Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-03-28


loaned by Avery & Son, of Wakefield,
and other horse breeders of Manhat-
tan. ii. w. Avery is a graduate of the
college and is assisting in the work.
The horses were Percherons, one of
them weighing over a ton There was
atwo-year-old FLY that weighs 1900
pounds and two-year-old stallion that
weighs 1.75O pounds There was a
pair of 9-months-oId colts that weigh
900 pounds
WIRES GRoUNDED.-The Santa Fe
wires were again useless all night on
the line south of Arkansas City, near
the place where the wires were cut
some weeks before, at the 1O1 ranch.
The wires were not cut this time but
fine wire was tied to them, grounding
every one and stopping the service. 1t
is likely the trouble is the result of the
same mems work. The Santa Fe Off
GERS are investigating.
TO DRAIN A SwAMP.-Several wealthy
farmers of Lyon and Coffey counties in
tend to drain big swamp near Hart
ford and have taken the matter to the
Coffey county district court. Some of
farmers want to use S-inch thing and
the others have found that 24-inch til
ing is necessary. The drain will bene-
tit about 700 acres of bottom land.
WORK decentralization a weeks
strike work was resumed at the shops
of the Kansas City & Southern railroad
at Pittsburg. Ninety-one non-union
machinlsts, boiler-makers and black
smiths were brought there and high
stocllades were built around the shops
with force of so deputies with Win
chesters on patrol duty.
LYNcHED TIE Wrong MAN.-The
father of Mont Cooley who was lynched
at Pittsburg has started u suit for $1O,-
600 damages against the city for the
death of his son. 1t is now known that
the negro lynched did not shoot po-
liceman but that his brother did the
shooting.
ERIE HAS A GUsHER.-A new gas
we'll has been opened there that has
the strongest flow of any of the wells
yet struck. 1t has a flow of more than
5000, 900 cubic feet per day at a pres
sure of 325 pounds to the square inch.
BONDS For ORIENT.-Osage City gave
the bond proposition 335 majority.
Ninety per cent of the registration was
polled. The bonds so approved are for
SO. 900 in aid the X c., Mex. & Orient
railway.
SLUss REAPPoINTED. Judge Henry
c. Sluss, of Wichita, has been reap
pointed again as associate justice of
the court of private land claims, a po-
sition he has held for a long series of
years.
DOUGLAS Won DEBATE.-The Doug
las county teachers won the debate
from Franklin county, showing that
organized capital is more beneficial to
the laborer than Independent competi-
ton.
TOPEKA Boy RUN OvER.-Henry
Meers, 13-year-old son of Henry Meers,
Rock Island employee, was run over
by freight train at Topeka and killed.
Two CARLoADs.-A Washington
special says that Senator Burton with
in one week sent two cars of govern
ment seed to Kansas for distribution.
Texas DROPPED.-Texas has been
dropped from the tri-state racing asso-
citation. Kansas and Oklahoma are left.
INTER-URBAN FRANCHIsE-Iola has
Cd f,-aK e. II 4
Chanute-Iola electric line.
MONEY IN MULES. AT recent sale
in Saline county a span of mules
brought $3.50.
COUNTY HIGH SCHooI" This is ex-
pected to be acquired by the city OF
Nickerson.
A LONG LAw.-The charter act re-
lating to cities of the first class, pissed
by the legislature will nearly or quite
fill page and three quarters of the
official state paper in solid nonpareil
The miscellaneous appropriation bill is
nearly as long.
KILLED WHILE DRUNK.-George Alb
bott, farmer Al years old, was driv-
ing home at midnight from Salina
while intoxicated, and he and his horse
were found dead at a railroad crossing
where his more noble dog was watch
ing.
MUTUAL AssIsrANCE.-Fort ten years
Smith Center has had a club composed
of % men who are bound together for
mutual assistance. When a member is
sick he receives $40 a week from the
club. 1t has cost the members an av-
erage of SIS year during the ten years.
WERE GRADUATES. the new agri-
cultural college regents C. E. Friend
and j. w. Berry are graduates of the
college. r j. Brock, of Manhattan,
who was appointed a month ago, is
graduate also. This gives the alumni
three members of the board.
DIED AT I13.-Mrs. Susan Bright, of
Topeka, white woman 1I3 years of
age, is dead. She was born in 1889.
Her husband served in the war of 1912;