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

Becoming a Nuisance.-Twenty-ec
en- farmers near Irving and Blue Rap
ids have combined into an association
to keep hunters from espassing on
their property and along the roads
adjoining Similar societies are talk
ed of in Missouri, east of Atchison,
and in Atchison county. The killing of
many valuable animals during the
hunting season by careless hunters, has
aroused the farmers to take some
step toward preventing it. One farm
er south of Atchison claims to have
lost animals worth several hundred
dollars every season.
Postoffice Robbed.-On the night of
October % the postof1ce at Leona was
broken into and robbed. Burglars en-
tered through the back door by re
moving part of a window glass and
turning the key which had been left
in the door. They also entered the
grocery store of j. Ritterbush in the
same manner. The loss is not yet
known, but it is thought to be light,
with the exception of jewelry taken
from the postoffice building and dam
age to cash registers, which were
removed from the buildings.
Breaks JaiI.-Son Partee, a Galena
negro, who was held in the county
Jail at Columbus on a charge of muir
der, escaped from that institution.
Partee is said to have murdered Bod
Wagner, at Scammon early last
spring While Guy Cooter, an employe
at the jail, was giving the prisoners
their supper, four or five of them at
tempted to overpower him, but Partee
was the only one successful in getting
away.
Big Damage Suit.-Kirk Johnson,
prominent in local sporting cirles in
Wichita, has been sued by William
Gibbons, printer, for $4,000 damag
es for alleged assault. Gibbons,
while eating lunch in a restaurant
few nights ago, was attacked and so
badly beaten that his recovery for a
while was doubtful. In his petition
Gibbons alleges that Johnson was
his assailant.
Gas Deal closed.-W. c. Gum, To-
cal real estate man, closed a deal
by which natural gas will be piped
from the Allen county field to Fort
Scott. An eight-inch main will be
laid and the city mains of the local
gas company will be used for distrib
uting the gas. Work will be com
menced at once and it is expected to
have gas by the first of January.
Struck by Train.-Word has been
TOI,x OF Of
George L. Garrigues, assistant super
intendent of the Pullman cOmpany's
properties at Denver, formerly ST
John boy Garrigues was struck by
a train car and died a few minutes
later without regaining conscious
ness.
EIoped With Hand.-Mertie Trick
EFT, the 16-year-old daughter of Sam
uel Trickett, a well-tO-do farmer near
Atchison, eloped with Wallace Hulet.
the hired man, who worked for her
father. Hulet had asked for her hand
and been refused.
Mystery Broken.-G. G. Jordan, the
picture man, who was reported as
mysteriously disappearing from Stat
a cipher message to some brothers,
who did not disclose the fact, but
went to him.
Kansas Boy Promoted.-Roy Bar
rett of Atchison, who has been station
ed on the cruiser Montgomery at
Panama, has been transferred to the
cruiser Wabash at Boston and pro-
r3nt0d fn chief
Accidental Shooting-Alva Bourge,
of Elmdale, was accidentally shot in
the neck by Clyde Holmes. 1t is fear
ed the wound will prove fatal, as par
tial paralysis has already set in.
Run Over by Train.-Clara Wilker-
son, a colored girl 16 years old, was
run over by a Frisco passenger train
at Fort Scott and killed.
Manufacturing Cement BIocks-St
John is to have mandatory of this
! kind.
Gun as CIub.-A clash between a
striker and a strike breaking machin-
! list occurred on the street at Arkan-
sas City. w. A. Johnson and Jhon
Hawkins were the participants. Haw-
kins, the strike breaker, was beat over
| the head with gun, which Johnson
| claims he tried to dischage until it
was taken away from him by Johnson
who used it as a club.
Granted Right -of-Way.-At Win
! field the Kansas-Oklahoma Interurban
railway has been granted the right
of-way over the fair grounds by the
| city council.
Inspect the Posts.-Colonel Arthur
| L. Wagner of the general staff arrived
at the post at Fort Riley aud VIII spend
several days inspecting the wcr ,irgs
OF the school of application. Colonel
| Wagner, who has acted as chief UNI
| pire in the chief maneuvers of the
last two years, is on a tour of inspec
ton of all the army service schools.
First Oil ompany.-Charlie Stew
ems, of Paola,. has a blank certificate
of stock of what is probably the first
oil company organized in Kansas. II
was the Miami Oil Company, incor
] v,Orotod nocombor on 12e5