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

ment has been provided for from
10000 to 1900 people.
Want Rates Reduced = Burton
merchants have asked for a decrease
in rates on Wyoming coal. They
claim Wichita has a 81 rate, while
theirs is $3.50, notwithstanding the
fact they are thirty miles closer to
Wyoming. They want the same rate
as Wichita
Requisition for Jointist.-Assistant
Attorney General E. D. Miskesel of
Wilson county, has filed a requsition
with the governor for Frank Smo1arek
who is wanted for selling liquor on
thirty-seVen different counts. Smol
arek is said to be tending bar in Jop-
lin, and the reQusition will have to &C
to Governor Folk of Missouri.
August Weather-August weather,
according to the monthly summary of
DR.. F. II. Snow, of the University of
Kansas, was about normal in most
respects. On the record kept by DR..
Snow, there have been twenty-siX
Augusts with a lower average temp
higher average temperature.
Found Supply of Liquor. - Sheriff
William Hill and his deputy William
Lowell raided the joint of Ellsworth
& Barnett at Cuba, Kansas. They Sc
cured 126 quarts of beer and II quarts
of whiskey. Ellsworth served a jail
sentence for the same offense last
winter. Barnett was under 500 bond
to appear at the next term of court
Both were arrested.
Killed in Rudolph Sch
midi, a German farmer living eight
miles south of Spearville, was inst
antly killed at the farmers elevator
Schmidt had just driven on the dump
at the elevator, when his team became
frightened and started to run, and
caught him between the wagon and
the side of the dump, the wagon after
wards running over him.
Warden levitt Out.-V. H. Haskell
state senator, assumed the warden
ship of the Kansas penitentiary. The
invoicing of property attending the
change in wardens was practically
completed and everything checked out
right. The guards and other officers
of the penitentiary with their famil
les gathered at the prison lawn and
gave a reception to Mr.. and Mrs. Jew.
ett
Is State epository.-The citizens
bank of Axtell, one of the Oldest banks
of northern Kansas and one Of the
newly appointed state repositories
shows deposits of $4,000, with a cap
ital stock of $4,000. Glenn Hostutler.
cashier, is deserving of much credit
| for the success of this growing institu-
ton. The Citizens bank is the only
bank in Marshall county to become a
| state depository.
Shot at Fair Grounds.-John WEIGH,
a bar tender, and Henry Drake, a cook
quarreled in the fair grounds at Great
! Bend and five shots were fired Mrs.
| WEIGH was badly injured, and her sis
ter, Mrs. George HORNE, the latter's
small child, Madame Reno, a fortune
teller, and Drake were hurt slightly
| Welch and Drake had trouble a few
days ago and renewed the quarrel
when they met last night. WEIGH
says Drake fired three of the shots
He says the shooting of Mrs. WEIGH
! was accidental.
| Bad for Duck Hunters.-The basin
west of Mcpherson has gone dry for
the first time in many years. The ex.
ceptionally long dry spell and the hot
weather of the past two weeks have
completely absorbed all the water
and many of the farmers holding land
around the basin are blowing up the
land, prepatory to putting it Into fall
wheat. Several of them have built
large dikes on the boundry OF their
land, so that should the basin fill uI
in the next season they expect this tc
keep the water out and enable them to
harvest crop. The entire country
has been as dry as at the present
time.
Pays for His Fun. Prohibition is
on pretty tight. Henry Derring er was
Delphos upon a charge of violating
the prohibitory law. The trial was
short and resulted in finding Derring
er guilty on four counts. He was sen
fenced to serve a term of four months
in Jail and pay a fine of $500.
Divorce Case Ends.-The suit for
! divorce, filed by Mrs. Nellie Kretsin
| ger VS.. William Kretsinger, secretary
of the state senate, was dismissed al
Emporia by the plaintiff, an agree
ment having been made that Mr.
Kretsinger will arrange for the main
tenance of the plaintiff and their child
during their separation.
Only One cheap Rate.-The Forest
ers and Woodmen camp 499 will run
an excursion to Leavenworth about
September 81 instead of the one to
| Topeka as announced a few days ago
The Santa Fee railroad has made a
one fare rate to the state fair for ev.
eryone and declined to give the Wood.
men a special train for Topeka OF
that account.
She Had Faith.-An Atchison little
girl whose mother is Christian
Scientist was making preparations to
attend picnic when the sky became