Free press., 1906-10-13
1t Happened Pr X a n s a S
OUR WEEKLY c1sr OF CONDENSED ITEMS

the hdnS3S-MlSSOuf1 f1OiS1 MSn
Association will hold their regular an
nual meeting at the Midland Hotel,
Kansas City. December II and 13.
Kansas National Guard rendered.
While ]. w. F. Hughes. adjutaat
general of the Kansas national guard,
was in Washington comforting with
the secretary of war about the Cuban
situation, he telegraphed the govern
or that he had rendered the use OF
the Kansas. national guard in case
there is trouble with Cuba, and add
ed: Kansas is the first state which
has offered to send it's national guard
to Cuba
Anti-Horse Thief Meeting.-A meet
ing of the Kansas district of the Anti
Horse Thief Association will be held
in Wichita, October II, Is and 10. The
purpose of the assembly is to bring
the different organizations over the
state into closer touch with the work
being carried on, and for a general
jolliicatiOn. A parade composed OF
the members of the different district;;
will be given on the morning of the
opening date. Arrangements are be-
ing made with the national officers to
secure their presence on that date for
the purpose of delivering addresses.
Paroled From Industrial School. -
NJ. F. McKirahan, parole officer of the
boys industrial school, has reported
that eight boys were paroled during
August and that one boy returned
voluntarily to the institution. The
boys paroled in August were: Arthur
Reed. to Grenola; William Butler, to
Kansas City, Mo-; Sam Henderson, to
Topeka; Charles Noland, to Atchison;
Roy Robinson, to Highland Park: Dal-
las Higgins, to Kaw Valley. and Harry
Morris, to Kansas City, Mo-, and Fred
Kelley, to Osawatomie. Of these Roy
Robinson and Dallas Higgins went to
new homes. One boy came back vol
UNFAIRLY and one was returned for vio-
lating parole.
viii Be Principal Speaker. - Her
bert S. Hadley, attorney general of
Missouri, will be the principal speaker
at the annual meeting of the Kansas
State Bar Association in Topeka next
January. r. B. Welch. chairman of
the executive committee, received
Mr.. Hadley's acceptance of the invi-
tation to speak here only few days
ago. Mr.. Hadley is a Kansan born
and obtained his legal education at
the state university at Lawrence. In
view Of this fact reunion of all form
er students of the law school at Law
renee is now being planned as a fea,
ture of the meeting of the bar asso-
citation. Arrangements for this re-
union will be made by the university
faculty in cooperation with the execu-
tive committee Of the bar associa,
ton.
Fail to Reach Agreement. The
trainmen of the Rock Island who were
at Hutchinson in secret meeting went
to their homes without reaching an
agreement The object was to settle
the matter of the division of mileage
on the runs on this division. In chang
ing the division from Bucklin to Prttt
the Herington division was shortened
and the old Bucklin division was
heightened. The trainmen are trying
to get new schedules of runs and
allowances of mileage settled. In ad-
dition to this they want to settle the
matter of seniority of the men now
employed, the oldest men in point of
service to have preferred runs and
first chance to take new places offer
ed. This matter of seniority seems to
have been mixed somewhat and this
was the second matter under consid-
Grafton.
Union Men In Mfne.-Charles H.
Peel. late superintendent of three coal
mines at Leavenworth, has taken
charge of the Atchison coal mine and
will hereafter operate it with union
miners. The mine has been an open
one for more than a year, and lately
passed into the hands of a receiver.
4 separate company has leased it
from the receivers.
Called Him a Liar. - Because she
called the Wichita chief of police a
liar. Mrs. Myra McHenry, one of the
disciples of Carrie Nation, was fined
$50 by justice of the peace Mrs.
McHenry had been arrested for talk
ing on the streets, and when she ask
ed the chief what the charge against
her was he said she had been guilty
of defaming good citizens of Wichita,
whereat the woman called him a liar.
with the above results. After she
had been fined Mrs McHenry told the
court that before she would pay the
$50 she would lie in Jail till she rot
ted and the ants carried her body out
through the keyhole. There is quite
a sentiment against the action of the
officers in their treatment of the
woman.
Fire Destroys Elevator. = Fire at
Concordia destroyed the Burlington
elevator owned by Charles Swartz, To-
gether with several hundred bushels
of grain. The loss is placed at 81 ,00P
with insurance of $500.
Tragedy at Great Bend. - VIII Re
nick. resident of this city, shot and
instantly killed his wife and then
himself He fired three shots at his
wife, all of them taking effect, and