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

generally observed IN schoolS anu coi-
leges of the state.
ALL IN Two YEARs.-There are ESQ
oil aud 40 gas wells at Chanute. They
have been put down in the past two
years
DOUBLED IN PRIcE.-There is farm
land boom on in Franklin county. 1t
is claimed that lands are selling for
double the amount they did three
years ago.
ELEVENTH CHILD AT 33.-An Atchi-
son mother has eleven children all
alive, healthy and hearty. The point
connected with this item is that the
mother is only SO years old.
HIDDEN MONEY BURNED.-A woman
of Lawrence hid S265 in her wrapper
and threw it over the foot of her bed
near a gasoline stove. The stove OK
ploded and the money was burned.
THE YOUNGEST SOLDIER Another
has been found. r. Il. Jellison, of
Belleville enlisted August 10, 1869, at
the age OF IA years, months and '0
days. and served three years in the l3Lh
Kansas.
KILLED UNDER HIS WAGoN.-Hunter
Taylor, successful young stoclIman
living near Douglas, was accidentally
killed beneath the wheels of feed
wagon. lie was hauling lafir corn to
feed n flock of sheep.
PRESIDENT OF PosTMAsTEEs.-Geo
C. Wetzel, postmaster of Linwood, was
elected president of the Kansas Post
masters association for the coming
year. The meeting next year will DC
held at Kansas City, Kas-
GOVERNORS APPOINTMENTS Gov
ernor Bailey has appointed +. j. Brock,
of Manhattan, to succeed Il. d. Coburn
as regent of the Kansas agricultural
school. Coburn resigned recently. He
has also appointed S. Fl. Kelsey, Of
Atchison, TO succeed Sim Fox as adju-
tant general of the Kansas national
guard.
SAVED $50, 900 For GOVERNMENT
Martin Addison, a paymaster in the
United States navy, is visiting bis pa
rents at Salina. Addison has the dis
tinction of being the only paymaster in
the navy who has ever succeeded in
saving coin on board his vessel when
it went down. He was on the Yosem-
tie when it sank at Guam, and saved
the stronghold of the paymaster which
contained $50, 900.
SuERIFFs' AssoCIATIoN.-Thc sheriffs
of Kansas held a meeting in Topeka to
decide on what legislation the legisla-
the duties of sheriffs. They will work
for law allowing them fees from the
counties when papers are served on
poverty affi iavits- AS the law now is
the sheriffs must serve papers in pow
erty cases without receiving compensa-
ton. The officers would have the
counties pay the fees in such cases.
A TRUE MAN WENT WRONG. After
having been freed by technicality in
the law from trial on the charge of the
murder. of lS-year-old Arthur Smith,
w. |. Coombs has annouced his inten-
tion of going into court and asking
owed mother of the boy he shot last
June he has made over his house and
lot in town and has promised her that
if he is not made to pay the penalty of
his crime he will turn over SEQ of his
monthly earnings to her for her sup
port. Coombs is section foreman on
the Rock Island at Goodland.
MoRE WORK AT Ru.EY.-Last fall
in individual heating, plants at Fort
Riley in the various barracks and quar-
tiers il was announced that the old cen
trail heating plant would be converted
into an electric plant and this will now
probably be done.
AMBITIOUS HERINGroN.-That city is
actively engaged in movement to be
incorporated as n city of the second
class 1t is taking census and has
over .. 900 names already listed, with u
probability OF reaching 1900 or more.
RIGHT OF WAY SECURED.-W. w.
Spencer, who is securing the right of
way for the interurban line from Nc
Pherson to Geuda Springs, has almost
finished his work. Construction work
will begin early in the spring. A pri-
vate right of way has been secured
Through Sumner and Cowley counties
The southern terminal of the line will
be Arkansas City and Newlirlx.
GLOOM AT IoLA.-The Register states
that 1918, 900 of lola money went glim-
Inering" in the last corn corner in Chi
cago on December corn.
FoR Or. AT DEXTER.-WorlS has
commenced of boring for oil near Dex-
ter, Cowley county. The drilling will
he done by William Geiser, of Peru,
who has three-eighths interest in the
company. The rest of the stock is
mostly held by business men of Win
field.
DEATHS From OLD AeE.-The death
items appearing in Kansas newspapers
seem to show a larger percentage of
deaths from old age than those from
any other state, in proportion to popu-