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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
RAIL DEFICIT IS 100000
Companies Announces an Increased
Loss for February Over the Re-
port for January.

Washington. - Railroads of the
United States suffered a deficit in
February of s7,205, 900, while log out
of two hundred reporting to the in
terstate commerce commission failed
to earn their expenses and taxes. as
against a deficit of $1,167 800 for Jan
uary, with 100 out of POP failing to
make expenses, according to tabula-
tons made public by the Association
of Railway Executives.
OF the log roads failing to make ex-
penses. forty-six were in the Eastern,
sixteen in the Southern and forty-four
in the Western districts. The two
hundred roads represent a mileage of
1855 miles.
The carriers, the tabulations show,
fell short $63.SO4,O 900 of earning the
amount estimated under the increas-
ed rates fixed in accordance with the
transportation act, devised to estab-
lish a return of 6 per cent on vaIua-
tons
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
O'CALLAGHAN MUST GET OUT
Plea of Lord Mayor of Cork for Po-
iticai Asylum Denied by
Secretary Hughes.

Washington. - Donal O'Callaghan,
lord mayor of Cork, who arrived at
Newport News in January as a stow
away and without a passport, must
leave the country
Secretary Davis made this clear re-
Gently in a formal statement. He an
nounced that Secretary Hughes had
denied the plea OF O'Cauaghan to be
allowed political asylum in the United
States.
O'Callaghan's status is that of an
alien seaman, Davis showed, who was
allowed to land only temporarily
while searching for berth to reship.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
MEANS NEW PEACE FARLEY
Presidents Message Foreshadows a
Conference in Washington With
Present Treaty as Basis.

Washington. - Another peace con-
ference, to be held this time in Wash
ington instead of Paris, was foreshad-
owed by officials in commenting upon
the pronouncement in President
Harding's message against a separate
treaty with the central powers.
The Presidents declaration that the
United States cannot ignore the Old
World relationships and settlements
already effected, means that America
is again to take her seat in the coun-
ellis of the world, high officials said,
and it was pointed out that the COM
plexity of the problems presented and
the sharp conflict of interests make.
it extremely unlikely that these nego-
tiations Guild be conducted in any way
other than across the conference
table.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
FORMER KAISERIN is BEAD
Augusta Victoria Succumbs to Heart
Disease at Doom, Holland
Kaiser at Bedside.

Doom, MISUNDERSTANDING Au-
gusta Victoria of Germany is dead
here. By a strange coincidence the
end came just one year after she suf-
fered her first severe attack of heart
disease.
1t was while she was preparing TO
enter the house of Doom, the present
home of the ex-empress of Germany,
after her long residence at Ameron-
gen, that she was stricken with what
at the time was believed to be a fatal
attack. That was April II, 1920. For
a few days, there were reports that
her death was momentarily expected,
but she rallied, and accompanied her
husband to Doom May Is, last.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
TALK A PAPER MILLS STRIKE

New York.-Union representatives
of the workers in the paper and pulp
mills of the United States and Can
ada at a conference here unanimously
rejected a proposal submitted by the
mill owners calling for a 80 per cent
wage reduction and increasing the
working day from eight to nine hours.
The action of the representatives
now will be submitted by referendum
to the rank and file of the workers of
the various unions for their approval
or rejection, with the understanding
that in case satisfactory agreements
are not made between now and the
time of the expiration of the present
agreements, work will automatically
cease in the mills of the companies"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
TEN ARE DEAD IN
TEXAS TORNADO
Business District of Melissa
Swept AWay-Fire Com
pfetes Destruction.
MANY PESOAS WERE INJURED
Baby Killed in Mothers Arms by Fly
ing Timber-HospitaIs Are Filled
With Victims.

