Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1913 — Kansas Towns Rent Jails. [ARTICLE]

Kansas Towns Rent Jails.

Kansas City, Kan. —A rivalry exisits between Hugoton and Ford, county seats in Kansas, and recently the commissioners became so disgusted with the long absence of prisoners from the county Jail at Hugoton that they rented the bastile to a family for a home. Hugoton then crowed with pride and Ford felt sore. Not a Jailbird has been known in Ford for two and one-half years, and the council of that town says it will rent the Ford calaboose cheaply to anyone to use as a chicken house.