Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-11-04
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

has thirty-seven miles OF track.
The Kaws visited the Osages and |
took home with them fifty ponies and
large amount of calico
DR.. John B. Hibben, head physician,
of the Modern Woodmen, died at his
home in Kansas City, Kan, Oct. 81.
One firm in Musleogee last year paid
81, 100 tribal tax for the privilege OF
doing business in the Creek nation.
A post Office has been established at
Letchum, Cherokee nation, I. T., and
Jesse NJ. Ge1tman appointed postmas-
ter.
The three principal towns OF Jewell
county, Mankato, Burr Oak, and jew
ell City are now connected by single
telephone system.
Lyons Republican: A car famine
has prevailed in this section for the
past month, very much to the detriment
of the grain dealers.
Rev. Davis, pastor of the Baptist
church at Gaylord, also acts as superin-
tendent of construction on the new
church that is under way.
Pittsburg has built building for the
court of common pleas and has present
ed it to the county. The structure is a
handsome one and cost about $50, 600.
Kenton, Ohio, where Governor Stan
ley delivered his speech Thursday was
his boyhood home. He was the guest,
while there, of his sister, Miss Hattie
E. Stanley.
Mr.. w. I. Allen, who recently resign
ed as assistant general manager of the
Rock Island road, will become general
manager of the Iowa Central railway,
with headquarters in Des Moines.
John W. Breidenthal is making a
collection of different spellings of his
name. Once he had 1877 different va
rieties but he lost the book in fire at
Chetopa. So he began all over again.
Jim Upton, the veteran hotel man at
Downs, is cousin of Sir Thomas Lip
ton. The yachtsman sent his Kansas
cousin an invitation to attend the races
but it was not possible for him to &C
cept.
J. ]. Whitman of Lyon county wen 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.
The farmers of Wabaunsee county
have formed sweet potato trust the
object of which is to raise the price of
sweet potatoes. The plan is to keep
the potatoes off the market until the
price suits the producers.
The Cherolees and Delawares are at
outs over the title which the Delawares
claim to their 100, 900 acres of well i'm
proved land. The land is under1aid
with vast deposits of oil, gas and coal,
which fact is causing trouble, as the
Cherokees want the revenues from
leases.
The Kenton Cimarron News speaks
of the increased interest in the rich
copper leads in Beaver county. Men
with capital are testing the leads and
veins. The Carrico mining camp is
ewarming. The camp is IS miles from
Lamar, Col, and the building of troll
ley line from Lamar is talked Of The
mines are IL or Is miles north Of Ken
ton.
The shipping of cattle has commenced
in Washita county. The Rock Island
has been promised 200 carloads of cat
tie to be shipped over that line from
Mounta View. The cattle are look
ing fine and Will command top prices.
The townsite appraising board at
Ardmore has discovered that the streets
were badly laid out and the surveyors
residence and business property. The
Episcopal church is squarely in the
middle of street, and will have to be
moved.
CARRIER, o. T., station of the Rock Is
land, Is miles east of North Enid, open
ed for regular business October %, with
Mr.. w. P. Voorhees, as agent in charge
Bud Colbert, Chickasaw is building
the finest residence in Indian Territory
It is on the TweIve-Mile prairie near
Caddo, and will have about twenty
rooms.
The assignment of Major General
Guy V. Henry to the command of the
department of Missouri with headquar-
ters at Omaha, was surprise for the
regulars at Fort Reno.
There are 252 students in attendance
at the Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical college. Every county In
the the Territory, except two in the ex-
treme west, is represented, and students
are in attendance from Kansas, Illinois,
Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania and In
dian territory.
A CATTLE train was wrecked. October
25, near Afgonia on the Southern Kan
sas road. Eight cars We're smashed up
and 200 cattle killed and probably 100
crippled. The train was enroute from
Texas to Kansas City.
The Territorial university has a
greater number of students in its fresh
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