Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-08-26
KANSAS COMMENT

Bell phone Franchise.-At Parsons
the city council granted a franchise
to the Missouri and Kansas Telephone
Company, allowing the company to do
business in the corporation limits for
twenty years.
Drowned While SEEMING. - Ernest
Dunmire, who lives at 1871 East Vir-
ginia street, Kansas City, Kan, was
drowned in the Marais des Cygnes
river two miles south of LaCygne
while SEEMING for minnows.
Big Gas Transaction.-The biggest
gas transaction in the history of Kan
sas since the sale of lots az Kanopol1s
occurred the other day. when the Peo-
pies Gas Company sold out their
Montgomery county interests for
81 100000
Six Novces Take Vows. - The
eighth annual retreat at Nazareth con-
vent, at Concordia, has closed. Eight
young women were received into no
vitiate of the Sisters of st. Joseph
and six novices took their final vows.
The sermon was by Rev. NJ. ]. Hof-
erer of Chicago, who conducted the
retreat
Homemade Engine. The three
Woods boys of Russell have built
homemade gasoline engine to run
the family washing machine, and 1t
works all right, too. The remarkable
thing about the engine is that 1T is a
combination of a great many pieces
of machinery and other things. They
have in it parts of a lawn mower,
cream separator, typewriter and the
governor is made from an old umbrel-
la. while for springs they have taken
them from window shade rollers.
Knocking on Irvine PIant.-Senator
Porter, of Montgomery, says scheme
is on foot to knock out the binding
twJne plant at the state penitentiary.
Just who is behind it he says he
doesn't know, but intimates that, in
his opinion, the Irvine trust might
know. The only way it can be at
tackled, he says. is for the state audi
tor to decline to pay any bills for the
plant. The supreme court knocked
out the oil refinery because it was
the main thing, not the incidental, to
the branch penitentiary. 1t might de-
eide that the binding Irvine plant is
incidental to the Lansing prison, and
is necessary to keep convicts employ
ed.
Small Banks Increasing. Banks
are becoming numerous in small Kan
sas towns. Men who have not any
thing to do and can rake up from
5000 to $500 are organizing a small
bank. Under the law the capital must
be at least $4,000, but that is easy
to get. The farmers put up most of
it. The promoter never has to put
in more than $500 and some promot-
ers do not even put in a cent. And
a strange thing about it is that the
establishment of so many small banks
doesn't cut down the deposits of the
old banks. The money for the new
banks seems to come from the farm
ers.
Options Extended. - Colonel ]. F
Mundy, one of the promoters of the
Gulf pipe line, informed the produc
ers at Chanute that if the options are
extended until September Is he is
sure the deal will go through. All the
producers agreed to the extension o.
the options. 1t develops that the only
difficulty is in the forming of a syndi
cate to handle the bonds of the line
The Union Trust Company of Pitts
burg agreed originally to underwritt
the bonds but the Standard Oil Com
pany interviewed and the Union Trus
Company backed down. The Mellon.
are now forming another syndicate
in New York
Streets of Independence.-Effor 4
being made to establish a uniform anC
symmetrical plan for the streets o
which, if adopted, will greatly beauti
fy the physical aspect of the wholt
town. Although the streets may no
be paved or finished otherwise, a
present, it has been planned that tn,
driveway of each street shall be lait
out forty feet wide, with thirty fee
for parking allowed on both sides
The curbing all over the city, il
every instance. is to be the STANDARD
curb and gutter combined which il
maze OF concrete. Inc driveway IQol
can be kept in a beautiful condition
by steam rollers or other means. TIL,
streets in independence are beauti
fully shaded. Pride has been takel
in keeping the trees trimmed and il
a condition to shade and beautify thu
streets.
Died on Wedding Day. - Franci
Brogan, a Lyon county pioneer. die
ON his fifty-first wedding anniversary
at his home in Hartford, after an i'll
ness that lasted several months. Hi
widow and five children survive. MI
Brogan was born in Ireland, an,
came to America when 20 years old.
Clark Makes DeniaI.-George Glars
ex-state printer, said today that Their
is no truth in the story that the prof
of the state printing for the last tern
was divided between him and Henri
]. Allen. Clark said that Allen an
Leland were his friends and he woul
let them fight the present out.
G. A. r. Brigades.-For the purpos
of increasing interest in the G. A.
and securing new members, Depart
mont Commander C00ev has divide