Mckinney, Tex.-Five persons were
killed and from twenty-five to fifty
other injured, some probably fatally,
when a tornado swept down from the
west on Melissa, six miles south of
here, at $3.50 o'clock in the afternoon.
Fire followed in the debris of the
buildings RACED by the twister and vir-
tually the entire business district
and the east side of Melissa were.
destroyed
The tornado unroofed the school
building in which about 240 children
were at classes, also caving in the
east walls, but, due to the foresight
of the principal and teachers who,
when they saw the tornado approach
ing, marshaled their charges to the
basement, none of the children was
hurt.
The Dead.
Three-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Warner Young. Three-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler
Loftice. Lou Hawkins, so. Henry
Morgan. Florence Thomas.
Hotel Turned Around.
The tracks of the Houston & Texas
Central railroad and electric inter
urban railway through Melissa were
torn up for a half mile. A string of
freight cars on the railroad tracks
was blown off, injuring rome of the
train men.
The tornado dealt with Melissa in
the usual freakish fashion. 1t orig
mated near Franklin, six miles west
of Melissa, swept eastward, destroy
ing farm buildings along the way to
Boland and Charlottesville, then
missed the west side of Melissa, only
to sweep down from the east.
The Walden hotel, which faced
south, was hurled around by the wind
and left facing west. No one in the
hotel was hurt.
The little Loftice girl was killed in
her mothers arms by a flying piece
Of scantling. The mother was not in
jured.
Rescue Party MobiIizes.
A horse on the main street was
found with a scantling driven entirely
through its body. Many horses and
mules were killed
In the business district only one
building, the bank, was left standing
and about twenty-five structures,
mostly brick buildings, were destroy
ed. All residences in the east portion
were blown down.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
news ITEMS FROM
ALL over KANSAS
Happenings Of Mere or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
ALEX HOWAT is GUILTY AGAIN
Head of Kansas Miner. Fined soon
and Placed Under 5000
Peace Bond.

Alexander Howat. president of Dis
trict IA, United Mine Workers of
America, was found guilty of con-
tempt Of court in the Crawford County
district court at Pittsburg recently.
A peace bond OF $1,000 was imposed
by Judge A. ]. Curran as a part of
the penalty, but a stay of execution
was granted pending the decision of
Inc Kansas supreme court, to which
the case is to be appealed.
The courtroom was crowded, and
several members of the district board
who recently were dismissed as de-
PENDANTS sat in close proximity to
Howat and the defense counsel.
Judge Curran's sentence provided
that Howat pay a fine of 5000. put up
a bond of $4,000 witt the state as a
guarantee that no further strikes
would be called. and that in the event
OF his failure to comply with these
terms, he be placed in Jail TO stay
there until the payment had been
made. With the stay of execution
granted, however. it was necessary
Tor Howat only to put up an appeal
bond OF $4,000, and this was immedi-
ately effected.
This is the second contempt case
appealed to the Kansas supreme
court, both in connection with the vio-
lation OF the injunction granted by
Judge Curran September IA, 1920. pro-
hibiting the calling of strikes in the
Kansas coal fields. One more action
against the leader is pending-the
case in the Cherokee County district
court brought by the state-in which
Howat is charged with violating the
criminal sections of the Kansas court
of industrial relations. The case will
be tried at Columbus in the May term
of court.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITIES

Charges that Elvin Bogninski, a
butcher, hanged his 2-year-old son by
the arm for twelve hours and fire.
quently inflicted similar punishment
on his wife and other children, were
investigated recently at Chicago by
the Illinois humane society. Bognin-
ski was arrested.
"A bill defining libel, introduced in
the Michigan house by Representative
Welsh. Grand Rapids, is designed ito
put an end to Henry Ford's criticism
OF Jews" its author declared in a
statement at Lansing.
Two women, Mrs. Minnie Stur-
geon and Miss Rosalie Davis, recently
saved John Graham. 81 years old,
blind and helpless, from death in a
fire that practically destroyed the
home of Mrs. Josie Burton, at Law
ton, Ok.
The British government has dis
covered a widespread conspiracy to
subvert the loyalty and discipline of
the troops, according to the Pail Mall
Gazette. A number of arrests have
already been made and others are ex-
pected to follow.
Failure Of the committee of sew
enteen TO adopt a compulsory pooling
plan for the marketing of wheat at
its recent meeting in Chicago may
prevent the National Wheat Growers
association from combining with it in
its marketing plans the executive
board of the association says.
1t has been officially announced
at Lucerne that ex-King Charles of
Hungary has decided voluntarily to
leave Switzerland, and that he is con.
Quoting negotiations with another
power regarding his residence
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
WILL RESPECT LAND RIGHTS
Secretary Hughes Is Advised That
American Owners in Mexico
Will Not Be Disturbed.

