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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

twenty-five persons were wound
ed at Havana, Cuba, in encounters be-
tween the police and persons attend
ing the funeral of a laborer killed in
the recent demonstration against the
high cost of living and spectators
gathered along the route of the fu-
neral procession.
Jose Suarez, known as "the cor
poral," the rebel leader who operated
between Jimenez and Parral, Chihua-
hua, was killed recently by a personal
enemy. according to advices received
recently at FL Paso. Tex
Thoroughly indignant over Prem
Ter Ciemenceau's speech in regard to
Italian questions in Fiume and on the
Adriatic. the Italian press is unani-
nous in its denunciation of the attf-
tude taken by the Allied and associ-
ated powers toward Italy.
"A boy believed by Robert Anton,
be missing Billy Dansey of Ham
monitor, n. J., is not the Dansey boy,
accordingto a statement issued by
Chief Anton and Charles Allen, chief
of police Of Tulsa
M J. Irak, a government depart
mental chief of Bohemia, has been
convicted of attempted bribery in an
effort to put through big sugar deal.
He was sentenced to eight months
solitary confinement, loss of citizen
ship and confiscation of the twenty
million crowns he offered as the bride
A common ground on which to
base joint action in Siberia has been
reached by the United States and Jap
an, according to an announcement
given out at Vladisvostok by the Jap
aness official publicity bureau.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
ANOTHER ATTACK
ON LORD FRENCH
Second Attempt in Ten DAYS to.
Kill the Lord Lieutenant
of ireland.
TWO KILLED IN THE BATTLE
Young Officer and Member of Attack
ing Force Slain Near Viceroy's
Lodge in Phoenix Park

DubIin.-Assassins still seek the
Life OF Viscount French, lord heuten-
ant Of Ireland, and the vig1ls of the
British secret service were redoubIed
following the daring effort early in
the morning to kill the viscount at his
home, the vice regal lodge, in Phoenix
park. Two casualties resulted from
the fighting which followed. Lieuten-
ant Boast OF the viceroy's guard and
an unidentified member of the attack
ing party being killed.
The same desperate abandon which
marked the attempted assassination
Of French a week ago featured the
attack of his would-be assailants
Attack Began at A. NJ.
1t was about o'clock in the morn
ing when suddenly the guards about
the French lodge were startled by the
sputter of rifle shots from a point
about four hundred yards up the main
road which passes the lodge. I'm,
mediately there was the patter of bull
lets about the dwelling and it was OBJ
vious that the place was under at
tack.
The alarm was given to French and
members of the household and GER
tain guests who were spending the
night at the lodge. Machine guns, by
which the dwelling is heavily equip
ped, were promptly manned and every
thing placed in readiness for any CON
certed attack which might follow.
1t was evident, however, that the
wOuld-be assassins were familiar with
the lodges armament, for they did not
attempt to come closer. After a short
lulI they resumed their rifle fire from
the same point, evidently in the hope
that a chance shot might find the
mark desired.
Officer Slain in Battle.
1t was this same fear. also, that
prompted Lieutenant Boast, who was
a dinner guest of Viscount French
and had remained for the night, to
leave the lodge, and gathering a few
guard volunteers, started after the
attacking force.
Picking their way carefully along in
the darkness, Boast and his men
reached a point very close to the
enemy, when suddenly the attackers
broke from their coYed and opened a
hot fire at close quarters. Boast fell
with a shot through the heart. One
Of the attacking band, an unidentified
man wearing the uniform of a Brit
ish soldier, also fell, rfddled with bull
lets.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
BIG ARMY DEPOT FOR UTAH
War Department Approves a 1920.
Acre Site for an Ordnance Stor-
age Depot Near Ogden.

