Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-12-30
KANSAS COMMENT

every one of the eighty-siX houses
which were on the ground purchased
by the city for the location OF the
Katy railroad shops have been moved
TO other parts of the city and the rail
road company will let the contract
for the erection of the buildings
Graders have been at work for the
past two weeks and the contract calls
for the completion of the shops with
in two years. The shops are 10 cost
81 100000
Haskell Barn Burned.-One of the
fine barns at Haskell Indian Indus
trial institute, one mile south Of Law
renee, was burned and seven horses
were burned TO death. The horses
were the driving teams of the school.
Several vehicles were also destroyed.
The barn was total loss. The fire
is supposed to have originated through
defective wiring. Haskell has been
very unfortunate in the destruction of
barns through fires, this being the
sixth structure burned.
Big Irish Potato.-Rev. Father Hay
den, the Topeka Catholic priest who
spent the summer in Ireland and
who returned TO America with his
friend. the late c. ]. Devlin. has pre-
scented Secretary Coburn's department
with a genuine Irish potato raised in
Ireland. When dug it weighed three
pounds and two ounces. 1t now
weighs three pounds Father Hayden
wanted to- show the secretary what a
real Irish potato looked like Coburn
believes he can dig up a bigger one
In Kansas.
Prosperity at Dorrance. = Six good
crops of wheat in succession and the
promise of another crop next year is
the way the people of DOrrance put
1t. and this prospective seventh an
nual yield looks better at this time
than the average. There are five ele-
Vators here, all OF them doing bust
ness. So far it is said about 200 car
loads of this years crop of wheat has
been marketed and that there is up
wards of rs per cent of the yield yet
TO be marketed. And the shipments
did not commence until the first of
July.
Trace Escaped Convicts. W. H.
Haskell, warden of the Kansas peni-
Tertiary has had neat pamphlet
printed continuing the names and pic
lures of thirty-two convicts wanted
at the peniten;iary. OF TO number
twentyseven -csca1cd and Eve are
wanted for violating their parole
Nearly all these cclvictS escaped be-
fore Mr.. Haskell took charge * war
den. Only five of all the p~is ,lers
paroled have violated their O.lig" ton
and ara now fugitives- 4 reward of
$50 win be paid for the capture OF any
of the thirty-two. The pamphlet will
be sent to sheriffs and police officers
and to other penitentiaries in all parts
of the United States
No Pardon for Mrs. New.-Govern-
or Hoch announced that he would not
pardon Mrs. Amelia New. who is serv-
ing prison sentence for killing her
husband in Greenwood county. Tue
governor said: . Nothing will be done
in this matter of the New pardon. at
least for the present The officials of
Greenwood countv seem to be oppos-
ed to the par I'm rDl the people iiY-
ing in the couar 95iacent where the
crime was committed are also oppos-
ed to favor it. In the town perhaps
great many favor the pardon Per-
sonally 1 do not think it would do
anybody any harm to turn this old
woman loose, but do not feel justi-
fled in taking action contrary TO ex-
listing sentiment
Fire at Altamont. = A fire at Alta
mont, town on the St. Louis & San
Francisco railroad. twelve miles west
OF Oswego. destroyed the elevator of
j. II. Rust. together with $4,000 bush
els OF shelled corn. 5000 bushels OF
ear corn. 5000 bushels of wheat and
two nearby residences. Mr.. Rust had
$4,000 insurance on the elevator and
$4,000 on contents, all in mutual com
panies. His loss will exceed SIS, 900.
How the fire originated is unknown
Million Dollar Factory.-The Sans
Fe construction outfit is in Garden
City and will at once begin work CT
the switches to the $1,000, 900 sugar
factory TO be constructed at this place
The building of this factory has given
an added impetus 10 the already randi
development of this county, and 1000
acres of sugar beets will be put out
in the spring within radius of ten
miles from the city. Even under cir
cumstances as unfavorable as they
were this year will yield $4,000 tons
with value of S1SO:OO0 The people
of Finney county feel that prosperity
has come TO stay and are not slow
to take advantage of the things they
have worked so hard to bring about
Big YieId.-J. L. Treu of Halifax
Wabaunsee county. raised 1O4 bush
els of corn on a measured acre this
year. This corn was weighed, so there
is no guess work about the matter
The corn had no special care, but the
land on which it was raised had been
in alfalfa for several years Mr.. Treu
says that this whole field is Just IS
good as the one acre
Petition in Bankruptcy. = An in.
voluntary petition of bankruptcy has