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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
TO PROBE ATULsA LYNCHING

Tulsa rigid investigation of the
lynching Of Roy Bolton, alias T. P.
Owens, 19 years old, confessed slayer
Of Homer Nida, taxi driver, at the
hands of mob of two thousand per-
sons here the other night, will be
made at once, according to Thomas I.
Munroe, county attorney.
Sheriff James Woolley, whom the
leaders disarmed before storming the
county Jail for Bolton, removed Ray
mond Sharp and Marie Harmon, who
have admitted their connection with
the shooting, to Muskogee early the
next morning. fearing the mob might
attempt to lynch them here.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
HUNS USING WRONG LABELS
Report to Washington Says Inferior
Goods Are Being Sent to Amer
lea and England.

Neutrality-suspicious. is dumping
its surplus OF inferior goods in the
United States and England and is
marking its exports to Great Britain
made in America" and its exports to
the United States made in England, %
official advices received recently
stated.
German exporters are following this
practice, the advices said, IL an effort
to regain their former foreign trade.
Such tactics are discrediting Ameri-
can manufacturers in England and
British manufacturers in the United
States, the advices said.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
CLUB WILL ADD TO WAR LIST
ARMY and Navy Club of America to
MemoriaIize All Officers Killed
in the World War.

New York-Believing the official
casualty report at Washington can be
supplemented by relatives, friends
and organizations with which the war
dead were identified, the Army and
Navy Club of America is endeavoring
to compile a complete authentic list
of officers who died in the war.
The names with other data bearing
on the civil and military life Of the
men, will be preserved in 3-million-
dollar memorial hall and officers
club house to be erected here.
In the list sixty-nine Kansas Off
GERS lost their lives. OF that number,
thirty-three were killed in action,
eighteen died Of wounds, eleven Of
disease, five OF accident and the re-
mainder OF undetermined causes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

! Six new associate and assistant pro-
fessors are appointed this year for
the Kansas State Agricultural College.
l. A. WOjaszak is assistant professor
OF electrical engineering, R. M. Green
is associate professor of agricultural
economics, Mrs. Elizabeth Hargrave
Baldwin is assistant professor of
household economics and director of
the college cafeteria, Miss Amy Jane
Leazenby is assistant professor of
household economics and E. A. Knoth
is assistant professor of physical edu-
cation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Hutchinson was selected as the con-
vention city for next year by the Kan
sas organization of the American Lee
gion in session at Topeka. Four cities
OF Kansas were candidates for the
honor of entertaining the Legion men
next year. In the voting Hutchinson
received 253 votes, Manhattan 134, OF
tawa 81, and Eldorado 6. After the
ballot motion to make the selection
unanimous was adopted. The 1921
convention will be held on August %,
%, and "a.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Word received at Topeka from Ma
ior Jerry Springstead in command Of
the Kansas rifle team at Camp Perry,
Ohio, states that the Kansas National
Guard team finished 36 of the IFS
teams participating in the national
shoot and the Kansas civilian team
finished 80. This is the second time
in succession that the civilian team
from Kansas has bested the National
Guard.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Rain interfered to a considerable
extent with the program for the clos
ing day of the encampment of the
Kansas national guard at Fort Riley.
The main points were carried out.
however, including inspection, re-
view by Governor Allen any paying
off of the men.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

William Gilmore, aged a, a pioneer
of Butler County, is dead at his home
northeast Of FL Dorado. Mr.. Gilmore
came to Kansas in the eighties and
located in Butler County, where he
had since lived. He was well known
in that section.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Mcpherson County's new $3.50, 900
hospital will be opened September Is,
according to present plans. The build
ing said to be the finest county in
stitution Of its kind in the state, was
turned over to the hospital board last
week by the contractors, and furnish
ing is now under way.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Private Alfred F. Benyshek, who
threw himself in front OF a freight
train at Camp Funston recently, was
victim of shell shock, his fellow
soldiers say. The records show that
he was seven times cited for bravery
while serving with the 5th field ar
tillery overseas. He was attached to
the quartermaster corps at Camp
Funston. The body was sent to Cuba,
Kas., for burial
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
SEES DOWNWARD
TREND IN PRICES
United States Chamber of CON-
MERGE Reports Conditions
in Good Shape,
LABOR MORE EFFICIENT NOW
National BODY of Business Men Finds
An Increasing Gain of Supply O.
Demand.

