Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-24


composed Of Attorney General Cole
man, State Treasurer Kelly and Secre-
tary of state Burrow. that the cost of
state prin ting will be ent down to the
minimum from now on and that 40
useless reports viii be published 1t
is the intention of the board TO keep
within the appropriation for the work
made by the last legislature. IN the
past every legislature has had 10 meet
deficiency appropriation bills for the
state printing ranging from $50. 200 TO
SIS. 600
G. a. r. RELIEF FC:,Ds.-The COM
mittee appointed by the e. a. r. de-
partment 20 distribute funds to old
soldiers who suffered loss in the Kaw
valley flood has completed its work.
| The amount distributed was So, SOS. O3.
OF the COZ comrades who gave in their
names there were 25 found who did
NOT need aid.
| JEWELL. COUNTY coAI~-AIl the min
ing machinery necessary to mine the
twenty eight inch vein of coal which
was reached by a shaft near Jewell
City has arrived there and the york of
taking out coal will begin in few
weeks. stock company is oIganized
to operate n second shaft which has
been completed.
OBJECT TO THE FEE.-Fifty non-resi-
dent pupils at the Kansas agricultural
| college have left because of the annual
fee $40 which was fixed by the lcgis-
laturc last winter The Kansas stu
dents all pay the fee of So Il term. Des-
p:te the loss of the so non-residents the
college has gain of 200 over last year.
GRAIN SPoLING.-T. s. Houpt, of
Bogue, Kans., has notified the state
board of railroad commissioners that
if he doesn't get some grain ears pretty
soon he will be Il heavy loser. He h~a
several thousand bushels of wheas
piled out along the railroad tracks and
the wet weather is damaging it.
MOVING TO JUNcTIoN.-The contract
has been let tor the moving of the
town of Milton, Sumner county, about
one mile to the east, where the Orient
and Missouri Pacific railroads cross. A
bank has been organized with stock
subscribed by farmers of the vicinity
who are all wealthy stocllmcn.
SA1TrA FE GIVES S5oO.-The Santa
Fc road made the Method church of
Emporia present of $500 for the new
the church will not bring suit for dam
ages because of the fire which de-
stroyed the old church.
INTERuRBAN LISEs.-Therc are two
of them out of Topeka which seem
likely TO be built; one of them up the
Kansas river TO Manhattan and
the OTHER across the country from To-
pela to Council Grove through Au-
burn.
OBJECT TO MIXED SCHOOLS. Many
parents at Wellington have refused to
send their children to school in the
same room with the colored. Some
have sent their children TO other towns
for the winter to attend school.
HERBERT II notwithstanding Her.
bert, owner of the Brown County
World, ana postmaster of Hiawatha, is
in Il hospital at Kansas City, under
treatment for nervous ailments. His
condition is not serious
For CITY PARK.--At a special cleo
ton at Wellington u special tax was
levied for the purchasing, improving
5 and maintaining city park.
HOG CHoI EnA.-Farmers in the
Wal1arusa valley in Shawnee ant
. Douglas counties lost over 1000 swine
i'll two weeks by hog cholera.
THE TRUANcY LAw.-The city o
: Horton has 100 more pupils in it
schools this fall than last. The truan
+ cy Law did it.
+ scuoo1. LIBRAnY.-Thc Smith Ccnte
{ school library has 200 volumes and ha
ordered $3.50 worth more of books.
+ TAKING CHILDREN TO ScuooI~-Th
e supreme court upheld the law allow
y ing the parent or guardian a sum no
Y exceeding Is cents per day, for no
S more than 100 days in each year, 70
c conveying his children to school wher
i. they reside more than three miles fror
/, the school house.
/ MAYOR DENIES IT Mayor HinlslC
l. Of Halste;d. denies the story sent OF
: from 'Yorell; about cigarette smol1in
i boys in that town. There seems to b
a fake corresponding still doing bus
ness.
= RooKs COUNTY WHEAr.-Iudge Cha
= w smith. of Stockton, says the whes
l. crop IN Northwestern Kansas is niue
d better than WIS expected when til
II farmers began harvesting. He believe
i now tina. it viii average more tia
n twenty FIVE bushels to the acre and tn;
e Rocks county alone viii proIuce mon
d than four million bushels.
e SCHOOL BoNps.-The state superi,
5 tendcnt says that returns 10 his Off,
St show that women have elected a m
ID jority of the members Of school boart
in the 1000 districts of the state.
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