Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-24

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Odd Fellowship in the West, and be-
lievcd by many to be the largest ever
known in the United States.
Result OF TIE FI.ooD.-Comty war
rants are now stamped ''not paid for
want of funds in Pottavyatomie eoun-
ty- Tins is a result of the great floods
the past spring. It is the first time
sueh a thing has been necessary in
many years. Some of the banks are
now paying interest on daily balances
TO hclp oct the county
HoIEI FIRE EscApEs-T is only
three months left to comply with the
law requiring fire escapes in hotels.
The law also affects buildings two
stories or more high where more than
cwenty persons are employed; intending
wholesale houses, mills, factories,
school houses, lodge buildings and
public halls.
TwENTYsEvE:C BIACKLIsTED.- PRO
bate Judge Jeffries has requested the
druggists of Chanutc not to sell q eiti-
zcns, who are listed. any Intoxicating
liquors for any purpose. The drug
gists viii obey the request as though
it were II command. TO protect their
licenses. The list includes some prom
inent citizens.
ALI. IN THREE DAYs-A man sitting
on the railroad track at NeOdeslia was
s.ruci, by "a train and killed. Reason,
drunk. freight train struck Il hobo
at Thaycr and ground him to pieces.
Cause, drunlS. a Rock Island train
ground Il man to pieces in Smith coun-
ty. Cause, drunk. All in three
days.
ASKS A REHEARING.-Judg a. L..
Rcddcn will file motion for rehear-
ing in the DIR. Brownfeld case. Brown
field was sentenced to seven years for
perjury in the Jessie Morrison ease
Judge Ecdden says the court did not
make a ruling on the most important
point raised in the appeal.
BREEDING WAEAr-Thc experiment
station, ut Hays. of the Kansas Agri-
cultural college is experimenting in
breeding a kind of wheat which will
not shell in harvesting. President
Nichols believes that the result viii be
good thing for wheat growers.
A WORKING CHURCH.-The Baptist
church at Belleville has "a mem bership
) of only 100, yet during the past year
they have raised So, OOO for all purposes
; which includes the building of 81, coo
parsonage. And yet at Belleville Gig
arctic smoking is common. &.
SALE OF AN ORCuARD.-Althoug
the apple crop III Dcniphan county this
5 year is considered a failure, Joe Euler
sold his entire orchard of ten acres tc
Michael Bauer, of Wathcna, for $500
; cash. His orchard is six miles nortl
of Troy, in the hills.
Rocl: ISLAND BEHIND TIT is the
general impression at Topeka that the
Rock Island is behind tie proposed
Wichita, Arkansas Valley and Denver
I railroad, just chartered; as the Roel
Roc; Island wants TO get into Denver
from the South.
A FINE INSTRUMENT Prof B. w
Truesdcll, of Friends university, ha
recently added $50 compound micro
scope, IL fine barometer and some Other
needed appliances for the use of III:
classes IN and chemistry and biology.
You KNOW c. A. FELLOWS. Tho en-
: gagemcnt is announced of Miss There's
: Smith, daughter of Probate Judge c
: p. Smith, of Concordia, and Charles A
Fellows, of Topeka. The weddin
viii occur October 2S.
J WHEAT Is MOVING. banks G
:. Greensourg have paid out $500, 600 10
!. wheat and the crop is just beginnin
to move.
>. PAYMENT or CHECKS. Payment {
=, Cheeks is stopped by the death of tin
o signer OF the check The proper wa
=. to secure payment on Il check made b
= Il person who dies before the check
presented, is 70 Gle it in the probat
70 cour. against lhe aase' OF the deceased
N ENLISTED 10 SrUDY-Joscph
Boats, u young man OF Allison, enlis
= ed at the eoverninent recruiting st.
~ ton at Saliaa for strictly business pu
NJ poses. He gave mp a profitable bus
70 ness to enlist, That nc might make
20 practical study ofthc army.
~ FIRST lEvr INDU ,rRY.-Dr, Sta.
= man, who died last week on his Lea
IF enworth coun Y farm, brought to Kal
es sas in 1860 a half million of CRAFTS an
- was the starter OF the fruit industry
Is the territory. He experimental
Il great deal with fruit. and the Ssayn;
apple and Staylnan strawberry we
named after him. At one time ne ii;
: an apple tree in his orchard bearir
sixteen different varieties from graft
of Foi. lHREE YrARs.-Wlliam Tro
ms has carried the mail between Goodlal
and st. Francis for three years
ne WANr SADDLE HoEsEs.-The arm
nr is securing the country about Fo
81, Riley and farther away for sadd
Id horses 10 be used for the maneuvei
$50 paying sl.aO a day for their use xxi
Ter guarantee that they viii be return