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


Kansas are boasting of record breaking
in the matter OF stock shipment dur
ing the past week, and claim that the
number of ears handled exceed the
shipment of any previous week for sew
eral years. The Santa Fc officials.
however, do not profess to see any
thing unusual in the movement of
stock along it's lines, one of them sta
ting that the conditions were not die
ferent from last year or any previous
year.
For LOWER FREIGuTs. -An organi-
cation is being formed in Kansas for
the purpose of bringing about lower
| freight rates in the state. 1t will be
called the Farmers and Merchants
Freight association and viii have
branches in every county. II will be
non political in character and Will
make effort 20 have bill passed by
the Legislature to bring about Il more
satisfactory condition for shippers.
FIRE AT MEDICINE LoDGE.-Fire
started from telephone wires IN the
! Chase hardware store at 4 o'clock a. IN.
and their double brick building was
destroyed. y two-s;ory brick owned
by Mrs. NJ. 7. Higgins was badly dam
aged. Two buildings across the street
had plate GLASS windows broken by tie
heat c. @. Chandler lost :. building
and an automobile. There were sew
eral smaller losses.
SAVED HIS BOY.-As Dennis Call and
little son were going down Il bill with a
load of hay near Axtell the wagon got
away from them and tipped over. The
father sustained broken arm and
leg and the tines of Il pitchforll pcne-
trated his groin. In spite OF his great
injuries the father managed to dig his
boy out from under the hay.
No JOINrs Now. Many of the Galena
joints closed on their own accord as
as soon us the grand jury convened
and the proprietors sought quarters
elsewhere. Now there is not Il joint
running in Cherokee county and il is
safe TO predict that all will stay closed
as long as the jury is in session.
WJcHIrA APPEALs.-The city will
city against the Missouri & Kansas
Telephone company in which Judge
Dale decided that the company did not
need franchise and the city could
only name the streets and alleys,which
the company could use.
FRUIT CRAFTS SCARCE.-Most of the
roots for apple tree grating in the
United States are grown in the Kaw
river bottoms. The flood swept the
young trees all away. The seed for
the sprouts comes from Europe but the
roots themselves come chiefly from the
Kaw bottoms.
Work TRAIN WRECKED. "A fat car
and caboOsc on the Lincoln branch of
the Union Pacific, rolled down steep
grade with a large number of italian
laborers. The caboose turned over
twice and not one of the men was seri-
ously hurt. The engine remained on
the track.
Bonds PURCHASED The state school
fund commissioners recently purchased
bonds as follows for the state school
fluid: Doniphan county, school dis
trict No. Is, 81, 100; Chautauqua county,
school district No ID, 81, 200; Rawlins
county, school district No. %, $500.
FILED LIEN.-The Kansas grand
lodge of Odd Fellows have fled lien
upon tho De Boissiere home, in Frank
lin county, for $50, 900 expended upon
the property while the Old Fellows
had possession of it.
ELEVATOR COLLAPSED. The north
side of Madden's stone elevator at Hays
collapsed and 5000 bushels of wheat
piled on the railroad track. Cars can
not be had to ship the grain.
MCFARLAND TRUANrs. AT McFar.
/ land the truancy officer found 1877 chill
, dren who should have been at school
The enrolment at the school was fifty.
ADA REHAN STATUE fter. rcposina
9 in the basement of Topeka dry good,
. store for seven years the silver statue
of Actress Ada Rehan, which formed
f - part of the Mon ANA exhibit at tho
Columbian exposition in Chicago, hai
been sent 20 Omaha where the Ameri
e can Smelling and Refining compan,
sill convert it into bullion.
+ SUES FOR DAMAGES w. T. Brant o
r AtchisOn, lineman. badly crippled il
D 1901 by falling fifty :cet from teIe
d phone pole, has sued the Missouri &
Kansas company for Sa5, 500.
i AFTER 80 YEARs.-L A. Wilson
t deputy county treasurer of Sedgwicl
n county, has returned from a trip to hi
n old home in Ohio Mr.. Wilson move,
e to Kansas in 1871 and since that tim
q has never visited his old home Will
n there he enjoyed I. visit with his sister
J. whom he mad not seen for 30 years
WALKER HAS TEouBLE-A. D
e Walker, of Holton, state railroad con-
r missioner, has Il great deal OF troubl
Il when out of the state on account o
d people taking him for Beeman, O
chewing gum fame.
e PULE BRED CAIvEs.-W. P. Ander
i son, of Amarillo, Texas, livestock agen
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