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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Maj. A B. Donnelly, former brig
adler general of the 69th brigade, 35th
division, and former adjutant general
OF Missouri, was killed and his wife
and son, Arthur, and Mrs. R. E. Grunex
were injured in an automobile acct
dent near Blue Ridge. Pa, according to
messages received at st. Louis.
Frank L. Polk, the American IN
der-secretary OF state, who viii take
the place Of Secretary Lansing at the
peace conference, has arrived in Paris.
Mr.. Polk will attend the meetings of
the council Of five.
Both houses of the Arkansas Legis-
lature have ratified the federal suff-
rage amendment In the senate the
vote was 20 to and in the house it was
rs to 19. Arkansas is the twelfth state
to ratify the proposed amendment and
the second of the Southern states to
take this action.
"A number of reservations to the
league Of nations covenant have been
suggested by Charles Evans Hughes of
New York, in an opinion transmitted
under date Of July "a to Senator Fred
erick Hale OF Maine
The Echo de Paris declares it has
accurate information that the parlIa-
mentary elections have been arranged
to be held October 26- The newspaper
adds that reports that President Poin-
care intends to ask for reelection are
denied.
Mai Gen Lee1ard Wood, Frank P
Walsh and Samuel GOmpers have been
extended invitations by the Labor Day
committee OF the Central Labor Union
to speak In Kansas City for the annual
Labor Day celebration on September !,
next
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
TO AIR THE WHEAT DISPUTE
Senate comruittee to Take Up Kansas
and Oklahoma Complaints Regard
Grading of Grain.

WashingtOn--Com that Kan
sas and Oklahoma wheat growers are
having their crop graded down in the
interest OF milleTs, elevator men and
wheat buyers under rules fixed by the
Bureau of Markets in Washington so
that the farmer will get only S1-13 in
stead of S2.20 per bushel, viii be aired
before the Senate agricultural commit
tee at once, Senator Capper OF Kansas
said:
The Kansas wheat crop, which
promised to make a record OF perhaps
go million bushels Of the highest quail
ity, has been reduced by heavy rains
and rust to between $50 million and
40 million bushels, he said, of low and
middle grade Heavy rains in the last
month of the crop, followed by extreme
heat, he said, caused rust to flourish
and shriveIed the berry of the wheat
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
MExIGARS CHANGE ATTITUDE
Carranza Government Putting Forth
Unusual Efforts TO Capture Ban
dts Who Robbed Americans.

WashingtOn.-Acting under special
instructions from President Carranza,
the Mexican military authorities at
Tampico are making unusual efforts to
capture the bandits who, en- July s,
held up boat from the o. S. S. Chey-
enne in the Temesi River and robbed
the crew. This information was con-
tanned in a radio message to the Navy
Department from Com. E. P Finney,
senior American naval officer at
Tampico
r The message said the Mexican au-
thorities had adopted very con6ilia-
tory attitude and that General Con
zales, the military commander in the
Tampico district, had been instructed
by President Carranza to increase the
safeguards and guarantees offered
American lives and property.
Commander FInney's message said:
General Gonzales, who is Mexican
military commander at Tampico, has
just given me information that the rob-
berry was committed, ne believes, by
an isolated group Of brigand bands of
civilians, who are operating in the
swampy lands adjoining the Temesi
River near the Tampico under the lead
ership of a chief named Aguilar.
General Gonzales has pursued this
band ever since the robbery occurred,
with some success. He has returned a
number of horses and mules they had
stolen from Americans, but he states
that his operations against the bandits
are carried on under a great disad-
vantage of guerilla warfare in a swan ,
tnat the river frequently overflows. He
is securing assistance from the army
post in the state of Tamalipas and will
continue his efforts until the band is
captured or dispersed.
THE president of Mexico has issued
special instructions, he informed me,
to put forth every effort to apprehend
those guilty Of the robbery and to in
crease the guarantees of protection for
the lives and property of Americans in
this section. The attitude of General
Gonzales is very conciliatory''
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
CARRANZA RULE DENOUNCED
Baltimore Archaeoioeist Says Mexico
Is Under Thumb Of Outlaws
President Wilson MisIed2

