Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-01-27

D butter and cheese factory.
Abilene's new Masonic hall is com
pleted. 1t is funrishsd in grand style.
During 1899 the Santa Fe hauled out
Of Greno1a 3S3 carloads of stock; valued
at s426, 900.
Kansas towns are generally forming
clubs. The latest to do SO
is Pleasanton.
Mound City is to be placed in the cir
cult of the Missouri and Kansas tele-
phone circuit.
julius Fischer, who has been raising
a Boer fund at Lawrence, has sent $50
to Boer authorities.
The contempt case of John P. Reese
in Jail at FIT. Scott, will be taken to the
Federal supreme court.
Olathe is likely to soon be connected
more completely with Kansas City by
the building Of an electric line.
Olathe has had fire which consumed
the first buildings built there. There
were quite number of business places
burned.
The Kansas Historical society has its
third secretary, George ". Martin. F.
P. Baker was the first secretary and
Franklin G. Adams the second.
More than one fourth of the gold and
more than one third of the silver
of the United States were refined
at Argentine Kansas, and Omaha last
gear.
John Merklem, a Phillips county
farmer, while on his death bed divided
5000 worth of property among his
children. Every dollar was made on
Kansas farm.
Assistant Attorney General B. Fl.
Tracy rendered an opinion holding
that the state board of charities had no
legal right to condemn a site for new
insane asylum.
The penitentiary Irvine plant is now
turning out 1000 pounds daily, and as
soon as the men fairly get the run of
the work the daily output will amount
to 10000 pounds.
State Treasurer Grimes has been pay
ing outstanding warrants which lad
been stamped mot paid for want of
funds" There a few left which are
held by country banks.
A Cawlzer City man spends his leisure
time in gathering mussel shells which
he ships to button makers. He has a
bottle full OF pearls, rescued from the
shells, which he says is worth $3.50.
Miss Ethel Tucker, who left Ottawa
for Manila to marry Sergeant Irwin
Todd, arrived there safely and the
couple were Immediately married.
Todd was member of the Twentieth
and re-enlisted.
George and Ed SiIbee, alias Meelzs,
of Kansas City, convicted of the murder
of Leopold Edinger, young German,
near Fort Scott in October, were hung
to nearby trees in the jailyard, dead. a
mob did the work.
S. o. Osborne, of Garden City, man
damused the school authorities to per.
NIT his children to attend school with
out being vaccinated. The district
court decided against him and he ap-
peals to the court of appeals.
It is said that the Southwestern Mi.
ming and Reduction Company will erect
shelters at lola and Chanute, Kas.,
Florence, Col, Salt Lake City and Seat.
tie, and will build warehouse in Kan.
sas City to cost $3.50, 900, in which GOLD
and silver bullion is to be stored.
Miss Julia McInerey, an Abilene girl,
who is studying music under the best
teachers in New York City receives
solo singers at concerts and in the
large church choirs as to pay all her
expenses and save considerable besides.
Lawrence and Douglas county have
joined in the purchase of a Cuban
bloodhound to catch the increased num-
Der of criminals infesting the county.
The Union Pacific has paid to the
relatives of S. Honeywell, who was
killed by freight train collision east
of Abilene last fall, So, 900 in settlement
of the damages.
The Santa Fe car shops in Topeka
are engaged just now in building ten
new chair cars and 200 furniture cars.
The new chair cars are so feet inside.
and modern in every particular.
The Union Pacific. is running two
| ballast trains daily from Lawrence
west. They carry the burned gumbo
from the gumbo kilns near Lawrence.
Governor Stanley and Department
| Commander Coulter have been investi-
eating irregularities alleged to exist at
the State Soldiers home at Old Fort
Dodge.
In Dickinson county a relief associa
ton has been formed and is sending
corn and other supplies to missionarie:
of the River Brethren church in famine
| stricken India.
Representative c. a. Fowler, serving
his third term in congress from New
Jersey, commenced the practice of Law
in Be1oit, Kansas, in 1879, having jus
left the Chicago Law school He re
manned in Beloit five years.