Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-08-26

trail $4,000 sheep from Colorado to
Kansas. 1t will take about six weeks
to get them through
Boy Drowned at Parsons. Henry
Hamilton, Is years old, of Oklahoma
City, was drowned at Parsons in Ga
bette creek He was swimming in the
high water when the accident occur
red.
Engine DeraiIed at PaoIa.-A Mis-
souri, Pacific engine was derailed
north of town. 1t had been pushing
a passenger train up the grade. Geo.
Burton, the conductor, was thrown
from the cab and suffered a broken
hip and several deep gashes on the
head.
To Speak Many Times. = Governor
Hoch has more than 800 invitations
to speak this fall piled upon his desk.
He is now going through the list and
will accept as many as his official dus
ties will permit. He hopes to spend
about half of his time speaking dur
ing the next few months.
Population Increasing. = Early cen
sus reports received at the Office of
Board of Agriculture, indicate that
the population of Kanss is greatly in
creased and the total figures may
reach 100000 The compilation of
the reports will not be completed up-
til in September
Death From an Explosion. Miss
Winnie Gates, 20 years old, WIS burn
ed to death as the result of an ex-
plosion of gasoline at Horton. Neigh
bOrs, hearing her screams, ran into
the house and found her lying insen-
sible with her clothing in flames. Miss
Gates kept house for her father, who
is a widower, and was alone at the
time of the explosion.
Topeka Man kiIIed.-Chas. Shorey,
a brakeman on the Rock Island, was
run over by freight train between
Lawrence and Kansas City. Shorey
was sent back to flag the train and it
is supposed that he lay down on the
track and went to sleep. He was
killed instantly. He was a son of
! VIM. Shorey who lives on Holman
street, North Topeka.
Will Not Interfere. - Some of the
! probate judges of the state are COM
| planning because the board of control
does not accept every youth whom
they try in the juvenile courts. They
threaten to appeal to the governor.
| 1t will do them no good, however
Il take it that the board knows what
its duties are" said Governor Hoch
tonight, "and if it rejects an applicant
for the reform school, it has some
valid reason for it. Therefore I will
not interfere
Emporia Bank overwhelmingly
| to the expectations of the depositors
of the defunct First National bank of
Emporia, and of their legal advisers
there will be another dividend of the
assets of the bank c. B. Graves, at
torney for the depositors, in response
to communication, received a letter
from the general receiver at wash
ington, D. c., stating that the bank
will pay another dividend, the amount
of which is not yet known, because,
the receiver stated, there are still a
number of collections and legal set
Elements to be made.
Attack Street Audience.-After ex-
hausting her vocabulary of epithets
and finding even horsewhip inef-
fectual as a weapon of offense, Mrs.
Myra McHenry Of Wichita, first lieu
tenant in Carrie Nations staff of
Joint smashers,'' attacked a street
audience with broken paving stones
at Hutchinson. Three persons were
struck and one, H. w. Cox of Plevna,
was dangerously injured. Women
supporters of Mrs. McHenry emptied
market baskets of eggs at the crowd
but their aim was poor, nearly all of
these missiles striking the orator. I'm
able, finally, to resist the onslaught
of jeers and shelled bullets, Mrs Nc
Henry jumped into buggy and drove
rapidly away, eluding both the police
and the now thoroughly angereG con-
gregatien.
Board of Control Acts.-The state
board of control has completed an
inventory of all the property at the
nine charitable institutions and charg
ed it up to the various superintend
ents. After this an inventory will be
made every six months and the SUI
perintendents must account for things
Every month each superintendent is
also required to file a statement OF
stuff used. The board has placed the
three superintendent of the three in
sane asylums under $4,000 bond each
and the superintendent of the other
institutions under $4,000 bond each
Blue Grass Seed.-For the past two
years several farmers have been try.
ing an experiment in raising English
blue grass on the white soil near
Hallowell. Last year they raised
fair crop, but this year it has gone be-
yond their expectations and they have
proven that there is big money in
blue grass in Cherokee county. Mr.
Ardman, who has a field of 16 acres
threshed his crop and realized Il
bushels to the acre. This is consider
ed big yield. Several of his neigh
bors have pieces that have threshed
from 10 to Is bushels.
invention of Farmer.-Frank Fur
guson of Republic county has perfect
ed threshing machine operated by a