Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-27


pany, two Topeka concerns, are
merged. The consolidated company will
be known as the Kansas Union Life
Insurance company. The Kansas Mu-
tual was organized more than 20 years
ago and has done big business. The
Kansas Union was organized last July.
The deal has been approved by the
state insurance superintendent The
The officers and directors of the merger
concern ere: President, j. p. Davis;
vice president, w. NJ. Welcome; SecEe-
tary, John E. Moon; directors, c. j. Dew
lin, J. r. Mulvane, Edward Wilder, H.
G. Schwartzhopf and A. a. Robinson,
of Topeka; E. n. NORTH, of Hiawatha,
and Scott Hopkins, of Horton.
PLANS FOR ST. LOUIS BUILDINGS
Eleven Kansas architects submitted
plans to the Kansas commissioners to
the worlds fair for the building to be
erected there. plain envelope con-
tanning the name of the architect was
with each set of plans The plans and
| envelopes we're numbered and the lat
ter left with the governor. When the
award is made the number on the win
ming plan will be given to the governor
and he win open the envelope bearing
| the same number. The first prize is
employment as supervising architect of
the building.
LOST IL KANSAS CIrY.-Dr. Samuel
Kellum, of La Harpe, went to Kansas
| City to attend Il medical college. He
had $500 with him and his wife
has not heard from him since he left
home. She has written to physicians
in Kansas City asking aid in locating
him.
CHARGED WITH LARCENY.-"Profe
sor" Miner, formerly proprietor of a
telegraph school at Topeka, who alb
seconded recently, taking along a half
dozen type-writers which did not be-
long to him, has been located in Chi
| cago. He will be brought back for
trial on the charge of larceny.
WANT GREATER POwERs.-The state
board of health will endeavor to secure
action by the Legislature to place water
and sewer systems under their cor troI
They will also ask for an appropri Ation
for a meteorological laboratory in Kan
sas University.
FARMING PAYs.--John Howard, d
farmer who owns 1000 acres of land
near Hiawatha, says he has made SIS
600 this year. Other farmers, with
smaller pieces of land, have cleared
money in the same proportion.
INSANE WOMAN COMMITS ARSON
| Mrs. Mary McHesney, who is supposed
to have set fire to a store at Waldo,
Russell county, has been found to be
insane. When she committed the crime
she wore Il mans clothes.
TnREsHING ENGINEERS. Representa-
tive Watkins, OF Reno county, will try
to put law through the legislature to
compel threshing machine owners to
employ competent men to run their
threshing engines
BURGLARS CAUGHT.-Two of them
robbed a store at Abilene of clothing,
furs and silks, worth 81, 800 They hid
their booty in an ice house and barn
They are bound over for trial.
ORE CRUsHER BURNED.-At the Big
Fonr milling plant at Galena the crush
er has been destroyed by fire The loss
is $4,000
DEANS HOME BURNED.-District At
Sorney j. 5. Dean received word that
| his beautiful home in Marion had been
| destroyed by fire. Mrs. Dean, who is
an invalid, was rescued with much diff
fculty. The excitement has proven a
a severe shock to her and her condition
is very critical.
ABERNATHY's EsTATE.-It is estimated
at from one to two million dollars
| During the civil war he was lieutenant
colonel of the Eighth Kansas volun-
teers and participated in the battles of
Chiczamauga and Lookout mountain.
ASK FOR Western Kansas
sugar-beet growers will ask the legis-
lature for an appropriation of $50, 600
to be spent as bounty to encourage the
growth of sugar beets. Representative
H. H. Upton. of Kearny county. will
push the bill.
COOPERATIVE IERIG ALTON. C. T.
johnson, assistant chief of irrigation in
vestigation of the Department. of agricul-
ture, has been visiting the Fort Hays
branch experiment station, with a view
of arranging some cooperative work in
irrigation.
A NEWTON BOY-James. Eberle, who
Joined the army to go to the Philip
! pines, and served in Samar, died the
othe.' day at Vancouver barracks,
Washington His term of enlistment
would have expired in January, and he
intended to return home.
SOME UP; some DowN.-The high
wages paid by the Santa Fe in the
mechanical work has induced the cut
ting OF wages of clerks and Office en-
ployes. The clerks are consulting
about making a request 10 stop the re
duction of their pay.