Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-04-23

building. The fifth floor was trans
formed into mammoth parlor, while
the fourth floor had been made into a
huge dining room. The music was
furnished by the Salina Military band,
and no expense was spared to make
pleasant evening for the employees.
LARGE ORCHARDS. II. Hoover, of
| Sedgwiclx county has been selling
apples from 16O acre orchard for
some years. This year he has planted
100 acres more, all to apple trees. Last
year he marketed $4,000 bushels of
apples from his old orchard. He en-
! ploys several men the whole year to
| take care of the trees, and during the
! picking season last year he employed
| forty additional men.
| GRATIFYING FAcr.-It is is a crafty
| ing fact that the state banks have on
hand in cash and sight exchange "A
per cent OF their deposits, when the
legal requirement is that they should
have from 20 to 25 per cent. The ma
tional banks had on hand 80 per cent
of their deposits when the national
law requires from Is to % per cent.
RUINED BY RABBITS. Ed Winner,
who lives nine miles north of Atchison,
had four hundred six-year-old apple
trees ruined last year by rabbits. He
let the grass and weeds grow prOfusely
in the orchard and the rabbits were
harbored and literally ruined two
| thirds of siXihundred trees
NoRTHER:S KANSAS WHEAT.-James
Russell, superintendent of the Missouri
Pacific when he returned from trip
over the Central Branch lines said that
with the exception of very few spots
the condition of wheat is as good as it
was at the corresponding period last
last year.
SOLD FOR So, OOO, OOO.-N. C. Pulliam
and Henry Stamper, two residents of
Harrington, several months ago be-
came interested with a dozen other
men in mine in Old Mexico. They
have sold the property for 81, 900, 600
and the share of the Herington men is
$50, 900 each.
WENT TO JAPAN.-Will Wilson, a
telegraph operator at Reading, who
disappeared several months ago, has
been heard from. With several other
operators he skipped out for Japan,
where they expected to get SIS a day in
wages.
TELEPHONE AssEssAENT.-The state
board of railway assessors fixed the
| Of re aIr,a
on the basis of 1903. The only ma
terial change was to reduce the value
of instruments from $3.50 and So to Sd
MURDOCH On PRoGRAM-Congress
man Victor Murdoch is down on the
program of the Kansas State Horti-
cultural society meeting at Dodge City
next month. His subject is Need of
| Forest Culture"
The PEOPLE OaJECT.-The Santa Fe
has withdrawn its agent and operator
at Dale, the railroad station at Seely,
and discontinued that office. The
farmers md merchants are making
objections.
CHILD BURNED Bird, a
farmer near Coffeyville, lost his 21E-
year-old daughter by the explosion of
an incubator lamp. The high winds
caused the loss of his home also
ASK CHANGE OF VENUE. The attor-
neys for j. E. MARCEL, the Highland
bank wrec1er, are endeavoring to get
a change of venue for their client.
DEPOT BURNED.-The burning of the
Rock Island depot at Phillipsburg is a
heavy loss to the railroad company.
Coon SHowING.-The only vacant
building in Ness City is the city Jail.
A HARPER CLUB.-A grandmother
club is one of the old clubs at Harper
THE AETNA SETTLES. accident
department of the Aetna Life Insur
ance company has settled the DIR. Nc.
Clellan claim to the satisfaction of the
beneficiary, Miss Lena Mcclellan, and
also to the state insurance department
The superintendent of the department
has renewed the license of the Aetna
company to transact business in Kan
sas.
l NEW EIEvATOR.-The Wellington
Mill & Elevator company is putting NJ
1 a new elevator. 1t will have n storage
capacity of 100000 bushels.
l MOTOR CYCLE For George Pc
| cock, one of the rural carriers of Wake
D field has a motor cycle which he bought
t TO use on his mail ronte instead of hi.
t wagon. He has rugged up the machine
4 to carry his mail and parcels With
. dry roads he calculates to make the
I trips over dis route in about half the
time were he to use team.
= A LABOR TEMPLE.-Union labor or
I CARNATIONS of lola are planning t.
t erect a labor temple to cost from SIS,
< 900 to S2O,0 lola has about twenty
FIVE unions
;, GRAND JURY.-Judge Hazen, of tn,
: Shawnee district court. has announce
e that, if petitioned. he would cali
v grand jury to investigate the charge
d of corruption made against the Topelz;
: notice in connection with the o,,a,.a q IN,