Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-03-07

absolute right TO make the school levy instead
OF making recommendation to the city council.
Adams, of Sedgwick, has had his bill passed
by the house which gives basis for damages
and telegraph wires, in cities. To comply
with the law 1t Will be necessary to use longer
poles.
The Hutchinson reformatory gets 5000 for
a carpenter shop and a total of $4,000 for
maintenance and repairs as per house bill
The house slaughtered WaggenerS bill
sting the office OF public administrator in every
county.
The house approved the bill appropriating
So 90 for new buildings at the state soldiers
home at Dodge City and 5000 for a water
plant
S6rH DAY.
Both houses passed the bill making chicken
stealing penitentiary offense. This bill was
backed by the nti-Horsethief League.
viding for the establishing OF county high
schools, the question to be decided by a vote of
the third class the election of council1nen shall
be so arranged that there shall always be three
old members
The house approved Mr.. Nations bill re-
quiring that all scrip issued by any person or
SoFporaiion IN pay hent 81 wages must be re-
scrip unredeemed at the end OF that time shall
bear interest at the rate OF SIX per cent per an
mum.
Nations bill providing for the appropriation
of 5000 for the employment of additional coun-
sci and TO pay for the expense Of prosecuting
the anti grain trust and the anti-School book
trust cases now before the u. s. supreme court
has been turned down by the house.
S9TH DAY.
The senate passed a bill providing for the
erection of $200,000 soldiers monument in the
capitol grounds and for an annual tax levy of
one-tenth of mil to provide the funds: the
work.
The senate approved in committee bill reg
ulating the use of automobiles. The bill to
empt % per ceet of wages was also approved
Like action was taken on the bill for the cleo
ton of railroad commissioners; and the bill
plpc cling inter-urban electric lines under the
control of the railroad commission and Tapps
bill requiring street railways to put a conduc-
tor on each car.
The house in committee approved these bills:
For deposit of state funds in banks which offer
the highest interest authorizing county high
schools in counties having a populat alton of less
than 2,5OJ; permitting the condemnation of
! land for reservoirs for the storage of water
The local option bill was killed by the house.
4OTH DAY.
The senate passed the tax commission bill by
vote of "a TO a. This is the most important
1t is up to the house.
The state fair bill as passed by the senate
creates state association of seven directors to
conduct a fair. The directors are to be chosen:
Two by the Kansas board of agriculture; one
one by the dairymen one by the horticultur-
lists one by the poultry association and one by
the Miners union. The terms of office of the
directors are to be three years.
The house house in n days session passed 20
bills. They include: An act requiring prop
weeds and keep sidewalks in repair; an act to
admit soldiers widows and orphans to the
the mo nomination feature of the ballot law;
an act providing for the establishment of coun-
ty high schools. There We're a number of local
bills passed.
41sr DAY
At night session the semitic passed several
bills among which are: Providing for a tax
levy in first and second class cities to support
public libraries; establishing state fish hatch
cry prohibiting the making of exclusive con-
disc; appropriating money for a c. A R. mu-
scum in the state house; providing that all
III the selection of superintendent of the state
imbecile and lunatic asylums.
The senate has passed, amended, the house
bill for giving additional 100000 for the
Kansas exhibit at st. Louis, and sent it to
ference
Senator Simons bill making the state fish
| ing his salary from 50 to $3.50 n year, has
| been knocked out by the house
The house OmnibuSed 75 local bills and passed
| them on one roll call The bills We're read in
| concert fen at time.
The bill providing that all persons operating
| threshing machine engines must be examined
and receive certificate from the state board
was killed by the house Gus ways and means com
! Hutchinson died in a like manner.
| Noftzgers bill requiring mortgagors to pay
was voted down in the house.
| The house commenced making amendments
! of the tax commission bill as soon as 1T came
| from the senate to an extent that may prevent
| the approval OF the senate.
LAWRENCE COURT HOUSE. Its corner
stone will be laid on the Fourth of July.
| REFORM School CRowDED.-There
are boys in number of the county
| jails who have been sentenced to the
reform school but cannot be taken
there on account of the crowded con-
dition of that institution. There are q
dozen of them in the Sedgwiclz county
Jail
| POSTMASTER 33 YEARs.-Wm. Grin
NELL who crme to Doniphan county in
1859 and who has been postmaster at
Tanning for SO years, is dead at the
age of ~ years. He was a veteran of
the civil war
A MEMRER is SICK.-Representativ
Z. d. Shermehorn, of Cherokee county,
is in 4 Topeka hospital sick of pneu-
monia.
THRoUGH WIcHIrA.-On account of
the snow blockade on the Santa Fe's
northern route the Golden State Linn
tied took the southern route through
Wichita and Oklahoma
HOUSE ECONOMIES. Kansas
house of representatives cut off all but
95 of its sergeants-at-arms, doOrlseepers
and janitors, at the end of the fifty
days in session.
SEEK BETTER CIIMATE--On account
of climatic conditions colony of Ger
man Catholics from Iowa and Nebraska
are to move to Mitchell county. The
purchase of lands for them near Beloit
is arranged for. One of the strongest
Catholic settlements in Kansas is in
Mitchell county, and at Beloit 500, 600
church is just being completed.
FALL RIVER GAs-The Standard Oil
Company has leased 5000 acres for oil
and gas around. that place, paying 81
an acre and agreeing to give one-eighth
of the oil.
COMPETITIVE DRIIL-The prize
awarded at the WOrl5men's competitive
drill At Wichita were awarded as fol-