Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-13
KANSAS COMMENT.

record.
Erb, of Newton. has bought two cream
cries; one at Wellington and one at
Harper.
Or SALARY AMENDMENT.-Th vote
on the constitutional amendment to
raise the salaries OF legislators was
1000 for; 14o, 7Gs against.
SLOT MACHINE FiHEs.-Police Judge
Magaw of Topeka fined thirteen people,
mostly jointists, SO each for operating
slot machines The judge declares
that slot machines must go.
HAD CHURCH PAINTED-The congre-
CATION of the Winfield Baptist church
were surprised to find that II. Z. Trice
had caused the painting of the interior
gregation.
WINFIELD's WELL TESTED Win
fields newly discovered gas well was
tested on pilot syphon pressure gauge,
and daily flow of 1880, 900 cubic feet
was obtained. 1t was much greater
than was expected, and the well will
be delivered to the city in few days
for $4,000.
A LIFE PAss.-The general superin-
tendent of the Rock Island sent life
pass to Mrs. ]. NJ. Holtzclaw, of Lam
don, as recognition of her worthy act
in saving a freight train from running
into a burning bridge on the railroad
near her place. She saw the fire and
tagged the train.
MEDICAL LECTURES AT X. IA
course of lectures is now being offered
to medical students at the University of
Kansas, one lecture per week, on Fri
day. A number of prominent physi-
clans at Kansas and Missouri have been
engaged to deliver these lectures on
special subjects of their own choosing.
PEDDLERs DRIVEN AwAY.-A steel
range company unloaded a car of their
stuff at Ness City and began their can
vass, getting SO bargains for stoves
that local merchants sold at $50 They
had seven parties in as many wagons.
The county commissioners declared
license fee of $50 per wagon, and the
fine for peddling without a license is
500 per man. The fallirs cleared out.
go OUT OF 35O.-Dr Hutchinson,
physician of the state reformatory,
produces figures to show that cigar
cites are the cause of the downfall of
more inmates in that institution than
all other vicious habits combined. OF
the $50 inmates in the reformatory last
year, 236 claimed that cigarettes had
driven them to crime.
BoYCoTr COAL DEALER.-At Horton
lately the coal chutes were burned.
The railroad company permitted the
poor people of the town to carry away
u lot OF the half burned coal A coal
dealer of the town protested against
this charity, saying it was damaging
his business. The people of Horton,
rich and poor alike" says the Head
light, "are up in arms against the deal
err, and general boycott is now on.
AN EQUINE IIosPITAI~-I is pro-
posed by the Foster Humane Society of
Topeka TO erect II large building where
MANNED and crippled or abandoned
horses, or those which have in any
way been mistreated can be given at
tention. The society was founded by
by was TO get after people who mis-
treated their horses. He gave a valu-
able lot on Kansas avenue opposite the
Copeland hotel, to the society for
home.
IN TOPEKA AFTER Al YEARs.-W. ii.
MaclSey, ST., of Junction City, visited
his son, United States Marshal Maclley,
and George w. Martin in Topeka. AL
though nc has lived in Junction City
since long before the war, this is his
first visit to Topeka since 1861.
WICHITA MEN IN FLooD.-A party of
Wichita hunters went to the Choctaw
nation and their camp was surrounded
by freshets. Their supplies gave out
leaving them both dry and hungry in
the midst of waters. Two of them
SWAN out and they tell the story.
A THRIVING Town. Grove
has had a building boom the past
eighteen months not equaled in the
same period of time since its early eX-
istence. Besides the new $50, 900 court
house wing, which is nearing compile
ton, many substantial business houses
and residences have gone up.
DICK WALLER SICK.-Colonel Dick
Walker, formerly United States mar
shall for Kansas, was brought to Topeka
from Oklahoma, suffering with lung
trouble. lie is now at the home of his
brother in a serious condition.
GAS IN SUMNER.-A reported find of
gas at Ashton, twelve miles west of
Arkansas City, is causing considerable
excitement in Sumner county The gas
was discovered in a well only eighty
seven feet deep after heavy charge of
dynamite had been exploded.
FILED MOTION BY WIRE.-B. p.
Waggener wanted a mandamus dis
missed. He did not go to Topeka, or
hire a Topeka lawyer, but telegraphed
his motion to the supreme court with u
request that it be granted. The court
promptly granted IT,