Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-09-23

| teacher in cooking, at a reasonable
price, it has about decided to organize
a class in this department for the
| high school at Salina
Will Be No Encampment.-Gove
or Hoch approved the order of Athe
] military hoard cancelling the Wei
| lington encampment The Kansas
troops wiz therefore not be assembled
| for inspection this year.
Equipped for Business.-In order to
make wedding in the Troy court
| house seem home-like, the probate
! judge has purchased a barrel of rice,
/ and every time he marries a couple
the other officials and clerks douse
them with rice
Valuable Wheat Crop.-D A. Stubs
has just balanced accounts with his
wheat crop on his Scott county farm.
I He had in 100 acres of wheat and this
years crop paid for the land. for
| breaking the prairie, for putting in
and harvesting the wheat and left
5000 besides to buy more Scott county
/ land.
National Life Wants Securities. -
The National Life Insurance Company
wants the 100000 in securities which
the state is holding to protect policy
/ holders of the old Union Life Company
of Kansas. The Union Life had that
amount on deposit with the state to
protect it's policyholders. 1t sold out
to the National Life
Hiding in cornfieIds. David R.
Coulter, an inmate of the state refor-
matory, escaped. from the cane patch.
where he was engaged in stripping
cane for the sorghum mill of the in
stitution, and has not been heard from
since. field of corn adjoins the cane
patch on the east, and the convict is
supposed to have gone in that direc-
ton
Tests of High Explosives. = The
field artillery drill regulations board
has been ordered TO Fort Riley again
by the War department to make fur
tier tests of high explosive shells
which was commenced here in July.
The boards work will be in c01nec-
ton with the maneuvers and target
practice of the first provisional regi-
ment of artillery encamped at Fort
Riley and the second provisional regi-
ment at Fort Sill
AbIene's New Church. = The new
plans for the Methodist church recon
struction as prepared by- a Kansas
City architect and adopted by the
board of trustees are on exhibition
| They show very handsome design
and one that will be credit to the
city. The Methodists greatly need a
new church to accommodate their
large congregations and growing mem
bership. Rev. r. V. Mahoney, the pas
tor, has awakened much interest in
the matter.
Compromise DefauIted Bonds. =
Assistant Attorney General John
Dawson left for Stanton county to
compromise about $4,000 in defaulted
school bonds held by the state school
fund. Most of the school districts
which issued these bonds have been
consolidated with other districts, and
it is a hard task to get a settlement
Mr. Dawson will get hold of all the
cash he can and take. new >bonds. bear
ing a low rate of interest for the bal.
ance. The territory in the original
district is held good for the bonds.
Boy Was Despondent-Ray Webb,
the 1G-year-old son of w H. Webb,
deputy sheriff of .Labette county, at
tempted suicide about midnight by
shooting himself with his fathers re-
volver. Deputy Sheriff. Webb, who
| had been out during 1.-The day sub
! poenaing witnesses. returned home
just before midnight. placed his re
volver on astaBle aoWnstairs' and went
to bed. Shortly after bis son went
downstairs, secured the revolvert and
shot himself, the bali going through.
! the lungs. atDespondency" was The
cause He may sEeeover. y.
Morton CSuety 4 aad.. -. The, public
sale of the; 500 quarter sections of
land in Morton county is now on.
About seventy-five capitalists are at
Richfeld bidding for the land. The
average price being paid is now $21e
a quarter 1t is estimated that about
one quarter out OF five goes to the
! county. The crowd in ATTENDANCE. con-
sists only of purchasers who desire
/ large Quantities of land. One or two
millionaires are present -andsEFwin
make fnyestments:,G ,:.s..,.s - -Gs:t
Pure Food Show.%sAt: Wichita maa
terial IS being placed on the ground
for the big temporary building to be
Serccted in Hamilton park for~the pure
food show and work on the. building
will begin next Monday.
Hand Torn oH.-C. A. Carlson. of
Mcpherson county. met with serious
accident which resulted in the loss of
his right hand. he was feeding a
! broom corn shredder, when his fingers
! were caught in the machine. His hand
J was pulled in and horribly mangled.
A daetor was sent for from Lindsborg.
seven miles distant, who came, at once
and amputated the member.
Nine Sentenced at salina.-The Sep
temBer term of the district court clos
ed at Sallna Judge Rees sentenced