Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-07-21

the country and the team became UNI
manageable and ran away. Mrs.
Rusk was thrown over the front of
the load and behind the horses, the
wheels passing over her head killing
her instantly Mrs. Rusk was ~
years old and leaves four children.
Is Held For Killing Thug. =
George Dennis, the police officer
who shot Ben Tines, a negro, at the
Santa Fe depot in Wichita a week
ago, was bound over to the October
term of the district court. He gave
bond in the sum of $4,000 Tines
died at the hospital the day after the
shooting. Dennis was arrested on a
warrant sworn out by Olga Morgan.
a sister of Ben Tines.
Here Is Work For 200 Men.-T. B.
Gerow. state free employment agent,
has received a request for 200 men
to work in the cement plants in East
ern Kansas. The proprietors of these
plants say that their men went to the
harvest fields when the first call for
help was sent out and that they are
badly in need of men. The requests
are for fifty men at lola, 100 at indie
pendence and fifty at Neodesha The
men will earn from $1.75 to $3.50 a
dav.
Would Tax Franchises.-J R. Bur-
row, secretary of state, has an
nounced that he will ask the legisIa-
ture which will meet next winter, to
provide tax for franchises. He will
begin a campaign for this law at
once and the biennial report of his de-
partment soon to be issued. will con-
tain a recommendation to Gov. Hoch
that such a law be enacted. q be-
lieve Kansas" said Mr.. Burrows,
Ought to tax the franchises of the
public service corporations. l do not
believe in providing a blanket tax for
all such corporations but in taxing
them according to their earnings
Federal Prison Gets 100000. =
Warden McClaughry of the United
States penitentiary at Leavenworth
received a copy of the sundry civil
bill as it passed congress which gives
an appropriation of 100000 for con-
struction at the federal prison and
$1S5,000 for the maintenance of the
institution for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1907. 1t provides $4,000 for
subsistence for the prison; $4,000
for clo$hing and travelling expenses;
$4,000 for miscellaneous expendit-
ures; $4,000 for hospital supplies;
800 for salaries and $4,000 for the
payment of the foremen of the differ
ent departments. The authorities of
the Department of Justice had asked
for $4,000 with which to carry on
the construction work at the prison,
but this was cut down to 100000.
Thought Indians Roaned Kansas
Colonel H. Riley of Boston, Mass,
who has been visiting in the South
west, has returned to his home in the
East. While Mr.. Riley was greatly
pleased with the prosperous condi-
ton of the various cities in which he
visited. his, idea of the romantic is
greatly shattered, having the belief
he would be obliged to seek shelter
beneath the gloomy recesses of an
Indian hut, with nothing to break the
stiffness Of the night save the howl
of the wolf or the occasional tramp
of buffaloes in the distance While
in Wichita Mr.. Riley purchased Nava-
10 blankets to the value of S275, buy
ing the entire stock of an East Doug
las avenue curio store. In speaking
of his visit to the West and to Wich-
tia, Colonel Riley said: Although
ho rot
Ting rapidly. 1 had no idea that it
would be thickly populated. My
chief object of this trip was to col
lect souvenirs and to enjoy a week
of western life. I guess I have done
both but not in the way 1 expected.
Why, Wichita is as up-to-date as any
eastern city of its size, and it's build
ings and parks are just as fine My
idea of Kansas has changed COM
pletely."
Died While Pitching Wheat.-John
NJ. Cannon died suddenly while at
work in the harvest field Mr. Can
non at the time of death was visiting
at his son-in-law's, Mr.. A Lambert
four miles east of Eudora. In the af-
ternoon at o'clock, thinking to help
Mr.. Lambert in stacking his wheat,
he procured a fork and commenced
pitching and it was while thus en-
plGyed that he was stricken. Death
was instantaneous. Deceased was
seventy-three years of age.
Woman Policeman Enforced Order.
The town of Colony has a woman
police officer. Mayor White appoint
eel Mrs. c. H. Johnson to assist in
keeping order at the Fourth of July
celebration because there were no
men available. The result was that
there were no disturbances on that
day. Mrs! johnson wore a star and
carried a heavy walking stick, which
she twirled with all the grace of a
metropolitan cop" Two young men
questioned her authority, but a threat
to place them under arrest. accom-
panied by a brisk move toward them
with the stick, put the young men
to flight. The town awarded Mrs.
Johnson vote of thanks.
Big Land Deal Near Gypsum. =
A real estate deal was made where
by SO acres of the V. W. Miller land