Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-10-13

4ue Newton street ana harvey coun-
ty fair was decided success.
Over $50 new schoolhouses have been
erected in Kansas during the past year.
The enrolment in the Wichita pub
lie school is 4,O9s. The high school has
434.
The Wichita Eagle carries advertise
city.
Thirty cattle mysteriously disap-
peared from pastures in the vicinity of
Hoxie.
Topeka is out of hard coal and the
dealers refuse to book orders for the
future.
a while ago eight cattle were killed
by lightning in a Pottawatomie county
pasture.
Colorado buyers found and bought a
carload of 1, 4Oo-pound horses in Wal
lace county.
Joseph Allen, sewing machine
agent from Iowa, fell dead in the street
in Enterprise.
permanent recruiting station for
the United States army is now estab-
lished in Wichita.
Mcpherson is one of the Kansas
towns that Is compelled to provide
more school rooms
Ten thousand people are said to have
attended the Chetopa old soldiers re-
union and street fair.
Every room at Midland college is
occupied and rooms about town are
also used by students.
Six special trains ran out of Wichita
on the Santa Fe during Friday night
of the carnival week.
James Eek, of Cawlker City, was
killed by his shot gun which fell
through his hay rack
Wellington people raised 500 for
former resident of that town who lost
everything at Galveston.
The Leavenworih overall factory has
20 machines running and the payroll
is more than S15O a week.
The state board of education will re-
ceive applications for state and insti-
tuition certificates on October IL.
The water company at Cherryvale is
seeking to enjoin the city to prevent
putting in municipal waterw rks.
Thousa' DIS of bushels of apples are
reported to be going to wa tie in Riley
county from the lack of shipping buy
ers.
The Ard annual encampment, with
t,5OO delegates from the Odd Fellows
lodges of Kansas, meet in Topeka on
October 8.
The Wellington gun club offers 1925
reward for the arrest and conviction
of any person buying, selling or ship
ping quail.
The pupils of the Burlington high
schools have bought a piano and pro-
pose to pay for it with the proceeds on
| entertainments.
Mrs. George T. Anthony has given
to the Ottawa City library the valuable
| collection of books that belonged to
| her late husband.
| divorce is sought to separate a
couple in Montgomery county, aged 20,
who have lived together so years. The
husband is drunkard.
horse named Coney tried to go
against Joe Patchen the Kansas stall
lion, at st. Louis the other day and
couldn't keep up with Joe.
An Osborne county man raised $500
worth of wheat on land that he paid
$500 for about a year ago. In addition
to this good showing he figures that
the land has increased in value 100 per
cent.
Ensign Lands, from Medicine Lodge.
is said to have been on the gunboat
VilIabos, which is either lost or cap
tured in the Philippines.
Mrs Bernice Winchester was cross,
ing the railroad tracks at Marion when
pilot bar on the engine struck he1
shoulder and neck. She was killed in.
stantly.
Senator Beveridge. of Indiana, lived
in Dighton, Kansas fifteen years ago
Dighton had but two buildings then
one of them sod hotel with muslin
partitions.
Winfield received four inches of rair
in four days last week. Seeding i:
not finished, but the wheat that i.
planted is getting a good start.
The short crop In Illinois and in the
northwest caused many thresherme1
to ship their machines to Kansas
There are more machines working il
Kansas than there have ever been be
fore.
The action of the Minnesota miller
is producing an effect on the marke
for Kansas wheat. directly opposite t.
what was intended by them.
a farmer near Galva contracted hi
| broom corn in the spring at $50 TOT
: and now his neighbors are refusing So
and $50.
| Morris county fair is postponed tw,
weeks, until October 9-12. The rain