Ogden. Utah.-Approval of 1850
acre site for an army ordnance and
ammunition depot near Ogden has
been given by the war department and
congress will be asked in January to
appropriate $4,000 to pay for the
site, it was announced recently. Even
tual expenditure of about million dol.
lars in buildings and equipment is ex-
pected. According to word received
here, this will be one of three great
great interior ordnance depots, the
others being in the Great Lakes re-
gion and on the Atlantic Coast.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

James Freeze, 76 years old, who 10
Gated on a homestead in what is nov
Hutchinson in 1871, was struck and
killed by an interurban car the other
night He and his wife, who had been
spending the holidays with relatives
in the country, were awaiting the car
to come into the city. A dense fog
caused Mr.. Freeze to misjudge how
close he was standing to the track.
Mr.. Freeze was a native of Denmark
and fought in the Danish-German war
in 1866. In the boom days his home
stead was made a part of the city and
divided into city lots and he was able
to retire.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
ALLEN FOR STATE INSURANCE
Rewriting of Compensation Act May
Be Considered at the Special
Session Of Legislature.

Governor Allen Will check state in
surance to cover workmen's compen-
sation in Kansas up to the special
session OF the legislature in January,
although he viii not insist that the
act be rewritten at this session. The
governor announced recently that on
account of the length OF time required
to enact really strong compensa-
ton act, he doubted If one would be
passed at the short session contain
plated.
81 doubt il the special session re-
writes the compensation act, although
the present makeshift is a failure"
Governor Allen said at does not al
low enough compensation to the work
men, and doesn't assure it will be paid.
But a compensation act is a long and
complicated piece OF legislation, and
the special session may not have time
to thoroughly go into the matter.
az am in favor of state insurance to
cover workmen's compensation. The
state could handle this particular kind
of insurance more cheaply for the en-
ployer and with more satisfactory and
speedier results for the injured work
man, or his family, than the insurance
companies are doing it.
The compensation act commission
authorized by the legislature at its
regular session, will meet at Topeka
to consider the provisions of a new
act, modelled on the New York law.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Concordia's emergency coal mining
will become permanent. The company
which reopened the pits at Miners
vile in the strike will increase the
production Of coal and build up the
field, it was announced the other day.
Two new veins have been struck re-
Gently and daily output of more than
one hundred tons is expected soon.
Plans for building a railroad to tue
field are being considered. The new
pits opened show coal which com
pares well with the Pittsburg prod
uct
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL Over KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
A LIQUOR PUZZLE IN KANSAS
Litigation in Crawford County Over
$500 Quarts Seized in 1917 Brings
Up. Interesting Questions.

Whisky worth $75,600 at the pres
ent market price is involved in itiga-
ton brought recently in the Crawford
County district court. A carload OF
whisky was seized by county author
tiles on the Frisco railroad at Gross,
q coal camp in the northern part OF
Crawford County, February 10, 1917.
The whisky was of a high grade ana
consisted of $500 quart bottles, con
tanned in sixty casks. 1t was taken TO
the county's booze storeroom at
Girard and action was begun by the
state toward its destruction Action
was brought against the Frisco be
cause that road was in possession OF
the liquor when it was seized.
A. B. Keller, county attorney, re-
Gently applied for an order for the de-
struction Of the liquor. Arthur Fuller
and W. J. True, Pittsburg lawyers,
representing twenty persons alleged
to have been consignees and there
fore owners of the seized liquors, filed
answer asking that the liquor be turn
ed over to the alleged owners. The
bills of Iading to each of the consign-
ees will be offered in evidence, the
lawyers asserted.
In the last year the county's store
room has been robbed several times,
and two interesting questions are pre-
scented by the move of the alleged
owners of the liquor: If the court de-
cides they are entitled to the liquor
how will the county be able to restore
to them the portion that has been
stolen from its storeroom? Also, if
the court decides the owners shall
have the liquor, what can they do with
it?
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Frank Hardy, so years old, an Au-
strian, inmate OF the state prison, was
killed within the walls of the prison
at 1880 o'clock the other morning
when a bale of sisal fell on him,
knocking him from wagon. The
wagon passed over his body and he
died on the way to the prison hospital.
Hardy, who had no known relatives
in this country, was received at the
prison December 19, this year. He was
convicted in Trego County for sell
ing mortgaged property and sentenced
to serve from one to five years.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
u. s. Has eood Jobs op.n.

