Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-03-24
KANSAS ITEMS OLE INTEREST
KANSAS

Eugene Debs spends four days this
week in southeastern Kansas.
The stock yards at Kirwin are to be
enlarged by the Missouri Pacific.
Burglars robbed store at Beagle,
near Paola, of goods valued at 500.
The cash in the vaults of the state
treasury amounts to nearly one million
dollars.
Galena was visited by safebiowers,
who robbed safes at depot and at
butcher shop.
Fruit prospects are reported very
good in Kansas now; especially for
peaches and apples.
A shooting scrape occurred in a bill
lizard hall at White Cloud and the peo-
pie closed the place up.
There is now paid monthly at Cherry
vale nearly $50, 900 in wages to work
men in manufacturing plants.
Bishop Hennessey was in the county
This week to locate three new Catholic
churches in Sedgwick county.
A Smith Center man had a team; one
Of the horses died; purse was made
up and the man has team again.
Eighteen thousand eggs in one day
is reported as having been taken in by
one firm in Junction City last week.
Kansas University has ordered s., 900
worth of chemicals from Germany.
The goods are admitted free of duty.
DIR. p NJ. Sturgis, of Topeka, aged
81, says he is the only man in Kansas
who has ever seen General Lafayette.
The state agricultural college has
800 hogs. They were vaccinated with
hog cholera virus and all but Sc died.
A ten acre chicken farm is being fit
ted up at Newton for the purpose of
supplying the Santa Fe eating houses.
The Topeka commercial club has
contracted with promoter to put up
spring street fair for May 90 to June
2.
Wanamaker, Shawnee county, has
measles as an epidemic. Many middle
aged and elderly people have the
disease.
Emporia has nominated n. A. Vyne,
a Roosevelt rough rider, for the Office
of city attorney. He was in the bat
ties about Santiago.
In less than three months four of the
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Stowe,
of Mcpherson, have married themselves
out of the family home.
Samuel Stone, of Saline county, took
a car load of sheep to Chicago, put SIPS
somebody else had it before he missed
it.
Mesquite grass is taking the place of
buffalo grass as far west as Ford coun-
ty. Change of climate has crowded
buffalo grass west gradually. Forty
years ago it was common just west of
The Blue river.
Frank Omeara, aged about 40, threw
himself in front of the west bound
Union Pacific train, near Chapman, and
was killed, being fearfully mangled.
His home is unknown. His name was
learned from papers on his body.
Seven years ago three men left
Brown county and settled in Seattle.
One of them is mayor of Seattle now,
another has an immense foundry and
the third is successful hardware
travelling man. All three were average
Kansas citizens.
Representative Biddle of Comanche
county bought fifteen bull calves from
a Barber county Hereford herd for 500
apiece.
! A club at Lawrence proposes to
found a sanitarium for the purpose OF
caring for the infrm, and for orphan
children.
A freight on the Missouri Pacific was
wrecked three miles west of Herington
fourteen cars of grain and merchandise
being ditched. One brakeman was
buried under the cars, but escaped
with only broken arm.
Frost did some injury to early plant
ed potatoes in the Kaw valley. The
second planting is much larger and Is
now being put under the soil.
o. P. Updegraff, the Shawnee county
horseman, will likely be appointed a:
a member of the Kansas live stock
sanitary commission to succeed Taylor
Riddle
The Kansas claims of about $40, 900
growing out of the war with Spain
have not been paid. Adjutant Genera
Fox is in constant correspondence Will
the war department.
Rev. Sparks. who attended the NJ. E
conference at Chanute, said that for 4
years he never missed roll call at tn
annual conference except one. Tina
was when he was serving in the arm,
as chaplain.
In Sedgwicl> county farmer con
tracted 4 900 bushels of corn to be de
divered in "a certain time. The locs
price jumped from "a q cents to 90 cent
and the farmer hauled his.corn TO ar
other town. The first contractor fo
the corn brings suit for $40, the diffel
ence in the price.
Four deaths have occurred in Nom