Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-09-29

IISN d. W. 1ChCdZlSs 1ActAOA4SI pas
tor at Howard, is dead.
Normal students at Emporia gave
500 to the Galveston fund.
General Miles returned to Washing.
ton direct from Fort Riley.
The new Christian church at Havenl
will be dedicated October IA.
A Sunday fire at sabetha destroyed
a half block Of business houses.
The lodge of Scottish Rite Masons OF
Fort Scott has wired 500 to Galveston.
The Wichita high school opened with
435 pupils; more than there is room for.
Ellsworth county is agitating for
high school to be located at Ellsworth.
rier of Salina, was Galveston victim.
Emancipation day, September %,
was quite generally celebrated by the
colored people.
The Rock Island is carrying dona-
lions to Galveston free and willie do SO
until October 81.
All Rock Island freight equipments
are to be constructed at their shops in
Horton hereafter.
The state entomologist says that the
San Jose scale has not been seen in
| Kansas this season.
Another homeseekers' excursion
passed through Kansas September 10,
bound for Oklahoma.
The Santa Fe shop employees in To-
peka raised $3O6 for the relief OF rail-
road men in Galveston.
Legislative districts of Kansas are
due to be reapportioned at the 1901
session of the legislature.
The soap and carpet grafters seem to
have reached Kansas. They reaped a
good harvest farther south.
proposes to raise $4,000 to bore, ho-
ping to find coal, gas or salt.
Railroad men estimate that not more
than 35 per cent of the wheat crop has
come out to the railroads thus far.
About 80 of the inmates of the State
Soldiers home at Dodge City, drove to
Meade to attend the reunion there.
The Rock Island has put low rate
of fare from all points in Illinois to all
points in Kansas along the Rock Island
lines.
The Missouri Pacifc's business at it's
station at Osborne was $1O,45O during
August; an increase of over 81, 600 over
last year.
Elmer c. Million, boy raised in
Burlingame, has been nominated as a
candidate for judge of the Washington
supreme court.
A union meeting of citizens of Lyons
adopted resolutions decrying the street
fair, and Sunday openings. Consider
able feeling was aroused.
A Russell county crew threshed from
fields of wheat in one day 5000 bush
els One field turned out SO bushels tc
the acre and the other fifty.
The board of regents of Kansa.
Agricultural college have elected Prof
C. E. Gooden of Franklin, Indiana, t.
{ the chair of history and economies
Jacob Hoffman, of Wichita, des
cendant of William Penn, has come
into possession of an heirloom in the
( family. It is an old secretary which
: contains deeds which have been handed
down in the family for over 200 years
S The State Historical society will re
: ceive large picture of Captain E. A
: Blalze1ey, who commanded company F
? First regiment, K. Il. G., during the
s great railroad strike in 1888. The com
I pany held a mob of 5000 in check a
Parsons with empty guns.
e Rev. Fl. c. Durham, the first paste
S of the New Jerusalem church of Tope
. ka, lost his entire family in the Calves
ton disaster. He was located there
+ but was absent at the time of tn
9 storm.
o It is said that where Kansas farmer
! planted corn in fields which had bee1
in alfalfa or 5 years, their best crop
were realized.
d AS a rule political meetings do nc
It have as large an attendance as the
l. have been wont to command; but til
campaign will get warmer.
If Italian miners of Chicopee, Cherokee
n county, raised $40 for the widow of tn
x assassin of King Humbert.
s. Four hundred citizens of McPherso
a made up 1895 and it was teIegraphe
d to Galveston.
:. G. N. Marley, foreman in the ofic
er of the Osawatomie Graphic, committe
suicide with morphine. He was in ba
a. health.
ID Rev. E. Masterson left Arkansas Cit
E. for San Juan, Puerto Rico, where h
y goes to take charge of a governmer
school.
n At the soldiers reunion at Smit
e. Center Joseph Shangrah and his brotl
to er, Paul Shangrah, both members
Vermont regiments in the civil wa