Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-05-21
KANSAS COMMENT.

SANTA FE IMrRovEMENTs.-
Santa Fe company will spend s20o,oo
in improvements at Newton this year.
For PLANTS AND GRAss.-The ceme-
terry at Florence has had fine well
put down, with tank and windmill.
Rock SALT SOUVENIR. - From King
man the Kansas City wholesalers re-
ported crops in fine shape. The visit
ors were each given rock salt watch
charm.
BoxMAKERs STRIKE.-At least they
threaten to strike. The two box fac
tories at Armourdale work nearly 200
men. Their particular grievance is
that their union is not recognized.
WHEAT YARD HIGH.-At Pretty
Prairie J. NJ. Bush gave the Kansas
City excursionists samples of growing
wheat three feet tall and samples of
bluegrass that beat old Kentucky.
JUDGE ED.-Governor Bailey
has appointed +. L. King, county at
torney of Marion county, judge of the
Eighth judicial district to succeed J.
T. Dicllerson who was appointed a fed
eral Judge in Indian Territory.
A CURIOUS SroRY.-A Parsons man
was married in February, 1903. Three
days later his wife told him that she
had some business to attend to in a
neighboring town. Since then the
husband has never learned where she
is.
MANHATTAN PARKs.-A mass meet
ing was held ut Manhattan for the
purpose Of effecting an organization
for civic improvement. The hills sur
rounding Manhattan will be converted
into parks and groves.
IN PlTTsBURG DIsTRIcT.-The Pitts
burg coal district is entirely free from
shaft in the district has been unionized
and every operator is paying the union
scale and complying with union regu-
Iations in the operation of his shafts.
The best of feeling prevails between
miners and operators and while the
mines are working pretty slack on ac-
count of market conditions being I'M
favorable, the outlook for the future
is bright.
GARNETT's GAS WELLS 1t is devel-
oping that Garnett has one of the
strongest gas wells in that part of the
state. Experienced oil men say that
with the two wells now complete Gar
nett has enough gas to supply all needs
till cold weather, and. with third
well of the same volume, the city will
be well taken care of In testing the
we'll heavy water-soaked oak 2X4 two
feet long, when thrown into the gas
issuing from the well were thrown
twenty feet in the air, while the roar
of the escaping gas could be heard foI
mile. New wells will be sunk al
once.
USING MAILS ILLEG AILY.-C. II. Lu
ling, superintendent of insurance, has
discovered that the American Plate
Glass company of Kansas City, is at
tempting to do business in Kansas
without license. He has found out
that the company is sending out letter:
over the state in which it says it doe.
not come under the Kansas laws anc
that the question was tested in the
courts by Attorney General Boyle
Mr.. Luling says that this is not true
and he has taken up the action of the
Nx,tfh 10 70
believing the company is using the
mails illegally.
UNIONS PROTEST. Fourteen member:
of the Trades and Labor council a
LeavenwOrth went before the board o
directors of the state prison at Ian
sing and protested against the EN-
ployment of fifty convicts at manufac
turing overalls. The board was power
less TO take any action on the matter
as they have already signed six years
contract with the firm who will us
the convict labor.
A. II. T. A.-The Anti-Horsethie
in numbers.
COLLISION IN FoC.-A dense fog a
lola resulted in an accident on tn,
electric road which caused the deatl
of William Coleman, motorman. I
work train and n passenger car me
head-on and partly telescoped. Cole
mans legs were badly crushed.
SANTA FE WRECK.-The Santa F.
limited, westbound, had wreck il
the Dodge City yards, caused by jump
ing the rails and breaking n journal
A delay of several hours was caused
No injuries are reported. The Gu
wrecked was the diner.
FARRIERs GRADUATE,-A hundre,
members of the training school 70
farriers and horseshoers who have jus
completed their course, We're presente,
with certificates of proficiency ut For
Riley by Brig. Gen. Francis Moore
commandant of the school of applica
ton. The members of the class repre-
sent every military post in the service
CnERRYvALE NcT BEHIND Cherry
vale is rapidly coming to the front a
an oil field, several good oilers havin,
been brought in recently. Not DIR,