Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-09-23

supplies the east with good horses.
! then ships on the corn TO feed them.
/ Still people wonder why Kansas is SO
/ prosperous.
! Drowned in Cow Creek1John Page.
a wealthy farmer living four miles
1 northwest of fPittsburg,s was drowned
while trying to cross Cow creek,
which was very much swollen from
| the heavy rain. SEC
Wichita's Big Rain.-A rain started.
in Wichita at 9 O'Clock and rained
without ceasing all night long. Not
little drops but great streams of wa
rents.
Suit Goes Over. = At Abilene the
injunction suit brought against the
/ city by three citizens who objected to
| the construction of the sewer in dis
! trict three was continued in district
court until the January term
Have a New Way. = Oskaloosa
Methodists have a new way of getting
| their names written there The
church is building granitoid walk
and each member who will put up the
| price of one block has his name CHS
eled in 1.-The enduring cement as a
memorial"
Fortune Came Too Late = Several
| days. ago William Van Brimer, vet
eran in the Soldiers Home at Leav-
! enworth, got word that he was heir to
| 100000 of Holland estate, and now
he is dead. Probably mourned him
! self to death over the demise of the
wealthy relative.
| Carnival at Lucas. = The business
men of Lucas are laying plans for a
/ big celebration to be held within the
next sixty days. 1t is to be "Kurious
and Komical XII XII Karnival" and
though probably the last amusement
carnival this season in this section
of the state will be the best of all.
To Have Sewer System.-The city
council and the Commercial Club
| have adopted plans for the immediate
construction of sewer system in
Usage City. The preliminary topo-
graphical surveys have been made
and plans completed for the work
The actual work will begin as soon as
! practicable.
At Odds With Company. : The
electric light company which furnishes
| light for Holtcn is in a quarrel with
the city council over rates. The com.
.pany wants to raise the present sched
ule Is per cent while the council
wants TO reduce it 10 per cent The
city's contract with the company ex
pires September 25.
Game Law in Force.-The first CASE
| brought under the game law has been
decided by district Judge at WITCH
tia. He held the law constitutional
and held further that a man with
! hunters license must have the writ
/ ten consent of the land owners on
! both sides of road before he car
/ even hunt in the road
Buffalo Jones" Resigns - C. J.
| Jones, better known as Buffalo
JONES' for numbeg. ,ef9 Years a resi-,
! dent of Wichita during the early days,
! and Well known by the early settlers
| of southern Kansas, has resigned as
! game warden of the Yellowstone park,
| and will move to Arizona and devote
! his attention to raising buffalo on his
ranch in the; ,Gfand. Canon timber re
iFserve
/ Binding Legislative JournaIs.-Fred
Knapp. chief clerk of the house, and
| w. S. Kretsinger, secretary of the sen,
ate, have completed their indexes to
the legislative journals. The state
printer is no%-7bSnding the books They
are about; etWesthirds the size of the
old legislative journals. and viii not
EIEost the state much more than half
what the old ones did All superfiu-
gus matter was cut out :
Caught Big Catfish. - One of the
largest. catfish eyer. known to have
been caught in the Republican river
at Clay Center was Caught by Ernest
Obenland. 1t weighed forty5six pounds
and was caught with an ordinary pole
End line 1t was more than three and
a half feet long and its mouth when
| closed measured eight inches across
! Old fishermen say it must have been
20 years old Obenland also caught an
4 1S-pound fish shortly afterwards
: Rain Washes Out Salt. =. A heavy
rain at Sedan washed the Salt water
out of the Caney river which had gone
from the oil wells Several indus
/ tries that had shut down. in order TO
avoid the use of salt water in Aleir
j boil-~-. may resume again. The Mis-
9souri Pacific. has !heen running water
cars on its TRAINS from Cofeyvil1e to
Cedarvale rather than use salt water
when passing through Chautauqua
county. where its water is taken from
the river
Precaution Against Fever: : The
state board of healt1;Will meet this
1 week 70 consider the fInatter of fuEnpt
! eating. cars. This is. supposed to be,
precautioh against yellow fever. =
Cheap protection. AT its annual
meeting at Wichita last week. tile
| rAnti-Horsethief association found that
it had cost them only Is cents each
| TO recover the animals stolen from
the various members - during the
year =