Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-04-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Alton has a new creamery just COM,
pleted and at work.
Dickinson county people hope to Sc
cure two rural delivery routes.
Colonel Holiday paid taxes for
number of years amounting to $4,000.
The Santa Fee tracks between Flor
April.
Ali over Kansas the girl graduates
this year are more than twice the num-
Der of boy graduates.
The state military board has ordered
new companies of militia mustered at
Sabetha and Sterling.
Martin NJ. Jones, who lives near Can
ton, is said to be the oldest pensioner
in Kansas. He is past "a.
Clarence Rarik, of Osborne county,
has passed the required examinations
and will enter West Point in June.
At the Presbyterian church in lola
collection was taken up for the starv-
ing in India. It amounted to $139.
Lieut.. Commander c. E. Vreelands,
who was executive officer of Admiral
Dewey's flagship, is visiting his mother
in Burlingame. He has served thirty
years in the navy.
It is said that General Fred Funston
will ask for his discharge, because he
is tired of doing purely administrative
work, and now that fighting is over he
wants to come home.
Officials of the Missouri Pacific have
examined the terminal properties of
the Hutchinson and Southern at Hutch
inson and it is intimated that they
closed purchase of them.
Prairie dogs have increased to such
an extent in the upper valley, Of the
Solomon as to injure the range and
damage crops Logan county has a
prairie dog town covering townships
81 can take twenty brood sows and
five old cows, said Dan Jones of Mound
Ridge to Editor Phillips of the Journal
''and in five years buy the best quarter
section of land in Mcpherson county. -
R. E. Jones and D. J. Davis, two
farmers of Harvey county, have gone
with their families to tour Europe and
visit the Paris exposition. Every dol
lar of it was shucked out of a Kansas
cornfeld.
Cyrus K. Holiday died at his home
in Topeka, March %. He was the first
promoter, really the founder of the
Santa Fe railway and has been a di-
rector of that company from its or
gapiZation.
some wealthy sportsmen of Bridge
port, Conn, have sent to Kansas for
sixty dozen quail. AS soon as the birds
arrive they will be taken out in batche S
- ,.,, o. - various points in the
surrounding country.
The Mulvane post Office has been
robbed. Dynamite was used on the
safe. There was taken $500 in money,
500 in stamps and registered packages
xn transit from the south waiting to go
north on the Florence branch.
That special train which took a man
from Los Angeles to Pittsburg Pa,
made the run from La Junta to Dodge
City, 203 miles, in 1872 minutes. An
other squirt was from Dodge City &c
Newton, 167 miles in 1853 minutes.
The town of Beattie in Marshall
county has had a city government com
posed of women. They are alle candi
dates for reelection but there is ar
opposition ticket this year composed OF
men, named by friends of saloons.
Residents of European countries eat
Kansas apples, Kansas beef and bread
made from Kansas flour; and the pol
ished walnut furniture in many of tn
homes of the wealthy in the Old Worlt
was made from walnut logs that go
their growth in Kansas.
The labor unions of Wichita hav
declared boycott against the new
street railway on the alleged groun
that the company is employing labor
ers from outside the city, paying ther
Sl25 cents day while the union seal
is $3.50.
The Chicago Times-Herald says tina
George L. Bradbury will assume o
May the place of president of tn
Kansas City and Southern railway
He leaves the Lake Erie and Wester
on That date.
Twenty-seven railroad pay check
were cashed in a Fort Scott crap div.
When the dive keeper turned thel
into the bank list was made of tn
parties to whom the checks were issue
and they were notified that if it
found that they gamble again the
will be discharged.
Kansas corn went up in price la,
week and the Kansas railroads WEI
smothereo in shipments of corn TT
state has a big supply of corn on han
still.
J. J. Finn, of Usage county. shippe
a lot of cattle that averaged 1,5:
pounds. One of them brought S1o7. 0
Wichita is to have sixteen electr
floats for the next street fair, to |
held October 1, ?, B, 4, 5 and 6. The
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