Washingtcn.-'Car rule Of
Mexico is not a government, but a
band of outlaws, both technically and
practically" and today it is utterly
impossible. an enemy of its own people
first and America second" William
Gates. OF Baltimore, an archaeoIogist,
told the house rules and resolutions
committee recently in its hearing on
the Gould resolution proposing a con-
gressionaI inquiry into Mexican af.
fsiTs
Although asserting that President
Wilson was .'misled in making his de-
CisiOn TO recognize Carranza, belieY-
ing the Mexican to be a peoples cham
pIon,' Gates declared IN favor of leaT-
ing the solution of the Mexican prob
lem with the president The president,
he said, had been not fully informed
of conditions in the southern republic.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
AUSTRIA ASKS FOR MORE TIME
Delegates at Paris Seek Longer Period
to Consider Last Section Of
Treaty Terms.

St Germain-en-Laye Karl Rem
ner, Austrian chancellor and head OF
the Austrian peace delegation, &C
eOmpaned by DR.. Richard Schiller, an
other member Of the delegation, has
arrived here from Feldkirch, near the
Swiss border, where they conferred
with Austrian governmental represen-
tatives from Vienna.
DR.. Renner at once upon his arrival
formulated q request to the peace con
ference for an extension OF the time
accorded Austria TO reply TO the sec
ond part of the peace terms, which
were communicated to the Austrian
delegation on July 20. The Austrians
were originally given fifteen days
within which to make reply.
DR.. Otto Bauer, Austrian minister,
has resigned the foreign portfolio. He
retained, however, the post Of minister
OF Specialization in the cabinet. The
foreign ministry will be taken over
by DR.. Karl Renner, the chancellor, in
addition to the chanceIlorship-
A number of reasons are advanced
for DR. Bauer's resignation In the
first place, under his administration,
there was a failure to secure union be-
tween Austria and Germany, and like
wise failure to obtain the Italian as
sistance in advancing Austria's desire
toward this end. The attempt to gain
protection by Italy against the terri
tOriaI aspirations of the Jugo-Slavs also
came to naught, as did an effort TO
obtain partial remuneration by Italy
Of her claims in the Southern Tyrol-
There is also charged againset the for
eign office a failure to gain French
good will for the Austrian republic
Representatives of the Allied pow
ers, as well as AustTians of the well-to-
do order, are said TO have been at
tempting for months past to bring
about DR. Bauer's resignation because
OF his supposed Bolshevik affiliations
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
MORE TROUBLE FOR CHICAGO
Fifteen Thousand Street Car EN-
PIoyees Go Out On Strike Tying
Up Entire City.

Chicago.-Fifteen thousand street
railway employees went on strike for
higher wages at 4 o'clock the other
morning, completely tying up the sur
face and elevated systems Of the city
The companies made no attempt 10
run cars and workers depended on
steam railways, motors and other We
hicIes 10 reach their places Of bust
ness.
Early the night before heads OF the
unions and officials OF the street rail
way companies reached an agreement
to fix the wages Of the men at approx
imately sixty-five cents an hour, and
grant an S-hour day with time and
a half for overtime It was believed
that action would avert walkout, but
at mass meeting shortly before mid
night the men voted to strike.
The employees demanded eighty
five cents an hour, an increase of Il
per cent over present wages, an S-hOur
day and time and a half for overtime
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
IOWA MURDERER A SUICIDE

KellertOn, Ia-ROy Emerson of
Creson, Ia, recently convicted of muir
dering his mother. escaped the other
day from guards who were taking him
to the Ringgold County jail at Mount
Ayr, and committed suicide by hang
ing himself under highway bridge
two miles northeast of here. He used
his coat for rope.
Emerson accused of beating his
mother to death with an iron brace
and throwing her body down an eIeva-
tor shaft in their undertaking estab-
lishment at CrestOn last May. was
convicted of second degree murder at
Mount Ayr, July 19. A few days later
he was released on $4,000 bail pend
ing appeal Of his case to the Supreme
Court. One Of his bondsmen withdrew,
hence his arrest
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
A SURPLUS OF TRAINED MEN
But There Still Remains a Shortage
of Agricultural Labor in West
and South.

