Free press., 1906-04-21

r WdSScuST VIII Call Oh HAiSS 11SlSH
Gould, and ask her to donate $4,000
toward building a combined 7. NJ. C.
A. building.
| After 80 Years. At Salina Mrs.
Mary e. Mitchell. after living with
her husband, L. c. Mitchell, thirty
three years, has fled a suit for di-
vorce, alleging cruelty to herself and
their two children.
Dam on Republican River.-Captain
Sherwood a. Cheney, chief engineer
officer of the northern division of the
army, is in junction City from st.
! Louis making survey for the War
! department pertaining to the location
of a big concrete, dam which local
capitalists have proposed to build on
the Republican river north of Junction
city.
ChautauqGa at Winfield. = The
| Chautauqua association has arranged
with Attorney General Hadley of Mis-
souri, to deliver a lecture here this
season. They are to pay him $3.50
and expenses. The exact date of his
coming has not been set. Hadley
is the man who has been sticking the
| knife into the Standard Oil Company
of late.
| New Bank at Manhattan. = A new
| state bank is being organized with
capital stock of $4,000. Mr.. Ramey
of EslIridge, is the chief factor in the
| new bank and the $4,000 stock has
been subscribed by local capitalists.
The new organization has purchas-
| ed one of the best business building
sites in the city and will erect hand
| some building.
| Cars Turned on Side. = A broken
coupling derailed ST. Louis e San
| Francisco passenger train No. 307,
west-bound, near Lorena. Only the
engine remained on the track. Both
the baggage car and the day coach
were turned on their sides. No one
was seriously injured. Steel sup
! ports of brake beam behind the ten
der fell and spread the rail.
Mcpherson Y. M. c. A. Organized
A meeting was held at the court
house for the purpose of perfecting
the final organization of the McPher-
son Y. NJ C.. A. This state organizer
was present. The Y. M. c. A. move
! ment has been progressing very
rapidly during the past week and the
movement is being supported very
heartily by the people of Mcpherson
and vicinity.
! Working in Neosho County-Infor-
nation has reached Mound City to the
effect that the Standard Oil Company
will lay a 4 inch pipe line from some
where in the Neosho county field to
! Paola. where connection will be made
with the large mains from the south
west. 1t is believed the line will touch
| the lately opened Bronson field. An
independent refinery is being put in
at this latter place.
Toronto Depot Again Closes. = The
residents of the little town of Toron-
to, in Woodson county, are again hav-
ing trouble with the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company over the closing of
the station. More than year ago the
residents of the town petitioned to
have the office and waiting room OF
the station kept open for the night
trains. 1t was kept open for three
months but is now closed again.
Meant to Keep the Land. = In the
case at Topeka in the United States
district court of ]. E. Bilby under in
dictment for subordination of perjury
the testimony of three of the govern
ments strongest witnesses was shak
en- BiIby. with others, was charged
with inducing persons to go from Mis-
|
there make alleged fraudulent home
stead entries, which those person:
were then, it is alleged, to sell to Bill
by for $50 an entry. The witnesse:
admitted that even though their eX
penses to Logan county and the fl
ing fees were paid by one of Bilby''
employees, It was their intention. t
prove up the land as their own anC
then sell it if possible.
, Pool Hall REGULATION. At Concor
( dia Judge w. T. Dillon, in a case il
district court, has held the law o
1886 requiring owners of billiard anC
: pool halls in unincorporated towns t.
secure a license from the TOWNSHIP
; clerk to be unconstitutional The ef
: feet of the decision will be to ak
| | it impossible for any unincorporate'
town to collect a license from billiard
: or pool halls or to prevent thei
r operation.
Big Day for Anthony. = There vii
I he an immense crowd in Antlon.
: April 26 for the Wildey day celebra
ton. All railways have granted
2 very low rate of one fare plus fift.
= cents and where train service is no
I convenient will put on special trains
l The strongest fraternal organization
: in America is that of the Independen
: Order OF Odd Fellows, permanent.
f formed April 26, 1919, by Thomas Wi
/ dey, John Duncan, John Cheathan
5 and Richard Rushworth at the hom
: OF Thomas Woolworth, in Soutl
: Frederick street. Baltimore. Thoma
{ Wildey was elected first Noble Gran
= of Washington Lodge No. 1 of tn
United States.
Kansas Sportsmen's Shoot. = Th
vavopfoepth animal Sh0Ot Of the Kar