Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-14
KANSAS COMMENT.

river In COwlcy county rose Ten lSCe
last week after the greatest rainfall in
years.
A LARGE DOCKET. The Convey
county district court has on its docket
for the next term Ss criminal and 239
civil cases.
WRECK or U. PA Union Pacific
train was ditchcd near Russell. Five
heavily loaded cars ~ ere derailcd. No
one was injured.
KEROSENE ACCIDENT &C. p. Bowers
OF Wishita, was severely burned by an
explosion of coal oil ,hat was used as
lsindling in stove in his store.
MASTER MECHANIC RESIGNS. -W. e.
Anderson, master mechanic of the
Rock Island road, with headquarters
at Goodland, having in charge the Col
orado division, has resigned.
PATTEN RANCH SOLD.-The C. c. Pat
ten ranch. four miles north OF Reading,
containing 500 acres, passed into the
hands of j. w. Jones. of Reading, and
r. II. Faucet, of ST. Joseph, Mo. This
was Il fifty thousand dollar deal.
EIGHT SONS PRESENT AT Lie tif.icth
wedding anniversary of Rev. Thos
Mcbride and Mrs Mcbride. OF Indcpcn-
dencc, eight sons, all of them living in
Kansas, were present. Five of them
live in Montgomery county. There
has never been death in the family.
Nor ACTIVE TROOPS. The expense
for having the Kansas troops partici-
pate III the Fort Riley maneuvers will
aggregate about SEQ, 900. Most of this
will be paid by the war department..
The only expense the state will be at
Is for the main tenancc of the governors
staff. The federal government only
pays the cost of maintaining active
troops in the field. The governors
staff is not considered 'active troops :"
Is Nor REPEALED. County Attorney
Torrance of COwley county asked the
Attorney General il the law, providing
that "a county may not issue warran is
for greater amount in any one year
than the amount of the tax levy for
that year, had not been repealed. At
torney General Coleman held the law
was still in force although a portion
of the section, referring to another
matter, had been repealed by implica-
ton.
SCHOOL POPULATION PADDED. The
Atchson Champion says: Last year
the school census for Atchison was
6,O6G; this year it is 3,T34, loss of
2,332. This year the census had to be
sworn to; last year the school popula-
tion was guessed at. AS consequence
Atchison received So, 900 last year more
than the schools were entitled TO. Last
year the school population of Atchison
county was 10, 9O2; this year it is 1904,
difference of 2,59s between the two
years"
Az ORGANIZED BAND. Their den has
been found and six of the thirty who
composed the gang of robbers arc
where they can't get away. THEN
headquarters have been in Marshall
county. but the band was discovered
by officers of the government, the state
and the railways The gang has beer
implicated in robbcries OF banks ant
postoffices in northern Kansas ant
southern Nebraska for at least siY
years. 1t is thought that parties whC
robbed the bank at Burton were ;
part of the gang.
MANY DIVORCE CAsEs.-Therc ar,
thirteen divorce cases on the Novem
Der docket of the Geary county distric
court, of which five are brought b,
women who married enlisted men Il
Fort Riley. The soldiers lived will
their wives until discharged or trans
ferred and then deserted them.
A KANSAS BoY.-Eaymond ~ Over
son of Usage City, has been unanimous
ly elected president of the Junior elias
ut Harvard to fill the vacancy causes
by President Leatherbee dropping on
OF the university.
VALENTINE RE-EIECTED. Del A
Valentine, the editor of the Clay Cen
the supreme court. He was first elect
ed in 1899, then in 1901, and now for
third term There were four votes 70
Valentine and three for Gale Jones
stcnographer to Justice Burch.
WREcK AT CoFFEYvIL!E.-A Missouri
Pacific passenger train from Kansa
City, crashed into the rear end of
freight train in the Coffcyville yards
Several passengers and the cxpressmai
received minor injuries.
QUILT az YEARS OI.D.-3Iiss In
Young, of Summerield, has quill
that was made by her great grand
mother and is lined with linen spun b
her own hands. The quilt is still in
good state of preservation, although
has seen eiShty-seven years of servic,
TEST CAsE-Thc Missouri Paci6
will make \ test case of the order {
the railroad commissioners 10 place
station agent 1T Ontario ON the groun
that the commission has no right I
make such an order where the bus
ness of the station docs not justify i
TELEPHONE PARrY.-At Gaylord