Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-25


size of SO gold piece. which T. l.
Crabtree owns, and which he claims
was sent him forty years ago from
Old Mexico by an uncle. 1t has the
markings of a United States gold
coin, but is not denominated. 1t was
weighed today and tested as to its
quality. 1t weighed five and one-half
pennyweights and stood the gold test.
The date OF the coin is 1900 and it
has thirteen stars. Crabtree does not
say what he has been doing all these
years with the coin, but would like
TO know how much it is worth.
Cattle Losses Will Be Great =
Travelling men who have come in
from the western part of the state
since the storm state that losses OF
cattle from freezing will be great,
especially in the extreme west. 1t
is reported though the statement
cannot be verified. that one catueman
at Leoti lost 200 in a bunch. An
other story states that cattle in large
droves, huddled in the ravines when
the storm began and the ravines
were filled with SHOW, the cattle all
being lost.
Would Raise Flash Test-Senator
Brewer has introduced another bill
which will have a tendency to make
the Standard Oil Company sit up and
take notice. 1t provides that the
fash test of kerosene shall be raised
to $50 degrees. The law now fixes
the test at 10. 1.-The Standard not
only robs us on the price of oil, -
said Brewer. but it gives us a quail
ity that smokes up lamp chimneys.
My bill will not stop the robbers, but
it will stop the sale of chimney smok
ing oil.
Monument For Tom AIIen.-At a
meeting of the Commercial Club at
Junction City a movement was start
ed toward the erection of a monu-
ment over the tomb of q pioneer
Kansan and the late city marshal, T.
A. Cullinan, who died in Kansas City
last summer. T.. A. Cullinan was bet
ter known in the state as Tom
Allen. He was one of the few Dor
ural death. He was marshal in juno
ton City for over thirty years.
New Trolley Line. The Spring
River Power Company, which has
just finished a large concrete dam
on Spring river. three miles from
Baxter Springs, has submitted to the
council a franchise providing for the
building of an electric road from
Galena to this place. The road is to
be finished in time to handle the
crowds which come yearly to the big
Baxter Springs reunion, and will be
nine miles long.
Many Cattle Lost.-It is stated that
at least one-third of the cattle in
Wichita and Greeley counties are
lost. In many cases they stood in
the snow up to their sides and their
legs were frozen. In these cases
they had to be killed. They were
skinned where they fell, the skin be-
ing cut around the throat. a horse
hitched to the hides and carcass left
on the STOW.
Oldest kansan Pauper.-The old
est man in Kansas is an inmate of
the Cherokee county poorhouse. His
name is Patrick Harrington, and if
he lives until March Z he will be
los years of age. He was born in
Ireland, and was a peddler for forty
years out of st. Louis, finally drift
ing TO Cherokee county. He is in
fair health and talks freely of his
life.
The Deal Closed. - The Kansas
Natural Gas company has closed a
deal for forty acres of land six miles
north of Chanute upon which $780,
900 gas pumping plant will be erected
and probably an oil refinery in con-
junction. Surveyors have already be-
gun work.
Muskrats Cut Canal Banks.-Musk-
rats, working in the north bank of
the canal which supplies water power
to the mills and factories at Arkan-
sas City, caused a large hole to be
opened up, through which the water
from the canal poured and flooded a
field nearby, besides flooding the
work on the extension of the city's
water mains.
Warm Friendship. half-grown
kitten at Oskaloosa is cumming
these cold nights with a box of half
grown chickens. And no fuss or
| feathers about it.
Talked Sugar Beet Culture. - The
Tri-County Farmers Institute. of Cow
ley and Sumner counties. Kan. and
Kay county, 0. T, opened a three
days session at Arkansas City. The
culture OF sugar beets is the principal
subject before the session. Tomor-
row ]. G. Hamilton. secretary of the
American Beet Sugar Company, viii
be here TO attend the meeting. He
will he accompanied by c. L. Sea
graves, Of the industrial department
of the Santa Fe. Their visit is for the
! purpose of getting farmers to contract
| TO raise the beets.
Snow Is Drifting. - At Larned the
worst weather of the winter prevails.
Snow has been falling and is badly