Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-17

School Girl Eiones- = A 15-year-c.d
high school student who was attending
the high school at Gas City eloped
with man % years of age, and was
married without the knowledge of her
parents.
TWO Badly Hurt in Wreck - C. V.
Perry and Nicholas Baxter. eastern
home-seekers, were dangerously hurt
and several other persons were slight
| ly injured in a wreck on the Panhan-
die division of the road near Kiowa,
Kan.
Get Plenty of Cars Now.-Oil men
who are shipping their product for
| fuel are satisfied with the treatment
which they are receiving from the
| Santa Fe Railroad Company. They
say that they have no trouble now in
securing cars.
Investigations Dismissed. = At Cir
ard Judge Fuller refused to sustain
injunction proceedings on the grounds
| that the assistant attorney general de-
rived his authority from the law of
1887. but action was brought under
the law of 1898.
lola to Have Street Fair.-Iola is to
have a street fair the third week in
May. The plans have been practi-
| cally completed and fifty merchants
on the square have signed a petit
| ton asking for the use of the streets
| for that purpose.
saIina School Building Burns. =
The South Park public school building
was burned to the ground together
with all its contents. The fire is sup
| posed to have caught from the fur
mace. The loss is about $4,000, GOV,
cred by insurance.
Sabetha's Exports. = Here is what
was shipped out of Sabetha last year:
Corn $4,000, wheat $23,250, hogs
| $2340 ,OGO, cattle $4,000, eggs $11O,-
O0O, poultry 100000, clover seed
$4,000, other seeds $4,000, hides
! $4,000. cream $4,000. butter $1,000.
horses $157,7O applies 500.
Bonds for School BuiIdings-By
! large majority in every ward it was
/ voted at Abilene TO issue $4,000
| bonds for new high school building
and a new ward school building for
the west side The increasing popu-
! lation has overcrowded the schools
until present facilities are made
ouate.
Katy Officials Busy = President
| Finney, General Manager Allen, Chief
! Engineer Fisher and other Katy Off
| cjoIS loft for rTovac on n SD6cia1 train
! 1t was announced by them that the
work on the big shops at Parsons will
be begun within two weeks and that
| $50 men will be put 10 ballasting and
| laying 66-pound rails from Parsons to
Piqua March l.
To Run Trade Excursions. - The
| Merchants Association decided that
during the current year arrangements
would be made for the running of eX-
cursions each month during the sum-
I mer and autumn, for the purpose of
bringing the people from neighboring
towns and country into Leavenworth
! in such manner that they may com
bine business with pleasure.
Game Warden Busy. - John r.
White, proprietor of a fish market at
! Coffeyville. pleaded guilty to the
charge of buying wild ducks and was
! fined IS and costs, amounting to $21.
! One of the deputy wardens stated
that there is sufficient evidence to
! land several who have been indulging
in quail hunting. and as soon as Mr..
Whites case was settled general
/ crusade would be started.
Pay Taxes to Secure Rebate.-Pros-
perity is not always losing PROPOSE
ton, but Neosho county has found
it so in the matter of taxation. The
farmers of this county are so pros
porous that most of them have been
| paying all their taxes to get the re-
bate. The county has lost in this
way over 81 1000 on 1905 taxes, the
rebates amounting to S4,103.57, the
largest amount in the history of the
county.
Murdered for Money. A Greek
section laborer known as George
Monos was murdered in his bunk car
at Wallace Robbery was supposedly
the motive, as Big George" was
known to carry about $500 in bills.
This money was carried in a belt
around his waist. The belt was cut
in two and the money gone. Two
Greeks employed at Sharon Springs
are under suspicion. They have dis
appeared.
Some Fort Riley Changes. = No
tice. has just been received at Fort
Riley that the Second squadron of the
Second cavalry, which sailed from
Manila for San Francisco January %,
will come back to take the place of
the First squadron of the Eleventh
cavalry, which goes from here in
March to Fort Des Moines.
Charges Son With Theft.-The I'M.
usual spectacle of father having his
son arrested for theft was witnessed
at Topeka. Jas. B. Hatcher claims his
son, James A. Hatcher. stole SIS out
of his trousers pocket. He said that
a boy who would steal from his faith