Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-12-23

meeting of the county clerks of Kan
sAs at Wichita. Dee. 20 and 81 New
officers of the state association will be
chosen.
Death Ends Long SIeep.-a1rs. Lii
liam Alexander, the woman who slept
for weeks at time at her home at
Leavenworth and in Kansas City.
Kan, died ar the state asylum at Oss-
watomie.
Suicide Took Strychnine. = John
Haney. laborer 80 years old. com
mitted suicide at Arkansas City by
taking strychnine This was his sec
ond attempt. A year ago he cut his
throat. but his life was saved. Family
trouble and lack of employment
were the causes.
To Build a $4,000 Church.-Mem-
bers of the First Methodist church of
Winfield have subscribed $4,000 for
the erection of a new building. J.
W. Powell, organizer of the Brother
hood of st. Paul, raised the money
in church meetings Sunday and Mon
day, and organized a brotherhood
with 1877 members.
To Get in Federal Court.-The Pull
man Company has asked 20 have the
suit instituted against il by the at
torney general in the supreme court
transferred to the federal court. The
suit was brought to GUST the company
from running cars in Kansas because
it had failed TO pay the license of a
flA
amount TO about $4,000.
Lead Goes Up Another 81. = The
feature of the Missouri-Kansas lead
and zinc ore market was the 81 adj
vance in the price of the former ore.
Lead is now worth $7I per ton. The
producers anticipate another dollar
advance before the close of the week.
The price of zinc ore remains I'M
changed, the basis price for 60 per
cent ore being $51 per ton.
Mutual Pays Up.-Mrs. Mary Dew
lin, at Topeka, received a check for
$4,000 from the Penn Mutual for life
insurance carried by her late hus-
band. This makes 100000 which she
has collected. This doesn't include
the $4,000 which the receiver of the
! policies turned over by Mrs. Devlin
the day before the bank failed.
Kansas Oil for Kansas FoIks.-The
first coal oil sold in Fort Scott in
many years that was not from the
! Standard Oil Company's tanks, was
sold last week by the Stadden Brok
erage Company, which has installed
regular tank wagon for delivery
Six hundred gallons for this indie
pendent oil was placed by the local
firm on the first day it was introduc
ed to the trade here. The price is
the same as that quoted by the
Standard Company.
$4,000 Hotel for lola. = F. V
if lola subscribed the $4,000 asked
by the Southern Kansas Electric rail
way he had a man who would builC
100000 hotel in lola. He had NJ
hesitancy in saying who the man wa.
who was TO finance the big deal. HI
said Paul d. Lusz, who is now on
of the Most prominent men in tn
lola Electric. would furnish tn
money for the deal and that the hote
would certainly be built.
Macaroni Wheat.-Efforts are bein
made at the Kansas Agricultural Co
lege to produce a winter variety O
macaroni wheat AS a spring variet
} it is adapted to Kansas soil and eli
:. mate. having done better than any otI
er spring wheat. 1t is hoped to pro
| duce a superior winter wheat as
now is a superior spring producer
the tests made one variety of tn
macaroni wheat has already passe
two winters without killing
: and last season produced AZ IL busl
) els per acre The sowing for tn
} third test has recently been compile
ed
Using Tobacco in School. = TIL
: teachers of the lola schools have il
t structions from Superintendent Mitcl
I ell to make investigation of the pl
2 pills and ascertain what per centag
: of the children are tobacco users. TIL
= investigation is to be made some tim
: this week at all the buildings and 6
2 soon as the statistics are compiled a
/ effort will be made to stop the use
s tobacco in schools
: Oil Runs Less. The Prairie o
[ and Gas Company's figures on tn
: pipe line runs for the first seven day
+ in December show the daily averae
e to be 5,429 barrels. This is an il
crease over October, when the ave
0 age showed 1860, and a decrease
compared with November, when
t was 1904 barrels. In October an
: November the balance of the mont
o slumped and the figures failed
d maintain the high average of II
: first seven days. There is reaso
+ however, to believe the rest of D
Il cember will not fall down as did o
e tober and November. One of thel
g reasons is that the deliveries are la
n ger now than they have ever been b
fore.
= Freight Rate Convention. - Ste
: will be taken to raise 1000 to defrs