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

moved from Strong City to Concordia.
Conway Springs, which has popula-
ton of over a thousand, has no lawyer.
Vol. of the Kansas geological sur
vey is in the hands of the state printer.
n. W. Henry. of Chanute sold his
driving team for $500 to Mr. Jarvis, of
Holton.
The Manhattan Live Stock and Sales
company will hold its next sale on De-
cember 1.
Pawnee county employs sixty-three
teachers of whom forty-six are young
ladies.
The promoter of new telephone
system at Hutchinson has forfeited his
cash deposit.
The Rock Island will employ force
of 30 men near Wellington in burning
gumbo ballast.
The government mineralogists are
looking for zinc as far west in Kansas
as Greenwood county.
Miss Marie c. Chamberlain, of OF
tawa, has published book with the
| title I'm the Cleaning
! Some Edwards county farmers put in
their wheat with a twenty disc drill
drawn by threshing engine.
| VIM. II. Barnes and E. B. Cowgirl
represented the Kansas Horticultural
society at the National Irrigation Con-
gress.
Mrs. Isaac P Gardner, of Wetmore,
now has thirteen children, the eldest
being "a years old, and the last ten are
all girls.
Robert Stone, of Kansas, is chairman
of the permanent legislative commit
tee of the National Good Roads asso-
citation.
The Cudahy Packing Company has
contracted for a $4,000 refrigerating
plant for the Company's Wichita pack
ing house.
Manhattan, with its 325 phones,
claims that it has more of them than
any other Kansas town according to
population.
Blackleg vaccine is still being sent
out from the agricultural college to
farmers and stock raisers in all parts
of the state.
The E. B. Purcell mill in Manhattan
is being put in condition for active bus
mess. A new company has acquired
the property.
A meeting is called at Wichita on
December 10, of the implement and
hardware dealers of Kansas and Okla
homa, to form an association.
An election curiosity: Four years
ago Judge Riggs received a majority
of 35S over Smart. This year Smart's
majority over Riggs was exactly the
-, same.
Ex-Congressmen Jerry Simpson and
Mason Peters are now partners in the
Union Livestock Commission company
doing business at the Kansas City
stock yards.
Sumner county commissioners held a
special session to canvass the vote Oh
the veterans at the Fort Dodge Home
although that county had no represen.
tatives there.
new state bank was opened al
Burns the other day and there was
over $4,000 received on deposit within
the first two hours. The capital of the
bank is $4,000.
An eastern man recently wrote tc
? Topeka asking that claim of 100 acre:
be set aside in Topeka township fol
him to preempt. He will know NOR,
than he does now, sometime.
The longest measurement acros
Doniphan county is 25 miles but tn,
county has frontage on the Missouri
river of 12s miles. The river flow
toward every point of the compass.
One of the fire department station
in Wichita caught fire in the hay loft
probably from a spark from timer
furnace in use in repairing the roof
The damage was about 5000 to tn
building.
A national bank in Wichita receives
in shipment of silver several hundre
bright and unused Columbian half do
lars. AS these coins were sold at
dollar each by the government, som
parties must have taken whole lot G
them on speculation who have now lie
go.
What purport to be official figure
\ of the result of the election as pub
, lished in the morning dailies of Nc
vember 81, do not agree with eac
$ other; nor do the results given in an
t one of them agree with the figure
, from which they are deduced
The State Bankers association sur
gests that the state place its idle fund
/ with banks over the state in $50. OC
j lots: the bank offering the highest il
4 terest to get it and to secure it by d,
: posit of sufficient state, county c
municipal bonds.
5 The Santa Fe is laying 81 pound raj
: on its Wellington and Hunnewe