Free press., 1904-05-28
KANSAS COMMENT.


3I5 .PRODUcING WEII.s.-Neosho
county claims to have 315 producing
oil wells not to mention the wild cats.
KILLED BY A BLow.-A coroners'
jury at Neodesha decides that Sherman
Howard died from e. blow on the head
from Robert Kelley's fist.
TEACHERS WAGEs.-In the matter of
salaries paid to high school teachers
Kansas City, Kansas, stands at the
bottom of list of fifty-eight cities.
YOUNG CocKLEBUEs.- The farmers
around Simpson are losing numbers of
cattle from eating young cocllleburs.
Young coclIleburs are said 10 be very
poisonous.
PAoLA Has GAs.-Oil was struck on
the Robert Ayres farm near Paola at
the first gas sand 2I5 feet down. The
well averages twenty-five barrels Il
day.
A PIONEER DEAD.-Jonas Banfeld,
pioneer of Saline county, died at his
home east of Salina. He owned 400
acres of land. He was rs years old
and had lived in the county since 1870
CAN PAY THE MINIsTER-A we'll
which is n good producer is completed
on the church lot in Peru. The royalty
will pay the minister. The Odd Eel
lows of Peru have a l9-barrel well on
their lot
GRAND LODGE K. OF P.-The Kansas
grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias
in session ut Hutchinson, had nearly a
thousand visitors in attendance. The
grand temple, Rathbone Sisters, was
also in session with 800 delegates.
STURDY OLD AeE.-George Yarnell
a justice of the peace of Ellsworth
county, although s5 years old, does all
of his own farming, chops his own
wood, prepares his own meat each win
tee and takes care of his own stock.
PIPE LINE AT CHERRYvALE.-Th
Standard Oil company completed the
pipe line to the Farmers company
wells and now has the pipe lying on
the grounds two miles further east
The next point is the Farrington-P Pub
fishers field.
VARNIsHED ny LANPLIGHT.-Cou
Treasurer George II. Hull, of Salina,
was so severely burnec about the hands
and arms that fears are entertained
that he will never regain the use of
them. Mr. Hull was vanishing the
floor by lamp light when some lace
curtains were ignited by the lamp. In
his attempt to save the house Mr.. Hull
was burned.
IN MONTGOMERY CoUNTY.-The Ha-
vana Oil company has just purchased
the poor farm in the Wayside field and
adjoining one of it's properties. The
poor farm contains fifty acres and al
ready has developed two good oil wells
and one gasser. This gives the Ha-
vana so acres in one tract on which
they will at once proceed to put down
ten more wells.
TELEPHONES GALoRE.-Therc are
eight farmer lines" of telephone ont
of Burlingame and two more projected.
The rural lines have formed an asso-
citation. Through the Burlingame ex-
change and the Independent Telephone
system the rural lines have connections
with Topeka and Kansas City as well
as with many other towns in central
and eastern Kansas.
SPECIAL CROP REPoRr.-A special
crop report gathered by the officers of
the Leavenworth, Kansas & Western
road shows that winter wheat is in
fine condition in jefferson, Jackson,
Pottawatomie and Clay counties. Some
oat fields We're plowed up which We're
injured by the cold weather in April.
Two inches of rain fell in Onaga. Hol-
ton, Garrison and along the line of the
road in week. The hay crop will be
very large. Corn is reported little
backward, owing to cold weather and
too mach rain.
Cor. CTI.P DEAD.-Colonel f. C. Culp.
of Salina, one of the best known men
of the state, is dead OF cirrhosis of the
liver, after q long illness. He was
chairman of the committee of cere-
monies for Kansas at the Louisiana
pOoibAOh anu AClNt ii
position ut the Chicago worlds fair.
Corporation .SrArIsrIcs.-A repre-
sentative from the department of COM
meree is in Topeka gathering statistics
OF. corporations in Kansas. He is go
ing over the charter files and reports
in the secretary of sta'e's office.
BOYS BURNED.-Willie Ong, aged 10,
and a playmate attempted to light an
abandoned gas well near the old brick
plant at Neodesha. A lighted match
was thrown into the escaping gas, and
the boys were badly burned about the
head and face. The extent of their in.
jnries cannot be told, although the
burns are very severe and quite pain.
full
HIGH Schools. There are quite u
number of Kansas counties which arc
now agitating the establishing OF
county high schools.
Cur 40 PER CENT.-Local assessors
have Topped off 40 per cent of the as
sessment IN the flooded district alone