The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
TO LOCATE new
INDUSTRIAL FARM
Board of Administration Seek
ing a Site for Another
State institution.
BELIEVE NEED is PRESSING
Temporary Building Near Lansing Is
Already Observation-Disclosures
Will Be First of Kind in Country.


DR.. Wilbur n. Mason, former Cover
nor E. W. Hoch and Charles W. Green,
members Of the new board of admins
tration, have been making a tour of
the state inspecting sites offered by
cities and towns for the location of
the Women's Industrial farm. The
board recently located this detention
home for women temporarily at Lam
sing, on the states farm where wom-
en- prisoners are kept.
On the big state farm just west of
the state penitentiary at Lansing there
is but one building in which to house
women prisoners. This is an old Leav-
enworth county homestead of some
dozen or more rooms, and it now is
filled to capacity.
The board of administration, there
fore, sees the pressing need Of the es-
Establishment Of the new Women's In
dustrial farm as provided for by the
last session of the legislature. The in
stitution must be located near some
town and close to adequate railroad
facilities, and the water supply must
be pure and abundant
The Women's Industrial farm is to
be the first of its kind in the United
States, and it is likely that its oper-
alton will be watched with much in
terest by other states that have the
same kind of problems to solve.
The board stated recently that there
would be no unnecessary delay in de-
Gliding on the site, as there is press
ing need now for this institution with
suitable and adequate buildings for
caring for the women convicted of
penitentiary offenses by the district
courts of the state.
Another proposition before the
board of administration is the re-
moval of the Mother Bickerdyke home
from Ellsworth to the Soldiers home
at Dodge City, and the use of that
institution with its buildings and
equipment for the new Women's In
dustrial Farm.
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Capper Names Delegates.
The following delegates have been
appointed by Gov. Arthur Capper to
represent Kansas at the annual con-
citation, to be held at New Orleans,
November 1928, 1917; Judge G. F.
Prigg, Hutchinson; Judge D. A Ban
ia, Great Bend; Judge Charles Fulton,
c. M Harger, Abilene;
W. I. Biddle, Leavenworth; A. O. Mil
Ter, Belleville; A. o. Reach, Wichita;
Mrs. Julia B. Perry, Lansing; Mrs.
J. K. Codding, Lansing; J. K. Cod
ding, Lansing; Father J. A Shorter,
Lansing; Mrs. Lillian Mitchner, Be
lott; James A Kimball, Salina; E. W.
Hoch, Marion; DR.. Wilbur N Mason,
C. W. Green, Kansas City.
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Official Scores SIackers.
Secretary of State J. T. Botkin to-
day excoriated the slackers in Kansas
who claim that it is just as patriotic
to follow the pillow as it is to go to the
trenches. In a speech at Everest he
said that the supreme test of patriot
ism was when a young men walked
up to recruiting station and offered
his life for his country's cause, and
that it did not require any patriotism
to raise wheat at 81 busheI; or to
take refuge in the folds of a woman's
petticoat before the exemption board.
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Sues Grocers for $4,000.
The Surety Coupon Company, Del
aware corporation, filed suit in the
federal court against three Kansas
City, Kan, grocers. 1t asks $4,000
damages. The coupon company claims
that they have circulated a bulletin
charging that the company's business
is illegal and infamous.
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Interurban Work to Begin.
Construction work on the Wichita
Walnut Valley Interurban railroad
will begin on October 1, according to
a permit for the construction of the
road, which was issued by the state
public utilities commission The state
charter board has granted a charter
to the organization, the capital being
$2,0O0,000.
Arrested for Failing to Register.
Floyd Brown, son of a wealthy fam
lily at Corning, was brought here on a
charge of being a Stacker. He failed
to register but the marriage records
show that he swore he was over 81
years of age last June. Brown claims
he is only 20.
Would Build Concrete Road.
The first petition for the construc-
ton OF 6 concrete road in Kansas has
been filed with the state highway com
mission by the Mitchell County board
of commissioners. The petition calls
for the construction of thirteen miles
OF road between Beloit and AsherviIle.
After Beet Sugar Factory.
A beet sugar factory is one of the
Industrial prospects Of the Kaw val.
ley, and many communities between
Topeka and Kansas City are interest.
sd in the possible location of it.
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No Troops for Country Fairs.
The war department will not use
troops as. drawing card for country
fairs. Such notice has been received
at the governors office The depart
ment said that if any troops were sta
toned at any OF the fair grounds whiIe