Free press., 1907-07-27

ed in the wheat fields in the south
ern part OF the state, o. ]. Brown and
Otis Taylor were attacked by rob-
bers, who held up the ST. Louis &
San Francisco freight train, on which
they were riding. about five miles
east of Cherryvaie, and tried to take
earnings. Brown and Taylor resist
ed. Brown was shot and killed al
most instantly. Taylor was wound
ed twice, one bullet striking him in
the left shoulder and the second in
the stomach. Taylor was taken to
the hospital. He is in a serious con-
dition, but may recover.
World Has Not Its Equal.-In one
section of the Montgomery county
gas field, and not the best section of
that field. either, the county gas in
spector, in one day, tested thirteen
gas wells having total flow of over
17S millions of gas per day. These
wells all have a pressure of over 800
pounds and have not decreased in
either aggregate flow or pressure in
the last six months. One can imag-
inc how close together these wells
are located when one considers that
all of them were tested in one day
by one man. All these wells are 10
Gated in the northern part of Fawn
Creek and the southern part of Inde-
pendence townships. They are all
old wells and were tested by the in
spector the first of the year. He re-
ports that their flow has not decreas-
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since that time. The inspector re-
ports ten new gas wells drilled in
this county this year, with an aggre-
gate flow of 100 million cubic feet
per day. He expects another mon
ster we'll to be drilled in on the Acorn
farm in the Deering field in the next
day or two: 1t was on this lease that
the largest gas we'll in the West was
drilled in not long ago. The field is
only five miles northwest of Coffey-
vile.
Some Kansas Records.-Kansas is
short on blizzards and cyclones, ac-
cording to kansas = Her Story and
Statistics the latest publication of
the Kansas state board of agricul-
tural records. Here are some of
them: She has produced 100,000,O0O
bushels of wheat in one year. more
than any other state in any one year.
She has produced in one year almost
sixth of the total wheat crop of the
United States for that year. She has
ranked first as a wheat yielding state
five years out of seven. But wheat is
detail as compared with corn. Kan
sas has produced 274,00O,00O bushels
of it in one year and $78,000,000
worth of it in another She has a
single county which has produced
10,71O,741 bushels of corn in year.
She has a single field on a single
farm in single county which has
produced 104 bushels of corn per
acre. She mas bred John R. Gentry
and Joe Patchen. She has bred a
merino sheep with a fleece which
yielded ffty-two pounds of wool, and
no one can show an equaI. She has
town that has grown from 1000 to
10000 inhabitants on diet OF
natural gas. She is the second lead
and zinc state in the Union and the
third salt-producing state. She has a
fine population and can boast that
nearly 48 per cent of it is Kansas
growth. The total yearly value of
her farm products is half again as
great as the total gold and silver pro-
duction of the nation, and if the value
of her agricultural products and live
stock were divided up each year
there would be $500 for each person
in the state.
Prison Population Grows. = Sixty
three prisoners were received at the
Kansas states prison at Lansing dur
ing the month of June, larger num-
Der than usual. Fifteen were dis
charged by expiration of sentence,
twenty-five were paroled, two died,
one was brought back for violation
of parole and seventeen were trans
ferred to the state reformatory at
Hutchinson.
Lost $4,000 in Four Weeks.-The
ghost failed to walk after the C. T.
Burch circus performance at Paola
and the employees and performers
quit. The management claims that
Kansas lost them $4,000 in four
weeks because everyone was busy in
harvest fields.
Green Bug Cost $4,000, 900. = An
expert in the agricultural depart
ment approximates the damage done
wheat in Kansas, Oklahoma and
Texas by the green bug this spring
at S15,OOO,0O0. He makes these fig
ures after a personal visit 10 the
stricken section. However, rs the
| figures are only guess, they will
not be included in the official green
bug" bulletin soon to be issued.
Falls Dead on Street. = Mrs. NJ.
Sarah Thornburg, of Wichita. fell
dead in the street while approaching
the casket containing the body of a
lodge sister. on which she intended
! to place a bouquet of flowers. In one
| hand she held the flowers and in the
other an emblem OF her lodge, the
Royal Neighbors. She was sur
rounded by lodge sisters and when
reached life was extinct. An attend