Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
KANSAS COMMENT.

A SECTION FoR SHEEP.-A $40 acre
tract near Sterling has been sold for
SIS, 200. 1t will be used for sheep
ranch.
CITY Is ELArED. City is
slated ove~ the proposed new office
building which it is expected the Santa
Pc will erect there this summer.
OPENED WRONG SAFE.-Burglars en-
tered the office at Yohe's mills at Doug
las and broke into the safe. The same
safe had been blown open a few years
ago by burglars and since that time
has only been used to protect books
and documents from fire.
G. A. B. APPoINTMENT.-C. C. Fleck,
of Salina, has been appointed on the
staff of Thomas, ]. Stewart, command
er-in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic. Fleck was delegate from
Kansas to the national encampment at
Washington last October, where he
met the commander and made his ac-
.quaintance.
GAMBLERS MUST Go.-Judge Reeder,
who commenced his judicial term this
year out in the Western Kansas coun-
ties on the Union Pacific, proposes to
stop gambling in his district if possible
In sentencing a prisoner he read him a
forcible lecture on the subject of gam
bling, explained the law and gave it
out cold that he proposed to rigidly en-
force the law, and gave gamestcrs a
full warning.
TIRED OF FREE BoARDERs- About
eight or nine months ago II man, his
wife and a child fastened themselves
ON to Woodworking relative in an
eastern Kansas town and refused to be
pried loose. In order to get away from
them the man quit good job and with
his wife slipped out of town without
telling where he intended to go. He
had prepared for this move by selling
his household goods and boarding for a
while before pulling up stakes.
AFTER 40 YEARs.-Richard Hazel, of
Harper, who-is a member of the Kan
sas legislature, met his brother, Thorn
as NJ. Hazel, in Atchison after a separ-
alton of nearly forty years. While at
pension office and learned that his
brother lived in Atchison, and he took
the first train for that city. The
brothers had known nothing of each
others whereabouts since the civil
war.
A KANSAS FEDERATIoN.-Ata meet
ing in Topeka an organization was eff
fected to be known as the Kansas Fed
Grafton of Commercial Interests. The
Kansas towns represented were: Hutch
inson, Arkansas City, lola, Winfield,
Independence, Wellington, Dodge City,
Marion Frontenac, Chanute, Kingman,
Great Bend, Anthony, Coffeyville,
Plainville, Blue Rapids, Lyons, Linds-
borg, Cedarville, Topeka, Beloit, Sa-
lima and Wichita.
HAD TO PAY The TAx.-In 1899 Hia-
watha put in a sewer system. James
Falcon, a lawyer, enjoined the county
treasurer in order to avoid the pay
ment of $40, which was assessed against
his property as sewer tax, claiming
that the city had no right to place a
sewer in his alley if he did not want it.
In the district court Judge Stuart de-
cided in favor of the city, but Falcon
appealed to the supreme court, which
has just sustained the decision of Judge
Stuart Besides the costs in the case,
which may amount to more than 800,
Falcon will have to pay the original
taxes and fifty per cent interest, which
will bring the total up to another
500.
LIVED ON ANTIETAM.-Mrs Susan R.
Barr is dead at Fort Scott at the age of
So. During the civil war Mrs. Barr
owned and lived on the farm on which
was fought the fierce battle of Antie-
tam. She opened her house to wound
ed soldiers. Later this house was de-
stroyed by raiders from the South be-
cause she had been friendly to the
Union cause.
STANLEY CoNFIRMED.-Ex-Go Governor
Stanley is confirmed for member of the
Indian commission. Tams Bixby is
made chairman of that commission.
STATE PRINTER AMENDMENT Under
the provisions of the resolution the
question of eleeting the state printer
by direct vote of the people will be
submitted at the regular election in
1904. If it is adopted the legislature
in 1905 will provide for the election of
the state printer the following year.
OVER New COURT HoUsE.-The trou-
BILE in Neosho county over the erection
of new court house has reached the
legislature. Erie asks legislation but
Senator Carpenter, of Chanute, is OPP
posing it.
MANY HORSES BURNED The Nor
gan livery and sale stable in Wichita,
and a harness shop next door, burned
down with 80 high grade horses out OF
40 in the barn; together with large
amounts of carriages, harness, etc. A
car load of roadsters and draft horses
were ready for shipment to eastern
markets. The total loss, including
damage to nearby buildings is fully
SIC, 900, with SO, 900 insurance.