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

and Mrs. William Johnson and
young daughter, We're drowned in
creek near Oakley while trying to
+ ford the stream, which was swollen,
! in a buggy.
Fire Burns w. U. ofnce. - The
Office of the Western Union Tele-
| graph Company at Arkansas City, to-
gether with all instruments, Office
records and furniture were destroyed
by fire, believed to have been of in
cendiary origin.
Body in School House Attic.-The
badly decomposed body of man
| cake school house, northwest of
Overlook, by Dunkards. who gath
cred at the school house to hold re-
| ligious services
Husband Shoots and KiIIs.-Char-
| ley Owens, a cement walk builder. of
Hutchinson, shot and killed TEX
| Mullins, Santa Fe brakeman, in the
Santa Fe yards. Alleged attentions
paid by Mullins to Mrs. Owens is re-
spOnsible for the shooting.
Got 331 Dozen Bad Eggs.-A Lyon
| county man wired the board of
health asking what he should do to a
man who sold him a lot of eggs in
which there were 331 dozen decayed
ones. DR.. Crumbine told him to call
on his county attorney. The suit
will be valuable as test.
Woman Struck by Train-Mrs. G.
A Turney, wife of the field superiu-
| tendent of the United States Sugar
| and Land Company, for the Deer
| field district, was struck by the en-
CINE of Santa Fee passenger train No.
| 9. at Deerfield, and instantly killed.
| She started to cross the track in
front of the train which was moving
faster than she calculated and was
| caught before she got off the track.
Skull Fractured; Boy Dies. = Her
bert Meibach died at his home in
POwhattan, as result of being
| thrown from a horse. The boy
| struck his head, causing a fracture CT
the frontal bone and back portion of
| the skull. An operation was per-
formed, but he died in "a hours. He
was 16 years old and graduate of
I Z
| tan.
Emporia Man Suicides. = Thomas
Lauderbeck of Emporia. committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the heart. dying within a few min
utes after firing the shot Family
1 trouble caused the act. He had been
separated from his wife about a
month and it preyed on his mind He
was a teamster by occupation His
wife was a widow when he married
and the mother of several children. 6
Dogs Are Killing Stock. = Com
mon, ordinary, domestic dogs are do
ing as much damage to stock in the
neighborhood of JVetmore. south of
Sabetha. as the vicious wolf Reuben
Gibbons recently lost four goats
through the ravages of a pack Of
dogs. Saturday E. ]. Woodman
found two packs of dogs in his hog
yard. Each pack was tearing valu-
able hog to pieces. This is four
hogs Mr.. Woodman has lost in a
month by dogs.
Pabst Brewery Quits. The Pahst
Brewing Company has paid into the
supreme court $1,565.15 as its costs
in the custer suit brought by the at
torney general to drive the brewing
company out of Kansas This is the
fifth of the big companies to accept
the same judgment as was handed
down by the supreme court in the
Anheuser-Busch case. The company
pays the costs, agreed to sell it's real
estate as quickly as possible and
move its personal property at once.
Gets $500 From Pabst. = The re
ceivers got another big check last
week. Jointly they received $1,000
as their fees in the Pabst brewing
case. The costs were $65 addition
al
M, K. G T. Will Bulletin Trains
The Missouri Kansas & Texas rail
road have notified the state board OF
railroad commissioners that it will
comply with the order relating to the
bulletining of trains.
Women Threaten Lynching. = DR.,
s. ]. Crumbine. secretary of the
state board of health, has received a
| letter from hutcnIHSoH WOindH say
ing that unless he at once saw that
negroes at Hutchinson stopped dump
ing refuse on the banks of the Ar
kansas river. there would be lynch
ing. Either you proceed at once
wrote the woman, against these
greasy niggers. or we. will proceed
with a rope We won't stand for IT
About twenty-five of US white women
will Just buy few feet of rope and
then there won't be any more law
denying niggers." DR.. Crumbine sent
the communication to the adJutan'
generals war" department.