Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-18
KANSAS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

+ Topeka. Mch- 6--Governor Stanley has sign
ed the following new bills:
!, Benefel's anti-bucket shop bill.
Fee and salary bill.
Bill fixing fees of tie superintendent Of in
Wards bill fixing bounty ca coyote and
The biif appropriatfng land for the laying OF
Removing political disabilities Of all exon
federate soldiers.
The bill regulating fraternaI beneficiary So
The bill establishing = county court in Doug
The travelling library bill.
| Relating to wills and testaments Of court
| Witnesses who die or become insane
| Providing for the sinking of escape shafts In
| Providing for custodian of the state house
| and grounds.
| Establishing a city court in Wichita.
Governor Stanley has approved the joint res
oIutson providing that the people of the state
/ shall vote the proposition to increase the
supreme court TO seven judges
Topeka, March The deadlock in the legis-
| Iature was broken this afternoon by the pass
age OF separate bin appropriating SIC, coo for
the expenses of the Stuart-Ealion contest hear
/ ing set for March u. The bill was drafted by
the hoa1se ways ana means committee. The
| leaders of the majority ia Both houses claim
| leaders say the appropriation could never have
( passed iI.tne form of rider on the executive
| appropriation bill. and senators say they were
| determiKea 10 have this appropriation for the
| expenses of the special session Of the senate
Before the passage OF the executive approprta-
| ton bill senators called on Governor Stanley
/ and claimed to have secured pledge from him
/ to the efea5 that he would sign a compromise
! bill making appropriation for the expenses OF
/ Final adjournment was postponed to tomor-
No further business of any importance was
| transacted by either house or council today
and the body adjourned to meet 1t the usual
hour.
The assessor is making the rounds
with his cateehisIn now.
| 4 a whistle ON one of the lola smell
tiers can be heard Is miles away.
A man with hEsysYife and step-daugh-
ter as assistants, was caught stealing
corn in Sumner county the other day;
pleasant family affair.
An ordinance recently passed by the
iWellingt0n council provides that here
after only brick and cement sidewalks
R%ay. be laid in that city.
| The next,xn meeting of the State Board
of Pharmacy will be held. at Lawrence
| in May in coRsaection with the annual
meeting of the State Pharmaceutical
association.
| S. II. Dodge, who was last week
named as one Of the regents of the
state normal, has held that position
| for over eight years and for the past
six years be has beeQ treasurer of the
board.
One of the Kansas boys at Manila,
in letter to the home folks, says that
turkeys are worth SIS. IS, while good
| chickens may be procured for quar-
ter. Turkey ought not to be preferred
| to chicken at even money.
Residents of Browns Creek and
Prairie townships, on the southern
tier in Jewell county. will make an
effort to get in on the experiment in
rural free delivery for which congress
made an appropriation Of $4,000
Everyone has heard of the man who
built barn around his horse and for
got to cut a door in order to get the
animal out. At Cedarvale the other
| day a man did trick almost equal to
this. He received an order for gal
vanized iron water tank, which was
made according to the plans submit
| ted. The tank was such big one
that after it was completed it was
found that the only way to get it out
doors was to take out side of the
shop.
| The bulletins of the Kansas Agri-
cultural Experiment station contain a
lot of matter that is of great value to
farmers. Any farmer in the state can
receive them. ALI that is necessary
for him to do is to forward his name
to the station at Manhattan and re-
quest that it be entered upon the mail
ing list. This will bring the bulletins
Fas rapidly as they are issued. This is
only one of the ways in which the Ag-
ricultural college directly benefits the
farming interests throughout the state
! of Kansas.
A mountain lion story brought the
nimrods of Pratt county out in hot
haste the other day, but they failed to
made connections with the beast.
A travelling hypnotist who held forth
in Ottawa recently had great difficulty
in inducing subjects" to come upon
the stage. It is to the credit of the
town.
Viewed from the Concordia stand
point, it doesn't make any difference
in which direction the Central Branch
is extended, that town is bound to be
division point
The smallpox scare in Mcpherson
county is over. There are other local
) tiles in the state that are not SO for
tunate.
The superintendent and train dis
patcher's Office of the Union Pacific
has been moved to Ellis from Cheyenne
, Wells The force consists of a super
intendent, two clerks, a porter and
four dispatchers- This settles the
question of the railroad division, the
: great bugbear which has come up
every six months to retard the pros
perity of Ellis in the past.
: A squad of Salvation Army workers
: is giving the sinners of Oketo great
shaking up. Nothing takes better il