Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-01-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

was in session on January 10 and IL.
The eleventh annual exhibit of the
Kansas State Poultry Association
brought togeter 900 high bred chickens.
Advice to those who want to get
ahead in the world, from the Marshall
county News: t'Come to Marshall coun-
ty and raise corn"
The Lind 5borg Record says it re-
quires about $40 worth of seed and
labor and three acres of land to harvest
a ton of broom corn.
The Clark Stove company of Kansas
City has purchased ground in Wichita
and say they will erect a building for
their own use as wholesale house.
C. J. Jones has received an offer from
Canada to bring out of the northwest
20 buffaloes, 20 musk oxen and a num-
Der of reindeer. He is considering the
offer.
The pupils of the Dickinson county
high school bought a handsome window
memorial of the students of the school
who served in the Spanish Filipino
Americana war.
CORTLAND has purchased two force
fire pumps together with ample hose,
and is now putting down two large
wells, with view of giving the town
better fire protection.
Atchison by city ordinance forbids
citizens feeding tramps. The city sets
up three meals day for the tramps in
the city building to which all hand-out
applicants are directed.
Burglaries and hold=ups are reported
in greater numbers recently than for
many years. Rev. DR.. Cordleys house
In Lawrence was ransacked from top
to bottom, the other night.
A Kansas man who was recently on
Wall street says this is getting to be a
by-word among the bankers: eyes,
we are having squeeze, but you fell
lows in the west are all right"
W. A Alden was held up and robbed
by highway robbers, in public road
between Wichita and Mulvane, of
y.
Two men committed the robbery.
Colonel w. C. Whitney and his wife
of Cawker City, were surprised by the
Women's Relief Corps at the I. o. o. F.
hall who celebrated the golden we'd
ding of this widely known couple.
The attorney general says that Kan.
Sas school teachers are entitled to pay
for time that schools are closed by
contagious diseases, or other cause.
There is misunderstanding between
officials of the deaf and dumb school al
Olathe and the city officials about water
supply for the institution. As result
the institution is going short on water.
J. 81. Neill, formerly Rock Island
agent at Goodland, Kansas, but of late
operator and ticket seller in the Rock
Islands Wichita depot, is in Jail as q
defaulter. It is believed that his fall
was from gambling.
The Kansas Retail Hardware Dealers
Association adopted resolutions against
trusts and combinations, declaring thai
Its members were DESTROYS of buying
as far as possible, with houses who
deal outside OF trusts.
The Kansas Improved Stock Breeders
association in session in Topeka, con
sidered the advisability of joining
hands with the State Cattlemen's asso
citation in legal fight against the rail
roads over the change in freight rate
on stock
Some of the Kansas -four arriving il
New York has peculiar odor. Inves
tigation showed that it comes from
wheat which had green weeds harvest
ed with it, which withered in tn
bundles and the wheat had absorbe
their odor.
Within a short time two miles G
of stone country road will be built be
tween Coffeyville and the Verdigri
river. The farmers living east of tow
have agreed to build one mile if tn
Coffeyville Commercial Club will bull
the other mile.
Thomas Mullen, farmer in Salin
county, while digging a well has ru
into a formation which is exciting tn
community. Mullen thinks it is gold
Robinson boy. who is in the Phi
ippines remembered his parents with
couple of nice Christmas presents; tv
money orders, one for 500. anothe
for $75.
Charley shilato, a prominent stoc
man, was found dead in his cabil
north of Dwight. He was bachelo
living alone, and it is supposed he W;
murdered.
Judge w. I. Stuart sentenced S. I
Whitehead, the janitor of the publ
schools of Sabetha to a term of tv
years in the penitentiary. Witches
four months ago shot and severe
wounded one of the pupils for trivi
ofense.
Students the Dickinson count
high school hazed farmer boy, Aart
Emig, and severely bruised him in
fight which followed the attempt
have fun with him. He had one ST
dent. John Bennett, whom he claims