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

X. u. HAS 90 TEAMs.-Kansas uni
versity students maintain twenty-five
base ball teams.
GETS A Coon JoB-John Knowles,
once of FL Dorado, has been appointed
by President Roosevelt to $4,000 per
year position in Oregon.
WIrH THREE DAYS MoRE.-When the
time to close registration in Topeka
was three days ahead the number o.
voters registered was 14,osO.
AN ARMY CLERK.-Arthur i. Good
win, of Scott City, Kansas, has been
appointed a 81 900 clerk in the medical
department of the army, at St Louis.
Fees BY TELEPHoNE.-A poultry
and egg dealer of Solomon pays about
800 u month for telephone service,
which he uses in buying this kind of
produce from the farmers.
CAN CoHDEMN CATTLE.-The attorney
general decides that the state livestock
sanitary commission has authority to
kill cattle afflicted with contagious
diseases after they are appraised.
SNOW STOPPED PIowINe.-The farm
ers of Clay county were busy with their
blowing and also with seeding their
fields with oats, but all their work was
stopped by coating of six inches OF
snow which fell last week.
A FAULTY LAw.-The act which was
passed by the legislature authorizing
Kingmnn township Kingman county,
to vote 81, 200 in bonds for a township
hall, lacked an enacting clause and Is
likely to be declared invalid.
TIE REGISTER OF DEEDS LAw.-It is
now thought TO be invalid for the reas-
on that the enrolling committee sent
the bill to the governor with different
provisions from those in the bill as 1T
passed. Registers of deeds who cx-
pected to gain large additions to their
earnings under this new law are the
parties to suffer from the mistake.
LANDMARKS CovERED-The county
surveyor OF Hodgeman county says the
sandstorm last summer covered up all
the stone posts on one side OF the coun-
ty and it is impossible to tell where the
county line is. He has written to the
state auditor, who is also land commits
sioner, asking what to do. The auditor
has replied that Hodgeman will have
to settle it's own troubles in regard to
the matter as the state has no funds
with which to run county lines.
SAVED HER MoNEY.-Miss Florence
Lindley, Brown county. school teach
err, saved her wages and a few years
ago bought seventy-two lots in the
town of Sapulpa, 1. T., from an Indian
who owned the large part of the town
site. She paid less than So lot. The
Indian afterwards realized that the
place was the making of big town
and, regretting his sale, sued Miss
Lindley for the amount of her note
which he held, expecting she would be
unable to meet it at the time. She
borrowed money and paid the total
amount as soon as she received notice
of the suit Not long ago the Sapulpa
court house was burned. The Indian
still wanted his land back, and, sup
posing that papers, titles to the land
and so forth, had been consumed in the
fire, he again brought suit, claiming
the young woman never had paid him.
At the trial, after he had testified
under oath that the land was not paid
for, Miss Lindley brought forward his
receipt for the amount in full, which
she had preserved. The Indian is on
trial for perjury. The town lots in
question arc valued at not less than
$4,000.
JUDGE FOR New DISTINCT. --Governor
Bailey has appointed Oscar Foust, of
lola, Judge of the new 37th district,
composed of Allen and Woodson coun-
ties. Foust will be elected for full
term on May 3; meantime he will serve
under the appointment
ROAR ABOUT BAD ROADs.-The lola
Register tells about a load of hay in
the mud in front of the city hall where
the city fire team had stuck the day be-
fore, and says that there is no wonder
that farmers are making a loud roar
for good roads.
BANK RoBBED.-The state bank OF
Quincy, east of Eureka, was entered by
robbers who blew open the safe and Sc
cured about 5000. The robbers stole
q hand car and went south toward To-
ronto, later taking the Missouri Pacific
west The banlc had been in operation
less than a month.
ENGINES STILL GROWING. Orders
have been received for twelve new
switch engines to be built in the To-
peka shops The engines are to be
bigger and much heavier than the ones
now in use in the yards there.
WESTERN KANSAS LANDs.-George
w. Adams, Union Pacific land agent,
with headquarters in Marysville, says
the land in the western part of Kansas
belonging to the Union Pacific Rail-
road company is fast being gobbled M
by homeseekers and spectators. He
looks for a sharp advance in price in
the near future.
CoFFELr's THIRD TRIAL-The special
venire of 100 men for the Jury in the