Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-11-05
KANSAS COMMENT


ford within twenty-four hours last
week to put up Methodist church. 1t
kept the recording angel buster than
an election judge.
Shot Through Heart.-Cornelius
Reyonlds, an employee of the quarter
masters department at Fort Riley,
shot himself through the heart while
walking along the street. No cause is
known for his suicide.
Burton's Hearing.-The United
States supreme court has granted the
motion to advance the pending case
against United States Senator Burton,
of Kansas, and fixed November % as
the day for the hearing.
RAISING Track.-At Winfield a large
force of men are raising the track OF
the Santa Fe from the Frisco crossing
to the river. Two new steel bridges
are to be put in. It is planned to get
the tracks above high water.
Proved Satisfactory.-A Mcpherson
county farmer did it and advises other
farmers to buy their own threshing
machines and run them. Neither far
mer nor thresherman has been salts
fed with the rates this season.
Forthcoming Benefaetion.-M Miss
Helen Gould, before leaving Coffey
Vile, intimated that a benefaction Of
several thousand dollars will be made
soon for an addition to the Y. M. C..
A. building, which is very crowded.
session of the annual conference of
the United Brethren church of the
Seventh district held an interesting
meeting at Wichita with about 200
ministers and delegates in attendance.
Form an Idea.-One of the very
smallest" apple picking gangs out in
Reno county eats at one meal. one
sack of flour, one ham one bushel of
potatoes. one bushel of apples, six
pounds of cabbage and other things
In proportion.
Annual CarnivaI.-The annual car
nival given at Lincoln under the aus
pices of the Modern Woodmen lodge
was a success. Lincoln is one of the
solidest built towns in north central
among the most enterprising.
Want Normal FIow.-Judge S. S.
Ashbaugh, of Wichita, one of the at
torneys for Kansas in the water suit
against Colorado says that the testi-
mony for the witnesses for Colorado
has shown a way out of the trouble.
They have testified that it is practi-
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Is willing for Colorado to store all
the flood waters, but to let Kansas have
the normal flow OF the river.
Died From njuries.-Lieutenant II.
A. Roberts, of the Seventh cavalry, is
dead at Fort Riley after an operation
for injuries received in a hunting &C.
cident. Lieutenant Roberts, with 9TH
er officers of the fort, were hunting.
Part of the harness of their team be-
came unhitched. Lieutenant Roberts
tried to adjust it and one of the mules
drawing the wagon kicked him and
threw him back under the wagon. A
wheel passed over him.
Typhoid Observation-Disclosures is
alarmed over the outbreak of typhoid
fever. Up to date twenty-seven per
sons have been taken down with the
disease all of whom were guests al
the May-Wimer wedding October u
Several new cases have developed
within the last forty-eight hours and
as the guests of the occasion number
ed over seventy-five great anxiety is
felt. The source of the infection has
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supposed to be due to impure water
Child Murderer-Noah Chism II
years old, has been arrested neal
Strong City, charged with the murder
OF an S-year-old playmate. named
Frank VanKan, by shooting him will
a revolver. Young VanKan told on hi.
deathbed that Chism shot him pur
posely and that he had threatened
before to kill him and other play
mates.
Played With Gun.-Harry Sculper
aged years, was shot and killed will
an old gun with which some children
and he were playing in a barn on tn,
Baer farm south of Abilene.
Big Wheat Market.-Over ten thou
sand bushels of wheat has beer
brought to Junction City by farmers o
the surrounding country in the pas
three days. Since the wheat began
TO move there has frequently beer
lines of wagons several blocks il
length in the business portion of tn
city awaiting their turn to get up t,
the buyers.
Teachers Fleeced.-Many teacher
and the superintendent of the Dickiu
son county schools have been fleece
for $500 by Library Union" giraffe
within the past two years.
Order Their Tombstones.-Mr an
Mrs. Daniel Rice. who live near Mus
cotah. IN the western part of Atchiso
county, are over eighty years of age
They recently ordered a tombston
which will be erected over thei
graves when they are dead. They ha
the inscription carved on the ston
and the only thing remaining to b
put on is the date of death.
Have ArriVed.-The Headquarters
non-commissioned stan and the ban
of the Ninth cavalry. from Fort Wall