Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-06-25
KANSAS COMMENT.

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church building The loss is $3.50.
ONAGA AMmrIoUs.-Thi Pottawato-
mie county town has grown to the
point of planning to build u new opera
house
OLD SETTLERS PICNIC.-About three
thousand persons attended the Ed
wards county old settlers picnic at
Kinsley.
KINDLY RECEIVED. the depor-
tation of miners began from the Colo
RADIO strike district, district board No
IA, with headquarters ut Pittsburg, is
anticipating the arrival of many of
them. The Colorado miners will be
kindly received by the miners and dis
trict board.
NEW Elk LoDGE.-The Ottawa herd
of Ellts. 10 the humber of eighty.
headed by the Gormly band, went to
Osawatomie and instituted a new
lodge. Among the members of the
Osawatomie lodge are Editors eleven
ger and'Mills, of the Graphic and Globe
respectively, and nearly all the division
officers of the Missouri Pacific.
Z. ]. NUGENT-He is dead at the
age of 92 years. He was the only sur
viving member of the original Ottawa
Townsite company by which the city
of Ottawa was created. With others
Nugent erected suspension bridge
across the river at the site of the pres
ent main street bridge and for a long
time conducted it as a toll enterprise.
To FIGHT GAS PIPING.-The execu-
tive committee of the Kansas Gas Pro-
tective association met at Cherryvale
to appoint a committee to attend the
state charter board meeting to act on
the application Of the Kansas Natural
Oil and Gas company on that date. In
few minutes time SIS. 900 was raised
to fight the piping Of gas from Kansas.
SUPPLY KANSAS TowNs.-The Con-
solidated Oil company is composed of
Santa Fe men, and it's headquarters
are at present in Chicago. So far, it
has confined its plans to supplying
Kansas towns. 1t promises to go to
Kansas City, Kansas, to Leavenworth,
Atchison and Topeka, but has said
nothing about crossing the Missouri
river. Members of the company own
land and leases at Chanute and indie
pendence.
BABY WAS ALL RIGHT.-The wife Of
j. o. Sewall, of Galena, after search
ing some time for her baby, concluded
she heard its cries from an old shaft,
and jumped into the shaft, which was
ninety feet deep and contained pos
sibly forty feet of water. She was
hoisted to the surface by ropes, un
conscious, and was kept from drown
ing by her clothing catching on the
sides of the shaft. Her injuries are n
fractured skull and many severe cuts
about the head and face. After the
excitement abated u neigh Dor brought
her baby home.
BOYS AND GUNs.-In Wichita Miss
Anna Jones, stenographer, aged 10
years, was presumably accidentally
shot through the head by William
Ward, n carpenter, and received in
Jul AAOA1 NlACu BIC OACu IL lew llllU-
utes later. With party of girls she
left an evening meeting at n church.
A gang of young men were outside the
church when the girls left it. They
followed the girls and discharged their
pistols n number of times in the air
and into the ground Then the boys
all shot nearly at once and ball en-.
tered Miss Jones' head and killed her.
A. p. COLLINS SELLs.-One of the
largest land deals that has been con
summated in Saline county fol-
years was the sale of the A. p. Collin.
farm south Of Solomon to w. H. Jones
of Kansas City, for Sl7, 900 cash, o.
S45. so per acre. Mr.. Collins has beer
identified with Saline and Dickinson
counties since their early settlement
and represented Saline in the legisla
ture in 1sss-s5. Mr.. and Mrs. Collin
are in California, where they went TO
the formers health and where the,
own q large fruit farm.
CONTRACT FOR LIGHT.-The Concor
dia city council has let the contrac
with 20. year franchise. The con
tractors will furnish the city light
Mt $40 per year, reduction of $40
New machinery will be put in and tn
company announces that fat rat
will probably be inaugurated on tn
start.
Prominent MAN DEAD.-Sidney {
Ashton, manager of the r. G. Du
Mercantile agency in Wichita, VIII
was one of the prominent business an
club men of the city, is dead.
ANOTHER Two INcHKs.-On June l
two inches of water fell south of Char
ute, and the Girard branch of the SAINT
Fe was submerged for several hours
Water ran over the tracks but not dee
enough to stop traffic. At Winfiel
the rain brought the rivers up agair
but not high enough to wash out tn
railroads
WOMAN COUNTY CLERK-The con
missioners of Sumner county appoin
ed Miss Lena NJ. Pfeifer county cler
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