Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-08-27


going to have new water pant. TIE
Des Moines Iron and Bridge Works
have commenced the installation of
a $4,000 waterworks plant, with five
miles of street mains and a large
steel tank 125 feet up. Work has COM
menced and is expected to be com
pleted within three months, and they
want SO laborers to dig trenches
eight hours day-paying $1.75 day
and work last six weeks.
Foreign Missionary.-W. A. Revis,
a graduate of the Southwest Kansas
College, of Winfield, has accepted an
appointment as a missionary to In
dia by the missionary board of the
Methodist Episcopal church and will
leave at once for his new field of Ia
Dor. He will be under the direction
of. Rev. L. N. Hockey, of the North
west India conference. He has been
preaching at Maple OIty since leaving
school.
Synod Ended.-The German Luth-
eran Synod which has been in session
in AtchisOn for d week, closed after
one of the most successful conven-
lions in the history of the district.
The Synod will meet in Gerardy, Ks,
in 1906. The Rev. H. F. Taggart, of
Topeka, president of the Children's
Aid Society, addressed the synod in
regard to placing the orphan children
in Lutheran homes.
Greek Laborers Strike-Fifty Greek
laborers employed on the Southern
Kansas branch of the Santa Fe
south of Lawrence have struck. Half
of the gang was discharged for incom-
potency and the others quit out of
sympathy. The work was about COM
pleted, and the road will have no
trouble in getting men to take their
places.
90 Cent Wheat.-The elevators at
Hays City are paying 80 cents per
bushel for wheat which tested 81
pounds. That which tested 81 pounds
was bought for 81 cents a bushel
Ellis county probably raised this
year about one-third of the product
of 1908, which averaged about so
cents a bushel.
Survey Completed The state uni
versity geological survey of Kansas
which was authorized by the special
session of the legislature in 1903, has
been completed and Prof Erasmus
HawOrth, state geologist, who con-
Quoted the survey, has published a re-
port of the mineral. resources of the
state.
Ready for Dedication.-The new
con Of
Western Kansas State Normal school
on the FIT. Hays Reservation, is com
pleted, furnished and ready for fall
term commencing August 20, and on
the Goth the building will be dedicat-
ed with appropriate ceremonies.
Pipe Line Finished.-The Standard
Oil Company is now making ready to
take oil from the much exalted COT
feyville field by means of the pipe
line as a means of conveyance. COT
feyville has shipped oil to the Neode-
sha refinery in tanks heretofore.
Killed by a Carat Cherryvale, L.
Lane was accidentally killed by be-
ing struck by a car near the Santa
Fe depot. He was an old soldier. He
diana Volunteer Infantry. Mr.. Lane
was 81 years old.
Hopes Auditorium.-The citizens
of Hope are greatly pleased with their
new auditorium. 1t is seldom that
town of 500 people can lay claim
to so pretentious a building. TWAS
opened on August IL with a Harvest
Home ball.
Knights TempIar ConcIave.-The
Santa Fe has rugged out fine train
for the Kansas knights Templar to
travel in to San Francisco for the 10Th
annual conclave beginning September
9Th
Musician Missing-At Leavenworth
the police are looking for a musician
named Foote, who has disappeared
from the Soldiers Home band.
New Turn TabIe.-TheD Santa Fe is
putting in a new turn table at Cha
mute.
Corn Outlook mproves.-Reports
gathered from representative farmers
from all parts of Kansas show that
the corn outlook has greatly improved
in the last month, and that with fay-
orable weather the corn on all but
| the bottom lands may be expected to
make a fair crop in spite of the food
disasters this spring. Hundreds of
farmers planted two or three times
and some even planted the fourth
time. There are many sections in
which any kind of a1crOp was despair
ed of, which are now expecting yield
of forty bushels per acre. The yield
of hay has broken all records.
Cement Factory.-The Chanute Ce-
ment Company continues to purchase
land surrounding the site Of its pro-
posed cement plant, eight miles west
q Chanute. The latest acquisition,
according to James Mundell, of Villas,
! is the Pierson tract of 160 acres, which
the cement company recently purchas-
ed, paying for it $4,000 or 800 an
acre. This gives the cement company
total of 545 acres. The Pierson tract
is closer to the railway tracks than
any other of the company's holdings
| and it is reported that it will be made
the site of the mandatory.
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