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


first shipment of butter last week.
Lebanon, Smith county, is celebrating
the completion OF a new opera house.
The Seventh district federation of
woman's clubs will meet in Wellington
Novembera, 9 and 10.
AT Alton, says the Empire, the wind
blew away six loads of dirt which had
just been hauled on to the street.
Colonel Lewis of Humboldt is dead.
He founded the Presbyterian church
there, one of the first in the state.
4 man in cart drawn by six dogs
recently passed through western Kan
sas. He was bound for the Klondike.
The seventeenth annual session of
the North Central Kansas Teachers
association will be held in Manhattan,
November 80.
The old Methodist church at Round
Prairie has been torn down and the
pulpit was sold for use as bar in a
Leavenworth saloon.
Fairview has had bad fire in which
six buildings were destroyed, causing
loss of $25, Ooo.- The Fairview Courier
is among the losses.
Seventy-two ears of cattle were un-
loaded at Phillipsburg in a week. The
cattle are feeders, to be prepared for
market in that vicinity.
Mr.. Larzelere, sheriff of northeast
a. IL. L,
there last week, did not lie down or
sleep for period of 81 hours.
The Wichita postoffice stands next
to those of Denver and Omaha in the
amount of business transacted as an
agency for the smaller postofices.
Republic county has 10000 hogs
credited to it by the state agricultural
board outside of those which are emu
merated on the registration books.
j. J. Whitman of Lyon county won a
prize of 500 for furnishing the Mary
land state experiment station with the
best strawberry plants. There were
90 competitors from all over the United
States.
Twenty-Five tourist s1eepers, two
standard sleepers and four baggage
cars made up the equipment of the
three trains bearing the Twentieth
Kansas soldiers from San Francisco to
Topeka.
T. E. HocE TT & Son, the melon seed
growers and contractors of Caven, are
preparing for big shipment of seeds
this week. They will probably have
$4,000 pounds of melon seeds on the
market.
Lon Gill killed an Eagle near Mus
cotah which measured Z feet 10 inches
from tip to tip and weighed II pounds
Atchison mil1iners would have paid $1(
for its feathers, but the bird wa.
mounted.
The Santa Fe has adopted a new
clock dial to be put on station clocks
The minute marks are all plainly mum
bered from to 60. The change is ex
pected to be a safeguard against mis-
readings.
Atchison Globe: The B. & NJ. Com
pany wants fifty men to work on it
track, in the vicinity of Dawson, ou
cannot get them. Men will be pait
$3.50 per day. Still, the town is full
of men who say they cannot get work
Five East Atchison men agreed to go
but everyone of them backed out be
fore train time.
Kansas occupies better position il
the nation today than she ever did be
fore. The high-class publications
Harper's Weekly and publications @
that order, have given more space t
Kansas this year than in all years pre-
viouS.
In the present year 33 carloads c
brick have been shipped into Abilen
and used for building walks, mostl
in the residence portion of town. Nor
walks than this indicates have bee
laid for some brick were already i
stock.
According to the report of F. [
Brown, clerk of the United States dis
trict court, there have been 325 bank
ruptcy cases fled in the federal cou1
for the Kansas district since the pass
sage of the bankruptcy act.
A new tile floor has been put dow
in the dining room at the refor1
school at Topeka. It was badly neeC
ed.
The Lincoln roller mills have il
creased, the capacity for making fiou
from one hundred barrels to $50 bal
rels daily.
The creamery north of Woodline is
dead loss by fire, for which tramps al
thought to be responsible. The loss
heavy, with only $500 insurance
Lieutenant Haisch of the Twentiet
Kansas and superintendent of the NJ;
Mia and Dagupan railway is now
first lieutenant in the Thirty-s;xth il
: fantry. atulations.-ManilaF Ere,
dom.
A solid train of AZ cars of steel raj
recently passed west over the SAINT
: Fe. The rails amount to 1000 tor
. and are bound for Manila
Charles E. Lobden of Lane count
; has sued his wife for divorce, chargin
abandonment. His wife will fight tt