Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-03-19

Kansas will be held in Topeka on
March %. There will be a similar
convention held in Fort Scott on March
80, at which the southern part of the
state will be represented. The two
meetings will be held preparatory to
the convention of the National Good
Roads association in st. Louis on June
10. 1t is expected that delegates to
this convention will be elected at both
the Topeka and Fort Scott meetings.
CADETS ERoM 4TH DIsTRICT.-An eX-
animation commenced at Emporia on
March Is for the appointment of cadets
from that congressional district. There
were a large number of candidates.
Congressman Miller will recommend
two of the successful applicants for
appointment to the naval academy at
Annapolis and one for the military
academy at West Point.
Two FROM KANsAs.-Franlk E. Rep
pert, of Kansas, clerk in the treasury
| department, has received salary pro-
motion from $1,4OO to 81 600 a year.
Onatus P. Allen, also of Kansas, was
appointed an assistant engineer in the
| war department at S720.
A KANSAS PIoNEER.-Henry Godlove,
of Onaga, went there in 1859 and has
lived for forty-three years on the same
farm northeast of town, except for the
three years when he carried muslSet
in the civil war.
BAD PRAIRIE FIRE.-The prairie fire
that ragged south of Florence caused a
large loss of property and covered
scope of country eight miles long by
five miles wide. 1t was stopped only
by heavy rain.
PORK FOR KoREA.-Dold's packing
house in Wichita recently shipped via
| San Francisco, a carload of English
bellies. The weight Of the shipment
was 10000 pounds.
New TRACKS TO CHUrEs.-The Santa
! Fe is laying two new tracks from Ar
gentine to the chutes at the stockyards
so it can handle live stock trains with
out delay.
TIE KANSAS FoRTs.-The amounts
expended at Fort Leavenworth and
Fort Riley amount to nearly one-third
of the general appropriations for such
! purposes.
| II WAS POwDER.-In the Streeter
hotel at Hutchinson was found satch-
ell full of blasting powder that had
been kicked and cuffed around for two
months.
| To SAVE GIRIs-Salina club women
have joined the Topeka ladies in an
effort to save Kansas girls from st.
Louis employment agency advertise
ments.
| CAME FROM JoINrs.-The Leaven-
worth police department collected for
the month of February $G,227.9O and
most of it came from joints.
81 DIVORCE Cause.-The district
court of Labette county opened it's
present term with 81 divorce suits. out
of the 100 on the docket.
LIBRARY CoNrRACr.-A Topeka com
pany secured the contract for building
the Carnegie library at Emporia, upon
its bid of $14, 800.
SAVED $sO0.-An Atchison servant
girl has saved $500 in six years con-
tinuous service with one family.
SEC TAFT CoMING.-Secretary Taft
has accepted an invitation to speak at
Topeka, Kansas, on May 30.
HAS 90 CHILDREN. R. Swisher, of
Gypsum City, is the father of twenty
children, all alive and well.
WILD BEE HoNEY.-In tearing down
an old church at Lal1in a dishpan full
of wild bee honey was found.
A CLEAR DoCKEr-The criminal
docket of Harvey county is clear for
the first time in five years.
ORDER HATS OFF-The official board
of the First NJ. E. church at Ottawa
has issued an order for women to re-
move their hats at service hereafter.
LEAP YEAR.-The probate judge at
independence recently issued three
marriage licences on the application of
women who came unaccompanied to
his office.
BAPTIZED 25O.-In very bad weather
Rev Charles T. Parham, formerly OF
Kansas City, baptized $50 converts in
Spring river at Lowell, three miles
southwest of Galena.
FIRST Snow MARCH 5.-The first
snow of the season fell at Downs on
March s. 1t fell without any wind,
partially melting as it fell. 1t is Civ
ing such moisture as is needed for the
wheat, which is reported by many OF
the farmers to be in fine condition at
this time. This makes the outlOok
good for bountiful crop of wheat.
WIN. H. CRADDoCK DEAD.-WiIliam
Henry Craddock, former mayor of Kan
sas City, Kan, and in 1902 the Demo
cratic and fusion candidate for govern.
err of Kansas, died of acute Indigestion
A KANSAS TABLE CLoTH.-Miss Ella
Barrett, of Solomon, has made table
cloth to exhibit at the worlds fair. II
is strictly Kansas design Done in
the finest of needle work. she las