Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-01-13
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

what it was last year.
Seven hundred people turned out to
witness the opening of the new 7. NJ.
G. A. rooms at Ottawa.
d. B. Smyth has been elected libra
rian of the Kansas Academy of Science
for the sixteenth time.
Farmers institutes are being held all
over Kansas this year. They are grow
ing to be very popular.
w. 81. Rankin has been designated
as member Of the civil service board
for the postofice at Lawrence, Kas.
The poor commissioner gave away
200 tons of coal to the poor of Shawnee
county during the month OF December.
The bill for lighting against Leaven-
worth for September, October and No
Eember is 80, 498O3, and the city coun-
Gil refuses to pay it.
There has been but one death in
Smith Centre in the past seven months;
and that was the death of person who
went to the town sick.
Major J. NJ. Harvey has been chosen
for Kansas as department commander
of the National association of Spanish
american War Veterans.
Representative Curtis has introduced
a bill to appropriate 100000 for the
protection of the Kansas bank of the
Missouri river at Atchison.
An Iowa man who went to Pratt
county for his health found it all right
enough, bought piece of land and
tells his neighbors that he has come to
stay.
John 7. Prather, commission man at
the Union stockyards, Wichita, met
mis- death from an attempt to jump
from a moving Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train.
c. F. Ressegue, who has assumed
the general SUPPLEMENTARY of the
Santa Fe, will move his family from
Galveston to Topeka as soon as he can
find a suitable home.
Captain Coulter, head of the G. a. R.
In Kansas, says that the order will
take steps to prosecute by fine and i'm
prisonment, men in Kansas who are
wearing the 6. A. r. button without
right.
Chaplain Schliemann, late OF the
twentieth Kansas, is at his home at
Phillipsburg after a lecture tour
Through Illinois and eastern Kansas,
and after couple of weeks will start
out again.
George Theis, Jr., of Ashland, one of
the biggest cattle dealers in Kansas
is well pleased with the business out
look for the coming year, and is increas
ing his ranches as rapidly as possible
in western Kansas.
The sheep barn at the fairgrounds
i'm Topeka, used by D. w. Kent as a
training stable, was completely de-
ktroyed by fire and ten horses and sew
eral buggies and sul1ies were burned.
Kent's loss is large.
Governor Stanley has appointed Ed.
IA. Madison. of Dodge City, judge of
the Thirty-frst judicial district which
comprises the counties of Ford, Kiowa,
Eomanche and Clark, in place of Judge
d. c. Price, resigned.
w. w. Schwinn, Kansas lawyer
who left Wellington some time ago, in
starch of a location, landed first at
Salt Lake City, then at Kansas City,
and is now going back to Wellington
He finally ''lit'' just where he started.
A Wichita man has shipped a sample
OF canned jackrabbit to England. II
this is received favorably he will &c
ahto the business on large scale.
R. E. Torrington, who was formerly
employed in the Santa Fe freight
offices in Wellington, has been appoint
ed ticket agent for the Rock Island at
Wichita.
At Chillicothe, Illinois, the mother
Of J. G. Johnson of Peabody, caught
fire in lighting lamp and was burned
to death. The children were gather
ing for family reunion on Christmas.
Wellington has voted for municipal
ownership of waterworks and electric
lights. Fifty thousand dollars was
voted to purchase the waterworks and
81, 900 to erect a light plant.
The class of large girls at the Sol
diers' Orphans home at Atchison has
been reduced from thirty to ten in the
last three months. w. F. Martin, state
agent for the home, places about eight
children month in families, and the
number of children in the home has
been decreased from 220 last August tc
165 at the present time.
Two years ago w. 81. Love, who fo1
many years has manufactured broom.
on small scale in Fort Scott, bought
about so bales of broom corn for 81
per bale and the other day he sold it il
st. Louis for 1852 per bale.
William Wood, the millionaire luna
tic who has been in the Topeka insan.
asylum for twenty years, has beer
called upon, through his guardian, W
iB. Throclmorton, of Wichita, to pay
into the state treasury the sum of 81,
lO15. 40 for his board and clothes during
the pariod of his confinement