The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
mo BEER NO Work
Miners in Southeastern Kansas
Talk of Making This
Their Slogan.
AROUSED by BONE DRY LAW
A Serious Strike in Coal Fields May
Follow Attempts to Enforce
New Statute.

Reports from the coal fields of
southeastern Kansas say that the
miners are very much aroused over
the Bone Dry" law. Many of them
declare, No beer, no work" All of
the men in one big mine struck as
protest against the Bone Dry" law.
1t is understood that a deputation of
miners is going to Topeka to demand
that the state officials wink at the
enforcement of the new law as the
price of keeping the coal mines open.
In the mining districts the Bone
Dry bill has occasioned all manner
of concern. Nearly every mining
camp is inhabited principally by for
eigners, or men of foreign descent.
Most of these men have made beer
part of their daily diet. Now
Kansas legislature goes to Topeka
and passes a law which threatens
TO send a man to Jail for keeping
case or key of beer in his home.
The miners in the Pittsburg dis
trict have issued their def. If the
state proposes to enforce the Bone
Dry bill, the men will lay down their
picks and shovels and quit work. 1t
simply means a strike throughout the
big mining district and several thou
sand men threaten to go out. That
the matter may be clearly understood,
however, the miners propose to send
a delegation to Topeka to talk the
question over with Governor Capper
and S. NJ. Brewster, attorney general.
Boy a Motor Car Victim.-Otto
Adams, IL years old, while going
| home from school at Caney. was run
down by car driven by Miss Grace
| Shull The boy died on the way home.
Manhattan Veteran Dead. G.
MacMillen, rs years old, is dead at
veteran soldier and came to the state
in 1887, settling in Logan county.
| Oneida Church Burned.-Fire, which
started during Sunday school services,
| destroyed the Methodist church at
| Oneida A defective fiue caused the
blaze.
Leavenworth Banker Dead.-Ed-
ward Carroll, IS years old, president
Of the Leavenworth National bank,
| and widely known in Kansas politics
! for half a century, died there the
other night following a short illness.
Tore Down German FIag.-Roy
Burkholder, junior in the Wichita
high school, tore down a flag Of the
Fatherland bearing a photograph of
| the kaiser, after saying he was tired
of looking into the German war gods
| face. Miss Holm, German teacher,
had been asked to remove the flag,
but said the students request was
silly. Arnold Lau, in, the absence of
Superintendent John Lofty, who was
in Kansas City, sided with Miss Holm.
Burkholder, backed by others, then
removed it. 1t was hidden, but found
later by the German teacher, and
restored to its place.
K. U. Supports Wilson, ixty-three
| members of the University of Kansas
faculty teIegraphed the other morn
ing to President Wilson their support
of any measure to preserve the honor
OF the United States
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To Build Mine Rescue Station.
Under bill passed by the state leg
| islature, the state commissioner of
labor is authorized to build and equip
a mine rescue station in Crawford
county and two substations, one each
in Crawford and Cherokee counties
The legislature appropriated S17,5OC
for the purpose.
Kansas Troop at Fort RiIey.-Troop
A, Kansas cavalry, arrived at Fort
Riley recently from Llano Grande
Texas. The troops consist of three
officers and 1fty-four men, commanded
by Captain Oliverson.
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Episcopal Minister Dead.-The Rev
George H. Mueller, IS years old, an
Episcopal minister of Chanute, died
in the vestry of ST. Timothy's church
there following a service at which he
| had OBLIGATED
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OIL Burns Fatai to Farmer@F1Oy6
Burgess, SO years old, a farmer OF
High Prairie, Leavenworth county.
died recently as the result of burns
received when he tried to start a
kitchen fire with kerosene.
Funston's Mother Returns.-Mrs
E. H. Funston OF lola. mother of the
late General Frederick Funston
has reached Emporia from San Fran.
cisco, where she attended the funeral
of her SON She was accompanied BY
her son, Aldo Funston
Summer School at NornaL-E. A
Ross, writer and lecturer on sociology
Of the University of Wisconsin, is one
OF the new members of the staff OF