Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-04-25

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at HerinGton caught fire and in an
hours time both building and contents
were destroyed. A lamp was knocked
over into pile of combustibles. The
| fire began inside upstairs Only few
of the available men could be used and
these were deferred by the heat and Sc
clusion of the flames The office, which
| is next to the ware-room, was com
pletely flooded with water, but almost
| everything in this room was saved.
| The total loss is estimated at about
$4,000. There were nearly ST.. 200
worth of storage and the damage to
the building was about 81, 900.
ARRESTED FOR EMBEzzLING.-Samu
D. Pollock, representative in the legis-
lature from the ffty-6fth district, has
been arrested for embezziing 1864 from
the United States government The
| theft was committed when Pollock was
! assistant postmaster in the Arkansas
City Office and was done by tampering
with money orders and records Pol
! lock confessed and exonerated every
| one else connected with the office The
! thefts were committed between May
% and July o. 1909.
SHOT HER Foor.-While the excur-
| siOnlsts to Liudsborg to hear the ''Mes-
| siah" were boarding their train for Nc
| PheTson Il man on the train fired
! shot from car window. The bullet
struck u woman in one foot. She was
] A.
Bertha Olson. An attempt was made
| to arrest the shooter on the arrival of
the train at Mcpherson, but he could
not be found in the crowded train.
| ARBoR DAY-The immense campus
of Friends university in Wichita. was
| planted on Arbor day to trees of such
varieties as are known to do we'll in
| Kansas. A year ago James NJ. Davis,
who purchased the building and gave
| it to the Friends church, had his land
scape gardener in New York prepare
| plan for decorating the campus and
making it into veritable garden and
this plan is now being carried out.
! MULVANE REsIGNs.-John z. Null
vane has resigned the presidency of the
Missouri 81 Kansas Telephone company.
When he became president of the com
pany 90 years ago it was Il compar
atively small affair; now it has %, 2O4
miles of toll wire, principally copper,
reaching 500 cities and towns in its
territory. Its gross revenue for the
year ending in January, 1908, reached
ST, a2S, 436. So.
HEREFoRDs AND SHoRTHoRNs. An
! other large pure-bred Hereford and
! Shorthorn cattle sale has been held at
Manhattan, The highest priced Here
ford bull brought $34O. The entire
herd of 46 head brought SIS, 600. Most
| of the buyers were Kansas men, and
| the stock will remain principally in
Wabaunsee, Riley and Geary counties.
GBINsTEAD HAS RECovERED.-Fran
| Warner, the negro who attacked Pool
! Grinstead, the editor of the Wathena
! Times, few weeks ago, has been con-
piotad- of assault with intent 70 lrill.
| Sentence has not been pronounced.
| Mr.. Grinstead has recovered. The
negro was intoxicated and attacked
Grinstead with a razor.
| MEMORIAL. WINDOw.-The services of
the dedication of the memorial window
in honor of the late George L. Fair
! child, former president of the State
Agricultural college, were held at the
Congregational church of Manhattan.
The window. which is of a beautiful
! design, was given by Mrs. Fairchild
and a number of friends.
! NEW CHARTERs.-Two new state
! banks were chartered at one session of
! the charter board; one at Dexter and
one at Logan. The Eureka Gas, Oil and
Mineral company increased it's capital
stock from So, I25 to SEQ, 900 and the
Western Star Mill company, of Salina,
has raised its stock limit from $50, 600
to 500, 0oO
YATES CENTER ALso.--The city coun-
ell has let the contract for six oil and
gas wells in that region. This terri
tory has never been developed. but re-
| Gently in we'll that is being sunk by
some of the citizens oil was struck in
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tracing capitalists.
MINERAL PAIST.-Arllansas City's
gas well, now being drilled, sprung
! another surprise upon the drillers
when they struck an eighty-foot layer
of mineral paint. 1t is being tested
and so far has proved to be excellent
MUNRO WIr;s.-The district court of
! Leavenworth county ordered the war
den of the penitentiary to release John
| Munro, an Oklahoma convict, at the
end of five years, upon the showing
that Munro had been given sentence
! of eight years when the Oklahoma
laws provided for five years as the max
imum.
A SOCIALIST CoLEEGE.-A socialist
college will be opened at Wichita on
May 8, bearing the name of American
Socialist college" It viii be the first
of its kind in the United States.
PERCHERoNs AND CIYDEs.-Regent
j. ). Mcdowell of the state agricuI-