Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-05-09
KANSAS COMMENT.


thoroughly soaked, which the crops
needed. There was much thunder and
lightning.
AT WAEIEeo.-The presidents special
train made brief stop at Wamego
where large crowd, including many
school children, greeted the president
He spoke few words to them
MONTHLY REPORTS URGED.-Secre-
tary Coburn is using the law for
whip on the county agricultural boards.
Those failing to make a monthly re-
port stand fair show of being de-
prived of county financial aid at fair
time.
LIVED Lone IN KINsLEY.-Dr. B. r.
Mosher, one of the early settlers OF
Edwards county, is dead. He located
in Kinsley in 1876, was a member of
the house of representatives during
sessions of 1883 and 1855. He was %
years old and died of general debility.
Ar MANuATTAN.-Altho the
weather was threatening a large crowd
gathered at Manhattan TO greet the
president All the business houses
were closed. The battalion of the ag-
ricnlturai college consisting of 400 stu
dents and the college bands were on
hand. The president spoke for about
Is minutes.
IN FLORIDA PENTTENTIABx.-Ph Phillip
Medbury, one of the most popular
young society men of Hutchinson, is
serving five years term in the Florida
penitentiary, working in the phosphate
mines He got into slight difficulty
there, and plead guilty to what he sup
posed was small offense but which
was felony as the documents set it
forth. Efforts are being made in
Hutchinson and in Topeka to secure
his release
THHEsHERSIEN TO MEET.-There will
be grand rally of threshermen at
Wichita on May 13 and IA. The
Threshcrmen's National Protective as
ISOLATION has n large membership in
Kansas and these will be there, and be-
sides these every man in Kansas and
Oklahoma engaged in the business oas
been invited there. The committee
having the matter in charge has sent
out 5000 invitations and it is estimated
that fully 1,5oc men will be here to at
tend the rally.
AT JUNCTION CITY.-A bout 1000
people greeted the president during his
brief stop there. Four troops of the
Fourth United States cavalry com
manded 10y Major Coffin, from Fort
Riley, and the 10Th and Goth batteries
of field artillery commanded by Colonel
Carr, were drawn up in line at the sta
ton, the battery firing a presidential
salute on the arrival of the train
President Roosevelt and Secretary of
war Root each made short talks. The
party remained fifteen minutes.
THE ROOSEVELT GUESTS. Those
present at the governors dinner were
as followed: The president; Elihu
Root, secretary of war; Assistant Sec
rotary Barnes; Surgeon General Rixey;
DIR. Butler; Judge w. C. Cook, of the
federal bench; Chief Justice w. a.
Johnson, of the Kansas supreme bench;
Morton Albaugh, chairman of the Re-
publican central committee; D. W.
Mulvane, Republican national commit
teeman; Senator !. r. Burton; Senator
Chester l. Long; n. II. Loomis, of the
Union Pacific; NJ. A. Low of the Rock
Island; H. ]. Bone, secretary to the
governor; William Allen White of the
Emporia Gazette; Z. w. Howe, of the
Atchison Globe.
CLASS DEvILTRY.-While engaged in
It with paint, with which two classes
were vieing with each other TO do the
meanest thing, preacher endeavored
to stop the row and stepped in bucket
of green paint, upset it and sat down
in the spilled contents. The reader is
now wondering where all this occurred.
1t was at the Southwestern College of
the NJ. L. church At winfield
TURNED To SNow:-Most of the ac-
counts of the cold rain which extended
over Kansas and adjoining states say
that snow followed the rain.
of Il mortgage has occurred in DiclEin-
county for more than Il year. In the
past fourteen months not an action has
been on the court docket. The last
mortgage foreclosure was :a March,
1902, and was for only S625. The sher-
if and the newspapers have become
reconciled TO the shrinkage of their
earnings
SET.L Bor,Ds AT HoNfE. The gas
bonds issued by the city of Emporia
are for 500 each, so made that home
parties will buy them all.
OFF FoR ST. LoUIs.-Troops 1 and Z
Eighth cavalry; Sixth and Seventh
batteries, field artillery, and the Fourth
cavalry and Ninth artillery bands left
Fort Riley to take part in the dedica-
tion of the Louisiana Purchase exposi-
ton. The horses and field guns left
on one train and the troops had two
trains.
WRECK IN KANsAS.-A Mo. Pac
stock train struck work train just
north of Buffalo and eleven men wore