Free press., 1906-09-01

traction engine carried the bridge
down to the creek bed, twenty feet be
low, severely injuring Philip Lapaile
and Grant Fuller and wrecking the
engine.
Badly SeaIded Riding Trucks. =
Two tramps, claiming Kansas City as
their homes, were taken of of Santa
in a horrible condition. They were
said to be riding the trucks out of
Syracuse and were scalded and bruis-
ed in a pitable condition
Must Pay in cash.-Attorney Gen
eral Coleman has declared in an
opinion ON the subject written for the
superintendent of insurance that
burial associations must pay claims
in cash and that the heirs of the in
sured may spend the money with any
undertaken they choose.
Fatal Shooting Over a TrifIs.-Al-
bert Plyler, a miner residing at Bad
ger. was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded by Wester Morgan. another
miner. The two men quarreled over
candidates in a medicine show popu-
lar girl contest. The prize offered
was a cheap silver sugar bowl.
Land Agents Must Pay.-More than
1000 real estate agents along the
lines of the Kansas railroads will have
to pay railroad fare next year under
the terms of the recent ruling of rail-
or
companies have decided that the real
estate and land agents who are not
regularly employed by the railroad
companies cannot be given passes.
Negroes Urged to Acquire Land
Rev. J. r. Ransom of Topeka, presid
ing elder of the Fort Scott district of
the A. NJ E. church. says there is a
strong movement among the negroes
of the state to go to the farms and to
secure property for themselves. Rev.
Mr.. Ransom says he has instructed
the ministers of his district to urge
this upon the negroes from the pulpit
and in the homes.
Shoots Wife, Then Himseif.-Char-
les Martin, a night watchman en-
ployed by the Nevling Elevator Com
pany at Wichita, murdered his wife
and killed himself Family quarrels
are said to have been the cause. Mar
tin shot his wife three times. He
walked a distance of three blocks to
his mothers house and turned the re-
volver to his own temple. Six child
rem from 1 to 16 years old survive.
Street Railway Sold. = The Union
street railway in Winfield has been
sold to II. D. Siggins of Warren, Pa.
Mr. Siggins and associates own the
interurban line that is building from
Independence to Cherryvale and pro-
pose to build an electric line here
that will eventually connect with
Kansas City and Chilocco They are
negotiating with former interurban
promoters to take over the right of
way and franchises already secured.
Sly Dixon's Train. Sly Dixon has
completed arrangements for his
Southwestern Kansas Exhibit Adver-
tis:5g Train" which will start over
the Rock Island railroad from Dodge
City September 1S. The train will
stop over at Hutchinson for three
days during the fair. and will then
proceed over the Rock Island. Mr..
Dixon says this will be the finest
agricultural exhibit train that has
ever been run out of Kansas.
Kansas Flag Day. = During half
hour on the afternoon of September
! %, appropriate exercises will be held
in each of the public schools of the
| state in commemoration of the Tooth
anniversary of the first unfurling OF
! the flag of the United States in the
state of Kansas. The anniversary OF
this occasion falls on September %
but as that is Saturday, the celebra-
tion of the event will be held in the
schools throughout the state on Sep.
/ tember 2S. The flag was first un-
furled in Kansas at Pawnee. Republic
county. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike
while making his explorations which
resulted in finding Pixies peak.
Female Alexander the Great-Linn
| county has at least one girl whose
pluck and energy are admirable Miss
| Florence Alexander is now carrying
| the rural mails twenty-five miles every
day for her father. w. H. Alexander
carrier on route No. 2. She takes the
team and wagon and makes the
rounds just as puncrualIy as her
father. More than this-she cares fol-
the three horses used in the service
and keeps the wagon in running or
der.
Dead Babe Found in Car.-The dead
body of a new born girl babe was
found bv Frisco train men in a stock
car at Columbus. Kan
Mind Unbalanced by illness. =
Henry T. Moore. who had been sick
for some time at his home in ELI
City. and whose mind was thought
to have been unbalanced thereby. was
taken to independence. his case tried
in probate court and he was adjudged
insane. An order has been issued for
his admittance to the State asylum
at Osawatorie Moore is 4 married
man and about So years of age.