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

Vic SlOClN 4CCOCLS III IAteIO POI SOA
the state say that the reason they are
not going to feed stock for the market
this season is that the difference be-
tween tho price of feeders and the price
of fat cattle is too small, and that it
would be impossible for them to make
profit on the feeding.
INCREASED CAPITAL.-At meeting
OF the stockholders of tic junction
City Electric Railway, Light and Ice
Company the company's capital stock
was increased from 500, 600 to $500. 900.
The present stockholders will take all
| of the additional stock. The increase
was made necessary for furnishing
light to Fort Riley. The company will
light the post and will furnish tie cur
rent for fortythree arc lights and 6. 600
incandescent lights.
GAS AND OH. WEIIs-The state Ia
| Dor bureau has Issued report which
shows that there are only eighty-siX
dry holes" in the Southeastern Kan
sas oil and gas district. All of the
wells except elghty-six either produce
gas or oil There are 946 oil wells
alone in the district. The same report
shows that the operators nave invested
about s., 600, 900 while their concerns
are capitalized fot Sis, 600, 900.
MADISON FoUND DEAD.-The dead
body OF Tom Madison, the supposed
slayer of the Smith. county, Kansas
family OF three women, was found i'll
field near Cowlcs, Nebraska. He had
been shot, supposedly by himself. He
had apparently been dead n number of
days. Rat poison was found in his
clothing.
To EXPLORE INDIAN MOUNDS.
sns archaeologists are preparing to ex
plore the prehistoric Indian mounds on
the Fort Leavenworth reservation.
These mounds were first discovered
about 1925 by Rev. Isaac Mccoy, Il mis-
sionary. They are hidden from view
by trees and underbrush.
Fort SCOTT WOMAN Hurt. Mrs. s.
II. Davis, an extensive property owner
and business woman of Fort Scott,
was probably fatally injured by being
thrown from a carriage. The horse
she was driving became frightened
and ran away throwing Mrs. Davis to
| the sidewalk.
WATER Is BAD.-The water at Wash
burn college has been pronounced un-
safe and the girls who board on the
campus at Written and Holbrooll halls
and who have been drinking the well
water ever since school opened, have
been ordered to drink only boiled
water.
ABour KANSAS BANKS. During the
past three years I64 state banks have
been Incorporated, and Rfty-seven
dropped or changed in some form.
There have been only three bank fail
ures in Kansas during these three
! years. This is exclusive of national
, banks.
LADY LAW STUDENTS. The Wash
burn college law school has two young
ladies as students. They are Miss
Anna Marie Nellis and Miss Maude
Bates, both of Topeka, who intend to
| take the full course in law.
| WANT FREE GAs-The Chanute
school district insists that the city
shall furnish free gas to school houses.
The council refuses and will turn off
the gas unless the board pays full
rates.
Does Nor NAME HIM.-A Leaven-
worth dispatch says that a Topeka
newspaper man will probably start an
evening daily paper in that city. The
man is said to have gone east 10 figure
on Il plant
HAS Nor REsIGNED.-W. E. Ward,
of Sharon Springs denies the report
that ne has resigned as receiver of the
land office 1T Colby to accept a position
with the Union Pacific as land agent.
He says he has not resigned and has no
intention of doing so, but he intends to
handle land for the Union Pacific.
UNDER THE ANTITRUST Law Five
wheat buyers of Hays and the Union
Pacific agent there have been arrested
by the county attorney upon the
charge made by another grain buyer
that they were restricting trade.
Old LANDMARK GoNE-,rhe Pacific
motel, an old landmarl, of Salina, has
been sold and win be moved. The
building WAS built thirty-six years age
and it has very interesting history.
1t was here thai Mother Bicllerdyke.
after the war, first kept hotel and
where she entertained General Sher.
man and other prominent army officers
on his famous. buffalo hunt.
GIFT TO UNIvERsIrY.-Mrs Mary
Johnson. OF Barton county, mas given
the Kansas Wesleyan university S95,
900 worth OF land
KANSAS WHEAT EXPORTED. bout
80 per cent of the Kansas wheat croI
is utilized by Kansas mills and con
siderable portion goes TO mills in Other
states for blending with soft whcats
but millions of bushels 60 direct to the
great markets for export.