Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-11-18
KANSAS COMMENT

hunt game has been issued here to
Miss Myra Stores of Lansing.
Starts Skunk Farm.-C o. Graham,
OF Phillips county, has started skunk
farm. He says one skunk will bring
more revenue in a year than two COWS.
Still, the difference doesn't compen-
safe for that smell that skunk leaves
behind.
Caught With Wet Goods. - At Ar
kansas City County Attorney Kream-
er personally arrested Andrew Ward,
a negro on the charge of bootlegging,
and took charge of several bottles OF
liquor which the negro carried in
basket. The county attorney saw
Ward coming out of an Slley with the
basket. and suspecting that it con-
tanned liquor, arrested him later, turn
ing lis prisoner over to an officer.
Robbed of $1,5s5. = w. H. Davis,
manager of a repertoire company
showing in Winfield, was robbed of
$1,5S5 in cash and drafts at the Pal
mer hotel He had gone to bed late,
leaving his vest with the money in it
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on chair. and the robber fished the
vest from the room through the tran
som over the door. The drafts were
drawn on the Fourth National Bank.
Wichita
Don't Like Game Law.-Iola sports
men are doing a good deal of kicking
about the new game law which re-
stricts the number of ducks which
may be shot at in a day and also for
bids the sale of them. They maintain
that there is no good accomplished by
the law and that it only results in in
terfering with the pleasure of hunters
and prevents people who do not hunt
them from getting an opportunity to
eat ducks.
Court House Rest Room. = The
board of county commissioners has set
aside the northeast corner room on
the first floor of the court house as a
rest room for women at Lawrence. To
Deputy Clerk Julia Kerns has been
delegated the task of furnishing this
room, which will include rugs, chairs,
a couch and other accessories to a
room of this nature. The decision to
establish a rest room at this place will
prove a most popular one with out-of-
town visitors and should in no wise
conflict with the city rest room at the
old court house.
! On Trial for Murder-Albert Love
is being tried at Lawrence for the al
legged murder of Merle Barnes last
summer. The two were on q circus
train coming from Ottawa to this
place. and Barnes, who was only 16
years old, was thrown off the train
and so badly hurt that he died the
next day. Before dying he said that
a circus employee who was drunk had
thrown him off. Love was the only
man on the train drunk and he was
arrested. The prosecution is being
pushed by Barnes father, who is a
Missouri farmer
Flour for the Army. - Capt c. P.
Stivers, of the United States army is
at Salina to inspect the flour which is
to be shipped to the department of the
Colorado by the Western Star mill.
The buying was done by Col. B. K.
West. In determining the quality of
the flour an analytical test of the -four
was made, and the flour wej also test
ed as made up into bread. Fixed pro-
portions of the different ingredients is
used, and the baking is done in a stove
for which the heat is furnished by
electricity. The shll,nent will occupy
nine cars, and will be of 353, 400
pounds weight.
Garden City Prospering. = Perhaps
no community is showing greater
progress and advancement in this
time of general prosperity than that
of Garden City and Finney county. a
number of projects have recently
been undertaken to bring the beauti-
full little western Kansas town into
public notice and the men of the town
and county are making the most of it,
No opportunity is lost to keep the re-
sources of the community before the
attention of the pubic and if oppor-
tunity is lacking one is made by the
hustling business men of that vicin
fly.
Discouraged by Sickness. - Bring
the neighbors to see me die" was the
message given her 12-year-old daught
er as Mrs. John Rokey drank a guam
tity Of cattle dip liquid. Mrs. Rokey
was conscious nearly all the time, ex
pressing the hope that death would
come because she has had poor health
The deceased lived with her husband
and three children on a farm nine
miles northeast of Usage City. The
family was prosperous and popular
but prolonged sickness had discour
aged Mrs. Rokey.
Salinas Catholic Church. - BishoI
Cunningham of the Catholic church
on visit here, states that Salina i:
the best church town in his diocese
While he was absent on his visit t.
Rome the church reduced it's indebt
edness $1,000. leaving out $4,000 o
the cost of its new church furniture
and school grounds = $4,000 = I'm
paid.
Coal chutes Burned.-The new Goa