Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-12-16

duce company OF Winheid mas result
ed from just one Thanksgiving ser
vice. which the plaintiff in the case al
leges that he performed in Texas I'M
der contract with the defendant for
so much a hundred pounds of turkey
meat.
Gratified Longing-"Pap" johnson.
Of Cawker City. has always had
laundering TO experience the sensa-
ton of having leg cut CT. The 9th
er day he deliberately stretched his
leg across the rail and let an engine
pass over it. His "hankering" has
been satisfied. The surgeons don't
think he viii recover.
Judge Little Dead. = Judge G.. F.
Little. formerly of Junction City, died
at Aeon. Panama. recently. He went
from Kansas TO Honolulu. where he
served as Judge of the Hilo court for
one term. Then he went to Panama,
where he had lived for the past two
years He was the pioneer American
attorney of the canal zone.
Price Pronounced In@ane. = Lester
Price. of Richmond. was pronounced
insane upon trial in probate court.
Price struck his father in the head
with a hammer at the family home.
crushing the skull. The elder Price
is still in a precarious condition. Les
ter Price is 26 years old. and will be
present.
Convict Wants Pardon.-John Bur-
rell, sent up from Reno county two
years ago for burglary, wants a par
don. He was sentenced to serve five
years. Carr w. Taylor, who prose
cuted the case. is urging the pardon.
He says Burrel has been adequately
punished. BurrelI lost an arm in a
railroad accident a few wees before
he committed the crime.
Holds Out for ascent Gas-Mayor
Everhardy vetoed an ordinance re-
Gently granted to the Leavenworth
Light and Heating Company, to sup
ply natural gas here at So cents. His
veto was sustained by four members
of the council. who were loudly APP
/
the council chamber. The mayor gave
high rates and unsatisfactory terms
as his reason for vetoing the ordi-
nance Leavcnworth is making a
fight to get 25-cent gas.
Acetylene Plant Exploded - Pat
rick Kennedy, houseman at Mount
! Carmel academy. a Catholic girls
( seminary, was killed by the explosion
/ of the schools acetylene lighting
plant at Wichita. He entered the
! building with a lighted lantern, when
/ the explosion occurred, hurting his
/ body hundreds of feet into the air
! The body went over the stable a hun.
/ dred yards distant. and was torn to
shreds. The explosion wrecked the
! plant and building and shattered the
windows of the main building. caus
ing panic among the 800 girls at
tending the school.
Ben Bugg Pardoned. = The fearful
letter of Ruth Bugg, a 9-year-old girl
/ struck responsive chord in the hear
of Governor Hoch, and he pardonet
Ben Bugg from the peniteutiary over
| the protest of 200 members of the
Anti-Horse Thief Association. Bugs
was sent to the penitentiary in 100;
from Crawford county for stealing Z
can of lard out of farmers smoke
house. There seemed TO be nj
special pull in favor of Ben Bugs
except his little sisters letter. She
said that her big brother was needed
at home, that unless he could come
pretty soon their father and mothe
would not live to see him. Both o
them have to have the DOCTOR" say
the little girl. land the doctor say
that no medicine he can give then
will do them as much good as to hav,
Ben home again. They are almos
heartbroken. Please, Mr.. Hoke, lie
my brother come home, and God vii
bless YOU
Leavenworth Bridge sold.-It is re
ported that the old Rock Island bridg
at Fort Leavenworth, which wa
abandoned several years ago, ha
been bought by Kansas City partie
and will be taken down and moved t
Kansas City. The bridge was built b
Dutch capitalists in the early day.
and is a splendid structure, but wa
located at the fort instead of q
Leavenworth. and upon the compile
, ton of the terminal bridge at Lea'
enworth the Rock Island abandone
, it. About a mile of wooden approac
to the bridge was taken down thi
J summer.
Santa Fe Did Not 8uy.-Thc alto
+ ney for the Atchison. Topeka an
Santa Fe railroad at Arkansas Cit!
, Kan. is in receipt of word from Ga
diner Lathrop, general solicitor, tha
the deal for the Midland Valley roa
, is Off 1t is likely that the Santa F
! will not get the new road unless oil
, err negotiations are opened TheI
, have been persistent rumors that TN
! Santa Fe has already commenced /
check in its agents along the Nil
land.
$4,000 FRS at Hunneweil. = Fl.
which broke OUT at an early hour j
Ross Ellery's hardware store d.