Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-09-01

Ellsworth county is seriously discus
sing the establishing of county high
school.
The Union Pacific is putting down
gumbo ballast at the rate of half a
mile a day.
Seward county is mainly used for
pastcrage. For cattle the county has
few equals
The Frisco line was the first to make
rate for the Wichita 1ogrolling on
September >.
special train went from Topeka to
carry attendants at the funeral of ex-
Senator Ingalls,.
The lola Portland Cement company
pays out 81, 800 to its employees every
Saturday night.
The bank at Bushton paid out $50,
600 on checks for wheat between July
IA and August 10.
A fresh raid on Topeka jointists on
broke up 40 of them
Harper county has voted for $40, 500
in bonds for the Orient railroad, by
majority of about 175.
Three persons were injured by runa-
ways among attendants at a picnic in
Nortonville last week.
John Erickson, of Sumner county,
threshed 35 bushels of wheat to the
acre off of bottom land.
Good rains are reported as having
fallen August 25 in Mcpherson, Mont
gomery and Coffey counties.
Chas. Roberts was arrested at Will
liamsburg charged with killing bar
vest hand in Western Kansas.
A Wichita firm is prepared to store q
thousand tons of hay and is now re-
ceiving several carloads every day.
Wamego township in Pottawatomie
county, has but three pieces of land
advertised in the delinquent tax list.
Judge Frank Price, who left the
short grass country and moved to San
duslzy, Ohio, is preparing to come
back.
A bank at La Crosse paid ont on
wheat checks in the first nine days of
August 70,992; and the rush had only
begun there.
Thos. Scates, register of the Dodge
City land Office, has formed partner
| ship with Mike Sutton in the law bust
ness, taking the place of Judge
Madison in the firm.
Farmers about Andale have organ
bank building. The capital of SIS, 900
and a guarantee fund of 81 ESQ have
already been paid in.
A conductor on a German railway
| told Newton man who is in Europe
that his wages were 20 cents a day and
that he had been trying to save enough
to take him back to Kansas, but had to
give it up.
A four-year-old daughter Of VIM.
Rhodes, near Maize. was playing about
a box upon which was laid piece of
railroad rail, weighing $50 pounds.
She tugged at the rail until it fell from
the box and upon her. striking her
across the body. She lived only few
| hours.
The people of Kansas City, Kas., are
pleased with the census, which places
its population at 51,41s. This is but
500 less than was claimed by the Mer,
camille club. There are from IL, 900 to
10000 people whose earnings are made
in the city but who live in additions
not in the corporate limits.
The Frisco railroad has made ar
engagements to run a special train tc
Wichita from Columbus, Kansas. or
September ;, the date of the annual
logrolling of the Woodmen of the
World in that city.
Miss Bessy Capper. a sister of Arthur
Capper, and Superintendent II. S
Myers, of the public schools of Garnett
are married. The bride has been ;
teacher in the state deaf and dumb
school at Olathe. Rev. S. b. McGrew
who united the brides parents SO year,
ago, ohciated.
Senator Ingalls, held two life insur
ance policies for $4,000 each. The,
were fifteen payment policies which
were taken December %, 1885.
Prisoners in Western Kansas are to,
smart to stay in Jail, it would seem
: Every few days officers in the eastern
} part of the state are notified that pris
) oners have escaped.
According to the assessors return
l of Kansas Galena made the larges
4 gain in population, lola made the mex
largest gain, 2,O41, and Wichita tn
next largest gain, 1,7eO.
: Halls Summit suffered from tw
: fires, one in town burning a genera
store and a grocery store. Other builc
ings were saved by hard work Tn
e other was a big barn outside of tow
with its contents, including 1900 br
: shells of corn.
n Jas. Wallace, farmer across tn
e Missouri river from Leavenworth, wa