Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-11-18

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The Lincoln Center, Kas-, telephone
plant has been sold to Herman & Meek,
of that place, for 50, 500.
A third wreck of stock trains has oc-
CURED near Argonia. The last was in
heavy fog. Some stock was killed.
Citizens of Quenemo presented fine
~ engraved gold watch to Milo La
Mont, their representative with the
Twentieth.
| An Osborne man who lost about $500
worth of cattle last winter from black
leg has just finished vaccinating his
entire herd.
Wichita jewellers say that the clock
which Helen Gould sent to the Wichita
hospital would be sold in New York
for 5000.
It is now believed that the new rail
road line from Kiowa, Kans., Angus
ia, o. T., will be operated b, the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
Henry L. Woods, Burlington attor-
ney, lost his barn by fire. His fine
J phaeton was cut to pieces in front of
his house.
| Nashville, in the southern part of
| Kingman county, on the Englewood
branch of the Santa Fe, has had very
destructive fire.
The Socialists in Barber county tried
the experiment of a ticket at the late
election. The highest vote a Socialist
received was 10.
Several hundred head of cattle are
being fed fo1 the market near Bur-
lington. They eat about Il, 900 pounds
of corn chop day.
The Union Pacific is making ar
rangements to erect kilns. and burn
gumbo on the bottoms mile east of
Abilene for ballast.
Kearney county-away out in the
shortest part of the short grass coun-
try-will have fine fruit exhibit att
the Paris exposition.
One Osborne county school districtI
has built barn at the school house sol
that pupils who drive to school cam
have shelter for their rigs
John C. Lynch, formerly letter car
rier at Leavenworth, is a member of
the firm of Coleman, Hamill & Lynch,
general merchandise, San Fernando,
P. I.
So far Governor Stanley has granted
nine conditional pardons. Every man
so pardoned has a job and is doing
well. They have all reported to the
governor once month.
White Cloud, Kansas, has just dedi-
Gated a new Masonic building with a
. ball and banquet. Lodges from sur
rounding towns were represented and
about 300 guests entertained.
, The convent now being built at Mt.
ST. Scholastica, in Atchison, is proba-
bly, the largest building in Kansas,
outside of the public institutions. It
) is 2OOx19O feet, four stories high.
The Pittsburg Tribune reports the
marriage of Captain William J. Wat
son, late of the Twentieth Kansas, to
Miss Lottie Lindsburg, of that city.
Captain Watson has accepted an ap-
pointment on General Funston's staff,
but it is not known whether his bride
will accompany him to Manila.
i Quite a number of cars of oranges
S from Hermosil1o, Mexico, are going
through weekly to the east. These
t oranges are packed on the backs OF
? burros, a distance of 100 to $50 miles
, to the railroad, pay duty of one cent
t a pound, or sixty cents box and yet
e the growers compete with the Cali.
fornia article.
: Colonel T. W. Harrison, of Topeka,
: has been confirmed deputy of the su.
4 preme council for Kansas in Scottish
Il Rite Masonry. This places him at the
S head of the order in this state.
d The convention of the Seventh dis
r trict federation of clubs elected the
following officers: President, Mrs
e Sora R. Priddy, of Wichita; first vice
o president, Mrs. Anna Jones, of Lyons
: second vice president, Mrs. Keren H
S Buck, of Kingman; secretary, Mrs
S Church, of Wichita; treasurer, Miss
Effie Smiley, of Wellington.
i L. .. Perley, of Omaha, has just
S made a valuable donation 10 the muse
|, UNI of the state normal school The
q collection consists of over, 1000 speci
e mems which he had gathered and class
V flied with great care. It includes {
o great variety of valuable ores, crystals
fossils, etc.
:, In digging well northeast of Beau
: mont some time ago, a mineral that re
e sembles zinc ore was discovered in sucI
e quantities that company has been or
IS ganized to see what it is and to worl
it.
l. Ground has been broken in Topek;
5, for a dollar" gas plant. The concern
l. will be built and operated by a Chicag,
n company.
n The records show that there wer,
!" 1s5 large red Daddy badges" given t.
# fathers of soldiers in the Twentieth, a
5 the Topeka reception.
n TWENTY-FIVE tourist Sleepers- txv,