Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

Genuine spring weather would be
welcome visitor.
Bethany College at Lindsborg, is
now free from debt.
A Stanton county man cashed in his
broom corn crop for 81, 500.
It is hard to find Kansas town
now that is not groaning over house
famine
Attorney Callahan of Montgomery
county has started campaign against
5ointists.
Owing to the insufficient tax levy,
the state treasury is expected to run
dry in May.
Thirty sheep are killed for the Sun
day dinner of the old soldiers at the
Home at Leavenworth.
Ottawa thinks it has reached the
degree of gayety where it can sport
and support a lodge of Elks.
Spinal meningitis is epidemic in
LeaVenworth county, the disease start
ing January 25th. There have been
fourteen deaths.
The construction of the addition to
the Topeka Federal building, for
which $75. 900 has been appropriated,
will begin May 1.
Galena is putting us street signs and
having houses numbered. Galena has
a population OF something over 5000,
SO that this move is not made at all
too soon
The talk of Atchison now is that
professional pitcher and catcher will
@he secured and situations secured for
them, and that in the future Atchison
will have only Sunday base ball.
A western Kansas paper says that
the only sure sign of spring is the
sight of . lot of school girls out grub
about all the signs have failed this
season.
A man who joins the militia of the
stateof Kansas not only gets to make a
display of his patriotism, but renders
himself immune from the ravaging
raids of the stony hearted poll tax
gatherer.
The Philippine Islands are long on
snakes a Kansas lad, in letter to
his folks, says that the Kansas boys
greatly regret that st Patrick did not
visit the islands with his Rough on
Reptiles"
An Atchison eolored fellow was Civ
en- ten months in the county Jail this
week for stealing canned fruit from
the cellar of housewife of that town.
Tt is a good thing for the judge that
his official position is not at all de-
pendent on the vote of the women.
The women will say unanimously that
ty Jail for stealing home-canned fruit
Is ridiculously light in comparison
with the enormity Of the crime
The grand lodge of the colored Ma
Sons of Kansas will hold its annual
meeting in Atchison in August. About
two hundred delegates will be present,
In addition to several hundred other
members Special Importance will be
attached to the convention from the
fact that a monument to the memory
of the late d. 6. Lett at Mt. Vernon
cemetery will be unveiled. D. A. Jones,
grand master OF Kansas, will be in
Atchison in few days to make ar
rangements to have the monument
erected. The late D. g. Lett was the
first grand master of Kansas, and the
Masons desire to perpetuate his mem
pry with monument
Harry Tornbloom of Mcpherson
county, has a Swedish dirk, the blade
of which darts forth when a spring is
touched. In playing with this the
other day Tornbloom touched the
spring by mistake and cut a cash over
a friends heart.
Mary Choteau, aged 20, widow of
Pierce Choteau, the historic early set
tier who founded trading post in
johnson county, Kansas. near Turner,
years ago, is dead. Her husband ex-
plored and traded in the southwest
when it was still wilderness.
at takes positive evidence to con-
vict under the prohibitory law" says
a Kansas exchange; but from the way
some cases turn out it appears that
positive evidence even, don't always
do the work
The estate of John T. Lamborn,
murdered at Fall Leaf two years ago,
was settled last week. It amounted
to $22, 200 in value, and was settled
among FIVE children. It will be re
membered that son and daughter
were tried for the murder and acquit-
ted
Norton's cheese factory recently
shipped lot of its product to q point
in Louisiana.
Mrs Louise Reynolds, a well-to-do
widow at Atchison, who belongs to
church, wears diamonds and is good
looking, was recently found to be the
person who has been trying to burn
the town. She was dressed in mans
clothes when caught She pleaded tc
be permitted to put on a dress, and
while the policemen were waiting she
shot herself through the lungs She