Free press., 1906-05-12
KANSAS COMMENT

Frank Peek was painfully burned at
Arkansas City by the explosion "t
gasoline with which she was clean
irg a pair of gloves. She had the
gloves on her hands and was wash
ing them in the gasoline. She hap
pened TO get too close to lighted
stove and the gasoline exploded.
Great Bends City HalI.-Work on
the new city hall is practically be-
gun. Ii will be G2X45, two stories and
will contain all city offices and the
fire department 1t is to be of red
brick with white stone trimmings and
tin roof. all to be of the very best ma
terial and put up in a first-class man
ner. The contract price is to be
S9.75O.
Carnegie Gives $25, 900. - Andrew
Carnegie has agreed to give $4,000
to the permanent endowment fund OF
Southwest Kansas Conference Col
lege. Methodist, of Winfield, on con-
dition that the friends of the college
raise $4,000 Nearly all of that
amount has been already been pledg-
ed by the conference. and all of the
years commencement.
Col. Taylor Ordered West.-Colonel
Sidney w. Taylor, commanding the
artillery subpost at Fort Riley for the
past two years, has been ordered to
Fort Worden. Wash. TO take COM
mand of the artillery district of Puget
Sound He will move from here to
hD friN
of which he will take command com
prises Forts Worden. Flagler, Ward
and Casey. garrisoned by twelve com
panies of coast artillery, about 1.400'
men.
Many Wolves in Flint HilIs.-Othos
Hummer. who lives near Beaumont.
brought to the Office of the county
clerk at Eureka nineteen wolf scalps,
the result of AN outing in the Flint
hills Erasmus Aagard a farmer liv-
ing about six miles northwest of
Eureka. also brought in six scalps.
The farmers living in the western part
of Greenwood county say that wolves
are more numerous this spring than
they have been in years.
newton woman Mis-
Mrs. II. NJ Taylor. wife of the watch
man in the Santa Fe yards, killed an
immense rattlesnake The serpent
was in the yard Of the Taylor home
and was discovered by children who
notified Mrs. Taylor. Armed with a
hoe she bravely attacked the snake
and quickly dispatched it. A count
was made of the rattles and seven
teen were found in addition to the
button. The snake was an unusually
large one.
Western Kansas Land Values.-The
price of western Kansas land is said
TO be on a gradual upward incline.
Local agents for land in the western
part of the state claim that land that
could have been bought three years
ago for $3.50 an acre Is now COM
manding a price close to $50 an acre.
Excursions to western Kansas are
run every Tuesday over the Union
Pacific and there is seldom an eXcur-
sion that does not take at least 4
dozen prospective buyers from Mar
shall county. Many Of them buy land
for the purpose of locating in the
West and considerable prairie land
has been broken up in the past few
years and planted to wheat This has
n tendency to improve the land ad.
joining and it is said much land in
this section that was a few years age
considered useless except for pasture
is now raising abundant crops OF
wheat.
Teachers Meet in Emporla. = Dur
ing the high school convention the
superintendents of the schools OF
cities OF the first and second classes
of which G. S. Whiteman, of Topeka
president, and l.. A. Lowther, of EN-
poria, secretary and treasurer. A
committee was appointed to arrange
course OF study for the grade
schools OF the state which will be sub.
mitted to the association next Oc
tober. The object of this is to try
and make : uniform course of studies
of the grade schools throughout the
state The association will meet in
Emporia next October
browns Under Water Tank.-"Rug'
Yocum, a brakeman on the Missouri
Pacific railway. was killed at Greeley
in "a freight wreck, in which eleven
cars and the engine were overturned
Yocum lived ut Osawatomie, Kan.
and is survived by a widow. The
train ran into defective switch and
all the cars left the track. YOcum
was found under the water tank, and
he is supposed to have been drowned
as he seemed TO have been uninjur
ed. The body lay in a depression and
the water covered the face. The 9th
er trainmen escaped injury.
New Depot at Garden City. - The
Santa Fe has asked Mayor Miller il
the crossing at the foot of Union ave
nue. can be closed in the event that
a new depot is built there. The road
says that owing to the congested con
dition of affairs in this city it is i'm
possible to get the necessary build
ings on the ground that the road is
now using.
Fort Scott Field Meet--Some of the
old-tinie athletic customs will be re