Free press., 1906-04-14
Hard to Convict Women. TT cos

Hard to Convict Women - It cost
salina county $2.Ss7 in jurors fees
alone, to demonstrate that it is i'm
possible to convict woman of kill
ibg Aer husband unless she commits
the crime in the presence of several
people. or confesses.
Salinas Dam Completed = The Sa-
lima Construction Company has finish
ed the mill race and f1ume at the
Western Star Mill Company's plant.
The work was all done in concrete
and the length Of the walls of botI
race and fune is $50 feet.
Hutchinson's Summer .Theater. -
Hutchinson is to have new theater.
L. N. Crawford of Topeka and Fred
R. Corbett of Emporia, connected with
the Crawford circuit of theaters have
made arrangements for the building
of an air dome summer theater.
Astronomical Figures. = Recruiting
officers of the United tates army got
only one recruit at Cherryvale after
a weeks effort and pulled out in dis
gust. The young men there preferred
the profitable pursuits of civil life
to a S13 month job in the army.
Astronomical. - An astronomer in
Northeastern Kansas calls attention
to the fact that there was no full
moon in February, although there
were two in January, and March is
also allotted two. He computes that
this will not happen again for 2,500,000
years.
Teachers at iaWat!1a.-The annual
meeting of the Northeast Kansas
Teachers Association is - in session
with an attendance of visiting teach
ers the largest in the history of the
association. The homes of the city
have been thrown open and ample
entertainment has been provided for
the visitors.
Kansas Bankers Close Meeting. =
The annual meeting Of the bankers
of group five, comprising the south
west quarter of the state is closed.
The meeting of the group next year
will be at terling. The new officers
chosen are: President, Thomas At
kinsOn, Sterling; secretary, T. A Eng
lish, Sterling; member state nominat-
ing committee, F. S. Larrabee, Stat
ford.
Fish in Kansas Streams. = Harvey
county streams have been stocked
with fish from the fish warden S
ponds at Pratt. Kansas. County Game
and Fish Warden A. r. Ainsworth re-
ceived from Del Travis, the state fish
warden, seven large cans of small
fish including the croppie and the
black bass varieties Each can con-
tanned 500 fish little more than a
finger length in size and Mr. Aims
worth promptly took the fish to the
country streams and turned them
loose.
5enders' Bones Not Found. = The
abandoned well on the old Bender
farm, near Mortimer and ten miles
north of Cherryvale, and in which it
had been reported by Dr. James A.
Ce Moss that the bodies of the no
tOrious family were deposited and the
well filled with stones to depth of
eighteen feet, was overhauled but no
trace of the bodies was found. DR..
De Moss made published statement
some time ago that he had the word
of one who claimed to have been an
eye witness TO the burial of the bodies
of the BenderS in the well.
Made Money on State Funds. -
Since the state depository law went
into effect last September, Kansas has
made profit of s5,S04.53 in loaning
state funds to the banks. The amount
| paid monthly by the banks since the
beginning of the present year has
| been more than 81 100 for each month
The law went into effect in Septem
Der last year when the state was
| short of funds, and the interest re
ceived that month amounted to only
! $231.69. In October it was $8S0.6S;
November, $G26.21: December
! s477.7O; January, $1,14G.67; February
| $1,291.65, and March $1,149.93.
Pioneer "reminiscences. = In pion
eer "reminiscences of Cawker City ant
the Solomon Valley it is learned tha1
Judge Clark A Smith. now supreme
court Judge, taught the first regular
district school in that town as early
! as 1S71-72. In those good old times
| people came to Cawker City fer dis
| tance of $50 miles for their mail. ar
| it is said that in 1878 the deposits il
the money order business alone were
as high as $4,000 and $4,000 week
Hoch at Pittsbure July a. : Presi
dent R. NJ Scott, of the Pittsburs
ChautauQua Assembly, announce:
that Gov. Hoch has accepted the invi
tation of the committee to make tht
address on the Fourth of July.
Miners Quit at Leavenworth.-Sev
en- hundred and fifty men from the
Home Riverside Coal Mining Compan!
and 200 from the Carr mine have
gone on strike. They were ordered
| to strike in the southwest district, bu
on account of the miners in the 9th
er districts going out the Leavenwortl
miners have stopped work until The
! difficulties have been satisfactoril,
adjusted. No strike order was re
| c;aiVed here