Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-11-18
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

ganoxie and the milliners purchased
the feathers
ELeavenworth Jews have dedicated a
synagogue which they have named The
House of Jacob.
The mortgage releases in Sedgwick
million dollars.
There are 755 men in the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth. Its
capacity is only 800.
The people of Eskridge turned out
and huslxed and cribbed Harry Spar
ings' widows corn crop.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of Topeka has
night school and the school has a me-
chanical electrical course.
There is shoe shop at Olathe which
Employer shoemakers Cowboys boots
is the speciality of the shop.
The American District Telegraph SER
vice is to be established in Atchison if
the city will grant franchise.
Sheep items are becoming more COM
mon in the Kansas papers. The sheep
industry seems to be rapidly forging
ahead.
Enterprise has opened litigation with
the owner of the water works in that
city, claiming the right, under con-
tract, to purchase the same at an ap-
praised value.
w. C. Johnston has resigned his posi-
ton in the Santa Fe treasurer's office
and accepted position with the gen
eral freight agent of the Gulf, Colorado
e Santa Fe railway at Galveston, Tex
as.
Usage City is expecting that parties
from Kansas City will establish tile
and sewer Pipe factory there, using the
unlimited supply of yellow ochre which
is deposited in that vicinity. Good
brick have been made from it for
years.
W. I. Allen, the Rock Island man,
who was married in Topeka the other
day, has divorced wife and she is in
stituting proceedings to void the di-
vorce decree, charging that when she
consented to the divorce and signed
papers she was not responsible, being
under the influence of drug
There is great lack of knowledge
of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment
Station. Many farmers have scarcely
heard of it; others who have heard OF
it do not know that its bulletins can
be had for the asking by any farmer in
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Kansas State Agricultural College. Its
expenses are met by an annual appro-
priation by Congress, made in accord
ance with the provisions of what is
known as the Hatch act. Fifteen
thousand dollars per annum in quar-
terly payments are sent directly to the
College treasurer. Only five per cent
of this may be used for buildings, and
at the Kansas station very little has
been so used. The balance is used fol-
salaries of the staff, apparatus, mater
ials, labor and publication of results
The station wants the farmers to have
the benefit of it's results, and invite:
correspondence concerning agricultur
al topics. It would like to know what
problems are especially interesting
the farmers at any time, and will de
all it can to solve them. Farmers no.
now receiving the bulletins can have
them free of charge.
cit is fact says the Frankfort Re
view, ''that there is more railroad bust
ness to be attended to at this station
than at any other station between
Atchison and Concordia." The paper
from Clyde, Clifton, Greenleaf AM
Blue Rapids will now take the foo
and make few remarks
In great many Kansas towns Their
are stores with show window or tw,
full of souvenirs of one kind and an
other from the Philippines, from bead
to cannon. No wonder the Tartar wa
crowded.
John Speer was Juggling big satche
through the st. Louis depot, on hi
way home to the funeral of his son
when two ladies insisted on aidin
him, and did. He asked them wher
they lived and they said Kansas. The
had recognized him and wanted t
help him.
Felt Snyder, a Wichita rag picker
who was at one time worth S75, 900. az
cidentally set fire to his shanty Will
he was drunk. When the flames wer
extinguished his charred body wa
found in the ruins.
At Oswego Herman LinslSy was cor
victed of stealing pair of pantaloons
and Judge Skidmore in passing ser
tence said: This is the first time i
my judicial career that 1 have know
of Jew being convicted of a felony.
DR.. Sellares, leading citizen c
Scranton, dropped dead on the street
of his home town after returning fror
the Topeka reception, and James Dyer
one of the oldest settlers in Pittsburg
dropped dead in Frontenac, where b
had gone to attend the reception in hor
of the boys of Company D.
Two Argonia boys. named Cissel an
Durham are under arrest at yelling
ton on the charge of having committc
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