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

Hty OF building a market house.
Kansas broom corn crop is promis-
ang well while the crop of Illinois will
DE only half of an average yield
All the Sunday schools of Coffey
county unite for picnic rally at the
fair grounds at Burlington on Septem-
Der 6.
In the last two years and half
Butler county has paid off mortgages
aggregating a million and half Of
Ho1lara
The ESQ box cars now building at the
Santa Fe shops in Topeka, are for the
San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley
railway.
The state superintendent Of public
obstruction in Kansas actually had to
be taught how to carry his new baby
without droppiag It
Osborne Farmer: Tom Mcbride own
ed the John Cronk farm exactly three
months to day, and cleared about
$500 on his investment
Miss Minnie Bender, the young lady
selected for carnival queen at Newton,
Is the daughter of John Bender, a San
ia Fe conductor, now running on the
fast mail
The court house at MarysVille, be-
ing different from most others in the
state, Is usually on the visiting list for
county commissioners of counties
about to build new court houses
Grant Hornaday, president of the
State Board of Charities, recently un-
loaded 16 car loads of sheep at Fort
Scott, which had been brought from
western Colorado and Utah He will
feed them on one of his farms near
Fort Scott.
At G. a. R. picnic at Ottawa, A. C
Hanson, Company K, Twentieth Kan
sas, appeared on the ground, having
just arrived from Manila He was
carried to the platform, where he was
nearly smothered by greetings He
carries Mauser bullet in his left
arm.
big force of laborers are preparing
Abe Union Pacific track for ballast
The ballast to be used is burnt gum
DO, the action of water upon which
makes it as compact as asphalt The
ballast will do away with the dust
and add greatly to the comfort of the
travelling public.
Wichita Eagle: The amount of mort
cages released during August was
nearly twice the amount of mortgages
fled The record kept by II NJ Du-
Bots, abstractor, shows that the
amount of mortgages filed was S42, Os3,
while the amount OF mortgage releases
was $50, 5SG.6L
Governor Stanley has named Miss
Lillian Dyer, of Concordia, as the re-
cipient of the scholarship in the School
of Industrial Art and Mechanical De-
sign for Women, of New York City.
This school gave scholarship to Kan
sas, and asked Governor Stanley to
make the selection. There were about
forty applicants for the scholarship.
Judge Hook, of the federal court at
Fort Scott, has issued an order re-
versing the ruling of C. E Cory, referee
In bankruptcy, in the Angel Mat
thewson case and, generating Mr.
Matthewson of the charge of perjury,
as preferred by the referee in his re-
port to the court The recommends
ton Of the referee that Mr.. Matthew
son be not discharged was overruled,
and he was granted final discharge
In bankruptcy.
George w. Adams, of Osborne coun-
ty, farms two thousand acres of land.
He harvested 500 acres of wheat this
summer.
railroad is known as the ''hog" road,
while the initials of the Denver, Okla
homa &c Gulf railroad add dog" to the
territorial menagerie
The city attorney of Wellington wa.
Instructed by tue council to begin,
debted to the city for occupation tax,
Mt the rate of five per day.
The Twelfth Kansas infantry will
hold its annual reunio at Paola- Out
regiment but 400 remain.
IN OOrlnR 1Or water the Lawrence
Nitriied Brick and Tile company
struck 4 26-inch vein of coal The
vein is one of the thickest in that par
of the state, and was struck at deptf
of fifty-eight feet If the strike prove.
to have a general area it will be work
ed for the coal needed to operate the
new brick plant, and possibly for mar
ket use
Leavenworth citizens and farmer.
are much dissatisfied with the shut
ting off of the sale of coal at the pris
on. and a determined effort will b,
made to have the law passed last win
ter repealed.
Downs Times: Perhaps the 1arges
load of wheat ever hauI ed into towI
by one small team was brought in b,
Jim Richardson It consisted of tire,
wagons coup'ed together, the com
bined weight of which was -, Isl
pounds, ma king 143 bushels, and wa
del .yered at the Davis elevator