Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-12-30
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single Osborne dealer amounted to IL,
600 pounds; all dressed.
Within the past year and half Pitts
burg Methodists have paid off 81, 00o
debt on their church.
Charles Curtis is the only member
from Kansas that was appointed chair
man of committee.
The Topeka ministerial union will
establish a circulating library for the
benefit Of it's members.
In some of the western counties the
railroads pay more than half the taxes
and have always done so.
The Christian Scientists of Wichita
chartered train to take them to at
tend a lecture at FL Dorado.
The cost of holding the elections in
Sedgwick county averaged thirteen and
seven-tenths cents for each voter.
Quite a number of the young men
who were members Of the Twentieth
Kansas are applying for pensions.
The Shawnee county treasury re-
ceived taxes during December, prior to
the limit date, the goth, about S49O, 900.
There is a movement in Kansas and
Oklahoma to erect a monument to Ed.
Hewins on his old ranch near Cedarvale.
The new electric road from Leaven.
worth to Kansas City will be opened
for traffic January 1, after repeated de
lays.
The students of the State Normal are
agitating the matter of a change of the
weekly holiday from Saturday to Mon.
day.
There are "a 200 sheep on one ranch
men are employed at $50 month and
board.
A Farmers Institute has just closed
at Wellesville. It was the seventh an
nual meeting there and was well at
tended.
In Lincoln six new business houses
are being erected and there is not a
vacant business room in the town and
only one dwelling house without a
tenant.
T. C. Kirby, proprietor of hotel at
Perry, shot and killed G. A. Foley, and
riding to Oska1oosa surrendered to the
sheriff. Kirby asserts the dead man
had ruined his daughter.
In the Fifty-sixth congress Kansas
ranks higher in committee assignments
than at any time since the retirement
of Ryan, Morrill,, Peters, Perkins and
Anderson, at the close of the Fiftieth
congress.
In the last ten months more than 300
farm mortgages have been discharged
in Lincoln county, and not renewed,
and eighty-two farms. aggregating
10000 acres, have beef sold to new
corners. Farm land has increased
greatly in value.
Beloit Call:-Fred Beeler's Jewell
and Mitchell county t; ses amounted
to 81, 400 this year. This is what it
costs to be cattle king, but the Call
ventures that Fred paid it without
grumbling. His ranch keeps him busy;
he never has time to get colicky.
''Taxes are being paid more prompt
| ly in Kansas this year than ever be-
FORE" said State Treasurer Grimes.
''The people are taking advantage OF
the discount by paying up quickly.
believe that at least 80 per cent Of the
1900 taxes will be paid the first half OF
the year, although only so per cent is
due"
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.
Colonel John Pearson, who was the
first superintendent of the Alchison
Orphans home, died in Germantown
o., last week. He won distinction as
as an officer of the Tenth Michigan dur
ing the war. He left Kansas some
years ago to reside with his daughter
in Ohio, and had reached the age Of 81
years
Miss Lizzie Wooster, of Topeka, ha:
received word from the department OF
Indian affairs at Washington that he1
primary educational works entitled
Wooster Reading Chart" and "Read
ing Box and Primer" have been LISTED
for use in tie Indian schools of the
United States.
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 it is the original letter of trans
mission in Hugo's haE 1writing.
Rev Walter Clarke, rector of st
Johns Episcopal church at Abilene fol
several years, has received call TO bt
canon in the cathedral Of Spokane
Wash, and leaves this week. He vii
also teach classics in the college O.
Spokane.
It is estimated by Governor stanle,
that at least 500, 900 can be saved an
nually by the adjustment of useles,
offices and he is likely to advocate re
vision OF the laws for the purpose O.
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