Washington. - The United States
has won in an important diplomatic
fight with the ObregoD government
of Mexico, according to state departr-
ment advices.
1t was learned that the department
had protested to the Mexican govern
ment against steps to appropriate val
liable American farming land in that
country for division among Mexican
peasants
Secretary Hughes has now been ad-
vised by the American charge daft
flares in the City Of Mexico that
Obregon had given assurances that
no American or other foreign proper
~ would be disturbed in this pro
posed appropriation of land.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
PLAN FOR A FINAL DECISION
Conference of Allied Supreme Council
in May Expected to Settle
PREPARATION Dispute.

Paris.-DecisiOns of the utmost i'm
portance regarding Germany will be
sought by the supreme allied council
at a conference to be held, probably
in Paris, early in May. This confer
ence is regarded by France as deci-
sive, it is declared here.
There is much speculation in this
city, whether President Harding's pol
icies as outlined before congress, do
not foreshadow the presence of a
United States representative
Marshal Foch, General Weygand
and ether military authorities have
been holding a series of conferences
at which they have discussed action
which the supreme council may event
uaIly decide upon.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

Baker university lost at Baldwin to
Park colleges debating team l to 3.
The immigration question was dis
cussed. with Baker taking the mega
tive side of the question. Mcfarland
Porter and McClusky represented
Park college and Case, James and
Chubb argued for Baker. The judges
were DR.. ]. H. Hill, Judge P. A. Cos
colow and R. W. Hall. all of Kansas
City.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

Kansas City. Kas., will have her
chance to fight out the fairness of
the 50-cent service charge now col
lected by the Wyandotte County Gas
Company May 3 before the public util-
tiles commission. The commission
has set that date for hearing the four
cities wishing TO protest the service
charge OF the gas companies on the
Kansas Natural lines subsequent to
the decision by Judge Wilbur Booth
OF st. Paul that the S0-cent rate q
thousand feet fixed by the Kansas
industrial court was non-compensa-
tory. Since Judge Booths order Leav-
enworth and Atchison gas patrons
have been paying a service charge of
81 month and Topeka citizens are
paying rs cents.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Put Bone in Infant,s Lena.

Newark, N. J.-Splinters from the
shin bone of mother were trans
planted here recently to the leg of an
infant born without the fibulas in the
lower legs, by surgeons OF the Newark
Memorial hospital. The operation
took two hours.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Used Electricity to End Life.

Plano, Tex.-John Williams, tenant
farmer six miles east of Plano, killed
himself by electrocision, county au-
thorities announced recently. Tap
ping high tension wire and connect
ing the two ends to his body, Will
Hams died almost outright.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
The Metal Outlook BRIGHT.

Chicago-The metal mining indus
try will be ION its feet" within six
months. This is the belief expressed
the other day by John T. Burns, sec
rotary of he Ameri AN Mining Con-
gress, after returning from a tour of
the leading mining districts.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Ship Down in me.iee

Beaumont, Textile Bowie line
steamship Colonel Bowie, with TWEEN
ty-two men on board, foundered in
the Gulf of Mexico, according to wire
less advices received by the home Of
flee here. Three men were picked
up by the British steamer Cissy.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Four Killed on a CROSSING.

COvington.-Four persons were kill
ed, four severely injured and two
others slightly injured in a collision
of motor car and a Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad engine at a grade cross
ing here recently
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Three Too Many for Him.

