Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-07-09


of Russell county and the southern
part of Osborne county was swept by
a hail storm, devastating a territory
80 miles long and Is miles wide. Wind
from the northwest at times almost
amounted to a tornado, tearing down
windmills and unroofing houses. The
wheat fields are almost, il not quite,
a total loss, and thousands of sSres
were almost ready for the harvest.
! They look as though they had been
! rolled with some monster roller or
1 a stalk cutter had been driven through
/ them. Growing corn in the fields is
| stripped to the stalk and in many
! places the stalks driven into the
! ground by the force of the hail storms
For Civil service.-Examinatio
| before the local civil service board
at Wichita will be numerous for a
while. An examination for the po-
sition of farmer in Indian service will
be held July 6. The examination for
teachers in the Philippine service,
which was to have been held June
1928, was postponed until July 1914.
A great many applications have al
ready been received and the outlook
is that many more will be sent in.
First Month With None-During
the month of May not one child APP
piled at the Soldiers Orphans home at
Atchison. This is the first month
since the establishing of the home,
that no applications were received.
One child was received as a ward
last week, the first in seven weeks.
There are now about 145 children in
the home. One hundred and ifty-6ve
is the usual average number.
A Hustler.-C. E. Denton, of Attica,
who runs the republican campaign
in Harper county, manages a bank,
controls dry goods store. looks after
several hundred acres of farm lands,
and has interests in other towns of
the state, has found an automobile
convenient thing to pass around in
among his interests.
Handling Tramps.-The city council
of Colby furnishes the women with
meal tickets to give to tramps. The
tickets are good for one meal when
signed by the city marshal. The joke
comes in when the marshal demands
two hours work before he signs the
ticket handed him by the tramp.
Milling by Eiectricfty--The Alex
ander Milling company at Winfield
has installd its own electric lighting
plant. Some day, each bOlter, reel,
and stand of rolls in the mill win be
run by a separate motor.
Carried Pack.-A man who used
to carry a pack now owns the largest
store ia Leavenworth. lie can EOw
buy and sell al the people who used
to make fun of him. His name is
Henry Ettensen.
, Hurt in Wreck.-Word comes to
, Wichita that John McAleer, travelling
salesman of coal and coke company
of Wichita, has been seriously hurt in
a railroad wreck in the western part
of the state
Bumper Crop-Elfjah Ratc1iffe, of
: Cunningham, says he has lived in
Kingman county twenty years and he
? never saw such a bumper wheat crop
as that now being harvested.
! After TWO Months.-F. A. Willzin.
t son, of Ottawa, a pioneer business
man. died, the result of an injury sus-
tanned in a runaway two months ago
He came to Kansas in 1858.
j Saved by Twenty Feet.-A Waverly
t man blowing IN the heat of the day
left his team to get a drink. When 20
feet away a flash of lightning killed
the horses
/. Cement Abutments.-Harvey county
is building its new bridges with Port
land cement abutments.
s Will PaVe.-CoffeyvilIe has picked
n out 25 blocks of its principal streets
and will pave them.
!. In Dickinson County.-That county
has had a rain that soaked every acre
+ of the wheat fields with two or three
a inches of water. The rain was heavi
J., est in the north part of the county, but
O it has given the southeastern portion
n a heavy moisture also. The wheat
harvest was about to commence.
n Tortured and Robbed.-Isadore
:. Neidhardt, a farmer living at Bethel
O Kan, eighteen miles west of Kansas
@ City, Kan. was tied hand and foot
i tortured and robbed OF 800 by three
men.
; Destructive HaiI.-WTthfn a limited
J. area in the vicinity of Eureka there
Q was an unprecedented ha1l storm The
= hail was piled on the ground in drifts
@ several feet high. The bark was
# beaten off trees and the grass was
r hammered out of sight Many horses
O and cattle were injured and. OF course
crops were wholly destroyed.
O Harvesting Stopped-Another heavy
a rain fell at Sterling, Which stopped
It harvesting for a couple of days, but
e there\ was no damage done to the
wheat.
3 Acid on Bars.-A wholesale Jail de