Washington@The Chamber of Com
merce of the United States believes
there will be a gradual and natural re-
I'D justment OF business conditions
without economic calamity, its semi
annual bulletin on crops and business.
summarizing conditions in scores of
lines, points out
Tight money, unrest of labor, loosen
ed bonds in some phases Of social life,
the Russian-Poland war, and high cost
Of necessities are disturbing business
factors.
The trend seems to be toward 8
gradually increasing gain OF supply
upon demand and a somewhat lower
level of prices.
Textile Production Down.
In textiles there has been a decrease
in production and lower prices. Here
and there mills have shut down or are
running on reduced time.
The motor car industry seems to be
headed toward somewhat lessened out
put. Jewelry business in New Eng
land is slowing up. Paper mills are
full of orders. The same is true of
metal lines.
The complaint of inefficiency of
labor and scarcity grows less.
Whether mining is busy and pros
porous or the reverse depends upon
the metal. Contraction in financial
credits has put "wildcatting' in the
oil regions almost out of business.
Construction and building have slow
ed down. The reasons include high
prices, scarcity of labor and materials,
and practical withdrawal of credit ac-
commodations on new construction.
Coal mining has its flock Of troubles,
including lack of cars and strikes.
Big Crops Appear Certain.
There is promise for billion bush
els of corn, 500 million of wheat, and
for a cotton yield Of 1917 million bales,
although cotton is not safe reckoning.
There will be more oats, tobacco, po-
tatoes, rice, sugar, both cane and beet,
and a hay crop Of proportions that
should have a marked effect in reduc-
ing cost of livestock, dairy and poul-
try products.
Future prices and adequate transpor-
tation are problems confronting the
farmer.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
Soviet NapoIeon Is Busted"

Warsaw.-GeneraI Tuchatsehewsd,
known as the soviet Napoleon has
been relieved Of his post as command
er-in-chief Of the bolshevist army on
the Polish front because of his failure
to take Warsaw. according to inform
alton given to the press here.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

BY a margin of seventy-six votes
Osawatomie voted wet in the recent
election. The special election was for
the purpose of voting $4,000 in bonds
for the extension and Improvement to
the municipal water and light plant.
The vote was 294 for the proposition
and 1O9 against.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
Bomb Causes Panic in Hotel.

Chicago-Guests Of a nearby hotel
we're thrown into q panic when a
bomb was exploded in the rear Of a
warehouse in what police believe was
an attempt to steal 16O. 900 gallons OF
liquor stored there. The explosion
set off burglar alarms and the bomb
e-s were frightened away.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Wilson Approves Mine Wage Report
Washfngton.-Pre Wilson is
understood to have approved the re-
port of the commission appointed to
consider wage demands Of anthracite
coal miners It was said at the White
House THAT the document probably
would be made public at once.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Kansaa Arrested in los Angeles
Los Angeles.-On q Geographic war
rant from Topeka, Neal S. Anderson
was arrested here as he was attempt
ing TO sell a motor car alleged not
vat fully paid for
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
More Troopa to ReIfast.

Dublin = Cameron Highland
troops, the LIST Scottish rifles, went OF
board special trains here thu other
morning and it was believed they
were being sent to Belfast
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
Pershino to South Ameriea.

Washington.-Gene Pershing will
tour the principal countries Of South
America at the end of this year as the
personal representative of President
Wilson, if present plans of the state
department are carried out
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
susDends Higher Rate on oil.

Washington--The interstate com
mission has suspended until Deem
Der Is. next, the increased rates on
petroleum products from points In
Kansas. Oklahoma and Missouri to
Chicago, Milwaukee and other related
territories.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
coIver to Quit Trade Board.

