Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-17

tented, which Indicates that this Is 10
be made the through route 70 the Gulf
| coase The Havana cutoff now cX-
tends 10 Ovassa. /. Z, but is being
built on TO Tulsa and will eventually
be extended to Guthrie and connect
with the Santa Fe south from Winfield
This will give the Santa lie the short
est line from Kansas City TO the
Gulf
SHORTAGE OF CoAL-Some of the
state institutions are short of coal,
particularly the state Soldiers home
at Dodge City and tile Soldiers Orphans
home at Atchison. The state institu-
tons are supposed to be furnished with
coal from the penitcDtiary mines, ship
ments to be largely made in the sum-
mer Nvhep cars can be most easily Sc
cured. Cars cannot be had now for all
the state coal shipments. The state
auditor is trying to locate the blame.
USES MISUNDERSTANDING the
methods being tried by Kansas wheat
growers to prevent loss oy Hessian
flies is plan brought to the state by
II. H. Yodcr. of Mcpherson county.
Mr.. YoGer says the farmers in indiana
have found that Hcssian flies vvill not
injure wheat which has the stencil of
turpentine about it. He is using about
Il gallon of tnrpcntine to every acre of
| wheat He mixes the turpentine with
thc grain in his drill.
Buys ANOTHER RANcu-One of the
largest real estate deals ever consun-
mated in north central Kansas is the
purchase of the stock ranch belonging
to Frank Il. Hamilton, of Ellis, by L.
Y. Mink. of Lincoln, in which several
thousand acres of land situated in the
counties of Ellis and Rocks were in
the deal Mr. Mink will stock his
ranch and operate it in connection
with his Eagle Creek ranch in Osborne
county.
CoSvIcrED TwICE.-John Nelson,
who has twice been convicted OF muir
dering Albert Morris at Coffeyville,
and who was taken to the state pcni-
Tertiary, is baclz in the county Jail
again When Sheriff Pruitt reached
Lansing with his prisoner he was
called up by telephone and advised
that the supreme court had granted
s ay of execution until it could pass
upon the application of Nelson for IA
new trial.
The CITY's SIPPoET.-Thc police
court receipts in Leavenworth last
month amounted to nearly $1,000, the
largest collection in the history of the
city. With the exception of few
hundred dollars the amount was col
Iectcd from gambling houses, policy
shops, saloons and houses of an i'm
moral nature. The two policy shops
alone pay 81 800 Il month into the city
treasury.
AN INSURANCE DIvIDE.-Thc clerk of
the board of education in Kansas City,
Kan, has confessed at the meeting of
I the board that he received a part of
the premiums paid fire insurance COM
panies for insuring various school
buildings of that city. The clerk as
serted that the money was given to
him without his solicitation, and that
he felt that lie had perfect right to
accept it.
Tnn Cor: CKor.-Governor Bailey,
who is u raiser of big crops of corn
himself and who has been posting mp
during his visits to many sections of
the state, puts the crop of the state
this year at 100, 600, 900 bushels, or &c
per cent of the record crop of 1899,
which was 373, 600, 900 bushels
HAVE TO RAISE WAeEs-Superin.
tcndent Dayhoff says: "While the
wages paid to teachers in Kansas are
lo.v, the standard OF Kansas teachers
+ is high If Kansas wants to keep
: abreast of the times it will have to
raise tue wages of its teachers"
r IGNonE STATUTES. Kansas has cities
Y which systematically ignore such state
t laws as arc considered, locally, as dis
+ advantageous to business. The latest
y law which receives no attention in
II some of these cities is the truancy law
under Is years of age during the term.
e of school.
e KILLED IN OMAHA.-A. T. Ratlif
e was killed by the blowing down of {
e brick wall at Omaha during Il storm
c The Omaha men were injured at tn,
same time.
c ROLLER Mills RESUME. -Aftcr al
r idleness of four years, the Ness Cit,
r roller mills will resume operations
,. Ness county raised 1000, 900 bushels o
> wheat this year. The citizens have or
l. ganized stock company and the mil
IS viii be running in three weeks. Tn
10 Santa Fe railroad was unable to handl'
le the enormous crop, which resulted il
she above move.
lie S. w. KANSAS CoLI.EGE.-The en-
S, rollment in the Southwest Kansas col
lc lege at Winfield has reached the 80
mark. This exceeds any previous year
=, OREGON KEN DEAD.-Orson Ken
a, died at his home in Burlington, OctO
"a Der 3, aged 65 years Mr.. Kent wa,
n one of the most prominent men in tina
s part of the state. He came there il
m 1857, and has been in the real cstat
business in partnership with ]. 81