Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-03-10

booming jackrabbit meat for mince
pies.
The Hutchinson library gets 100
volumes as present from Miss Helen
Gould
teen horses to a Kansas City firm for
81, 300
Pittsburg has captured factory for
the manufacture of gas and gasoline
engines.
The Wichita Improvement society is
agitating paving more of the streets of
the city.
Ell Dorado is to vote on the PROPOSE
ton to build $4,000 high schoo:
building.
Did you ever try popping Kafir corn?
1t is asserted to be better than regular
pop corn.
A cattle dipping plant is to be estab-
lished at Garden City. The cattle men
are to do it.
Only two states, New York and Michi-
gan, rank above Kansas in the pro-
duction of salt.
cotton mill at independence makes
LOCO pounds of Irvine day, employing
forty-fve people.
A. J. Titus says cars will be running
on the Denver, Oklahoma and Gulf out
of Kiowa by June first.
In some of the western counties the
statement is made that English spar
rows are destroying fruit buds.
Lawrence has contracted for new
twelve room school building. It is to
be of stone and the estimated cost is
$40, 300.
County treasures are being defraud-
ed by parties with wolf scalps. They
kill in Colorado or Oklahoma and claim
bounty in Kansas.
A great number of people attended
the twenty-second annual session of
the grand lodge I. o. L. w. in Topeka:
estimated as high as 1,5OO.
Secretary George W. Martin of the
Historical society is asking the help of
the. women's clubs in the work of cap
turing current history of localities day
by day.
In the Shawnee county court house
there are fifty radiators and a number
of CRATES When the weather is cold
it requires two tons of coal a day to
keep up heat.
The executive committee of the state
Temperance Union has refused to en-
dorse the plan to have law passed
creating the office of state temperance
commissioner.
It cost Bourbon county So, So. AS. to
convict two Missourians of killing
another Missourian, not counting the
the price of the ropes used in hanging
the murderers.
Two sticks of dynamite were eXplo-
ded at one side of the hall, where a dance
was going on, in Riceville, a suburb of
Galena. Everybody was shocked but
no one seriously hurt.
Honest Kansas buttermakers com;
plain that tons of butterine is shipped
out into the state to farmers. They
buy it, work it over, make it into prints
and double their money.
Mr.. and Mrs William Wright of Bar
Der county have been married fifty
years, have raised eight children and
seen twenty grandchildren grow to
| manhood and womanhood without
| death in the family or in their children's
| families.
A Goodland lady made a mail pur-
chase of towels from big city. She
| compared them with stock in q. store
at home and found that she had paid
| three cents each more than she could
have bought them for at home. not
counting express charges.
B. F. McMurtrie, chief dispatcher OF
| the Santa Fe in Topeka, has resigned.
He has held that position for twenty
five years. Paul Morton, second vice
president of the Santa Fe, was once a
clerk in McMurtrie's office while he
was working in Nebraska.
| The Methodists of the First church
at Ottawa, Kas., will build a 5000
parsonage, the site having been given
by Colonel S. B. Rohrbaugh.
A sharper canvassed Republic county
short time ago selling patent feed
cookers to the farmers. The News
says tibet all OF the cookers" have
blown up.
A bed of kaolin porcelain clay has
been discovered in Crawford county.
1t is twenty-six feet in depth. A COM
pany is engaged in buying up all the
land in that vicinity.
The semi-annual apportionment of
the interest on the state school fund
amounts to As cents for each person of
school age. The last apportionuent
was Al cents and the two preceding
that were 81 and ~ cents.
There is spirited contest going on
for the office of grand medical exanin-
er of the Kansas a. o. Z. w. This po-
sition pays as much money as United
States senator receives. The fight for
grand master is completely overshad
owed by the contest for medical exam.
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