Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-30

Riceville, Cherokee county, a mining
camp, is destroyed by fire.
The Southern Kansas Lyceum League
will meet in Wichita July 6.
The NJ K. & T. took $50 cars of cat
tie through Parsons in one night last
week.
Mcpherson county claims to have the
best school libraries in the Seventh
district.
Miss NJ. L. Stevenson, a missionary
from Topeka, is reported to have been
killed in Tien Tsin.
Colonel Massey, a Miami county
farmer, lost half of his 1850 chickens
in one night, by theft.
The Arkansas Valley Spiritual asso-
citation will hold its session at Island
Park, Winfield, July III.
J. D. Bowersock, of Lawrence is ne
gotiating for the planting Of a cotton
hosiery factory in that city.
The Rock Islands Horton shops are
at work upon an order of 500 box cars,
to be turned out by August 1.
Fort SCOTS convention hall has it's
roof on now. Between $500 and 5000
people is its seating capacity.
Four hundred families of Russians,
direct from Russia, will settle in the
northern part of Morris comfy.
A Winfield woman had gasoline
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-four on it; the surest extinguisher.
Receipts at the Katy depot at Coun-
Gil Grove are much larger than last
year. In May they were 81, 900 larger.
Senator Edwin Taylor, the potato
king, says that the Kaw valley will
ship fully II 200 car loads of this crop
w. D. Farrar, of Usage county died
and his funeral was held in grove on
the claim he took in 1857, and which
he planted.
Charles Ralston, of Miami county,
was drawing water for his team when
the well caved in and crushed him to
death.
Judge John Pipher, one Of the ear
lest settlers in Riley county, and first
mayor and first postmaster of Manhat-
tan, is dead.
DR.. Hunter Corbett, who was sent
by the First Presbyterian church of
Wichita, is stationed at Foo Chow,
China, in the midst of danger.
A former Efingham, Kas., woman is
drawing $50 week for keeping her
employer, a society woman of New
York, from drinking whisky.
Miss Mary Butler, of Sedgwick coun-
| ty, goes to San Francisco and will
probably be sent to Manila, she having
passed examination as a nurse
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cludas, of Nc
Pherson, have been appointed Superin-
tendent and matron of the Bickerdyke
home and hospital at Ellsworth.
Edward Heeney, of Atchison county,
is 1O2 years old, he has good teeth,
plenty of hair and is not decrepit. He
has used liquor and tobacco all his life.
The Neosho County Fruit Growers
association has shipped from Chanute
81, 1868 worth of strawberries without
loss of crate or of payment for the
berries
Miss Matty Rush, of Ness county,
feeds, harnesses and works four horses
to gang plow, harrow or drill, and has
plowed and drilled $50 acres of cattle
| feed this season
The accountants and bookkeepers of
Kansas met at Emporia and selected
officers. They will petition the next
legislature for the creation of the Office
of certified public accountant.
Sumner county, Kansas, will this
year produce more wheat than either
of the states of Ohio, Indiana or Ne
braska. The wheat crop of five Kan
sas counties will this year exceed in
value the total output of the Alaskan
mines in 1899.
The coroner's jury found that EN-.
ployes of both the railroad and street
cars are blameless concerning the loss
of life of three women and the injuries
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freight train and crowded street cal
in Hutchinson.
Captain Stewart of Allen county is
still living on land he first occupied in
1854, and E. c. Gilbert of that county
still owns the land he "took" up in 1860
August Luck, of Solomon, was OF
top Of thirty-foot windmill The
fans hit him and knocked him of. Hi.
clothes caught on a nail and saved hi.
life
1t took four trains each way on
recent Sunday to carry the people who
wanted to go to Geuda Springs owe
the Kansas Southwestern from Arkan
sas City.
The jury of the district court il
Miami county was discharged at tn,
opening of the session, there being n,
jury cases.
Transfer of real estate in Finne,
county is active but the records shov
cessation of making chattel mort
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