Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-11-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in making showing at the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition.
Only ~ county treasurers attended
the late meeting of the County Treas
urers' association.
The electric wiring and fixtures of
the new Missouri Pacific depot in Wich-
tia cost nearly 81 200.
Circus talent is plentiful in Parsons
and it is to be utilized to make the
auditorium fund grow.
Bob Torrington, of Wichita, has been
advanced to the position of tourist
agent of the Rock Island.
The industrial school for girls at
BelOit received SO inmates during the
past wear and paroled 90.
Union Pacific surveyors have been
running lines and setting grade stakes
northward out of Wamego.
Kramer Bros large elevator at Wei
lington collapsed. There was about
$1,000 bushels of wheat in it
The appellate court discountenances
the right of police judge to cause
witness to testify against his will.
The recent food of the Verdigris
river did great damage to corn in the
shock, hay, alfalfa and winter wheat.
Walter T. Swingle. of Topeka, an ex-
plorer for the department of agricul-
ture, is in Africa studying the date
palm.
A box car which was used for depot
at Valley Center in place of the burned
depot, caught fire and was partly
burned.
II. K. Bates, who died suddenly at
Fort Scott, was master mechanic at the
Fort Scott shops of the Memphis road
for % years.
Miss Agnes Curry. of near Norton
vile, has started for the Philippines to
marry Luther c. Douglas, OF the Sixth
Infantry band.
An Atchison man, legless, deaf and
dumb, who lays paving brick is an OBJ
ject of much curiosity to the able
bodied loafers.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Q. Chandler have
furnished a room in the Wichita hos
pital as a nursery for children who are
charity patients.
T. NJ. Devore's house atsAndover was
struck by lightning in recent storm.
Mrs. Devore was stunned and the roof
of the house was torn mp.
Will Parker, son of j. o. Parker, of
Lalzin, is in Manila hospital suffering
from four 'bolo' wounds. He is in
the FortyfOurth regiment.
There had been shipped from Wame-
go at last report 25 carloads of sweet
potatoes 1t is predicted that there
will be as many more shipped before
the season closes.
Two carloads of machinery have been
purchased for the Independence paper
mill for which the projectors have pur-
chased Is acres of land. They will use
natural gas for power.
It would be very strange if the con-
Etitutional amendment did not carry
at the election, as it was in both of the
party platforms and urged by both
candidates for governor.
". A. Van Voris of the State normal
has demonstrated that oxygen can be
supplied by the use of oxydized sodium
sufficient TO sustain healthy life to a
mouse sealed in a small jar.
Mrs. Noble L. Prentis is visiting the
county superinten tents OF public in
struction throughout the state with
the object in view of trying to get the
late Noble Prentis' 'History of Kan
sas' introduced in the schools of the
state.
It is said that there are 500 Mont
gomery county farmers who will re-
ceive free natural gas for heating and
lighting their homes, or it's equivalent
as the gas is to be furnished to them
I'm exchange for leases to the gas com.
pany.
The Walden shoe factory, of Griggs
Vile, H., is looking over openings in
Kansas to choose place to move their
plant. Chanute, Emporia and Wichita
are being considered and perhaps more
places will lie.
John S. Moor, aged 63, and his broth
er Jonas Moor, aged So, lived together
alone, on a farm some ten miles soutt
of Wichita On Sunday evening, De
tober %, tornado demolished theil
house and John s. Moor was killed
The wind did damage at two Other
farms near by.
An Independence lad who wante,
spending money bad enough to worl
for it, planted five bushels of potatoe
last spring. After they were vel
grown he sowed sorghum seed through
the patch. He will clean up between
S45 and $50 for his hustling.
Work on the old Whitaker packing
house in Wichita has been commence,
by the Cudahy company, the new own
ers, and "a men was the number of tn
first gang of men put TO work. Tn
company's first act was to arrange 70
insurance on every man employed
There has been q wonderful expau