Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-07-14
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demic OF the plnk-eye.
The Kaw valley potato crop west Of
Topeka is said to be small.
Ex-Governor Leedy has been admit
ted to the bar at Lawrence.
The deed to the farm which was re-
Gently sold in Cowley county, required
S37 in revenue stamps
The bargain is closed and the Wei
1ington waterworks has gone into
the possession of the city.
The clerk of Usage county reports
an increase of taxable property of
500, 600 during the past year.
Ottawa had a family consisting of
a widow and three widowed daughters.
One of the four died last week.
A man has offered Salina $500 for
the privilege of running merry-go-
round during the street fair there.
The Ottawa creamery, with its
Wellsvil1e auxiliary, received $1,000
pounds of'milk in one day recently.
Charles B. Hass, of Halstead, who
was sailor on the old Constitution,
has been granted a pension or $50
month.
It is said that Governor Leedy lost
years time and what capital he put
into zinc speculations in the Galena
district.
Hon. E. G. Dewey's mother was
shopping in Moline one day last week.
Mother Dewey is quite active for one
90 years old.
Perry Albin, of Inman, bought a
span of mules % years ago. One of
them died year ago and the other
last week. It was 81 years old.
J. L. Gilbert. who says his home is in
Topeka, and that he belonged to the
Third Missouri volunteers, is arrested
for a dozen burglaries in Salina, all
done in one night.
Among recent appointments of
cadets for West Point from the state
at large are Morrill, E. Spalding, of
Concordia, and Norman 2. Ramsey, al
ternate, of Topeka.
When John Dearborn settled in JEFF
ferson county in 1856 there were only
two men in the township. He went
80 miles to a postof1ice. He still lives,
at the age of "A, where he first settled.
Many of the present farmers of Dick
inson county got title to their 16O acre
farms on contracts with L. c. Henry,
| who gave them deeds for a quarter
| section each for the wheat in sacks off
40 acres, for which he had furnished
| the seed.
Philips county has nearly ten thou
sand acres in alfalfa. The first crop
has been in stack for month, in fine
shape and the second crop is being cut;
and third crop will be harvested.
The crops sell for double what the
land would bring at current prices.
The work of strengthening the hoo1
of the new state library room over the
secretary of states Office in the capitol
is completed and the iron supports fol-
the book cases are being placed. 1t i:
expected that the library will be re
moved to its new home in August
This makes one of the finest library
rooms in the country.
While threshing on the farm of VIM
Tweed, in Mitchell county, a stacl
caught fire, destroying 500 bushels O.
wheat. Stacks and uncut wheat OF
three adjoining farms were fired b,
sparks from cigarettes which boy
were smoking as they passed, AM
1900 bushels Of wheat was destroye,
together with three wagons and tw,
header boxes.
Governor Stanley has received tn
formal thanks of the British govern
ment to the people of Kansas for it
donation to sufferers in India
Sixteen years ago r. S. Parkhurst
of Parsons, divided 1,4OO acres of Kan
, week he divided 1.4OO acres more i
, the same way. He still has 700 acre
/ left.
A full antlered deer head fell fro1
| the wall in an Office in Emporia an
ran one of the points of a horn
Richard Cannon's face.
Cyrus Dix, aged 65, an old citizen {
5 Sedgwick county, was thrown from
| wagon and had both legs broken. 3
was otherwise painfully injured.
Governor Stanley is said to favor til
: plan of keeping a commissioner {
: Washington to attend to pensio
: claims; thus relieving members
f Congress.
i Someone in Valley Center caught
4 snap shot of the three governors @
: the Roosevelt special train: Rooseve
e of New York, Barnes of Oklahoma an
Stanley of Kansas.
q The Wichita free library now b;
4 $500 volumes and more are being adj
ed. Miss Gross, the librarian is vel
T popular in that position.
It Bert Ford was sandbagged ar
robbed in the railroad yards at C1s
L Center. He says he stabbed one of Il
:. two robbers, but after that remembe
nothing.
A little girl had a leg cut off by
:, street car in Leavenworth. She W