Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-10-20

Scott street car service.
The Kansas penitentiary. for the
month of September, had a balance
over expenses of 81, 491.
r. T. Oliverson, of Abbeyville, Reno
county, tried to jump on a moving
train and was killed instantly.
Clay Center has not quit; another In
junction is asked for to operate against
Parsons in the asylum matter.
Warranty deeds have averaged %
daily, coming to the Office of the regis
ter of deeds of Sedgwick county.
The five barrels of apples sent by the
Kansas horticultural society to Paris,
was awarded the first premium.
Marion county's poor farm consider
ably more than pays it's own expenses,
including the support of inmates.
Thee. Richardson, aged Sc, of Well
lington, is dead. He located there in
1879, and had been merchant for over
forty years.
The official ballot in Kansas will
cont in five state tickets-Republican
Democratic, Peoples Party, Prohibit
ton and Socialist.
| Erastus A. and Rhoda A. Pollard, of
Harvey county, have celebrated their
sixtieth wedding day. They were
married in Vermont, October IL, 1s4O
Blue Mound lost four frame buildings
on its main street by fire and the plate
| glass windows in the opera house block
across the street were broken by the
heat.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
has been instrumental in settling the
miners strike in Leavenworth. The
miners are given an advance in pay.
Other matters are to be arbitrated.
Robert Higginbotham, of Montgom-
cry county, died leaving no heirs. He
left $500 more than enough TO balance
expenses and liabilities and that is now
in the state treasury according to law.
The plant for making Irvine at the
Kansas penitentiary, which has been
closed since July, resumes operations
this week. It is the intention to man.
ufacture several hundred thousand
pounds
Among the first of the postofices,es-
tablished in what is now Kansas, was
Kennekuk, on the old overland route.
It was established in the 4O's, but ID
now discontinued on account of free
rural delivery.
Carl r. Gray, formerly of the Frisco
office in Wichita, has been appointed
superintendent of transportation Oh
the Frisco system.
attended the grand lodge in Topeka
was Capt. VIM. Mathewson, who came
to what is now Kansas in 1s49. He
had trading post at Great Bend TO.
25 years.
The Salina city council did not &C
cept the offer of the Barnard Manu-
!; featuring company to remove there
from Enterprise.
, A farmer in Logan county cut his
wheat early in July and volunteer
crop came up and it headed out; racing
! with the frost season to produce an
other crop of about 10 bushels to tn,
acre.
a. T. O1son, of Marguerite, was t.
; have been married, but is in Jail &C
: cused of forging notes to raise none,
for his honeymoon.
letter has been received from DR.
e Corbett, of Che Foo, China, at tn
| head of the mission supported by tn,
First Presbyterian church of Wichita
e C. 81. Sheffield, of the Santa Fe shop
S OF Topeka, has the pleasant habit o
t sending large quantities of flowers t
the hospitals of that road. The las
e gift was to the hospital at La Junta
f He cu1tivates the flowers himself.
p Miss Myrtle Cumback, of Dodge City
J, and J. L. Miles. of Kansas City, ar
married He is a nephew OF Genera
o Miles
+ The locks of the Decatur county iai
$ have been picked four times and tn
e officers are not able to find out how j
!. is done.
e The Atchison planning mill is bein
i equipped with electric lights because
r night force is required to catch u
with the orders.
!, The Fortieth United States infantr
/ regiment is made up mostly Of Kansa
!, boys. The regiment is garrisoning tn
q the six principal cities of the mort
coast Of Mindanao.
# Charles F. Priestly, formerly tickle
IS agent at the Wichita union depot. hs
n been appointed relief agent Of th
II Santa Fe middle division. G. B. Dola
succeeds Priestly at the Wichita ofHc,