Free press., 1906-04-14

III AIaDaIna, Sl3l IN Arkansas, $14O
in Illinois. s152 in Iowa. $153 in Michi-
gan and $1G2 in Indiana.
Mcpherson Civic League. The
Civic League of Mcpherson county
met in the court house and after
temporary organization permanent
officers Were elected. The organiza-
ton begins with eighty of the princi-
pal business men of the city and sur
rounding country
No New Trial. - In the Douglas
county district court Judge c. A.
Smart denied a motion for q new
trial in the incubator baby case,
first because the matter is now be-
yond the Jurisdiction of this court,
and, second, because of the pendency
of the action in the supreme court.
Railroad Bonds Carried. = At the
election at CherryvaIe the proposition
to issue $4,000 bonds for the propos-
Ell Pittsburg, Independence & Oklaho-
me- railroad carried by a vote of 425
for and 175 against. The same p-opo-
sition in slightly different form was
defeated at q special election last De
cember.
Stealing Their coal.-Fort Leaven-
worth has coal supply sufficient to
last for a few days only. Of ship
ment of thirteen cars from Weir City
the Frisco railroad is said this week
to have confiscated six. The remain
ing seven arrived here. Weir City
operators are under contract to sup
ply the post coal for year. The con-
sumption is Ec-e than fifty tons
daily.
Pardons Egg StcaIer. - Gov. HOch
issued a pardon to Robert Graham,
who has been serving six months in
the Atchison county Jail for stealing
two cases, of eggs out of a freight car.
Graham's term will expire in the lat
ter part of April. and as his father
is seriously i'll in Kansas City, the
pardon was issued on condition that
Graham go to Kansas City to take
care Of his father.
Lays Off Railroad Crews. = While
Fort Scott will not suffer directly from
the coal strike that is launched all
over the country the Frisco road will
reduce it's operating force. A large
pc, cent of the Frisco's business in the
coal belt is the transportation of coal.
With this taken off. a large hole will
BE- made in the receipts of the COM
pany. Eight crews have been laid off
out of Cherokee and this will have its
effect. There are five men in a crew.
To get some idea of the coal business
done by this road. it must be taken
into consideration that the Frisco had
eleven crews out of Cherokee.
Model Boxcars as Exhibits.-An ap-
peal has been filed in the supreme
court by the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company from the decision in the
Sedgwick county district court. The
suit was brought by Henry Brinkmet-
er who received judgment in the low
er court for $500. He was injured in
Hutchinson, Novemb er IL, 1900, while
II b. was making a coupling. He alleges
that the drawbar for the railroad COM
pany .were defective. The attorney
fer the railroad company has filed two
miniature box cars with the court to be
used as evidence in showing that the
! coupling was not defective.
! Kansan on Panama Road. - Frank
( Wickham, formerly of Mound City
has been made foreman of copper
smiths on the Panama railroad head
! quarters Empire, Canal Zone. Wick
! ham writes to his kin here that the
climatic conditions there have been
| larpaIv aNaO~eratad He SavS the
temperature is not particularly dis
! agreeable. Wickham says that the
| American sanitary commission is do
ing a vast amount of work there cut
ting away brush and draining. He
says the buzzards are as thick as
sparrows IN Kansas, and that they
are valued and protected as scaveng
ers. fine of S25 being imposed fol
killing one of them.
Transfers in Saline county-It has
been years since the real estate trans
fers in Saline county reached the fig
ures in numbers or aggregate value o.
property that was reached last month
Salina property was exceedingly ac
tive. more than seventy-four transfers
having been made. A number O
these. however, were recorded giving
the consideration as 81 and othel
valuable considerations. In gettin:
the value of the land sold in the cit!
nothing was taken with -alue les:
than $50 and the total number o
transfers were seventy-four, with al
aggregate value of S65.47S. The sale.
of farm lands reached the limit, eigh
transfers. and the consideration il
round figures was $272,3S5.
Bourbon County's Oil Strike.-Re
ports received say that a big flow o
oil has been struck northwest of Bron
son. Bourbon county. H. p. and H
f. Clay of this county put a hol'
down $50 feet and have secured so
feet of oil sand according to the lat
est report from there. The result
are causing good deal of excitemen
and other prospect holes are to h'
sunk at once
Abilene Sc..ool Bonds Good. - At
torney General c. c. Coleman, in al
opinion made public sustains th'
vnlidity of the school bonds issued b,