Washington.-A shortage of agricul-
tural labor as well as common labor
in the Western and Southern states,
and a general surplus of men of pro-
fessional and technical training and
of clerks, was noted in the annual re-
port of the division Of operations Of
the federal employment service, made
public recently.
Surplus of office help was attributed
chiefly to the desire of many persons
formerly engaged as laborers or me
chanics to secure clerical employment,
while the holding up of new industrial
projects pending ratification of the
peace treaty and Qualification of indus
trial conditions was ascribed as the
cause of the surplus Of men of execu-
tive, professional and technical abili-
ties
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
HITS CHICAGO INDUSTRIES

Chicago.-Race riots, combined with
the street car strike had a marked eff
feet upon Chicago's packing industry
and promised to extend their influ-
ences to other lines At the stock
yards there was sharp falling off in
live stock transactions, packing firms
buying only sparingly because of
doubts as to the ability of their negro
employees to reach their work and
also because some Of their white work
ers were threatening to strike. There
were seventeen thousand unsold hogs
in the market when it closed, despite
a drop in prices that carried quota
.tions from so cents to SIPS a hundred
weight lower than Monday
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
THE PRISON MUTINY ENDED
Strikers at Leavenworth Federal In
stitution Have Decided to Resume
Their Regular Tasks.

Leavenworth, Kas.-The mutiny OF
prisoners at the United States Disci-
plinary Barracks ended entirely the
other morning when the gangs of men
filed out Of the gates to begin their
Iabors where they were abandoned
several days ago.
The "blowup" of the strike began
when a few details Of kitchen police
and sanitary squads went back to
work, but an apparently complete col
lapse of the revolt came when the
men were taken to work in the various
industrial departments Of the prison,
such as the heavy toll at the rock
crushed and the mechanical and con
struction works.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
FRENCH TREATY
GOES To SENATE
President Wilson Sends Letter
OF Explanation With Copy
of Special Pact.
IS DEBT WE owe TO FRANCE
Promise of Protection Against Ger
many Only Partial Payment Of OBJ
LEGATION. the President Says.

Washington = The special treaty
with France, promising immediate
American aid to the French Republic
in repelling any unprOvoked attacks
by Germany, was sent TO the senate
recently by President Wilson
In his message urging ratification.
the president declared the promise a
temporary supplement TO the treaty
with Germany and the league OF ma
tons covenant, designed TO give
France protection in an emergency.
without awaiting the advice OF the
league to act" He pointed out that
a similar promise had been made by
Great Britain, and said that by the
obligation The United States but par
tally discharged a debt to France
which nothing can pay" in full
Broke Custom.
The senate received the message IN
open session and referred the treaty
without discussion 70 the foreign reIa-
tions committee
There was no reference in the mes-
sage to the senate criticism which was
based on a clause OF the treaty re-
curing that il be submitted TO the
same time as the treaty Of Versailles
submitted by the president on July
10.
Departing from his custom OF deliE-
ering his message to congress in per
son, the president transmitted the
treaty and his request for ratification
the senate's unanimous agreement TO
remain in open session while the mes
sage was read and to print il and the
treaty in the record.
To Hear Treaty Experts.
It is likely that the treaty viii be
taken up by the committee within n
few days and considered jointly with
the Versailles treaty. Before this Is
done, however, the committee viii hear
several OF the experts who advised the
American peace delegation on eco
nOnic subjects.
Although most senators have re-
served judgment on the merits of the
French treaty, it is known that Sen
atOr Borah, Republican, Idaho, and
others, are stubbOrnly opposed to it II
is thought unlikely that there will be
any effort TO hasten its consideration
and vote probably viii not be sought
until the Versailles treaty is out of the
way.
The text of the French treaty sub
mitted by President Wilson was the
official copy in English and differed
only slightly from the English trans
lation Of the French text made public
by the French foreign office and ca
bIed TO the United States by the Asso-
ciated Press on July 2
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
jOLTS PAVING BRICK TRUST
Attorney General Issues Instructions
Which Prevent the Manufacture
ers From Playing Favorites.

