Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-24

VIII 6Tceo PucaGanI8- - EXpOFl-
ments in the breeding of game birds
will begin shortly at the Kansas State
Agricultural College. About thirty
birds of the variety known as Chinese
or Torquatus pheasant viii be secur-
ed to start with. The state game COM
mission will bear the expense of ft-
ting up the enclosures and breeding
pens
Haskell to Use Natural Gzs. = SUI
perintendent H. B. PEARS of Haskell
institute, at Lawrc-cc, i3 considering
using natural gas for fuel and power
at the institute. He has just return
ed from an inspection of Chilocco In
dian school. where the natural gas is
used and has found it is satisfactory.
Mr.. PEARS will consider the Eudora
wells before piping the gas.
Want Indian Lands Leac>d. = The
people of Arkansas City will send pc
titions to the secretary of the interior
asking that the surplus land of the
Chilocco Indian school reservation be
leased to farmers. The Commercial
Club of Arkansas City is behind the
movement There are about 1000
acres of land never uGed by the
schools. which would give homes to
several farmers
Labor Saving Device - Elmer E.
Logan, Of Larned. has solved the har-
vest hand problem by inveLting an
apparatus for handling wheat from
the header TO the STAG. The con-
trivance With one man does the work
of six men under the present harvest
ing system. This will revolutioniZe
things and save farmers not only
much money. but also much work
over the harvest hand problem.
Lead and Zin> Lower.-In the Mis-
souri-Kansas zinc district the ore buy
ers succeeded in lowering the price
81 per ton. The highest price re-
ported as wing ben paid was $53
for the output from the Toys mine,
making the basis price fo~ co per
cent ore $40. The decline of So per
ton in the price of pig lead at st.
Louis resulted in a reduction of $3.50
per ton in the price of lead ore.
Wants Rates Reduced = Emerson
Carey, a salt manufacturer at Hutch
inson. has brought another suit before
the board of railroad commissioners
asking for reduction in the rates on
slack coal. A case of this nature was
heard last fall, but the decision gave
TO competitive points an advantage
over the rate allowed to Hutchinson.
The case will take up only the slack
coal rates from the Kansas fields.
Corn Contest for Boys-Over 400
farmers of Elk county were at the
first farmers institute there, the sew
enth of tie Santa Fee series, conduct
ed jointly by the company and the
Kansas Agricultural College, and it
had the largest attendance so far
than any of the series. About sew
enty-five farmer boys ere present
Lectures were delivered on corn
breeding. alfalfa end soil fertility,
with spirited discussions on feeding
hogs and raising poultry. An organi-
zation was effected and it VS. voted
to take up the boys corn contest.
County Superintendent w. F. Biddin-
ger was elected secretary, and he
may organize a boys Agricultural
Club.
Money Belonged to Kansas. = A. A.
GODDARD formerly attorney general.
paid to the state treasury the sum
of s257S0. which represents the in
terest earned Oh 1923, 900 of Comanche
county bonds after the time they were
taken up by the state and before the
purchase was approved by the state
board of school commissioners. The
recent investigation of the state
treasury established the fact that the
money had tcea paid to Mr.. GODDARD,
and that he was not entitled to IT, The
states money was used TO take ND
the bonds. and the accountants re-
port showed that the state was en-
titled TO the interest This is the first
money which has been paid to the
state as a result of the recent invest
cation.
Quarter Cost Ten Years. - Ten
years in the penitentiary for 25 cents
is the fate OF Roy King young man
tried before Judge StilIwell at Cha
Chanute women one right a few
weeks ago. King pleaded guilty and
will be given the minimum sentence
for highway ROBBERY, ten years. The
pocketbook taken contained SIG, and
when arrested King had only spent
! % cents of that amount. Immediate
ly after King pleaded guilty another
man admitted stealing an overcoat at
Il Chanute hotel and was sentenced
to six months il the comfy Jail. the
charge being that of petit larceny
Qush Sa;pmel Expensiv, = VIII
/ liam Howard. resident OF BGrrtcI
/ pleaded guilty at Newton and was
fined 500 and costs on two counts
for having killed and shipped $50
quail TO a Hutchinson hote.keeper,
December 10. Howard il is claimed
has been making a practice of sup
I plying several Contra, Kansas hotels
with quail, and it is probable that
some of the hotelkecDers will be prose
c"ted. as the Jaw is equally severe on
them.