Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-09-02

Tertiary. Some of the negro prison
ers jumped from their hunks and
went TO praying and the Indians start
ed yelling.
Deserter is Arrested diary Conroy,
n deserter from troop L. Thirteenth
cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley. was
picked up at SaIina by the police.
Conroy was on the tender of an engine
on the Union Pacific, going west,
when he was detected. When he was
arrested he admitted that he had de-
serted and was trying to escape. He
viii be taken to the fort.
Refinery For Atchison. Uncle
Sam Oil Refinery Company of Cherry
vale, may establish branch refinery
in Atchison. The company has made
II proposition to the city which is I'M
der consideration 1t proposes TO
build refinery here which will have
capacity of 10000 barrels every
twenty-four hours and to barge fuel
oil OH the Missouri river from the
Atchison pipe line.
To Raise Mango Quarantine. - Live
Stock Commissioner Baker is negOtia-
ting with the government officials for
the purpose of having the quarantine
established against the state of Kan
last May for mango raised on the
eastern half of the state at least
Baker says there is no mango in the
eastern half of Kansas and the quar-
antine should be raised.
Died in CofTayviIIe JsiI.-Nelson Mel
drum, 80 years old, a farmer who lived
near Sedan, died in the city Jail at
Coffeyville. Meldrum had been here
several days. He asked an officer for
lodging in the Jail. This was given
him. In the morning he complained
that he was i'll, and physician was
called in. Medium died shortly after
1t is believed that death was due to
excessive use of morphine.
Court House For Newton.-Harvey
county is to have a new $50 900 court
house. The county commissioners.
under authority given them by act of
the last legislature, have declared a
levy of three mills on the taxable
property of the county. which will
raise $4,000. The rest of the money
will oe raised by similar levies the
next two years. The construction of
the court house will begin next fall
on site already owned by the coup-
ty.
Case Is Settled. - The litigation
growing out of the .Dewey-Berry
tragedy, which occurred in Cheyenne
county about two years ago, was ter
minated last week in court at Good
land, by compromise judgments for
$4,000 each in favor of the widows of
Daniels and Alpheus Berry, and for
LOCO in favor of Roy Berry, who had
a jaw broken. 1t is estimated that
this noted fight between the Deweys
and Berrys has cost the Deweys
100000.
Want Coal Rates Reduced. = Leav-
enworth manufacturers have fled
complaint with the railroad board
against the railroads for discrimina-
ton in coal rates. They claim that
Kansas City, Kan, has a rate of SO
cents on nut coal from the Cherokee
district as against a 80 cent rate at
Leavenworth. They want the Leav-
enworth rate fixed at Go cents a ton.
They say this will be about right
compared to the SO cent rate for Kan
sas City, Kan.
Died at Age of s0.-Christian Har-
rander, one of the best known and
wealthiest farmers of this vicinity,
died at Arkansas City, aged so years.
| He came here from Missouri twenty
three years ago and operated the Dun
kard mills for many years, later con-
! fining his operations to farming and
stock raising. At this he was very
successful, owning nearly 1000 acres
of fine farming land in the Walnut
valley. Among other requests he left
| $4,000 to the Missionary society of
the Dunkard church.
City Waterworks. independence
voted practically unanimously 100000
bonds to buy out the old water COM
system. The same amount was voted
at a previous election, but the call
did not provide for purchasing the old
plant The city also voted to accept
Andrew Carnegie's gift of $4,000 for
a library building
Bridegroom's Suicide. - Just after
being married against his will to Mat
tie Dennis, 17-year-old Jorn H. Nc
Daniel, 35 years old, railroad en-
ployes, committed suicide by drinking
laudanum. The girls father had in
sisted upon the marriage. Mcdaniel
came to lola only few days ago
from Fort Scott, where he worked in
a round house
Death of Pastor Erlich.-The Rev
Jacob Erich, pastor of the German
church at Marion, is dead. He was
one of the pioneers among the thous-
ands of Mennonites who have come to
Marion county in the past thirty-four
years. The Rev. Mr.. Erich came to
America from Russia in 1867. He was
IS years old and is survived by four
teen children.
12-Year-OId Boy Missing-Although
a 12-year-old boy of Formosa has been
missing for a week and ponds and
swimming holes have been dragged