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

ell county man who is serving five
years in the penitentiary Another
application from Mitchell county is
for the parole of Sam Harvey. who
was sentenced in 1904 to serve an in
terminate sentence for kidnapping q
girl.
"Made Good" In New York. -
Miss Alice Robe, of Lawrence, who
is on the New York World. is writ
ing feature stuff about the Thaw case
for that paper and column after
column of illustrated stories on the
case and it's many points are being
written by her as assigned feature ar
ticles. Miss Robe has made good
on the World and is one of the trust
ed members of the staff of that pa
per.
More inspectors. = The local force
of the United States bureau of anin.al
industry is to be increased at the
Wichita packing houses as a result of
the recent act of congress providing
for additional packing house and
stock yards inspectors. The new en-
ployes will probably begin work Mon
day. At present there are four in
spectors, three taggers and one stock
examiner. The new men are to in
spect the product after it is cured.
Result of Reading Dime Novels. -
Earl Robinson, a 14-year-old boy who
was arrested in Pittsburg while try
ing to dispose Of a team and wagon
which he had stolen from a farmer
for whom he was working near COT
feyville, owes his downfall to dime
novels. His pockets were full of
cheap sensational dime novels and it
seems that yellow-back literature
was his constant companion Robin
son stole the handsome matched team
of Abner Green
Indians Give Roy Slower a Sword
When Roy Slower, of lola, graduates
from the naval academy at Annapolis
he will be given a handsome sword
by the Ponca Indians in token of
their esteem for him and it will
doubtless be highly priced for him.
Roy Leroi Slower was the second
white child born at the Ponca Indian
agency and he was named after two
prominent men in that country, an
Indian named Roy and a United
States marshal named Leroi. 1t is
believed that he is the first native
born Oklahoman to graduate from
Annapolis.
Busy State of Kansas. - w. L. A
lob O.
ciety of Labor and Industry, has col
lected statistics showing the advance
ment Kansas has made in industrial
lines since 1900. The report shows
that the greatest amount of money in
vested in the packing business and
that there are now twenty-five pack
ing houses in the state as compared
with fourteen in 1900. The capital in
vested in the business is S25 200, 900
as compared with $16,O0O,00O in 1900
The value of the products of all of
the plants for the year 1905 was &c.,
100000. an increase of $4,000, 600 in
five years. This industry gives en-
ployment to 1862 men. Milling is
second in Importance among Kansas
industries. There are 354 mills in
the state, a decrease of three since
1900. The capital invested has in
creased from 100000 to $4,000, 600
since 1900: The industry gives en-
ploymeat to 1881 men. The follow
ing industries rank in the order
named in the state: Railroad car
shops. zinc. smelling. butter and
cheese making, printing and publish
ing, foundry and machine shops,
brick and tile making, bakeries, soap
and candle making and salt manu-
featuring. The thirteen leading in
dustries of the state comprise 6S.S
per cent of the industries of the
state. and the 35,410 employees draw
SIS. 1855, 900 a year in wages. The
value of the products of all the fac
tories of the state is $197, OOO,0 900 a
year as compared with $145,OOO in
1900.
Broke Her Neck. - Mrs. Tom Edg-
mond. the young wife of a farmer re-
siding five miles northeast of Col
umbus. was thrown from her buggy
while driving home, and her neck was
broken, she dying soon after. 5
Knife Cut OF His Nose. - Frank
Huff of La Harp attempted to adjust
the spring on one of the screen doors
at his home, using a sharp knife to
pry the spring from the staple. The
position in which he was working was
such that when the blade slipped
from the spring it struck him on the
raso. almost severing a portion of it
from his face.
Almost = Riot at SaIina.-The work
o. laying car tracks was stopped at
Salina by the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way Company with a restraining or
der. The street car company was at
tempting to lay tracks across the Mis-
souri, Pacific tracks when the section
men were called to prevent it. A po-
lice call was sent in and a riot avoid
ed. Later Roadmaster O'Toole and
Agent Boughton secured a restraining
order from the court and the work
was stopped. The controversy was
over the kind of crossing to be laid
5athers Naked by Public Road. =
County Attorney Ezra Branine is go
ing after the boys and young men that