Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-09-07
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SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

received in Topeka to be distributed
over the state in conformity with the
changes recently made by the state
text book commission.
Two Killed by caVe-in.-A sec
ton forty feet long. ten feet wide
and four feet thick of the roof at
No. Is shaft of the Central Coal and
Coke Company, at Weir city, drop
ped. burying Robert Hardy and VIII
liam Wallace and killing them IL
stantly.
Mrs. Nation Fighting Masons. =
Mrs. Carrie Nation has announced
that she has started a crusade
against the Masons. 1.-The Masonic
lodge is the greatest enemy to the
government we have today" she
said. She is waging war on the or
der through the columns of her pa
per, The Hatchet, as well as with her
tongue.
Kan. Hen Breaks Worlds Record.
Mrs. Harry Carpenter, young
farmers wife near Sabetha, was re-
Gently surprised by one Of her old
iAOAo WoihlhS up " H0T Will a OIOOu
of % newly Matched chickens. The
hens had laid eggs in a private, i'm
promptu. in the adjacent woods and
this mOtherly old hen had sat on the
whole twenty-five eggs and brought
them ell safely out of the shell. 1t
is possible. chicken raisers say, TO
raise sixteen chickens at a setting,
although thirteen eggs are consider
ed big setting 1t is unheard of to
bring out % chickens at one setting
Every chick is hearty.
Drug Shops Raided. Attorney
General Jackson invaded Cowley
county by causing to be issued from
the district court search and seizure
warrants against Joyce Billings and
Cooper Hayes and Scott and Ellis
and Dye, three leading drug firms at
Arkansas City. Sheriff Day served
the writs and took possession of
quantity of liquor, mostly whisky
$500 pounds in weight. The pro-
prietOrs were arrested and injunc-
tions served at the same time. The
attorney general made out the papers
field by II. S. Hines. city attorney IF
Arkansas City The liquor was TAX
en- to Winfield for storage until the
case can be tried.
"No Mans Land" Raided. The
roadhouse saloon and gambling den
on the State line. a half mile south
of Caney. was burned. following
raid upon it by United States Officer
Keller and Johnson of the Indian
Territory. The officers found two
men in the place, Claud Paradise and
Will Peters. and they were arrested.
After raiding the place and remov-
ing the money from the cash register
the officers set fire to the building.
The liquor and gambling devices
were destroyed. Following the raid
and fire Robert Hicks. who it seems
owned the place. had the officers ar
rested for taking money from the
cash register that did not belong to
them The officers demanded an i'm
mediate trial This was given them
and a hearing was held before JUS
tice Yost. who refused to hold the
officers The building was put up re-
Gently on a narrow strip of land on
the StAe line that the builders be
lieved mo mans land" having been
omitted from both Kansas and Okla
homa by the government surveyors.
They believed themselves safe on
this land and the place was doing
a f1ourishing business when the Off
GERS swooped down upon 1t. The
building was a four-room, one-story
structure.
over Per Cent AlcohoI.-A. series
of malt beer tests have been made
bv the board of health to determine
the amount of a1cahol in the con-
tents The average ran up to Psi
and the board of health turned the
information over to the attorney gen
eral with the statement that the mat
| ter was properly one for the prohibit
tory law and not for the pure food
| law to handle.
Kansas to Have a sale.-Kansas is
going to have ''rummage' sale
| some of these days. At the meeting
of the executive council recently the
custodian was instructed to prepare
a list of all the old things about the
state house. This list will include
all the old chairs, desks, bookcases,
carpets and the gardening machinery
used on the lawn. When the list is
completed the council will ask for
bids on the lot Some of the state
offciais have already begun check
ing up their old furniture and seeing
| if there is not some of their property
which could be classed as old and
put into the rummage sale and then
they would get nice new furniture
for their offices.
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