Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-06-13
KANSAS COMMENT.

the regular mails. brought to Wichita
n baggage cur loaded cram full OF
mail.
SIX ISCHrs OF Nun. The North To-
pelsa food left i: On top of the lunch
counter in the Union Pacific station in
North Topeka.
Asks A REuEARHG. Jessie Morri-
son. through her attorneys, has filed Il
motion in the supreme court for hear
ing of her ease
FL. DORADO s5OC. Tine citizen, of Ell
Dorado made their first contribution
for the Topeka food sufferers by wir-
ing $500 TO Governor Bailey.
GILREHr rs MAYoE-Phc Kansas SUI
preme court decided the mayor;tlty
contest in favor of f. f.. Gilbert and
issued a writ of custer against w II.
CraddoclS, who claimed reelection TO
that position.
COMPLAIN or SERvICE.-There are
persons who are served by free mail de-
livery, in both cities and on rural
routes, who complain that their mail
was not delivered regularly during the
flood period.
COULD NOT MEASURE IIGE WATER
The city engineer of Topeka says that
it was impossible to put a pole down
three feet into the currents of water
during the food. lie fears that it may
be impossible to change the current
back into the river bed.
To BUILD FERRY. The Kaw river
is falling very fast ut Topeka but has
not yet reached its natural channel.
Two companies of regular army en-
gineers from Fort Lcavenworth are
there and will proceed at once to build
a ferry across the river
Down THE KAw IN BoAT.-B. f..
Crisswell, state ageut for an insur-
ance company, did not wait for trains
to run, but made the trip from Man
haitian to Topeka in small boat. Inc
trip was made in about ~ hours with
"A part of Il night spent At st. Marys.
ENORMOUS FLooD DAMAGE.-In Sa-
lima the flood ranged in depth from
one foot to fifteen feet and the condi-
tions at Gypsum City and Council
Grove were similar. The Saline val
ley was n sea of water and the flood
damage was enormous. There is great
suffering.
Four CENTENAEIANs. Among the
people rescued from the North Topeka
food were Sarah Bean vino had passed
her 1O2nd birthday and her husband, a
very old man; David Harris, who says
that he can prove that he is III years
old, and his wife, Sylvia Harris, who
says that she has just turned the cen
fury mark.
MORE WHEAT HEADS. An old grain
grower of Kingman expects wheat to
turn out better than the people think
it viii The weather has caused the
plant to sucker and in place of the or
binary two heads will have several;
not so many nor so large as when the
plant stools in the ordinary way, but
enough to materially increase the crop.
A RooMING HOUSE. The Santa Fee
company has had fixed up the south
shop which was the old machine shor
in its Topeka shop system, by dividing
it into 80 rooms, 10 by 10 feet. The
floor and partitions are of new lumber
and are whitcwashed. The rooms
open into space 40 by 300 feet that is
enclosed for n playground for the chill
dren. The building is put in charge OF
the Railroad Y. NJ. C. A.
KANSAS VETERAN SPEAKs.-J. n.
Snoddy, of Pleasanton, Kan, who
served in the Civil war with the 9TH
Kansas infantry, (the Jayhawliersl
was the orator of the day at the Decor
alton day services ut Covington, KY.
under the auspices of John G. Fremont
post No. 4, G. A. Il. His address was
listened to by several thousand people
Cor NO NEws-On account of the
floods in the Solomon and Republican
rivers Beloit did not hear the result o.
the election in the Seventh congress
sional district until June ).
INDIANS GAVE WARSING. Marion
situated at the confluence of foul
streams, has been suffering badly from
the flood. About 47O people took din
ner in the public school building. The
Elgin hotel served its meals upstairs
The Indians told the early settler:
never to build n town there, and nov
the people wish they had listened.
SUFFERERS FED.-The distress of tn,
Topeka sufferers is being dispeilcd
Those who are still in North Topell;
are receiving food and are in no dan
ger unless it be from sickness.
SANITARY CoNDITIoNs.-In Nortl
Topeka the greater danger is tn,
wrctched sanitary conditions. Tn,
health board members are busyin:
themselves with the problem of santa.
tion and will do all possible TO proven
an epidemic
BY SAME STEoKE. Hutchinson
Lampman Stricllley and A. Jarvi
were struck by the same stroke o
lightning; one of them at the sigma
to,Yer and the other in the station, tin