Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-10-21


order.
Viewing Newton Wreck. = Three
miles seemed no distance at all 10
scores of Newton people when
wreck was 20 be seen at the other
end of the line Some of the more
curious rode out to the place. but the
majority rode out in buggies, car
riages or automobiles.
Used Mails to Defraud.-Mrs. Cora
Sohns of Junction City pleaded guilt;
in the United States district court TO
a charge of using the mails to defrauG
in connection with answering the adj
vertisement of man who wanted n
wife. She was fined $50 and SEN
fenced to one day in jail
Killed by Train.-Harvey Knauss. a
cabinet maker, was run down and
killed by K. N. & d. extra freight
train about two miles east of Garnett.
Mr.. Knauss was approaching the train
and did not notice it until it hit him.
He was about 80 years old and deaf
and dumb. He was we'll to do, own
ing several houses in Garnett.
EIks to Spend $s,ooo.-The Hutch
inson Elks expect to make a large adj
dition to their club house The min
strel show to be given will be the
starting of the building fund. They
are planning to build an extension
that will cost about $4,000. 1t will be
of brick, two stories in height, and
will join the present club house at
the rear
Rate Hearing Postroned.-T The coal
rate case which was set for hearing
October 10 before the board of railway
commissioners, and the grocers' com
modify rate case hearing have both
been postponed General Freight Agt
Koontz, of the Atchison, Topeka e
Santa Fe road, an interested party, is
quarantined at his Topeka home by
case of diphtheria in his family.
SaIina-Tipton Road. = Things are
beginning to look up in railroad cir
Giles here. A force of thirteen men
in charge of E. D. Pike have start
ed to make two surveys for the pro-
posed Salina-Tipton railroad. The
men have established their camp two
miles south of Osborne and will keep
on with the survey work until it
is finished.
Will Feed New Corn.-When husk-
ing begins the corn is going to hit
the bottom of the crib on nearly ev-
cry farm in Kansas Instead of hav-
ing several hundred bushels of old
corn to start on. feeders this year
are depending almost wholly on the
new crop to carry them through from
start 10 finish
Lecture Course $500 Out.-At lola
with the present sale of lecture course
tickets the association stands to lose
$500. The talent for the course and
the rent for the Grand theater
amounts to something like 81, 100 and
as yet the sale of tickets has not ex-
ceeded $500. The members of the as
sociation undertook the work of sup
plying ICia with a meritorious lee
ture course for the benefit of the city
1t was planned that what money might
be cleared on the enterprise should
be anDlied to giving an even better
course the succeeding year. 1t is in
no way calculated to be money MAX
ing enterprise
The Golden Egg.-Thc eggs annually
produced in Kansas bring in more
money than wool does, or than sheep
do, and are greater earners of money
than the oats, potato, barley, fax,
sorghum or fruit crops. According to
the latest statistics the hens of Kansas
lay eggs worth 81, 226, Ill, which is the
interest at five per cent for one year
on S144.742, 220. There are not many
commercial interests which have a
larger business than this. Besides
! egg raising is not generally a main
industry and principal objects but is a
side issue which occupies the spare
time of the farmer or of the women of
| his family. So this important addi-
| ton to the States agriculture income
/ is to great extent found money
Gas We'll at PIeasanton.-The coun-
| ty gas field was advanced several de-
| grees by the bringing in of a we'll
having a 10000 feet daily capacity
on the Carbon lease, west of town, by
the Goodspeed company. Win Butch
er, one of the best drillers in the field
/
! it, owing to the pressure and volume
! Webb Leighty, manager of the Pleas
anton company's drill, was sent for
and after working all day, they fin
/ ally got it cased, but late that evening
it blew the top of the casing off and
the company wired to Paola for more
fixtures. 1t is the strongest well in
the field and the people are greatly
| elated over it,
Civil Service Examinations. = Civil
( service examinations for the following
| positions will be held in Topeka at
the federal building on the dates men
toned: October %, laboratory as
sistant; November 1, monotype ma
chinist; Syrian interpreter; topo-
graphic craftsman; supervisor of In
dian music; Roumanian, Polish
Lithuanian. Russian, German and
Magyar interpreter; November s, rail
way mail clerk.
Commend Governor HOch.-The an
nual convention of the Society OF
Friends of Kansas at Wichita adopted
resolutions commencing Gov. Hoch's
/ i -. L (. L. 50.