Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-03-14

lson the judges awarded first place to
Edward Hislop, of Baker University,
Baldwin; second place to L. j. Hopkins,
of Ottawa university. Ottawa; third
place to Wallace Thompson, of Wash
burn college, Topeka. There were FIVE
other contestants.
TABoos FRATs-President Miller, OF
the Presbyterian college at Emporia,
gave an ultimatum from the faculty
to the fraternity stating that if mem
bers did not sever all connections with
the Delta Kappa Gamma fraternity
they would be suspended. He also had
notices published in the local papers.
To Plant PINEs-A movement has
been started to ask President Roose-
Welt to set aside 75, 900 acres in Finney
county as a forest reserve. It is
planned to have the work under the
direction of the bureau of forestry If
the president grants the request Pine
trees will be planted.
LARGE RECEIPT OF NAIIs.-Four-
teen car loads of nails aggregatin 2
$50, 600 pounds of wire nails, or an aS-
erage of 20, 600 pounds to the carload,
have arrived in Wichita billed dire4t
from the factory to a Wichita fra.
The cost of the nails was about S24, 500.
A PIONEER WoMAN-Mrs Elizabeth
candle, one of the pioneer residents of
Reno county, is dead at the age of 65.
She was formerly of Lexington Mo.
where she was principal of the first
negro school established after the civil
war.
FARMERS INSURANCE CoMPANY.-A
recent statement of the Brown County
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance COM
pary shows that with over $4,000, 600
or less than One-siXth of one per cent.
SEVENTEEN ORGANs.-In the past
year seventeen country schools in Lyon
county have bought organs, raising the
money by means of box socials and
similar plans. A number of the schools
have also bought libraries.
KATY BRAKEMAN KHLED.-Frank
York, brakeman on the katy" run
ming from Parsons to Junction City,
was run over at Emporia and died
shortly afterward. His home is in
Parsons.
No INCREAsE.-The house committee
of the whole has killed the bill provid-
ing for an Increase in the salary of the
supreme court justices from So, OCO to
SIS, 900 year.
Two TO ONE.-The city of Parsons,
by a vote of two to one voted for issu.
ing about $40, 900 in bonds for a site
and school building in the second
ward.
ELEVATOR Is BURNED. Rock
grain elevator at Pawnee Rock, is
burned at loss of $40, OOO There was
several thousand bushels of wheat in it.
Cows DROWNED Kearse, of
Niles, southern Ottawa county, has
lost IS cows by drowning. They crowd
ed onto the ice and it gave way.
MRS. FoRTER Is ILL.-Mrs. Emma
L. Porter, president of Kansas w. r.
c., is confined to her home in Marysville
with pneumonia.
THE GOVERNOR SICK-Governor
Bailey had his turn with the grip last
week and was away from the executive
Office.
PURELY LocAL--Ninety-fi five per cent
of the laws passed at this session of the
Legislature are purely local in their ma
ture.
CONGRESSIONAL CoNvENTIoN.-The
republican congressional convention is
to be held at Great Bend on April {
FLOUR SHIPMENT.-The Sabetha roll
Ter mill shipped out thousand barrels
of -four last week for eastern points.
RENO APPLE MEN.-The apple grow
ers of Reno county have organized a
| combine for mutual benefit.
ELeIN THE BIGeEsT.-Elgin, Kansas,
is the biggest cattle shipping point in
the world. It is small place in Chau-
tauqua county and near the Oklahoma
line. 1t has but one railroad, the
Santa Fe, but it has competition in cat
tie shipping as the Missouri Pacific is
only eight miles away.
DIVIDE JOINT FINEs.-There are now
eleven joints in Fort Scott, each one OF
which puts up monthly fine; and the
authorities one month give the fines to
the city and the next they are turned
into the county school fund.
DRAWS OIL WORKERS.
men from near Oil City, Pa, a number
of them with families, arrived in Chan
ute TO make their homes there. All OF
them are experienced oil workers, and
were drawn to Kansas by the develop
ment of the new oil field.
AFTER 80 YEARs.-W. A. Morgan has
sold the Chase County Leader, one OF
the Oldest papers of the state, and con.
Quoted by him for % years. w. c.
Austin is the purchaser. Mr.. and Mrs.
Morgan expect to take trip to Eu,
rope.
HOME CoAL--Home coal is now on
| sale at Lawrence. 1t is from a 22-inch