Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-12-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ex-Governor Click purchased a bust
mess property in Kansas City and paid
$50, 900 for it.
at large, lost his entire law library by
"a fire at Vinita, I. T., the other day.
The Kansas BARRIERS association
meets in Hutchinson February 6, to
take action looking to the passage of
state law providing for state license
for BARRIERS.
There are 1,055 students at Kansas
university, the largest number ever
enrolled at this period of the year and
indicating an enrolment before the
year is out of 1, 200.
Doctors in Topeka say that vaccina-
ton has no effect upon the prevailing
chickenpox. Several cases now exist
ing are those of people who had re-
Gently been vaccinated.
A. r. Dillon, agent for the receivers
of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad, and Miss Jeanette Chambers
daughter of w. B. Chambers and wife
A party of twenty-six left Osborne
county a few days ago, bound for Okla
homa. There are number of people
in Osborne county who made the pill
grimage and were glad to get back.
The retail lumbermen of Missouri
and Kansas are said to be considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of erecting a big mill
and producing lumber themselves, ow-
ing to the repeated advances IN the
price.
Somebody in Oklahoma sent Hon.
Jack Harris, of Ottawa, a fat 'possum
on which the express charges amount
ed to S1.95. The ruling price for fat
'possum is 25 cents, and Harris is a veg
etarian.
Within the past six months A. +.
Martin, state agent of the Orphans
Home of Atchison, has succeeded in
finding permanent homes for nearly
one hundred of the inmates of the in
stitution.
The funeral of Judge F. G. Adams
took place at the family residence.
A half-holiday was declared at the
state house, and the state officials who
were in the city attended the funeral
in body.
Morehead has a cooperative eating
house which furnishes it's patrons food
at actual cost. The cost of each meal
is averaged by dividing by the number
eating. 1t results in an average of
about six cents.
Rural mail delivery will be estab-
ished out of Efingham, Atchison coun-
ty, about the first of the year. The
route, which lies south of bingham,
will reach 200 families in Benton and
Centre townships
Col. Culp has been granted a fran
chise for a telephone exchange by the
Osborne council. By next spring it is
believed telephone communication will
be established between that point and
Downs via Ports.
The judgment of the interstate com
merce commission in the Kansas grain
rate case orders the various Kansas
railroads not to charge over cents
more per hundred for hauling corn
meal than they do for corn, and fur
Their orders that no higher rate be
charged for intermediate points thar
is charged for hauling freight from
Kansas City to the Gulf. While the
Judgment is in the nature of an order
it is not binding, as the commission ma:
no authority to enforce its orders.
Mr.. Curtis, of Kansas, submitted tn,
petition of the guards at the United
States penitentiary at Leavenworth
praying for the enforcement of the eigh
hour law. The Kansas delegation viii
jointly ask that the petition be grant
ed
The Kansas court of visitation ha
authorized Attorney General GODDARD t.
employ additional counsel to get a
quick decision as possible from tn
highest court, on the decision of Judg
Hook, which took the judicial powe
from it.
Joe Tousley, who formerly represent
gu SIdnOfO county III InO hdnSc1S
iature, is suing for a divorce down il
Oklahoma, where he is running paper
Kansas has 1855 postoffices of whic
1913 are presidential offices; 3 first elias
10 second and Ill third. Kansas stand
eleventh in number of presidentia
offices. OF the 1859 fourth class Office
693 are money order offices. Kansas
24th in population; Goth in number {
offices and &c in expenditures per cap
ia. Gross receipts for Kansas pos
offices for the year were 81, 522, $50. GO.
In its six months existence in LeaveI
worth the new city court has tried 2C
cases, SO of which were criminal. tt
new court is popular.
The temperance meetings that hay
been continued in Chapman for wee
>closed with 3Os signers of the total a
stinence pledge, many of them bein
hard drinkers
The slaughter house of E. NJ. Con;
wer, Just south of Columbus was br
ken into in the night and 500 worth
hides and S75 worth of meat was stole