Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11

operations in Arkansas City without
restriction. The company's bond to
protect the city against damages, and
the formal acceptance of the fran
chise have been satisfactorily filed
| and were accepted by the city coun-
ell at its special meeting yesterday.
| ThereupOn the guards were with
drawn and the work of laying new
pipe to supply the town with gas is
going on uninterrupted The new
company has leased the mains and
plant OF the Arkansas City Artificial
Gas Company, and will use the mains
| in connection with the new ones be-
ing laid.
Santa Fe Panhandle Changes = T.
j. Whisenand has resigned as super
intendent of the Panhandle division
of the Santa Fe, with headquarters in
Wellington. and will be succeeded by
L. U. Morris, now trainmaster at
Dodge City. C. L. Rupert, chief dis
patcher at Dodge City, comes TO sue
coed d. Conchlin as trainmaster The
latter goes to Dodge City to take Mr..
Morris place as trainmaster OF that
division.
Would Teach Agriculture. The
state board of agriculture, at it's re-
cent annual meeting, adopted a reso-
/ luton urging that as Kansas is an
agricultural state, agriculture should
be included in the common school
curriculum. In response to this
Senator Smith introduced in the SEN
ate bill making agriculture a part
of the course OF study of common
schools and requiring it to be
taught
Has Dyking BiIi.-The Hutchings
drainage bill has been recommended
for passage by the senate committee
on cities of the first class. The house
committee will also report it favor
ably. Senator Conner introduced bill
providing for the dylling and drainage
of the NeoshO river. If the Hutchings
bill passes it will apply to all streams
and the Conner bill will be pigeon
holed until the fate of the general bill
is settled.
~ ANA''SAS , 1ia'S''os A2AScOA
ate preparations are being made at
COncordia for the annual convention
of the knights of Pythias for the
Twelfth district February 8, by which
time the local lodge will be in its new
quarters. said to be the finest in the
state. The convention will be pre-
coded by a ball and followed by a cere-
monial session of the d. o. X. K. A
large class will take the Khorassan de-
gree.
Sugar Beet Meeting. This cold
weather makes it a little difficult to
FOOT for sugar beets but in the near
future Arkansas City is going to have
a meeting at which nothing but sugar
beets and a factory will be talked.
Open Season Observed. = In King
man county. where quail shooting has
been prohibited for three years, an
open season is observed by a tacitly
understood agreement among the
farmers and hunters.
! Applies to Home Town. = An EN-
pOria man says it's long block that
has no joints. His statement applies
exclusively to his home town.
! Keeping Things Warm. Topeka
has a grand jury session and a mid
winter exposition that are helping to
keep things warm.
+ Ground Hog FooIed.-If the ground
anywhere in Kansas he was pretty
much of a fool
| Build Masonic Temple. = The Ma
sonic orders of Wellington have pur-
chased a site and will some time erect
temple.
] Will Have Grand Jury. - The grand
! jury has been drawn in Cowley county.
The members will report on March
10.
Big Fire at MarysvilIe.-The new
i Excelsior Roller Mills at MarysviTe
were destroyed by fire. Loss $780,
900. The Excelsior mills were built
! in 1867 and in the early days furnish
ed -four to feed the entire west from
/ st. JoSeph and Atchison to Denver,
/ Colo. Sometime ago it was remod-
eled
Nearly All Secured. = All but 1000
acres of promised leases have been
! secured near Wellington and the peo-
pie expect to see derrick rear itself
in the air before another thirty
days.
Condemned Milk Factory. = J. w.
/ Reed of Chicago, together with local
capitalists, has organized the Ottawa
i Condensing Company and viii estab-
lish a condensed milk factory, open
ing for business April /. The factory
/ viii be, it is believed. the first of
/ its kind in Kansas, Missouri or Ne
I braska.
An Old Timer. = P. A. Miller, the
Arkansas City photographer, has fur
nished the State Historical society
i with the program of the state associa-
ton meetings since the day of organi-
Zation.
Old Settler Dies. = Mrs. Minerva
Pierce. wife of Daniel J. Pierce, ex-
i county commissioner and 0raSiden-