Free press., 1905-06-03

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the body out with q garden rake.
Damage Suit Compromised. = A,
Leavenworth the $4,000 damage suit
of Julia Graley versus the Kansas
City-Leavenworth electric line claim
ing that the plaintiff had been injur.
ed in that sum, has been settled in
the district court, the amount being
$3.50, the electric line to pay the
costs that have accrued.
Heavy Taxpayers. = The railroad
companies are the heaviest taxpayers
in Pittsburg. This year the several
railroad companies will pay taxes in
Pittsburg TO the amount of $4,000
This does not include taxes on prop
erty in Baker township outside of the
city limits of Pittsburg. CT this
amount Pittsburg Will get approxi-
mately $4,000 for the city school.
Drilling Near Columbus. Advo-
Gates of deep hole drilling are begin
ming to take a lively interest in the
prospect well being put down by the
Black Hills Oil and Gas Company
near Columbus This we'll is down
about 1850 feet. The drillers have
passed through the Mississippi lime
stone and are now in hard, white
sand, which they have penetrated for
about 800 feet.
Pullman Must Put Up.-The state
charter board has refused the appli-
cation of the Pullman Company for
IN do hTci in Tho
company sent a fee of S2750 with its
application. The board announced
an additional fee of $14,S27.50 would
have to be paid, which is the charter
fee required under the law on the
Pullman Company's capitalization of
$74,000.0O
Wind Injuries Wheat.-At Atchison
the Washer Grain Company received
statements from half a dozen or more
points along the Missouri Pacific in
north central Kansas, showing that
the condition of this years wheat
crop is about IS per cent of full
crop. High winds and unfavorable
weather in the past week or ten days
have cut down the prospects al
though the damage is not general.
There are localities where a full crop
is still looked for
In Court II Years. - Mrs. Mary
White got verdict in the district
court for $4,000 damages against the
city of Emporia because she was in
jured in runaway twelve years ago.
The horse was frightened by a tele-.
phone wire that dropped across the
street Mrs Sarah Burns. mother of
Mrs. White, recovered $1,000 dam
ages last year for injuries received in
the same runaway. The case was in
the courts eleven years.
Adopts the Blake Signal. = Profes-
sor Lucien l. B. Lake, Of the Univer-
sity OF Kansas, has received word that
the German government has adopted
his ocean signaling device, and viii
equip the coast of that country with
the invention. This is the system that
has been tested by the United States
government and declared successful
1t is also employed on one of the
American yachts in the race across
the Atlantic.
Gas Well at Eudora.-The Douglas
County Gas, Oil and Coal Company
backed largely by r. M. Ridgeway
resident of North Lawrence, and ir
which other citizens of that part OF
the county are stockholders, has
struck good flow of gas at its firsi
well, near Eudora, ten miles south
east of Lawrence. The gas was
struck today at depth of $50 feet
and the flow is estimated at from
1000 to 100000 cubic feet every
twenty-four hours. The force of the
escape is so great that the noise can
be heard for a quarter of mile
away.
Kansas Cadets Named.-Under the
Dick bill, each state is authorized to
send two cadets each year to some
regular army school to be gradual
ed into commissioned officers in the
army. Governor Hoch made these ap-
pointments: Jerry c. Springstead of
Topeka, lieutenant in Company A
First regiment, to go to the Fort
Crook school in Nebraska; James E.
Finfrock, of Winfield, lieutenant in
company d, second regiment, to go
to the Fort Leavenworth school,
Oil Production Large.-The Prairie
Oil and Gas Company, which last
January strung pipe for an eight-inch
auxiliary pipe line from Bartlesville
to the storage tanks in Kansas, and
upon which line it discontinued work
under the famous shut down or
der, has resumed work of construc-
ton, and a gang of men is laying the
line from Bartlesville to Caney 1t
will be completed in few weeks. The
Standard Oil Company is taking near
ly 1000 barrels of oil day from Kan
sas producers this month than it has
since the last legislature. The pro-
duction is so large, however. that only
a part of it can be run at best
New Church For Hutchinson.-The
next big new church to be built in
Hutchinson will be Catholic cathed-
raj. The members of ST. Teresa's
Catholic church are already doing
some figuring ahead, looking to the