Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-12-15

annual taxes IN Saline county.
Sterling horsemen have organized
driving club with so members.
Frankfort, Marshall county is as
piring to become a college town.
The Southwestern Teachers associa-
ton meets this week in Dodge City.
The Episcopalians have neat stone
chapel almost completed in Syracuse.
Murray Meyers, of Wichita, is now
the steward of the Topeka insane asy-
lum.
The Citizens National bank of Eu-
reka is a new one with S25, 900 capital
stock.
Fifty varieties of wood indigenous
to Franklin county are exhibited in
Ottawa.
meet in convention at Olathe on De-
| cember IS.
In the census figures Galena ana
Pittsburg lack only three people of be-
ing on a tie.
The Armour Packing company pays
| about S., 900 a month in Butler county
four poultry.
Elwood Petty. of Haskell county, 10
years old, raised over fifty tons of feed
the past season.
There are 3S1 new students at the
Kansas Agricultural college, of whom
95 are young women.
! A "a inch vein of coal and small
flow of gas has been struck at Emporia
at a depth of 1, 400 feet.
Enoch HaIe's livery barn at Howard.
with vehicles, harness and feed, and
two horses, a fine team, are burned.
Boyd Kay, of O1athe, has been given
a position in the bureau of animal in
dustry at its experimental station near
! New York city
John Troutman has rented his alfal-
ia farm near Lakin, for three years,
and with his wife, has gone east to
live on the rent money.
The Missouri Pacific is completing a
$4,000 passenger station and office
building at Wichita, Kansas. 1t Will
be modern in all it's equipments.
Ladies of Manhattan take turns in
looking after the Rest Room recent
ly established for the comfort of ladies
from the country, on the days it is
open.
Robert Woods, boilermaker at the
roundhouse at Downs, was assaulted
by w. r. Huff. jointist of that town.
and his injuries are reported as prob
ably fatal.
Al Boyd, of the Dodge House in
Dodge City, who is also proprietor of
the Dutton House in Topeka, has
bought the Elgin hotel in Marion and
moved into it.
1t is estimated that the wages paid
to train crews of the Rock Island MAX
ing headquarters in Lexington are
equal to $13. 80 a month to every inhabi-
tant of that town. About $40, 600 a
year is the aggregate of the payroll
there.
c. Elder, of Bodarc, Butler county.
charged Lum Hughes with assault:
upon his 13-year-old daughter. As
Hughes was coming out of Bethe:
church Elder hit him with club
cracking his skull. The first report
said that Hughes injuries would be
fatal.
I A dude stranger succeeded in getting
an invitation to swell party in Atchi
son, then cashed a couple of WORTHLESS
checks and left without paying his bill
at the best hotel. No one knew him
He introduced himself to few partie
, and seemed nice fellow and so go
into society.
Chanute's new $4,000 NJ. Z. churcl
is dedicated. There was So, 600 t.
raise and the subscriptions amounts
to So, SIT.
federation of Christian churches O
: Lyon county has been perfected for tn
/ purpose of organizing more churche
2 in the county, and to extend them al
until they are able to go without it.
- At the last sale of the Manhatta
; Livestock and Sales company Their
were representatives from all the LEAD
- ing Kansas City commission firms an
many buyers from neighboring town.
e Mrs. Lydia Mackey, sister-in-la7
- of Senator Harris, Of Kansas, has
~ clerical position in the COMPRESSION;
library.
A Lyon county farmer raised Il
- bushels of potatoes and 200 bushels
corn on five and one-quarter acres
= land, which he marketed for S344 So
10 Senator Cubbison will this winter il
: troduce a bill providing that all cou1
- ty and state officers in Kansas be cleo
"a ed once every four years and be eligib
70 for reelection. This is correct. Tt
people have too many elections.
nc Lieutenant Bion Il. Bierer, who w;
"A in command of of the Yosemite at IL
~ time it sunk at Guam. was borz
w Hiawatha. Kansas, and entered Il
o navy from Kansas in 1887. He is scare
ii " 80 years old.