Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-03-28
KANSAS COMMENT.

been put on between Kansas NlIy anu
Fort Scott.
NEW STATE BUILDINGS. The Indus
trial school for girls at Beloit is to have
a new school building and dormitory
and the school for the deaf at olathe
gets new building.
OUT OF BANKs.-The Republican
again, with some danger of making
new channel. The water all comes
from the western part of the state.
FOUNDER OF HUTcHINsoN.-C. C.
Hutchinson, who now lives in Oregon,
has visited the Kansas city which he
founded and which bears his name.
He still has many friends in Hutchin-
son.
STRIKE GRowING.-It is reported
from Pittsburg that the mechanical de-
partment of the Kansas City Southern
railroad is tied up; the boilermalIers,
blaclzsmiths, coppersmiths and the
helpers all walked out
PROMOTER VAMosEs. e. NJ Ceyes,
the man who first promoted the inter
urban electric line from Mcpherson TO
Arkansas City, has disappeared after
cashing some worthless checks. He
aroused considerable interest, resulting
in a local company procuring char
ter.
WEBSTER REAPPoINTED.- Prof. Ed.
ii. Webster, professor of the dairy de-
partment at the state agricultural col
lege, has been reappointed inspector
and expert of the dairy division of the
agricultural department, Washington,
D. C. His salary will be s., 900, which
is an increase of $3.50.
HEAVY FIRE Loss.-The burning of
the Hoxie roller mills and Crum's ele-
vator at HoXie was loss of 5000 on
the mill and So, 900 on the elevator.
The mill was fully insured but there
was no insurance on the elevator.
part o: the wheat, about 1000 bushels,
which was in the elevator was saved.
TAKING NO CHANCES. -The business
men of the state will take no chances
and they are now packing up their slot
machines to ship 20 some other state
where there is demand for them and
where they are not outlawed. The
most of them will go to Colorado and
Nebraska. Some will so to Oklahoma
and Texas 1t is estimated that there
are nearly 10000 slot machines in the
state at this time; about fifty car
loads.
Hen SALARIED KANSANs.-A. j.
Schilling, who was Il Hiawatha boy,
receives So, 0O0 year as secretary of
bridge company. Horton sent Il young
man to Kansas City who gets salary
of So, 900 year. j. w. Fitzgibbon
went from Horton to Scranton, Pa,
where he gets So, 900 year. Ii. Moore
house, who was master mechanic at
Horton, is getting $40, 900 a year at
work for New Jersey railway supply
company.
CAN HAVE THEM By AsKING.-It ha
been frequently stated that Kansas
tins issued by the state experiment
station at Manhattan can have them
merely by asking for them, but it ap-
pears that there are many who do not
know this The best stock breeders
and farmers of the state speak in terms
of high praise of the work done at the
station. It is practical, and as these
bulletins tell of the results that are at
tanned they are sure to be helpful to
those who study them.
BoUeHT AT PEABoDY.-E w. Cline,
q representative of the Rock Island
company, has purchased the 16O-acre
farm of Emmett Umsted for Sc, 900 and
80 acres from William Gray for So, 400.
The land is three miles south of Pea
body. The Rock Island road will
build large reservoir on the land to
supply large water tank which it will
erect soon in Peabody.
OIL AT CAsTLEToN.-RenOc county has
oil. 1t has been found in water well
ut Castleton, and the town is enthusiast
tic over the discovery.
SPANISH WAR VETERANS. Over 500
Spanish American soldiers are drawing
pensions from the Topeka pension
agency. They are coming in at the
rate Of about twenty-tivea month now.
In addition to this number about 600
widows and orphans of Spanish-Amer-
lean soldiers are now on the pension
rolls.
MORE THAN THE AvERAGE.-The
legislature cost about $4,000. This is
about SIS, 900 more than the average.
The additional cost was due to contests,
Investigations and extra help.
FAKE FERTILIZERS Schermerhorn's
bill to put fake fertilizer concerns out
of business passed the legislature.
Hundreds of farmers in southeastern
Kansas have been swindled during the
past few years by fake concerns claim
ing to sell pure bone fertilizer. 1t has
been discovered that the fertilizer was
made of ground stone taken from the
zinc and lead mines around Galena-
lola LEADs.-That city was the first
in Kansas which has been reported as
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