Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-12-15
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

City has raised 81, 900 to prospect Tor |
gas.
Emporia and Lyon county will vote
on the Orient railroad bonds on Decem-
Der 90
Shorthorns worth 81, 900 each live
high on NJ. A. Lows farm in Brown
county.
There is among the cadets at the
Salina military school a youth from
Havana.
The organization of a cooperative
store is talked about, to be installed in
Garden City.
Large quantities of shelled corn in
100 pound sacks, is being shipped from
Kansas to Cuba.
The number of books relating to
Kansas, published since 1854, is 224;
about six year.
Out of the ten games played by the
Haskell Indian team the young braves
lost but one game.
Wichita packers are paying close to
Kansas City markets for hogs and do
not get all they want.
1t is said that the Missouri Pacific
and the Burlington railroads will sink
coal shafts at Atchison.
The Santa Fe is expanding over 81
600 in fitting up reading rooms for its
employees at Dodge City.
Rev. S. S. Estey, pastor of the Presby-
T.
copied call from Salina.
John Seaton has represented Atchi-
son in the Kansas house of representa-
tives continuously since 1879.
VIM. r. Miller, of Kansas, has been
given position in the copyright divi-
sion of the congressional library.
The Mcpherson district court opened
with only four jury cases on the dock
ct. The usual number is about So
Survivors of the Eleventh Kansas,
Colonel Plumb's old regiment, held
reunion at Emporia on December :.
Clay Center is to have broom fac
tory in operation by the first of jan
nary which will employ thirty men.
J. NJ. McClain, of Syracuse, delivered
to Coulter & Hatcher, of Finney county,
80 mules, to be placed on their ranch.
Fifteen graduates of Kansas Univer-
sity were elected November to office;
five to the legislature, one probate
judge, one clerk of court and eight as
county attorneys
The governor has called a special
election on January s, in one of the
Shawnee county Legislative districts
for the election of a successor to Repre-
sentative Elect Stafford, deceased.
Three of the justices of the supreme
court have rooms assigned them on the
second floor of the south wing of the
state house, and the four new justices
will occupy rooms on the third floor.
A postoffice inspector recently re-
ported the Topeka postoffice unclean
and new custodian has been appoint
ed. The work upon the new addition
and the changes in the building was
the cause of accumulated dirt.
The Southwestern Stock Growers
association, at meeting in Dodge City,
by resolution approved of the appro-
priation by the legislature of $500, 600
to enable Kansas to be properly repre-
sented at the Kansas semi-centennial
in 1904
John Donohue, prosperous farmer
and stock raiser of Syracuse, has fin
ished threshing $50 bushels of alfalfa
seed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Arthur, of Atchi
son county, gave their fiftieth Thanks
giving dinner. OF their fourteen chill
dren, nine were present and passet
their plates for more.
DIR. Swan, secretary of the stat
board of health, proposes that a com
mission be created to examine plumb
ers and pass upon their qualification
in sanitary plumbing.
Frank D. Brooks, of Lawrence,
vice consul, now acting consul, a
Smyrna, the Turkish port visited b
the battleship Kentucky.
Near Kirwin Mrs. Robert Williamso
rope was lowered and the mother tie
her child to it and its life was saved
Mrs. Williamson then fixed the rop
about her body and was drawn out
1t was then found that both her leg
were broken, one of them twice, thre
ribs were broken and the breast bon
was crushed.
The Dodge City commercial club ha
requested the governor to recommen
to the Legislature "as large an apprt
priation as will enable Kansas to sho'
herself as she is-the most promisin
star IN the Union" at the 1904 expos
tton.
J. a. Newman. the chairman OF tt
Santa Fe telegraphers, is quoted
saying that the strike which cor
menced in Texas may extend over tt
entire system. There are about I.3t
of the brotherhood employed by Il
Santa Fe.