Free press., 1904-11-19


| 1902 and is very nice piece of work
manship. The engine itself is two feet
and seven inches in length, one foot
and three inches from the rail to the
| top of the cab, a six inch drive
wheel and is made complete. 1t was
fired up few days ago and is in per-
| feet running order. Pete is thinking
of making a sale to the Kansas City,
Mexico & Orient railway company,
| when their trains start to running
through Emporia.
Test New Field Gun.-Brigadier
| Gen. John P. Story, chief of artillery
| service of the army, will arrive at Fort
Riley with a board of officers from the
ordnance department. These officers
are coming for the purpose Of being
/ present at a test of the new armament
with which the Seventeenth battery
! field artillery was recently equipped.
| This battery is the only one in the
service that has been supplied with
the new field guns that are being man
ufactured for the United States army
More Wind Needed-Farmers in the
vicinity of Beloit who have stock
which require water complain that
there is not enough wind to run the
windmills. This makes it necessary
/ to pump the water by hand This con-
dition has prevailed several weeks
and is unusual in Kansas at this time
| Of the year. Usually there is too much
wind. However, there is some gain
with the loss, as the fine weather gives
the farmers a chance to rush their
corn husking and other fall work
Y. NJ. C. A. in Session.-One hun
dred and fifty delegates were at Hol-
| ton attending the state convention of
the Young Woman's Christian Asso-
citation. DR.. Fiske, of Washington col
lege, made the opening address and
DR.. A. B. Buckner, pastor of the Hol-
ton NJ. E. church, preached the con-
vention sermon. Miss Kyle, of Chi
cago, represents the national asso-
citation, and Miss Amy Bruce, the state
secretary at Topeka, has charge of the
convention details.
Gen. Bells PIans.-General J.
F rankin Bell, U. S. army commandant
of the infantry and cavalry school at
Fort Leavenworth post, has sent to
the chief of staff plans and descrip-
tions in detail of elaborate improve
ments in the college section of this
post. General Bell utilizes all of the
present buildings, arranged with the
idea of slightly enlarging the facil-
tiles of the institution and increasing
the accommodations for instructors
and student officers.
Dancers Run Out.-At Peru, Kansas,
crowd of more than a hundred men
and boys, most of them drillers and
tool bosses, tore down a tent in which
an alleged immoral dance was to be
given, and ordered the entire company
out of town at once. Later the crowd
went to the Peru hotel and ordered the
negro cook to leave. He was the only
person of his race in the town. The
negro was also hung in effigy to a tel
ephOne pole on Main street.
MeIan Bridge in Barton.-At Great
Bend the new Melan bridge across the
Dry Walnut north on Main street was
: completed for regular travel last
week. Altogether it is the finest and
best bridge across the Dry Walnut
and there are about twenty of them
The only criticism to be made is that
the water way is far too small-it
there should come flood like in 1877
the bridge would dam up the water in
; great volume.
f Lost Two Fingers.-Clarence Par
g cells. a helper in the machine shop al
: Lakin met with a painful accident, los
e ing two fingers and part of his thumb
y from the left hand. In attempting tc
= stop the gasoline engine his fingers
$ were caught in the cogs of another
machine.
e Oil Men Pleased.-There is much
s talk of oil prices in the Coffeyville oi
fields just now on account of the rec
Y ent readjustment of the prices accord
2 ing to the grade of oil. The operat
I ors are all satisfied with the readjust
e ment of the grades, but now the tall
has turned on the prices, whether Oh
not it will be raised.
v Plenty of Pie.-The Meade Glob,
n has just closed pumpkin contest ant
h finds istself we'll supplied. Two alon,
s will make 700 pies. two a day for
It year. pie enough to satisfy even a Mis-
souri, legislator.
# Killed Old Soldier-At Fort Scott
J. L. p. Wallace. an old soldier, was rul
e over by a street car and instantly kill
2 ed. The old man attempted to driv
S his team across the track in from
IT of the car. The car struck his wagol
y and knocked him out and he wa
l. crushed under the wheels. A coror
g er's jury found that the street car MOI
orman had done everything he couI
to stop his car.
a. Possotfice Discontinued.-The pos
lr Office at Kent, Reno county. Kansas
r has been discontinued; mail to Hutch
inon.
N Fatal Accident.-Charles Gillespie
If aged 21 years, died at Monroevia, i
n Atchison county, as a result of acc
g. dental shooting. A gun fell on of
ii wagon and the jar caused it to be di.
v. charged. Gillespie had just compile