Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-08-11


the Kansas State Poultry show for
Wichita. January to II. The neces-
sary money was guaranteed to pay
expenses and considerable enthusiasm
was manifested.
Planning Big improvement ts.-The
growth of Solomon has brought about
demand for improvements and
municipal lighting plant, water works
and other improvements are planned.
The new buildings erected during the
past two years have transformed the
town and it is one of the best bust
ness points in that section Of the
state.
Crushed by Pump.-A very serious
accident and perhaps a fatal one. &C
Cured at the Webster refinery at
Humboldt. when Rob Latimer was
injured by a pump falling on him
from the top of wagon. He was
moving the pump when it fell from
the wagon and struck him in the
stomach and breast and broke three
ribs and injured him internally.
Big Wheat Crop. - Threshing has
now gone lar enough to indicate that
the state has raised about 90,000,O00
| bushels of wheat or 100000 bush
els more than in 1905 and with one
exception the largest crop that Kan
| sas ever produced. Indeed, tie final
returns may raise the estimate above
the crop of 1905. which. as reported
by Secretary Coburn. was 94,000,000
| bushels.
Kidnaps His Own Child. a NJ.
Harriet Nuckols county, Nebraska,
farmer. is in the county jail at Tope-
ka awaiting trial for contempt of
court. The contempt consisted in
Harriet kidnapping his own child
after he had been served with an in
junction from the district court order
ing him not to interfere with his wife
or child while his wife's suit for di
vorce is pending in the court.
Will Leave One Day Later.-P. H.
Coney. commander of the Kansas de-
partment of the G. A. R. has changed
the date of departure of the C. A. r.
special train from Topeka for the ma
tional encampment of the order to be
held in Minneapolis from August IL
to August II. The train will arrive
in Minneapolis on Monday and is ex-
pected will bear a large delegation of
Kansans who will use their influence
to elect Coney commander of the ma
tional department of the order.
Girl Is Drowned at Ford. = Misses
Ruby and Cora Kinley of FL Dorado,
ok+ 7
in a buggy. The stream was swollen
and the horses feet were washed
from under them. Miss Ruby was
washed down the stream in the
buggy and drowned Miss Cora
jumped out, succeeded in getting to
the shore and went to a farm house
for assistance. The drowned girls
body was found 100 yards down the
stream.
Wanted in Kansas. A requisition
was issued from the Office of Gov.
Hoch for the return from Austin,
Tex. to Lincoln county, in this state,
of Fletcher B. Williams. who is want
ed on charge of embezzlement and
arson. Williams formerly was agent
with enbezzling $500 from that COM
pany and s1GS from the Pacific Ex-
press Company while he was agent
at Vesper. 1t is charged that the
crime was committed in 1905.
Every Car Turns Over. - East
bound Santa Fe passenger train No.
Is was wrecked near Sawyer, Kan,
as the result of spreading rails The
entire train with the exception of the
engine and tender turned over. Eight
persons were slightly injured, but
none seriously. The train was in
charge of Conductor Wright Samuel
Holcomb was the only passenger sus-
tanning broken bones. His thumb and
a bone in the right hand were
| broken.
Fatally Injured by a FaIl.-James
McKinstry, a painter, fell from a Sec
ond-story window in Kingman and
received injuries that will prove IA
tai.
Secures Helen Gould Scholarship
Claude Palmer of Osawatomie has
been appointed to a scholarship in the
| new iOTh Olly university through the
! influence of Miss Helen Gould. who de-
sired that 1t go to some worthy
Young man on the Missouri Pacific
"sjlwsy. The scholarship is endowed
with $4,000. The interest Is applied
70 the tuition and expense OF the stu
dent end will permit Palmer to take
a complete course.
Robbed 1.-the of $eoo.-Whlle max.
ing an overland trip from the Indian
Territory to their old home in South
Dakota, Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. 1.-the
were robbed of 5000 seven miles south
Of Wichita. Mr.. 1.-the was sleeping
in his wagon when awakened by the
touch of a revolver on his forehead
and a demand to hand over all money
in his possession. Mr.. 1.-the thinks
the robber was one of his former
neighbors. Mr.. 1.-the stopped in Wich
itG and reported the robbery.
Found Dead in FieId.-Ross Guth.
ridge. aged IS. was found dead in a
field where he had been blowing near