The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
KANSAS TOWNS ARE GROWING
An Increase of 10000 in the Urban
Population Last Year, Asses
sors' Reports Show.


sors' Reports Show.
While the population of Kansas
cities as a whole shows slight in
crease, four cities dropped out Of the
one thousand population class in the
last year ]. c.. MohIer, secretary of
the state board of agriculture, gave
out recently the statement of the pop
ulation for the cities of the state of
more than one thousand population.
Last year there were 134 in this class,
while this year there are $50. The
total population of the cities of more
than one thousand persons is 725, 1897,
Al per cent Of the states total popu-
lation. This is an increase in urban
population of nearly twenty thousand.
There are seventeen cities in Kan
sas which have more than ten thou
sand inhabitants compared with six
teen a year ago, Arkansas City being
added With a gain of 892, from 9,811
in 1918 to 10,703 in 1919. These sew
enteen cities have 2S.9 per cent Of
the states population. This years
record shows that 623, 083 persons live
in cities having a population of more
than $500 each, an increase of 35,422,
or 81 per cent over that of 1918.
Many notable increases and de-
creases in population of cities have
occurred within the past year, as, for
example, Topeka shows gain of g.
III, Kansas City 1882, Coffeyville
1888, Wichita 1892, Hutchinson l.
S41, Lindsborg 1,O56, and Winfield
made gain of 1,036. The largest per
cent of gain was made by Lindsborg
(52.6 per cent?, which increased in
population from zoos in 1918, to 1904
the present year.
Junction City shows the greatest
loss in population due to the curtail
ment of army forces art the govern
ment reservation at Fort Riley and
at Camp Funston, while Augusta is
second in this particular with & de-
crease of 1915, followed by Eldorado
GIG and Atchison 900. The decreases
in Augusta and Eldorado are caused
by the shifting Of workers to newly
developed oil fields of Kansas. The
seven largest cities of Kansas main
tain their rank as reported a year
ago.
Lacygne and Tonganoxie qualified
for the list of cities having one thou
sand inhabitants or more this year
with 1,055 and one thousand respec-
lively. Altoona, COldwater, Towanda,
Protection, Colby and Hanover are
not included in the list this year, as
they do not now have population of
one thousand each
A title note" held in security for
a balance payment on the purchase Of
an automobile is not construed as a
chatteI mortgage, under the Kansas
statutes, the court held, reversing a
decision Of the Pawnee County court
The court ordered r. A. Webb, con-
victed in the lower court because he
had sold the automobile without pay
ing off the note, discharged.
Cherokee County will conduct the
first auction of confiscated motor
cars ever held in Southeastern Kan
sas, October 25 Nine machines
seized by Sheriff Bob Frazier cor
carrying liquor will be sold to the
highest bidder. Six other cars are
held by the sheriff. but the time limit
OF sixty days has not expired on them.
Kansas this year will produce
combined yield of corn, wheat, oats,
barley, rye, flax and grain sorghums.
CT 299, 270 900 bushels, according to
estimates just made public by Edwin
" Paxton of the United States bu-
reau of crop estimates. This COM
pares with a total 1918 yield of 1885,
552, 900 bushels, and in 1917, $50, 514,-
600 bushels
In affirming a decision in the Craw-
ford County District Court against
Adolph Kurent, the supreme court in
a decision held that a person may
twice be held in jeopardy under the
Kansas Prohibitory Law for the same
offense in case the defendant, as
IN the Kurent case, is under a court
injunction not to possess Or deal in
Intoxicating liquors on given prem
Uses.
T. F. Newly. thirty-seven years a
resident of Lawrence, died at his
home recently after a lingering ill
ness. Mr.. Newly first settled in Kan
sas in 1870. He is survived by his
widow and three sons
Two weeks ago Thomas Lewis,
years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
N. Lewis of Kansas City, Kas, fell
down in the back yard. A weed stub
BILE scratched his eye. Infection set
in. He died recently at Grace hos
pital.
The third district members attend
ing the twenty-first annual meeting of
the Kansas Federation of Women's
Clubs closed three days session at
Fredonia recently. Mrs. Wayne Titus