Free press., 1905-06-10
KANSAS COMMENT

probably will go back to Russell
county and resume the practice OF
Jaw.
Oppose Franchise Extension.-The
business men OF Topeka have called
a mass meeting to express their senti-
ment against the disposition of the
city council to extend the franchise
Of the local electric light plant.
Bank For BrookviIIe.-The Brook
vile State Bank was organized. Brook
vile is village in the western part
of Saline county. The stockholders
are composed of merchants of the
town and farmers in the vicinity.
Sale Of a s2o, 900 Ranch.-In Reno
county the big Slocum ranch in Bell
township. 5000 acres, has been sold
for $4,000 to ]. S. Nunemaker, of
Kingman county. Last year 5000
bushels of wheat and 5000 bushels
of corn were raised on the place and
sold for a little more than $4,000.
There is a big crop of both wheat and
corn on the place this year.
Oil Beneath the SOFIA. II. Burtis,
government land inspector at Garden
City, and A. II. Warner. real estate
dealer of the same place, are author
iy for the story that Western Kan
sans believe they have oil beneath
their farms. Mr.. Burtis and Mr.. War
ner were in Topeka discussing the oil
business with Topeka men who are in
lerested in southeastern Kansas
helds.
Bodies Were Recovered. - The last
OF the bodies of Mrs. w. NJ. Par
sons, Miss Garlic Heithecker. w. E.
Gonter and Howard Kalley, Dodge City
people drowned at the Duck creek
ford five miles north of Dodge City
was recovered. Mr.. Gonter and Miss
Heithecker, his niece. formerly lived
at Mcpherson. They were proto-
graphers. KalIey was associated
with his father in barber shop. Mrs.
Parsons was the wife of a railroad
man.
New Court House.-At a meeting of
the board of county commissioners of
Doniphan county, Kan, plans and
new court house to be built on mod
ern lines, 72xS0 feet in size, and to
cost upwards of $4,000. Hon. Cyrus
Leland will furnish accommodations
for the county officials until the struc-
ture is completed. The commission
ers will advertise four weeks for bids
and the contract will be awarded to
the lowest bidder
Robbed of $1,5oo.-Two burglars en-
tered the home of Joseph Carr, one
mile east of Augusta, and stole 81, 900
in gold and $500 in currency. Mr..
Carr is 80 years old. He is hard of
hearing and did not awake. His
housekeeper. a woman more than
20 years old, was awakened by the
burglars, but was told if she made
any disturbance before daylight they
would return and kill her. AS soon
as the burglars left she went to
neighbor's and gave the alarm.
- Independent Refinery.-The oil re-
linery now building by the SunfiOwer
State refinery at NiotaZe, is almost
completed. Oil VII be refined within
thirty days. The company is now ne
gotiating with a manufacturer for the
building of forty tank cars to trans
port it's oil to it's different stations.
The officers of the company are
George Richardson of Leavenworth,
president; e. w. Davis of Saginaw,
Mich. vice-president; Samuel Mott,
Jr., of Rochester, N. Y, secretary and
treasurer.
For Cooperative 'Phones.-A meet
ing of the Lyon County Rural Tele-
phone Association has been called for
in the school of District 100. The
farmers have organized a rural tele-
phone association in view of getting
a lower rate on telephones or estab-
fishing rural line central for all the
farm lines in the county. The farm
ers pay 81 a month now The legis-
lature provided a 50-cent rate. but can
not force the telephone company to
make that rate. There are forty rural
lines in the county with about 1000
patrons. If the farmers establish a
central, they figure they can maintain
the system at % cents a month, on a
cooperative plan.
Abused the Judge. = The chances
are that Mrs. Myra McHenry. the
temperance agitator and follower of
Carrie Nation, will stay in the Arkan-
sas City jail for a time When she
was in police court for trial she be-
gan abusing the judge. who fined her
S25 for contempt. She continued.
and he assessed successive fines un-
til the amount reached Sl00. She is
in jail and no one is making any eff
fort TO secure her release
Refinery For Longton. - The Su-
perior Renning Company is building
here an independent oil refinery
which is to have a capacity of 900
barrels az the start and will be en-
larged as trade demands John Nor
berg. sn experienced refiner of Penn
sylvania. has charge of the work of
construction.
Struck by Lishtaing.-Mrs. Charles
Jones was struck and probably ia
tally injured by lightning. She was
in the street near her home when
struck and fell into the gutter. She
would have drowned had not assist
ance been rendered Immediately.