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

Rossviile will put in system of sew
ers.
The Smith county district court con-
victed five jointists at the present term
giving them heavy sentences of fines
and imprisonment,
Olathe will probably make an attempt
to secure the Baptist Theological Sem
mary which it has been decided to To-
cate in some town in the west.
The Kansas Medical college at Tope-
ka. will have the largest graduating
class next spring that has been grad
mated since the college was started.
It is quite probable that F. w. Zook,
the Winfield young man who is trying
to secure a position as officer in the
regular army, will have his ambition
gratifed.
Wendell Mclaughlin, once stenogra!
pher for Senator Plumb, has sailed fo:.
Manila to act as stenographer and in
terpreter for the navy. He sprung up
at Wichita.
A newsboy on a Katy train cheated
passenger few days ago. A special
officer of the road happened to be on
the train, and at the next station the
newsboy was put off.
d. One firm in Topeka has refunded 81,
100000 worth of Kansas school anC
township bonds inside the last year.
In every case the interest has been re.
duced to per cent.
Smith county man who had to quit
shucking corn for half a day while he
picked load of shot out of the hide of
one of his horses thinks that the hunt
ers ought to be more careful.
burglar robbed the store of h. A.
Kier in North Lawrence and he was
found unconscious with his face bruised
and swollen and covered with blood
He had been struck with an axe.
Warden Tomlinson, of the state peni
tertiary, has made arrangements to
start the binding Irvine plant this week.
1t is the intention of the directors of
the penitentiary to keep the plant go
ing all winter.
Shawnee county has lost S127, 144. 10
this year by computations on fractions
in the figuring up of taxes. The loss
is unavoidable. When there is frac-
tion of cent of taxes due on lot, the
county loses it
Mrs. Mary Folk, who died in ST.
Marys last week, was probably the
youngest bride who ever lived in Kan
sas. She was married at the age of ~
She was the mother of Mrs. George
Huycl1e, of Ellsworth.
Governor Stanley will endeavor to
get the next legislature to make an APP
preparation for home finders depart
ment, to work in connection with the
state reform school, the Beloit indus
trial school for girls and the Atchison
orphans home.
Goodland News: The Rabidoux boys
tell US that they never saw the equal
of last weeks rain since they have been
in the country, and they have been
here over twenty years. The ground
was wet down two feet and will not
dry out this winter, which will give
the fall wheat good start.
The Santa Fe has perfected a ma
chine for the easy handling of coa!,
which is worked by compressed air.
1t is used especially for loading coal in
to cars. It is practically an endless
chain of buckets. The coal is shovelad
into the buckets and the air machine
hoists them into the car and they are
dumped.
Notices have been received in Tope
lza from Frank H. Peters, of Leland
Texas, asking for information of the
whereabouts of Landon c. Peters who
was last heard of in Kansas. The mis-
sing man has fortune waiting fol
him.
Joe Besser, formerly sergeant il
company c, Twentieth Kansas Vo1un
teer infantry, prides himself as thu
owner of bottle of whisky which h
carried with him from Leavenworth t.
Manila and which he brought bacl
with him without being opened.
Almenas city council has offered So
reward for every conviction of an IN
lawful sale of liquor.
The stockmen are seriously thinkin
of asking the legislature to build Sc
ries Of good dirt roads through Kansa
that may be used for driving cattle
Along these roads would be placed tclt
phone lines and at certain places feeG
ing yards. The cattlemen of the stat
say that the only loss would be in tn
matter of time that it takes the cattl
to get to the market; that in driving
the cattle would lose no flesh.
Lieutenant Fox, formerly of II
Twentieth Kansas, has been selected
succeed Captain George F. Rising, ;
commandant at the st. Johns milital
school. Mr.. Fox is reported as havir
made a good war record while in Il
Philippines.
Work has been stopped on the 70,
Island improvements at Belleville f
the winter. Forty-five hands WI