Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-27
KANSAS COMMENT.

dren down with measles.
MORE HORSES SHIPPED.-Four more
carloads of horses were shipped out of
Dickinson county for the east
HORSES BURNED.-At Miltonvale.
fire destroyed the large livery barn of
Thos. McNein. Sixteen horses and
many vehicles were burned.
CARRIED $50, ooO.-One insurance
agency in Topeka carried $4,000 on
the Parlzhurst-D Davis property. The
agency has eight companies.
No NIGHT STUDY.-No pupils in the
Abilene schools are required to study
at night. The object of the rule is for
the benefit of the health of the pupils.
SUES HASKELL CoUNTY.-Geo. II.
Holzbog, of Indiana, has filed suit
against Haskell county for bonds val
ned at S32, 900 with interest from Jan.
/, 1902.
MORE HOTEL RooMs.-One of the
large hotels in Wichita is having an
addition erected which gives the hotel
1O1 rooms, all provided with fire es-
capes.
HAS CRAZY MoTHER.-A Rice county
boy whose mother has been sent to the
asylum six times has been adjudged in
sane and sent to an institution for the
feeble minded.
KILLED BY FALL.-O. Johnson, one
of the first settlers of Kansas and for
thirty -four years resident of Miami
county, was killed by fall from hay
loft on his farm near Paola.
HOTEL MAN DEAD.-C. c. Coltrane,
proprietor of the Windsor hotel at
Garden City, is dead after brief ill
ness. Grief caused by the recent death
of daughter FASTENED his death.
SERVED ONE SENrENCE.-Miss
Blanche Boise, who has served SEN
tence of 80 days in Jail on the first of
five cases of window smashing in To-
peka, has received a similar sentence
on the second case.
WHERE IS ALLEN.-The Wichita po-
lice are trying to find John Martin
Allen to tell him that he has inherited
property in Moundsville, w. Va. 1t is
believed in Moundsville that Allen
lives in Wichita.
KANSAS GREAT Loss.-The death OF
Carl Swensson, president of Bethany
college at Lindsborg, takes from Kan
sas one of her most worthy and most
able of college men. He died of pneu-
monia at Los Angeles California.
DIPHTHERIA IN GEARY.-Diphtheri
of most malignant nature has broken
out in the community along Clarl's
creek near the southern boundary line
of Geary county. A large number OF
children are afflicted with the disease
and several of them have died from
st in the past few weeks. The school;
for many miles around have been closed
and every precaution is being taken tc
keep the disease from spreading.
LOST THE SUIr.-The farmers grair
trust has lost its suit against the Santa
Fe railway company before the state
board of railway commissioners. TIL,
trust made application to the company
for elevator sites at a number of towns
Some of the sites were granted anC
others were not. The ground for re
fusing some was that that the towns
already have good enough elevato
facilities The board decided that
had power neither to order the road t,
grant sites nor to require it to builo
elevators. The case will be appeale,
to the supreme court.
DEAD IN BED.-At Wellington Ben
jamin S. Hood, an old Illinois news
paper man, was found dead in his be,
at the residence of his son, Charlie
Hood, one of the publishers of tn
Monitor-Press. Death was due t
heart disease. He was 70 years of age
For AUDITORIUM -Cottonwood Fall
has voted SIS, 900 in bonds to build a
auditorium. An enabling act of tn
legislature gave the women the RICH
TO vote, and they were out en- masse
A large vote was polled and the bond
carried by majority of fifty.
FEAR SPRING RAINs.-M. j. Wells. @
Woodston, writing to the board c
railroad commissioners, says there stiI
is lot of wheat piled on the groun
in his section. The farmers are unabl
to get cars, he says. He expresses fea
that if the wheat is not shipped b
April 1, the spring rains will destro
it.
MISSIONARY SECRETARY.-Rev. J. f
Franklin the new district secretary
the American Baptist Home Missio
society, is touring his district. q
preached in Wichita on Sunday.
HAS JOHN Browns GUN.-Day
Leahy has for years collected old r.
volvers at the Wichita police static
and sent them to his friends as relics
explaining that they were carried b
noted men of the early days. Jerr
Black has one of them which he b
lieves was carried and used by job
Brown
Nor THIS YEAR.-It is the purpos
of the war department to have I'll
maneuvers next fall in the Atlantic an
Pacific divisions and in 1905 ut Fol
RSlaxy and Vast DO;nf