Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-11-03

The Atehlson coal, lately found, is
said to be similar to Weir City coal
Reports indicate an increase of the
wheat acreage in Western Kansas this
fall.
Judge Randolph, of Emporia found
little live turtle in a bass he was
cleaning.
A 5000. 600 foot gas well has been
struck in new field. seven miles from
Coffeyville-
There are no houses to rent in Bur-
lingame and there is work there for
so more miners.
The Marion Record has in its Office
kafir corn ten feet high: the product of
Marion county.
The French Bennett Grain company
proposes to build a 100000 elevator
in Topeka at once.
A Mcpherson county farmer had a
netted him s22 an acre.
Bob Torrington, of Wichita, has been
advanced to the position of tourist
agent of the Rock Island.
The asylum contest between Parsons
and Clay Center comes before the SUI
preme court on November :.
That seven pound sweet potato in
Ed Greer's Office may as well wilt as
Wichita has one weighing II pounds.
One Wabaunsee county firm shipped
from Alta Vista within three days
thirty-two cars of cattle, billed to Chi
cago.
Delegates to the Young Women's'
Christian Association convention filed
most of the pulpits in Topeka on Octo-
Der 2s.
The new hospital at Winfield is COM
pleted. 1t has "a rooms, including
two bath rooms, and is heated by
steam.
Montgomery county has four cities
of over 1000 inhabitants They are
Independence, Coffeyville, Cherryvale
and Caney.
Burglars entered E. E. Nichols store
in Scott City and carried away $165 and
valuable papers, but the latter have
been found in the stock yards.
Secretary Barnes says that the re-
port that blacl1birds are damaging the
apple crop is ridiculous, that he never
heard of apples being touched by black
birds
The Kansas court of appeals for the
northern department has decided in a
case from Topeka that no city had a
legal right to pass 81 search and seizure
liquor ordinance.
EX- Secretary of state William Hig-
gins, recently the publisher OF d daily
newspaper in Galena, has been ap-
pointed an appraiser of Indian lands
in Indian Territory.
Mary Voelher. an employee of the
Manhattan hotel in Wichita, is going
to Germany, having been notified that
she has fallen heir to one-fourth of an
estate there, valued at S32O,OOO
There are held in the state treasury
bonds belonging to the Agricultural
| college, $500, 900; to the normal school
| S225, 900; to Kansas University S16O, 900:
to the permanent school fund 81 ,OO0,-
| 900, and to the Stormont library fund
So, 900.
The farmers of Montgomery county
have finished putting in their wheat
| and are busy husking corn. Early
corn is turning out well, but late corn
! is failure. A scarcity of corn huslxers
exists there and teams are also in great
demand. The same kind ofstatements
come from several places in Southern
Kansas and over the border.
L P Grisvo1d. ranchman of West
ern Kansas, reports net profit of S21
an acre on his alfalfa crops of hay and
seed. this season.
Mrs. Margaret Brown, aged 80, died
on October "a, at the home of bel
daughter, who is the wife of Justice
w. a. Johnston, of the supreme court
of Kansas
Rev. Don S. Colt, former pastor OF
the first NJ. E. church of Wichita, is
now in charge of Grace church, Balti.
more, one of the finest and largest in
| the land.
county reunion of the Twentieth
Kansas and members of the Eighth
army corps was held at Girard on Oc
tober %.
The Rev. DIR. John W. Roberts died
at his home in Oskaloosa, October %,
thirteen days after the celebration OF
his golden wedding. He came to Kan.
sas in 1860 and founded the Oskaloosa
Independent the same year.
Mrs. w. r. Irwin, of Emporia, has
| five banana trees which have borne
fruit. They are taken inside in the
fall and the fruit ripens in February
Fred Wellhouse says the apple yield
in Kansas this year will be about one
fourth of crop. He says that the
orchards in the western part OF the
state bear much better than those in
| the eastern part.
The Pacific Express company held it.
annual sale of unclaimed packages a
Salina. Over 500 packages. gathered