Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Clyde is looking for the removal to
that place of the Missouri Pacific
division from Greenleaf.
John Sheriff. of Big Hill must stand
trial on the charge of mailing obscene
letters to his divorced wife.
The Wichita chain gang prefer to
stay inside and live on bread and water
rather than to work on the streets.
A company has been formed in Brown
county to connect by telephone Hia-
watha, Reserve, Robinson and other
towns
The second annual meeting of the
State Society of Labor and Industry
was held in Topeka. commencing Feb
ruary S.
The management of the Santa Fe
will spend So, OOO, 900 in improvements
this year: much of it for the reduction
of grades.
The city superintendent at Ottawa
says that no cigarette smoker gets into
the high school; they drop out before
they reach it.
Mrs. Diggs, state librarian, will visit
New York to promote her plan to
bring the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Library Association to Topeka
this year. She also will try to organize
a Kansas association.
There are IS Sac and Fox. SIS Chip
pewas, ESQ Kicl1apoos, $50 Iowas, and
5s4 Pottawotomies now on the Potta-
wotomie reservation. These and all
other Indians in Kansas are in charge
of Agent W. r. Ronnel.
The Miners Industrial Union met in
Labor Commissioner Johnson's office
and reelected Edward Keegan as mine
inspector. John t. Pratt, of Leaven-
worth, was elected president and James
Orr, of Weir City, vice president.
In Kansas there are six kinds of Adj
ventists, thirteen of Baptists, seventeen
Of Methodists, twelve of Presbyterians,
three kinds of River Brethren, and
four of Plymouth Brethren, six kinds
of communistic religious societies, and
four kinds of Dunkards. The Friends
are of four different sorts, and the
Mennonites of twelve.
''All the experiments made with
sorghum by the government have been
made in Kansas" writes Secretary
Wilson. 1.-The sorghum seed intended
for distribution by the various con-
gressmen is raised on Miss Best's farm
at Medicine Lodge, in Kansas, and the
government is not expanding a single
cent in any other state.
Hon. o. L. Thisler, of the Riverside
Stock farm near Chapman, has just
completed one of the finest residences
in the county. It contains fourteen
rooms, including bath and wash rooms.
It is brick veneer. with stone trimmings
and is finished in the latest style of
hardwoods and is heated throughout
by furnace and will be lighted by gas.
The wealthiest colored man in Kan
sas is I. G. Groves, of Edwardsvile,
Wyandotte county. He owns one of
the largest potato farms in the Kaw
valley, and ships potatoes to market
y
he began without dollar in the world.
He now owns 800 acres of fine Kaw
valley land valued at $4S,0 ZOO. He also
owns city and town property worth
several thousand dollars, and his per-
sonal property amounts to more than
$4,000.
Representative Long has introduced
bill to pay the city of Wichita, Kas.
S1,632 for assessments paid for the
benefit of property on which is erected
the United States public building il
that city.
There is movement to get the rail
road traffic managers and the cattlemer
together to adjust their difference:
without the aid of the courts.
Triplets in Miami county, two boy
and girl, at four months old weigh
forty-two and one-half pounds. Thu
boys Is pounds each and the girl ~ 4
C. A. Woodland, the Santa Fe station
agent at Dalton, who was acquitted il
Justices court in Wellington of tn
charge of criminal assault, was triet
at Dalton before cOinInlGICc O1 III
NJ E. church on a charge of immoralit..
and convicted.
Attorney General GODDARD is prepar
ing to prosecute coal mine operator
who do not obey the screen law. TIL
supreme court upheld the law in dc
cision rendered some time since an
most of the operators have obeyed
but not all.
Nemaha comfy has zinc boom
Mining leases are being obtained fo
land about Corning. An assay ha
been made which is encouraging.
The only cattlewoman who attende
the national live stock convention q
Fort Worth recently was from Kansa:
1t was Mrs. E. w. Pinkston, of Chas
county.
Ex-Governor Morrill,, who was con
PEELED to spend several weeks at He
Springs, Ark. last year for his health
is sick again, and win go back to tn
springs as soon as he can stand the tril
The prevalence of chiclSenpox