Free press., 1906-12-01
Killed While Hunting Rabbits.

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hunting rabbits when Clarence Peck,
discharged, the bullet entering Clut-
ter's abdomen.
Honor For DR.. SheIdon.-Dr. Char
les NJ. Sheldon, of Topeka, known all
over the world as the author of In
His Steps, has been invited by the
English Temperance Society to go to
England next March to take a prom
| inent part in the temperance cam
Daign which will be started there
! about March l.
Topeka Man Is Lucky. = Frank
Smith, of Topeka. Kan, brother of
Mrs. Charles L. Fair, who. with her
| husband, was killed in an automo-
bile accident in France four years
ago, has received his share of the
estate left by his sister. Smith said
he received many times the amount
paid to the other heirs, but gave no
figures. He is said to have accepted
$25O,OO for his share, and the final
papers were signed.
Frisco Using Much Kansas Plaster.
Cars can not be furnished fast
enough to haul out the orders for
Blue Rapids plaster that come from
San Francisco to be used in the re-
building of the city. There are four
plaster mills at Blue Rapids and
each one of them is running at full
capacity trying to keep up with the
orders that are pouring in daily for
their product More than half of
| &c co
Francisco Blue Rapids plaster was
used extensively in old San Fran
cisco and since the destruction of the
town orders have been pouring in 50
rapidly that the mills are taxed to
their utmost to supply the demands
made upon them.
Burton to Write Book. - 1t is re-
ported that when ex-senator Burton
passes through the portals of the
Ironton county Jail in Missouri and
| breathes the air of liberty he will
publish book giving the inside his
tory of the incidents which led up
! to his conviction. The book will be
written during his incarceration. He
= will then take the lecture platform
and probably the independent politi-
! cal stump when it is expected he will
/ startle the country with a bitter ar
raignment of President Roosevelt,
j former Fourth Assistant Postmaster
! General J. L. BriStOW, William Allen
White, the magazine writer, and Cy
rus Leland, former boss of Kansas
politics. 1t is these prominent per
sonages that Mr.. Burton holds as be-
f0r
/ fall
Ex-ConVict a Suicide. = John Mel
son, who killed Albert Morris in
Coffeyville, in September, 1901, kill
ed himself at the home of an old
friend named Dick Downing. He
shot himself through the heart and
died Immediately. He left a note
saying that he was a discontented,
miserable man, and that his killing
of Norris was in self-defense and
had not caused him to kill himself
Nelson was tried for the murder of
Norris and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for five years. He Sc
cured a parole several months ago,
after having been in prison only a
year. While he was in trouble his
wife sued him for divorce and left
him to marry another man. Nelson
brooded over this and it is believed
that it was this family trouble as
much as the murder trouble that
caused him to commit suicide. He
left four children.
Wheat Elevator Collapsed. = The
elevator of CoIborn Bros. of Grove
land collapsed because it was over
loaded with wheat. On account of
the railroad company not furnishing
cars for shipment the wheat had ac-
cumulated until the elevator was fill
ed beyond its capacity. Considerable
Of the wheat will be lost.
1t May Come to This. = Because
the price of eggs has gone so high
Winfield dealers are keeping them in
time-loek safes. 81 am sorry" said
merchant to a customer at 8
o'clock one morning, "but 1 cannot
let you have any eggs for an hour
They are in the safe and the time
lock does not open until o'clock"
Dies Destitute in Tent.-While ly-
ing in pitiful state of destitution,
death came to Mrs. Y. F. Martin in
; a tent just south of Garden City,
within a stones throw Of the hotel
With her husband and several small
children she has been existing in a
scanty tent, Drawing the severe cold
and snow of the past few days and
suffering from lack of nourishment
and care. Mrs. Martin had been i'll
for some weeks with typhoid fever.
Negro Veteran Frozen to Oeath.-
The almost nude body of Charles VII
IIams. a negro veteran of the Sol
, diers' home at Leavenworth, was
found frozen stiff at the outskirts of
TIE home grounds. Williams was
identified as a patient who had es-
capped from the hospital clad only in
q thin undershirt
Hard on the Mail Man. = The re-
cent storm has been severe on rural
route carriers in Kansas. In many
instances they were unable for two
days to cover their routes.