Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-12-16

There were over Il, 900 pounds of to- |
bacco raised in Kansas last year.
Marion takes a vote on extending
the franchise of the water works
Farmers living east of Clifton are
clamoring for free delivery route.
Norwich has several cases Of scarlet
fever and the schools are dismissed.
An effort is being made at Sabetha
to organize a company of National
Guards.
Fort Riley now has 16 officers, $40
enlisted men, 81 civilians, 79 women
and children.
Leavenworth is diclzering with Chi
cago firm, which is talking of locating
a piano factory in the west.
Water has commenced to flow again
in the Solomon river, after it has been
dry for six months or more.
Captain ]. G. Schliemann of the TWEEN
tieth Kansas is lecturing in Kansas
towns on View of the Philippines.
In the district court at Troy, Pool
was convicted of libel on four counts.
Frank Rockefeller is to build S2O,-
600 residence on the Rockefeller ranch
at Belvedere, and live there. Galloway
cattle and Clydesdale horses are raised
there.
At the meeting of the state officers
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, held in Topeka, Mrs. Cath
crime S. Lewis of Wichita was elected
state regent.
A. F. Ratio, of Seneca, was ieuten-
ant in the company of marines who
captured John Brown at Harper's
Ferry. ]. E. Wilson, of Hays, was also
a member of the same company.
DIR. S. S. Cooper is dead at his HON.
in Oskaloosa, at the age of 70. DIR.
Cooper was a veteran of the Mexican
war, and in the civil war he served as
colonel of the Fourth Kansas militia.
After having been in the Topeka in
sane asylum for many years, August
Gaeliche, of Lincoln county, is dead.
He left fine farm near Lincoln Center
and, though his guardian has sought
for long time, an heir of the dead
man cannot be found.
A man from New York stopped al
the village of Macksville in western
| Kansas and announced that he intended
to build a mammoth brick emporium
| He borrowed all the money he could
and then disappeared, leaving his ''em-
| porium'' still in the air.
Contracts are let for the completion
| of the third story of the Kansas state
house. There are three classes of work
to be done and three firms got contracts
of total amount of $13,8 T. E.
Lescher, the former architect, estimated
the cost of this work at 5000.
A suit to test the validity of the law
passed by the Legislature of 1897 to tax
judgments has been argued in the SUI
preme court. Three reasons are given
why the act is invalid. The first is
that the subject of the act is not clearly
expressed in the title. The second is
| that it provides for rate of assessment
and taxation that is not uniform and
equal. The last reason is that it attempts
to provide for the taxation of judgments
held by citizens of another state. Ma jor
A. NJ. Harvey, who was lieutenant gov
e-nor and president of the senate when
the law was passed, and who signed it,
wrote the brief and made the argument
attacking the constitutionality of the
law.
In a sale of the last remaining prop
erty of the Argonia State bank, notes OF
the face value of S12 200 were sold for
So. 25.
Leonard Miller of Williamsburg,
was Internationally shot by his brother
Roy The boys were playing in the
house, using an old musket in their
play.
David Horkman, the Concordia boy
hearing of one ear at the battle Of
Caloocan, has received pension of 81
a month.
Ida Pierce, wife of John Pierce, 6
| w Ad1 WIZ CIOPC-
some time ago with James Spruell, {
negro farm hand, has returned to hel
husbands domicile near White Church
She has been received back home by
her husband.
| Articles of Incorporation of the Ne
5 braslxa & Gulf railroad have been filed
S The line is capitalized at 81, 900, 600
f Surveyors were put in the field at once
: The road will be owned entirely b,
: farmers, who will receive stock in tn
road for right of way.
: Jose NJ. Santiago, native of Port.
l Rico, has joined the classes at Bake
e university. When a half-Spaniard from
a Catholic island sets out to educaS
e himself for a Methodist preacher,
K would seem that the limit had bee
; played
g While playing cards Henry NJ. Gray
an inmate of the Soldiers Home a
: Leavenworth, suddenly threw dow
, his hand and fell forward over the tabl
# dead. Heart disease did it F.. Ora
|. was e. wears old and served in Con