Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-21

Will hold SIX hundred pO11C1ca1 cOnVen-
tions of various kinds.
A Barber county man last week re-
fused 81, 800 for quarter for which he
paid 5000 last spring.
The Ellinwood Leader actually en-,
courages the organization of an anna
teur dramatic company.
The new dairy barn at the Agricul.
tural college will accommodate eighty
two cows when completed.
Topeka society girls are going to act
as mattresses at the banquet to the
Twentieth Kansas regiment.
The papers are beginning to appear
with the usual fall stories of cattle dy,
ing as the the result of eating cane.
Five complaints have been fled by
Leavenworth county against keepers
of joints at Klondike.
Secretary Barnes, of the State Hor-
ticultural society, is trying to collect
car load of Kansas apples for an ex-
hibit at the Paris exposition.
The Wichita local lodges of the Fra
ternal Aid Association chartered a
special train to FL Dorado to attend
picnic and celebration at that place.
A thrill passed over all Kansas when
the reception of the Kansas boys in San
Francisco was read. Kansas will long
have a warm side for San Francisco.
The Grand Lodge I. o. o. F. defeated
plan to assess members five cents each
on the death of brother, the came to
go to his heirs. The vote was fifty
seven to 236.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
closed their work at Wichita and adj
journed to meet next year at Topeka,
that city having secured the favor af'
ter a hard contest.
]. c. Lowry, of Sedgwick county, says
his sweet potatoes are running 200
bushels to the acre. He exhibits sin1
gle vine with twenty-three sweet pota,
toes, weighing fourteen pounds.
P. Anderson & Co.. of Monterey,
Kas., have closed deal for the pur,
chase of the Duncan mill property al
Blue Rapids, Kas., and will at onc1
erect 15O-barrel mill and an elevator
A reunion and reception of the Off
GERS of Grand Lodge, Grand Encamp
| ment and Rebeka Assembly, is called
for Wednesday evening of the wee!t
during the session of the Grand Lodge
! in Topeka next year.
J. G. Groves, the wealthy colore1
| farmer of Edwardsville, owns one Of
the largest potato farms in the state,
and he is recognized as the wealthies;
! cOlored man in the western country
| He lives in a mansion at Edwardsville
Lieutenant Fred Bugbee, who was o
member of the regiment of Rough
Riders, was married in Wyandotte
county, Kans., the other day. with Miss
Grace Cornell. He went Immediately
to join his regiment, the Fortieth T..
S. Infantry, to proceed to Manila.
Topeka has an ''Aunt Martha" a lie,
gress who is 121 years old. She sayi
she remembers seeing soldiers march
past her home in Virginia during tho
revolutionary war; was in Washington
and saw General jackson in a parade
at the close of the war of 1912 Sho
cooked for soldiers during the civil
war and was in Washington when tho
great review occurred. She now asks
for a good position on the reviewing
stand when the Twentieth Kansas
marches in Topeka.
One of the special cars of the United
States fish commission, in charge OF
Captain Groves, is now engaged in dis
tributing e ii in Kansas. The car is
fitted with every conceivable convent
ence for transporting fish. There are
twenty-five departments for the differ
ent kinds of fish carried, and each il
connected by water and air pipes.
, A bequest of 81, 900 was received from
/ Philemon and Mary Jones of McLouth
Kansas, for an endowment fund for
= the Friends university, in addition to
the same amount given last year
E Upon disembarking at San Francisco
: Lieut. Col. Ed. Little picked horse tt
t ride to the Preside. It had been re
e served for Governor Stanley. He pick
: ed another. 1t had been reserved fol
: Adjutant General Fox. General Shat
ter sent him another horse but Little
G walked, distance OF five miles.
V There is a reunion this week of thu
. | students Of Garfield university, now tn,
e Friends university, in Wichita. Tn,
Y Garfield students are now scattered al
i over the country and their reunions ar
always interesting.
: Veteran and honorable veteran Jew
O els will hereafter be furnished to thos
n entitled to them by the Grand Lodg
a of 1. o. OF o. F. at cost. Heretofor
d they have been free.
# The Leavenworth, Topeka & South
e western railroad, which runs fror
Leavenworth to Meriden junction,
d distance of about forty miles, has bee
b sold at public auction by Special Ma.
Is ter Dillon for 100000 to Edwar
Ie Wilder, treasurer of the Atchison. To
pal-a G Santa Fee SI-Stau tho o,11- h; =