Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-02

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chise to a telephone company.
The old soldiers of Bourbon county
viii give picnic at Redfeld, June z.
The new bridge across the Kansas
travel.
Musical and literary programs are a
regular feature of the Y. NJ. C. A. work
in Topeka.
One of the Spanish cannon has been
placed on the lawn at the Leavenworth
Soldiers home.
The fake advertising scheme promo
tiers seem to have gone from Marysville
to Concordia.
1t is said that stone suitable for lith-
ographing has been found in Green
wood county.
The shipping of eggs to England
from Northern Kansas has been going
on for some time.
A Winfield real estate dealer enter
tanned IS excursionists from Illinois,
paying all their bills.
Mrs. Ella Armstrong of FL Dorado
has clerkship in thesurgeon generals
Office in Washington
The prairie band of Pottawatomies
in Kansas are likely to buy land in
Wisconsin and go to it.
The thirteenth annual picnic Of the
Santa Fe shopmen of Topeka will be
held on Saturday, June 10, 1000.
It is said that Trainmaster A. E.
Anstin, of Wellington will succeed
Superintendent Michigan, deceased.
The Scottish Rite Masons of Fort
Scott have purchased the Huntington
hotel and will convert it into Mason
ic temple.
A son of A. Scott, near Healy, was
thrown from horse and the halter
caught around his neck and he was
dragged to death.
In one day last week the Santa Fee
moved towards eastern markets, four
heavy trains of fruit. There were
more than IT'S carloads.
Guy Terrell, 15-year-old boy, got
caught in mill belt in a Jewell coun-
ty mill and his bones were pretty gen
orally broken. He died in few hours.
Public schools are closed at ManIato
and Memorial services declared off on
account of smallpox near the town.
This includes the high school COM
mencement.
Bills receivable and notes amounting
to over $4,000 of the assets of the First
National bank of Emporia, were sold
at auction for $645. The real estate
brought s., 036.
a Caldwell man met death by a fall
while drunk. The widow sued the
city for damages on the ground that
the city permitted the unlawful sale of
| liquor to her husband. The court de-
cided that the city was not respon-
sible.
Bids were opened at Fort Leaven-
worth for the constrl ction of privates'
| barracks, officers residences. officers
bachelor quarters, artillery and caval-
ry stables, gun shed and new hospi-
tai. James A. McGonigTe's bid for the
whole seven was $277, $50, and it is
thought he will be awarded the con-
tract.
Hail broke $500 worth of glass in a
| Fort Scott business block There was
tornado insurance on the property, and
| the company which issued it was sued
for the value of the broken glass. The
court decided that hail could not break
! glass without being blown against it
by the wind, and gave judgment on
the policy.
w. D. Michigan, Santa Fe superin-
tendent in Texas, died in the com
pany's hospital in Topeka last week.
The remains were taken to Kiowa.
Leavenworth negro was convicted
IN the o. S. district court of making
false pension afidavits, and sentenced
to spend one year in the federal peni'
Tertiary.
A Kansas branch of the Conference
of Charities and Correction has been
organized and Prof F. W. Rlackman
of Kansas University, elected presi
dent.
Simon Oliver. an employee on Todd.
ranch near Maple Hill, had his LEFT
arm and hand mangled in a feed cut
ter, while operating the same.
Noise of machinery in the Kansas
state house is annoying. Work OF
completion of the interior is progress
sing to the satisfaction of the executive
board.
A factory, it is said, viii be located
in Neodesha which viii make straw
board and egg filters. It is expected
to turn out 10 to 25 tons of strawboarC
a day.
Two men were killed at barn rails
, ing on A. Watkins farm in Woodsol
county. bent fell on A. 81. Smell AM
Luther Pingrey.
The new reading room and ibrar,
for Santa Fe employees at Emporii
starts with 500 books with more com
ing. The new room is one of the bes
: on the system
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