New York.-Five bandits tried to
rob Abraham Goldberg in his cafe.
He apologized to the police because
three of them got away. The other
two possibly may recover, but never
will be the same.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

Emmett Stith. an employee of a
battery station at Liberal. is not ex-
pected to live, following severe burns
received in an explosion in the sta
uon- The cause of the explosion is
not known. The building was badly
damaged by the blast.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
May Abolish Rail Administration.

Washington--The senate interstate
to work out plan to abolish the rail-
road administration and save the gov
eminent the large outlay of money re-
quired for the maintenance of this
bureau
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

According to a ruling received at
Atchison by telephone from R. ]. Hop
kins. attorney general, Joseph Hav-
erty, who led the ticket in the first
city election for commissioner, can
not serve. He is division timekeeper
for the Missouri Pacific and the at
torney general holds that an en-
ployee of a corporation holding a fran
chise with the city cannot hold a city
office.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

At the city election in Paola T. t.
Kelly, formerly state treasurer. was
elected mayor over v. G. Wright, in
cumbent, by a majority OF forty-five.
The election brought out the heaviest
vote for a city election in the history
of Paola, 1850 votes being cast. A
$50 900 bond proposition for a new
ward school building carried by to
! vote.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Shots Enei.d Omaha npar+v ,

Omaha.-One man is dead and two
are in the South Omaha hospital Sc
verely wounded as the result of a
shooting melee between six men in a
motor car and Detective John Hired
zina of the South Side police force.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
See a Rail WAGE Settlement.

Chicago.-Settlement of the rail.
road wage and national working
agreements controversy over a con
ference table in Washington was pre-
dicted by union chiefs here.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

Gas distributing companies in Pitts
burg. Hutchinson, Wichita and New
ton appeared before the public utili-
ties commission in a hearing to dis
continue free gas for city use. De-
spite franchise agreements. they con-
tend, adequate service to domestic
consumers demands free gas dis-cOn-
tinuance Ten days were given in
which to submit briefs and affidavit
testimony
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Beer ONLY a Thirst "cure y

Washington.-The only "aiIment"
that real beer will cure is thirst"
prominent physicians advised Repre-
sentative A J. Volstead, father of the
famous dry regulation act bearing his
name.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
MAY FIGHT CATTLE RATE CUT
State Utilities Commissions Order Is
Too Sudden, Attorneys for the
Railroads Complain.

Topeka.-The merits of the railroad
freight rate fixed by the Kansas pub
lie utilities commission on interstate
shipments of cattle to pasture from
April 10 to May 81 were not discussed
by Robert Blair. general counsel for
the Union Pacific. who presented the
railroads case before the supreme
court in the absence OF Judge w. r.
Smith of the Santa Fe.
The hearing before the court was on
the petition by the commission for a
pre-emptory writ of mandamus
against the principal roads operating
in Kansas to compel them to put into
effect the commissions order issued
this week which would remove the 80
per cent increase allowed by the COM
mission last fall on intrastate traffic,
in so far as it applies to cattle in
Kansas moving to pasture.
ut is not a question of what ought
to be DONE" Mr.. Blair declared to the
court. 1T is a question of what you
have authority TO do. There is no law
so far as l know which will allow the
commission to enforce an order for a
change in rates under thirty days.
This mandamus action was SO prema-
ture as to shock any lawyers idea OF
legal procedure and there is no au-
thority for enforcing an order which
may prove discriminatory and non
compensatory. The commission only
issued its order last week and two
days later they bring a mandamus
suit to compel US to comply with it.
Frankly. l do not know just what our
answer will be. We may possibly de-
eide to fight the entire issue. or we
may not"
The court took the case under ad-
Vfsement
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

New York-One man was burned
to death, a fire captain injured and
twelve families are homeless as the
result OF fire which destroyed four
frame buildings in Brooklyn early the
other day. Spectacular rescues from
the burning buildings were made.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

The public utilities commission has
received their first application for a
decrease in rates. The manager of
the Russell Telephone Company de-
ella; es that two hundred subscribers
have threatened to take out their
phones unless they get cheaper ser
vice. He asks a 10-cent reduction on
both business and residence phones
At present resident phones are $3.50
and business phones $3.50.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

BY margin of three votes, Olathe
went on record against the 500, 900
bond issue to be used for school
building purposes. The bonds carried
in the first and third wards but lost
in the second ward and in Olathe
Township. Supporters of the bonds
still are hopeful the official count
may change the result.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
elrI, 9. Shot bY Her Rrother.

