Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

aing day and night
Survivors of the Eighth Kansas in, |
fantry viii meet at Topeka, September |
1896.
Atchison has brewery which has |
been running night and day for thirty |
years.
The whistle of a nail factory will |
promised.
Beloit has four veterans of the Mexi-.
can war. They hold reunions every
little while
about cellulose factories for Kansas, but
none has appeared yet.
The commissioners of Jewell county
will put in fourteen new steel bridges
in that county this fall.
A. L. Bell of st. Marys has been ap-
pointed a teacher at the Hockbury In
dian school, in Arizona.
The Hiawatha World says that NJ.
A Low pays a man named Keats So, 500
year to look after and drive his race
horses.
The Wichita Association of Congre-
gational churches and ministers held
its semi-annual in Sedgwick Septem-
Der and 5.
The state superintendent of public
instruction in Kansas actually had to
be taught how to carry his new baby
without dropping it.
The Twelfth Kansas infantry will
hold its annual reunion at Paola. Out
of the original /, 200 members of the
regiment but 400 remain.
In 1876 Judge c. w. Smith of Stock
ton graduated from the State Univer-
sity. Last week he was at Lawrence
arranging for the admission of his
son.
OF fifteen sets of bond election papers
received in one week at the state SUI
perintendent's office, seven were illegal
and two were incomplete, only six be-
ing regular in form.
The Union Pacific claims 1000 acres
of the Fort Hays reservation on the
ground that the fort was located one
year after the railroad had filed its
charter in the general land office.
The board of regents of the State
Agricultural College has practically de-
cided to let E. r. Nichols, the temper
airy president of the college. run the in
stitution this coming school year.
Maude Dillon, the 12-year-old daugh-
ter of Henry Dillon, of Topeka, met
with peculiar accident the other day.
She was passing on the sidewalk in
front of a vacant lot where horse was
staked out. The horse attacked her
and bit off her right ear.
The state auditor and state treasurer
have force of clerks employed stamp
ing all bonds held in the state school
school fund as estate property" The
law provides that all bonds purchased
for the fund shall be stamped when
they are delivered. The bonds are
made nOn-negotiable when stamped
The people of Ottawa have erected,
at an expense of $1,000, a stone gate
way to Forest park as a memorial to
the officers and privates of Company
X, Twentieth Kansas. The gate has
seven large stone pillars and is by far
the finest thing of the kind in the
state. On one of the pillars will be
placed tablet defeating the gate to
the company.
At present not enough coal is being
taken out of the penitentiary mines to
supply the state institutions and Chief
Clerk Barnes of the penitentiary says
that the state will have to buy coal
this year for the state Institutions
Mayor Ross OF Wichita, has received
word that his letter to the war de-
partment concerning the Spanish can
non that has been given to Wichita
by Governor Stanley through the sec
rotary of war, has been received and
approved and that the cannon will be
shipped at once.
1t is claimed that 3. D. Williams, the
banker of Highland, has established a
sewerage system which pollutes the
water and the people want the system
abolished. Williams refuses to abolish
it and the state board of health has
been appealed to.
B. E. Kies has sold his interest in
The Commoner, at Wichita, and, it is
said will remove to Michigan. The
purchasers, who with Jerry Simpson
will continue the business, are two
Wichita attorneys, Knights anger
and Babb.
II. T. Parsons, graduate of North
western University. has been elected
professor of oratory at Washburn Col
lege, Topeka. Last year he occupied a
similar position at the Southwest Kan.
sas College at Winfield.
Wichita Eagle: The amount of mort
cages released during August was
nearly twice the amount of mortgages
fled. The record kept by 81. NJ Du
Bots, abstractor, shows that the
amount of mortgages filed was S4e, Os3
while the amount of mortgage release:
was So, $50. 6L