Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-03

met in Wichita January "a.
At fire in Wichita the other night
water main bursted and flooded whole
block.
A Clay Center photographer took"
four newly married couples in one day
recently.
February is the thirty-fourth ami
versary of the founding of Washburn
college,
1t cost Harvey county only s62.3 80 to
run its poor farm the last twelve
months.
e. 3. Davenport, farmer near Atch-
ison, sells capons in Kansas Citp at So
cents each.
Kansas towns are generally forming
commercial clubs. The latest to do so
is Pleasanton.
Ellis expects the Union Pacific to
spend lot of money on improvements
there this season.
Mrs. Lee Cochran was killed and her
husband badly injured at a road cross
ing at Lebanon.
Lieutenant Uline took seventeen ar
tillery recruits from Wichita. He goes
to Pittsburg next.
Miss Helen Gould has contributed
Y. NJ. c. A. reading rooms at Fort
Scott.
Wichita IS to have a large grocery
brokerage firm. It represents the
leading manufacturing firms of the
country.
Implement dealers of Kansas have
received quotations on binding Irvine
at rate 25 per cent lower than a few
days ago.
The senate committee on public lands
favors the bill t. give the Fort Hays
reservation to Kansas for educational
purposes.
The southwest portion of Montgom-
cry county is infested with a gang of
thieves. Horses, hogs, buggies, sad
dies, harness and feed are taken.
At Longton the opera house, post
| night. The loss is between S., 900 and
Sc, 600, partly covered by insurance.
Jacob Dewitt, past grand commander
Knight Templars and past grand high
| priest and past grand master A. F. and
A. NJ, of the state of Kansas, is dead.
! Kansas has had fifteen governors as
state. Twelve have been Republi-
cans, two Populists and one Democrat.
! The state was thirty-nine years old or
January 90.
| Walter Peterson, who served a term
! in the penitentiary for stealing, re-
turned to his old home, Ottawa, and
| has since been arrested for having
stolen horses in his possession.
The assistant attorney gdneral rules
that clerks of district courts cannot
| legally charge the county a fee for
| keeping the minutes of the court. Sew
era1 district clerks have been collecting
fees for this work.
The executive council issued an order
prohibiting 1oafers from taking up
room in the state house. The state
house has always been a favorite loaf
ing place for a lot of Topeka toughs.
They will now have to hunt another
place.
The women Of the United Brethren
church at Marmaton worked three days
with spades and picks digging for the
foundation of a church. The business
men of the town then finished the work
through shame. The women had
raised money enough for the material
for the church. The women had de
termined to do the carpenter work
but the men decided that they would
attend to that.
James Huffman, a brakeman on the
Hutchinson & Southern, was run over
and killed at Rago, Kingman coun,
ty.
A stock company with a capital OF
about 81, 900, has been organized al
Williamsburg, for the purpose of Dor
ing for gas or oil Williamsburg is en-
thusiastic. over the prospect.
The Blue Rapids Motor says: ga:
much as twenty-five years ago the Blue
Rapids wooden mill furnished the wool
en- goods for the state penitentiary ant
other public Institutions
c. E Ingram, formerly Rock Island
agent at Morganville, has resigned hi:
position and accepted the chief clerk
ship to Local Freight Agent F. L. Pea
cock, with headquarters in Topeka.
Mr.. John Kyle relates that when h,
first came to Caw1oer in 1871, he made
a trip to the present site of Gaylord
and while there a woman died and NJ
coffin could be procured. Part of thu
roof of house was taken off to maxi
box for her burial The cost of lum
Der at that time was see thousand
Cawker Ledger.
t Milton Bernheizer, while running
: threshing engine over bridge nea
5 Manchester, went down with both en-
CINE and bridge. being pinned unde
the engine more than an hour. II