Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-09-05
KANSAS COMMENT.

KANSAS POPULATION. The last sum
ming up of the assessors count gives
Kansas a population of 1, 494, SAT
A CoMpAnIsox. Missouri and Ne
braslza both pay teachers wages which
average more tLan the wages Kansas
teachers receive
PLEAsANToN Has GAs.-The city has
struck second strong gas well and
now has two wells, either of which
will light and heat the town.
A TALKING Observation-Disclosures
state fair is to have u convention OF
auctioneers which will have n competi-
tive talking match for prizes
MEN NEEDED-on August % an ur-
gent call was sent out from Sterling
for 200 men TO work in the broom corn
fields with the offer of S1.25 per day
and board.
GIRLS ARE SCAECE.-A Goodland
hotel with 40 Loarders mas been COM
PEELED TO close the dining room on &C
count of the scarcity of cooks and di-
ming room girls.
WIruoUr HIS DRIVER. In race
during the fair at Fredonia the horse,
Oregon, whose driver had been thrown
out at the quarter pole, finished the
heat with the empty sullly, without
break
TELEPHONE CoH:, ECTIoSs> -ArlIansas
City will soon have telephone connec-
tions with Silverdale, the stone quar-
ries, Davidson, Townsend and Maple
City. 1t also will have 1G rural phones
on the same line.
A 10000 POUND MACHINE. The To-
pelSa railway company has received a
30, 900 pound planning machine to be
used in planning rails to make crossings,
frogs and switches. This kind of spc-
cial work is very expensive. The big
planer will DC set up at the car barns
FIRST AppEAI.-The Missouri Pacific
has refused to obey the order of the
state board of railroad commissioners
to build depot and establish II station
agent ut Berryton, Shawnee county.
This is the first order issued by the
board from which an appeal has been
talten.
ANOTHER HAIL SToEM.-A heavy fall
of hail occurred in the south aud east
portion of Saline county. At Assuria
and Gypsum City hailstoncs were
picked mp measuring from eight TO
twelve inches in circumference. The
average hailstones were unusually
large As there was but little wind ut
the time the damage will be light.
"a SCHOOL RUILNG.-County Super
intendent Knowles of Marion county
asked if a child could attend German
school for three months and English
school for two months and not be liable
for truapcy. The attorney general
held that the child could be charged
with truancy unless it attend one
school for the full term each year.
WAS WELL. TREATED. Owen Patch
en-, of Ottawa, was badly injured in
the Stillwell wreck, When the claim
agent of the Santa Fe went to him to
settle and asked him how much he
claimed damages, Patchen replied that
he wanted what was right, and no
IhOICs anu LtAstJ nc NOuAO nOI 5NlC even
If the company allowed him nothing.
Thereupon the company settled with
him for 81, 600 cash, besides paying all
his hospital expenses and giving him
n round trip ticket to Indiana. lie got
more than he could have secured in an
action ut law.
TEACHERS PAY RAIsED.-After Il
supplemental special examination OF
teachers in Dickinson county to fill up
the lack of thirty teachers, the teach.
ers' salaries were raised. The raise
brought mp the average 81. 80 month
and increased the total pay of the
teachers of the county So, 500 over last
year
ARTILLERY PIACLITE.-The annual
artillery practice at Fort Riley ina.
been going on for some weeks Will
some new features, one being the dis
appearing target.
STORES UriDEE WATER --Vcrmillior
creek, south of Frankfort, was &c fee
above low water mark and nearly al
the business houses at Frankfort haC
water covering their floors from tire,
to eighteen inches deep. At Barrett
also on the Vermillion, water ran owe
the counters in the stores
GIVE THEIR ORDERS. - The Wichit;
Order of Journeymen Stone Cutter
have ordered contractors to stop ship
ping cut stone into the city and the,
declare they viii not work such Ston
if il comes from any o-her place
RAINEp FIVE Barton county
during the past two weeks, had NV
days of heavy rains, soaking the groun'
and preventing blowing and delaying
threshing Corn is in excellent con
ditiOn. never known TO be better a
this time of the year. Creeks nm,
small streams are swollen to their ga
pacity and it is feared many whea
stacks may be ruined.
KANSAS BONDS, The state has out
standing bonds amounting 20 s6se, ooG
and they are all held by the schoc
fund.