Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-01-13

The Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton was organized in 1863.
DIR. J. W. Madara, of Greeley county
is an army surgeon on the island Jolo.
Five women have recently been added
to the force at the Topeka pension
Office.
An average of $50, 900 day is coming
into the state treasury these January
days.
The probate judge of Shawnee coun-
ty issued about $50 marriage licenses
in 1899.
A movement is now on foot to close
up the telephone exchange on Sundays
in Marion.
The seventeenth annual session of
the State Bar association is to be held
on January 80 and 81.
Governor Stanley has appointed Ex-
Governor Lewelling as state immigra-
ton agent, without pay.
Judge pale of the district court in
Wichita granted an injunction against
building pest house inside the city
limits.
Congressman Curtis is pressing his
proposed appropriation for a new
building at the federal prison at Leav-
enworth.
Rev. G. D. Olden, very able pastor
in Topeka, had been sold on the auc-
ton block three times before he was
II years old.
j. T. Crennan, manager of the Tope-
ka branch of the Standard Oil company
was run over and killed by a Santa Fe
switch engine.
Business men of Burlington may put
up fund for the purpose of sinking
hole in order to find what wealth lies
buried down there.
Charles Cavanaugh, of Sedgwicl1,
who was in the battle of Manila Bay,
says that his share of the prize money,
when it comes, will be any thing from
5000 to $1,000.
Warden Tomlinson and one of the
directors of the penitentiary go to Mex
leo to study the raw material produced
there for binding Irvine, perhaps to
contract for a supply of it for the peni-
tertiary Irvine plant.
The Topeka city railway has grant
ed the motOrmen and conductors a
raise of 20 per cent in wages. They
have been paid 1917 cents per hour and
the new order makes their pay K cents
per hour beginning Jan. 1.
State Auditor Cole held up a S54
claim for stenographer services for the
state horticultural society. During
| the recent annual meeting the society
! decided that the regular stenographer
| was not rapid enough to take down the
addresses.
Sick men who were soldiers in the
late war with Spain are being admitted
to the national military home at Leav-
enworth by Governor Rowland, who
says he Is not waiting for congress to
authorize him to do so, but acts under
the higher law of humanity in caring
for these men.
The Kansas insane asylum at Topeka
has had, since its establishment in 1879
4,4OS petients. The usual proportion
of cures is from 80 to 40 per cent. It is
| because 60 to 20 per cent remain incur
able that the asylums become fuller
each year. This asylum now has s42
| inmates.
Andrew Carnegie has promised the
College of Emporia $50, 600 for library
building as soon as the present debt is
paid. u. II. Gragg, financial agent of
the college, raised So, 900 from the To-
peka presbytery, Emporia citizens have
given SIS, 900, and the synod of Kansas
promises $40, 600, which will be enough
to pay obligations of the college.
It takes eight days for the raw ma
terial to be changed into binding Irvine
at the new plant at the state peniten-
tiary.
A new creamery is to be established
at Womer, Smith county. A steam
separator and $4,000 plant will be
erected in the early spring.
R. A Goodman, living five miles
west of Wichita. is entitled to prize
as the champion hog raiser of Kansas.
A few days ago he slaughtered Po-
land-China hog which, when dressed,
weighed exactly $40 pounds.
Representatives of the National AS
ISOLATION of Charities and Corrections
will visit Topeka to make arrangements
for the convention of that order which
is to be held in that city in May.
State Auditor Cole refused to regis
ter $40, 900 worth of Delaware town
ship, Jefferson county refunding bonds
The bonds provide for an interest rate
of per cent " hich Mr.. Cole regards as
suspicious circumstance as the state
school fund would take the bonds at
AZ per cent. His action will allow
time for an investigation.
New call boxes have been put in
place in many offices and business
houses in Topeka. The boxes are so
arranged that messengers, police, cabs
or express wagons can be called by