Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ped into Kansas during the fiscal year
1899 was 1858, 544 pounds.
The Citizens bank at Altoona has
been robbed of s72o in silver. The burg
lars failed to get the currency.
Employees of the Santa Fe who wish
to obtain transportation must now
make application to the division super
intendent.
It is said that another milling COM
pany is being organized for the purpose
of grinding gold out of the shale along
the Smoky.
Nothing has grown in Kansas in the
last year like the free library sentiment.
No less than twenty towns are discns-
sing the plan.
The .sfast mali made the run, re
Gently, from Emporia to Newton, dis
tance of 70 miles, in 70 minutes
running time.
Bert Cole was driving in a buggy
near COTS, and collided with a Central
Branch train at crossing. He is in
critical condition.
An ex-probate judge of Logan county
Is charged with forging the names of
two men to affidayits in proving up on
some government land.
The amount of real estate mortgages
in Sedgwick county fled in January
was $e4, e31.3O, while releases footed
up total of $1o6, 524. 40.
Superintendent Frank Nelson has
announced three series of dates for
normal institutes, viz: Ending June
90, July 81 and August "a.
Thirty-eight merchants of Abilene
have signed an agreement to close their
stores at $50 for seven months, COM
mencing with February 1.
James O'Neal Gleason, a Twentieth
Kansas volunteer, was shot and killed
recently in San Francisco saloon
where he was tending bar.
DR.. Fischer, veterinarian at the Ag-
ricultural college believes the diseased
cattle on Swift's ranch, near Hoyt,
were suffering from the effect of too
much cottonseed meal instead of hydro
phobia.
The prevalence of chickenpox in
Kansas GOWNS has cut off opportunities
to get small jobs by the poor. Fear of
contagion is the cause. Poor commits
sioners' supplies are overtaxed from
this cause.
Kansas Republicans will hold a
double state convention at Topeka, on
May 16, to nominate state ticket and
to name delegates to the national con-
vention. There will be $50 delegates
in the Kansas convention.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared second dividend of 10 per
cent in favor of the creditors of the
Atchison National bank, of Atchison,
Kan, making in all 40 per cent on
claims proved, amounting to $166, 299.
There was shipped from the Florena
stone quarries, near Irving, in the year
Just closed, 1879 carloads of stone,
there was such a demand for this stone
that the proprietor couldn't fill all the
orders. Recently capitalists from
Beatrice, Neb., have purchased several
acres of stone lands, and will at once
open another quarry, which will give
employment to large number of hands.
The most of this stone has been ship
ped to other states.
Dr. Elizabeth Mcintyre, a graduate
of the Kansas Medical college, has
struck a rich find of lead and zinc in
4, ALL III, l., i
an Office in Topeka at one time, but
will now devote her time to her inter.
ests in Northern Arkansas.
Lieutenant Uline left Wichita with
seven more men and said that during
the last month, recruiting stations
have been open at Kansas City, Topeks
and two Kansas towns, and only 2:
men have been secured, compared tc
SO men for the Wichita station alone.
Mrs. Louisiana H. Delahay, widow o.
the late Mark w. Delahay, the frs
federal district judge of Kansas, is very
low, and her recovery is not expected
This venerable woman has reached thu
age of n years and has been i'll fol
some time.
The State Teachers association viii
recommend that the next legislator,
pass law providing for the study o
agriculture in the common schools
Should this succeed, Secretary T. D
Coburn will be asked to write a tex
book.
Mrs. ii. A. Brown has been postmis
tress at Homestead, Chase county, TO
almost twenty-five years. She is nov
succeeded by Mrs. John Findley.
Mrs. Tom Ryan, of Topeka. wife G
Secretary Ryan, has gone to Santiago
Cuba. to visit her son, Fred Ryan, VIII
is IN the commissary department c
Santiago.
The second term of Kansas Univei
sity opened January 90 with an il
creased attendance. The registratio
is 1.09o. not counting the special musi
class of 1,2O6.
Treasury drafts for $4,000 have bee