Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-10-22
KANSAS COMMENT


Enough holes, and Arkansas City will
yet strike the real thing"
Rural Route Carriers.-Ed. ]. Plaff
and Jay r. Cox of Hazelton have been
appointed rural route carriers out of
Med. cine Lodge with these substitutes:
Fred Plaff and Mrs Nettie Cox.
Forging checks.-After prelimi-
nary hearing. C. E. Farrell. charged
with forging and passing checks on
hanks where he had no money, was
bound over to the district court.
Brown County Pioneer.-Dr. ]. NJ.
Cecil. for twenty-eight years a prac-
ticing physician in Brown county, is
dead of heart trouble. He was As
years old and is wealthy. He is
survived by only a widow.
Missing Asent.-A rural route car
rier has reported having seen man
near South Haven who answers the
description of Guy Gardner, the miss
Ing Santa Fee agent at Winfield. Gard
ner's father is making a search.
Many Lodges IncIuded.-The Cen
ira Protective Association began it's
sessions in Olathe. The association
is composed of Anti-Horse-Thief assO-
atoms and is for the prevention of
crime. This district includes 29S
lodges in Kansas and Missouri.
District court-The case of Jasper
J.. Kellogg against John T. Stewart
is being tried in the district court.
Kellogg is suing for about $4,000 as
balance claimed by him to be due
on some bank stock, which he charg-
es was obtained from him by fraud
Will Hold Contest-At a recent
meeting of the Lyon county teachers
association, President Wilkinson of
the state normal announced that next
spring in Emporia not later than APP
ril, a contest will be held in which
teachers holding certificates above
the third grade will be permitted to
enter. The contestants will be one
teacher from each county, with the
teachers association exercise given in
each county during the year. State
prizes will be given in this contest
an employee of the l.. B. Price INSTALL
ment house at Kansas City, fatally
shot Oscar Marvin, collector for the
Collum Comemrce company at Pitts
burg. Baker was formerly with the
Collum company. The shooting re-
suited from a quarrel over an alleged
shortage charged to Baker by the
Collum people when he left them.
Four shots were fired. Two entered
Marvin's brain and two were sent
after A. j. Gatchell, manager of the
Collum business, but missed him
Bakers home is in Western Mis-
souri,. A 3S-calibr revolver was
used.
Profitable crop.-C. o. Graham. a
business man of Logan, Kan, plant
ed 17-acre tract OF land on the Sol
ONION river bottom TO cabbage 1t
required many hours of arduous la
Dor, but the work was carefully done
and now he Is reaping the fruits of
his toll. Careful cultivation and
favorable season produced a crop that
is estimated at fully one million
pounds of choice cabb"-c. The crop
flooded the local market and supplied
the neighboring towns at prices rang
Ing around 81 a hundred pounds A
little figuring will show that the in
come derived from this little cabbage
patch would purchase several 21-acre
tracts.
Into Boiling Waterford has been
Of
happened eight miles south of Fort
Scott to the 3-year-old-child of ]. w.
Grim. The mother was washing and
was heating the water in a large iron
kettle in the yard; when the child in
playing walked backwards against the
kettle and was thrown into the boil
ing water.
Bonds Carried.-The bond election
at Moran. wherein the proposition for
the town to put up its own natural gas
plant, was voted on, resulted in the
bonds being carried.
Safe 6iowers.-An organized gang
of safe blowers are believed to be
working In the vicinity of Florence.
Sunday morning the general mer-
chandise store of Cress & Son at Ced-
ar Point was broken into, the safe
cracked and $500 in trading script
taken. This. which of course, was
worthless to the thieves was later
found on the bank OF Cedar creek.
TWO New Routes.-Two new rural
routes will be added TO Hutchinson's
rural route system on November Is.
making a total of five running out
o; that city.
Out on 5ond.-Dr. f. p. Chase is
out on $1,000 bond pending a habeas
corpus hearing. Chase had his pre-
liminSry on the charge of killing
John Cahill at Shawnee a few weeks
ago. and was bound over to the dis.
trict court without bond. Then his
attorneys brought the habeas corpus
proceedings which will be heard Oc-
tober 10.
Charged With Assault William
Miller. charged with assault by Mrs.
Mary z. Mammalian. at Winfield. is
being held in Jail in default OF 81 900
bond. ,
Fumisate for Consumption. The