Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-12-29

annual taxes in Saline county.
Sterling horsemen have organized
driving club with so members.
Frankfort, Marshall county is as
piring to become 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-
1um.
The Citizens National bank of Eu-
reka is new one with S25, 1000 capital
stock.
Fifty varieties of wood indigenous
to Franklin county are exhibited in
Ottawa.
Equal suffragists of Kansas are to
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 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 depth of 1, 400 feet
Enoch Hale's livery barn at Howard,
with vehicles, harness and feed, and
two horses, fine team, are burned.
Boyd Kay, of Olathe, 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
S42,O passenger station and. office
building at Wichita, Kansas. 1t will
be modern in all its equipments.
Ladies of Manhattan take turns in
looking after the REST ROOM recent
ly established for the comfort of ladies
from the country, on tie days it is
open.
Robert Woods, a 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 Herington are
equal to $13. so month to every inh;sbi-
tant of that town. About $40, coo 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 Bethel
church Elder hit him with a club.
cracking his skull. The first report
said that Hughes injuries would be
| fatal.
A dude stranger succeeded in getting
an invitation to swell party in Atchi-
| son, then cashed couple of worthless
checks and left without paying his bill
at the best hotel. No one knew him:
He introduced himself to a few parties
and seemed nice fellow and so got
into society.
Chanute's new $4,000 NJ E. church
| is dedicated. There was So, 900 to
raise and the subscriptions amounted
to s., s77.
A federation of Christian churches of
Lyon county has been perfected for the
purpose of organizing more churches
in the county, and to extend them aid
until they are able to go without it,
At the last sale of the Mania ttan
| bAHSSsOCh anu safes company there
were representatives from all the lead
ing Kansas City commission firms and
many buyers from neighboring towns.
Mrs. Lydia Mackey, a. sister-in-law
of Senator Harris, Of Kansas, has a
clerical position in the congressional
library.
Lyon county farmer raised 712
bushels of potatoes and 200 bushels of
corn on five and one-quarter acres of
land, which he marketed for Sa44. so.
Senator Cubbison will this winter in
troduce bill providing that all coun-
ty and state officers in Kansas be elect
ed once every four years and be eligible
for reelection. This is correct. The
people have too many elections
Lieutenant Bion 3. Bierer, who was
in command of of the Yosemite at the
time it sunk at Guam. was borz at
Hiawatha. Kansas, and entered the
navy from Kansas in 1887. He is scarce
" so years old.
The Kansas live stock inspector at