Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-12-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

n Sanna mill company Is replacing
its electrical power with steam.
E. G. Martin, a government postoffice
inspector of long service has removed
his headquarters to Topeka.
Mr.. Henderson, of Council Grove, has
purchased the Larned electric light
plant and will make needed repairs.
Secretary Coburn's THE Horse Use
full has been adopted by the Washing
ton State Agricultural college as text
book.
It is said that Governor Stanley re-
ceives as high as so letters a day which
suggest new laws and amendments to
old ones.
The average age of Kansas teachers
is %. 5 years. In Morton county it is
30 years; in Marshall and Neosho coun-
ty it is IS years
Ellis county elected a Russian as dis
trict clerk, who had never taken out
citizenship papers; and now there is a
vacancy to be filed
Frank Montgomery says that there
is locomotive engineer running out
of Topeka who is paying alimony to
three divorced wives.
The Rock Island has bought a strip
of land along their tracks in Armour
dale, which is IA rods wide and 80 rods
long, for more sidings.
The total enrolment in the schools
of Neosho county is 5,648 of which
70 oh
county employs 1877 teachers.
The third premium on apples at the
Paris exposition was given to j. o.
Parker, of Lakin, Way out there in
Kansas and Western Kansas, too.
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson an
nounces the sale of his Barber county
farm and his intention to remove to
the western part of the Seventh dis
trict.
George Merrill, of Franklin county,
has made and sold this year 5000 gal
Ions of sorgham molasses, averaging
cane
Work is being pushed on Mitchell
county's new $40, 900 court house. The
old shack which has served that pur-
pose has been sold to a wrecker for
S176
Alfalfa is becoming most popular
crop in the district where it is raised,
the seed alone bringing from SIS to $50
Per acre Dry seasons are the best for
good seed crop.
Rev. John Z. Won Herrlich, of Kan
sas City. Kas., will invest $40, 900 in in
structions in vocal music for his wife,
to fit her for grand opera. She was
raised in Wichita.
The average attendance upon the
farmers institutes held this year and
numbering 100, was $50 per institute.
They were all the work of the state
agricultural college.
Thanksgiving day there are to be
1850 pounds of turkey served up to the
members of the Leavenworth Soldiers
home for dinner besides the usual ac-
cessories on holiday occasions.
Ex- Sheriff Ben Huey, of Pottawato-
mic county, died at his home in Wame-
Sixty-Second Pennsylvania infantry
and was member of the Grand Army.
The Beloit Catholics will build a
church to cost $40, 900 or more. It will
be built of native stone furnished free
by members. Many of them have quar-
ries on their farms and are getting out
the rock.
The residence in Topeka occupied by
Pension Agent Cyrus Leland lost it:
attic and roof by fire, all under tha
. being thoroughly drenched with water
The fire department worked three
hours.
Mckinley and BreidenthaI carried
together the following counties: Clark
Ford, Mitchell, Pratt, Rocks, Salin
and Grant. Governor Stanley and Mr.
Bryan carried Pawnee county together
Stanley by 112, Bryan by 43. Mr.. Bry
an carried % of the 1O5 Kansas coun
ties, Mr.. Breidenthal twenty-eight.
The reservoirs of the Lansing prison
hold 100000 gallons; about 300, 90
gallons are used in the prison eacl
day.
The judicial amendment provide
that the governor-elect shall appoin
the judges so it was a mistake whel
the statement was made that they viii
be appointed soon.
Josiah Moose, the man who guide
the Mormons across the plains an
wrote a book about it, just celebrate
his Goth birthday at his home in Win
field. He is still strong and hearty.
Six paving contractors OF Eaasa
City, Kas., have been convicted of vic
lating the eight hour law, and hav
appealed to the supreme court
The Kansas penitentiary has sc
feet of hose, two hose carts, hoo
and ladder truck and steamer. Their
are eleven fire hydrants in the pr:
On.
The Clipper mills, in FL Dorado al
wrecked by the explosion of a boile,