MISUNDERSTANDING is among
the subject for competitive examina-
ton January 20 for civil service com
mission positions. Vacancies, includ-
ing one in the army air service, open
to both men and women, exist in posi-
tions paying from $2,1OO to So, 1900 6
wear
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
U. S. Troops to Leave Gary

Gary, Ind.-RemovaI Of United
States troops from Gary viii be start
ed within few days, it was reported
here. Mayor Hodges requested re-
moTal OF the troops following clash
between soldiers and civilians in Z
poolroom Christmas.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
Tree ~Profiteers" Lost Money.

New York.-Speculators in Christ
mas trees were hard hit in New York
this year and recently dealers who
had hoped for big profits hired truck
men to cart away remaining frs TO
the bay Others were turned over
to janitors to help heat apartments.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Louis Wetzel, 50 years old, promi-
nent Geary county farmer, is dead at
his home near Junction City as the
result of an accident. Mr.. WetzeI
used his foot to start a gasoline en-
CINE. The foot became entangled in
the wheel and before the engine
could be stopped both legs and both
arms were broken and his skull frac-
turd
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

All Kansas cities and towns, partic-
ularly Topeka, Wichita, Hutchinson
and Salina, age affected by the deci-
sion OF the interstate commerce COM
mission in the Memphis Southwestern
investigation. 1t is the most sweep
ing victory for the jobbers of Kansas
towns in years, declared Judge Helm
Of the public utilities commission, in
giving them an even break with Kan
sas City firms.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
Beef SHORTAGE 10 Years.

Chicago.-A shortage of 100000
cattle in the year just closing viii
cause high prices for beef and beef
products for at least the next seven
years, it is declared by n F. HORNE,
statistieian for the Union Stock Yards,
IN his annual report.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

The United Life and Accident Insur-
ance Company of Concord, n. H, will
be barred from Kansas unless they
drop their lien clause which holds a
man in service under obligations for
$50 on every thousand of his policy.
The accumulation upon this lien
would, in forty years mean that the
man would have nothing coming on
his policy and after that he would owe
the company. cit constitutes a liza
biIity and not an asset stated E. E.
Brookens, actuary Of the state insur-
ance department And we have mott
fled the company that they will either
eliminate that clause or stop doing
business in Kansas
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

All criminal cases set for the De
cember term of court at Salina have
been placed on the March docket and
the jury for this term dismissed. The
action delays the case against Felix
Broker, charged with aiding H. J.
Lefferdink, cashier of the Kansas
State Bank, in issuing certificates OF
deposit frauduIently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
John DIS DAUGHTER in Riq Gift.

Chicago gift of a tract of one
hundred and fifty acres, valued at
100000, to Cook county from Mrs.
Harold F. Mccormick, daughter OF John
D. Rockefeller, for the establishment
OF one of the worlds largest geological
gardens, was announced recently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

The first step to ascertain whether
Kansas oil refineries have been profit,
eering was taken when questionnaires,
prepared by Attorney General Hop
kins. were placed in the hands of re-
finery owners at Wichita Questions
on cost of operation, prices received
for various products, profits on pipe
lines and prices charged for fuel oil
must be answered under oath. The
state also wants to know how many OF
the refineries are members of re
timers association.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Chicago.-Efforts of the police were
directed toward the capture Of six
men who held up the other night a
fur store filled with Christmas shop
pers and escaped with furs valued at
$4,000.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Brig. Gen. Richard w. Young Dead.
alt Lake City.-Brig. Gen. Richard
\ Young, commander of the 65Lh
artillery brigade in France during the
war died here following an operation
for appendicitis a week ago. He was
a son of Brigham Young.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
More DAYLIGHT for France.

