The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-04
Secretary Mohler Believes So
Wheat Guarantee Will Help
Kansas Farmers.
EVERY ACRE WILL Be PLANTED
Action of Senate and Council of De-
Tense Campaign Expected to
Have Good Effect.

farmers, according to men familiar
with agricultural conditions in this
state. j. G. Mohler, secretary of the
state board of agriculture, declared
that in his judgment the senate action
would mean the sowing of every acre
possible with the equipment, labor
and power available in the farming
districts.
Combining the action of the senate
with the campaign of the state coun-
Gil of defense, Mohler believes the
states greatest wheat acreage is GER
tain. Seed wheat is high and every
acre sown in Kansas will probably
receive the best possible care and at
tention
Reports sent to Topeka by members
of the state council of defense indicat-
ed that farmers would refuse to plant
more than a normal wheat acreage
unless the government placed a guar
anteed minimum price on their crops.
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Veterans EIect.-Officers elected by
/ the Spanish War Veterans, Kansas
Department, at the encampment ses-
sion in SaIina, are: L. G. EouseI, Sa-
-
Lyons, Salina. senior vice-command-
er; A. D. Smith, Larned, junior vice
commander; NJ. G. Cockey, Salina,
physician; J. B. Stone, Fort Leaven-
worth, marshal; j. w. Ozias, Military
Home, Leavenworth, chaplain; C. w.
White, Military Home, judge advo-
cate; B. S. Berry, Hutchinson, judge
advocate; o. A. Faux, Topeka, ad-
jutant; H. V. Hilton. Salina, quarter
master. A resolution was passed in
dorsing the appointment of c. l. Mar
tin as brigadier general.
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Farm Hand Found Dead.-"Joe"s
Holtscamp of Breeze, Ill, was shot
and killed west of Council Grove by
a revolver in his own hands. Hollis
camp was returning from the harvest
field with a companion named Steu-
yer in wagon. Steuver says they
had stopped at a schooIhouse to rest
and he had taken the team to near
by farmhouse to water and that he
found Holtscamp dead when he re-
turned.
Gave $50, 900 For 400 Acres-The
highest price for large tract of land
In the Smoky Hill River Valley was
paid recently by J. H. Bengsten of
Longmont, Col, when he gave $4,000
for four hundred acres near Linds-
borg to Alfred Hawkinson The price
was $140 an acre. The land is i'm
proved.
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Kansas Store Patriotic.-When en-
p1oyes of a Manhattan store answer
the first call for troops it will give to
the government one major, one cap
notwithstanding one sergeant of
the national guard, one private in the
same organization and one man in the
draft.
K. U. Vacancy FiIIed.-The vacancy
caused by the resignation of Dr.
James Nainsmith, head of the depart
ment of physical education, has been
filled by the employment of Edward
Maurice Briggs, assistant professor OF
German in the university.
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Dead Near Junction City-The
body of Bert Rouse, missing for sew
eral days. was found in thicket
along the Republican River near juno
ton City. Acute indigestion was Civ
en- as the probable cause OF death.
X x x
Stabbed Harvest Hand.-W. Som
mers of West Plains, Mo-, a harvest
hand, was probably fatally stabbed by
an I. W. w. in Mcpherson county. He
was brought to Mcpherson by DR.. L.
F. Quantius.
A Pioneer Editor Dead.-R. G. FL
lott, founder of the Kansas Free
State, the first newspaper in Kansas,
is dead at Lawrence. Mr.. Elliott
came to Lawrence in 1854 from In
diana. and with Josiah Miller, founded
the paper devoted to make Kansas
free from slavery. The Free State
lasted until 1856, when it was de-
stroyed by Southern sympathizers
controlling the state government Mr..
Elliott was a member of the first ter
ritorial legislature, the county treas
urer and county assessor of Douglas
county. He was a member of the first
free state party reaching Lawrence
and the last survivor of this group.
Beat Kansas farner.-harl ETede-
richs, wealthy farmer near Attfca,
may die from head wounds received
in dispute with an I. W. w. recently.
The ]. W. w. was atop load of hay
and knocked Frederichs down with a
pitchfork when the latter tried to
climb up to him.
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May Have New Hotei.-R. H. Dean,
Kansas City hotel man, is expected
at Eldorado to consult with the local
committee in regard to the hotel FL
dorado is projecting. The plans call
for $125,0O0 hotel.
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Trolley Line to Oil Fieids.-The in
terurban road to the Butler County oil
fields is assured. Charles GalIigan.
promoter. said twenty-five miles OF
the right of way from Wichita to-
wards Augusta has been bought. This
closes the gap. The road will be built
at once.
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