Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-03-17
KANSAS COMMENT

the 14-year-old Gas City girl who left
the school room for an hour Z few
weeks ago 10 MARI Harry Munger,
30 years CID. was freed the other day,
when the district cert annulleG the
marriage.
Train Through Slower of oil. -
At least enc Santd &c train is well
painted with oil frC.I - Thayer
field. There was q break in the high
pressure oil lire north of Thayer near
the railroad. and the OIL was being
thrown high in the air as the train
came along. The wind which was
very strong from the southwest.
threw the greasy nuid in thick
spray all over the entire length CT the
train
Kansas Elevator Fire. = The large
mill and elevator of H. S. Edwards &
Co. in Chetopa was totally destroy
ed by fire. The mill had shU down
for the night and no one discovered
the fire until too late 20 save the
building. a heavy thunder storm pre-
coded the fire and it is believed the
elevator was struck by lightning. The
estimated loss is ,0C0 for the mill
and elevator and $4,000 for 1900
bushels OF wheat
Anthony's Big New Mill.-The bet
terments in the Kramer mill are now
practically under way. II was de-
cided to increase 10 seven hundred.
making il one of the largest mills III
southern Kansas. Contracts for the
machinery. which will all be new and
of the most modern type, were let
early in January. IL will be operated
by 200 horse power Cross com
pound ergine of the Corliss type
which with its battery of boilers and
engine house will cost $4,000.
Steam Pillow in Beet Culture.-The
old method OF blowing is too slow for
Kearny county. on the sugar beet lands
of the United States Sugar and Land
company, and A. II. Vogle is 1T Lakin
with Stea-I glow to commence Oper-
ations on the company's land south of
this city. I've hundred acres will be
plowed and replowed at once and put
in condition for growing beets. The
acreage 20 beets in the county the
coming season will more than double
any previous year
Burglar Alarm Saves Bank. = The
First National Bank al Lebanon has
been burgiarized. The burglars Sc
cured entrance through back win
dow and later pried the front door
open with a crowbar The vault on
the inside Of which was time lock
safe. was attacked. but as it was st
ted up with an electric alarm system
as soon as it was tempered with the
alarm went off and. it is presumed,
scared the burglars away. as no fur
ther damage was done.
AIli-ator as Watchdog.-Ed Kelley
Is going To open up Il new industry in
Kingman. it being nothing other than
an alligator farm. This week he re-
ceived from Frank Weinschenk, who
is down in New Orleans, a pair of
genuine French allisd .ors, by express.
They are male and female, and it is
Kelley's Intention TO make a business
of raising them for sale. AS is well
known. an alligator makes one of the
most reliable watchCoSs. if such they
may be called, there il in existence,
and they can be ;.,.eoi 10 keep off
all varmirts and even suspicious per-
sons from the premises. They can be
taught to bark like u dog and their
bark much resembles that. of a genu-
inc bulldog, and owing to their un-
couth or repugnant appearance there
is nothing that will venture upon the
premises where they are located
CherryVale to Vote on Bonda.-The
city council has ordered that at the
regular city election to be held here
regular city election, to be held here
April 3, the proposition to vote
$4,000 bonds for the proposed Pitts
burg. independence & Oklahoma rail
road. will be submitted. The prOpo-
sition has been materially changed
from the form IL which it was voted
upon and defeated at u special cleo
tion held December 2S.
Diptheria on the Increase:-Diph-
iberia is on the increase il Kansas.
During TIE month Of February there
we're 22O cases and twenty-nine deaths,
as against ffty-five and ten deaths for
the corresponding month last year
The report of the state board of health
Issued today shows that there were
also ninety-thlee cases c tuberculo
sis and thirty-soven deaths during the
past month; 102 cases of typhoid few
er and fifteen dealt S; 125 cases Of
scarlet fever and five deaths; 1913
cases of smallpox land one death;
three cases of dysentary and no
deaths; 1877 cases of measles and six
deaths; and TWO cases of cholera in
fantum and two deaths.
State Prisoners Vaccinated. = No
new smallpox cases have developed at
the state prison and the prisoners
who have the disease are reported to
be getting along very well. The au-
thorities at the prison are confident
that they will be able TO raise the
quarantine over the prison some time
during the latter part OF the week Dr.
Grigsby has vaccinated 1.009.
concordia's New 7: eater Bscun. =
Work has actually begun on the site
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