Free press., 1907-06-08

| Coney that its delegates to the ma
tional encampment, will vote for
him for national commander 6
| Trying to Burn This Town?-What
is believed by many to be the second
| deliberate attempt of firebugs to
burn the town of Lebanon recently.
occurred the other night. A resi-
dence lately used as an office was
discovered on fire by a night watch
man, the citizens were aroused and
the fire put out Just two weeks ago
a fire, the origin of which is a mys-
terry, occurred at midnight and burn
ed a fourth of the business section
before it spent its force.
Kansas and Nebraska Compared
In 1901 the state of Kansas produced
99,079,304 bushels of wheat, while
Nebraska raised 42,006,SS5 bushels.
The yield in Kansas being IA bushels
per acre greater than in Nebraska,
the price, under the law of supply
and demand. should have been lower,
but it was cents higher. Compar
ing rail hauls from Kansas City and
Omaha, the principal shipping ports
of these states, it is found that the
former is thirty-four miles nearer
Chicago and 129 miles nearer ST.
Louis and by water it is 23O miles
nearer the river route to New Or
| leans, so that this gain in cents per
bushel for that year, on yield OF
1S.5 bushels per acre, represents
net revenue of 92.5 cents an acre
over Nebraska. Had the entire state
been sown in wheat it would have
| produced an additional revenue of
nearly $50,0O0,0O0. The actual re-
turn on this crop above that for Ne
braska was nearly $5,0O0,oOO. Kan
sas received 9 cents more per bushei
on her corn and cents more on
oats, making a total net gain of near
ly $12,000,000, while on her crops Ne
braske lost over $14,O0O,O00 because
of her geographical position with ref
erence to waterways.
Rescues Body From Dissectors. -
Missing from home three months,
the body of Jay G. Farr, a young
man twenty-three years old, was
found by his father in the Kansas
University medical morgue, where
it had lain in cold storage for nearly
all of that period. The body had
been embalmed and was in perfect
state of preservation. The father
took it home for burial. Three
months ago Jay Farr left home. He
liked to wander about and frequent
ly went off on excursions, to work or
to travel. Nothing alarming was
thought of his absence from his
home at Milan, Sumner county, until
ten or twelve weeks had passed
| with no word from him. He usually
wrote home at intervals when away.
Alarmed by his long silence, his
father set out to search for him.
! Learning that a young man had been
killed by a train on the Rock Island
at Perth, about ten miles away, early
in March, he inquired there, think
ing it might have been his son He
was shown the watch and other pos
sessions of the unfortunate victim
and identified them at once. The au-
thorfties said search had been made
for relatives or friends and no one
found. Then, as is provided by law
for such cases, the remains were
sent to the University Medical
School at Lawrence to be used in
the medical classes.
Statute Book Is out.-The statute
books containing the laws enacted by
the legislature of 1907 have been is
sued by T. A. McNeal, state printer,
and with their appearance a number
of important laws became operative.
One of these is the famous Bird Red
Can" bill. From now on it will be
| unlawful to put gasoline in anything
except receptical which is painted
red.
Unhealthy For Horse Thieves. =
Horse thieves will do well to keep
away from Whitewater, in Butler
county. The farmers there have an
Anti-Horse Thief Association which
has never failed to get every thief it
has tried to capture. Within the last
few days a team of horses was stolen
from Lean & Co. and a horse and
buggy from E. P. Burns. The Anti
Horse Thief Association went
promptly 10 Work and the thieves
were captured with the stolen prop
erty in their possession. One was
| captured at Yates Center and the 9TH
er at Leon. a small town thirty miles
southeast of Whitewater Both are
| in Jail awaiting trial at the next term
| of the district court.
Cost More Than Last Year. - The
maintenance OF the nine charitable
| institutions for the first ten months
of the present fiscal year has cost
approximately 26,S5435 more than
during the first ten months of the
preceding fiscal year. During the
first ten months of 1906 the cost was
| SS13, ,1G0.44 and in 1907 for the same
period s340,S7G.52. More patients
are being taken care OF, and scien-
tific apparatus and methods relating
l I,of..