The alleged paving brick trust in
Kansas was handed jolt by Richard
K. Hopkins, attorney general, when
the state highway commission was ad-
Yised not to approve any brick road
building projects in the state unless
the brick makers publicly announced
the prices for the brick for the con-
tracts. The counties are being noti-
fled Of the ruling of the attorney gen.
eral, and unless there is a change IN
the attitude of the brick makers the
state is not going to use any brick for
road improvement.
It is asserted in complaints to the at
torney general that the brick manufac-
turers are playing favorites" in quot
ing brick prices. Those contractors
who are ''in good with the companies
are given one price for brick on pro-
posed road contract and other contrac-
tors are left out in the cold by quo
tation OF higher prices or an announce
ment that the companies cannot fur
n1sh the brick at the present time.
The rule which will go into effect at
once wherever brick roads may be de-
sired is that the brick companies must
announce the prices at which brick will
be furnished for the contract and all
bidders for the work can figure on the
same basis for the brick.
The attorney general has been for
some time investigating the operations
Of the alleged brick trust in the state
with the idea Of bringing custer pro-
ceedings against the manufacturers,
the same as the suit brought recently
against the cement manufacturers for
being in a combine to maintain prices
and control the distribution of cement
for ali purposes in the state. Consid-
cradle information has already been
secured and the attorney general is ex-
pected to bring the formal proceedings
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
CHICAGO RIOTERS
FIGHT The TROOPS
Race War Grows More Omin-
Gus When the Negro Mobs
Clash With Militia.
SOLDIERS AND POLICE BUSY
State Forces Fired Upon From Ambush
While Taking Up Positions
Many More Casualties

Chicago.-Late the other night mobs
Of whites and negroes were reported
roaming over various localities of the
South Side and at Fifty-eighth Street
and Racine Avenue, negroes were
said to have clashed with troops.
Negroes also were reported TO have
driven all whites from the streets IN
the vicinity of Sixty-third and LOOMS
streets while fires were burning in two
different neighbOrhoods, one in a white
neighbOrhood and the other in a ne
gro colony A negress was reported
slain in a riot at Forty-seventh Street
and Indiana Avenue
Greet Troops With Bullets.
Company E of the First Reserves,
commanded by Capt. w. P. Sherrer,
were the first troops into action. Their
baptism OF fire came at Fifty-third
Street and Wentworth Avenue They
had left the Seventh Regiment Armory
in three trucks, the captain leading in
his car, and had reached this spot
without incident. Then the calm Of
the neighbOrhood was rent by hun
dred shots. The bullets came from
everywhere. Windows and doorways
and alleys belched them forth.
The men got off their trucks, lined
up and fired. 1t could not be ascer-
tanned that anyone had been hit
Shortly afterwards came the report
that troops and negroes had clashed at
Fifty-eighth Street and Racine Avenue
The state troops established a barred
zone about three miles square embrac-
ing most of the negro residential dis
trict on the South Side. In this zone
they searched every person whom they
met for weapons. No one could pass
in or out without military permission.
The district extended roughly from
Twenty-secOnd Street to Fifty-fifth
Street north and south, and from Michi-
gan Boulevard to Wentworth Avenue
east and west.
Fired On Passenger Trains.
This happened when riots in the ne
gro district itself had somewhat sub
sided, but when there was an alarming
spread of disturbances outside New
York Central Railroad officials re.
ported all their trains being fired on.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07

Fake biologists and other self
styled oil experts" are finding rich
pickings in Kansas, according to DR..
r. c. Moore of the University of Kan
sas. state geolOgist, who warns oil in
vestors against such imposters. These
men, many of whom know practically
nothing about geology, are scattered
throughout the Mid-Continent Field,
Doctor Moor says, and several have
their headquarters in Kansas City In
spite of the number of competent ge-
oIogists in the field. the imposters are
frequently paid high wages in report
ing prospects and locating wells.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
FLEET THROUGH THE CANAL

Aboard the Flagship .. S. S. New
Mexico.-The Pacific fleet, under the
command of Admiral Rodman, is float
ing in the Pacific waters.
Six dreadnaughts, led by the flagship
New Mexico, successfully negotiated
the Panama CznaI-the largest ships
that ever have passed through this
waterway. The average time Of pas
sage for each Warship from Colon
to Balboa was ten hours, eliminating
anchorage time in Gatun Lake.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
Happeajngs of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
THE WHEAT CROP FALLS SHORT
This Years Yield Won't Reach 16o,-
100000 Bushels, According to Sec
rotary Mothers Figures.

