Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-12-09

bought 500 ducks to stock his ranch
"Jewell City has not had a saloon
since the prohibition law went into
force.
One wholesale grocery firm of Topeka
has paid their personal property tax OF
So, 200.
The railroads have to put up S21, 00c
every year for taxes in Mcpherson
county.
Ex-Governor Click purchased bust
ness property in Kansas City and PAID
$50, 900 for it.
Colonel Dick Blue, ex-congressmar
at large, lost his entire law library by
a fire at Vinita, I. T., the other day.
Buffalo robes are becoming more val
liable every year At Hiawatha mar
was arrested for stealing robe which
was valued at $40.
Topeka is to have dollar gas and
cheaper electric light, to be furnished
by new company composed of Chicago
capitalists.
Mahlon Miller, an old soldier of Sa
betha, Kan. tried to kill himself. His
son was Lewis Miller, captain of Com
pany K, Twenty-second Kansas.
Baker University used to be famous
for the crack football team of the west
but now the college paper demands thai
the game be suppressed everywhere.
Council Grove has building boom
It is 2 Missouri Pacific division point.
The Congregationalists have built
fine stone church A fine new hotel
has been built.
Harry Land, business manager of the
Western Spirit, of Paola, Kan, was
badly burned by the explosion of es-
Gaping gas in the basement 81 the PEG.
pies National Bank.
The people of Sharon, Cow1ey county
have prepared to tender a reception to
Charles Cavanaugh, a sailor who served
on Admiral Dewey's flagship, as soon
as he reaches home.
Scottsville is going to have its first
elevator. w. T. Daniels has common
ced the erection of a 10000 bushel capa-
city elevator, with all the modern i'm.
provements of operating it attached
In the next adjustment of salaries OF
postofices, it is expected that the Lo-
gan Office will be made a presidential
one. The first three-quarters of the
year show handsome increase of bust
ness.
Senator Lucien Baker has struck it
rich in zinc at Joplin. Baker has been
very lucky in mining ventures He hit
it right once in Colorado. He bought
mine in Colorado for song and sold
it for $50, 900.
The Lanyon smelters at Pittsbure
have fired up again. Since the shut
ting down about a month ago the coke
ovens have been kept burning and the
supply of coke is piled up in rick ten
feet high end nearly 800 yards long.
Boyd Newcom, Of Murdoch, Butler
county claims to be the champion corn
husker of Kansas. He recently de-
feated Joe Ceters of Nebraska in six
hour contest for 500 side. He turned
out Oh bushels in six hours and Ceters
| 81 bushels less.
]. E. Nissley, proprietor of the Kan
sas Creamery, who is known as the
''newsboys' friend" gave each of the
$50 Topeka newsboys a new suit Oh
clothes as thanksgiving present. He
has agreed to give each boy who banks
$500 during the coming year-1O cents
a week-an amount equal to his de.
post.
! Walter Woods and Roy Neeley en-
listed in the Twenty-Second Kansas.
They were transferred to the staff OF
General Miles as stenographers. Woods
is now in the adjutant generals Office
and Medley is stenographer to Governor
General Brooke in Havana.
Harry Kistler, Wichita restaurant
keeper, was hunting near Cheney
and had a dog and his gun in the bug
gy. The dog became restless and in
moving about discharged the load OF
shot, hitting Kistler in the side of hi:
head. He died in twenty-five minutes
The first grain elevator of the Contra
Branch of the Missouri Pacific was put
up in Wetmore in 1870 1t is still il
use,
The Associated Fanciers have decid
ed to offer $500 in prizes for poultry ex
hibits at the poultry show which viii
be given in Wichita this month. w
s. Russell of Ottawa, Ia, will judge tn,
show.
The chances are that an appeal vii
be taken from Judge Hooks decision
against the court of visitation to tn,
supreme court of the United States.
81 live in the best neighborhood OF
! earth, said Uncle Henry Edwards 10th,
Narka News. 81 live in the best neigh
borhood on earth, and don't care WIZ
knows it. had to thresh last week
! and asked few of my neighbors t.
come and help. The morning tn,
machine came the yard was full OF mel
and boys and all went to work. Tn
job was finished just before noon, an,
) knowing that mother was sick, the,