The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
DECREASE IN KANSAS HOGS
Returns of County Assessors Show
Number in State Is Less Than
Last Year.

The number of swine in Kansas,
March 1, 1917, shows a decrease of
1873 per cent from the number report
ed year previous, according to the
assessors returns to the State Board
Of Agriculture. This year there were
1,356,703 head on hand, as against
1,576,568 in 1916. The decrease is at
tributed to the short corn crop of last
year, the increased cost of feed and
the attractive prices that have pre-
vailed for pork.
Fourteen counties in the state each
had more than $4,000 head of hogs on
hand at the time the assessors made
their rounds, all OF which, with the
exception of Smith, are located in the
eastern half of Kansas. The seven
counties having the greatest number
are in the northern tier, Washington
leading with 42,130 head, followed by
Nemaha with 41,7S4, Jewell 1889,
Marshall 1851, Smith 32,353, Repub-
lie 32,189 and Brown 3O,796. Of the
seven counties ranking next, three are
located in the south-central part of the
state and three in counties within a
short distance of the great hog mar
ket at Kansas City
AS is practically always the rule,
where corn is grown in greatest pro-
fusion there hogs will be fattened in
largest numbers. The seven counties
this year showing the greatest num-
Der of hogs also reported the most
corn on hand March 1, ranging from
475,00O bushels in Washington county
to $4,000 bushels in Nemaha.
A Monument to LincoIn.-Dedica-
tory exercises for a monument COM
memOrating an address delivered at
Atchison in 1859 by Abraham Lincoln
were held on the court house grounds
recently. Frank a. Root of Topeka,
w. S. Washer and Louis Weinman,
mayor Of Atchison, delivered ad-
dresses. All the school children OF
the city and Boy Scouts took part in
the exercises. Mr. Root is one of the
few survivors of the large crowd that
heard Lincoln in his campaign speech.
The stone on which a copper plate
bearing an inscription was selected
near Cummings and is of the large red
type found on the hills of Northeast
ern Kansas.
Caught Bank Robbers.-The two
men who robbed the Liberty State
Bank at Liberty of $4,000 were cap
tured near Angola, Labette county, by
posses from Liberty and Angola. Thir-
ty-one hundred dollars taken from the
bank when the cashier, C. H. Bechtel,
and his daughter, Viola, were locked
into the vault, was recovered. The
rest of the loot was thrown into a
creek by the robbers.
Dies in Camp-The first of Atchi-
son county's drafted men to die in the
service of his country was IradeIl |
Babcock, aged 25. News of his death |
at Camp Doniphan as a result Of |
spinal meningitis was received re-
Gently.
Thieves Steal SIiks..Thieves broke |
into two stores in Eureka the other |
night and stole silks, clothing and |
suits to the value of $500. |
They started toward Kansas City in a
motor car. according to the Eureka
officers.
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School, to Adopt orphan.-The Par
nt-Teachers' Association of the Phil
fps School in Salina has made ar
engagements to adopt a French orphan,
% be supported with money obtained |
oy the 200 pupils from the kindergar-
en- to the sixth grade sacrificing
candy.
Takes Poison by Mistake.-Taking
/ poison tablet by mistake instead of
| headache tablet, Miss Margaret
Yates, q Kansas University student
rom Shawnee, is near death in the
Sell Memorial hospital at Rosedaie.