Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-10-25
KANSAS COMMENT.

scheme as they were wont to do last
spring.
SPENDING MILLION Now.-Nearly
q million dollars worth of work is
under way now at Fort Riley and the
government is still calling for bids for
more OF it.
A NEW JUDGE.-Governor Stanley
has issued a commission to B. Z. Hud-
son as judge of the Atchison district
court to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Judge w. T. Bland.
FRIENDS UNIVERSITY. During the
Friends yearly meeting at Lawrence
$4,000 was added to the endowment
fund of Friends university. This
brings that fund to nearly 10000.
AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARs.-F. s. De
Long, who has been living at Preston,
accidentally discovered that Mrs. Shack
lee, who lives at Pratt, was sister of
INSANE MAN KILLS HIMsELF.-Chas.
d. Hardy, a state insane asylum in
mate at Topeka, laid down on the Rock
Island track in front of a passenger
train, on a short curve, and was killed.
He was a prominent Mason and was
once register of deeds of Kingman
county.
WILL ELECT II JUDGEs.-There are
seventeen district judges to elect in
Kansas this year. In the Sixth dis
trict every county will have an oppor-
tunity to vote for district judge.
That is the only district in the state
where the terms of all the judges ex-
pire this time.
THE MOST CEMENT SIDEwALKs.-The
Mirror believes that Olathe has more
blocks of modern cement sidewalks
than any city OF twice its size in the
!tate Almost all the walks in the
business portion of town are made of
this material, and there are a good
many of them in the residence district.
PRESIDENT GIVEN KANSAS THINGS
Secretary Barnes sent to President
Roosevelt some fine specimens of the
Kansas display; among them being a
30 pound watermelon, several baskets
Of mammoth apples and u case of al
falfa honey which came from the apiary
of E. Davidson, of Garden City.
SCALDED BADLY.-John OFT, while
working on the boilers at Cudahy's
packing plant in Wichita, was almost
scalded to death. Steam and hot
water struck his back and left side
taking the skin off. 1t is said by those
who understand the work that but for
Otis presence of mind, he would have
been killed.
LARGEST TELESCOPE IN KANSAS.
The observatory at the Wesleyan uni
versity at Salina was opened to the
public on the occasion of the eclipse of
the moon. The university has one of
the largest and best telescopes in the
state and the students and citizens
joined in watching the eclipse and also
to view Perine's comet which is now
said to be visible.
MAJOR CRowELL's RECORD. late
Major John NJ. Crowell, of Atchison,
was member of the famous vigilance
committee of San Francisco, and was
known as Boston" During his life
he visited California four times, never
by rail. He helped lay ont the site of
Sacramento, and there had a cabin
next TO the shack of D. o. Mills, the
New York capitalist. In Atchison
Major Crowell lived in the house in
which he died forty years.
APPLE PICKERs IN DEMAND.-The
orchardists about Wamego were short
100 men to pick apples last week. The
large acreage of sweet potatoes there is
also being damaged for want of men to
dig them. The demand there for apple
barrels is heavy. The factory at Wame-
go is working double shifts of Is men
each.
3LAReEsT CoRN.-Captain E. p.
Diehl, of Olathe, was awarded the
honor of exhibiting the largest ears OF
corn on exhibition at Washington dur
ing the Grand Army encampnent.
You've FARMER ATTACKED.-Aug
y Jung AuA AASA VI oeAAAhS SOuAA-
ty, was attacked by two strangers
while returning home from a dance
at an early hour in the morning. They
fired two shots at Martin, one entering
his left leg.
TALLEsT CORN STALKs.-The tallest
corn stalks exhibited at Kansas head
quarters in Washington, measuring II
feet inches, were grown by u. s.
Spore, of Newton. They have been
placed in the museum of the depart
ment of agriculture.
SHOT A CATAMOUNT.-Claude Miner,
aged 10, of Mcpherson, while hunting
rabbits saw a catamount in n tree.
He did not know what it was but went
close to the tree and killed the animal
at'his first shot This is the first cata-
mount killed in Mcpherson county.
1t stood as high as a shepherd dog, and
was over four feet in length.
BELoIT HAS GADDERs.-A Missouri
Pacific conductor told reporter of the
Call of that city that the people of Be
Lit do Y,,0ra rraddsnrr than fhOSa Of ~