Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-07-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
lyndon has had a 81. 500 fire.


The Swedish Baptists of Kansas have
held five days conference in Topeka
Scott Burns of Smith county sold
his cattle at $50 head, receiving
So, 900 cash for the bunch.
In Gunner county an opossum was
caught up by the self binder and neat
1y bound in a bundle Of wheat.
Big eastern papers aye doing Kansas
full justice in their editorial columns,
this year. 1t is something new.
a threshing machine at work in Har-
per county blew up and killed Edward
Tally, the engineer, and injured four
others.
A Wichita bank bought the $1,000
sewerage per cent bonds issued by
the city. They are payable on the in
stallment plan.
The convention of Universalist
churches appropriated $500 to establish
q mission in Wichita. There is pros
pect of church being erected.
The Union Pacific has been starting
shipments of men to Wyoming to work
on the road, but a greater part of the
men have skipped off the trains into
wheat fields in Kansas.
It is said that the demand for seed
ling trees at the state forestry station
at Ogallah is twice as great Of last
year. Hail has injured the young
trees at the station this year.
There are nine packing houses in
Kansas that report an aggregate in
vestment of more than a half million
dollars. The nine plants report sales
of their products for the year at S7s-,
las. 394.57.
George Childers stepped on the belt
of threshing machine near Kiowa
and fell. He was drawn into the
machine and mangled to death. He
came from Urbana, Ohio, to work in
the harvest.
A deputy sheriff, of Howard county,
arrested cattle thief near Ottawa.
While waiting for train the thief es-
capped and the sheriff broke his thigh
by falling on the railroad track, while
chasing the thief.
A quarrel between an Ellsworth man
and harvester resulted in the death
of the latter. The victim was struck
on the head and had his neck broken
by the blow, while his head was under
the other mans arm.
he hon1Z hI0o1< Of Ganoaao
rooted June 90 and much damage was
done to a department store and to
other buildings. Wheat was only one.
third harvested and the storm and
heavy rain laid it fat.
A young man has established a rab
bit scalp business. The scalps are
shipped to Kansas City and from there
forwarded to him at the several county
seats of Kansas which he visits whert
he collects the bounty.
On the big Gorton ranch in Lincoln
county three sets of men worked il
harvest, each working eight hour
with the same machines. Many othe
farmers adopted this plan of workin,
LAC WAO1C 81 harvest
Captain Irwin, of Topeka, was
lieutenant in the English army in 1873
and was present at the coronation @
Queen Victoria. Coming to the Unite
States he fought through our civil wa,
and then became a Methodist preach
er.
The C,1+o To roa1ooa,,o,t -. 4
cided to establish a freight division a
Syracuse, Kan, and Superintendent
Parker, of the western division is no,
making arrangements for the immet
late removal of the round house {
Coolidge to that point.
"a Rosedale family, a mother and tw
children, were on a train from Chicag
when they ate lunch which had bee
Pnt up for them by friends there, an
were poisoned by fish which the lunc
contained. They were cared for an
are believed to be out of danger.
Two threshing outfits were receive
at Wellington and the freight cha1ag,
were so large that an investigate
was Lie were
water and it weighed $50 in freight.
Parties from Lima, Ohio, are pu
chasing oil and gas leases in Mon
gomery county. The concern repr
sented is said to have a capital ,
100000 900. They are figuring {
supplying the big manufacturers
Ohio and Indiana where gas is e
hausted, and which will have to mo,
to new fields.
There were 80 county institutes
session last week, attended by 81
teachers.
Stafford county has organized ia
association and will hold fair Augu
1881.
Rev. R. w. Hurt, formerly of Vic
ita, died at CARRIER, O. T., recentl
He represented Sedgwicls county
the legislature once.
Ex-Governor MorrilI's son, Fran
took honors of his class in the Harva
law school. He expects to locate
Boston.
g. A Fulgroat, a Santa Fe bral