Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-11-08
KANSAS COMMENT.

RATTLE FOR A DRUG sToRE.-At Ok
ford drug store with an $1,000 stock
is being raffled. There are l, 800 tick
cts at 81 each.
COVE Our OF DEBT.-The commits
sioners of Cove county recently took
up a $500 county bond not due until
1905 in order TO have the county en-
tirely out of debt.
NEED MORE LAND.-The state board
of charities win present to the legis-
lature their conviction of the necessity
of giving to the institutions in their
charge more land.
DID Nor HEAR-George McBrier,
an old soldier, was run over and killed
by a Santa Fe passenger train in To
pelka. He was walking on the track
and didn't hear the whistle.
Run OVER AND KLLED.-The Swear
old son of Luther Moore, of Auburn,
was run over and killed by team
while playing in a field on his fathers
farm. The boy was picked up by his
father and taken to the house, short
distance off, but died before he reached
there.
COLLEGE CoNsOLIDATIoN.-C
university at Hoiton proposed to con-
vey to Lane university of Lecompton
all its holdings, amounting to S175, 900,
Lane to pay Campbell $1,000 for APP
paratus, dormitory, etc. The Kansas
church accepts the offer and the deal
is expected to be consnmmated next
June.
RESULTS OF ELKs' CARNIvAL.-At a
special meeting of Parsons lodge of
Ellxs the deal for two lots in the best
part of the city was closed and the
property purchased. Calls were issued
to architects asking for plans, speciica-
tions and cost of building a handsome
club house, work to begin within the
next ninety days. This is one of the
net results of the carnival held here
recently.
Down THOUSAND FEET.-The gas
well at Harrington that has been in
construction for three weeks has
reached a depth of 900 feet and work
is progressing slowly. Large water
supplies have been found and indica-
tions of asphaltum, but not gas or oil
be put down to the depth of 200 feet,
the deepest of any experimental well
in central Kansas.
f. d. CoBURN's NEW Rooms.
tary F. d. Coburn is now comfortably
located in his new and permanent
Office in the state house. He has been
switched around considerably, but is
now settled for good. His offices now
occupy four rooms on the east side of
the south wing, just under the gov
ernor's offices. The executive council
has fitted up Coburn's new rooms in
elegant style. Nothing is too good for
the Kansas farmers.
DELINQUENT BoNDs.-Clad Hamilton,
assistant attorney general, hes been in
the southwestern part of the state
looking up matters pertaining to de-
linquent school bonds in the state
school fund. He went to Garden City
and drove from there over considerable
of the surrounding country. AS a re-
suit the state school fund will receive
several thousand dollars which he
found in the sinking funds in some of
the county treasures awaiting applica-
ton to the payment of Indebtedness.
Four ORPHANs.-Charles Hooper and
his wife, of Independence, had been
divorced and eheir four children given
to their mother. There was trouble
about that The man and wife met in
the postoffice building and he shot and
killed her and then killed himself.
New GOVERNORS SECRETARY.-Gov-
ernor Stanley has announced the APP
pointment of w. d. Ford, of Galena,
to succeed Luther Burns as his private
secretary. Mr.. Ford, who is As years
old, is the congressional committeeman
from his county.
GOOD WORKING WEATHER.-Thep past
three weeks have been exceptionally
good for farm work in Clay county and
much wheat has been sown and hay
put up Farmers have been rushing
in their wheat at great rate and
while mnch has been put in of late the
acreage will not be so large as it was
in the past two years Corn is being
gathered and is showing n good yield.
No BANK FAMURE.-An told, there
are $40 banks in Kansas. During the
last fiscal year not a solitary bank
in the state went to the wall.
TYPHOID AND MALARIA.-Dr. Lowry,
secretary of the state board of health,
says that Kansas is in the clutches of a
regular epidemic of typhoid fever and
malaria now. Reports from local
health officers contain nothing but
cases of typhoid and malaria Lowry
says the prevalence of those diseases is
due to the cold wet weather which the
state had for a couple of months
GETS FREE DELIvERY.-Theo order
has been issued for free delivery ser
vice at Junction City to begin on Ithe
first of March next
New Frisco SrATIoN.-The first cal