Free press., 1903-08-08

some time the Santa Fe Company ex-
perimented 20 determine the supply
and quality of water to be obtained at
reasonable depth near the roadbed at
Kiowa. Test holes were bored and the
water drawn from them sent to chica-
go to be analysed as to its quality for
drinking and mechanical purposes
The hole bored reached the subter-
ranean water level at only 40 feet, and
every attempt made to lower the water
in the well with pumps of large capac-
ity has utterly failed.
SAVED GIRLS LIFE.-While Miss
Sadie Bixler, of Lerado, Reno county,
was dressing for party at her country
home match set fire to her light or
Candle dress and She was Immediately
enveloped in flames She ran scream
ing from the room to the porch, where
Grover Clark, a young farmer, was
waiting to take her to a party. The
young man caught her in his arms and
ran with her to u water tank seventy
five yards distant and dropped her in
extinguishing the flames before serious
burns were inflicted.
w. S. GRANDY RESIGNS. w. ).
Grandy has resigned the position of
master mechanic of the Middle and the
Oklahoma divisions oil the Santa Fe,
with headquarters at Newton. Mr..
Grandy is well known to railroad men
along the Santa Fe. He came to New
1,o 81,
from Niclerson in '06, and has been
master mechanic for several years. He
will be succeeded by A. Dinan, who
comes to the Santa Fe from the North
western.
KANSAS INCONSISTENCIES. inspectors
of the internal revenue department are
after Illicit stills operating in Kansas,
They have seized one still in Russell
county and are after two others in
Western Kansas. They have been told
there are two concerns of that kind in
Wyandotte county and one in Shawnee
and are searching for them. $50 far
| as we can learn there are perhaps a
dozen illicit stills in the state" said
Prank FlennilIen, of the United States
marshal's Office.
THREsPING IN FULL SwAY.-Fully
go machines are stationed over Barton
county and the wheat yield is of much
better quality than was expected.
Wheat that has been threshcd near
Great Bend has been averaging TWEEN
| ty-6ve to thirty bushels an acre, and
testing sixty to sixty-three pounds.
The Barton county yield this year will
be between 5000, 600 and 5000, 600
| bushels. Corn is in fine condition at
| present, having had good rains.
! BoUGHT GREENLAND FARM.-State
| Treasurer Kelly cashed voucher for
$25, 900 in payment of the Greenland
property, adjoining the penitentiary ut
Lansing as authorized by the legis1a-
ture last winter. By the purchase of
the land the extension of the peniten-
tiary mine under Staiger's island is
made possible and the construction of
a new shaft on the island, which would
be an expensive undertaking, avoided.
CAN Do BETTER R-William Eisey
Connelley, special pension examiner
with headquarters in Kansas City. sent
his resignation to Commissioner Ware.
The place pays So, 600 year ''rimes
are too prosperous in the Sunfiower
| state for man to waste his time work
ing for $4,000 Il year, said Mr.. Con-
nelley. 81 doubt if the place will be
filed"
To LIGHT FoRT RIIEY.--The war de-
partment has awarded the Jhnction
City Electric Railway, Light and Ice
company the contract for the electric
lighting of Fort Riley's streets anG
buildings.
TOPEKA MAN. AT RAToN.-A. Har
riety, of Topeka, is appointed mastel
mechanic of the New Mexico and the
Rio Grande divisions at Ration to sue
ceed D. A. Sullier.
CONTRACTS LET-The contract fol
the new auditorium at the agricultural
college has been let to Henry Bennett
of Topeka. This building will COS
$40, 900, viii have seating capacity O
OiOOO otAN II " OS COlA4 A4pICNSAi Oy ACA
June. John Winter has the contrac
for erecting new creamery building
at cost of SIS. 900, to be completed by
January 1.
AFTER % YEARs.-Two brothers, on,
living in Harrington and the other OF
u farm near Hope, just lately came to
gether.
TEACHERS MARHY-The schoo
boards in Chautanqu;l county have in
i'serted in their contracts with teacher
this year clauses that prohibit eithc
: counting or marrying by the teacher il
the school term. Many schools wer
r badly interrupted last year by the mar
riage of tine women teachers, most O
D whom resigned. Others neglected thei
4 school duties and gave their time t
: courting. The boards are now maxim;
the salary contingent upon the teach
e ers of both sexes refraining from mar
rying.
e NEW MASTER MEcHANIC.-A. Dina
? is appointed master mechanic of til