Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-01

school was published and is now a
law
Special Election CaIIed.-A special
election to vote bonds for the Gulf,
Hutchinson & Northwestern Railway
Company has been called in Rush
county.
Club to Have Home.-The Topeka
Club, the swell club of the city, has
purchased a site and will build
$4,000 club house on the corner op-
posite its present quarters.
Big Acreage contracted.-A sugar
beet acreage of 300 acres has been
contracted for in Finney county. This
is enough to warrant the grinding of
the product at Garden City.
New Glass Factory.-C H. Ely of
Sandusky. O.. has definitely decided
TO build $4,000 plant for the manu-
facture of window glass at Independ-
ence. The plant will give employ
ment to $50 men
Founder of Pomona. H. Whet-
stone. one of the first settlers of
Franklin county. and the founder of
the town of Pomona, died at that
place. Mr.. Milestone built the
Franklin county Jail in 1872.
Independent Taking OiI.-At Paola
work on the independent refinery is
progressing rapidly. The Office build
ing is completed and the rest of the
plant is so far under way that the
company has been able to take oil.
About 1000 barrels have been to
ken.
Died of Heart FaiIure-Dr H. NJ
Haldeman, proprietor of the Bank of
Girard, was found dead in his bed
room. The cause of death was heart
failure. He had been mayor two
terms. Dr. Haideman was about 90
years old.
A. n. T. A. Make Catch. = James
Smith is alleged to have stolen team
of horses at Salina. He started for
Kansas City and got as far as Tee
umseh when several farmers belong
ing to the Anti-Horse Thief Associa-
ton rounded him up at the point of
shotguns and held him until the
sheriff could come and get him. He
was taken to Salina.
Build RossVile LeVee.-The Shaw
nee county commissioners have de-
cided to allow the application for the
building of the levee west of Ross
Vile This levee will protect about
1900 acres of ground and the prop
crty owners interested are DESTROYS
that the levee be built. The commits
SiOnerS will advertise the matter at
once and will then order the levee
built. This levee is known as levee
No. 4 and will be built on the Wagner
farm a short distance above RossVille.
The commissioners believe the levee
can be built at cost of about $3.50
| Pressure to Save Smiley. = Pres
sure is being brought to bear on
Governor Hoch to secure the pardon
of E. ]. Smiley, secretary of the Kan
sas Grain Dealers Association, to save
him from serving his sentence of
ninety days in Jail for violating the
| Kansas antitrust law. 1t was in the
| Smiley case that the United States
supreme court recently upheld the
| constitutionality of the Kansas anti
trust law. 1t has been three years
! since Smiley was convicted of VIC
| lating the law. and the case has been
! in the higher courts ever since.
Ministers Are Anxious.-At lola the
ministers of the Methodist conference
are greatly interested in knowing
| who the successor to the Rev. c. t.
Durbarrow. presiding elder of the
| Ottawa district. is to be. Rev. Dur
| barrow has served six years as pre-
siding elder. which is the limit of the
! term Somebody must be selected by
the bishop to succeed him, and just
now the question that is agitating the
minds of the ministers, and adding
zest to the proceedings of the confer
ence, is who the successor to Rev. Mr..
o Durborraw will be. There are a
number of aspirants, for it is regard
ed as a signal distinction and honor
to be presiding elder. to say nothing
of the enlarged field of usefulness
which the position affords
Fort Hays Park Located. = The
| board of regents of the Agricultural
college adjourned after special ses-
sion during which they located a pub
lie park on Fort Hays reservation, full
filling the requirements of the fed
eral government. The reservation
was ceded to the state five years ago.
The new park will border on the edge
of Hays City.
Special Bond Election. = A special
bond election will be held shortly af-
ter the regular spring election at
Sterling. This is taxing the patriot
ism of citizens pretty heavily
Big Irvine Order.-C. A. Gambill of
Wellington called on E B. Jewett,
warden of the Kansas penitentiary,
and contracted for ten carloads of
binding twine The price has not been
fixed yet. but it will be below that
asked by the Irvine trust. Each car
load of Irvine is worth about $4,000
and this is the biggest order ever re-
ceived at the prison Irvine plant.
Former kansan. The police sur
geon who was shot three times by the
Denver maniac. was formerly citi-
zen of Garden City. He practiced
medicine in Oklahoma for a year.
May Put Bank There.-Lieutenant
Governor Hanna and State Treasurer
Kelly have gone to Pawhuska. in the
Usage nation, to investigate a propo-