Washington-W B. Colver. chair
man of the federal trade commission,
has notified President Wilson that he
did not wish his name considered for
reappointment to the commission at
the expiration OF his term.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Two new extension specialists have
been appointed at the Kansas State
Agricultural College. w T. CrandaIl
will be extension assistant professor
OF dairy husbandry and Ernest B.
Wells win be extension professor OF
soils
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

An application for an Injunction to
prevent the industrial courts putting
into effect the order allowing the Kan.
sas City Telephone Company to break
its contract with Kansas City, Kas.
has been filed in the district court
at Topeka.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

C1evelsnd.-Some business men fan
10 realize that a slowing up OF bust
ness is sometimes q healthfuI sign,
according 70 the monthly review CT the
Fourth Federal Reserve Bank
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Henry Danhauser, after eighteen
years service on Route from Lyn-
don, has been retired, under the terms
of the recently passed bill separating
from the service carriers who had
served fifteen years, and had reached
the age of IS.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Maj w H. Wright, former com.
mander of the 35th division, has noti-
fled the committee in charge of re-
union arrangements that he viii at
tend the reunion in Topeka Septem-
Der 26, q and %. General Pershing
also has been invited and General
Wright has agreed to use mis- influ-
ence in getting him to attend.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
Justice Rrandeis Is Home.

New York.-Justice Louis D. Bran
deis of the United States supreme
court returned on the steamer Iceland
from London, where he presided at the
Zionist conference
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

SVyftehnen Send Engine on Wild Run
Chicago. utIaE" svitchmen
stormed an engine in railroad yard
here, forced the crew of three to get
off. and. throwing the throttle open.
let the engine run wild Before il
travelled far an engineer hoped the
locomotive and brought it TO halt.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

A budget system of Sedgwick Coun-
ty offices will be put into operation
January l, if plans of the board of
country commissioners and the audi
tor are accepted.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
~ 80. White Man.

Tulsa. Okia.-A mob Of two hunrded
men the other night stormed the coun-
ty Jail here and removed Tom Owen,
confessed slayer of Homer Eidas a
taxicab driver, and hanged him near
Garden City.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

A spiders bite caused the death of
Euphemia Mabel Meigs. 5-year-old
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Meigs,
near Neal, the other day. The girl
was bitten while playing in a field
Tuesday. She died in an Emopria
hospital.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
Mail Plane Down with Two.

Morristown, N MAJOR. pilot. and
CASTOR Rierson, mechanician, burned
to death IN q metal mail plane the
other morning which went down on
James street. this city.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
stiIIs Eound in : CONN

Chicazo-Thomas Barosko. an IN
dertzker, was arrested here when mo
hibition agents found tEentyzeven
gallons Of whisky IN the basement Of
his establishment and two stills in q
coffin The agents say that Barosko
has meen running the stills for several
weeks
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
France to Share Mesopotamian Oil.

France TO Share MesoPotanian Oil.
Washington-Great Britain's recent
agreement to let the French have %
per cent or the oil products Of MesO-
potamia was said in official quarters
here to have been based upon the ex-
istence before the war OF French fran
ehises in the vicinity of Nosul
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

irish Would Drop English Names
DubIin.-The corporation here is to
consider a proposal TO abolish street
names of English origin such as
Queens square" Townsend street.
and Brunswick street" in favor OF
the names OF leading Sim Feiners-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
onah. n.u.naper Eounder pead.

Omaha-Dr. G. L Miller, omaha's
first practicing physician and founder
Of the Omaha Herald, later made part
OF the World-Herald, is dead here.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

One farmer from each Kansas town
ship is urged to attend a meeting at
Salina September z, for the purpose
Of making plans that will insure them
living price for their wheat" &C.
cording to- call issued by Maurice
McAuliffe, president of the Farmers
Union Of Kansas. McAuliffe and
other prominent wheat growers Of
Kansas consider that $3.50 a bushel
is living price" for wheat.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Mrs. John Knoll, Sc years old. of
ST. Peter. Kas., died on train reach
ing Salina the other afternoon. She
was being brought to a Salina hos
pital for treatment. Her husband was
with her.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

By the narrow margin of two votes.
Olathe decided to be wet recently,
the "drys" losing their fight to defeat
a bond issue Of $4,000 which win go
for improvements to insure an ade-
quate water supply. Work on enlars-
ing the present city reservoir is ex-
pected to begin soon.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
A Huncer Strike Is Fatal.

