Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-01-10
KANSAS COMMENT.


SALOON MEN SKIP-AI of that illl
at Harper packed their grips and fix
lures and left town just as the grand
jury was about to hold n session.
KANSAS HIGH ScHooLs.-Superin-
tendent Frank Nelson recently said:
"Kansas stands alone in her splendid
system of county high schools We
now have twelve high schools and each
one is doing good work.
LOAD OF Snor IN HIS Foor.-Chester
Smith, while hunting near Florence,
received the charge of his shot gun in
his foot He is Il member of the senior
class in engineering at Kansas Uni
versity.
New CHURCH PAID FoR.-A year ago
the NJ. +. church at Wellsyille was
burned. Dr. Murlin, president of
Baker University, has just dedicated u
new church there. There was raised
1900, 5000 more than was required.
The church is of brick veneer, with
furnace heat, class and study rooms
and cost 81, 600.
Boy SAVES A LIFE.-Win Thorne,
aged l2, saved a companions life on
the Smoky Hill near Abilene. A num-
Der of boys were skating and Bernice
Mare went through the ice into fifteen
feet of water. Thorne crept to the
edge of the ice and caught him as he
came up the second time and after
hard struggle rescued him.
DAIRYMEN's MEETING.-The State
Dairy association will meet at the
State Agricultural college March 3, 4,
and 6, during the week of judging
dairy cattle. Prominent dairymen
from outside the state will be in at
tendance. The cows will be on ex-
hibition and for final judging. All
railroads will give reduced rates.
MICHAEL MAHNING's HEIRS.
ney Arthur NJ. Jackson, of Leaven-
worth is trying to locate one Michael
Manning, who worked for the Union
Pacific railroad there about 30 years
ago. He is sole heir to So, 200 in cash
now in the hands of an administrator.
If Manning il dead his widow and
children, if airy of them are living, are
entitled to the money.
AN UPSET LANAI the home of
Herbert Levett, an Emporia carpen-
ter. an upset lamp caused an explosion
which resulted almost fatally for Mrs.
Levett, in trying to prevent the flames
setting fire to the cradle which held
her six-months-old child. Mrs Lev
ett's clothing caught fire and she was
perhaps fatally burned. She put out
the fire, however, and her child was
uninjured.
A GOLDEN WEDDISG.-At Baldwin
City recently Captain and Mrs. n. C.
Cradit celebrated their golden we'd
ding. They were pioneers in Kansas
coming to Douglas county in 1857.
Captain Cradit commanded Company
+, Sixteenth Kansas cavalry, during
the civil war. In 1859 Mrs. Cradit en-
tertained over night at her home Hor-
ace Greeley, who was making a hur-
ried tour of eastern Kansas.
IN JESSIE MORRISON CAsE.-E. N.
fend a suit brought by the county at
torney of Sedgwiclz county. lie is
charged with sending a message from
Wichita to Pearl Beardsley, who was
working at Newton, telling him that
au officer from FL Dorado was after
him and that he should dodge -
Beardsley was one of the witnesses ex-
pected to testify for Jessie Morrison.
POULTRY AND PETs.-The third an
nual exhibition of the Coffeyville Poul-
January :, 3, 0 and 10, 1908. The pre-
MUM list is large one and several
hundred dollars will be paid to com
petitors. Already n large number of
entries are being made.
LOST PIGEONS IN FIRE.-A fire at
Horton destroyed DIR. Haviland's fine
stock buildings. DR.. Havilaud raises
homing pigeons and fine poultry. OF
the 275 fine pigeons in the building
all except twenty were suffocated.
BRowNFIELD BEHIND BAKs-Dr j.
c. Brownfield, who was convicted in
El Dorado of perjury in t6e Jessie
Morrison case and sentenced to seven
and half years in the penitentiary, is
now behind the bars at Lansing. He
is &C years old.
WAS BOUND OUT.-An orphan boy,
Willie Stivers, had his skull crushed in
jumping from Santa Fe train east OF
Hutchinson He was trying to make
his way back to the orphans home at
HalsteGd from which he was bound
out"
STRKIING's NEW LIBRAEY.-The club
women of that town have secured
rooms in the new city building for the
public library. There are 400 volumes
now on hand and n library fund is be-
ing raised. Mrs. Kilbourn, a former
resident of the city, has given 81, 900.
1t is proposed to purchase about 4
thousand books and subscribe for mag
azine&
Nor ESoU6H PAY.--C. w. TriclSett,
of Kansas City, has declined the place