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


amusement at Wellington.
A Glasco man hasrealized $40 an acre
for his this years alfalfa crop.
". S. Sanford, of Parkervi1le, has
been appointed railway mail clerk.
Ernest Harrington of Sabetha, Kas..
broke "a leg in a football serimmage.
1t is said that more than 100 Topeka
men have invested in Arkansas zinc
lands.
Phillipsburg is to have a new -four
mill with a capacity Of 100 barrels
daily.
Bill Higgins has sold part of an in
s26, 900.
The Union Pacific will fence its right
of way in western Kansas with lime
stone posts.
Leavenworth Jews have dedicated a
synagogue which they have named The
House of Jacob.
An Alton real estate firm received a
letter recently directed to them as
''Wre1a State" agents.
An explosion occurred in Downing
Bros mine at Empire City, in which
! w. Ell. Downing lost his life.
Mrs. Belle Steel, of Concordia, Kan,
has been appointed teacher at the
Indian school at Nutria, n. NJ.
! Mrs. Leah Marks has been taken to
the insane asylum from Atchison. An
insane Hebrew is said to be very excep-
tional, and there is no other in Kan
sas
| The widow of General W. B. Hazen,
who is engaged to marry Admiral
Dewey, was with her husband in 1912,
Fort Hays.
At Leavenworth Michael Connolly,
aged 9, was horribly mangled at the
Leavenworth Coal company's mine.
One of his legs was cut off and an arm
badly crushed.
The Twentieth Kansas boys brought
back little Filipino boy and he will
be educated by the members of the
regiment. He is in charge of Lieu:
tenant Collin Ball.
w. Fl. Morgan of Topeka, of the
Hubbard & Morgan Cattle company
has arranged for the feeding of thous-
ands of head of beef cattle in the
vicinity of Blue Rapids.
Residence property in Colby is at a.
premium. It is reported that every
house and room in the city available
for business or living purposes is
crowded to its utmost capacity.
At the Funston reception the soldiers
were housed for the night in eighteen
sleeping cars under the personal direc-
ton of General Passenger Agent
Black, who remained at the depot until
after midnight looking after the com:
fort of the men.
The Missouri Pacific has just COM
p1eted laying new rs pound rails be-
tween Kansas City and Leavenworth!
The line was formerly in quite bad
shape. Next year the line between
Leavenworth and Atchison will be re-
laid with heavier rails.
Ben Toothman sold ninety-fve pigs
to Charley Tamm for 81, O1O.1O. Tooth-
man doesn't raise hogs for living by
any means; he only keeps few to pick
up the waste, same as some people
keep chickens. Cattle is Ben's main
hold.-Downs Times.
t The Missouri Pacific put force OF
men to work taking up the track west
of 1uka, but an injunction was served
and the work stopped. This part OF
the road was never used but the bonds
: were voted for road to the west line
of the township and it was built.
i In digging well northeast of Beau
: mont some time ago, mineral that re
, sembles zinc ore was discovered in sucf
quantities that company has been or
, ganized to see what it is and to worl
: it.
Dickinson county has a half dozer
f women missionaries in South Africa
e The friends of one party of them ar,
Y anxious for. their safety.
e A number of miners from the Pitts
burg district will go to Colorado anC
n New Mexico. The mine operators Their,
offer so to 90 cents per ton.
l. The Hereford men make the boas
: that in five years from now sixty pc
: cent of the cattle sold in the Kansas
t City stock yards will have white faces
: The white face is figuring very mucl
in the stock yards now and is gettins
n more attention every year.
n The widespread interest taken in al
/ falfa by growers of all kinds of liv
stock is indicated by the fact that tn
/ area in Kansas has increased from 81.
T 3s4 acres in 1891 to 27s, Az in 1898
: making total gain of pa, O93 acres, o
roo per cent.
A farmer, says the Seneca Tribune
e gave his note for $40 for a steel range
S from which big board bill was to b
deducted. Later the note turned u
h in the hands of an innocent party
l. who refused to credit any board bill OF
a it. The range ped1ar never passed tina
l. way again.