Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-12-29
X AN S A S ITEMS
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS


cost $1,000. Most all of the furnit-
ure was saved. Insurance on build
ing, $4,000. and on furniture, $1,000. 6
Shot by ConstabIe.-Sam J. Ryan,
a stranger. died at the city hospital
in Pittsburg from a gun shot wound
inflicted by Constable McMullen of
Chicopee, while Ryan was resisting
arrest. There was with Ryan at the
time a man named William Hart,
who claims to be a railroad man. He
was arrested.
States Expenses for January. -
Seth G. Wells. auditor OF state and
T. T. Kelly. treasurer of state have
prepared an estimate of the ex-
penses of the various departments of
the state government during TIC
month of January and drew on the
county treasurers for s1G3 ,045 to
cover the amount
New Plan Saves Money. = The
adjustment of the old board of live
stock sanitary commissioners and
PLACING the department under one
commissioner has resulted in a saw
ing of nearly so per cent according
stock sanitary commissioner. made
to Gov. Hoch.
Shaw Coming to Kansas. = Secre-
tary Shaw of the treasury has de
sites for the federal buildings au-
thorized at lola. Manhattan. Wichita.
Newton and Pittsburg until a time
when he can come to Kansas and
make a personal inspection of the
property offered for sale.
Baby Boy Born on Train. - Mrs
Charles Bright, of Fort Worth. Tex,
en- route to Wichita. gave birth to a
baby boy on a Rock Island passeng-
err train between Duncan and Mar
low. I. T. Travelling men made up
handsome purse for the youngster.
who has been named Rock Island"
Bright.
Big Annual Wolf Hunt. - The big
annual wolf hunt covering a portion
OF Chase and Lyon counties will take
place New Years day. The captains
will appoint rs many deputies as
they may think necessary to keep
the lines we'll formed and prevent
carriages from going into the terri
tory to be covered in advance. The
lines will be formed and ready to ad-
vance to the center at 10 O'Clock New
Years morning.
The G. B. Hoffman & Son Milling
Company. of Enterprise, has COM
pleted q cement dam across the
Smoky Hill river and is now finish
ing up the work on the forebay,
which is also made of cement. The
foundation for the water wheels is
one large cement rock, weighing
about III 900 pounds The water
power is now the most substantial in
the state.
Cancer Causes Suicide. Losson
Baker, member of the Soldiers
Home. at Leavenworth. killed him
self by jumping from the top of the
Soldiers Home hospital, a distance
of thirty feet. He lived only a short
time after striking the ground. Baker
was being treated in the hospital for
cancer. with which he had been af-
f1icted for many years. He killed
himself to escape the terrible suffer
ing to which he had been subjected
Baker was IA years of age. During
the civil war he belonged to the Fiji
tieth regiment of Missouri infantry.
He was buried in the cemetery at
the Home.
Found Guilty of LibeI.-A. B. Will
liams of Oswego. charged with libel
ing the Farmers Alliance Insurance
Company of Mcpherson. was found
guilty by a jury. The maximum pen
atty is a fine of $1,000 and imprison-
ment for one year. Williams had
had printed number of circulars
casting reflections on the insurance
before. but the verdict was reversed
by the supreme court.
Believes in a Fuii Pound. f d.
Coburn. secretary Of the state board
of agriculture. has taken issue with
the creamery men of the state in
their stand on the weight of a pound
of butter. The creamery men fave
advocat ted the belief that a pound of
creamery butter should weigh only
1870 ounces. Mr.. Coburn was ask
ed recently to address a number of
cra7mery men in convention at To
peka and refused. He wrote a lct-
ter. however, in which he discussed
a number of creamery subjects and
notified the creamery men that he
favored law making a pound of
manufactured butter weigh 16
ounces
Cattle Fed in Kansas. The bien-
NAL report which John Baker. live
stock sanitary commissioner is MAX
ing to Gov. Hoch. will show that
49,, 622 cattle have been brought into
Kansas for feeding and grazing pur-
poses since April, 1906.
Abilene Gets New Park. - The six
thousand dollar city park bonds is
sued last spring in Abilene have
| been declared legal in the District
Court inSuring a mark in tbo heart