Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-18
KANSAS COMMENT

is looking for spring Three new
milliners have struck the town.
Testing Honesty. A reward of
$1.50 for lost $500 bill is testing
the honesty of Delphos citizens.
spearing Catfish.-In Rocks county
the boys are speaFing 200 pounds of
catfish day through the ice. But
how about the fishing next spring.
Warm Friendship. = half-grown
kitten at Oskaloosa is cumming
these cold nights with box of half
grown chickens. And no fuss or
feathers about it.
No Time For kisscs.-Unfortunatc-
ly, when Lieutenant Hobson spoke az
Garrett the other night the hall was
so cold that the women hurried home
just as soon as the lecture was
over.
May Need Recess Hiawatha
church members are debating AS
to how the town might become a
heaven. They will probably take
n recess before the matter is set
tied
Another Prospect Hole. The
Hutchinson Salt Company has start
ed to drilling another prospect hole
at Caldwell. the site being a mile
northeast of the Rock Island sta
ton.
New P. NJ. For Leona.-C. R. Troy.
of Leona, has been appointed post
master. owing To- the resignation OF
B. F. Heaston. Mr.. Heaston was
farmer and lived some three miles in
the country.
Continued Bad Weather.-At Dodge
City snow fell nearly all night and
the thermometer is about > degrees
above zero. This is the longest
stretch of bad weather ever known
here. so say the old settlers.
Real Estate Changing. - Between
$4,000 and $4,000 have changed
hands through real estate deals at
Wellington within the past week and
that town is beginning to look like
4 great big Chunk of radium.
No Fault of His.-Ira c. Mulvaney
recently made final proof. under the
timber culture act of claim five
miles southwest of Coolidge. He took
up the claim in 1887 and planted trees
on it several years in succession. but
never succeeded in getting any of
them to grow. The government per-
mitted him to prove up on the land
as the failure of the trees TO make
good was no fault of his.
Burned to Death. - ID. c. Holman,
fireman on a Santa Fe switch engine,
was burned to death in the yards at
Emporia in n head-on collision with
through freight train No. 81. Holman
was thrown head first into the fire
box. Engineer began of the switch
engine was bruised about the head.
The freight engine crew escaped in
Jury. The wreckage caught fire,
causing heavy loss of property and
delay of traffic for several hours.
Kansas Leads the World. The
wonderful oil and gas fields of Kan
sas are attracting the attention of
producers, capitalists and investors
everywhere and 1t seems that money
invested in the oil fields of Kansas
multiplies with greater rapidity than
was ever known before. Shrewd in
vestors. men known in the world of
finance, and capitalists are opening
up the oil and gas wells of Kansas
and the earth is literally gushing
forth a commodity that will make all
interested rich. Kansas now leads
the world in oil and gas produc-
TONS
Bankers Like Senate Bill. - ]. b.
Adams, of Eldorado. president OF the
Kansas Bankers Association. says
the senate bill is acceptable to the
country banks of the state. Tho
main point said he. is that the
outside banks want the state to get
some interest on its funds. They
don't want depository legislation to
fall. The bill passed by the senate
will be sent back 10 the house.
Smallpox at Emporia.-Three new
smallpox cases have developed at EN-
poria. This makes nine families now
under quarantine and they are scat
Tered all over the town.
Eggs Are Scarce. - Girard and
Pittsburg are out of eggs; S. would
not buy a dozen for the towns have
not got them.
Wants a State Brewery. Repre-
sentative Husey, of Sedgwicll, be-
lieves that If a state oil refinery is
good for the people a state brewery
would also be a good thing. He in
troduced a bill in the house appro
priating Sis 900 for the construction
of a state brewery. The bill locates
the brewery at Wichita. II is t.
manufacture beer for medical and
mechanical purposes.
Develop More Fields. - Sub-leases
for 1850 acres of land in the vicinity
of Geuda Springs have been filed with
tine register of deeds at Wellington by
the Dakotas Oil and Gas company OF
Pierre, South Dakota. 1t is under
stood that drilling is TO be begun This
spring.
Manufacture Paints. - The Ameri
can Paint and Color Company. repre-
sented by c. B. Dye. Z. D. and A z
Sturgeon. has leased a building a;