Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-12-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The monthly payroll of the Santa Fe
at Ottawa lacks but little of reach
ing the SIS, 900 mark.
The Santa Fe railway pays about
see, 200 taxes on its Shawnee county
property every year.
There are only two families in John
son City, the county clerk, who is post
master, and county treasurer.
Henry Van Lewen is called the
cheese king of Atchison county. He
has a number of cheese factories.
Colonel Edward c. Little of Abilene
and Miss Edna Steele were married in
the chapel of Bethany College, Topeka.
The Christian denomination has
about completed their church at Ran
dali at an expense to build and furnish
it of about $4,000
VIM Bauman, merchant of Kansas
City, Kas., was forced into bankruptcy
by his creditors and within three weeks
paid off every obligation in full.
There are several Mormon elders
I'm Kansas preaching. They are in the
state most of the time. They must
get converts or they would not stay.
An attempt will be made to secure a
pardon for Harry Mason, the Marion
banker, who, after having been SEN
fenced, went to the penitentiary unat-
tended.
The seventeenth annual convention
OF the Kansas State Temperance Union
will be held in Topeka Wednesday and
Thursday January 10 and II, beginning
at p. m.
Work will commence soon on bridge
across the Kansas river at De Soto. It
is to cost SIS, 200; of which Johnson
county contributes S13, 900 and Leaven-
worth county ZOO.
Special Agent Lynn of the postoffice
department has concluded the location
of rural free mail delivery route, run
ming west from Lawrence. The route
will supply $50 families.
Judge Williams has decided that cor
porations organized outside of the
state need not report their business to
the secretary of state. The law applies
only to Kansas companies.
Kansas cattlemen will get together
20 devise ways and means of opposing
the action of the railroads in putting
In the system of charging by the hun
dred pounds instead of by the carload.
Mrs. Charles Lusk, of Caldwell, is
fnstituting a suit for $4,000 damages
against the city of Caldwell and the
owner of saloon for causing the
death of her husband from alcoholism.
The financial condition of all the
western part of Kansas is improving
rapidly. The cause is cattle and alfalfa
Also the large crop of broom corn,
which brings $11O per ton in Syracuse.
The Exchange bank of Stockton de-
cided to quit. In thirty days time
every loan made by the bank was col
lected, all depositors paid in full, stock
holders paid in full with 80 per cent
profits.
J. w. Wilson, pastor of the colored
Baptist church in Atchison, recently
preached a funeral sermon over the
body of poor, handwriting woman
who supported her family by doing
washing. She was not a member OF
any church and the preacher told his
congregation that she was suffering
among the damned because she had
died without repentance.
Baldwin has had fire which de-
stroyed all the frame business buildings
fn the town. Loss about SIS 200; in
surance not over So, 900.
The new I. o. o. F. hall at Delphos
r. one of the finest. The building i.
owned by the lodge, which rents the
lower story for $500 a year. The hal
is 36x1O5 feet.
A new Presbyterian church is being
erected near Donegal, in Dickinson
county. The Germans are building
church in the southern part of the
county.
Judge Isaac Monet died in Washing
ton recently. He was once a county
commissioner and once probate judge
in Sumner county.
General Agent Chaplin of the SAINT,
Fe is preparing an exhibit of Kansa
agricultural products for the Paris ex
hibition next year.
Rural free delivery service will be es
tablished at Marysville, Marshall coun
ty, Kas-, on December 1, with one car
rier; length of route % miles; area GOV
cred, 81 square miles; population to b
served, 700.
DIR Swensson, president of Bethan,
college, at Lindsborg, received as
donation to the college, 800 acres O
land near Harrington in Morris county
The donors are Major and Mrs. Hart O
Pennsylvania. The same friends hav
previously donated property sold a
%, 500.
The Arkansas valley is almost on
solid field of alfalfa; some of the farm
ers have as much as five hundred acre
in one field. Thomas Ford of Hami
ton county, has 500 acres in alfalfa an
and a large number of cattle.
The little town of Turner, with onl
400 inhabitantS SuDOlied three soldier