Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-21
KANSAS COMMENT.


MILLION AND HALF FOR RILEY
Since the improvements of Fort Riley
began a little more than a year ago the
post has got nearly Sl.5Oo,oo0 of the
army's appropriation fund.
Cosr $40, oOO.- The Kansas building
at the St Louis exposition is practically
completed and will be turned over to
the Kansas commission on Nov. 20. IL
has been erected at a cost of about $50,
600.
REFORM SCHOOLS INCOME.-Superin-
tendent Charles of the Topeka reform
school turned into the state treasury
1857. 90 collected from the sale of hogs
and produce. The reform school farm
is on paying basis.
New ESGINEs ARRIvINa.-of the 100
passenger and freight locomotives or
,ls-sI by tho Santa Fe twenty-five
have arrived ut Topeka from the Bald
win Locomotive works. The new en-
gines are arriving daily.
LEGISLATOR INDICTED. The grand
jury of Labettc county returned two
indictments to the court and we're dis
charged. One indictment charges d.
Il. Campbell, representative from Bour-
bon county in the lastlegislaturc, with
soliciting bride.
TO RAISE FIsn.-Thousands of farm
ers who never have paid much attention
To the fish business are now preparing
to raise all the fish they can. There
are thousands of private ponds under
construction in Kansas and the de
mand upon the state hatchery viii be
great.
IMMIGRATION INSPECTOR. The inn
migration inspector bureau Of the Uni
ted States has designated Wichita as .
point for an office of immigration in
spection. Thomas V. Kirk, of Calves
ton has arrived and is having a suite of
rooms fitted up for an Office in the fed
erai building.
TEACHERS HUsKING CORN When
the pupils of a rural district in Nemaha
county went to school the other morn
ing they found the school house locked
and this placard tackled on the door:
''Qutit teaching and gone to husliing
corn.-Georgc Richmond" And this
tells the story of the shortage of school
teachers in Kansas ut the present time.
Most any employmentis more rcmuner-
ativc than schorl teaching.
FAEMEE IS SURPRISED. John Schie-
recli, a Lane county farmer, had his
stacks blown to pieces several times
and heavy rains had soaked them
through and through and his outlooi,
was so bad that he offered to sell his
whole crop to anybody that would pay
him for 5000 bushels at the market
price. Nobody took him mp and last
week he threshed and the machine
turned ont / l, 600 bushels of fine bright
wheat.
GAS AT FRANKFoRT.--Whil drilling
n we'll on the James Mitigate farm
near that city, u strong flow of gu,
was found. AT depth of 50 foet 1
strong vein of water was found, but
drilling was continued to provide F.;
good supply, and ut a depth of so fee
crevice in the rock was encountered
and the forty feet of water in the we!
sank on. of sight, aud with might,
roar gas rushed from the well, ant
continues TO rise to Il considerable
height above the we'll. The vapor clr
be distinctly seen, like waves of heat
A LOADED GUN. While Mrs. Join
Reeves, living two and one-half mile.
south of Blaine was cleaning house sh,
knocked down loaded shotgun whicl
was discharged by the fall, ard tn,
instantly. She was about % years o
age.
DIED AT KIHGMAN.-Fran,5 Russell
former professor of anthropology u
Harvard university, died there II
was connected with the bureau of eth
nology and made many investigation
among the Indian tribes OF Arizona.
SANTA FL AND ORIENT. Tho rail
roads have settled their dispute owe
right OF way in Emporia by the SAINT
Fe selling the Orient the required Ian,
for Il nominal sum. 1t is said tina
neither road wanted 10 win in the sui
but that the suit was needed by Dot
rs u precedent
TAUGHT % YEARS. Miss Leona Sui
livan, of White Cloud, probably hold
the record In Kansas for continuou
service in one school room. She In,
taught twenty-threc years in the put
lie school there and has just resigned
A LIeHT DOcKEr.-Thc present terri
Of the district court ~ Junction Cit
has the lightest criminal and civi
docket that it has had there in years
but tho civil docket contains thrice
divorce suits, the largest mum Der 70
any single term OF court in the histor
of Geary county
DEATH REVEALED IT.-In Irranllli
county man died. and it develope
that lac possessed an estate worth SO
00o II developed also that he ha
been paying taxes 10 an average {
only S45'a year.
KANSAS so YEARS oLD.-''NIay 81
1904 ,o,ce En,-,ro W M.-t,,, $500