Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-11-25

progressing rapidly on the new state
fish hatchery near Pratt. A big two
story house is now being erected for
a office and hatchery
Natural Gas For Winfield = Doug
Bourdette, a local merchant, COM
menced piping this city for natural
gas. He owns the only producing gas
wells in the vicinity of Winfield.
Gets Telephone ControI.-The Mis-
souri, and Kansas Telephone Company
has bought a controlling interest in
the Wellington Independent Tele-
phone Company, which owns and
operates a local exchange and has
toll lines TO all nearby towns.
Want to Name a Drector-TEe 700
Equitable policy holders in Sumner
county are running w. H. Burks OF
Wellington. for director of that in
surance company. BY all pulling to-
gether and casting 700 votes for their
man they believe they will land him
Help on Farms scarce.-The farm
ers of Labette county are having
hard time to secure the necessary
help for the fall work on their farms.
Every day farmers send and come to
Parsons looking for help, and gener-
ally are unsuccessful in their efforts
junction City's New Library.-The
executor of the George Smith estate
will next spring turn over all of the
estate TO the board of directors of the
public library, consisting of about
$4,000 cash and property, exclusive
of the Seventh street corner of the
approximate value of $4,000 to
10000.
New Santa Fe Depot.-Agent w. E.
Ralston and his assistants have NOV
ed into the new $4,000 Santa Fee de-
pot. For nearly three weeks every
thing has been ready for the change
except the cutting in of the wires.
lola now has a depot equal, if not
superior, to any depot in this section
of the state.
Wellington a Flour center-Twen-
ty-eight hundred barrels of flour ev-
cry day. That is to be the yelling
ton output. The Aetna Milling Com
pany has decided to double the pres
ent capacity. Plans for the new
building have been ordered. This
will give them a total capacity of
1000 barrels a day.
To Discharge Receiver. - The af-
fairs of the receivership of the lola
electric road will be wound up with
in the next two or three weeks, and
the receiver discharged by the feder-
al court This is made possible by an
agreement among the minority and
majority stockholders and the bond
holders of the railroad.
ReVoIutionize Strnged Instru-
ments.-Joseph Behee, a well known
| Leavenworth patternmaker and all
around genius, has been granted pat
ent rights on a wonderful machine
which simplifies the manufacture OF
violins, mandolins and guitars. Elk
perts say it will revolutionize the
stringed instrument business.
Monument to Veterans. = The Wo
mems Relief Corps of Coffeyville has
just placed an order for a $4,000
monument to be erected in the mem
DRY of civil war soldiers. The monu
ment represents a soldier at parade
rest, stands fifteen feet high and viii
be in Elmwood cemetery where many
soldiers of the civil war lie buried.
May Sell Whole Town. = The towI
CT Bruce, or practically all of it, is tt
be sold at sheriffs sale on Tuesday
December 3, at the north door of the
court house in Girard. The Bruce
Mining and Smelling Company
which owns the most of the TOWNSHIP
OF Bruce, including the old smelling
plan there, has been unable TO pa!
judgment rendered against it b!
the district court in a suit brought b!
the Interstate Mortgage Trust Com
pany, of Parsons, and the court ha:
ordered the sheriff to sell the prop
erty and satisfy the judgment.
To Be No Joint Banquet. - TIL,
State Historical Society has with
drawn from the proposed Topeka da.
banquet with the commercial club
The reason given is that the Histori
cal society cannot determine or ap
proXimate beforehand what the al
tendance will be or what part of tina
attendance will want to take part il
the banquet. The commercial clul
officers are busy finding out how man,
Topeka people will be in attendant
in order to make arrangements for
hall and give the order for the spread
The banquet will come off just tn
same in spite of the withdrawal of tn
Historical Society.
Plating New Town. General "
F. Hardy, for years secretary of tn
; Kaw Indian council, is sponsor for
new town being organized on tn
right-of-way of the Midland Vale
, railroad. This town is to be know
, as Hardy, and is located on 240 acre
, of inherited Indian land which wa
, bought by the Hardy Townsite Con
pany from Albert Taylor. 1t is nov
being surveyed and plated. Hard
, is three miles from the Kansas stat
line.
: Banking Interests Merged. = TIL
First National Bank has purchased