Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-07-28


The Kansas Wesleyan university will
build $4,000 girls dormitory this
year.
Another large gas well near lola is
expected to run ten million cubic feet
a day.
Many cattle are being shipped from
Solomon on account of the failure of
pastures.
Galena has lost two large frame
stores by fire; loss more than covered
by insurance.
English army officers are inspecting
horses at the horse yards, in Bismark
Grove, Lawrence.
3Miss Lillian E. Hall has been ap-
pointed by the governor, coroner OF
Cowley county.
Fifty-fve tourists tickets to Colorado
were sold at the Wichita ticket Offices
in one day last week.
An lola baker and confectioner is in
Jail for selling liquor and his creditors
have closed in on him
Pottawatomie and Wabaunsee coun-
ties Woodmen will unite in a log roll
ling at Alma August 80.
It develops that there was another
man of the same name as Rev. James,
who will get the millions.
| The 10th annual reunion of the Sixth
Kansas cavalry association will be
| held at Galena, August 1885.
John P St. John, it is said, has pur-
chased home in Independence, Mo,
and will move his family to it.
The penitentiary Irvine plant makes
an output of 1,OoO,O pounds of Irvine
of which 900. 900 has been sold.
Henry Grother, near Paola, had
sixteen acre piece of wheat which
threshed out 80 bushels to the acre.
Isaac G. Reed, the Wellington Judge
who was pardoned out of the peniten-
tiary, died recently in Pennsylvania.
The Rock Island is replacing the
wooden bridges at Willard, Elmont,
Paxico and Valencia with steel struc-
lures.
Ward Kinney, of Mcpherson county,
threshed rs acres of wheat which test
ed 60 to 90 pounds and which sold for
S1,211.95.
Esther Lapham, aged years, was
run over by street car in Wichita and
one arm was cut off. She was other
wise injured.
The building erected for a cob pipe
factory in Ottawa and now used for
1t cost SIS, 900.
Postofices in eastern Kansas cashed
many money orders sent to families by
men who were working in harvest
fields further west.
Henry Hegwer, of Chase county, has
reached home from the Philippines.
He was wounded in the neck and the
surgeons pieced out his windpipe with
grizzle from the neck of chicken.
In 1887, at the height of the boom
there were 545, 4S5 town lots in Kansas
and they were valued at $50. 646, s73.
According to the returns this year,
there are ], O2S, 500 town lots valued at
SCI, 377 ,O91.
Sixteen additions to Fort Scott, in
which there are only about so voters,
have been vacated, the object of the &C
ton being to shift the maintenance OF
streets and bridges from the city to
the county.
Bishop Fink, of the diocese of Leav-
enworth, has sent out to all the deans
of the diocese a letter enclosing his re-
, cent order relative to members of the
Catholic church joining the Modern
Woodmen and Maccabee secret orders.
During a thunder storm Mrs. Rerschel
} Carr, of Montgomery county, was
thrown from horse and run over by q
harvester and seriously injured.
C. V. Eskridge's life insurance
} amounted to about ss5, 900. A sale Of
the Emporia Republican, Governor
: Eslzridge's paper, is desired by hi.
children.
l Vol Weber, of Clay county ha6
l wheat which tested GA pounds Ht
t had hauled and sold $500 bushels o.
, old wheat just before commencing tt
haul his new crop.
( The old settlers of Reno county vii
e hold a reunion on August 2.
The total assessed value of taxable
? property together with the amount O
i state taxes to come from each county
e is published. Shawnee leads with
S14, 535, 0s4 in valuation and S79, 941 il
: taxes: Wyandotte stands S14, SIC, Al;
E valuation and S79, SOC taxes Leaven
: worth and Sedgwicl1 each have ovel
e S9,OOo,Ooo taxable property, the frs
8 slightly in excess of the latter; Cow1ey
5 Sumner and Reno next with over Sc,
900, 900 each.
f E. L. Shafer, steward of the Topek;
t insane asylum, had his leg broken il
3 two places while making slide in
ball game.
+ Judge Herrick has decided that tn
bond he ~.