Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Twentieth Kansas comes home
VITA record Of twenty battles fought.
; The Santa Fe eating houses win in
the future give passengers Is minutes
6or meals.
+; There are $40 students now attending
the Agricultural College; $50 more than
ever before.
Ford county man who had 20
acre field of broom corn last week sold
the crop in the field for $3.50.
The Kansas supreme court has decid-
ed that the special fire tax levied
against railroads in some of the western
counties is illegal
A Hiawatha man has an orchard of
eighteen acres from which he has sold
$40 barrels of apples this year, netting
him nearly $50 per acre.
The boys at the Friends University,
Wichita, are highly elated over their
football team Constant additions to
the team is making it strong.
At Seneca, Kansas, the Ringing
brothers, circus men, saw two horses
which pleased them and they whacked
down $500 and carried them off.
Mrs. General Funston performs re-
markably on the violin, hec fathers
favorite instrument. Her two sisters
are also known in musical circles.
When Governor Stanley started out
on the harbor at Frisco the battles-lip
Iowa, which was there, gave him the
governors salute of thirteen guns.
Lawrence is pushing on. Mayor
Gould signed the street paving ordi-
nance this week, and Winner has
force of men at work on the extension
of the street railway line.
Kansas now has sixty-four private
banks and ninety-eight national banks.
The latest private bank installed by
Commissioner Briedenthal is the Kaw
Valley State Bank of Eudora
President Morrison, of Paramount
college, Wichita, will spend most of the
college year in the east. He is en-
deavoriug to raise $4,000 for the en-
dowment fund to meet the offer of
Millionaire Pierson of Chicago to do
nate like sum.
The rooms of the state library which
are to be used for the banquet, will be
darkened and artificiallv lighted with
There will be two orchestras which
will occupy raised platforms at either
end of the hall and music will hold
sway during the banquet hour
A Topeka man who deals in walnut
logs and lumber says he ships his stuff
TO Hamburg, Germany, because the
freight from Topeka to Hamburg is
less than the freight from Topeka to
New York. After paying all expenses
his profits, he says, are greater than il
the logs were sold in this country
Seven years ago baby was left al
an Atchison shoe-maker's home. The
shoemaker decided to keep the child
but in year or so proceedings were
brought by some unknown person in {
LEGAL justice court to gain possession O.
1t. Occasionally woman whose name
the shoemaker never learned, appear
ed and made a good deal of the baby
but her visits ceased after a year or so
and nothing has been heard of tn,
strange woman for five or six years
The child is now seven years, old ant
bears the shoemaker's name, and i
known as his child. She shows indica
tions of growing up into beautiful
woman.
Mrs. Funston is an Oakland, Cali
fornia, girl, and because of this tn
women of Oakland entertains tn
whole Kansas regiment to dinner.
Charles S. Reed, once county attor
ney of Wilson county, has been nomi
mated by the Republicans of Sandusky
Ohio, for judge OF the court of common
pleas.
The petition of Almena lodge to b
allowed to solicit aid for an low
brother living there, was adopted a
most unanimously by the Grand Lodg
l. o. of o. f.
NOIO COIuCS 1TOh GdlOnd GI1dG III
young ladies of that section who bant
ed themselves together and agreed nc
to marry any but members of tn
Twentieth Kansas regiment will a
tend the Topeka reception to the reg
ment in a body.
A La Crosse man Jared the feeling
of the members of the local band fe,
days ago by giving the organization S
1t was the first time anyone in til
town had ever come forward with an
financial assistance, and the boys rusl
ed into print with card of thanks.
Under the direction of Rev Mr.. Cha
les NJ Sheldon a manual trainin
school has been started in connectiC
with one of the ward schools of Topel
for colored children. It has receive
the official sanction of the city board
education and the students will receir
credit for the work.
Some years ago Kansas railros
-. man named j. T. Brady quit his il
and entered the ministry. His frien4
were astonished when they read in tt
no had baa,, EN,>S-o