Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-28
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mission and threatens to bring man
damus proceedings in the supreme
court He claims that the proceedings
of the text book board must be pub
lished under the law and that they are
more important than the printing
board thinks. He has consulted the
attorney general and if he rules that
the stuff must be printed the board no
doubt will follow his opinion. If he
rules that it is discretionary with the
board, then Dayhof will have to bring
suit.
RECEIVED HIS LETTEf.-A man in
Hiawatha received "a letter addressed
to him, but, instead of the name of the
town, was bar or so of music The
postoffice officials had passed the letter
along until one was found who could
sing and he sang the music and found
it 70 be Il part of the brink of an early
grave. The letter vas then sent at
once TO the man in Hiawatha.
ALSO AT OTTAwA.-The Missouri Pa
cific section gangs at Ottawa have quit
work. Striking section men there
declared that there was not a section
crey at work between Hoisington and
the Mississippi river. The men have
heard that gangs of Italians, willing
to work for the 81. % scale. are being
gathered up TO take the place OF the
strikers.
COUNTY FULL OF TIuEvEs.-In Cher
ollee county gang OF thieves gets"
somebody every twenty-four hours
Farmers are held mp on the highways
and their houses burG1arized. All the
smaller towns have had burglaries, in
Guiding railroad depots, the one at
Cherokee half :: dozen times. Stores
are robbed everywhere.
-Four. PLAY FEARED.-Fostcr Bee
son, timcllecper at the lola Portland
Cement Company, has been missing
since Tuesday night and all efforts to
find trace of him prove futile. Colored
men at the works are said to have
threatened his life. There was no
known cause for his leaving.
Hoes SOLD AT WICHITA. From the
first of January to the twentieth of
November, 1908, there was received
| and sold ut She Wichita stocllyards
223, O03 hogs. This is taken from the
books of the stock yards company.
The receipts of cattle from Jan. l to
Nov. l was 20, 365.
BATTERIES AT RILEY. The field arr
tillery of the United States army is
soon to be equipped with new rapid
fire recoi! guns, and the five batteries
at Fort Riley will be the first to be
supplied with them.
FRISCO SECTION HANDS. Several ST.
Louis & San Francisco section hands
in the Pittsburg district struck be-
| cause of recent reduction of their
pay of 10 cents day.
Will. COME OUR. H. Cannon,
clothing merchant of Garnctt, is first
cousin to Jos Cannon, speaker OF the
national house of reprcsen tativcs.
SIX FEET EIGuT.-Jamea Lance,
of Rosedalc, claims to be the tallest
man i'll Kansas lie is % years old and
is SIX IecL elSnt lncneS Tall.
CALDWELL. BUILDS HIGHwAY.-Thc
Caldwell commercial club appointed a
committee to begin work on q road
south to the state line.
GILLErT CAN RETURN.-And he prob
ably will come back to Kansas as the
time has expired in which he can be
| prosecuted.
CHICKEN PIE.-At an entertainment
At Lyons, it is said, there was SIS re-
ceived for chicken pie.
AT CONWAY SPRINGS. An average of
10, Oo0 freight cars amonth arc handled
there.
| LACK OF POWER. While the rail-
roads are slow in moving grain to mar
| lSet, State Grain Inspector Radford
| says it is not due to II ear shortage
''Thc fact is the roads have enough
cars" said he, but they are short on
motive power. Had they enough en-
gines to keep their cars on the move
there would be no trouble"
RAISE PRICE CT CoAL~-Coal at the
|
to So 10 at the mines. At Topeka the
price was promptly raised % cents on
the ton.
KANSAS BETTER FOR CRoPs.-A big
syndicate of Chicago capitalists is now
buying up land in Western Kansas to
colonize eastern homeseelzers. Some
of the moneycd men in the enterprise
have been working immigration in
| Western Canada, but they believe
Western Kansas offers better prospects
for crops.
AT THE OLD SCALE.--The strike of
the machinists' helpers in the Katy
shops at Parsons, Denison and Smith
Vile has been called off and the men
all went back to work at the old scale.
CLEANING REvOI.vER-W. II. Rich,
of Parsons, a baggage and express
messenger on the Nj. X. & T., running
between Kansas City and Parsons, was
cleaning his revolver while on his run
when it was accidentally discharged,