Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-22

worth have been closed and most OF
the slot machines taken out of the
saloons.
I'm the Oil FieId.-The oil producers
of the Cherryvale districU sold a little
oil 10 the Standard during the past
week. but the runs were very light.
Since the recent ruling of the Prairie
folks to take but $50 barrels per day
production has been very generally
curtailed and most drills are idle.
No Oil Indictments. = At Topeka
the federal grand jury adjourned af-
ter returning nineteen indictments
for minor offenses. No oil investiga-
ton was gone into. Commissioner
Garfield will gather up what data he
can find and if he discovers anything
of a criminal nature the department
of justice will ask for a special grand
jury to probe the matter.
Big Fire at Edna. The town Of
Edna. Is miles west of Chetopa, is
burned. Eight buildings were de-
stroyed. The heaviest losers were R.
T. McGhee, general store, $4,000; H.
V. Harden. grocer, $1,000; Silllott
Harness company $1,000; Hunts bar
Der shop, ]. Saffie's Office, the Clark
Drug company and the postoffice.- The
loss was about $4,000. The town is
practically wiped out.
Dairymen at Saline. = The Eight
zenith annual session of the State
Dairy Association met at Salina. The
fircT ut dn6
of the officers being present. 1t is
estimated that $50 visitors will be
present. The meeting was addressed
by James A Kimball. president of the
Salina Commercial Club, and Hon. J.
A. Glover, associate editor of Hoard's
Dairyman, Atkinson, Wis.
Swedish Lutherans Meet = The
Kansas conference of the Swedish
Lutheran Church is in annual session
at Fremont, six miles west of Linds-
borg. The conference includes the
Swedish Lutheran Church and college
work in Kansas, Colorado. Missouri
and Texas. The conference owns and
EOrg college at Austin. Tex, and the
orphans home at Mariadahl, Kan.
Even Break in Book Fight. - The
fight between the American Book
pendent concerns on the other side
for the contract for reading circle
books for Kansas teachers resulted
in dog fall The American got
one book-Niver's History of Eng
land-and Silver, Burdette & Co. got
the other-Puttnam's Pedagogics.
The teachers use about 5000 copies of
each. The books will sell for 80 cents
each
Would Squander Her Money-Mrs
Lizzie Armstrong was adjudged in
sane in the probate court at Wichita
She entertains the peculiar hallucina-
ton that three unknown men are
about to sell her property at La
Crosse. Kan, and squander the
money in a law suit. She says the
fact is hourly communicated to her
by spirits. The woman has neither
slept nor eaten anything for the
past three days. She will be ia
ken. TO Ossawatomie for rreRt-
ment.
Reprimand Causes Suicide.-Philip
Carney, a 19-year-old boy, who lives
at Westphalia, near Garnett, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself with
a shotgun. Young Carney had been
blowing that morning and in some
way his team got the best of him and
run away, doing considerable damage
TO one of the horses. His father re-
primanded him and thought the mat
ter had passed. as the boy took his
gun and said that he was going hunt
ing. He failed to return home and
his parents went out to look for him
afterwards and found his body
about mile from his home. He had
cut forked stick and placed the
and pressed the trigger with the
stick.
Power Company Enjoined.-Papers
were served on DR.. c. X Raber, presi-
dent of the Republican River Hy-
draulic Power company at Junction
City in an injunction proceeding
bought by Mrs. Jean Lander of Thur
mont, Maryland, in the circuit court
of the United States for the district
of Kansas. The action was brought
to enjoin the company from building
dam on the Republican river on the
Landers farm.
Fighting Gas Combine.-W. A. De
Ford returned to Ottawa from
New York, where he has been
helping the fight against the New
York city gas combine. He will
return East soon.
Mineral Water Collection. = A col
lection of mineral waters from al
over the world has just been acquir
ed by the University of Kansas and
will be placed in the chemical mu
scum. More than $50 kinds 0f medi
cinal waters constitute part OF the
collection. Kansas has twelve kinds
/ of mineral waters in the group. The
| waters represent the chief attraction
of some of the most notable resorts
! in the world
Secured Right-of-Way. = The Kan
sas Natural Gas Company has secur
| ed the right-of-way for its pipe line
! IN TOOalSa cifv limits city fran