Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-09-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Fort Scott sugar plant is being
changed into syrup plant. The work
has been going on for six months
Leavenworth coal miners threaten
strike on September 1 if their pay is
not raised. About 900 men are affected
Lawrence Boyington, assistant coach
at Cornell uni Versity, is to coach the
Kansas University football team this
fall.
The work being done by the Santa Fe
in Strengthening its tracks and redu-
cling its grades is going on upon large
scale.
There is an increasing demand for
contracts for Kansas hay. The crop is
short from the Mississippi to the At
lantic.
Judge Otis, Of Atchison, estimates
Senator Ingalls, wealth at S25O.OO 1t
Is said that he left his estate to Mrs.
Ingalls,
Automobile races will be q part of
good roads congress in Topeka on Sep
TENDER 25.
Governor Stanley has appointed J.
ID. S. Riggs, president of Ottawa Uni
versity, as member OF the state board
of education.
w. J. Turner. one of the marines
killed in Pekin, was a Topeka boy.
During the Spanish war he served on
the Indiana.
Ray Simpson, a 1O-year-old boy, is
blowing the wheat stubble on the
home farm for another crop. He has
no assistance.
property to his children, is said to
have appealed to the courts for aid in
obtaining food.
Mrs Henry Hewitt was found dead
in her bed at her home in Marshall
comfy, in which she and her husband
had resided for 40 years.
a company of volunteers is being
raised in Leavenworth to go to the
Orient They offer to go as United
States or Kansas volunteers.
Civil service examinations are APP
pointed at Parsons October 10; Wichita
October l and %; Topeka September
%; Salina October 10 and %.
The Fort Scott log rolling was called
off by the executive committees on ac-
count of failure to get rates from the
railroads which they wanted.
1t is said that 5000 people assembled
at Wetmore, from Nemaha, Brown and
Jackson counties, at the annual Modern
Woodmen logrolling Oh August 90.
If Hutchinson's new ordinance is
valid it will cost telegraph companies
about 5000 year, the Bell Telephone
company 81, OoO and the express com.
panies 500 year each.
William Jones, negro who con
fessed stealing watch, was chased by
the city marshal of Newton, and, re
fusing to stop on the marshars com
mand, was shot in the leg.
A Hutchinson dispatch says that I
p Campbell and Claude Duval have
joined in asking that a new conven
ton be held in the Seventh district t.
name a candidate for congress.
Some of the creameries are getting
out of butter to fill orders. TIL,
shrinkage of the diaries on account o
continued dry and hot weather is tn,
cause. The weather, however, is i'm
proving.
Secretary Coburn told the Nationa
Agricultural Congress, assembled a
Colorado Springs, that Kafir corn, al
falfa and the soy bean must revolution
ize the agriculture of the semi-ari,
plains.
The First congressional district ha
213,S39 population; net gain of 5, las
The Second 227 .292; net gain . ,3Os
The Third 227,5 $50, gain 9,496; tn
Fourth 1S3,6SS, gain 3,4O3; the FIT
III, $50, gain 4,sO7; the Sixth 16s, 424
gain IL ,23a; the Seventh 5000, gal
17.345.
Mrs. Helen Lampkin, of Chil1icothe
Mo-, and her husband, both under 2
braska in wagon, when she was a.
tackled with typhoid fever and died a
Abilene They were very poor.
OF course it was a Kansas soldie
who scaled the wall of Pelxin, took u
the end of the rope and his comrade
climbed the rope. He enlisted in Wicl
tia April Is, 1899. He first enlisted i
Vermont in 1898. His name is Calvi
S. Titus, and while in Wichita b
longed to the Salvation army.
w. E. Hart, president of the Natiol
al Association of Accountants, is o
ganizing Kansas bookkeepers. tt
object is technical education, the e:
change OF ideas and the maintenan,
of an employment bureau.
Congressman Bowersock, of Law
renee owned the mill at Galena whiC
was swallowed by the earth on Il
South Side mining ground. A lars
force was at work, but the men we
warned by the cracking noise in Il
earth beneath them and escaped. TT
mill alone cost So, 600.