Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-04-21

mill if the town will furnish site.
Shoughnassee, the famous Pottawat-
onie chief, is dead. He was 90 years
old
A Mcpherson horse dealer has shipped
seventeen cars of horses within few
months.
Rev. James, of Oakley, gives 100000
to the Bethany hospital in Kansas City,
Kansas.
Montgomery county has more money
on hand than the law allows to be de
posted in banks.
The Kansas Missouri debate held in
Lawrence, resulted in victory for the
Kansas University boys.
Galena has sent a car load of gold
bearing ore to be smelted. The town
is greatly excited Denver miners have
taken leases.
Wellington's S50,O water works
bonds are to draw per cent and citi-
zen gives assurance that they will be
taken at par.
their hall seized by the sheriff and their
bartenders also. They will make fight
in the courts.
The Kingman county Live stock as
picnic this year. Last years picnic
drew immense crowds.
| Senator Baker has written to inter
/ ested parties in Kansas that the bodies
of no soldiers who died of contagious
| disease will be removed from Manila.
Miss NJ. E. Dolphin has again been
unanimously reelected superintendent
of the Leavenworth city schools. She
| has held the position since June, 1896.
| The states expenses run about $780,
600 month and there is plenty of cash
in the treasury to hold out until July
1, when taxes viii pour into the treas
ury.
William Jewell College of Missouri,
met the boys of Ottawa University in
Ottawa. contested in debate and Mis-
souri, met with its third successive de-
feat.
There is excitement in Morland over
the story that turkeys sold from there
and shipped to Denver had been found
to carry in their vitals both gold and
copper.
Cimarron officials have effected a
compromise with the holders of munic-
| ipal bonds, who accept refunding
bonds for $4,000 to balance the old
$50, 900 bonds
The Topeka wooden mill employs
rs people, who are just now taking q
rest while some changes are made in
the machinery in order to change sea-
sonable output.
| Burlington S accepted plan for it's new
court house is duplication of the court
house at Junction City, built of mag
nesian limestone. The architects zig.
ures are $3s, 900.
Valley Falls First NJ E. church and
parsonage are burned. There was in
surance of So, 100. Only the organ
and pulpit was saved from the church;
the pastor saved most of his household
goods.
The Hoffmans of Enterprise. propose
to plant $4,000 catalpa trees in the
Smoky Hill bottoms. They will plant
four feet apart each way. They do
this as a ten years investment and ex-
pect big returns
Frank L. Jewett and Clarence E.
Klise, two Kansas university boys, who
are spending this year in Harvard,
have been appointed to hold scholar
ships in the graduate department of
that university for next year.
Mrs. Eliza Christman, of Topeka,
who died recently, aged so, made in
her will Rev. Embree administrator at
a salary of So. 500 a year. Part of the
will provides for the erection of a
Methodist university at Topeka.
John Jensen, baker of Fort Scott
has baked 200 loaves of bread day for
twenty-six years, or altogether 1,5oO,-
900 Ioaves.
The depositors of the First National
bank of Emporia get another 10 per
cent dividend, making so per cent paid
them so far.
The Cimarron river is on a bender,
the highest ever known. All the irri-
eating dams and bridges from the
Colorado line to the territory are
washed out. Liberal and Arkalon were
without trains and mails for some time.
A Labette county man had surplus
money and looked over the field for the
: best investment in sight and bought
two farms.
R. S. Torrington the Wichita ticket
5 agent of the Rock Island, has been pro.
; NOTED to city ticket agent of the Rock
Island at Kans5-e City.
; A coursing meet occurred IN Man.
; kato at which racing dogs took part
from Mankato and Lawrence in Kansas
S and from Texas. California, Colorado
Nebraska, Minnesota and Indiana
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