Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-20

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torney for some of the cattlemen IL
Clark county, says that they will not,
, submit to the order of the secretary of
/ the interior requiring the removal of
their fences; that some of them are de-
termined to resist the order, and will
go into court to fight the order whenit
comes.
GIFT TO ORPHANs.-Colonel Philip E.
Mullin, representing Armour's, had
large quantity of samples of hams,
sausages and other meats on hand to
show the board of charities. When he
had finished with them he turned them
over to the Topeka orphans home and
to Ingleside home for aged ladies.
FIRST WOMAN REGIsrER-The only
woman register of deeds elected this
! year in Kansas and it is believed the
first ever to be elected is Miss Olive
May Kackley, a young musician, elOcu-
zionist and teacher of Hill City. Ora
ham county. She will take her Office
next January.
| POSTMAsTERs APPOINTED.-Buhler
Reno county, Cornelius p. Froese, vice
J. +. McMullen, resigned; Gridley, COT
fey county, w. T. Hester, vice E. Wise
man, resigned; Saffordville, Chase
county, Marquis D. Lyles, vice B. NJ.
Garth, resigned.
CELLULOsE ACToRY.-Christoph
Sturgis, civil engineer of Circleviile,
Iowa, is making estimates on a corn
stalk cellulose factory, to be started at
Hiawatha, and it is thought there that
a cellulose factory will make land moro
valuable.
GAS SCHEME FOR BUFFALO, mum.
Der of men from Keollub, Iowa, have
organized company for the purpose of
manufacturing brick and tile and sink
ing oil and gas wells at Buffalo, in
| Wilson county
THAT Snow STORM. snow fall
| reached CentralSouthern Kansas on
the night of December IA. The day
following and night were quite warm
but on Monday the weather was severe
ly cold.
ROBBED A DEPOT Robbers entered
the Santa Fe depot at Hope and stole
$500 worth of clothing stored in the ex-
press room. They blew open the safe,
but got nothing. No clue to the rob-
bers.
GRAIN INSPECTION FEES. State Grain
Inspector Northrup turned So. 700 into
the stats treasury as fees collected by
his department during the month of
November. His expenses were So, 500.
Big TELESCOPE INJURED.-A window
in the dome of the Wash burn observa-
tory was left open and it is feared the
new telescope has been damaged some
what by frost and moisture.
To HIGHEST BIDDER The interior
department has set aside its former or
der for the sale of Pottawatome Indian
lands and ordered that the lands be
sold to the highest bidder.
NEW KANSAS BIsHoP. Rev Dr. Girls
void, the new Episcopal bishop of the
western district of Kansas, will be con-
secrated in All Saints cathedral at AL
bany, N. Y, January s.
CLAssED WITH CORN DoCTORs OF
tawa imposes a tax of So d day or $50 a
year on all astrologers, clairvoyants,
fortune tellers and mind readers; same
rates for corn doctors
HIS MOTHER SICK.-Frank Nelson.
state superintendent of schools, went to
Iowa on December II, where he was
called by the illness of his mother.
PROFESSORS WIFE DISAPPEARS. :
Mrs. Marshal A. Barber, wife of a pro-
fessor of Kansas university, who had
been suffering from insomnia, disap-
peared from her home On the second
day 1000 university students organized
n search for her, but no clue was found
on that day. On the next forenoon her
body was found in the Kansas river.
ANNUAL FARMERS MEETING. -Secre.
; tary Coburn has given out "a program
= for the January meeting of the State
Agricultural society which seems to
cover about all of interest.
COVERED MosT OF SrATE.-Rain fell
= all day OF December IL, which was fol
lowed by heavy storm, covering the
: icy ground. This is reported to have
S covered the state; yet neither the rair
( or snow reached the south-central par
of the state.
$ BARRows KEEPS THEM. The secre
r tary of state elect has announced tina,
ne will not make changes in the offic,
; force left by Secretary Clark, mainly
p because new men cannot meet as vel
/. the rush of work incident to legisla
tive session.
e CONTEST FOR SUGAR FACToRY.-T
i such an extent has the beet sugar in
s dustry grown in Western Kansas dur
t ing the last year that a contest over tn
a location of beet sugar factory has al
t ready sprung up among the town
# along the Arkansas river.
WANT STATE MoNEY.-The Eastern
O Kansas Bankers association at thei
j. meeting in Leavenworth adopted re
f solution in favor of the states loanin.
= its surplus to banks over the state a
u IL