Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-10-11

and the UNCONVENTIONAL colleges The
| attendance is far in advance of that Of
any previous year. Fcf' instance Baker
university at Baldwin reports So more
students than last year and the in
crease is largely in the college depart
| ment. DIR. Mur;in believes that Baker
| viii! have three hundred and sixty stu
dents this year.
OIL IN Usage COUNTY,. W. jesse,
who lives on the Marias des Cygnes,
three miles west of Olivet. has discov-
| cred what he thinks TO be unmistak-
able evidences of oil on his farm. A
deep well on his place near the river
| contains water that is nearly always
! covered with film of oil. and at vari-
GUS places along the river indications
of oil have been found.
1874 GRAssHoPPERs SEEN-Countless
| millions of grasshoppers have been
flying very high over Chetopa. No
such sight has been seen there since
1874. None, however, are lighting,
and as all crops are made no damage
could be done except to wheat. They
flew in streams like black birds and
went south with the wind.
Lone TROLLEY RoUTE.-The Wichita
Chamber of Commerce is negotiating
with c. n. Ceves, a promoter, for an
electric line between Mcpherson and
Arkansas City. The capitalists back
of the scheme are New York men who
are anxious to build "a line in the west
and sent him out here to look over the
ground and report.
CoLoRED FnATERNAL INSURANCE.
have organized new fraternal insur-
ance order for the members of their
race. 1t is known as the Knights and
Ladies' of Protection. It's national
headquarters will be in Topeka. Col.
James Beck, of Lawrence, is president.
BIG CORN IN KIOwA--A. K. Hager-
man, had a load of corn in Kiowa.
The ears were all very large, of uni
form size and firmly filed. Mr.. Hager
man had GO acres of this corn and hi
father has so acres more equally rs
good. He says the entire crop will
yield IS or so bushels per acre.
STRICKEN ON TRAIN.-Broder Broder-
son, chairman of the board of county
commissioners of Butler county, took
the train at Douglass for Ell Dorado.
He was taken suddenly i'll and was re-
moved from the train and died in n
few minutes. Heart disease was the
cause.
New TELEPHONE CONNECTION.-Neo-
desha is ready to talk to Chanute when
the switchboard for Villas is put in.
The Altoona Cooperative company
owns the line into Chanute and will
pay the Chanute system cents for
switching each message.
STATE MEETING /. o. 0. F.-The an
nual state meeting of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows will be held at
Pittsburg, Kan, on October 1918
Large delegations are expected from
all the principal towns of the state.
HEDGE LAW THE ISSUE Harvey
county is to vote in November on the
question of trimming hedges along
public roads The chief issue at the
SWEET POTATO ExPLoDEs. AT Leon
the other day a hot sweet potato ex-
ploded seriously injuring a woman
who sat at the table.
JUDGE BURCH ON BENCH.-H. A.
Burch, the newly appointed justice of
the supreme court, has been sworn into
office and will sit with the court dur.
ing the October term.
COST OF SCHooLs.-The amount of
money paid out by Shawnee county
for all school purposes, which included
the cost of the new buildings erected
by the city, coal, salaries of the tea h
ers and all other items was 1916, 624- 95.
This is larger than usual on account
of the new buildings in the city which
cost in the neighborhood of $500
SOLOMON HIGHER THAN EvER.-The
electric light works at Minneapolis
were compelled to shut down on ac-
count of the high water which disabled
the machinery. The Solomon is higher
now than it has been at any time since
the spring of 1878 The abutment at
the south end of the wagon bridge in
the lower part of the town has sunk
several inches and the passage of the
bridge is dangerous.
ONE BUDDHIsr.-A census of the
state university shows one Buddhist
student.
DEATH OF KANSAS MAN-William
+. Mullzey, vice president of the De-
troit Salt Company, owner, with his
sons, of the Kingman Salt Mining Com
pany, of Kingman, Kansas, and large
stakeholder in the Toledo & Monroe
electric railroad, died at his home in
Detroit, Michigan, recently. Mr..
Mulkey went to Detroit in 1898, from
Hutchinson.
LONGER TURF TABLEs.-The Santa
Fe has ordered ten turntables rs feet
long. The big new engines cannot be
handled on the old ones
FUNSTON AT FORT RILEY.-General
FRnston arrived in camp Sunday after
noon, coming as the guest of General
Bates. He came 10 an unofficial capac-
ity and will remain for a few days to