Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-03-21


ures have been enacted into law. Vim
cent is second with fourteen, Noftzger
is third with thirteen, while Smith has
eleven and Cubbison ten. Smith in
reality got thirty-fve bills through as
he substituted twenty-five house bills
for his own measures in the senate.
EIGHT OcToGENARIANs.-An unusual
sort of social gathering was held in
Kirwin recently, In accordance with
an annual custom Mr.. and Mrs. Nate
Kemp entertained the residents of the
town who are over so years of age.
There are eight of them. During the
party one of the ladies for the first
time in her life talked over a telephone.
Kirwin has population of $50.
AFTER FIFTY YEARs.-Mrs. Isabelle
Cunningham, born in 1915, is dead at
Cedarvale. The text used by the
preacher at her funeral was the one
used at the funeral of her husband just
fifty years ago For fifty years she
had carried the desire to have this done
and it took at last the form of death
bed request.
CAUGHT FROM BALLOTs.-Judge L.
L. Carver, of Topeka, is seriously i'll
from erysipelas. He caught the disease
from handling ballots in the Hamilton
7. L. Doran, another Topeka lawyer,
caught erysipelas in the same manner
and was seriously i'll for several months.
AN OLD CLAIM PAID.-Mrs- Martha
Gallop. of Beloit. has been awarded
$223.6 60 by the government for property
destroyed in an Indian raid through
Mitchell county in '1S6s. Here is one
of the items: A piece of twenty yards
of homemade flannel, having a cash
value of $50.
A RUNAwAY.-Phil Wise and his
wife, of Cowley county, were working
young horse for the first time and
the team ran away. Wise received
wounds which were considered as en-
dangering his life while his wife was
bruised about the head and had leg
broken.
MEXICAN WAR VETERAN.-Captain
John r. Row is dead at Toronto at the
| age of 90. He was a captain in the
Texas rangers in 1886. He was an Off
Ger in the Mexican. He fought on the
Kansas side in the border wars He
settled in Woodson county in 1854.
KANSAS Producers CUT OUT.-The
legislature turned down bill obliga-
- e ~, -
chase their supplies for the various
state institutions from Kansas pro-
ducers and Kansas dealers.
A DOLLAR AND HALF.-Two bills
price of supreme court reports, one of
them at ST. 25 and the other at $3.50.
Governor Bailey has signed the $3.50
bill.
X. u WITHDRAws.-The oratorical
association of the state university has
| formally withdrawn from the state or
atorical association on account of the
trouble at the Atchison oratorical con-
test.
PECK's BILL KhLED.-Candidate
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their election expenses with the county
clerk Peclx's bill to do away with
that feature of the law was defeated.
| INJURED Much GRAIN.-The upper
story of the Rockwell & Co. elevator at
Junction City is badly damaged by fire
and the greater portion of So, 900 bush
els of grain was damaged by water.
LANDS SELLING RAPIDLY.-This is
true of Dickinson county Farms are
selling to parties coming from Iowa
and Illinois at prices nearly double
those of three or four years ago.
CHILD LABOR BILL.-The senate
killed this bill twice. 1t killed the
senate bill and when the same bill
came before the senate as house bill
short work was made of it.
FINED 500 AND CosTs.-One Nico-
demus, who has second hand store in
Newton, was found guilty of recei wing
stolen property and fined. He had
bought a quantity of brass from a num-
Der of boys who stole it in the rail
road yards.
ASYLUM OUTRAGEs The Legislative
committee appointed to investigate the
reported outrages and scandals at the
Topeka and Osawatomie insane asy-
lums will meet in Topeka on April &c
for the purpose of commencing its in
vestigation.
PAY OF SOME INCREAsED.-T house
and senate reached agreement or
the executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill, which increases salaries o.
some state house officials, among then
the salary of the curator of the Goss
collection of birds to $500 year.
SLOT MACHINES. house ha:
passed the senate bill, prohibiting the
use of slot machines in Kansas. Gov
ernor Bailey says he will sign the bill
Under the provisions of the new Law
the operation of slot machines is re
garded as a felony.
CONFERENCE AGREEMENTS diff
ferences between the house and the sen
ate over the St. Louis worlds fair anC