Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-03-17

ASlO Is OSdU
F. D. Ccburn, secretary of agriculture,
came to Kansas on foot.
Phillips county is to have fair, cap
ita1ized at 81, 900; all of which is sub
scribed
Postmaster Grice. of Gage, is under
arrest charged with buying goods with
postage stamps.
Lumber dealers have been stocking
up their yards everywhere; evidently
expecting big trade.
George Day, colored man of Mont
gomery county, realized 5000 from
three acres of cotton.
Fire destroyed six store buildings in
Waverly. The Waverly Gazette was
located in one of them.
alThe state board of Education meets
this week to revise the course of study
in the common schools.
Miss Helen Gould has made her
second donation of $500 to the Y. NJ. c.
A. library at Fort Scott.
The men of the Santa Fe at Emporia
are enjoying their coy reading room,
prepared by the company.
Howard offers $500 reward for the
capture of the parties who fred the
Metropolitan hotel there.
DIR. A. S. Chouteau, an old practitioner
of Dodge City, dropped dead while at
tending one of his patients.
Sheriff Simmons, of Kearney county,
has married Miss india Harris, super
intendent of Hamilton county.
A burglar secured from E. ]. Derge's
house in Lebanon, $50 diamond, an
$50 gold brick and $40 in money.
The reading circle of the State
teachers association meets this week
year.
Miss Anna A. Mclaughlin, of Horton,
went alone to West Africa and married
DR.. w. S. Lehman after her arrival
there.
The house occupied by Lewis Had1ey,
in Paola, and its contents are destroyed
by fire and Professor Hodges was badly
burned.
The sheriff at Fort Scott took a sl1el-
eton key from tramp and with it
unlocked the doors of the first ten
stores he came to.
The Kansas river was full of floating
ice last week, and it damaged the work
on new bridge to the amount of 5000;
just east of Topeka.
J. J. Schneider, Topeka society
young man, was doing a fancy step in
a cakewalk when he struck a slippery
place in the floor He fell and broke
his collarbone.
The 10000 sheep which have been
fed all winter at Solomon City, have
made scarcity of feed there and a
train load has been shipped to the
eastern part of the state.
Aaron Dresser, of Solomon, aged 81
years, the oldest Mason in Kansas, is
dead after a brief illness. He had been
faithful to Masonry since young man
hood and was widely known in Central
, Kansas.
The Santa Fe has refused to grant
the demands of the Order of Railway
Telegra pliers for an increase in wages.
The advance would have cost the com
pany $50, 600 year. The demand that
the chairman of the general grievance
committee be allowed to dictate all
promotions of operators was also re-
fused. The Santa Fe people say that
the majority of operators on their road
are better paid than on other Western
lines.
]. L. Meconey dropped dead in the
audience at Lewis academy. Heart
disease was the cause, the immediate
cause was laughing at joke.
t The Jensen Creamery company cap
tured honors at the National Butter
, makers convention. 1t produced tn,
? best tub of butter out of 60 from Kan
4 sas and received $50 cup. Only min
better tubs appeared in an exhibit O
= S24 tubs.
: At the instigation of the W. c. T. U.
O the sheriff of Mcpherson county recent
ly went clear to Illinois after jointist
: Jimmy Common, the Lawrence an
Hays City boy who got rich through
specializing in Cripple Creek mines,
> off with his wife for tour of tn
world. Mr.. Conner is the man VIII
purchased Robert Louis Stevenson
villa on one of the Samoan islands.
v Colonel Ed Little and Mayor Hullec
: were appointed a committee by tn
e Abilene city council to receive tn
IS soldier dead of company L, soon to b
l. returned from the Philippines. Sui
able ceremonies will take place whe
the bodies arrive.
g. Warden Tomlinson will begin to n
> ceive orders for binding Irvine O
d March 20. He has about 800, 900 pound
of Irvine on hand and expects to sc
Or 1,25O, 900 for sale during the season.
Is Insurance Superintendent GhurC
n collected $40, Ie5 in fees from the warrior
insurance companies doing business
IL Kansas during the month of Februar