Free press., 1905-06-03
THE FREE PRESS
HARRY FREEZE. Publi.hsr.
HAYS CITY.
KANSAS COMMENT

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make over three-fourths of a crop and
! fly has done much damage to wheat
in parts of Cloud county.
Build on - EIm'' Site.-Henry Ell
tenson. a prominent Leavenworth
| business man who has extensive
| property interests in Excelsior
| Springs, Mo-, announced TO a delega-
lion of citizens from the Springs that
he will shortly begin the erection of
| a big hotel on the site of the famous
'Elms," which was destroyed by
fire
Lawrence Anniversary. = May 21
was the forty-ninth anniversary OF
the destruction of Lawrence by Sher-
if Jones and a band of men, under
the guise of a United States mar
shaFs posse At that time the old
Free State hotel was destroyed. print
ing offices wrecked and other ven
geance wrecked upon the town for
the free-state views of it's people.
WinfieId's New Bank. - The old
Winfield National Bank building on
North Main street. now occupied by
the Wells-Fargo Express Company as
an Office. was bought by c. l.. Crook
ham. of South Haven, DR.. c. e. Hin
| shaw. c. T. Franks, J. c. Page and
others OF local financial Importance.
who will start a new bank at once.
This will make four banks for Win
field
Aoreae RiIrnad NNitb Rar1-nur;pp
severe rain storm accompanied by
much thunder and lightning, a barn
belonging to NJ. J. Glenn. a well-tO-CS
farmer and pioneer of Pottawatomie
county, was struck by lightning and
burned Seven head of horses were
burned to death. During the night
wind blew down a barn just north of
here. Four and thirty-hundredths
inches of rain fell during thirty-six
hours.
Big Real Estate Deal.-This week
| the biggest real estate deal that has
| been made III this part of the state
| in many years was closed when the
| place known as the old Sullivan ranch
in the northern part of Norris county
changed hands. The place belonged
to the Buckingham estate that is in
the hands of persons living at Zanes-
vile, Ohio, and it was sold to A. P.
| Folck, of Council Bluffs, Iowa.. There
are 1850 acres in the ranch. The
| price paid for it was $122, 900, or SIG
an acre.
Strong City Fire. - Cliff Holman's 8
| secondhand store was burned at
Strong City, as was Ed Kraft's resi-.
dence. adjoining. Kraft's household
goods were saved. The beautiful
stone residence of Mrs. Barbara Retti-
ger took fire on the roof and all tho
upper part of the building was burned
out. They saved most of her house
hold goods Cottonwood Falls fire
company came over with an engine
and did good work. The origin of the
fire is not known. The buildings
were fully insured.
Dropped Dead at FIay. While
playing tag with his brother in the
front yard of his home Earl Collins,
the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs
Abe Collins. living seven miles south
east of Emporia, dropped dead of
heart failure Collins was apparent
ly a healthy boy, and had never com
planned of heart trouble at any pre-
J vious time. He worked hard all day
: on the farm and was running after
his brother. when he gave gasp, fell
over and was dead by the time his
parents reached him from the house 4
After Winfield Jointists. At Win
| GoI ho oit ivis- oh
was elected on the promise that it
would close the joints, has failed to
do so. 1t has been learned that the
authorities had determined 10 resort
} to iniunctions TO keep the jointists
from entering the buildings in which
they have their joints. All except
one of the jointists own their own
buildings, but the lawyers say they
can be kept from them if they are
violating the law by operating their
places in them. The jointists assert
that they are selling hop ale, > a
per cent alcohol mixture, and soft
drinks. and that they will dissolve
the injunctions.
Dipping Cattle in OiI.-The cattle
men have been watching with great
interest the results of the cattle dip
ping at Elgin in the south part OF
Chautauqua county. a large tank
was built and Beaumont crude oil
was used. In the season Just closing
there have been 1OI57 cattle dipped
Out of all these only So have died
This is less than l per cent and is
considered a remarkably good show
ing.
Wtn Crack 200 Bottles.-At Ottawa
the police have orders to destroy 2OC
bottles of beer recently taken il
raids on the negro iointists CO the
town. Three mon have been fined
s1eO aud sentenced to thirty days
each in police court.
lob Is Waiting. = Governor Hook
has notified J. c. Gafford. the new
state accountant, to assume his du
ties as soon as possible. Gaffcrd is
banker AZ Minneapolis and it viii
take him few days to arrange his
affairs He Will likely take charge o.