Kansas wheat viii not reach $50
million bushels this year. according to
the state board Of agriculture These
reports are based upon the actual
threshing returns in practically every
section Of the state The acre yield
estimates Of the corresp ondents has
bushels per acre.
The Kansas corn prospect is better
than for several years past, although
the acreage is greatly reduced from
former paintings.
The report of the department, show
ing conditions July IS, issued by J. c..
Mohler, secretary Of the board, said:
Judging by threshing returns and
other indications up to July 10, CORE
spOndents now place their estimate Of
this years Kansas winter wheat crop
at 158, 999, 200 bushels, or an average
yield of 1877 bushels per acre, as
against their pre-harVest estimate Of
June 81, of q prospective production
of 229 ,217,000 bushels or 1913 bushels
per acre. Although the decline is
keenly disappointing, the years crop is
the second largest in the states his
bushels only exceeding it.
Never before perhaps have the
growers been so grievously misled by
prospects just preceding harvest as has
been the case this year The canvass
of June 81 revealed a uniformly favor
able situation, excepting only the bot
tom wheat, according to the consensus
of the boards experienced correspond
ents numbering about two thousand, or
an average of twenty to a county
These same reporters now say that the
expectations of June were not realized,
principally because the wheat failed to
properly fill.
"On the states 4,358,0O0 acres of
growing corn. the condition averages
1877, based on 100 as representing a
satisfactory situation. This is a. gain
of 4.3 points in the past month. The
July condition of corn last year was 75.6
per cent, and in 1917 51.4 per cent The
corn prospect is quite variant
"Oats and barley were also affected
by the hot weather, although by no
means so seriously as was the wheat.
The indicated yield Of oats is now 49,
776,000 bushels, or 30.3 bushels to the
acre, as against 52,416,847 bushels or
33.5 bushels per acre, in June, while the
yield Of barley is now placed at A.
$4,000 bushels, or less by 2,111, 900
bushels than the June forecast"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07

The Golden Belt Highway from Sa-
lima east to the Dickinson County line
has been declared a public utility by
the county commissioners and a petit
ton sent to the state highway com
missioner applying for federal aid for
hard surfacing. Federal aid has been
granted to the hard road north OF Sa-
lima to the ottawa County line on the
Meridian Road. This is the route which
was changed to Bennington because
the farmers on the original route OPP
posed hard roads. The Meridian High
way officers made the change and
farmers stopped work in their harvest
fields to sign the petition on the new
route
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
Eo-.st Fires Gamma

MfssouIa, Mont--With one Montana
town practically destroyed by fire and
with eighteen new fires reported, The
fire situation was considered by gov
ment forest service officials at
headquarters here to be growing steaa-
fly worse
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
Ransom Boy Mexicans Held.

Washington = Phillip Thompson
American boy kidnapped by Mexican
bandits thirty miles from Mexico City,
has been released upon payment Of
the fifteen hundred pesos demanded,
the State Department was advised the
other day
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07
AReds" Gain In Bulgaria.

LOndon--Reports from Bulgaria by
way of Berlin say that BOIshevism
is spreading in that country, says an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen Several demonstrations
have occurred in the larger towns
accompanied by disorders.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07

Preparations are being made by
the 135th Air Squadron, which recent
~ returned from overseas, to go to the
Mexican border Just how soon the
squadron will leave Fort Sill is not
known, as orders have not yet arrived
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07

Paris.-Dr. Karl Renner, head Of
the Austrian peace delegation, has
sent a note to the peace conference
asking an extension Of seven days in
the time allowed the Austrians to re-
ply to the peace treaty.
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Chicago 22-stOry hotel in the
heart of Chicago's loop district, to be
operated especially for the convent
ence Of country people visiting Chi
cage, viii be built by John R. Thomp-
son, operator Of a chain OF luncheon
rooms, he announced recently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-07

Sinking motor cars as a means OF
hiding them has been invented by
Pittsburg motor car thieves. Recent
ly car was stolen in Pittsburg. Later
boys swimming in a deep pond which
formerly was a coal strip pit discov-
cred part of a car just at the surface
of the water. The police pulled the
car out and it proved to be the stolen
one. The tires and electrical appli-
ances had been taken off on bank CT
the pond and the machine pushed Off
into the deep water