Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-09-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

waterworlxs has been let for SIS, 473.15.
One thousand sacs of -four have been
put up at Mulvane to be shipped to
South Africa.
Preparations on a large scale are
being made for the G. A. r. reunion at
Wichita, October %.
The football team of the Smith Cen
ter high school challenges any high
school eleven in the state.
Coroner B. E. Wheeler, of Pawnee
county, died from an overdose of NOR
phine taken by mistake.
Wellington excludes beggars and
hand organs and the like from the
streets during the jubilee.
A United States geodetic surveying
party is making its headquarters near
Anthony. The party lives in tents.
An ltinerant picture charging graft
er has victimized the liverymen and
hotels of Woodson county and skipped.
The Topeka postoffice in one week
of September paid out S12, 1874 on
money orders. This is a record break
er.
VIM. Kimball, aged 13, of Saline
county, played pull away at the school
he attended, and was injured so that
he died.
Topeka has % miles of paved streets
and little more than two miles con-
tracted for. The city has'11S miles of
streets.
The floors of a store in Arkansas
City gave way and much merchandise
went into the cellar. The damage is
about $500.
A curbstone spectacle dealer paid the
Salina street fair committee $50 for the
exclusive privilege of selling glasses
during fair week.
A Leavenworth county farmer made
actual measurement and found that
his sorghum yielded 146 gallons of
syrup to the acre.
Numerous reports are published
about relief sent from towns in Kan
sas for Galveston. Space permits men
ton of but few of these.
Every elevator and every empty
house in Hays is filed with wheat.
The railroad is unable to furnish the
cars required to move the crop.
The Wichita Chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution are
working on a plan to erect a statue of
George Washington in Riverside park.
The First regiment, K. n. G., elected
the following officers: Senior major,
Adna G. Clarke, Lawrence; major, A.
NJ. Harvey, Topeka; Junior major, w.
B. Leicester, Manhattan.
Blanche Donald, niece of Mayor
Donald, of Atchison, was victim of
the Galveston tidal wave. She was
five years old and was there visiting
her aunt, Mrs. D. B. Rogers.
The Wichita trolley street railway
manager gave to the Wichita hospital
one-fourth OF the receipts of the day
on which the ladies were given three
fourths. This was surprise.
c. II. Hitchcock, of Sumner county
bought land % years ago for So so an
acre. This year on 425 acres he
threshed out 90 bushels to the acre and
235 acres went 33 bushels to the acre
Altogether his crop this year from his
Sumner county farms is about Is, OO(
bushels of wheat.
James NJ. Davis, of ST. Louis, who
two years ago gave the old Garfield
University to the Friends church, i:
now preparing to raise a $1,000, 900 en-
dowment for the same establishment
Adjutant General Fox will recon
mend that the legislature provide
proper care for regimental flags nov
in the state house. He will also rec
ommend that card record be provided
for of every Kansas soldier in all tn,
wars; and that the national guarC
have an appropriation for an annua
encampment.
John Waller, of Kansas, once repre-
car, is now reported to be earning hi
bread at manual labor.
VIM. Hatton shot and MORTAL,
wounded d. P. Hamilton at Grea
Bend, September IL. Hatton was in
hack and the driver called Hamilton
who was at the barn, to come and he'll
take him out. When they got him
Hatton commenced shooting at tn
driver and Hamilton rushed on Hattol
to stop the shooting but was shot him
self
The work of moving the state librar
to the new rooms prepared for it, !
going on. 1t is two weeks lob t
move the books. The state histories
society is to occupy the rooms vacated
The library of Paramount coneg
Wichita, now has 81, 900 books, beside
piles of unbound magazines and pan
phlets.
A Russell county teacher who attenC
ed the normal institute, rented a flu,
nished room and boarded ten of he
fellow teachers. making her expense
and something more.