Wheatland, Mo.-Teddy Pitts, 10.
probably fatally wounded his Swear
old sister here when a revolved with
which they were playing was dis
charged accidentally. The revolver
was thought to be empty.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

Building projects at the industrial
schools for boys and girls will be
given first consideration by the state,
Governor Allen announced following
a conference with the state board of
administration. The building pro-
jects at the two schools include cot
tages with gymnasium and playroom
equipment for the accommodation of
the inmates. Other buildings at state
institutions will be erected in the fol
lowing order. this announcement
said: Receiving hospital ward at Osa-
watomie hospital for the insane; in
dustrial building ant dairy barn at
Osawatomie; cafeteria at Kansas
State agricultural college; cafeteria
at manual training normal at Pitts
burg; cafetria at Hays normal: power
plant and a section of electrical en-
cheering building at Kansas univer-
sity; Rosedale hospital at Rosedale.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

Death prevented Mrs. Tillie Frazier,
So years old. from rescuing Mrs. Stel-
Ia KanatZer, who was severely burn
ed at Wichita when an explosion of
kerosene practically destroyed her
tent dwelling. Mrs. Frazier, on hear
ing the blast, rushed to her neigh
boris aid. but dropped dead from a
heart attack before she was half way
to the place. Mrs. r. w. Adair, her
sister. who rescued Mrs. Kanatzer
from the flames, was burned on the
hand Mrs. Kanatzer has a chance
to live. as it is not thought she in
hailed flames.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

Ed BareseI, a Geary County farmer,
is in a dangerous condition as result
of an explosion on his farm. He was
thrown into the air while examining
a charge OF blasting powder that had
failed to explode. Baresel was blast
ing stumps He was badly injured
about the face, head and body, and his
arms were lacerated.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

Rocks County is to have a new
court house to cost $500, 600, half of
which is already in the county treas
ury. Work will begin in the near fu-
tur'. Stockton also is to have a new
school house, and new sewer sys-
tenn
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

George Johnson, a teamster, was
crossing a railroad track at Emporia
in wagon pulled by two mules when
the whistle OF an oncoming train blew.
One mule dropped dead on the tracks.
johnson pulled the other off Just be-
fore the train whizzed by.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
River Boat Down with "A.

Louisville, Ky.-The river steam
boat Three States has been sunk in
the Ohio River with loss OF fourteen
lives, according to unconfirmed re.
ports received here
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
Denver Bandits Get ssh

Denver.-Two messengers for the
Stockyards National Bank we're held
up and robbed Of approximately 49,
600 by three bandits in motor cars
here the other day.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21
M. n. Ramino the President

McAlester. Ok.-Marty H. Raining,
SS45 Wabash avenue, Kansas City,
was elected president of the okiaho-
ma Pharmaceutical Travelling Mems
Association here the other day.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

Complaint has reached the state
board of administration via Chancel-
Tor Z. H. Lindley of Kansas univer-
sity, that Kansas counties are send
ing ambulance patients to the Bell
Memorial hospital without notice and
place the hospital up against a hard
proposition. II they refuse to accept
the patients they will be criticized
for i'll treatment and II they take all
such cases they soon will be criticized
for overcrowding the hospital. DIR.
Mervin Y. Sudler, associate dean of
the K. U. school of medicine, declares
that many times there is no suitable
bed available. The board has advised
the school and hospital authorities
that action will be taken at the next
meeting of the board to formulate
some policy. The hospital and county
directors will be charged to give as
much notice as possible before send
ing patient.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-21

James Lloyd Perryman. who shot
and killed Jack Coe, January 2, over
the affections of Perryman's wife. has
been found guilty of mcnslaughter in
the third degree.