The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-08
KANSAS PASTURES PAY BIG
Chase County Stocknen Are Having
the Most Prosperous Year in
Their History.

Chase county stockmen are expert
encing their most prosperous year in
the cattle business. With all pastures
in the Flint Hill grazing district as
green and as abundantly supplied
with grass as in the early spring
time, cattle have continued to put on
heavy gains without interruption since
they were turned on grazing the first
of May. So abundant is the grass
now that hundreds of cattle which
have been fattened and shipped to
market, where they have brought the
highest prices ever before recorded at
this time of the season, have been re-
placed with other cattle which have
been put on grazing in the same pas
lures and thus the live stock men will
be enabled to handle double their
usual output.
There will be no less than twelve
hundred carloads of fat cattle, OF
twenty-seven thousand head, shipped
out of Bazaar this season. Other
points in this county will ship several
carloads.
Some shipments of cattle have net
ted their owners SIS to $40 a head
Scores of shippers have cleaned up
profits which a few years ago would
have seemed to them impossible.
X x
Indian Fighters in Reunion.-A re-
union of the survivors of the Eigh-
teenth and Nineteenth Volunteer
United States Cavalry, who served on
the front during the Indian War of
1867-68-69, was held in Olathe the 9TH
er day. These regiments were under
command of General Sheridan and
saw some of the hardest fighting at
Beaver Creek and Stormy Hollow
against the Comanches, Arapahoes,
Kiowas and Cheyennes.
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! Frank BoIin to France-Frank Bo1in
of Junction City, who was commits
stoned second lieutenant of infantry
at the recent officers training camp
at Fort Riley, left recently for Hobo
ken, n. J., from where he will sail for
France.
Skidding Car Kills DriVer-Joseph
Lancaster. 35 years old, garage own
er of Seminole, Ok, was killed the
other night at Leloup, Kan, when he
| lost control of a motor car which skid
ded into ditch.
X 4 X
Deny Typhoid Plot Story.-Rumors
that German agents have been spread
| ing typhoid fever bacteria through
Fort Leavenworth by secreting them
in food and water used by the sol
diers were strongly denied by off
Gals the other night. Only ten cases
of typhoid have developed at Fort
Leavenworth in the last several
months, and all but one of these were
among civilians employed at the post.
All soldiers there have been vacci-
mated against typhoid, and officers
believe an epidemic of this disease
would be impossible.
x x X
Chase County Recruit Dead.-The
first death among Chase county's re-
cruits occurred when Sergeant De1ano
Earl Bates, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. NJ.
Bates of Cottonwood Falls. died of ap-
pendicitis. Bates was 81 years old
and enlisted last July
x x X
Catholic Teacher Dead.-The Rev.
Joseph F. Hill, S. J., for years teacher
of English literature and civics at ST
Mary's college is dead. Father Hill
was 81 years old and was born at
Lebanon, KY. He also had taught at
schools in Chicago, Detroit and Omaha.
x K
Kansas City Physician Dead.-Dr.
John E. Brock. So years old, leading
Arkansas City physician, is dead at
Arkansas City. He leaves a wife and
three daughters, Mrs. George Probsr
of Hardtner. and Katherine and Ruth
Brock of Arkansas City.
X X X
High School at Norn1aI.-A junior
high school. consisting OF the seventh
and eighth grades of the elementary
training school and the ninth grade OF
the normal training high school, viii
| be instituted at the normal school this
fail