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

Reno to Name Delegates. - March
! u was tie date agreed upon for the
/ 'county convention to elect delegates
to the state and congressional con-
Sentions., The primaries will be held
March s.
Killed by Engine = Earl Moss, a
Rock Island switchman, was struck
F, by an engine and instantly killed
while working in the yards at Belle
vile. He leaves widow and one
small child.
HaskelI's Baseball Schedule. =
The following baseball schedule of
Haskell institute has been arranged:
Baker, April Z; Emporia college, Ap-
ril 12; Missouri State Normal. April
10; aMnhattan, April %; Oklahoma
| College, about May 5. Two other
dates remain to be filed. This is the
greatest number of games to be play
ed on the home field in several years.
Wants War With China-Col J.
! w. F. Hughes, adjutant general CT the
Kansas National Guard, is fairly itch
ing to get up war with China. He
I
can go as a colonel of Kansas regi-
ment. He says if war comes he will
! resign as adiutant in case he can get
| command of a regiment. He doesn't
make any threats, however, about go
| ms TO war as a private.
Rabbits Foot for Miss AIice.-El-
len Barker the 7-year-old daughter
of J. K. P. Parker of Six Mile, in Wy
/ andotte county, sent her photograph
and a rabbits foot to Miss Alice
| Roosevelt for wedding present
! Miss Barker received a letter from
Miss Roosevelt's private secretary,
which said: Miss Roosevelt has re-
ceived your remembrance, for which
she desires to express her Apprecia-
to- with many thanks for your good
wishes"
In Prison 20 Years.-Aaron Wells.
one of the oldest convicts in the Kan
sas penitentiary, will be released af.
ter serving a few days within twenty
years. He was brought to the peni.
tertiary from Cloud county February
&c. 1886, to serve a life sentence for
murder in the first degree. Wells
was model prisoner during his long
confinement. He has no black mark
against him and was never in the
hole" in all that time. His life SEN
tence was committed to a twenty-five
| year term by Gov Bailey. With full
allowance for good time this gives
him his liberty now
Fair February Business.-The in
dependent oil refineries of Kansas
are doing little business right Long
The Uncle Sam company sold LAO
barrels of oil and 1876 barrels of gaso-
line in Kansas last month. The Paola
refinery sold 654 barrels of oil and
fifty barrels of gasoline. The Su-
perior refinery sold Gil barrels of oil
and sixty-nine of gasoline. The Web
ster sold 20S barrels of oil. This
made a total of 3.213 barrels of oil
and 210 barrels of gasoline. The
sales to other states are not included
here The figures were given out by
the state oil inspector who only has
| Jurisdiction over oil and gasoline sold
| for consumption within the state.
! HoIyrocd is Growing. Holyrood
! challenges any town in the Kansas
| wheat belt to show more improve
ments now under way. A new 800
| barrel Touring mill is started with
| $4,000 raised by popular subscription
/ in less tlan day. A large hall for
entertainment purposes is under way.
1t would be called an auditorium in
| cities. j. H. Davis is moving his CT
| gar factory there, and a handsome
hotel building is under way. The
streets are being macadamiZed and
/ cement walks and crossings are 60
! ing in. A score of residences are I'm:
| der contract for spring. A good com
merciaI Club, backed by Editor Allen
! of the Banner and Conductor James
Ross of the Santa Fe, is making Holy
rood, at present terminus of the
Santa Fee. one of the important towns
| of the state.
Gusher at Ark&. City. The
| drillers for the Arkansas Valley Oil.
| Gas and Imp ovement Company
drilled in ore of the biggest gas wells
! in the field 1t is estimated to flow
! 10000, 600 cubic feet per day.
Soldiers Fighting Fire.-A prairie
fire has teen burning on the Fort Ri
ley reservation for more than week
and has swept over several thousand
acres of the reserve. The six bat
teries of artillery in the post. about
/ 700 men. were sent out to fight the
fire near the community ammunition
magazine. The Republican bottoms
north of Junction City have been
/ burned of.
Prize for Mixed Crop3.-The Santa
Fe has offered a 500 prize for the
best crop of mixed products raised
on a forty-acre plot. Each town repre-
scented in the Federated Commercial
! Clubs of the Englewoodf branch will
have a forty-acre gar len for the pur-
pose of showing what can be raised
with The proper care and attention
The tract making the best she wing
will be declared the winner of the
prize.