Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-04-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Fifth district w. C. T. U. met in
annual session at Abilene last week.
Some Kingman county farmers held
a meeting and decided to establish
creamery.
Len Granville, of Hutchinson has
fallen heir to a valuable estate near
Utica, n. Y.
Secretary Barnes of the state horti-
cultural society says that fruit pros
poets are good.
During March the Kansas peniten-
tiary received 81 convicts and only p
were discharged.
on hand than the lay allows to be de-
posted in banks.
There were seventy-one volunteers
for the Spanish war who were Kansas
University men.
The Barton county fair association
has applied for charter. 1t has a cap
itaI stock of $4,000.
Daniel Fultz, Sumner county farmer
was killed by dehorned bull which he
was trying to halter.
Fred. L. Diggs, a son of Anna L.
Diggs, was elected mayor of Perry,
Kas.. on a 'swet ticket"
Vaughan Mckee, who enlisted from
Mulyane, has been murdered in Puerto
Rico. He was % years old.
Three colored girls are members of
the class which will graduate from the
Sabetha high school this season.
Lebanon had s176.6O in its treasury
at last official count, not a cent of
which was received from joints.
John E. Gibson, Santa Fe lineman,
fell from the top of pole in the Tope-
ka yards and was seriously injured.
The two new buildings to be erected
in Pittsburg by the Kansas City and
Southern railroad, will cost about $4O,-
900.
The steam mill at Axtel1 is burned
at a loss of So, 600 with $500 insurance.
1t had been sold the day before the
fire.
Labor Commissioner Lee johnson is
commencing to prosecute contractors
: who fail to observe the eight hour la Dor
law.
A daughter of Captain w. R. Hardy,
of Eureka, met prince while she was
studying in Italy, and is now engaged
Il marry him.
DIR. Swan, the secretary of the state
medical board, reports that there are
now 2,129 registered physicians prac-
ticing in Kansas.
rate of one fare for the round trip
will be named for the annual meeting
of the Knights of Pythias, to be hello
May 1916 at lola.
James Harris, now one of the literary
lions of London, in 1873 took a specia
course in oratory and literature il
Kansas University.
Frank w. Elliott of the Troy Time
recently convicted of libel, was sen
fenced to 100 days in jail and to pa.
500 fine and costs. After being in jai
two hours he was liberated on an ap
peal bond, on order of Judge Wells o
the appellate court.
The internal revenue department TO
the district of Kansas issued during tn
last fiscal year 1851 retail liquor deal
ers' special stamps. why will intelli
gent newspapers continue to speak G
these stamps as licences" when tn
United States has not issued a iquo
dealers licence in the past IS years?)
At Miltonville two of the Heald boy
married two of the Comfort sisters, an
at the same time two of the Comfor
boys married two of the Heald sister.
George Helwig, an old resident {
Labette county, died and tbs coroner
jury said his death was from arseni
poisoning. The evidence is kept 81
cret.
The officers of the Leavenworth Ligf
& Heating company have informatio
of a fraudulent issue of 40 bonds fc
$1,000 each, now in circulation an
offered for sale in Chicago.
"A 1unQ 1Or the WHOM Oh DOuRAdS
Coates, the Santa Fe operator at Sout
Winfield station, who was killed in h
Office, is being raised among the en-
ployes of the road in the southern pa
of the state. Contributions have bee
generous.
81. L. McNurney and Ethel Bacon,
Butler county, were to be married, ar
on the same day, while riding, tt
horses ran away breaking the Bird
groom's collar bone and bruising Il
bride severely. They were married {
schedule time.
Clerk of Court Cook of Ness coun
drove to the nursery at Sedgwick f
q load of apple trees. He plans to S
out 40 acres of fruit this spring.
Martin Hoyer, the owner of the m
at Asherville was in boat on the Sol
mon river when floating timber stru
the boat and knocked the bottom o
of It. He was drowned.
Thirteen cars of steel, worked in
trusses, beams and plates, came to Io
for the new cement company's pla1
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