Free press., 1906-05-12

G. Brewer was stabbed twice in the
breast, dying almost instantly.
warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of the man supposed to have done
the stabbing
To Move Division Point. During
the first or second week in May the
Missouri Pacific will move every en-
gine, with the exception of those ne
cessary for the operation of the Nc
Pherson branch, from FL Dorado to
Wichita. With these engines will
come nearly every machinist and en-
ploye of the round house and yards
at that point The division headouar-
ters at El Dorado will be declared
abolished and brought to Wichita.
= Postal Changes in Kansas. The
Postoffice department has ordered the
establishment of an additional rural
mail route out OF Kiowa, Barber coun-
ty, Kan, to be effective June Is. The
length of this route will be thirty
miles and will serve 400 patrons, or
100 houses. Rural letter carriers ap-
! pointed for Kansas: Howard KEGS
ling and William Loflin at Fredonia.
John s. Thomas at Pomona, Frank
Arvidson and L. r. Rose at Isabel.
Iron MouIders Out at lola.-Tweu-
ty-five iron moulders employed at the
United Iron Works walked out on
strike at lola in an effort to secure
from the company a reduction of their
hours from ten to nine day. Practi-
cally every foundry in Missouri and
Kansas is affected by the strike and
ell three of the works of the United
Iron Works Company are having
trouble. The head offices are at
Springfield. Mo-, and there are
branch foundries at lola and at Pitts
burg.
Prosperity at Hutchinson. = Hutch
inson has raised $15O,OOO in money to
build a car line and electric light
plant. This is a piece of financing
which should make every. citizen of
the city proud of the men who have
done this work The car line and
electric light plant will be built and
built this year. The last of the
| $4,000 bonds of the road are sold and
the stock subscriptions and the aid
voted by the city completes the
financing of the biggest proposition
undertaken here in years
independent Refinery at PaoIa. -
The Paola Refinery Company has pur-
chased of the Bayse Crude Oil Com
! pany a 10O-acre oil lease on the Killy
| farm, mile southwest of town. The
! consideration was $4,000. A short
! time ago the Bayse Company sold a
| twenty-five acre lease from its hold
! ings for $4,000. The company paid
| $500 for these leases in the first
! place and has marketed from $4,000
| to $4,000 worth of oil. TIE Paola
refinery has a ready market for all
! the products it can turn out.
! Garland to Bore for OiI.-Garland is
to explore the interior regions of the
earth in quest of oil and. gas. A new
company has been organized down
there for the purpose of sinking sew
| eral wells and drilling apparatus will
be brought into action at once. The
farm owned by DR.. Holman will first
be visited by the drillers. The COM
pany is a substantial one and will
| spend considerable money in the
search for either gas or oil in paying
quantities. The first well will be put
down to a depth of about 5000 feet.
To Use independence Cement.-In-
dependence, Kan, will furnish the
government with G,2OO barrels of Port
land cement for use in connection
with the construction of the Carlsbad
irrigation project in New Mexico. The
secretary of the interior approved two
contracts entered into between the
supervising engineer of the reclama-
tion service and NJ S. Groves for
$500 and 700 barrels of cement re-
spectively. Mr.. Groves bid in each
case was $1.40 per barrel, f. o. b. cars
at independence.
Lightning Fires Big Barn. = During
a severe electrical and thunder storm
lightning struck a large horse barn
on the farm of NJ. H. Radell, dairy
man residing 1-2 miles northeast of
Pittsburg,' causing a fire which de-
stroyed several large barns and en-
tailed a loss of 1,400, fully covered
by insurance.
Fight San Jose ScaIe.-Prof. e. A.
Popenoe, state entomologist, left for
Dodge City and other points in West
ern Kansas with material for fight
ing the San Jose scale. The state ex-
pertinent station council has appTo-
priated $1,000 or more for fighting
this pest of the Western Kansas fruit
grower.
Calhoun Released on Bond. H.
Calhoun, recently convicted in the
Sedgwick county district court of for
gerry in the fourth degree, has appeal
ed to the supreme court from a de-
cision sentencing him to the peniten-
tiary for an intermediate term of
years. Calhoun has been ordered re-
leased from the penitentiary on $500
bond. 1t is alleged that he deposited
forged notes with the Fourth Nation
al Bank to secure a loan.
Home for >Hiawatha's Library. =
Hiawatha is to have Carnegie IL
brary. $4,000 having been offered by