Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


eastern Wyoming on Feb Is.
The heads of the Kansas state schools
approve the proposed law to fix tuition
fees.
The opera house at Ashland, Ohio,
is burned. The public library is also
destroyed.
The lower house of the Kansas legis-
lature killed the bill for branding all
prison made goods.
Miss Ellen Smith. for 25 years con-
nected with the University of Nebraska,
is dead at Lincoln.
Both houses of the New Mexico Iegis-
lature have passed bills creating Roose-
welt and Quay counties.
The Excelsior Springs, Mo-. roller
mills are burned at a loss of So, 900 and
the insurance is s., 500.
From all parts of the country 1000
dentists attended the 18th anniversary
of dentists society in Chicago.
The French canal company seems to
be hesitating to close the sale of the
Panama canal interests to the United
States.
G. w. Conklin, of Pittsburg, Kas.,
has purchased the Rich Hill, Mo-, Wit
rified brick plant where he will employ
100 men.
There were reported to be 80 cases of
typhoid fever in West Seneca, Erie
county, N. Y, with probably 100 more
not reported.
AS result of the severe weather,
many schools closed in Toledo, Ohio
Traffic of all sorts has been hindered
by the snow.
The anthracite coal commission is
formulating its conclusions, behind
closed doors. 1t will take them some
time to finish.
The resolution which passed the SEN
ate providing rear admirals pay and
allowance for Admiral Schley was
tabled in the house.
The treasury department charges
that customs revenues are suffering
from some postmasters failing to carry
out the regulations.
ture adopted joint resolution indors-
ing woman suffrage which has been in
vogue there since 1869.
The storm which reached its climax
worst of the season from points from
Nebraska to Kentucky; from Texas to
St Louis; from Ohio to the Rockies
Even sunny Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory were visited by it
The Indian bill gives the court of
claims jurisdiction over the claims of
Delawares and of the confederate
bands of Utes of Colorado and Utah.
The deputy postmaster general of
Canada is studying the free rural mail
delivery of the United States with the
view of establishing free delivery ser
vice in Canada.
Sherman NJ. Bell, a mem Der of Roose-
velt's rough riders during the Spanish
American war, has been appointed ad-
jutant general of the Colorado national
guard by Governor Peabody.
President Roosevelt has announced
his intention of calling an extra session
of the senate if the Panama canal
treaty and the Cuban reciprocity treaty
are not both ratified before March 4.
Joplin, Mo-, is said to be one of the
heaviest losers in the St. Louis turf
country. Joplin and other cities in
the mining district contributed fully
S75, OOO
Dynamitcrs attempted to destroy the
toll line cables of the Commercial Tele-
phone company at Warsaw, Indiana.
Out of a thousand deaths in Germany
of persons between the ages of Is and
60, 3l6 die of tuberculosis alone Per
sons under Is and over 60 are seldom
affected.
The Colorado senate adopted the res
Olution memorializing congress to pass
the good roads bill, appropriating Seo,-
600. 900 for the construction of high
way across the continent.
Eight persons were killed and four
injured by an explosion in the Peter
and Fox Magazine Cane factory at
| aso1oria, Ohio.
Astonishmenti is expressed in Venez-
uelan circles that nothing is heard of
the return of the Venezuelan fleet as
stipulated in the protocols.
According to the Railway Age the
Santa Fe will lay $50 miles of S5-pound
steel rails during 1908 in California,
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
Stephen Wing, reputed TO be the first
man to raise strawberries and peaches
in northwestern Arkansas, is dead at
his home here aged SO years In 1891
he controlled the entire peach crop of
the Ozark mountains