Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-20

TRACK Is DANGER SIGNAL.-Judge
Madden threw out of court at Emporia
$4,000 damage suit against the Santa
Fe railroad. The suit was brought by
Mrs. A. t. Hopes. whose husband was
killed last April by a Santa Fe passen-
ger train. Judge Madden held that
Hopes death was brought about by
his own carelessness. He said a rail
road track is in itself danger signal,
and that man should take the neces-
sary precautions when standing on or
crossing over one.
ENHANCING PACKING HoUsEs.-It was
given out that the packers in Wichita
do not want SO many hogs for ten days
as they have been getting lately. Cud-
ahy has had an open order for the
last two months, and his buyer has
been taking everything in sight. SUI
perintendent Brown of the Cudahy
plant informed the commission men at
the yards that he would want only
from 400 TO so hogs daily for a week
or ten days.
WANT ENTHUSIASTICALLY Mennonites
in Kansas. who are all Russians. have
never taken citizenship in this country
but on account of the Russian war they
are now besieging the district court at
Hays city with applications. The de-
sire to avoid any chance of being com
PEELED to return to Russia and be draft
ed into the army.
II he hrr of
Thomas Murphy is burned. The loss
is $1,000. The insurance is 81, 900. Ow
/ ing to low pressure of water the
| flames spread to the two story double
! apartment residence of w. a. Potter
which is badly damaged. The fire
originated from a defective fiue.
Ness CITY MILL.-An electric light
company has been organized at Ness
City and will begin at once installing
machinery in the flour mill, and will
furnish power by the dynamos. The
plant is expected to be in full operation
in two months.
q. NJ. BITTMAN DEAD.-George NJ.
Bittman senior member of the
wholesale grocery firm of Bittman,
Todd & Co.. of Leavenworth, died of
diabetes at his home there. Mr. Bit
man was a native of Germany and was
| rs years old.
AN OSBORNE FIRE. B. Gurrigue's
furniture and undertaking establish
ment and the Brown Sisters millinery
srOre are burned. Garrigue's loss was
! 81, 800 and his insurance $500. Brown
Sisters loss was $500 Their insurance
was $500.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.-The annual
meeting of the Twelfth district of the
Knights of Pythias of Kansas holds its
annual meeting at Wichita on Febru-
airy 10.
| DEWEY TRIAL.-After more than a
week spent in securing jury the trial
/ of Millionaire Dewey and his cowboys
for killing settlers is now on at Nor
! ton.
! EUREKA's PARK-That city is to have
a beautiful park of about nine acres
! which is well wooded, with small
stream and a natural ampitheatre.
AT WOODEN MnL--One of the two
wooden mills of Topeka gives employ
ment to 81 men and boys and % women
and girls working full time.
PENNsYLVANIANs.-T The citizens of
Sedgwick county who are natives of
! the Keystone state hold banquet in
Wichita on February 10.
COOPERATIVE SToRE.-An organizer
is working among the railroad men OF
Emporia to organize cooperative
store.
A DRILLING OUTFIT.--One of them
has beeen removed from Winfield to
Arkansas City and put up there.
GRAND LODGE.-The Masonic grand
lodge is holding it's annual meeting
at Topeka this week.
CHANGING HANDs.-There is a fever
on to buy and sell Hoegeman county
lands.
OsTEoPATHs RECOGNIZED.-The state
board of medical registration and ex
animation has claimed that the osteo
pathic colleges were not regular,
but DIR. c. z. Hulett, of Topeka, presi
dent of the Kansas Association of Os
teopaths, made talk which convinced
the board that the colleges are entitled
to recognition. Licenses to osteopaths
will issue therefore.
OF CoURsE.-An Ottawa man who
tried to commit suicide, when asked by
his physician if he wanted to get well
said. ''Of course
COOKS Hrs FEED.-John PilkingtoI
is feeding 700 cattle at his farm east o.
Waverly, COffey county. He cooks al
the corn he feeds them and they arr
gaining as rapidly as steers could do
He has them on full feed and will FEED
them until about the first of April
His cattle are two and three years ole
and are as smooth and even as it il
possible for them to be.
: SALT WHARF.-THE boring for oil a
Shorey, a Topeka suburb, results 81
far in striking artesian salt water Will
a strong flow: