Free press., 1906-09-29

cover from her injuries. She is in
the Wichita hospital, swatheI in sur
geon's bandages from her shoulders
to her feet. and as helpless as an in
FAINT
Stock Feeding Station Abandoned.
Since the thirtv-six hours shipping
law went into effect the stock feeding
station on Union Pacific. at Junction
City has been abandoned. Heretofore
al stock from the western part of the
state had to be unloaded and fed
there
Couldn't Establish Their Guilt. =
After a two days trial in district
court at Manhattan. Norman Jeeter
Promise, Roberts and Turk
Wright, all negroes. who were charg-
ed with breaking into the Rock Is
land depot and taking $23 and two re-
volvers, were acquitted.
Wellington Grants Gas Franchise.
The city council of Wellington
granted a franchise to parties repre-
senting the Wichita Natural Gas Com
pany to supply the city with natural
gas for a period of twenty years ar a
rate to private consumers not eX-
ceeding 80 cents per thousand
Leg Cut Off by a Train. = Percy
Mackay. a Santa Fe brakeman, whose
home is at Florence. Kan, was run
over six miles from Dodge City.
Mackay's right leg was cut off close
to the body. He was taken to hos
pital at Dodge City. He cannot re-
cover.
The cave-in Caught Him. While
engaged in digging along the west
side of the excavation for the new
Boston Store building in Wichita a
workman was caught by the sudden
caving in of the wet dirt. He was
buried in the ground up to his should
ers and was unable to move hand OF
foot.
Paraded in Pajamas.-A line of K.
C. students half mile long, arrayed
in night robes and pajamas paraded
the streets Of Lawrence between and
20 O'Clock 10 celebrate the football vic
tory over William Jewell. The men
were freshmen and soDhomores who
now parade annually instead of hold
ing class fight.
Evans to San Francisco.-Dr Cope
land Evans, pastor. of the First
Methodist Episcopal church in To-
peka for the past two years. has been
assigned the task of rebuilding the
Methodist churches in the devastated
city of San Francisco and conserving
the interests of Methodism in that To-
cality. He has been appointed pre-
siding elder of that. district and has
accepted the appointment.
Swell Special Beats Roosevelt's.
Much interest is being manifested
in the forthcoming trip of the Mis-
souri,. Kansas G Texas officials. 1t
will be the annual fall inspection and
will be very complete. The official
train. Of private cars which will run
as special will be one of the finest
ever seen in the Southwest, not even
excepting that on which President
Roosevelt travelled.
Father and Son Sent to Prison. -
John Dwyer and his son, Frank, two
of the three crooks who were caught
at Pittsburg some time ago. on sus-
picion. and who were afterwards
found to have been the crooks who
| burglarized country store at Iantha.
Mo-, were both sentenced in court at
Lamar, the father being sent 10 the
state penitentiary and the son to the
| s4oA1S col, n0fh r1n 6nd
guilty to the charge of burglary.
Fight Mandamus.-Wichita negroes
have appealed to Judge Wilson, of the
district court, for mandamus to COM
pei the board of education to admit
their children to all the schools and
the writ was granted. President Hat
field, of the board of education, said
that the board would fight the case
in the courts. even to the extent
of taking it to the supreme court, if
necessary.
Dropped into Hole The $4,000
concentrating plant of the Palmetto
Mining Company at Galena was al
in. The hole made by the cavein
which occurred while the plant was
in operation. is about fifty feet wide
and ei~hty feet deep. having caved to
the second level. Six miners were at
work IL the lower ground. but escaped
injury Among the machinery lost
are two steam jigs. two sets of rolls.
elevator. etc. The ground caved to
a point a few feet under the large
boilers. but these and the engine will
be saved. The Palmetto is the Ga
lena mining property in which ex-
Senator J. R. Burton, of Kansas, was
interested.
Was Desoondent, Shot Himself =
Neils Peterson, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing a few miles east of Osborn. com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the right temple with a rife.
Dependency caused by sickness is as
signed as the cause.
Retuned From Seagirt.-Rev. Bruce
Grifith of Wichita has returned from
Seagirt, n. J., where he went to shoos
at the national army tournament He
| won two medals in the Kansas shoot