Worcester, England The first
desth resulting from a hunger strike
IN an English 5an occurred here the
other night.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
vi-.,nis MOI Shot a Negro.

WIT9In WOE oIIOl . I-~sIS'
Virgfliana. Va.-Leslie Allen, ne
gro. was shot and killed recently by
a posse following charges that he had
fnsuIted two small white girls AT Buff
faIo Springs. Va
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

Owen L. Davis, age go, is believed
to be the oldest hunter in Kansas. He.
recently applied for a hunting license
at the office of the Lyon County clerk.
He Is veteran Of the Civil War.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09

A. A. Potter, dean of engineering
and director of the engineering ex-
pertinent station, Kansas State agri-
cultural college, has resigned to be-
come dean of engineering of Purdue
university, Lafayette, Ind, one OF the
strongest engineering schools in the
West. Dean Potter has been at the
college since 1905, working up from
an instructorship. During the war he
was in charge Of vocational training
of drafted men for one-sixth of the
United States. The position at Pur-
due pays Dean Potter $4,000 a year,
considerable increase over his sal
airy here. He will be succeeded there
by Roy A. Seaton, professor of applied
mechanics since 1914 and captain of
engineers in the war.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
HEAVY DAMAGE FROM STORM
Wide Strip Across Anderson County
Was Laid Waste by the Hail,
Wind and Rain.

Sweeping a strip three to six miles
clear across Anderson County, hail,
rain and a near-tornado did damage
that may reach hundreds OF thousands
Of dollars to crops and farm buildings
the other night, it has been learned.
though crippled wire facilities have
not yet revealed the total extent OF
the loss. Probably one hundred square
miles or more were laid waste by the
storm. No casualties have been re-
ported.
Though Garrett was in the path OF
the wind, and heavy rain and hail fell
there, the worst damage was south, in
Washington Township. There, it is re-
ported, roofs were pierced by hail
stones, trees were shredded OF leaves
and corn was reduced to stubble.
Many wheat bins were unroofed and
the contents ruined.
An unusually large corn yield had
been expected in this county and the
crop. was in the best condition In
years.
The downpour first began at 5
o'clock in the afternoon and lasted
more than an hour. Following this
there was a lu1l till about 10 o'clock
at night, when the storm became vio-
lent again. Torrents of rain, accom-
panied by heavy hail, fell for more
than two hours. In Garnett the rain
fall was three and one-third inches.
Sewers were choked and many stores
were flooded. Windows were smash
ed.
All the lights on the white Way"
were. demolished and gardens were
badly damaged.
At the summer home Of Noah Bow
man, a Garnett attorney, three miles
south of town, a 2O-acre field of red
clover was laid bare by the terrific
fall of hail and rain. Persons who
visited the field declared it the most
astonishing example OF hail destruc-
ton they ever saw.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-09
FOR new COMPENSATION Law
State Labor Commissioners Crawford
Points Out Weak Spots in the
Present Kansas Statute.

