Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-23


erected in Salina this season.
A London merchant has visited Wei
hngton to contract for -four.
The johnson comfy normal institute
opened with an enrolment of 1913.
Leavenworth census takers have
found negro woman ia years old.
College students have turned out in
large numbers to assist in the harvest.
Three young men of Chanute have
gone to the Transvaal to make some
money.
Kansas commercial clubs are to meet
in Topeka July 16 to perfect an organ
ization.
The salary of the postmaster at
Wichita has been increased from So, 900
to So, 200.
A farm in Washington county, of 569
acres, was recently sold for SO, 900
spot cash.
A fire at Leroy destroyed all of the
city records except some of the treas
| urers books.
The Kansas Sportsmans' association
will hold their next meet in Wichita,
| September 40.
The local banks of Wellington took
the S14 200 worth of bonds voted for
electric light service.
Mail service has been re-established
on the B. & NJ. branch between At
wood and st. Francis.
Ladies of Garden City gave a coon
show and made 800 for the improve
ment of the cemetery.
| Ex-Congressman Otis has quit Kan
sas and will join cooperative colony
in Equality, Washington.
Wellington proposes to hold week
of carnival and an agricultural fair in
the middle of September.
The second twenty cars of Kansas
corn for starving India leaves Topeka
via the Santa Fe on June 20.
William Gorham, near Russell, has
1000 acres of wheat, from which he ex-
poets to harvest 1905 bushels.
Half an hour before a $4,000 fire
occurred at Thayer the city council
had voted to purchase a fire engine.
| A Pawnee county man who has three
thousand acres of wheat has recently
bought suburban residence in Chi
cago.
Two whisky sellers whose places are
near the Soldiers home at Leaven-
worth, have been jailed and fned-at
last.
A special train of 90 cars arrived in
Wichita June IS, from Port Huron,
Michigan, loaded with threshers and
traction engines.
Three daughters of E. A Bird, of
| Dickinson county, were married at the
same ceremony with three thrifty
young farmers.
The managers of the baby incubator
side show at the Topeka street fair
abandoned the baby and it is now in
the Orphans home.
Wichita is debating the subject of
an underground system for its tele-
phones along the principal business
streets, and will likely open the matter
for bids.
F. w. Jacobs, Seneca lawyer, has
brought suit for SO, 900 against several
citizens of Sabetha for damages by
mob violence during a whisky trial in
that town.
Pratt county has been sued for de-
faulted interest on $500 of bonds.
Pratt county had its Indebtedness so
adjusted as to be able to pay out if
treated reasonably.
Rev. F. D. Bergstresser, from Al
legheny City, Pa, has been chosen as
pastor of the Lutheran church in Alb
ilene.
The Farmers Mutual Hail associa-
ton has % losses in the neigh borhood
of Caldwell, fifteen of which aggregate
S., 900.
The NJ. E. church at Junction City
was in debt S4, 500. The pastor an
nounced an effort to pay or reduce the
debt, and in thirty-one minutes by the
clock, pledges TO the amount of ST.
Os3. 95 were made.
State Auditor Cole will try and com
pei rich men with relatives in the in
sane asylum, to pay the state for the
care of them.
The officials of the state reform
school have created a great interest
among the boys in the study of the
birds of Kansas.
Mrs. Nation went to all the saloon.
in Kiowa early one morning and broke
everything breakable in them, first the
windows and with stones what was in
: side, plate glass mirrors, bottles, etc
The damage done amounted to $500.
| It is said that Mulvane dressmakel
was building at one time, quite recent
t 1y. three silk dresses and one sati1
dress.
5 Miss Anna Murphy, a school teache
of Topeka, goes to Sault Ste Marie
5 Mich, as pastor Of a Congregations
: | church