Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-01-30


orado and Wyoming during the big
rush in traffic on the Kansas division
of that road in December and the first
of January have returned to their re-
spective divisions.
TAXES For CIrY.-County Treasurer
Bowen, of Shawnee county, turned
over to the Topeka city treasurer $780,
900 collected for paving, sewers, side
walks, street openings, drains and the
like The taxes are still coming in to
the Office of the county treasurer at
very rapid rate.
IMPLEMENT HOUSE FIRE.. W.
Newman's implement honse at Edna is
burned. Hard work saved the adjoin-
ing buildings. The building and the
stock of implements were covered by
insurance. The loss is about s. 600.
1t probably viii be rebuilt.
MILKMAN 81 YEARs.-John Brown,
aged 81 years, for 80 years a milkman
in Lawrence, died after a weeks ILL
ness of pneumonia. He was born in
Ireland. came to Douglas county in
1866, and At once located in Lawrence
and began the milk business.
SHE GETS DAMAGEs.-NIiss Terra
Corder was awarded by a jury in the
district court of Sumner county a YER
dict of $4,000 damages against C. n.
Stephenson, Belle Plaine farmer, for
injuries received from runaway team
owned by the defendant.
Try BEETs AGAIN-Farmers inter
ested in the sugar beet met at Emporia
and decided to buy seed this spring
and give the beets another trial. One
hundred and thirty persons got seed
last year and only forty or fifty re-
ported.
HIGH SCHOOL BURNED. high
school building at Logan was in ashes
20 minutes after fire was discovered in
it. 1t is believed to be the work of an
incendiary. The building cost $50, 600.
The library and all equipments were
burned.
NAY REVOKE CERTIFICATES, -Attor-
ney General Coleman has given an
opinion that the state board of educa-
ton has authority to revoke the priv
ilege of a state normal teachers certifi-
cate for cause.
WINTER COUGHs.-A Lawrence doc
tor claims that nine-tenths of the win
! ter coughs are caused by eating buck
wheat cakes and that all that is neces-
sary to stop the cough is to quit eating
the cakes.
TAXEs S3.13 MoNTH-The editor
of the Winfield Courier has just paid
| his taxes and finds that he has to pay
the county treasurer S3.13 per month
for the privilege of living in his own
house.
| FROM TIE PHILIPPINEs.-The double
! cavalry barracks at Fort Riley, now
under construction, will be occupied
| by troops a, b, C, and d of the Ele-
enth cavalry now in the Philippines.
For INTIAuDA TIoN.-Cases are brought
in the district court at Colby against
the Deweys charging them with in
timidating settlers and thus obtaining
possession of their lands.
OVER RURAL MISUNDERSTANDING at
Abilene think of sending a man out
over the rural mail routes one day each
week to take orders for goods to be de-
livercd the next day.
FILIPINO AT K. IA Filipino boy
named Sierraceo Dag Dag is attending
Kansas University at Lawrence. He
. / IL hafOr.a tl,A hi,rh cchnnl
pupils
FROM CLARK CoUNTY.-Peter Haverty,
formerly of Clark county, Kas., was
recently killed in runaway at Hau-
chuca, Arizona.
FOUND HIS WATCH.-A Newton man
lost his watch in hay stack. Two
weeks later he found it in the manger.
THE RoUP notwithstanding Hughes
of the state poultry association says
there is no truth in the story published
in Topeka p2 per that fowls at the
poultry show were sick with rOup.
There has been one death; a rooster
died of old age, and two chickens had
colds.
For THE FRIENDLEss.-The Kansas
Society for the Friendless will hold its
third annual convention in the First
NJ. Z. church in Topeka, beginning
Tuesday evening, January 26, and
closing Thursday noon, January IS
NOT AUTHORIZED. The Ell1hart Life
Insurance company is not authorized
to do business in Kansas and if Super
intendent Luling is able to secure evi
dence he may institute prosecution:
against the agents. Agents who so
licit business for an unauthorized com
pany are liable to fine of $500.
1900 POUND STEER. The State Ag
ricultural college proposes to exhibi
at st. Louis 3,OOO-pound steer. He i
about seven-eighths ShorthOrn and il
expected to weigh more than $3.50
pounds when fat.
CATTLE -Eighty-three heaE
of high bred Hereford cattle wer
burned to death in one of the big barn
on Sunny Slope ranch owned by C. A
Ma0r Of ha t41a icl