Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-09-08

Wichita, is chartered with capital OF
$50. 900.
| The Hiawatha World joins in the de-
nunciation of the Belgian hare specula-
ton scheme.
A general store at Rose, Woodson
county, was destroyed by fire August
90. Half insured.
Marcellus Curtis. of Burlingame,
aged IL, stepped on stubble weed and
lock jaw resulted.
Kansas now has 497 state. private
tional and SO private.
A New York safe manufacturer says
he has sold more safes in Kansas this
| year than in any other state.
F. Hurd, of Coffey county, was struck
on the head with hoe by his son-in-
law, and probably fatally injured.
The state board of health reports Is
cases of smallpox in the state; eleven
of them among miners in the south
east.
Newton shops of the Santa Fe are
busy in repairing freight cars, rs of
them having been sent there from the
south.
Sedgwick county paid off in August
S1O1, 961 of mortgages. This is at the
rate of quarter of million dollars a
year.
j. P. STICKY, German farmer near
Mound Ridge has threshed 10000 bu-
shells of wheat and will plant 600 acres
this fall.
Clyde's watermelon festival brought
together Is, 900 people for the first day
of feasting. Concordia sent out two
train1oads.
diana, will speak in Topeka, October9 9,
concerning his personal Investigations
in the Philippines.
John w. Russey, aged 80, a farmer
near Madell, Kas., was walking on the
track of the Lincoln branch of the q.
p. at Shipton, and was killed.
The logrolling at Alma drew big
crowds. A special on the Rock Island
left Topeka with lis passengers and
reached Alma with about 600.
A local truss company of Topeka sent
5000 packages through the Topeka
postoffice during the past year, and
not one of them was missent or lost.
Fire starting from lamp explosion
destroyed So, 900 worth of property in
East Galena. Two stores, two empty
buildings and dwelling were burned.
The four carloads of hogs which
topped the Wichita market the other
day, were fed on alfalfa and dry corn.
1t is now conceded that there is money
in alfalfa for hogs.
1.-THE total vote in Alabama in the re-
cent election was $50, 900 on less than
one-half that of Kansas in a state cleo
tion. Yet Alabama has nine members
of the house of representatives and
! Kansas only eight.
Miss Edna Sippey, of Belle PLANE,
, was chosen queen of the Sumner coun-
ty jubilee. She received 1920 votes
while her two principal competitors
received-Miss Maggie Barndollar,
3,462, and Miss Mabel Klein ABS.
The Rock Islands Homeseekers' ex-
, cursions, on the third Tuesdays of each
month, are bringing a multitude of
good citizens from the eastern states
to Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
They come, largely, from Ohio. Illinois,
Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.
. colored woman confined in jail at
q Pittsburg for drunkenness, had friend
! return the horse and buggy with which
\ she came to town. to her husband, with
a message to the effect that she was
: staying with friends and would not be
home for week or so.
4 The imbecile asylum at Winfield now
d has 2O4 inmates, of whom 125 are male
n and 70 are females. The state now has
S135, 900 invested in this charity.
$ 1t is said that grafters are going
IS through the country with a set OF
|. blanks like those used by the census
l, euumerators. Their claim is that they
want additional information on certain
q matters. and after it has been secured
a she farmer is asked to sign his name
l., TO the statement. Later the signature
o. turns up in some bank on the bushes.
end of promissory note
- There are four rural mail routes il
$ Jewell county, and some more in con
l.. temptation. Burr Oak, Mankato, Jew
IS ell City, Randall and Ionia are all il
telephone connection, and many pr
vate houses on the line in the country
n All of the men who have held tn,
,r Office of sheriff of Labette county il
lie the past thirty-three years are still
g alive.
" Fred Chapman, of Wellington, dice
Ell q few days after receiving life Ger
IS tificate from the state board of educa
ton.
N Good rains in Central Kansas hav
ID revived the pastures and benefited tn
Is fodder crops The prospect for whea
seeding is fine.
If The prospect hole at Eureka struel
- what is believed to be deposit of kao