Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-11-04

The Union Pacific will fence it's right i
Of way in western Kansas with lime |
stone posts.
Charles Elliott has been appointed |
paymaster general of the Kansas Ma
tiona1 Guard.
Dickinson county is putting a fur
mace and other improvements into the
poor farm residence.
There have been six marriages among
Ellsworth people this summer and six
more are scheduled.
Grass in the cattle pastures of Indian
Territory has been touched by frost and
is losing its strength.
Mckinley and Columbia are the names
of the twins that came to Smith
county home recently.
Richfe1d, Morton county, supports
brass band, and the whole county has
less than 800 Inhabitants.
An bingham grain dealer who has
an order in for As freight cars purchased
16, COO bushels of corn to fill it.
Usage county coal mine operators
have agreed to advance Usage county
coal at the mines 25 cents ton.
There is a violin maker at Marquette,
Kansas, who will exhibit some of his
instruments at the Paris exposition.
Butler county commissioners make
an effort to build from three to five
substantial stone arch bridges every
year.
c.. E. Sawyer of Wichita, won the
prize for having the best photograph
at the Texas state photographers
show.
The railroad officials at Topeka have
announced that they will give no passes
to state employees wishing to go home
to vote.
I. N. Pepper of irrigation fame in
to work on sugar beet farm in eastern
Colorado.
Thirteen carloads of new steel rails
have been strung along the north prong
of the Central Branch to take the place
of the old iron.
Upwards of $500, 900 will be spent on
public buildings in Topeka next sum-
mer. There is the auditorium and the
extension to the federal building.
Miss Ethel Tucker of Ottawa is now
n San Francisco awaiting steamer to
take her to Manila, where she will
marry Sergeant Irwin v. Todd, troop
A, Eleventh cavalry.
Probate Judge Allen of Beloit, regis
tiers kick because Mitchell county
boys go to some other county for their
marriage licenses. He wants them to
support home industries.
Ottawa Herald: One man donated
and three other men cut and hauled,
wood enough to keep the hearth warm
for a Lane widow during the winter.
Of such is the kingdom of heaven.
It is said that the Missouri Pacific is
anxious to do more work ON the Central
Branch this fall, but it cannot get sec.
ton men. The farmers are utbidding
the railroads for the serviceof laborers
Oberlin will have a foundry soon.
The gentlemen who will operate ie
wanted bonus of $500. By private
subscription $193 was raised, and the
county eonmissioners pledged Decatur
county for the balance.
Grant Gillett and his wife have the
smallpox at their ranch in Mexico.
His brother, J. w. Gillett, of Woodbine
Kas., had his safe robbed of $3.50. J.
z. Reed, brother-in-1aw, has had his
house burned. Mrs. Reed has gone to
Mexico to nurse G. G. and his wife.
Mrs. Ida Eclzert Lawrence, formerly
of Kansas but now of Toledo, has been
elected first vice president of the fed
Grated clubs of Ohio.
The total registration at Kansas TN
iversity up to the present date is LOIS.
The registrar thinks it will run up to
/ 100 before the term is over. The ar
rival of the Twentieth Kansas at homo
will greatly increase it, for three
fourths of the Lawrence company are
university SJuuenCS- Even now inc
registration is 40 more than at the
end of last years first term.
Oklahoma pastures are covered with
bunch and buffalo grasses, which are
nutritious all winter.
Senator Baker has been assured by
President Mckinley that Ralph Ingalls,
who had to resign ieutenancy be-
cause of deafness. will be given staff
position in the Philippines.
While cutting a bunch of cattle,
Com. Reeves, a stock shipper of Par
kerville, was thrown on his head and
shoulders by the falling off his horse,
and his neck dislocated. He lived some
time after the accident.
The Indian agent at Muskogee has
served notice on all merchants in the
Cherokee nation to pay the tax due the
Cherokee nation at once. Failure to
pay means that places of business will
be closed and the offending parties be
subject to removal from the territory.
Bunnie Meade, of the Meade Cycle