Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-10-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ing meet drew together 1000 people.
Everett E. Salser, professor of book
keeping and penmanship at the State
Normal, is dead.
Adjutant Fox's report shows that
there are now 1,295 Kansas soldiers in
the Philippines.
Mrs. Ellis, of Quenemo, climbed
down well and rescued the child of
another woman.
The colored Masons of Topeka have
asked for the use of the auditorium on
Thanksgiving day.
The colored people of Leavenworth
are making an effort to build hos
pital for patients of their race.
While Councilman Stevenson, of Sa-
lima, was sitting near a horse the ami
mai bit off a portion of his ear.
The imbecilc asylum at Winfield has
n costly heating plant that is worthless
and new plant is to be put in.
Building and repairing in Florence
has been so brisk that carpenters have
been secured from other towns
The burned buildings at Douglas are
to be replaced with handsome brick
block containing an opera house.
o. T. Parker, of Coffeyville, of Com
pany G, Twentieth Kansas, has been
granted a pension of $50 month.
Mexican money increases in circula-
ha off 10
of the police to catch the swindlers.
There was a very large attendance
upon the Eighth District Sunday school
associations annual meeting in Hutch
jnson.
The second annual excursion of the
Rock Island for homeseekers drew
large trainloads from Illinois, Indiana
and other eastern sections Many
went into Oklahoma and great mum
Der to western Kansas.
Stanford university whose work on
Animal Life and First Book in 70
Ology," is being adopted by high
schools, is Kansas boy; the son OF
Elk Attorney General Kellogg.
The meeting of Kansas millers in To-
peka, was composed of the best of
Kansas business men and their action
regarding the defense of Kansas wheat
from Minnesota millers' statements
will have weight everywhere.
B. w. Woodward is dead He estab-
lished the first drug store west of Kan
sas City about 1855 and afterwards put
in wholesale drug store in Kansas
City. Mr.. Woodward is noted for his
talent in literature and love of art.
Mr.. Vaughan, of Jewell county,
cleared about 81 900 from his alfalfa
crop this year. He had 100 acres of it.
Jewell county has about $1,000 acres of
alfalfa. Mr.. Vaughan says the crop
pays 10 per cent on 500 an acre land.
There seems to be something unex-
plainable in the fact that in the third
city in size in Kansas arrests for
drunkenness are few and far between,
while in the city ranking as second in
population reports of such arrests are
every day occurrences.
superintendent Atkinson of the Phil
ippine schools proposes to send young
native teachers who can speak some
English to some of the state normal
schools. He has written to President
A. Z. Taylor of the Kansas Normal for
terms.
November 20 is fixed upon as the
date for the special election in Sedg-
wick county on granting bonds to the
Orient railroad.
The register of deeds of Russell coun-
ty received 125 chattel mortgages in
one day, to be released. Their amounts
ranged from SLOTS to IS, 600; total $780,.
379.
VIM. Thomas, a boy who lives on the
Pawnee, has received 500 for three
domesticated antelope which were
shipped to the Smithsonian institute a
Washington
A Chinaman who has lived at Hia
watha for a number of years, Away!
puts up literally when contribution
are called for anything the town i
pushing.
w. ". B. Darnell, Topeka teache
who went TO Galveston six years ag
to become principal in the school
there, was a victim of the storm. Fl
left some property and his 14-year-ol
son is his heir. Darnell's friends il
Kansas have sent DIR. w. n. Hudson t
Galveston to look after the boys in
tereStS-
Captain viii Watson, of Pittsbure
has received a new leg from Washing
ton to replace the one he left in tn
Philippines.
The Conway postoffice and the stor
in which it is located have been robbed
Stamps and cutlery seems to be wha
was wanted. Two horses were stole
from barn near by the same night.
Garrett Wait, a Butler county boy
managed to scrape together $3.50 an
with it built telephone circuit in Oh
lahoma. He lived off its earnings fo
awhile and then sold out for SO, 900.