Some striking racts are given by
John H. Crawford, state labor com
missioner, in support Of his recon-
mendation for a better compensation
law in Kansas. He hopes the next
legislature will amend the present law
and make it as effective as are sim
liar laws in the other progressive
states of the nation. He also hopes
to get Governor Allen back OF the
matter SO that it will find prominent
place in his message.
Discussing the need of a better COM
pensation law Mr.. Crawford said re-
Gently:
Justice requires that an industry
should pay the cost Of producing it's
products. Recognizing loss of life or
limb to the workers is just as much
a part Of the production cost as the
wear and tear on machinery. Work
mems compensation laws have been
enacted and are now in force in forty
two states, in addition to Porto Rico
and the two territories of Alaska and
Hawaii. The federal government also
provides for its civilian employees.
Ten states, Alabama, Alaska, nan
sas, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee and
Wyoming. have placed workmen's
compensation laws on the statute
books and left them to be admins
tered by the courts. This means the
law Iitigates rather than compensates.
Stopped from suing for damages un-
der the common law, if the injured
workman does not settle for the
amount offered by the insurance car
rier he has the other alternative; en-
ploy lawyer and go into court seek
ing to secure that which the compen-
sation law says is already his.
Richard J. Hopkins, attorney gen.
eral, is preparing a QUESTIONABLE for
the coal dealers IN the state Many
reports of alleged unusual increases
in coal prices in various parts of Kan
sas have come to the attorney general
recently and he is going to investi-
gate each of these cases to see if
there is a combination of coal dealers
in the state and whether they are
profiteering. The industrial court is
going to join in the investigation and
will obtain the information from the
coal operators relative to the costs
of coal production and the wholesale
price. The 35 per cent increase in
freight rates On coal now in effect is
said to have caused raise of 81 or
more a ton in the retail prices of coal
in Eastern Kansas. and as high as 81
ton in Central Kansas.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-06-25
LAFAYETTE

Remember the Children's Day Can
tata to be given this week Sunday
evening, promptly at 500.
Blaine Kulp and wife who have been
making their home with Mrs. Kulp's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Broad
sword of Chatham, have come to the
Kulp home for an indefinite time. Mr..
Kulp will continue his work in the
Chatham oil fields where he and his
brother Blake have had. positions
since last spring.
Mrs. Frank Stackhouse, with her
brother John Erb went to Zinnanople,
Fem, Saturday to attend the funeral
of their aunt, Mrs. Samuel Rice. They
expect to remain for the week visiting
relatives there.
An unique outing as well as most
enjoyable one, occurred last Friday at
the old Hoff Homestead on Smith road
where Mrs. Josiah Hoff with her sons
and their families gathered for the day
but not +" alone on pleasure bent. ,
While the wives and mother prepared
the picnic dinner and otherwise passed
the hours in a social way, the Hoff
boys put in their time repairing all the
buildings on the farm. Altogether,
it was day of happiness, pure and
SIMPLE and one, rare indeed, in this day
of widely dispersed families. The
presence of Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Hodges
who live on the farm, added very much
to the success Of the outings.
! Many from this locality are plan
ming to take in the Wheat Field Day
at the Wooster Experiment Station
Among those whose names we have
been able to secure are-Mr. and Mrs
Sherm. Hoff, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Lance, Paul Warner and wife and Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Clark, and G. E. Lance
and family all of whom will go if the
weather is favorable.
| Arthur Lance, who with his carpen-
ter gang, commenced barn in Cong
ress last week, reports very serious
damage to crops in that section as q
result of the hail storms recently.
Fields of oats, wheat and corn were en-
tirely destroyed, garden and fruit
trees laid waste and many bridges
washed away. So, while we may be
lamenting the weeds in our corn as a
result Of so many deluges, it's not so
bad to know that our corn is here yet,
to hoe.
Miss Anna Bal1ash who has been On
duty as a nurse in Cleveland for the
past year, visited for few days at her
home here, returning to the city last
Tuesday to resume her work there.
Madeline Ernst of Oberlin, at the
W. B. Chapman home.
Mrs. B. G. Sheldon and two sons
of Akron visited the past week at the
home of her sister Mrs. Clarence Mil
Ter and at her brothers the Geo. Full
ton, home. Mr.. Sheldon, who accom-
panied his wife here last Sunday, re-
turned home the same evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vance Van Austrian
and family visited at his mothers
home in Sterling last Friday.
Mr.. Melvin McFarren of Wadsworth
who had been cared for at the Infirm-
ary Home for some time, died in Col
umbus Hospital, where he had been re-
moved by. DR.. Damon and Mr.. Foskett
for an operation. His condition was
too weak however, and his death oc-