Paris-The cabinet met the other
day and approved the bill providing
for the turning ahead OF the clocks
one hour beginning February I. as a
fuel conservation measure.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Walter E. Wilson, state bank com
missioner, has been named member
OF the ways and means committee Of
the Republican national committee.
Wilson will represent Kansas on the
financial committee of the national Re
publican organization.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
Found supreme Court Ieak.

Observation-Disclosures gathered by
the department of justice relative TO
the alleged leak in decisions of the
United States supreme court will he
submitted to federal grand jury here
in January, it was announced at the
department. of justice
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
The Unrest in Egypt Grows.

London.-Adyices from Egypt said
martial law and censorship Of the
press had been extended, the authori-
ties putting in effect new and strin-
gent regulations to repress agitation
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
Woman in a Stolen Car Rina.


Chicago.-A woman, Louise McEI.
roy" was one Of nine persons indicted
here recently on charges Of motor car
stealing. Police say the arrests will
break up a ring which has done mill
lion dollars worth of traffic in stolen
cars in four years.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Lincoln, -ConstitutionaIity OF
a state law to curtan use Of foreign
languages in Nebraska schools as an
Americanization measure has been up
held by the state supreme court
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
Actors Oppose a Church Ban.

New York-The Actors Equity As
sociation has voted to request the
Methodist Church to lift the ban on
the theater at its convention in Des
Moines next May.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Governor Henry. J. Allen probably
will urge the special session Of the
legislature, which convenes on jan
uary 5, to pass as emergency legisla-
ton bill authorizing an increase IN
the school tax levy for cities of the
second and third class and for rural
school districts to provide an increase
in salaries for school teachers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
A San Francisco Eoo Boycott.

San Francisco.-In an effort 10
bring down the prices Of eggs and
milk, the Housewives League VIII
boycott eggs and ice cream thirty
lays, beginning January 2, executives
Of the league announced.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
Can't Control Sale.

The department of agriculture's bu-
reau of chemistry, which is entrusted
with enforcement of the pure food and
drug act, also has informed Commits
sioner Roper that it has no effective
control over the distribution of wood
alcohol and that so far as it is con-
cerned entirely new Legislation is nee
essary before the new menace can be
dealt with effectively
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Atoka, Ok.-One alleged bank rob-
Der was killed and two men were
captured after a gun fight with a
sheriffs posse In the hills nine miles
south OF here.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
A sz5 ooo theft in Cleveland.

CleVeland-TWo robbers escaped
with $4,000 in cash and 5000 IN
checks in a holdup in the downtown
section of James Hoduf, who was car
rying the money.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
The BoIsheviki shot IA ooo

Berne.-Fourteen thousand persons
were shot by the Bolsheviki of Russia
in the first three months of 1919, by
order of the extraordinary committee
at Moscow,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

New York-John Mccormack. the
tenor. announced recently that he
would return to Ireland next Decem-
Der, to be absent from the United
States for at least q year.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

The Wichita Chamber of Commerce
has adopted a resolution urging that
some attention be given to hard sur
face road laws at the special session
il January. The resolution urges
amendment of the provisions of the
present law so as to authorize the
county commissioners to issue war
rants for materials which are to be
used in the construction of the hard
surfaced roads as soon as the same
are to be delivered on the project; an
increase in the appropriations to the
state highway commission sufficient
to allow the commission to efficient
ly perform it's functions, and adoption
OF measures regulating the traffic up
on the hard surfaced roads when COM
pleted, as to speed, tonnage and char
acter of vehicles.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
URGES new LAWS
FOR WOOD ALCOHOL
Revenue Commissioners Says
Recent Fatalities Demand
Better Sales Control.
MAY LICENSE ALL DEALERS
Heavy Tax on Manufacture and Sale
May Be Imposed = Weakness
in New Amendment

