Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-01-23
KANSAS COMMENT.

CLUB RooMs.-Foundation have
been laid for the Office and club rooms
of the Topeka railway company.
DEATAs IN G. A. Records of the
Grand Army in Kansas show that 30
comrades passed away during 1908.
MORTGAGES RELEAsED.-In COwley
comfy mortgages to the amount of
S52I ,s12 have been released in the past
year.
Cor So ,OOO.-Robbers blew open the
safe of the Bank of COTS with dynamite
and secured 50, 900. They escaped on a
hand car.
START A MAGAZINE.-JohnP p. Fritts,
of Topeka, with two others, are to
start monthly magazine in New York
to be called Civic Pride.
PAID TO CARRIERs.- amount
paid during the last three months of
1908 to rural mail carriers in Kansas
was S134, O29.22. There are now $50
carriers.
FIRE AT ST MARY's-The St. Mary's
mill is burned 1t was the property of
the st. Mary's Mill * Elevator Co.
The loss is about So 900. partially Gov
cred by insurance.
FATALLY SHoT.-Clyde Reynolds was
fatally shot at Arkansas City while
with charivari party. The bridegroom
shot n number of blank cartridges into
the crowd but one of the cartridges
had ball in it.
STOCK BREEDERS ELECT.-At the
fourteenth annual meeting of the Kan
sas Stock Breeders association o. o.
Wolf. of Ottawa, was elected president
of the association to succeed Mr.. Chas.
T.. Sutton, of Russell.
For SANTA FL YARDs.-The Emporia
railroad officials have been notified that
the Santa Fe has made an appropria-
ton of $50, 900 for improvements in the
local yards. This will nearly double
the capacity of the yard there.
OPENED POWDER WITH FH.E.-Wm.
Hill. powder man in mine of the
Pittsburg district, was killed while
trying to open "A powder can in the
magazine. He used an ordinary steel
file, which struck spark and ignited
powder. The magazine was blown to
atoms. The explosion was heard for
miles.
WANT PACKERS LOOKED UP.-At the
meeting of the Improved Stock Breed
crs' association resolution was passed
asking President Roosevelt to instruct
the Attorney General to take steps
toward an investigation of the packers
combine with view of finding out
whether the antitrust laws are being
violated
WANT BoNUs Too.-The farmers of
Chautauqua county are beginning to
demand n bonus for oil and gas leases
of their lands. Originally. as in all
new oil and gas territory. only royal
ty was exacted, but now, owing to the
advanced development of the district,
land owners are getting in addition a
cash consideration.
LARGE CATTLE HERDS has
some of the largest individual cattle
men in the world. c. =. Dewey counts
his cattle by the thousands So does
Frank Rockefeller NJ {. Campbell.
of Wichita. also has from 5000 to TO- 900
head of cattle on his ranch all the
time. There are perhaps 500 men in
Kansas who have more than 1000 eat
tie each.
ATTACHMENT FOR NON-REsIDENr--In
81 case from Norton county the supreme
court holds that an attachment may
be brought against nonresident of
the state in any county where he has
property, although he is at the time
personally present in another county
of the state. 1t is also held that a
summons may be issued To the county
in which the nonresident is present
and service of the summons there will
give the court jurisdiction over him.
ut least TO the extent OF the attached
property.
CoBURN on HAND.-F. ID. Coburn.
secretary of the state board of agricul-
ture, and director of the livestock de-
III NAiN ~ NNl(pSlllOn
came to Topeka from st. Louis to at
tend the meeting of the Kansas Live
Stock breeders association and the
state board of agriculture.
ENTITLED To ACCRETIoNS The SUI
preme court has decided int the case of
Cora Black against Nj. L. Diver from
Sedgwicll county that owners of land
along n river bank arc entitled TO the
natural and artificial accretions.
WEIGHT or ALFALFA.-It is still an
unsettled question how many cubic
feet of alfalfa hay it takes to weigh
ton. J. w. Marley, of Butler county,
cut down a small round stack of alfalfa
to feet cubed which weighed over the
city scales :, 425 pounds.
FROM ARROW WoUNn. Henry Grimm,
one of the wealthiest citizens of Wa
baunsec county, isdead at his home near
Alma. He came to Wabaunsee in 1857.
The cause of his death was an arrow
wound received in an Indian fight at
Platte Bridge in 1864