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

is a branch of the Standard. expects
TO have rigs working in this field with
in a week or ten days.
Killed by Fall of Rock.-Leo Bap-
tista, an Italian miner employed in
shaft No. of the Mount Carmel Coal
Company. northeast of Frontenac, was
instantly killed by fall of rock.
Big Fair at Harper. The Harper
fair association is having one OF the
best old-fashioued country fairs ever
held in southern Kansas. The rail
roads have granted reduced rates.
Fire Destroys Store. = D. S. Phil
bricks general store at Cullison in
Pratt county was burned Monday and
not a dollar saved out OF the stock.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. The
insurance on stock and building was
$4,000. The origin of the fire is I'M
known.
From Topeka Office. - Postmaster
Guthrie issued checks to more than
1900 rural mail carriers who will
draw $4,000 of the government funds
for their work during the past month.
At this rate the annual amount paid
TO the rural carriers for the next year
will reach the sum of 81 .200.0 900.
Woman Adiudged insane. - Mrs.
Lucia White was adjudged insane by
a commission appointed by the pro-
bate court AT Wichita. She imagines
that she is doctor. She is a great
a nh EaAnc
TO any one near her, or 10 herself. She
is AZ years Of age and has two child
rem.
Demands IS Cent Gas. - 1t is now
said that the city council will refuse
20 grant the Leavenworth Light and
Heating Company any kind of fran
chise unless there is an ironclad pro-
vision making the price of natural gas
% cents thousand. The ordinances
heretofore introduced placed the price
at 35 cents.
Violated Fish Law.-Charles Sallee,
Is years OF age, the youngest game
warden in the state of Kansas, wh0
lives at Mapleton, has made the first
arrest for violation of the fish laws.
He secured conviction. too. He dis
covered William Leslie, Grover Hen
derson and Noah Henderson fishing
unlawfully i'll the Usage river near
Mapleton and placed the men under
arrest They pleaded guilty and paid
fine and costs, amounting to $27.25.
Trouble With Horses. The State
vic
breaks of a trouble in horses in diff
ferent parts Of the state, which was
caused by parasites described as the
Palisade worm (strongylus armatus).
Each outbreak has caused a loss to
the owner of nearly thousand dol
lars worth of horses. From the fact
that the trouble does not always
manifest itself in the same way it fire.
quently puzzles the local veterinarian
for some time.
lola Jointists Arrested. c. L.
Evans, the newly appointed assistant
attorney general for Allen county, has
caused the arrest of six men charged
with violations of the prOhibitory law.
Fixtures seized in several places were
stored away to await an order from
the court for their destruction. So
soon as the appointment was made
known a number of men who had been
engaged in the liquor business pre-
pared to leave and there was an ex-
odus of At least fifteen of them
Dold Will Expand.-There are init.
in
| important change is to be made in
| connection with the Wichita Dold
| Packing Company. One rumor says
| an interest in the bis packing house
has been sold. Another rumor is tC
! the effect that the car shops of the
company at Kansas City will be NOV
| ed TO Wichita; that the big packing
house will be still further enlarged
and that the entire packing interests
of the Dold company will be centeret
in Wichita.
Killing Grasshoppers. It is SAID
that the recent cold, damp weather
has been doing away with the grass
hoppers. The grasshoppers at thi:
time of the year generally feed on the
young wheat, close TO where there i!
a hedge fence and at nights they re
tire to the fence and curl up TO sleep
But it is said that the grasshOppel
merchants forgot 10 lay in a suppl!
of wooden blankets this fall, and thu
result is that the hopper has to go t.
bed clad only in the night gown which
nature gave him. This costume beinI
decidedly brief. the grasshopper be
comes thoroughly chilled and at las
falls over, frozen to death.
Millionaire Visits CoffeyViIIe-Cof
feyville wa4 the home for a few
hours of a northumberland in tn
person of ]. c. Mcdowell, OF Pitts
burg. associate of J. G. Barnsdall, heat
of the Kansas Natural and one O
the worlds heaviest oil traffickers
The gentleman with the ample wa,
was paying his first visit to the ga
and oil fields of the Reconsideration
belt and seeing for the first time tina
Of which he owns so much
Visiting State Reformatory. - TIL
board of managers of the Wisconsi
reformatory are at Hutchinson visi