Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-01-09

will commence operations at once.
Jewell county is well undertake with
fine quality of coal which is being
mined in paying quantities and is
thought to have every indication of
oil and gas. In many places along
the streams an oily substance seeps
out and covers the water for some dis
tance.
WEATHER BY PHoNE.-The farmers
living around Hiawatha now get the
government weather report every
morning by telephone. The weather
report reaches town about 10 a. M,
and it is Immediately telephoned to
central" The farmers on the many
toll lines have only to step to their
phones and be given the prediction
for the next twenty-four hours. The
plan is a most popular and successful
! one.
He GAVE His MITE. -JaWes Gushwa,
a cripple who makes his living in Con-
cordia by selling popcorn. remembered
the golden rule on Christmas day. He
sent twenty-five pounds of freshly
popped and buttered corn to the in
mates of the county infrmary and
| twenty pounds to the unfortunates in
| the county Jail.
| HOME GROWN MATERIAI..-David ArI1-
strong, a Sedgwicl1 county farmer Iv-
ing near Cheney, is building new
| house. He Will have one of the rooms
! finished in black walnut lumber grown
on his farm Another room will be
finished in catalpa wood grown on the
same farm. He has lived on the farm
about Is years.
| 1O7 MILES IN 1O5 MINUTEs.-The run
made by engine 6G6, Engineer GS1rge
| Fuller, from Limon to Goodlond, dis
lance of 1O7 miles, broke all previous
records when that engine pulled pas
senger train No. AZ into Goodland on
schedule time, having made up A. min
u.es and covering the 10Y miles in los
minutes.
MEASLES EPIDESnC.-It exists in EN-
poria. The board of health officer es-
Inmates that there are between 75 and
100 eases in the city. Most of the cases
are light however, and so far there has
been but one death, that of John Hof
ferty, young man 81 years old, who
lived at Hartford, few miles south OF
Emporia.
Disabled FIREMAN.-Charles O'Brien,
a disabled fireman of Goodland, has
been taken to the Railroad Mems home
in Chicago He fired an engine for
twenty years and never had an acct
dent but is now disabled by paralysis.
He is the second oldest member of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
SUES For HIS FARM.-R. B. Robin
son, a Lyon county farmer, who has
just returned from the insane asylum,
has entered suit in the district court
at Emporia to recover a farm that was
sold while he was in the asylum. His
wife sold the farm for 500 and he al
leges that it was worth 81, 600.
HAS OIL LEASES. o. Davidson of
Wichita, has leases on thirty thousand
acres of oil lands in Montgomery coun-
ty alone, besides some valuable oil
lands in other sections of the country.
SUICIDE IN AsYLUM.-Daniel Rich
committed suicide at the Topeka in
sane asylum by choking himself with
a stocking. He was a patieut from
Emporia about GO years old.
A PIONEER GoNE.-L. S. Herbert, a
pioneer resident of Brown county and
father of Ewing Herbert the we'll
known Kansas editor, died at his home
in Hiawatha aged 50 years.
INsULTED WHITE GIRL.-Eugene
Dunn, negro, was fined $500, the
limit, by Judge Stanley of Wichita,
for making insulting proposals to a 10
year old white girl.
AN OPEN SwITCH.-A Rock Island
train struck an open switch at Law
renee. The train was running at full
speed as it does not stop there. Five
cars, including the sleeper, left the
track and bumped along on the ties
for 200 feet. No one was seriously
injured.
IT'S ENGINEs.-Seven hundred and
seventy-fve engines were handled at
the Missouri Pacific yards in Wichita
during December. The employees are
, kept on the run continuously at the
yards.
SIXrY-sIxTH REPoET.-The state
/ printer has completed the sixty-sixth
: Kansas supreme court report The
: volume begins with the January ses-
sion 1903, and includes the record OF
/ all cases decided prior to the May SEES
r sion, 1908, and not heretofore reported.
WITH A LOCAL CIRcUIT.-The Mis-
: souri, & Kansas Telephone company
: has connected the Minnesota Valley
: Telephone company's system with their
l toll line at Belle PLANE. The MINES
1 cab Valley Telephone company have
rural lines to Peek and Riverdale
: BOYS ATTEMPT MURDER Joe
1 Thompson and Frank Harris, two
: young Hutchinson men, are in jail
i charged with attempting to kill Simon
f Nusbaum, nine miles south of town