Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-10-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cred an attendance of 5000.
a threshing engine exploded south
of Sterling injuring two persons
Phillipsburg has struck vein of
water which seems to be inexhaustible.
Ed O-Brien, of Florence, won the
medal at the Peabody gun club shoot.
Emancipation day, September %,
was quite generally celebrated by the
colOred people.
Atchison has a new fire engine which
cost S4,S50. 1t has pumping capacity
of S700 gallons minute.
Two Montgomery county boys, about
10 years old, have been arrested for rob-
bing several farm houses.
James Richie, of Augusta, has been
appointed to position in the treasury
department at Washington.
strong artesian well has been
struck near Muscotah in the swamp
lands of the Delaware valley.
Mrs. Mary Griffin, of Lawrence, Wis
iting in Japan, received invitation
to ball given by the Milzado.
Rev. Dr.. w. w. Ayers, Episcopal rec
tore at Lawrence, has accepted call to
church at Canon City, Colorado.
L. c. Bonner, under arrest in Iowa
for forging deeds and mortgages, is
wanted in Wichita for like crime
Plans are maturing to provide Wich-
tia with system of drinking fountains:
4 series of lectures to provide the funds.
Tramps have new shibboleth now:
they have lost everything in Galveston:
and there are plenty of them in Kan
sss.
VIM Ehart, of Leavenworth county,
was fatally injured by young bull
while he was walking through the
pasture.
Clay Center has a fair and coursing
meet, which commenced on the 25th.
There We're 40 hounds 10 catch $50
rabbits
Portions of Fort Scott were under
water on September -. People in the
north part of the city were compelled
to move.
The first prize at the Woodmen's
drill at Harper was taken by Yelling
ton. 500: the second by the kingman
team. So.
Political and campaign matter crowds
ordinary news and makes it scarce
Kansas is now thinking and talking
but little outside of politics, reunions,
street fairs and the like.
A small tornado visited Neodesha
September -, wrecl1ing two houses,
three barns and damaging others.
Mrs. John Ford and her little son We're
injured the first seriously.
The lights in the dome of the new
Topeka auditorium are in the shape of
sunfiower, formed of 40 incandescent
lights, set in brown center and sur
rounded by yellow petals. three feet
long.
Parsons was deluged last week The
dam of the waterworks company, on
Labette creek, broke and the lower.
portion of the city was flooded. Houses
were emptied and there was damage
to property and live stock
Near Tonganoxie a man prepared
four blasts in n mineral prospect hole.
As he was being hauled out in a tub.
one of the blasts went off prematurelv.
In spite of the danger the man at the
windlass hung on until he was at the
top and saved.
Rev James Shaw, aged so, is dead
at Atchison. lie had been a Metho
dist preacher Go years and had beer
preaching in Kansas since 1857.
President A. Monroe, of the Mer
chants National bank of Lawrence
has given $3.50 to Kansas universit,
for special scientific researches in tn,
department of physics and physica
chemistry.
The Kansas conference of the Unitec
Brethren church was held at Abilene
commencing September 20: Bisho1
Floyd, of Indiana presiding
There was. last week. ONLY fou
houses in Norway without case O
typhoid fever. Only one death ha
occurred.
The Odd Fellows lodge at Dighto
borrowed money of other lodges i
1893 to furnish members with see
wheat. The last of the borrowe
money is now repaid
Engineer Fred Chick who pulls tn
Santa Fee passenger train betwee
Kansas City and Independence. ha
been constantly employed as enginee
since November, 1869.
The old buffalo grass sign would il
dictate the approach of severe winter
The seed on the buffalo grass is repor
ed to be very thick.
The Santa Fes Panhandle divisio
is furrisbed with special officers en-
powered to arrest tramps wheneyt
found on the trains or the right
way.
An Ottawa man who has contrac
for railroad work in Kansas, Ol1lahom
and Texas has difficulty in carryin
out his contracts because he came