Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-12-23

Ser of chances to locate homesteads.
The Christian Scientists of Wichita
chartered a train to take them to at
tend lecture at FL Dorado.
The seventeenth annual meeting OF
the county clerks of Kansas will be
held at Wichita, December % and 90.
There is movement in Kansas an6
Oklahoma to erect monument to Ed
Hewins on his old ranch near Cedarvale
There are "a, 900 sheep on one ranch
in Pottawotamie county. Twenty-fou1
men are employed at $50 a month anc
board.
There are five Kansas counties with
less than 500 inhabitants: Grant, with
4O5; Greeley, 464; Haskell, 434; Morton.
305; Stanton, 294.
The Hutchinson and Southern branch
trains will use Wichita branch main
track between railroad junction east
and west of Kingman.
George w. Martin now secretary of the
Kansas Historical society, has the best
private collection of Kansas books and
pamphlets in existence
The A. o. U w. lodge at WameCo,
together with others who are not mem
bers, harvested and cared for 40 acres
of crops for sick brother
d. E. Pritchett, brakeman on the
Rock Island road, was run over at Man
kato, and had both legs cut off. He
died few hours afterwaFd.
There is no spot on earth, so far as
reported, that has natural roads equal
to those in the great valley of the Ar
kansas in southwestern Kansas.
The Kansas Retail Grocers and Gen
eral Merchandise association will ask
the Legislature to pass more effective
laws for the collection of debts.
Merchants of Maple Hill have signed
an agreement which provides that
they will not sell any goods on Sunday
nor allow their clerks to do so.
The auctioneers of Kansas have Or
gained a state association with the
view of securing legislation requiring
auctioneers to have a state license.
Colonel Alexander Warner has closed
his Kansas career by selling his home
place at Baxter Springs. He will re-
turn to his old home in Connecticut.
The Kansas Experiment station dis
courages the establishment of beet
sugar factories in Kansas, believing
that Kansas is better adapted to other
products.
Information has been received by
the Santa Fe officials that from present
appearances next years shipments of
OF livestock all along the system would
be larger than it has ever been.
The air shaft to the penitentiary
coal mine has been repaired and the
mine is again in operation with a ca
pacity of twenty cars a week. This is
not sufficient to keep the state institu-
lions in coal.
The gold medal given by Victor Hugo
and other French Republicans to the
widow of John Brown is in the museum
of the Kansas State Historical society.
With il is the original letter of trans
! mission in Hugos handwriting.
Rev. Walter Clarke, rector of st.
Johns Episcopal church at Abilene for
several years, has received call to be
canon in the cathedral of Spokane,
Wash, and leaves this week. He will
also teach classics in the college Of
| Spokane.
It is estimated by Governor Stanley
that at least 500, 900 can be saved an
nually by the adjustment of useless
offices and he is likely to advocate re-
vision of the laws for the purpose of
accomplishing that result, in his mes
sage to the next legislature.
Governor Stanley went to Washing
ton as member of the committee ap-
pointed by the president to make ar
engagements for celebrating the 'centen-
NAL of the establishment of the United
States government at Washington.
State Oil Inspector S. o. Spencer
turned 81, 334 into the state treasury.
which he COLLECTED as fees for the in
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month of November. The expense Oh
maintaining his department for the
month was S514. This left surplus
for the state of $500.
L. c. Price, Judge of the Thirty-first
judicial district, covering eleven coun
ties of southwest Kansas, has announ
ced his intention to resign and remove
to Sandusky, Ohio. to practice law.
New sO-pound steel has been laid b!
the Rock Island from Lincoln, Neb., t,
point about ten miles east of Belleville
AS soon as spring opens work will b
resumed on laying steel between Belle
vile and Phillipsburg.
The farmers of Kearney county ar
Just shipping east five carloads of melol
leeds, worth $40, 900.
:: 7. E. Stevens, secretary of the Stat
orohibitory society. says that the pre-
hibition sentiment is becoming activ
again, that where three years ago les
than Sd, 900 was raised. this year SIS