Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-10


much trouble and death. The farmers
know of no remedy.
Well Shaken. = Phillips county
didn't get the earthquake, but it got
a pretty good shaking up. neverthe-
less. Assistant Attorney General
Pratt has secured the conviction OF
eight firms in that county under the
nuisance law. Most of them were
druggists who had been selling
liquor.
Great Advantage to Dealers. H.
Turner. a Wichita hay dealer, wants
the railroad board to require rail-
roads to give hay shippers the inspec-
tion-in-transit privilege. This privi-
lege was extended by the roads for
some years, but was withdrawn not
long ago. Turner says it was a great
advantage to dealers and wants 10 re-
establish it.
Oil DrilIer Killed. Milton Not
strand was instantly killed Oh the
Geo. Fisher farm northwest of Hum
bolt. He was drawing casing from
an oil well when the crown PULLEY
dropped from the top of the derrick,
striking him on the head and split
ting his skull. He lived near where
he met his death and leaves a wife
and three small children.
Prison Clerk Abroad. = NJ. w. Nc
Claughry, record clerk and BertilIion
expert at the United States peniten-
tiary at Leavenworth. started for
Europe, There he will spend three
months visiting prisons. He will
make study of the finger print iden-
LITIGATION system at Scotland Yard in
London and to obtain additional in
form,Vion relative to the method of
keeping the records. Mr.. McCIaughry
will meet BertiIIon. the famous Grim
inal expert, in Paris.
Afraid He Will Be kilIed.-Char-
les Irvan, so years of age. of AItoo-
ma, Pa, was taken from a Santa Fe
train at Hutchinson and is being
held in the county Jail awaiting word
from his friends in the East. He ap-
pears to be demented. fearing that
someone is trying to kill him. He
rived here. but the trainmen persuad-
ed him to stay on board. He had a
ticket from point in Mexico to
Pittsburg, Pa.
U. p. Makes Improvements.-The
Union Pacific has just completed
new iron bridge over Mud creek on
which work has been progressing
for several weeks. The depot has
been refittted and improved, a new
coal house built and many other i'm
provements made in the property.
The track will be raised a foot
through lower part of Abilene to
give the bridge sufficient height for
the flood waters.
Two Fairs in Dickinson. - The
Dickinson County Fair Association
has raised $4,000 for a fair ground
and race track west of Abilene and
the plans include a county fair and
race meeting here next fall. The
Hope stoclImen have organized a
South Dickinson and North Marion
county fair association and propose
to hold fair at Hope. The county
has had no fair for ten years and the
interest in the rivalry promises to be
an active one.
Reports Lack Foundation.-Reports
are being circulated through the
newspapers in southwestern Kansas
that the Santa Fe has purchased the
short branch line from Bucklin to
Dodge City from the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific and that the latter
road has secured from the Santa Fe
the Wichita & Western branch. So
far as is known by the officials of
the Rock Island. who are located
here, these reports are without foun-
dalton. If any such deals had been
consummated or were under way the
officials of the roads here would have
heard of them.
MilIers Talk Freight Rates.-Seore-
tary F. D. Stevens, of Wichita, of the
Southern Kansas M:lle-s' Club, with
be in Hutchinson and the club will
hold a meeting in the Commercial
Club rooms. Representatives from
the Northern Kansas MiIlers' Club
will also be here, and mills all over
the state will be represented. The
club is said to be a social organiza-
ton, but freight rates will be talked
of, it is understood.
Harvey County Farms Valuable
J. D. Crellin has sold his S0-acre farm
east of Newton to Sam Williamson
of Livingston county, Illinois, for
$4,000, and has purchased the Spore
place near Putnam, in Harvey coun-
ty, for $4,000. James Pearson of
Macomb. ILL.,, has purchased the John
Toevs place east of Newton for $500,
and Frederick. Shriver of Roanoke,
ILL.,, has purchased the 4O0-acre tract
in Macon township owned by Jacob
Linn, paying $4,000. This land has
practically no improvements. These
sales would indicate that Illinois peo-
pie are beginning TO notice the good
things to be found by investing in
Harvey county lands.
Natural Gas by July Wichita is
to have natural gas by the first of
July, if the plans of the company
which now has a franchise to furnish
gas to the citizens of Wichita are