Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-21


crept up close TO the window and shot
him in the back of the head. The crime
was committed in the presence OF his
family. In Smale's family was young
| daughter who bad been married and
who was separated from her husband.
This is the only clue.
R1GHrs or THE DIvoRcED.-The sn-
preme court has reversed a decision of
| the appellate court, which has been de-
| funct for some years, and the supreme
court declares that after a divorce is
granted neither one of the divorced has
/ any interest in the estate of the other.
| The appellate court had held that
where one of the divorced persons died
| before the divorce became absolute,
after six mon this, the survivor has prop
erty rights in the estate of the deceased
LIABLE FOR AGENTS ACTS. The SUI
preme court has decided a case involv-
| ing the liability of wholesalers for quo
tations made by their travelling repre-
| sentativcs- A hardware company OF
Baxter Springs gave an order for
carload of wire to travelling sales
man and with the wire came Il bill at Il
higher price. The cour: held that con-
! tracts made by the agent must be car
ricd out
GRADUATE OF K. U.-Rev. john a.
Gregg, pastor of an African Methodist
church, has accepted IL call to the
South African mission field and will
soon leave for Cape Town. He also
will be an instructor in Il mission col
legc near Cape Town. Mr.. Gregg is
one of the few colored graduates of
Kansas University.
EFFECTS TELEPHONE supreme
court has rendered decision of far
reaching Importance to telephone com
panics operating in Kansas 1t holds
that telephone company must make
its peace with adjoining land owners
before using a country road right-Of
way for its telephone line.
PAYS IN ADVANCE. State Treasurer
L. Il. Kelley received a draft for 81, 500
from the county treasurer of Sherman
county to be applied on sherman coun-
TVS taxes next year The taxes for
1903 arc not due until january 10 hut
a number of counties often pay in adj
vance.
TowN ADOPTS rEADE MARK-Thc
! Hiawatha merchants and manufacture
crs nave adopted an Indian head as
trademark to be placed on all articles
| to be sent ont of the town. The trade
mark was designed by Miss Buelah
May, who has been successful in mod
cling.
| Fly AND GRAssHOPPER. Tho Hutch
| inson Gazette says almost all the farm
ers in Reno county report the Hessian
fly at work in the wheat that is early.
The grasshoppers are also doing dam
age.
a SUPPLY HOUsE.-'rhe Missouri Pa
cihc has established supply house at
Wichita which viii give WORK to twelve
men. All the trains of that road which
leave Wichita will draw the supplies.
PIPE ORGAN FACroRY.-A pipe or
gan factory has been started at Abb
lene. The firm expects to complete its
frsrpipe organ before the holidays.
POLITICIAN RoBnED.-J. Mack Love,
a politician of Arkansas City, was held
up while going home and robbed of a
gold watch and diamond ring.
TELEPHONE GIELs.-The Wichita
Telephone company no;v employs 3s
girls; that number being required to
manage the local and toll lines.
CLERK FoE SENATOR LONG. Cecil G.
Lewis. of Hutchinson. Kansas, has
been appointed Il clerk in the Office of
! Senator Long.
FORT LIGHTED. Fort Leavenworth
is now lighted by electricity.
\ KANSAS MAS.-In the recent cleo
ton of officers of the first year class,
department of medicine, Columbian
University, of Washington D. c., Paul
Jones Smith, OF Kansas. was selected
as chairman OF the executive commit
tee The class numbers eighty tl,is
year.
SuAwNEE OII--There is good
deal of excitement regarding the oil
well of the Northern Shawnee Devcl-
opment company near Shorey and it is
thought that the driliers at the well
may strike vein of gas.
ANTHONY RATEs.-By order of the
state board of railroad commissioners
differcntial rate of six cents per hum
dred pounds over the rate charged to
Wichita has been sesta blisned for An
thony, Kansas, on all fourth and fifth
class freight from Missouri river points.
STEnIINe's NEW DEPoT.-Thc open
ing OF the new Santa Fc depot at Ster.
ling on November 1s win be attended
til appropriate ceremonies The cit
izens will tender reception at eight
o'clock and banquet will follow an
hour later.
MORE RURAL RoUrEs.-D. f. Dolan
of Washington. D. c., has made his
headquarters at Emporia and will es-
establish new rural mail routes in this
state. There are ten petitions for new
routes in Lyon county and hundreds
of them throughout the state.