Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-10-18

closet and bath rooms, has a freight
room 597 feet long and "a feet wide,
and on either side of this is a covered
platform eight feet wide, giving them
a width for handling freight of forty
feet and floor capacity of nearly 10, 600
square feet. 1t will be seen from this
that the road has space for handling
freight in Wichita considerably over
one third of all acre
EXTRA COACHES To CHENEY.-Octo-
Der 81, there will be a grand meeting
Of Odd Fellows at Cheney. A large
crowd is expected to attend and the
Santa Fe is making arrangements to
equip its regular trains with extra
coaches for the meeting. If it is
thought the crowd will justify it,
special train will be run. Speakers
from over the state have announced
their intention of attending the meet
ing and it is anticipated that the gath
ering will be a large one
BLUEGRASS SEED.-The crop of blue
grass seed in Kansas this fall is I'M
usually large, but the price is low.
c. w. Mitchell, of Gardner, has pur-
chased 43, 900 pounds of seed from the
farmers in that vicinity, paying So 35
per hundred pounds This is about
one-third as much as bluegrass seed
brought last year. Notwithstanding
the low price, the farmers will net
more profit per acre this fall from their
bluegrass seed than from any other
crop.
THE STATE REFORNIATORY.-S
tendent J. S. Simmons of the state re-
fOrmatory has submitted his biennial
report to the board of managers. It
shows the property of the institution
to be worth $500, 491, the land being
valued at $3.50, 900 and all the rest,
represented by buildings, furniture,
fixtures, livestock, feed, supplies and
the like. During the last biennial
period cell house having 200 cells has
been built, almost exclusively by in
mate labor.
KANSAS CONNECTS, AS UsUAL.-Kan-
sas was bound to get mixed up in the
great Stratton will case at Cripple
Creek. The judge, J. A. Orr, who ig-
nored the terms of the will and APP
pointed a set of administrators of his
own choosing, was raised in Kansas
and formerly practiced law at indie
pendence. One of the administrators
appointed by Judge Orr was Mr..
~ l. L.
to live N Howard county.
BRAKEMAN HESS Ku.LED.-Brake-
man Hess, of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad, was killed six miles
south of Junction City. He was riding
in the engine and was standing in the
gangway when his hat blew off as the
engine ran onto bridge. In his eff
fort to save his hat his head was struck
against the bridge and his body fell
into the river below. He was about %
years old.
KANSAS BROOM CoRN.-There is a
scarcity of good whisk brush in the
Kansas broom corn district this year
The brush is red and coarse and the
quality is so variable that prices range
from $40 to S1CO per ton. A few sales
were made this week for 500, but the
most of twelve carloads shipped to mar
l1et brought from $40 to $50 per ton.
VETERAN DROPS DEAD.-Robert
Hardy, of Emporia, an old soldier,
dropped dead in front of the Citizens
bank. Mr.. Hardy had heart disease.
He was in the Fourth West Virginia
infantry, Company B, during the civil
war, and had lived in Lyon county
about thirty-two years.
WAeGENER DENIES IT.-B. P. Wag-
gener emphatically denies the report
that Chief Justice Doster will succeed
the late Albert H. Horton in the Wag-
gener law firm. He says no such ar
rangement has been discussed.
MIAMI COUNTY PEARs.-George Wat
son last week took pair of pears each
eleven inches in circumference, to the
La Cygne Journal Office. Up to that
time they held the banner. few days
later, however, Robert Bass, of Pleas
anton, took a pear to the Herald Office
| which measured fourteen inches around
and he still holds the record.
ADVERTISING FLoTsAM.-A Stockton
man wants information of a large
white tank which the high water car
,ied off. He might do well to adver-
tise in the New Orleans papers.
SCHOOL BOND CLERK.-A. V. Lindell,
bond clerk in the state superintendents
| office, has been chosen assistant cashier
of new bank in North Topeka and
has taken the position. 1t is not likely
that Superintendent Nelson will name
clerk to succeed Lindell as the work
for the year is almost up in the Office.
STRANDED BY THE EBB.-A Beloit
party doing the Smoky and Solomon
rivers in steamer would have reached
their journeys end sooner if falling
| waters had not left them stranded on
the dam at Minneapolis
ASTI-FUsIoN CASE CoNTINUED.-Ow-
ing to the absence of Judge Doster,
the hearing in the suit brought by w.
ii. CraddocL, the Democratic nominee
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