Washington. = Legislation subject
ing the manufacture and sale of wood
alcohol to the same restrictions as
grain alcohol will be recommended to
congress as a result of the many IA
| talities from the use of wood alcohol
as beverage, Commissioner Roper of
nounced recently
The form of the proposed legislation
has not been decided upon definitely
by the bureau. 1t is understood, how
ever, that officials have in mind the
placing Of a heavy tax on the manu-
factUre and sale of wood alcohol and
requiring of permits by all persons en-
gagged in the traffic. This would pro-
vide the government with a definite
record of the movement of wood al
cohol from manufacturer to consumer
and would make possible immediate
action by the authorities in case of
violation of the regulations.
Laws Are Weak.
Officials said it had become obvious
that weaknesses in the national pro-
hibitiOn amendment as well as the in
ternal revenue law must be remedied
insofar as wood alcohol is concerned.
Federal authorities under existing law,
it was said, apparently are without
one legal thread upon which to pro-
coed against persons trafficking IN
the poison.
at is obvious" said Commissioner
Roper, that wood alcohol is il no
sense a liquor or beverage rs de-
scribed in either the prohibition
amendment or the internal revenue
laws, nor can it be considered nar-
cOtic under the provisions of the Har-
rison narcotic law. 1t is well known
to be a deadly poisonn and should be
regarded and treated as such. In
most states, if not all, wood alcohol
is recognized as poison and stringent
laws have been passed regulating its
use and safeguarding the public from
its abuse. No such laws exist. how
ever, for the use of federal author
ities.'
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08
Rrvzn to Rare 1e2o PIans.

Omaha-william J. Bryan will
speak here January II on The At
titude of the Democratic Party for
1920" Friends OF Mr.. Bryan say he
plans a tour Of several weeks II which
he viii discuss the League OF Nations,
the Peace Treaty and other campaign
issues.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

The Linn County Bank, whose pres
ident, Fred W. Pollman, recently ad-
mitted a shortage of $4,000, has
been declared to be in a solvent and
excellent condition by E. L. Bowman
and E v Wood, deputy bank COM
missioners of Kansas, who have just
completed an examination of the in
stitution.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Miss Ella Hall, II years old, died
at a hospital in Salina while being
prepared for the removal of her ton
sils. Physicians attribute her death
to heart disease. Miss Hall was the
daughter of the Rev. George R Hall,
superintendent of that Methodist dis
trict.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Because of the protracted cold spell
and snow on the ground wolves are
unable to get food and they have been
very daring. Farmers are chasing
wolves from their barn yards. A big
wolf drive viii be held near Hiawatha
New Years Day.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Miners in Atehison's municipal coal
mine quit work when the city de-
c1ined, to give them So ton for
mining coal from a 12-inch vein south
of town. The city offered 81 and
had been paying Sc The mine was
opened in November, when the gen.
eEa1 strike of miners precipitated the
coal shortage and for several days
the meager amount mined was the
only supply the town received
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Tired of rail transportation service
from Concordia to Southern Kansas,
the first bus line of seFies which
will eventually radiate in every di-
rection from Concordia to the south
west viii be inaugurated January L.
A bus service to SaIina will be main
tanned so as to connect with trains
there
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Plans for the taking OF the census
in Butler county have been practical
" completed The census entails
special work in this county on &C
count OF the oil and gas fields.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Taxpayers OF EIdorado recently
broke all records for one day in pay
ment OF taxes to avoid the penalty.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

.Concordia merchants have declared
war on State Price Commissioner
Hackney's recommendation that Kan
sas enact a state trade commission
law.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Edwin L. Boham, 7S years old, for
more than twenty years resident Of
Salina, is dead at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Arthur White. He
was the last Of family of ten chill
dren and served during the Civil War
with the 4th Iowa cavalry.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-08

Raymond E C.. Spencer, 80 years
old, of Kansas City, committed sui
eide at Pratt recently by shooting
himself after he had cut three deep
gashes in his left wrist. He was an
expert accountant, employed by Dun
& Co. Of Kansas City.