, there has been an exodus
of persons who have had no apparent
| legitimate means of support.
| Local connections Of the gang were
| believed to have been established by
| the arrest of Whitley" Ray and man
| giving the name of Saxon. Ray is a
local taxicab driver. Saxon, according
to officers, has been charged with vio-
Iating the Kansas dry laws.
One of the cars recovered was
driven by Mrs. Albert Swope, of Edna,
Kan, wife of a nephew of the late Col
| Thomas Swope of independence, Mo.
| With Mrs. Swope was Mrs. Bird Nc
Gee of Edna. The police reported
Mrs. McGee's husband bought the car
at Edna the other day and that he
was unaware it was stolen property.
The car was identified by Doctor
Swarts, of Girard, having been stolen
from his garage few days ago. An
other car was claimed by Doctor
Thornberg of Raymond, Ok.
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Oldest Kansas Rebekah Dead.-Mrs.
Clarissa R Norton, 90 years old, the
oldest Rebekah in Kansas, died at the
home of her daughter. Mrs. E. A.
DiviIbliss, in Kansas City. Kan. She
had been q member Of the order
thirty-five years. She joined at Salina
and transferred to Wyandotte Lodge
No. twenty years ago.
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Aged Preacher Dead.-The Rev. w.
G. Slinker, a pioneer Baptist preach
er, is dead at Mound Valley. He was
81 years old. He had been a Baptist
preacher for fifty-seven years. He is
survived by his wife to whom he had
been married sixty-three years. He
was a charter member Of Masonic
lodge No. of Fayetteville, Ark
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Gets $500 for Red Cross Miss
Dona Easley Of New York, daughter
of Ralph Easley, recently sang in the
church at Hutchinson where her par
entS were choir members twenty-five
years ago and, in concert with the mu-
nicipal band, raised 5000 for the Red
Cross.
Home for EIdorado Paper.-The FL
dorado Republican, founded in 1882
by the late T. B. Murdoch, has started
/ 0F In
plant, which it expects to have COM
pleted about January 1. Alice Muir
dock, daughter of the founder, is now
editor of the paper.
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Flying Bone Killed Mana large
beef bone thrown from a passing
train struck John T. Hopkins, road
master of the Eastern Kansas Divis-
ion of the Union Pacific while he was
standing at the crossing Of the LeaY-
enworth branch and the main line
near Lawrence, instantly killing him.
It is presumed that the bone was
thrown out of a window by a cook.
1t struck Hopkins in the back Of the
head. The dead man was so years
old. His home was in Lawrence.
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To Have Joint Fund.-The Y. NJ.
c. A. and Knights of Columbus will
join hands in the campaign at Atchi-
son for army recreation and religious
work funds. The apportionment for
the county is $4,000, of which the
Knights of Columbus quota is $4,000
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Injured When Elevator FeH.-C. z.
! Warner, head Of the Warner Fence
Company and other Warner factories
| at Ottawa, and H. w Montfort, a
contractor, were injured when an ele-
vator on which they were riding fell
down the shaft. Each sustained a
broken leg.
K. U. Defeats okIahoma.-outpIay-
! ing the University Of Oklahoma in
every department of the game, the
University Of Kansas football eleven
won from Bonnie Ovens SOoners at
Norman, 13 to 6.
No Meningitis at Post-"CorporaI
Alexander Christie, Company E, Four
Hundred and Tenth Telegraph BattaE-
ion. came to his death through alco-
holic poisoning. and not meningitis"
was the official statement made by
/ Col. W. A. Skunk, commandsnt Of
Fort Leavenworth-
SaIina Merchant Dead.-F. A. May
-nard, 50 years old, for thirty-seTen
years wholesale produce merchant,
is dead at SalIna. His widow and
one son. Davis Maynard, who succeeds
TO the business. surVfza