Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-10

Galena has an ordinance prohibiting
the giving of premium stamps by mer-
chants.
Deputy Q. S. marshal Trigg caught
silver dollar counterfeiter in Smith
county.
A baggage car on the Frisco was
burned while the train crew were out
to dinner.
Arrangements are about completed
for an electric car line from Olathe to
Kansas City.
The Strong City Citizens band OF
eighteen members is preparing for cam
paign year.
Lead is said to have been discovered
in Sumner county. A company has
been formed to sink shaft.
The Rock Island has received Is new
and elegant coaches. The seats are
said to be exceptionally comfortable.
Workmen are fitting up a new room
in the west wing of the state house for
the plants collected by the Academy OF
Science.
The Hackney block. which cost Hon.
Bill Hackney S125, 900 to build, is de-
stroyed by fire. It is quite loss to
Winfield.
| The city council of Pao1a has placed
penalty of $50 on parents who do not
have their children who attend school
vaccinated.
Charles Bailey of Ottawa received
plum pudding from England which
came in good condition although %
days on the way.
| During 1899 the Edgerton creamery
paid for milk, $50, s07. 90, an average
price per hundred pounds of little IL
excess of 70 cents.
Len Cooper is at the Leavenworth
federal penitentiary from Oklahoma.
His parents travelled there in wagon
to make him visit.
Colonel E. N o. Clough, of Leaven.
worth is dead. He was rs years old
He was a veteran of the Mexican war
and of the civil war.
On February there were in the To
peka post Office 1891 January money
orders which had not yet been pre-
sented for payment.
Miami county road overseers held a
mass meeting in Paola and were well
entertained by the citizens. It was
one of Barney Sheridan's schemes for
good roads.
The poor commissioner of Wyandotte
county has arranged work for able
bodied parties who apply for county
aid. He expects this to lessen the
number applying.
Dr. J. Frank Davis was shot and in
stantly killed at Halls Summit, by
Fred Denhart. Davis, Denhart and S.
o. Hill were at Denhart's house, drink
ing whisky and singing.
The Wichita Carnival and Fall Festi-
val association have invited the people
of Kansas and Oklahoma to submit
designs for a souvenir button for the
Street Fair and Carnival in October
next.
Mrs. Laura Ramsey, an aged widow,
at Sabetha, was murdered in her home.
There have been no arrests. The
officers have no clue to work upon.
The motive of the crime was probably
robbery.
Miss Blanche Stradtner, of Enter.
prise, lies in precarious condition, the
result of joke. While coming home
from church in the night few days
since man jumped in front of her and
|, yelled ''Boo." She tainted and had
Mysteries, resulting in nervous pros
tration and a serious condition which
is alarming her family.
A stock company with capital OF
about 81 900, has been organized al
Williamsburg, for the purpose of Dor,
| ing for gas or oil. Williamsburg is en-.
, thusiastic over the prospect.
There are now building at the Santa
Fe shops in Topeka ten new all stee,
ballast cars of 80, 900 pounds capacity
These cars will be of standard size
5 which means a length of 40 feet. These
cars will be the first steel cars to be-
built at the Topeka shops and thei1
} completion is naturally looked forward
to with much interest.
;Leavenworth has about given up get
ting the $500, 900 appropriation for build
: ing cell houses at the new federal peni
Tertiary site.
E Governor Stanley will establish /.
r home finding department at the reform
school and state reformatory. Ever
l time a home is found for a boy he vii
e be given conditional pardon.
f Geary Stevens, brother of Charlie
: Stevens, county attorney of Cherokee
. county, was shot and killed at Scam
t mon by James Hardison, the result o
quarrel. Hardison made his escape
= The reports received at the state sup
r erintendent's Office from all countie
y show that the number of school chi