Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-11-05

ture, and presented the same TO the
state officials in his biennial report
He thinks that the school should have
$1,000 for the completion of the chem
istry building; $4,000 for the compile
ton of the law building; $4,000 for
a general recitation and administra-
ton building. and $125.0O0 for a me
mortal gymnasium and auditorium
building.
Against Mixed Schoo,s-The Kan
sas supreme court issued a mandatory
order requiring the board of educa-
ton of the city of Coffeyville to ad-
NIT to the white schools the children
of Bus" Cartwright, a negro. The
writ is alternative and the board is
allowed until November to show
cause why the negro children should
not be allowed to enter the white
schools. The case results from fight
of two years standing. which the ne
groes have made to have their chill
dren admitted TO the white schools
Line to Oil FieId.-The Kansas
Southern Electric railway company,of
lola, has opened negotiations with OF
chise for an electric line from Kansas
City to the oil fields. A letter from
the president, Frank v. Crouch, says
that surveyors will be put to work in
a few days. Ottawa has granted
franchise to Hugh Holmes of Kansas
City, who agrees to have line from
Kansas City in operation within Is
months. The Holmes company has
most of its right-of-way secured.
Soldiers Fight Fire.-Brigadier Gen
eral Burton, inspector general of the
army, reviewed the entire command
at Fort Riley, on the Pawnee flats.
While the review was in progress a
spectator threw a lighted cigar in the
grass and a fierce prairie fire started
at once, threatening to sweep over the
entire reservation. The troops were
given the command to dismount and
to fight fire. Over 1900 soldiers
fought the flames for nearly two hours
before they succeeded in extinguisb-
ing them.
Students at Manhattan.-The Kan
sas State Agricultural college is again
in position to tell its patrons that
there has been an increase of students
this fall term in nearly every one of
its courses. The count shows a total
attendance of 1882. Compared with
the initial attendance of last fall, this
count shows an increase of fourteen
seniors, a decrease of seventeen jun
iors and an increase of six sophie
moreS.
Ballasting Roadbed.-rhe Rock Is
land road has large force of men and
several work trains ballasting the
main line to the south of Wichita and
/ when the work is completed the road
will have one of the best roadbeds in
the country. The road has already
been ballasted from Harrington to
Wichita. Crushed rock about fooA
thick is being put on the road.
! ExiIed Nuns Arrive.-There arrived
in Atchison five nuns who had been
eXiled from France by the fight the
government of that country is max
ing on the Catholic church. They
were of party of twenty-nine which
/ landed in New York last week, and
are from the Convent Flavigny-sur-
Moselle, Nancy, one of the Oldest in
the world.
! Dead in Bed.-Jethro Cochran, who
i was found dead in his bed at Garnett,
! was Cowley county farmer for thirty
/ years. He is man who will be miss
ed with regret by his neighbors, a
/ tribute that can be paid truthfully to
but few men.
Given Satisfaction.-Dr. Dinsmore,
of Troy, has held the position of cor
oner in Doniphan county for 26
years and has been nominated for
another term. He has given satisfac-
ton to the living and the dead have
made no kick.
Good Roads SpeciaI.-A conven-
ton of the National Good Roads Asso-
citation was held at Fredonia. The ma
tiOnal delegates were met at the depot
by the Wilson County Good Roads AS
ISOLATION. and. headed by the Fredonia
band. were escorted to the court
house, where the farmers and their
families were gathered.
Pioneer Observation-Disclosures Geary
WHO u1eu dI NSWlOn was one
of Harvey county's ranchmen. The
"Geary ranch" was on the trail be-
tween Abilene and the Indian Terri
tory.
Prisoners confess-C. B. Ennis, a
prisoner in the federal penitentiary in
Leavenworth, and William Briscoes, OF
GAINESVILLE, l. T., have confessed that
they furnished the pistols to the fed
eral prisoners on November 6, 1901
with which they successfully mutt.
MED on November Z. Briscoe is un
der arrest and will be brought to To
peka and placed in the county jail
awaiting action by the court
Plenty Of Wheat.-Wheat is being
put out in Meade county at the rate OF
forty acres per day. Disks and drills
are pulled by threshing engine.
Kept His Head.-Locking the in
mates of the state reformatory fol-
boys in the dormitory and calling out
his boy fire brigade organized from the