Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-11-29

flor the erection of a new round house.
The old round house has become mad
equate and too small for the class OF
engines now used on the Katy. The
new one will have thirty stalls built
for the large new type of engines
adopted by the road. The old one will
be converted into shop of some
kind
WANTS A WALL.-Superinte
Simmons, of the Hutchinson reforma-
tory, says that institution needs wall.
He says: 1--WE have in the institution
men who are of the right age to be
reckless and daring. It looks to them
like escape would be easy, and to pre-
vent escape requires constant care. 1t
requires more guards to get a certain
we had wall"
GIRLS WITH NERvE.-NIiss Pearl
school, and Miss Mabel Friels, of Law
renee, climbed to the top of the new
state normal library at Emporia, and
under the supervision of bricklayer,
laid the last brick on the highest point
of the building and standing on the
brick had their pictures taken, fifty
feet from the ground.
New MITTEN FAcToRY-O. E. Blalzc
of Baldwin is building large mitten
factory. He has been running d shirt
factory there for the past nine years,
which he will continue operating.
There has been mitten factory at
Baldwin for five years but it moves
next month to Leavenworth
FARMER LEAVES 500, OOO-J. w.
Osborn, Lyon county farmer, died
recently leaving an estate valued at
100000. Osborn came to Kansas a
poor man in 1874 and settled on the
farm where he died. He made his
money out of farming and stock rails
ing.
HIS SO-ACRE ORCHARD.-T. D. Mills
has finished shipping his apple crop
near Wamego. His shipments filed
20 cars with TO- 500 bushels of apples
Each car took IT'S barrels. thousand
barrels are in cold storage in Topeka;
the rest went to Texas.
No ESCAPE IN Two YEARs-''Not a
single inmate of our institution has
made his escape during the past two
years" said Superintendent Simmons,
of the Hutchinson reformatory. 'The
esca pc whistle has blown four times in
two years.
LARGEST IN KANsAs.-The Belle
Springs Creamery company is compile
ting the largest creamery building in
Kansas. 1t has complete ice-making
and cold storage plant and is fitted
throughout with modern machinery.
VERNON OF LARNED.-W. Fl. Vernon,
of Larned, will be stenographer for
Judge Henry F. Mason, of the supreme
court. Vernon was in the speakers
bureau at Republican state headquar-
tiers during the recent campaign.
TROUBLE OVER RENT.-John w.
Davis, "a Greensburg politician, was
assaulted and nearly killed by a rent
er, Link Olinger, in one of the stores
at Greensburg. Davis and Olin ger had
quarreled over the rent.
PLACE FOR CHARLIE.-Charles w.
Barnes, Topeka newspaper man, will
no doubt be appointed assistant inSur
ance superintendent, under Charles
I,IIli In T.111f i,,4
mated as much.
To CONSOLIDATE PosTs.
county Grand Army Veterans are agi-
tating the consolidation of all posts of
the county, leaving Garfield post, in
Wichita, which is the parent organiza-
ton in the county, as a nucleus for the
concentrating of them all.
SYRACUSE TO THE FRoNT.-The new
Santa Fe time card shows that SYRIA
cuse is at last a division point; coal
chntes, a dining room and other i'm
provements are being put in, and after
this everything on wheels will stop
there.
AN EARLY FRIEND OF KANsAs-A
bronze bust of Frank B. Sanborn, a
friend OF Kansas in the early days, has
been received by the State Historical
society from the Boston Museum of
fine Arts. D. w. Wilder, who has
known Mr.. Sanborn for half a century,
will write a sketch of him for the So
ciety.
MAYOR SALTER OF ARGoNIA.-The
first woman mayor, Mrs L. A. Salter,
of ArgOnia, is now resident of Car
men, Oklahoma, where her husband
has been appointed postmaster.
SHOPS DEDICATED.-Over nine hun.
dred couples attended the dedication
ball at the new Santa Fe shops in To.
pel1a. The new shops will give work
to about 1000 men.
APPOINTED CADET-Congressm
a. NJ. jackson has appointed Blanton
Tandy, of Winfield, as cadet to West
Point to fill the vacancy of Cadet Young
of Independence, who served two years
and had to resign ON account of poor
health. Harvey Ellridge of Parsons,
and r. NJ. Wrinkle, of McCune, were
applicants.