Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-04-11

Lane and s. C. Pomeroy. But one bal
| lot was taken and the vote stood: Lane
So; POmeroy SO; Marcus j. PARROT, 40
f. P. Stanton, 21; n. w. Delahay, 2;
| S. ID. Houston, 1; 5. A. Kingman, 3:
| A. j. Isaaks, IL; NJ L. Conway, L.
Every man in this list with the exeep-
ton of 8. A. Kingman, has been gath
cred to his fathers. In the state senate
of that year there were twenty-six
members and of these only three are
known to be alive. In the house there
were seventy-six representatives, and
of these only seven are in the flesh and
| blood.
ENDOWMENT FUND.-The Southwest
Kansas college at Winfield will soon
have 500, OOO endowment fund. Win
field citizens made the proposition to
raise $25, 900 If the conference would
raise the other SIS, 900. The PROPOSE
ton was accepted by the conference
and provisions were made for beginning
the work of raising the money at once.
| WRECK ON SANTA FE.-Twenty-fve
loaded stock cars met train with if
teen cars OF freight near Burlingame.
| All the cars were ditched and many cat
| tie were killed. The road was COM
| pleteiy blocked as all the cars were
| piled up together. L. D. McCarty, the
engineer of the cattle train, was seri-
ously injured.
IRRIG ALTON MEETING CALLED. L.
Diesem, president of the State Irriga-
ton association, and r. NJ. Lawrence,
| president of the Garden City Industrial
club, have issued a call for a meeting
at Garden City on April 16 to organize
a Southwestern Irrigation association
and lay plans for future development.
! CAPACITY OF 6OO.-There is but one
place where there is greater capacity
| for turning out locomotives than the
new Santa Fe shops in Topeka, and
that is the Reading shops, which have
a capacity of 1000 locomotives. The
capacity of the Topeka shops is 600 To-
! comotives
OLDEST PHYsICIAN.-Sincet the death
of DIR. John p. Wood, at the age of 1O1
! years, it is likely that the oldest ply
stefan in Kansas now is DIR. w. A.
Boyalsin, of Marysville, the coroner of
Marshall county. He will be ninety
five years old on Memorial day.
A COOP INVEsTMENT.--Burr. Belts, n
! Jewell county farmer, bought sow
and seven pigs for 81. He fattened the
SOW, got 400 pounds of pork, saved one
of the pigs, and eight months after he
made the ST investment sold the six
remaining pigs foo $113.
JAIL. Lock RUsTY-In Lindsborg the
marshal arrested tramp, but when he
tried to lock him up he found that the
lock on the Jail door was so rusty from
disuse that it could not be opened. He
kept the prisoner at the hotel over night.
| KILLED IN ELEvAToR.-Ge w. Nell
son, an operator of an elevator in a
! Wichita ware house, l1neeled on the
floor to throw u SNOWFALL at a party on
the floor below, when the elevator
caught his head and crushed it.
REGISTRATION FIGURES.
to names copied from the registration
slips upon the poll books of Topeka,
there were 16,O4s registrations; an in
crease of APT over the registration two
years ago.
EX-Gov. ST. JoHN.-Eesidents of
Versailles, Mo-, where John Peter St.
| John is engaged in the real estate bust
ness say he has cleaned up something
| in, he 10
USED TO LIVE AT BURR OAK. S.
Dnss, the head of the New York Met
ropolitan orchestra, is remembered at
Burr Oak, Jewell county, as an organ
and sewing machine agent.
ARMoURs AT Clay CENTER-They
will improve their poultry house there
by erecting large addition for dress
ing poultry, to cost s., 900.
MESSENGER Boy HURT.-Tommv For
| tune, IL Western Union messenger boy,
walked in front of Topeka street car
at night, was knocked down and
dragged about twenty feet and badly
| injured His skull was fractured ard
he was badly bruised about the body.
The physicians think he will recover
CATTLE INFECTED. The herd of cat
tie on the farm of Mrs. Samuel Nc
Lean, of Cloud county, are afflicted
with foot and mouth disease. The
sheriff quarantined the herd and no
titled the state sanitary board.
SEVEN LITTLE GIR1.s.-These Wichita
girls ranging in age from eight to Fl
teen years, members of the Associated
Charities, will raise flowers this sum
mer to be made into bouquets for the
sick poor in the city. 1t is intended
that every person on the sick list of
the Associated Charities shall have at
least one bouquet week and if pos
sible they will be supplied daily.
FIRST ORIENT TEAIN.-It arrived at
Wichita on April in time to connect
with the regular Missouri Pacific train
for Kansas City.
New DEPOT AT EUREKA.-Plans and
| specifications for a new 5000 Mis-