Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-07-09
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.
The president says that Mr.. Knox,
while attorney general, never took
vacation.
Kansas City, Mo-, is becoming noted
for head breaking by policemen's
clubs.
Import duties paid in Kansas City
are estimated at 100000 for this
year.
Kansas City is uncomfortably
crowded with harvest hands without
transportation.
King Edward and Emperor William
are hobnobbing these days about the
German empire.
An Alton, Illinois, man is erect
ing apartment buildings especially
fitted for families with children.
Passenger Agent Seagraves says
that no rain has fallen at Albuquerque
for more than a year.
Lafayette Young of Iowa was chosen
cary to be independence day orator
at the worlds fair grounds.
Forty-three Kansas City postal
clerks will receive raise in salary
of 500 a year, beginning July 1
A private cable ftoA Odessa says
that rain is falling in Russia and
crop prospects are more favorable
James Hopper, Of Berkeley, Cal, a
veteran football player, has been en-
gagged to coach the state university
eleven the coming season.
The ta1lest building in the world
is the Park Row building in New York
1t covers $4,000 square feet and is
80 stories high. From the curb1ng tC
the curbing is 1886 feet
A violin by AntonAus Stradivarius
was sold in London for $500. II
was once owned by street musician
He bought the instrument originally
for sc, and sold it, after several years
use for $125.
Rock Sand, ridden by Maher, al
Newmarket, Eng, won the Princess
of Wales stakes of 10000 sovereigns
at the Newmarket first July meeting
Saltpetre was second and William
Rufus third.
The Rosebud Indian reservation in
South Dakota opens for registration
July to %. 1t is the richest body OF
land left in the United States fo1
homesteaders. Adjacent lands are
selling from SIS to $40 per acre.
The treatment of alcoholism by
hypnotism, which began at Moscow
in 1896, and has been tried at Ekater
inoslan, Voronezh and other places
since, has been inaugurated in ST
Petersburg by Dr. r. z. Bakoff, who
investigated the results and claims
there have been 70 per cent of radical
cures for that system against 80 pei
cent in the cases of other known
cures.
The War department has assigned
124 West Point cadets to various
branches of the military service.
The fiscal year for the United States
revenue collectors department just
closed, and while the figures have no:
all been officially compiled, it is known
that a very satisfactory increase OF
business will be disclosed, despite the
fact that the war tax has been re
moved from tea importations, a source
Of revenue amounting in one year al
the local once to 100000
The freight engines and cars en-
gagged in the traffic of this country
would make a string 5000 miles
long.
Captain John NJ. Webster, U. S. A
retired, has been appointed U. S
Indian agent at the Colville agency
Washington.
w. D. Richards, connected with .
Chicago publication, is in the hospit
al from a blow on the head frcm an
known source. He was found uncon
scious in, Oklahoma.
Charles E. Magoon has been ap
pointed general counsel for the 18th
milan canal commission. Judge Ma
COON has been in the law Office OF
the bureau OF insular affairs.
1t is stated that the fire on the
General Slecum originated in bar
rel, which was found burned on the
inside
A crowd with bloodhounds have a
murderer surrounded in swamp
near Marlin, Wis.
From Bartlesvilfe, 1. T., the pipe
line being put in by the Standard Oil
company is six inch. and from Hum
boldt to Kansas City. it win be eight
inches. This viii provide additional
! facilities for the increased production
Of the district.