Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Lawrence is talking beet sugar fac

Cherokee county will this fall vote on
the proposition to establish a county
High school
! There are more extra trains speeding
about in Kansns this fall than the state
ever heard of before.
The fortieth annual convention OF the
Kansas diocese of the Episcopal church
was held in Wichita this week.
The J. C. Lysle Milling Company of
Leavenworth have transferred their
mill and two elevators to the millers'
trust.
A Rocks county man makes consid-
cradle money breeding st. Bernards.
He ships pups all over the United
States.
The annual reunion of the old and
new soldiers of southwestern Kansas
will be held at Stafford from October
16 to 81.
Burglars got into a hardware store
at Phillipsburg and took a lot of fine
cutlery. They were captured at Smith
Center.
J. P. Pomeroy offered Mr.. Waggener
S75, 900 for his interest in a gold mine
at Victor, Colo, and Mr.. Waggener re-
fused the offer.
Lieutenant Ingalls, enlisted thirteen
men on his second visit to Wichita,
making more than fifty volunteers en-
listed by him in that city.
L ~,
OF the officers and employees of the post
office system in Topeka. There are
sixty employees altogether.
During the state reunion at Topeka,
last week, the Santa Fe shopmen dis
played seven large flags, besides several
smaller ones in honor of the old sol
diers-
Stockmen from Marshall county APP
pear to figure in the market reports
with stop cattle" about as frequently
as those from any other section of the
state, if not more so.
The remodeled vault in the office OF
the state auditor has been completed
and is one of the finest in the Kansas
state house-except that it is not large
enough to meet the needs of the de-
partment.
Kansans are having more fun this
year than they ever knew before. Four
circuses are touring the state, and no
man is obliged to travel many miles
before hitting carnival or jubilee of
some sort.
It was hoped that the electric line
between Leavenworth and Kansas
City would open for traffic by Oct. 1,
but it is now announced that owing to
unexpected delays the line may not be
IN operation before the first of No
vember.
Mrs Julia Binhead, widow living
in Wichita, has found certificate of de-
post for $4,000 issued by the bank OF
Trenton, Tenn, January. %, 1863. II
was deposited by her brother, William
L. L. Richardson of Macoupin county
Ill, who entered the army.
Shell Rock township, in Greenwood
county has refunded S15, 600 worth o.
railroad bonds, making a saving o,
$500 year in interest. Another town
ship in the same county. Madison, re
funded bonds to the amount of SIT ,O0t
and will make a saving thereby of S34(
annually.
w. Fl. Barnes, secretary of the STATE
Horticultural Society, is at work on
treatise on the kansas Peach" which
will be acompanion volume to 9Th,
Kansas Apple" The work will contain
ESQ pages
The best of the apple display at tn
Oak Grange fair was turned over t.
Secretary w. 81. Barnes of the Stat
Horticultural Society. Mr.. Barnes ha
had the fruit placed in cold storage an,
1t will be exhibited at the Decembe
meeting of the State horticultural Sc
ciety.
A recruiting officer enlisted quite
aumber of colored men at Pittsburg.
Makato's new water-works system
progressing rapidly. The pipes ar
now being laid.
Southern Kansas grain men are ship
ping all their wheat to Europe by wa
of Galveston, in spite of the threats @
Kansas City to boycott the railroads.
A car containing 1.3o0 bushels G
wheat was shipped out of Downs fey
days ago, The Times says it is tn
largest load of wheat ever shipped owe
the Central branch
Miss Lutte A Lyle, the Topeka co
ored girl who has the distinction of bt
Ing the only co1ored female lawyer i
the United States, is now deliverin
lectures on Marriage and Divorce
At the Atchison corn carnival tn
Rock Island provided for the street p.
rade an automobile, free of expense t
the city.
Treasurer Grimes is having blan
report prepared which he will send t
each district clerk, for their quartel
1y report and affidavit of amounts co
lected as stenographer's fees.
The twenty-first annual consentio
of the Kansas w. C. I. {. has beeErhel
IN Newton, commencing Sept. IS.