Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-01-16

l BLANCHE BOISE AGAIN---lnl IOfEAA
joint smasher, just retired from term
in the Shawnee county Jail, went to
the rooms of the State Historical so
ciety and attempted to destroy the
picture Of the Pine Ridge Indian fight,
presented to Clusters old regiment, the
Seventh Regulars, by distiller. The
picture is valuable and is held where it
for the regiment. She broke the
| glass and then attempted to cut up the
picture but was stopped.
GROWTH OF TowN.-During 1903
Arkansas City has gained three-story
of a block, a new Touring mill with
the latest improved machinery of
thousand barrel capacity; new line of
railway to the south; packing house
with a capacity of 300 hogs and fifty
cattle per day; many smaller buildings
and industries, and working CONNER
cial club.
IN TROUBLE AGAIN.-County Attor-
ney Z. Z. Wilson was arrested on a
charge of embezzling S3,1 from the
Citizens Bank of Belle Plaine. While
acting as cashier of the bank in 1902,
Wilson is charged with taking that
amount from the bank funds, making
out notes to which he signed fictitious
names.
LAND FOR ROUND HOUsE.-Forty
acres of land has been purchased by
the Santa Fe, just west of the Rock
Island crossing, at Hutchinson, for a
new Santa Fe round house, where 20
stalls are to be constructed in the
spring. This was decided upon soon
after the round house fire occurred at
| Newton.
Low FIRE Loss.-A statistical table
of the fire loss of 81 cities of the Uni
ted States shows Topeka as next to
the lowest, Washington, d. c., being
the lowest. Topeka's loss is II cents
per capita while that of Washington
is 40. The average loss of the 81 cities
is So per capita.
ANOTHER BANK.-Application of A.
II. Moffet, Robert Boyd, John Lindas,
j. Nj. Cummins, A. A. Dorr and others
to organize the Moffet Brothers Ma
tiOnal Bank of Larned with S25, 900
capital, has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
KANSAS MAN WINs.-Mr Ewell, of
Ottumwa, Kans., captured the award
of So, 900 offered for the closest estimate
of the number of cigars upon which a
tax of So per thousand would be paid
during November. Over 1000, 900 es-
Inmates were recorded.
RECOMMENDS SEAToN.-The Kansas
delegation met for the purpose of con-
sidering the vacancy on the board of
governors of the national homes for
disabled soldiers and unanimously
recommended the selection of John
Seaton, of Atchison.
JAIL DELIvERY.-Five white prison
ers, all under "a years of age, have es-
capped together from the county Jail at
Olathe. The charges against them
range from petit larceny to burglary
NoRDICA AT BETHANY-Nordiica has
been engaged to sing in Bethany audi
torium, Lindsborg, January 20. Special
trains will be run to accommodate
neighboring cities.
ALL IDENTIFIED.-Every one of the
bodies of the victims of the Rock Island
wreck at Willard have been claimed by
relatives and taken to their former
homes
HAS MORE FARMs.-Secretary of
State Burrow has sold his 6Oo-acre farm
in Smith county for $4,000. He has
other farms left.
COTTON MILL.-A proposition has
been submitted to the commercial club
of Parsons to build a SIS, 900 cotton
mill there.
GOOD COUNTY RECoRD.-In 1903 there
2O2 marriage licenses issued in Harvey
county and only 81 divorces granted.
Down 900 FEEr.-The prospect oil
well at Burlingame is down about 900
feet.
{ PRESENTS TO CARRIERs.-When Will
Kipp, rural route carrier in Green
wood county, made one of his trips
last week he found in every box on his
5 route an envelope containing a piece
, of money. His patrons had taken this
: method of making him Christmas
present.
SALE OF School LANDs.-School
land is selling fast in western Kansas
according to the state auditors report
which shows that that the sum of Sat-
: 554 has been paid to the state during
the past ak months for school land.
BUFFALO CHIPs.-Owing to the scar
/ city and high prices of coal out in
: Pratt and Barber counties the people
in that section have gone back to early
day practices and are gathering and
: burning prairie COAL" sometimes
called 'grassoline," and originally
, called buffalo chips or cow chips.
L AN OLD SErrLER.-Pliny Soper, Sr.,
died at his home in Troy after an ill
5 ness of several months. He was ~
: years old, and one of the Oldest settlers
2 OF Doniphan county, having lived there
about 40 years
/ GILLETT's DEBTs.-A careful search