Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-01-21

'IOOd ROADS association, addressed q
mass meeting in the city hall at
Chanute on the subject of good roads,
preparatory TO the arrival OF special
train of good roads people January
10, of which party General Nelson A.
Miles will be a member. Mr.. Moore
said that oil makes the best of roads.
| The first application will require $50
barrels mile. A second application
is needed on new roads in six months
of eighty barrels a mile and then an
annual application of from eighty to
ninety barrels. The cost is less than
80 per cent of macadam.
Changed Their Plans. = The work
on the levees in North Topeka is re-
curing more time than it was
thought would be required because
the county commissioners and county
surveyor decided that the levees
should be ten inches higher than at
first planned. The fact that the
ground has been frozen has retarded
the WORK 10 q certain extent Under
. The new plan The Ievees Will be twelve
feet wide on top and twenty-four feet
wide at the bottom. On the top of the
levees will be placed cinders. This
will make a good read and next sum-
mer the people Will be driving on the
levces.
Cut in Oil.-The Standard Gil com
pany announced a cent cut in west
ern oil, making a cut of - cents in
the last three weeks. The Chanute
oil producers association has decided
to suspend field operations until there
is an increase in the price. The
Standard, it is said, will be unable to
handle the present output in the Kan
sas field until their line now building
/ to Whiting. Ind, is finished.
Poison by Mistake.-Elmer Alltus.
a 2-ycar-old boy, died at Emporia as
result of eating pills containing
strychnine which had been left for
his mother. The child was playing
in the room and managed to get hold
of the box. Before he could be stop
ped he had swallowed two of the
pills. A doctor was called but the
boy died before he arrived.
Wheat Never Better. - Reports
from the Kansas wheat belt, received
by leading millers, indicate that the
prospects for Kansas wheat were
never better. Snow covers the wheat
to n depth OF four to ten inches, and
has put the crop in excellent condi-
ton for the winter. Practically all
the damage resulting from a dry fall
has been overcome.
counterfeiters Causht.-Tom Mont
Somery and Reuben Stanton. counter
letters, were arrested at Wichita.
They had in their satchel dies and
fifty-three spurious silver dollars of
the date of 1896. F. b. Beaver was
arrested at Hutchinson and confess
ed, duplicating Montgomery and Stan
ton, whom the United States marshal
traced and arrested.
Library For Chanute. - Chanute is
to have a $4,000 Carnegie library
building The city council pledged to
vote an annual fund of $3.50 for its
maintenance. The council was en-
abled to do this by the levy of IL
brary tax last year. Mr.. Carnegie
( wrote recently that ne would give a
library if the town would agree TO
/ maintain it.
| Fatal FAN From Gorge
! Erskine. a farmer who lived two
miles east of Troy, was killed at his
! home by fall from a wagon load of
! hay. The wagon turned over while
! crossing a ditch and he was thrown
! 10 lct
/ his skull was fractured and his neck
! broken. Erskine was about so years
| old.
! temperance Leader Dies. Rev.
| William w. Wells. former mayor of
Belleville, Kan. and one of the lead
is dead at Kansas City. He had
been in poor health for some time and
went TO Kansas City last April for
treatment.
! Nephew Administrations Orr. liv.
! ing ten miles west of Topeka, came
in and asked the aid of officials TO re-
cover possession of his nephew
James Orr, 10 years old, who he
says was abducted. The boy was
left with Orr when the parents sepa
rated three years ago. According &c
the story Mrs. Hiram Orr, mother OF
the boy, who has been d nurse in
Chicago. called az the school which
the lad was attending and asked him
to take ride with her in 2 buggy. II
is thought that the mother and boy
are now on the way to Chicago.
Western Kansas White. At King
man the ground is covered with snow
To depth of six inches and wheat
conditions are encouraging.
junction City Suicide. George
Smith, aged - years. retired bust
ness man OF Junction City, shot him
self in the head with suicidal inten
because of i'll health. He cannot re
cover. Smith located at junction
City in 1Scj. and was for many year.
in the hardware business. He &C
quired much property. his fortune
having been estimated at ovel
$4,000
Eight Inches of Sncw. - At Grea