Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-07


Labette; j. Evans, Lyon; w. s. Finley,
Franklin; William Murdoch, Washing
ton; j. o. Taylor, Osborne; L. NJ. Lin
ton, Smith; w. S. Speer, johnson; E.
r. Watkins. Reno; c. NJ. Beeson. Ford;
F. w. Laughlin, Atchison; P. w. Goe-
bel, Miami.
MUAiPs IN PRIsoN-An epidemic of
mumps has broken out in the federal
prison at Fort Leaveaworth, and about
so men are confined in the hospital
with the disease. None of the patients
are dangerously i'll, although several
have the disease in bad form 1t is
believed that the disease was contracted
from prisoners received from Indian
Territory.
APPLES ARE PRoFITABLE.-SamH Hoo
yer, of Sedgwick county, believes that
apples are equal to alfalfa when the
farmer comes to count the profits. He
has an apple orchard of 100 acres, and
has been selling apples all fall and
winter and still has 1000 barrels in
cold storage. They are now worth SO
to So. so barrel.
HYPNoTIsM ON HILDREN.-Belief
that such prr"tice on children of school
age is injurious, has led Representative
Sims, of Shawnee, to propose a bill
making such practice a misdemeanor
and Unable to the limit of S1OO. There
are good chances for it's adoption.
WAS A KANSAS BoY.-John Bruce.
the engineer who was killed on the
Sunset Limited in Arizona, was Leav-
en~orth county boy. He is n son of
William Bruce, a farmer residing near
Reno. William Bruce, the father, is
an old railway engineer.
BROKE OPEN EXPRESS OFFICE.-The
sheriff of Meade county. with justice
of the peace, went to a railroad depot
to seize liquors and being refused en-
trance to the express room broke open
the door and took packages assigned
TO prominent citizens.
A. o. L. w. GRAND LoDGE.-At
Wichita the local committee for the
grand lodge of the A. o. U. w. is MAX
ing big preparations for the meeting
which will be held there February 90,
"a, %, and &c.
TIE COUNTY SYsTEM-The postmas-
ter at Topeka has been ordered to pre-
pare to install in Shawnee county the
county system of rural free delivery
f.,1 81,
the county.
AUDITING w. R. C. BooKs-This
work is being done in Topeka by Mrs
E.. E. Porter, of Marysville, depart
ment president, assisted by Mrs. Sarah
j. Hanna, department secretary.
DIED FROM RUPTURE.-T. L McCui-
Tough, a Butler county farmer, died at
the Wichita hospital after being opera
ted upon for rupture. Eight minutes
before he died he made his will.
LARGEST IN THE CITY.-The Presby-
terrain church at Clay Center is to have
an addition for which So, 900 has been
raisel. The addition will make this
church the largest in the city.
Nor ONE CRIMINAL CAsE-The bar
docket of the district court at Marys-
vile has not single criminal case
among>the 50 cases on it.
6S3 BnIs.-This number had been
introduced in the Kansas legislature
at the close of the third week OF the
session.
HAD 500 LEFT-The Wichita .Poul-
try association had $1CO left after pay
ing all prizes, premiums and expenses
STATE LABOR SocIETr.-Thc annual
meeting of the State Society iof Labor
is held at Topeka this week.
messiah" WEEK This year the
date for it at Bethany college at Linds-
borg is set for April 7-1a.
MINISTERS TIE KNOTS BEsr.-Judge
Simons, of Fort Scott, in delivering a
divorce judgment, said that the divorce
of couples united by ministers is seldom
and, in his opinion, those who are mar
ried by a probate judge or magistrate
never appreciate the sublimity of the
marriage vows He preferred home
wedding where ministers ofticiate.
OIL AT CoFFEYvILLE.-Itw was struck
at a depth of COO feet, within half "a
mile of the business center. The we'll
will produce six to ten barrels day
Other wells are being drilled.
PREHISTORIC CAMP.-While excava-
ting for abhtments of bridge in Geary
county, J. a. Johnson found camp at
the depth of eight feet There was a
stone fireplace, charcoal, buffalo bones
and arrow heads. Trees that are esti-
mated to be hundreds of years old are
now growing close to where the exca-
walton was made.
BoTu BY AroPLEXY.-Chris Nelson,
agent of the Santa Fe at Oneonta, first
station west of Concordia, died sudden
ly of apOplexy six weeks after his wife's
sudden death from the same cause.
INV LOLA BANK. B. Case, of the
Abilene National bank, and A b. Rob-
erts of the Hood bank at Emporia will
establish third bank in lola within
o.