Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Atchison corn carnival.
The coal miners of Usage county hav
had their earnings increased by an ad
vance of 10 cents d ton for mining.
The first annual runion of the Tween
ty-first Kansas volunteers will take
place at Kingman October 3 to 5.
At the Atchison corn carnival the,
Rock Island provided for the street pa
rade an automobile, free of expense to
the city.
Up. Pomeroy offered Mr.. Waggener
SIS, 900 for his interest in gold mine
at Victor, Colo, and Mr.. Waggener re-
fused the offer.
At circus in Wichita Emma Lateau,
one of the trapeze performers, slipped
and fell from rope and was picked up
unconscious. Outside of badly sprain-
ed wrist she was not hurt much.
Horton, Brown county, now city
claiming 1000 people, being division
station, with important shops, of the
Rock Island railroad, celebrated the
18th anniversary of its birth on Septem-
Der 20.
Three business houses has been to-
tally destroyed by fire at Stockston-
The postoffice was considerably dam
aged. The origin of the fire is I'M
known Loss, two thousand dollars;
no insurance.
There is no county in the United
States of equal area and population
that produces annually as much fooo
for man and beast as Jewell county
Moreover, no other spot on earth car
make such a showing.
This year Jewell county's crop will
almost as large as the total crop of the
great state of New York, more thar
that of New Jersey and far more than
that of all the six New England states
combined.
We are more or less accustomed &c
surprises in pictorial journalism, but
the current issue of Golfers Weekly
shows something entirely out of the
tographs, illustrating the trial trip Of
the new battleship Alabama. One of
the pictures is a stern view of the cruiser
showing her heels" apparently taken
from the fighting top of the vessel, look
ing down upon the deck and the svvir-
ing waters in her wake. The most in
teresting picture of all illustrates a
prominent feature of modern journal
ism. 1t shows newspaper correspond
ents sending messages to their jour
nails by carrier pigeons thrown from
the bridge of the ship while far out al
sea.
l.. 3. Gilmore, of Poala, has common
ced habeas corpus proceedings in the
supreme court for release from the
Miami county Jail. Gilmore entered
snto partnership with Mcbride &
Bloom, of Paola, in 1894, with the in
tention of prospecting for gas in South
ern Kansas. Gilmore sold out hi:
share in the company for $4,000 stool
in the new company. with the under
standing, it is said, that he was to re
turn the stock when the debt had beer
paid at the rate of $500 a month. TIL,
company paid the debt, but before i
was paid gas had been struck in pay
GnC quantities, and Gilmore's stock haC
Increased in value until it was wortl
worth S25, 900. He sold it and was ar
rested for embezzlernent.
The commissioners of Jewell count,
will put in fourteen new steel bridge
in that county this fall.
Pittsburg is to have new S35, 90
city hall, the bonds having been voted
The building viii be one modern il
every particular.
Out in Norton county the commits
sioners have become so frightene
about the inroads of the Russian thistl
that they have ordered farmers to de
stroy them-otherwise they will be dc
stroyed by the authorities and the ez
pense charged up to the land owners.
Dealers are Offering $40 a ton fc
broom corn, but the farmers are hole
ing out for 800. AS Kansas in rea1it
controls the market, it is probable tina
the price will go to 500.
The Rock Island shops at Horton e2
pect to build 1 900 cars within a year
The force will be doubled in the stort
house. saw mill and freight house. TIL
lumber for that many new cars will TT
quire 5000 sills, and as so siIls make
load, it viii require 100 cars to ship i
The sills. to say nothing OF the othe
lumber, trucks castings, etc.
The Kansas colleges are said. to h
crowded
The registration at the Kansas un
~ersity has already passed the sc
mark.
The new shelving for the state !
brary in the state house in Topelx;
will accommodate $50, 900 books Their
are now in the library about S0,OC
volumes of all kinds, besides 2,7OO 70
fumes in the travelling library; so it
seen that, as contemplated. the Kal
,sas state library Will have room I
grow in its new quarters
Among the noted speakers who wi
be present at the Kansas state reunio