Free press., 1906-04-28

closing every gambling house, crap
game and policy shop in the city.
Fort Scott's New Church.-It is
stated that the Methodist church fund
is now within 1000 of the amount
needed in starting work on the pro-
posed church. The building will cost
not less than $4,000 and will be one
of the finest in the state of Kansas.
Lost Eight Inches.-Bernard Graves
a rural mail carrier at Hanover, has
just undergone critical operation al
the Sabetha hospital. The doctors
cut him open and removed eight
inches Of an intestine and coupled it
up. Graves has recovered and will
soon be back on his route
The Cricket's Strong Points. = A
Sabetha woman has a cricket for a
pet. 1t makes no muss, is never in
the way. requires no feeding, does not
annoy the neighbors, is always quiet
except on gloomy days, when it's song
is cheerful and inspiriting and is an
unfailing sign of good luck.
Patriotic Sparrows. = An Atchison
man planted lettuce, but as fast as it
came through the ground the English
sparrows ate it off. He finally got
few small flags and stuck them in the
lettuce bed and not a sparrow will
consent to touch that lettuce as long
as Old Glory floats over it.
Made Wrongful Application. = Mrs.
Matilda c. Hampton has been releas-
ed from the United States prisoners
section of the Sedgwick county Jail.
where she was confined because OF
failure to pay fine for making
wrongful application for a pension
Mrs. Hampton served thirty days in
Jail
Goat Hair for Market.-Henry Field
man. living north of Sabetha, market
ed 1000 pounds of goat hair this
week. He has 2S0 Angora goats,
which he clipped. The Angora goats
live on brush, and don't require much
attention. Mr. Feldman received 80
cents pound or $500 for the goat
hair.
Good Word for the Hawk.-An ola
farmer of Miami county is standing
up for the hawk. He says the hawk
will kill more rabbits in a day than
half dozen sportsmen with dogs and
guns and that each hawk will eat it's
weight in mice each day. This is
pretty good record for the hawk which
almost every one dislikes.
Supplied From Concordia. "A well
grounded rumor has recently got into
circulation that the pOstof1ce depart
ment is to discontinue the Prosser
branch mail service, having in con-
temptation the idea of serving the
postoff1ces along that line from towns
on other lines of railroad by star
routes. This mail service has been
in existence for about twenty-five
years, and there are great many
people who depend on it.
Kansas Grain inspection Fees. -
John w. Radford, state grain inspec-
tor, filed a report with the state audi
tor showing the fees collected by his
department for the nine months end
ing March 81 of the present fiscal year.
The total collections amounted to
$36,426.45. The largest amount col
lected during one month was $6,29O3O
in August, and the smallest amount
ed that the total collections for the
fiscal year will amount to $4,000.
Mail Clerk Promoted. = John H.
Thompson, one of the best known
mail clerks in the state, has left Sa-
lima for st. Louis, to take better po-
sition. Eighteen years ago Mr..
Thompson and his family came to Sa-
lima to live. Mr.. Thompson went in
to the employ of the United States
government and was given his first
run as mail clerk on the Lincoln
branch of the Union Pacific. From
that time until his resignation of that
position a few weeks ago, Mr.. Thomp-
son ran nearly every day between Sa-
lima and Oakley.
Raising Dogs for Bounty.-There is
dog scandal on at Ottawa. The city
gives bounty for dead dogs and the
ours ears must be produced in the
clerks Office as evidence that the dog
has been killed. The charge is made
that an enterprising citizen has start
ed a doggery out in the country and
is supplying the ears to the city by
wholesale. Raising common cur dogs
at 1 per dead is said to be profitable
business.
School Building for Alma. - The
people of Alma decided by an almost
unanimous vote to build a new S11, 900
high school building. Only two votes
were cast against the proposition out
of several hundred votes cast.
Kansas Irvine for Oklahoma.-Ok.-
lahoma will be supplied with twine
from the Kansas binding plant at the
penitentiary during the coming sum-
mer. w. H. Haskell, warden of the
penitentiary, and the members of the
board of directors of the institution
have decided that Oklahoma should
have the benefit of the labor of some
of the convicts confined in the Kan
sas penitentiary. and that the sale of
prison twine to the Oklahoma farm
ers will tend to balance the account.
Whipped Cause She Prayed. = Car
rie Brooks. negress living in Mound
City has inst coIohrotod bor 11o+h