Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-11-18

D0en cIOS0u since IaSC MOnQay, VIII re-
open next Monday morning.
Profitable Crop. = At Ashland the
other day IT'S wagonloads of broom
corn were marketed. Each wagon
contained ton and each ton brought
$50. This explains why the farmers
near Ashland are prosperous.
To Drill at Geuda Springs. = This
week the Kansas Oil and Gas Com
| pany will begin the drilling of a well
at least 1000 feet deep, unless oil or
| gas is found at a shallower depth. The
well is to be just south of Geuda
I Springs.
Bottle Factory to Reopen.-At COT
| feyville the sale of the bottle factory
| consummated means that an enter
| prise is to be started here again be-
! fore the first Of the year that will en-
ploy 200 people. Its pay roll is well
| up toward $4,000 per month.
Tragedy of a CurI.-An lola woman
! has sued man for curl. She claims
! that the man stole the curl from her
hair and that he threatened to show
| it to her husband. Recently she at
| tempted to take the curl from him by
! force and the man had her arrest
| ed.
200 Tons of Hay Burned. At Will
! liamsburg while section hands on the
Santa Fe were burning a fire guard
along their track south the fire got
away and burned about 200 tons of
hay. Most of this hay was on the
Silkville ranch, which is owned by
| Troutman & Stone of Topeka.
Won the Watch.-Professo Camp
! bell, of the Atchison county high
school, believed that no one could
hold an arm out straight from the
| shoulder for ten minutes. He offered
! his gold watch to the pupil who could
do it, and a spunky boy now has the
watch, having accomplished the feat.
| Brown County FamiIes.-Miss Eva
| Stoddard, a rural school teacher of
Brown county, reports that of her %
pupils, eighteen belong to three fami-
lies. Joseph Burns, farmer, sends 8,
the oldest a girl of IS. Two other
families send five each. Mr. Burns
three boys, three being under school
age.
Can't Pipe Under River. - Since it
was announced that the Kansas Nat
rual Gas Company would try to cross
the river with it's pipes at Wade side
track by sinking the pipes in the river
bed, all the old river men and engi-
| hn do
in this part of the Missouri have got
together and decided that the plan
will not work.
Must Carry More Drugs. - w. w.
Naylor, a member of the board of
pharmacy, has begun action against
several Topeka drug stores, claiming
that they do not carry the required
amount of drugs. The law says a
drug store must carry at least $1,000
worth of drugs. Naylor claims that
several drug stores here are simply
ttFo running gears of joints; that they
haven't the required amount of drugs
and should be closed up. Probate
Judge Hayden has instituted an in
vestigation. If MAYORS claim is sus-
tanned the druggists will lose their
permits
A Lady EIectrician.-Mrs. H L. Ru-
bardt, who has been in Kingman
number of months assisting her hus-
band in wiring the residences and
business houses for the local electric
light company, bears the distinction
of being one of the very few women
| IL ;a;o
pert and few men can equal her in
proficiency or speed. She has assisted
in some of the most difficult jobs of
wiring so far done in that city, and all
the numerous force of linemen and
! electricians so far employed on the To-
cal work concede that she is an artist
at the business.
Drowned at Lansing. - BY the cap
|, sizing of a boat near the state peni.
tertiary in Lansing Andrew Weeder,
a Wyandotte county convict serving
a five-year term, and Richard Smith,
a young man of Wolcott, were drown
ed and another man nearly lost his
life.
Prosperous Butler County. = Butler
county has no Indebtedness of any
kind. 1t never voted county bond
and has from $4,000 to 100000 on
deposit all the time. 1t ranks first in
? cattle, first in horses and mules, first
in kaffir corn, first in prairie hay first
; in sorghum, first in animals sold for
slaughter, second in alfalfa, second in
| poultry and eggs, third in swine. sixth
in corn.
Pardon for Pickpocket. = Governor
Hoch pardoned Tom Miller, convict
l from Cherokee county. Miller is a
young man. He got in bad company
: recently and was convicted of picking
the pocket of man and securing
$13 The principal witnesses against
r him 1sere some tough negroes. Mil
ler's friends asked the governor to
give him a chance, and the governor
complied with ter request.
l Out of Coal Rate ight.-Wichita is
: taking no part in the fight for a re-