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

has made growth that Will nloe
rabbit
SERVED UNCLE SAM 81 YEARS.
James II. Beddon, wagon master, has
served "a years for the government at
Fort Leavenworth.
EARNED PRoMoTION.-County Clerk
Elect John Wright of Shawnee county
has served as deputy or clerk in that
office for thirteen years
DosTER's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ment is officially made of the appoint
ment of Judge Frank Doster to be as
sistant attorney of the Missouri Pacific
railway with headquarters at Topeka.
DROWNED IN WATERING TANK.-Miss
Mollie Starr, daughter of Dickinson
county farmer, was drowned in a
watering tank. She led the horses to
water and evidently tainted, falling in.
THANKSGIVING A HoLIDAY.-The at
torney general has decided that teach
ers cannot be locked for not holding
school on thanksgiving. School boards
Ia Central Kansas made the opinion
necessary.
A So, 500 LENs.-The objective lens
for the Grand Prix telescope at Wash
burn college will come packed in cot
ton and curled hair, from Cleveland
where it was made. The lens is valued
at So, 500
ANTI TRUST LAws.-County Attor-
ney Nichols of Shawnee county has
brought suit against 65 fire insurance
companies for violation of the anti
trust laws. test case Is set for trial
on December 2.
SWISS CELEBRATIoN.-The Swiss So
ciety of Marysville celebrated the an
niversary of the independence CT the
fatherland on November Is. Several
Hundred Swiss people came from far
and near to enjoy the occasion.
LAST GAP OF ExTENsIoN-Two hun
dred men are at work on the Santa Fe
extension from Ralston, Kansas, and
will rush it to completion. This is the
last gap in the Eastern Oklahoma line,
joining Kansas City and the gulf.
A MIsTAKE.-It has been published
that Curtis received more votes for re-
election to congress than Bailey re-
ceived for governor in Bailey's own
county. This is mistake. Bailey re-
ceived 1850 votes and Curtis 2,272.
ROBBED THE SHERIFF.. Sheriff
Davis, of Kingman, was searching for
burglars in another part of the town
the man he was after broke into the
sheriff's residence and carried off every
thing he wanted which he found there
THREsHING MACHINE Insurance.
There is not an insurance company au-
thorized to do business in Kansas which
will insure threshing machine outfit.
Threshing machines are extremely bad
risks, and for this reason a company
proposing to insure them should be in
vestigated. "Otherwise," says Insur-
ance Commissioner Church, 1.-The per-
son taking out the policy is likely to
be buncoed out OF his money"
AS FATHER OF THE HoUsE.-Cyrus
Leland succeeds John Seaton in that
distinction. He was member of the
house in 1865, when % years old, and
there is no other member of the legis-
lature of 1903 who dates back so far
Senator John c. Carpenter is next hav-
ing been a member in 1869. He also
served in three other senates. Leland
only served one term; could not afford
to accept more terms; had too much
business.
A $50, 900 RANCH.-Peter Gingrich,
of Hamburg, Iowa, bought a 6OO-acre
farm near Wellsville and paid in cash
$50, 900 for it. The farm was sold by
w. II. and S. d. Moherman. There is
getting to be quite colony of wealthy
families from Iowa about Wellsville.
THE HOME INSTINCT horse be-
longing to q Beloit man turned up
missing. A few days later it was To-
Gated at the home of a Jewell county
farmer from whom it had been pur
chased. The horse had not been near
the place for three years.
New SALINA FACToRY.-Saiina is to
have shirt and overall factory which
will begin operations within a short
time. The machinery has been ordered
and a building rented in which the
factory will be located until the bust
ness demands larger quarters.
A POTATO KNEW. H. Drumheller,
of Erie, is referred to as n potato
king" by the people of Neosho county
AS he. has just finished digging crop
which amounts to something over IS,
900 bushels, it will be admitted that he
has good claim to the title.
FEES OF PROBATE JUDGEs.-The at
torney general holds that the officers
cannot retain S1.5o per hundred col
lected for filing applications of drug
gists to sell liquor, but these fees must
be turned into the treasury and at the
end of the year he can draw SIS for
every thousand of population in the
county in lieu of such fees.
HEREFORD SALE.-The first annual
sale of Marshall county Hereford
breeders was held at Blue Bapids on
November Is and 19.-There were $50
animals on exhibition.