Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-07-11

| legisla tors who last winter passed "A
law abolishing the treasurers at the
state university, state normal college
and state agricultural college and re-
curing that separate warrants be made
Instead of having to make ont some
forty warrants as was the case before,
it is now necessary to make out in the
| neighborhood OF 4 200.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT X. y. GA
medical department has been organized
in the Kansas National Guard. DIR.
Henry O'Donnell, OF Ellsworth, sur
geon general of the K. n. g., will be at
the head of the department. Subor-
dinate officers viii be appointed by Gov
ernor Bailey. This organization was
made in accordance with law passed
by the legislature at the last session
permitting the organization of this de-
rartment.
WARNING CoRroEATIoNs.-Sec
of State Burrow is now sending out
blanks to the different Kansas corpor-
atoms for statements showing their
financial condition. Accompanying
each blank is circular letter telling
what will happen to the corporation if
tine statement is not made and filed
with the secretary of state. The in
formation is taken from the new cor
poration law.
FLAW II THE LAw.-It has developed
that II flaw exists in the law, passed by
the legislature last winter, making it
unlawful for the probate judge of
county to issue a marriage license TO
those who are mentally unfit. The
law makes it a misdemeanor for the
probate judge to knowingly" issue a
license to such a person, but provides
no way by which he can discover the
facts.
RAISES FALLEN WHEAT.-The APP
paratus for lifting the fallen wheat-a
Wellington invention-is at work very
successfully in the harvest fields where
the wheat has been knocked down by
hail. One field of 100 acres where the
wheat was lying fiat upon the ground
and which was about to be given up as
a total waste, has been raised and har-
vested by the binder attachment.
Fortune III POULTRY PACKING. w.
Z. Hurst, OF Fort Scott, has sold his
poultry packing business TO the Ar
mour Packing company. Mr.. Hurst
operated in several states and has
earned the title of Chicken King of
the West" The sale represents about
$1O0, 600. Mr. Hurst, who has made II
fortune in the chicken business, will
retire from business.
BLOWN BY DYNAMITE trolley car
in Topeka was blown from the tracks
on the morning OF the Fourth. Several
powerful dynamite bombs had been
placed on the tracks by unknown par
tics and the passing car exploded them.
No one was seriously injured, but all
were given severe shalIeup.
HAVE THEY NOTICED. Have the
Kansas temperance workers noted that
! the judges of the supreme court in
Maine have given notice that the pos
session of "a United States internal rev.
enue liqnOr stamp will subject the pos
| SCISSOR to a Jail sentence.
SANTA FE SToREKEEPER. E. Ray
has been appointed storelzeeper of the
Santa Fe proper vice A. f. Hilton, re-
signed. Mr.. Ray has jurisdiction over
the lines east of Albuquerque, n. NJ,
and north of Purcell.
CLOUD COUNTY HARVEST yield
! of the wheat crop there is large and
the condition of the wheat is reported
fine. scarcity of male help in the
harvest and many farmers daughters
are helping in the fields.
BEILEvIILE SENDS FUNDs.-Belle-
vile sent her Fourth OF July celebra-
ton fund to the food sufferers
WHEAT RIPENED RAPIDLY.-The hot
weather has ripened the wheat very
rapidly, causing the harvesting to start
several days earlier than expected.
The wheat in Stafford county is well
filed and of very fine quality. The
yield is variously estimated at an
average of from fifteen to thirty bush
els.
| PAYING DEPoSIToRs.-Rece J. d.
Cannon, of the Toronto State bank is
paying 10 per cent to the depositors
and there may be nothing more real.
lied.
COMPETING FOR LABOR.-The harvest
hand problem is more serious in the
Kaw valley than elsewhere in the state
because of the demand for railway la
borers to repair tracks. The roads pay
SITS and board with so per cent in.
crease for overtime, and farmers have
hard work to. engage men.
KANSAS FIRST SHIPMENT.-The first
shipment of new wheat from Kansas
was received in Kansas City from Ar
kansas City. 1t graded No and test
ed sixty-one and one half pounds tt
the bushel.
DEMAND A HoNE--A soldiers widow
of Norton county is in a condition o.
poverty and the county commissioner