Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-10-28

IlOm chicago, where ne dTEduSSu Will
Vice President w. B. Biddle and
Freight Traffic Manager ]. F. Holden
of the Rock Island for a wheat and
corn train to be run over their lines
in Kansas.
Stamp of Honesty. The Newton
postmaster has started a conscience
fund. He received an anonymous let
ter the other day with two 2-cent
stamps inclosed. The writer said he
cheated the Newton Office out of one
stamp several years ago; that he had
now got religion and herewith return
ed the stamp with one stamp for in
terest.
Fruit Growers Meet. = The State
horticultural society has announced
that its annual meeting will be held
in Topeka on December 20. 81 and
IS. The meeting on the 2Sth will ad-
journ ON time to enable those who
desire to go TO Kansas City and at
tend the meeting of the Missouri
Horticultural Society on December
%, % and 80.
Earned His First Money. w E,
Bailey, the new general auditor of the
Santa Fe, earned his first money, af-
ter leaving farm east of Usage,
as clerk in the Usage City postofhce.
Mr.. Bailey's people still live in the
country, east of this city He work
ed later here at the Santa Fe depot
with ID. Z. Cain who after going to
Topeka obtained a place for Mr..
Bailey in the auditing department at
the general Offices.
Made an Exception. = The Kansas
charter board strained point to help
the government out on its irrigation
project in Finney county. 1t author
lied company to hold stock in 9TH
er corporations. While it isn't against
the law for one company to hold stock
in another; the charter board made
rule some years ago prohibiting that
practice, claiming it was against good
business judgment. But it made an
exception in the present case.
The Rosedae Joints.-Henry Kee-
fer, mayor, said that he would take
no action to close the joints until the
county attorney, James Gibson, acts
The police judge and city attorney
may act independent. of the county at
torney and close Them" said he, but
| will do nothing now" There are
eight joints here. They pay the city
$50 and costs of So each This $500
goes into the general revenue fund
of the city and the $64 goes to the
police court fund.
Killing Young Stock.-What is de-
scribed as really a mountain lion has
near Plainville several times in the
last two weeks. Calves from the
farmers herds have been killed and
! the cattle are frightened and restless
at night. Fifty men and boys spent
! Sunday on the bluffs searching for
! the animal. but it was not found 1t
| is averred that its tracks were dis
covered several times. but dogs will
not follow the tracks through fear.
The neighborhood is excited and resi-
dents are afraid to venture out at
night.
Municipal Ownership nt Paoln AT the
! special municipal election held here to
vote on the proposition to issue bonds
TO buy the water plant ut $50, 600, and
to build an electric light plant not to
exceed a cost of S25, 900, both ques-
tions carried by good majorities, the
women not voting. Four per cent
bonds will be issued to buy the water
works and bonds not to exceed Az per
cent per annum will be issued for the
electric light plant Each proposition
was separate. The water plant has
been in operation twenty years, and is
said to he badly out of repair. An ex-
pert engineer who was "a short time
ago hired to come here to look it over
reported that it was not worth more
than $40, 900.
Women Suffragists Meet.-The state
equal suffra gists are holding their an
nual convention at Topeka. That
sentiment for woman suffrage is in
creasing they point to the fact that
while the state association never had
more than 400 members up to last
year it now has 934. The women will
quit waiting until the legislature as
sembles to start their fight for full
suffrage laws. They will do some
campaigning among the grass roots
after this.
Winfield in Darkness. - Douglas
Bourdette owner of the well which
supplies this place with natural gas
turned off the supply from the city
mains and the town is in darkness
He charges that the Winfield Gas Co.
which operates the gas mains inside
the city limits, is indebted to him fol
the use of natural gas since July anC
that he has not been able to get any
settlement. The company is operat
ed by local capitalists, who also owl
manufacturing plant to make artifi
cial gas. The capitalists say they viii
abandon natural gas and use the
manufactured article.
KaDsas-ColOradO Case. Attorney Gen
eral Coleman received II message to thu
effect that the United States supreme
court had set the Kansas-Colorado wa